Chapter 41: Finding the Crystal
In the northwest of the Blood Lan Fortress, near Yue'er Mountain, there is a cemetery. In this place shrouded in the blood-colored sea of sin, there is no alternation of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the weeds all over the mountains are naturally not a year old and a withered glory.
Fang Ji's grave was in the weeds that were so deep that Nie Licheng was placed in front of the tombstone, and Fang Ping took Fang Cheng to bow three times and bow nine times, carrying out this belated memorial.
"Dad, I was an outcast, I lived because of you, but you died because of me, I owe you two lives in this life!" Fang Cheng choked with red eyes, Fang Ping patted Fang Cheng's shoulder and comforted him.
"I hereby swear that my generation will start with me, my sons, my grandchildren, and grandparents will all have the surname Fang, even if their biological parents are emperors and generals, they will never be replaced!" Fang Cheng made an oath with tears, this is the best sacrifice for a deceased!
After the memorial service was completed, the two of them planted soil on the grave and cleaned up the surrounding weeds, Fang Cheng and Fang Ping separated, Fang Cheng would rush to the canyon to find the crystal iron ore, and Fang Ping continued to return to the camp of Sin City.
In the canyon where only demon hunters came and went in the past, more than a dozen forces came from all over the world during this time, and thousands of people searched for crystal iron ore within a radius of one hundred and ten miles, and many forces such as the Tong family and the Cao family hired a large number of demon hunters to start looking for crystal iron ore.
However, this purposeless search is entirely a matter of luck. Even Fang Cheng, who knew the approximate location, it was not so easy to find, and even the guards of the Zhongnan Commercial Bank who had guarded the main road of the canyon before did not know about the existence of the crystal iron ore, which showed how secret the Nie family was.
After Liao Xiu returned to the camp, he took Liu Hong and his party of more than a dozen people to search for five days, and then returned to the camp to rest.
However, Fang Cheng did not go on the road with the big men, but took Fang Ping to pay tribute to his father first.
By the time Fang Cheng arrived at this area called Mochizuki Valley, it was already two days later.
It is not that the moon can be seen here, but that the canyon is arc-shaped, and when viewed from a high place, it looks like a sickle moon.
"How's it going?
Fang Cheng walked up to Monkey Li, who was full of vigilance, and suddenly made a sound, startling Monkey Li.
"You.. Who are you? You are not Fang Ping, don't lie to me!" Li Monkey said, already pulling out the short sword at his waist.
Fang Cheng came to his senses at this time, when he was separated from Fang Ping, he was afraid of being watched, and in order to cover Fang Ping, he deliberately used the "Thousand Magic Face Technique" to become Fang Ping's appearance, but this "Thousand Magic Face Technique" couldn't be practiced at home, and Li Monkey, who had dealt with Fang Ping a lot in the tavern, found out that something was wrong as soon as he heard the voice.
Fang Cheng quickly changed back to his appearance, and Li Monkey patted his heart with reassurance, and said, "We followed the area that Liao Xiu was looking for for two days, and we didn't find anything, the big guy was resting in front." ”
The big man's resting place was next to a boulder in the middle of Mochizuki Valley, and their team of people, except for the big man Zuo Siying, Li Monkey, and Jiang Hua, who were regarded as people that Fang Cheng could absolutely trust, the remaining ten people were all people who performed particularly well in the battle to annihilate the Nie family's firm.
Only in this way can it be possible to keep the secret, if all the hundred people of the mine protection team are pulled to this area, it will definitely attract the attention of other forces, which will not be conducive to their prospecting, and the beast said that it makes sense to find it first.
Although Fang Cheng didn't know when the beast had reasoned with whom, if he found the mine, the beast wouldn't help, and Fang Cheng decided to give up.
"Fang Cheng!" The big man rested for half an hour, and just as he stood up and was about to continue, he saw Li Monkey coming over with Fang Cheng.
"After two days of searching, there are still no eyebrows, we are ready to continue to search along the canyon to the west!"
The big man said with a face full of guilt, he was actually guilty of the knife in his hand, this knife was a superb mid-level weapon, which was given to him by Fang Cheng, and he felt that he had to do his best to take people's money.
Fang Cheng nodded with everyone and said, "It's okay, everyone has worked hard, let's find it together!"
"Okay, everyone on the road, it's a rat hole, don't let it go!"
The team of more than ten people lined up, knocking on the rock wall from time to time, for fear that there was a hidden door.
