Chapter 24: Locke and El (4)

The Cristo Hills are located on the edge of the plain of the Coffe Falis, connected to the Titanini Mountains. It is also a buffer zone for the Fort Business Alliance and the Dwarven Kingdom. Legend has it that in the end of the era, the remaining magicians opened the door of time and space for the future and development of the human race of Gelintya, and sent all the other intelligent races of Galinthia to other sub-dimensional worlds. But somehow this dwarven tribe in the Titanini Mountains was missed, and after more than 2,000 years, this dwarven tribe slowly developed and established a dwarven kingdom centered on the Titanini Mountains.

This is the only intelligent race of civilization similar to humans found in Gelinthia. However, most of the dwarves' favorite areas of activity are in the high mountains, and they have no contact with humans, and there are no conflicts, on the contrary, there are some commercial exchanges from time to time.

The Cristo Hills are nominally within the sphere of influence of the Commercial Alliance, but in reality the Commercial Alliance is unable to effectively divide and govern the Cristo Hills. To put it mildly, the people of the mountains living here are rebellious, brave and aggressive, and a joke, a collision can lead to a large-scale bloody fight. At present, the Business Alliance is adopting a policy of pacification, and it is said that there is a proposal to divide the Cristo Hills into a block of areas as a fiefdom for those who have made meritorious contributions to the Business Alliance, and the proposed Business Alliance is still under consideration.

For three days and two nights, Shi Fatzi took Lorist and them to their destination, a small village called Baka, and it was the client of this private work who greeted them, the village chief of Baka Village, and the owner of the mine, a middle-aged man named Bam.

Speaking of which, Bam is also their senior in Lorliste, graduating from Dawn Academy. Bam's father had participated in the invasion of the business alliance against the Crissian Empire, but when he was wounded and returned to his hometown, he wanted to change the poverty and backwardness of his village, so he gritted his teeth and scraped together his tuition fees to send Bam to Dawn College. Bam studied for three years, with two specializations in resource exploration and mineral development. It's just that these two majors of Dawn College have always been unpopular, and the tutors who teach these two courses are not very professional, they are all based on the script and talk on paper, so that the college later abolished these two professional disciplines.

After returning to his hometown, it took Bam five or six years to combine his theoretical knowledge and practical experience to finally discover a vein under a small ridge near the small village of Baka, which was mined and discovered to be a silver-tin associated mine. Although it does not produce much, this small mine has become the pillar of survival for five or six small villages in the surrounding area. With this small mine, there has been no starvation death in the surrounding villages for more than ten years, and food and clothing have been basically guaranteed. And Bam also relied on the profits from this small mine to send all the talented children in the village to study in Morente, hoping that they would have a better development when they grow up.

After talking to Bam, everyone admired Bam, an old senior, who could give up his development in Moldant City and return to his hometown to change the situation of poverty, especially after he opened a small mine, he used the money he earned to send the children in the village to school. Lorist and Yuri know that maintaining a few children in Moldant City is not a small amount of money.

Senior Bam was very straightforward, he introduced that he had found traces of the gold devouring rat in the depths of the mine a year ago, and as a black iron swordsman, he led people down to kill two of them, and then stopped for a while. Later, it was discovered that he took people down to inspect the whereabouts of the gold-devouring rats, and killed about a dozen of them in a year. It wasn't until two months ago that the miners who were working were attacked by the gold devouring rats, three dead and five injured, that he felt bad, and recruited all the people in the surrounding villages who had awakened their fighting spirit, and connected him with a total of three black iron and eleven bronze swordsmen, ready to go down to the mine to carry out a big elimination of the gold devouring rats.

However, the operation failed to achieve its goal, and Bam's team was attacked by nearly 100 gold eaters in the mine, and the team of fourteen was caught off guard, and almost everyone was injured. Although he couldn't kill more than 30 gold-devouring rats, he couldn't stop the gold-devouring rat group from attacking wave after wave, and finally he barely retreated to the ground, bearing the price of nine serious injuries.

At this time, Bam has realized that the gold eater rat in the mine is a disaster, and the only way is to send a mission to find a mercenary to destroy the gold eater rat. It's just that the money is a little tight, and there are less than thirty gold coins left after paying the miners' pensions and their own medical expenses, and because the mine has been closed for more than a month, there is still some money left to buy food and distribute it to the surrounding villages, so the task reward that can be taken out is only a dozen gold coins. He was disappointed by the news that the mercenary guild had inquired about, and that a task like his would cost five gold fords for a single achievement, and the rest was not enough to pay the mercenaries for doing the task.

Bam suddenly remembered that when he was studying at Dawn Academy in the past, those students in the academy often formed adventurous teams to take on tasks to earn extra money, so he asked the children who were studying in the academy to inquire, and found Shi Fatzi.

