"Uncle, when the Rock City was built, why didn't you build it near the spinel mine?"

After the owner of the leather shop finished telling the history of Rock City, Miao scratched her scalp and asked a question.

After Miao Piao's question, Fengyun also set his eyes on the leather shop owner, his eyes faintly revealing a look of longing, obviously he was also curious about the answer to this question.

It wasn't something he faked, and he did want to know the answer to that question.

"I knew you were going to ask this. ”

The owner of the leather shop showed an expression that was not as I expected, and then said: "There are two reasons, one is that the terrain near the spinel mine is complicated, and it is too difficult to build a city, and the other is that it was done on purpose. ”

"Deliberately?"

Fengyun and Miao Piao both had surprised expressions on their faces, they obviously didn't expect the leather shop owner to give such an answer.

"You don't understand the process of mining spinel, otherwise you would have understood. ”

The owner of the leather shop explained: "At first, the rough spinel was relatively close to the ground, and it was not difficult to mine, but when the surface rough was mined, the difficulty began to increase when the rough was collected. ”

"At this point, it takes a lot of time and effort to mine each rough spinel. At this time, our human race happened to have the idea of building a stronghold, that is, building a rock city, so someone raised the question of whether it could be linked to the construction of the city and the mining of spinel rough. ”

"Connected, how connected?"

Hearing this, Miao Piao couldn't help it again.

"Don't be in a hurry. Listen to me, and you'll understand. ”

The owner of the leather shop was not angry because he was interrupted by Miao Piao, but continued to tell gently: "Of course, no one wants to do the time-consuming and laborious things, even if it is mining spinel rough, so everyone wants to ......."

“...... You want to leave the tiresome work of mining spinel rough to the cannibal barbarians?"

This time it was Fengyun who spoke.

"You're so smart, young man. ”

The owner of the leather shop was stunned for a moment, then a smile of approval appeared on his face, and then he looked at Fengyun with encouraging eyes, and said, "Can you speak in more detail?"

"Yes. ”

Fengyun didn't prevaricate, he also wanted to know if his speculation was correct, and said: "If the rock city is built too close to the spinel mine, and the cannibal barbarians are grabbing it, no, it should be that after people deliberately let the cannibal barbarians grab the spinel mine, they won't be relieved to mine." ”

"That's not right. In this way, although the mining of spinel has been transferred to the hands of the cannibal barbarians, hasn't the mined spinel also fallen into their hands?"

Miao drifted aside and listened to Fengyun's explanation, and suddenly shouted.

"What's so difficult about this, just grab it from the cannibal barbarians, anyway, we and the cannibal barbarians have already started, if we can rob the spinel that the cannibal barbarians have mined with great difficulty, the blow to them will undoubtedly be greater. ”

"That's how it was then, and it could even be said that our side could win in the end, thanks in large part to this decision. ”

After listening to Fengyun, the owner of the leather shop finally made a summary.

"Uncle, you're busy. Here we go. ”

It seemed that he knew everything he wanted to know, so Fengyun proposed to leave.

"If you have the skin, don't forget to send it to me. I'm not going to let you suffer. ”

The owner of the leather shop is very competent and never forgets to do business.

"We will. ”

Fengyun answered, and walked out of the leather store with Miao Piao.

"Benefactor, what do we do next?"

Fengyun looked at Miao's longing eyes, and said, "What's the matter, do you want to see what can be opened among the stone kings?"

"Yes. Don't you want to, benefactor?"

"I want to, too. If you miss this time, it will be difficult to have such an opportunity again. ”

Fengyun also showed an expression of interest.

After listening to the boss's explanation, Fengyun knew why so many people would rush to a place, it turned out that they had heard that the stone king had been bought, and they had to open it in public.

The scale of the spinel mine that was discovered at the beginning was not small, but no matter how large it was, it could not withstand the continuous mining, and after a long time, it would be depleted.

The Rock City, which was originally a stronghold, was supposed to decay due to the departure of the enemies of the various tribes, and in fact it did fall in decline, but only for a short time, the city prospered again, and it was more prosperous than when it was stationed by the various tribes.

When the spinel mine has not been exhausted, the mined spinel will generally be transported back to the rock city for safekeeping, and in order to prevent the spinel from encountering accidents, there has been a situation of snatching the spinel, and the people who enter the rock city will be strictly checked, and some people who do not know the origin, or cannot prove the origin, will not be allowed to enter the city.

This kept a considerable part of the ninja out of Rock City, and when the spinel mines were depleted, restrictions on outsiders were relaxed, and later completely abolished.

This can be confirmed from the fact that Fengyun and Miao drifted into Renpanshi City without any interrogation.

The restrictions were gone, the flow of people in Rock City increased greatly, and not all of the tribes withdrew, some remained, and the resources around Rock City were also abundant, so its decline only lasted for a short time.

The depleted spinel mines were also put to good use, and in addition to mining some special stones that were associated with spinel to make stone coins, some rough stones that might have hidden spinel were brought back for everyone to buy.

Since it is impossible to see the inside of the stone, it is more of a gamble of luck when buying, that is, the gambling stone that Fengyun thinks.

The vast majority of the so-called rough spinel that was brought back were real stones, and very few meteorites were able to open spinel.

However, people tend to selectively ignore failure and magnify the few successes, so the rough that is shipped back from the spinel mines is still very popular because people want to be lucky.

The value of spinel is quite high, a piece the size of a baby's fist can be exchanged for a thousand stone coins, and ten stone coins can make a family live comfortably in Rock City for a year.

It is no exaggeration to say that if you can bet on a piece of spinel, you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life, and the attraction can be imagined.

The stone king in the mouth of the leather shop owner is a piece of spinel rough that was transported back from the spinel mine, but it is extraordinarily huge, and the height alone is as high as four or five people are superimposed, it is simply a small mountain.

It wasn't just shipped back from the mine. In fact, it's been several years since it was shipped back, and the reason why it hasn't been bought is entirely because the price tag is too high.