Fang Cheng took a few steps forward, then stopped, looking back at the boulder where the big man had just rested.
"What's the matter, Fang Cheng?" Zuo Siying asked casually when she saw Fang Cheng's face full of doubts.
"Have you cleaned up around this boulder?" Fang Cheng asked.
"No, we just saw that the area around here was quite clean, so we decided to rest here temporarily..."
Zuo Siying said and stopped suddenly, yes, how could this place be so clean? Under the long-term pressure of the Void Realm, the mountain rocks collapsed, and there should be large and small rubbles everywhere.
But to the west of this boulder, there is no slightly larger piece of gravel to be seen.
When Zuo Siying spoke, Fang Cheng had already gone down, he carefully investigated, pointed to the slightly flat ground and said, "See, this is a slip mark, this boulder was pushed over."
If in the past, Fang Cheng thought that it was difficult for him to find such a small difference, and today he can find that this place is different, obviously it is the effect brought by the armor characteristics of the heart and the soul, and the popular explanation of the heart is that what he thinks in his heart, his inspiration will be particularly sensitive to the target.
At this moment, Fang Cheng was almost certain that there was something hidden under this boulder, which was probably the entrance to the crystalline iron ore, because the feeling in his heart became stronger and stronger.
Zuo Siying immediately recalled the others, and everyone attached themselves to the boulder, and pushed the boulder westward with all their strength...
"Ahh
Seeing that a two-foot-square hole was revealed under the boulder, the others exclaimed in unison, they didn't expect that Fang Cheng was so powerful, and he was so good at prospecting, could this be the master's intuition?
"This... This..."The big man blushed, they had been looking for the mine, but they didn't expect that they were resting on the mine just now, if it weren't for Fang Cheng's discernment, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to find the mine in their lifetime.
"Wait, I'll come first!" Seeing that Fang Cheng was about to go down, the big man hurriedly stopped him and took the lead in getting in.
Fang Cheng didn't fight, he looked back at Li Monkey Zuo Siying and said, "You two stay on top, go back and tell the beast as soon as there is news!"
Although the entrance of the cave is very small, after jumping down, it is a downward tunnel more than half a person high, and through the faint light diffracted from the hole, Fang Cheng can see the crystalline iron ore emitting dark light on both sides of the tunnel.
Then there was a choking stench, like something rotting underneath, except for the cave, which was pitch black in the depths.
The big man endured the stench and found a remaining torch on the ground, and after lighting it, the two covered their noses and continued to explore downward, and on both sides of the tunnel were dense crystalline iron ore of high purity.
There is a way to prospect for mining first, and after finding the mineral deposit, it is generally not in a hurry to mine, but to dig a tunnel along the vein to see how much the mineral deposit has, and then decide which way to mine.
Obviously, Zhongnan Commercial Bank is in the stage of prospecting, this tunnel has been dug more than 100 meters diagonally downward, and at the end of the tunnel, the big man and Fang Cheng finally saw the source of the stench.
These were five or six corpses dressed in miners' clothes, Fang Cheng guessed that this was probably because Nie Dongxiong rushed to kill people after the secret of the crystal iron ore was exposed.
At the bottom of the tunnel, there is still dense crystalline ironite, which is enough to show that this vein has not yet been explored.
Obviously, someone found this vein of exposed crystalline iron ore at the bottom of the canyon and sold the news to Zhongnan Commercial Bank, so Zhongnan Commercial Bank organized manpower to block the surrounding canyon in the name of the Hurricane Bandit Group, and then prospected while mining.
This mine, for the Nie family in Zhongzhou, is actually a very painful temptation, it is too far away from Zhongzhou, the place where the Nie family is rooted, and public mining at one end will definitely be robbed, even if you want to jointly mine with nearby forces such as the Cao family in Jeju, it is impossible, so the Nie family can only secretly mine in small batches, and then disguise and smuggle it.
"Quick, go back and tell the beast that it's been found!" Fang Cheng shouted as he ran up. His voice traveled far and wide along the narrow tunnel.
The next moment, I heard an arrogant voice coming from above.
"Hahaha, the Seventh Elder is really clever, you found the location of the crystal iron mine, and then destroyed the Zhongnan Commercial Bank, do you think you can keep the secret?"
"What the fuck is the mine protection team, it's funny, I, Cao Bing, can make such a great contribution to the Cao family, and thank you! Everyone listen, put down my weapons and get out of the way, otherwise I will be killed!"