After listening to the reason for what Bam said, everyone was relieved, this private job should not be risky, and everyone believed in the character of the village chief of Bam. Shi Fatzi analyzed it for everyone, according to the information provided by Senior Bam, the number of gold-devouring rats under the mine should be about two hundred to three hundred, which is considered a small rat group that is developing into a medium-sized one, if it is a large rat group, then there will be at least nearly a thousand besieging Senior Bam's party. If nearly a hundred besiege them, the five of them, three silver, and two black irons are enough to deal with, and even if they can't kill all the gold devouring rats, they can also kill the female rat king, forcing the remaining gold devouring rats to leave the area where the mine is located.

Although the eighteen goldfords paid by Senior Bam are a bit insufficient, they are enough for everyone to earn a fortune. What's more, Senior Bam will also bring two bronze swordsmen to join the team, one is to be a guide and the other is to help everyone carry luggage, all of which are free services. The most important point is that all the gains during this mission belong to the adventure team, and valuable metal ores can often be found in the nest of the gold eater, and someone has obtained large pieces of dog's head gold before, which is a good thing. So this adventure is well worth it, everyone have a good night's rest and set off tomorrow.

“...... Generally speaking, the meat of the gold rat is a little sour, but it can be eaten with confidence, and it tastes better when made into bacon jerky. All the blood in the internal organs should be discarded, these are inedible, and there are heavy metal toxins. The most powerful thing about the gold eater is the two front teeth, which are very hard, and the purchase price of one front tooth on the market is a small silver coin. However, its fur is useless, mainly because the smell cannot be removed, and no matter how it is tanned, there is a kind of stench similar to the sewer gutter remaining on it, which attracts mosquitoes and flies, so it is discarded and not ......"

In the mine, El was assigned to scout ahead, with Fat and Yuri, and Telman walking in the middle, followed by Lorist and Senior Bam, as well as two bronze swordsmen carrying iron cages. As he walked, Lorist showed up to Senior Bam what he had learned in the professional course of Warcraft Knowledge: "The most annoying thing about the Gold Eater is the smell of pine trees, especially the roots of pine trees, and the potion we applied at the fork just now is extracted from the old roots of pine trees, which is to prevent Gold Eaters from escaping everywhere and isolating their activity space......"

"Well, yes, this is the research result published last year, and it is the latest discovery of Professor Snard Boge, the tutor of the Warcraft Knowledge major of our Academy, for which he won the Fort Research Award, and received a prize of 200,000 gold fords, and it was distributed at once. This discovery is a boon to all mine owners, as regular application of potions to the mine will drive the Gold Eater away from the mines. ”

"It's not expensive, and a big bucket is only three goldfords, which can last for a month. In fact, after you use it for a long time, the mining area will naturally retain the smell of pine trees, and you don't need to apply the potion after a year or two, which is really cost-effective! Senior Bam, you think about it, if you want to buy it, you can ask me a letter. Now this potion is in short supply, the academy has limited production, and it is not for insiders to get their hands on it, if you want to use it, I will definitely get it for you with our friendship. ”

Lorist is quite proud, as long as Senior Bam is moved, he can get a share of the sale of one gold coin in one bucket, twelve barrels of potions a year, then he can get twelve gold fords without much effort. This is a good deal, why don't you go back to those mines to sell this potion?

Lorist and the others went further and further, and they had already encountered two waves of gold-devouring rats, more than two hundred gold-devouring rats were lying under the sword of the adventure team. Not to mention the strength of Shi Fatzi, El and Telman, the performance of the two black irons, Yuri and Lorist, alone made Senior Bam and the two bronze swordsmen stunned.

Yuri stood in the middle of the triangle composed of Shi Fatzi, El and Telman, and in the face of the swarming gold devouring rat swarm, he did not serve as the main attacker, but picked up the gaps, so that the three of Shi Fatzi had no worries and let go of the slashing and killing. And Lorist is even more exaggerated, one person and one sword, standing alone on the side, one sword and one gold rat, even killing dozens of heads without even a drop of rat blood on his body, and killing is not slower than Shi Fatzi.

The three of Bam were ashamed, fourteen of them went down to the cave and encountered the same number of gold-devouring rats, which one was not in a hurry, not only were they chased by the gold-devouring rats and crawled out of the hole, but nine of them were seriously injured. Looking at others now, killing the one is easy, it's like practicing a sword.

After killing these two waves of gold-devouring rats, Shi Fatzi decided to take a rest first, take a breath, and casually pack up the loot. Yuri took a pair of large tongs and prepared to pull out the gold-eater's teeth. Senior Bam asked everyone not to eat the corpses of the gold rats, and remembering what Lorist said about the meat of the rats being edible, he asked a bronze swordsman to go back to the village to find some people to move the corpses of these gold eaters back to add some meat to the villagers.

After eating some dry food and taking a nap, Shi Fatzi decided to divide the group into two ways, he took Telman and Yuri to the left fork, Lorist and El took the fork on the right, anyway, there should not be many gold-devouring rats left, now as long as you find the rat nest and kill the female rat king, you can be done.

Lorist carried the bag containing the gold-devouring rat potion on his back, and applied it casually as he went.

El asked, "What are you doing?"

Lorist gave a brief explanation of the effects of the potion, and since El didn't open a mine, he didn't want to sell it hard.

El doubted the potion's efficacy, and the two began to argue again.

After walking for a long time, he didn't find anything, and seeing that the main mine road in front of him was almost at the end, he didn't find anything and didn't encounter the gold rat, Er said: "Go back, there's nothing here." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the rock wall in front of him suddenly arch, and then cracked with a "boom", and a huge black head came out, and seemed to sniff in the air a few times before swooping straight towards Lorist and El.

"What's it?" Lorist was so frightened that he even dropped the torch in his hand, this thing was a little too big, this skull was two meters in diameter.

"Don't run away yet!" El grabbed Lorist and turned to run.

"Day, I knew it wouldn't be good to meet you. I've been unlucky enough last time, and this time if you have to join, I've been worried about when I'm going to be unlucky, but now I'm finally relieved, killing rats and killing such a thing, and I'm unlucky. Lorist complained as she ran after Eyre.

"You haven't thanked the old brother for pulling you, or you would have been swallowed by that thing, didn't you see that you were so scared that you even dropped the torch?" El replied.

"I just suddenly remembered the unicorn rock python of the legendary mine incident, I was afraid that it was this guy behind me, and I just saw the long body of the head and thought that it was that thing. Lorlist's face was a little hot, he was really frightened just now, but fortunately Elrist pulled himself.

El looked back as he ran, and after a while, he said, "I don't look like a unicorn rock python, this thing behind it is not fast, its head is round, it doesn't seem to have eyes, and it doesn't have scales on its body......"

"Don't you think of me as a child, I look like a fool? Also, don't run so fast, we can't see anything clearly, be careful to hit the rock wall. Lorist said.

"Haha," Er smiled proudly: "Brother, you know that I practice dark attribute fighting energy, but you don't know that cultivating dark attribute fighting qi can make people have night vision ability, although it is dark here, it is like day for my brother, this is my brother's natural ability." How's that, it's amazing, envy, it's not like you lost your torch and became blind. ”

"Day, brother, I have gold coins, and I can afford lamp oil. It's not like you never light the lamp...... "Lorist is envious, this guy's night vision seems to be not much worse than my dynamic vision, especially at night.

"So, you should have had a good look at the women's bathroom that day, although the light inside is very dark, it is not a problem for you. Lorist asked breathlessly.

"I said don't mention the events of that day, okay?, my brother is really facing the wall, and I didn't look at those old ladies......" Lorist said El remembered the four words that worried him again, and he was anxious. As a result, I was knocked down by a stone without paying attention.

Lorist hurried over to help, and El grabbed Lorlist's arm and got up: "Huh, Locke, why are you hurt?

Lorist was startled and touched up and down: "Oh, it's not that I'm hurt, it's that the bag containing the potion is broken, and the potion is all poured on my body." You're alright, it seems like you're hearing movement again. ”

"I'm fine, that thing is catching up again, let's run. ”

After a while, I saw Shi Fatzi waiting in the place where they had rested, and the two of them ran almost out of breath and couldn't speak, so they had to wave their hands to signal everyone to run. As a result, Shi Fatzi and they thought it was funny when they watched Lorist and El dancing hand in hand, and they stood there laughing non-stop, and then they saw a big guy chasing after the two of them "boom". Now it was lively, and everyone turned around like chickens and dogs and ran desperately outside the mine.

Fat Man was the fastest runner and ran out of the mine first, followed by Yuri, Telman, Bam and a bronze swordsman, and finally El and Lorlist. The other bronze swordsman outside the mine and the villagers who were about to load the corpse of the gold eater rat into the car and transport it back to the village looked at them in horror as they escaped, what happened?

Shi Fatzi shouted at them: "Run, disperse, don't be at the entrance of the cave, there is a demonic beast coming out inside!"

Suddenly the crowd scattered like birds and beasts. Fortunately, the big guy chasing in the cave seemed to be afraid of light, and when he chased to the entrance of the cave, he retracted.

Fat Shi breathed a sigh of relief and asked Lorist and El, "What is that, how did you meet that?" Phew, Locke, what's the smell of you?

"No," said Lorlist, "the potion that was poured on my body, the potion that was invented by Professor Snard Bogg of our academy to repel the gold-eating rats. Since this trip was to kill the golden rats, I brought a bucket with me. ”

"Oh my god, you fuck you, get that potion, I know what's in there. Shi Fatzi jumped up, angrily slamming his fist and wanting to beat Loliste.

"No, Fat Boy, you can make it clear, isn't it good that this potion can drive away the gold devouring rat?" asked Lorlist, dodging.

"What a fart! This potion can drive away the gold eater, but it can lure the earth dragon over, and the thing inside is the earth dragon, which was lured by your potion. ”

"Do you know what an earth dragon is, this thing is a demonic variant of an earthworm, and my favorite is the potion extracted from the roots of this pine tree, if you don't believe it, go dig under the pine tree to see, it is guaranteed to be a big nest of earthworms." There are people in the academy who use this potion to hunt earth dragons. ”

"Professor Boge wanted to make a fortune when he invented this potion, but he drove away the gold-devouring rat and attracted the earth dragon, causing him to lose all the 200,000 bonuses, and the potion produced was piled up in the academy and couldn't be sold, don't you know?

No wonder the professor promised himself a bucket of three gold coins and sold one bucket to get one gold coin, how can there be such a good deal in the world! Lorist squatted on the ground with his head in his hands: "You fight, everyone come and beat me up and get angry." ”

No one came to beat him, and since the matter had come to this point, he had to think about how to solve it. Compared to other Warcraft, Earth Dragon is still relatively easy to solve. After discussing for a long time, everyone felt that it was more reliable to use the fishing method.

The earth dragon is actually a king-sized earthworm, afraid of water and light, a kind of scavenging monster with a mild temperament, and has no active aggression against live targets, of course, this has a lot to do with its huge body, not fast, and insensitive reaction. With the assistance of the village chief and the villagers, Shi Fatzi took the group to work for six days to make a thick rope nearly 100 meters long, and made a big iron hook like an anchor, and then Lorist atoned for his sins, and carried a large iron hook tied with a thick rope on his back into the mine.

As he was walking inside, he noticed that there was one more person beside him, but it was El. Lorist asked, "What are you doing?"

El said: "Of course my brother is here to accompany you, if it weren't for Fat Shi asking Yuri and Telman to help pull the rope, they would have come together." Because we are companions. ”

Lorist was moved to tears on the spot.

After walking for a while, El said almost. So he put down the big iron hook and wrapped it around the rag, and Lorist poured the remaining half of the potion onto the big iron dog and the rag.

Soon, there was another "whirring" sound in the mine, and El said to run, and the two rushed out of the cave.

Before I reached the entrance of the cave, I saw the thick rope on the ground jump up and collapse tightly in the air at a height of one meter. Lorist said, "I'm hooked." ”

Outside the mine, Shi Fatzi was directing the villagers to use a few big wheels to start a tug-of-war with the earth dragon in the cave. From morning to afternoon, the earth dragon was finally pulled to the entrance of the cave, but the earth dragon didn't know what to withstand in the hole, and he didn't come out alive or dead. Finally, as everyone shouted the slogan "One, Two, Three, Force", Lorist saw that the mine was like a flash torrent, black and smelly blood and slime gushing out, and large iron hooks flew out, and large and small tubular strips were hooked on them.

Shi Fatzi approached and looked at it, and said with satisfaction: "Yes, all the internal organs have been pulled out, and the earth dragon is dead." Tomorrow we'll go in again and pull the skin out. ”

The Earth Dragon's regenerative ability is very strong, and the damage to the outside body is easy to recover. Therefore, people took advantage of the characteristics of the earth dragon to swallow directly into the intestines in one bite, and came up with the hunting method of fishing the earth dragon. As long as you pull out the internal organs of the earth dragon, the earth dragon is finished.

There was nothing of value on the earth dragon, the only thing that was still useful was the thick skin. People cut the skin into pieces and put it into a pot, and when it is boiled into a soup, it becomes a good adhesive, and when it is mixed with mud and sand, it can build a wall and lay a foundation, and when it is dry, it will be connected and extremely strong.

Because it was Lorist who caused the incident, Shi Fatzi gave the skin of the earth dragon to Senior Bam, which made him very happy. With the skin of the earth dragon as a binder, he can build a number of good houses in the village for the villagers to live in.

It took another three days for Lorist and his friends to clear the mine of all the gold-eating rats and hang an iron cage in the corner, where the corpse of a gold-eating rat was placed to decompose. In this way, if there is a gold-eating rat passing by in the future, it will smell the death breath of the gold-eating rat left by the iron cage, and it will naturally avoid the mining area.

After all this was done, everyone said goodbye to Senior Bam and set out on the way back to the city.