Chapter 5: The Harvest
Lao Qin fainted, but the bracelet formed a layer of black armor on Lao Qin's body, and the armor was surrounded by silver electric light, only the left wrist had a bracelet-like bulge, and the right wrist was empty, but there was a vertical groove about a finger long.
The streamlined armor wrapped Lao Qin, and for a while, the back finally formed two vertical strip-like protrusions, which finally stabilized with the black light.
The shaking of the mine, Lao Qin's shouting, alarmed Banga and the others, and everyone ran over and was stunned when they saw this scene.
"God...... God's armament. Old Benga couldn't help but shout.
Looking at Lao Qin, who was wrapped in black armor, Banga was a little hesitant and a little overwhelmed, but after the black light disappeared, he ran to Lao Qin's side and helped Lao Qin up, but he didn't know how to deal with it.
The atmosphere became a little strange, and everyone else stood around in a daze, most of them with their mouths wide open.
Banga had no choice but to press Lao Qin's chest with the palm of his right hand, as if he was doing artificial respiration, but as soon as he exerted his strength, he was bounced away by the lightning-like light emitted by the black armor.
There were a lot of wounds cut out of the contact place, Banga subconsciously retracted his hand, at a loss, Lao Qin withdrew his hand with Banga, and fell heavily to the ground, the gravel touched the black armor and turned into a piece of stone powder, but Lao Qin snorted after such a fall, and the vibration made him wake up after a while.
"Is this the power of God's armament?" Banga muttered to himself that although he had seen the Protoss' armament, he had not had a chance to see it up close, and he did not know what the power of the armament was.
But what Banga didn't know was that because Lao Qin was in a coma, this could only be regarded as an autonomous reaction of armor or armament.
As Lao Qin woke up, the black armor faded as quickly as water, and he didn't know where it had retreated. Revealing his bare chest, Lao Qin sat up panting.
"What's going on?" Lao Qin asked in surprise.
He was a little confused from the pain just now.
Banga was about to answer, but after thinking about it, he turned back to the crowd and said, "Don't tell what happened today, or we'll all die!" Remember the same as last time. ”
Everyone nodded hurriedly.
"Let's all get to work."
After Banga waited for everyone to leave, he turned to Lao Qin, and a sharp light appeared in his eyes, no longer like a mine slave. "Who the hell are you? Is it really human? How can there be an arm of God? ”
A series of questions made Lao Qin confused, stunned for a moment, Lao Qin looked at his left wrist, it was clean, and there was a tattoo-like bracelet there.
"I don't know what it was just now, my name is Qin Feng, a human on Earth. I don't know how I got here. Obviously, Lao Qin involuntarily hid the secret of the bracelet.
"It's not the 41082 you said at all."
"But you look exactly like 41082, and you came out of his shed." In fact, Banga knew that Lao Qin was not that 41082.
Lao Qin couldn't explain it clearly, so he simply didn't say it.
After hesitating, Lao Qin asked, "What is the weapon of the gods you just said?" ”
Now it was Benga's turn to be puzzled, and he said to himself, "It's not like the arms of the gods, the arms of the gods are silvery." ”
"Before I was captured by the orcs and brought to the 17th Mine Star, I spent time in the Anti-Resistance Army, participated in a war against the Protoss, and saw the arms of the gods. After I failed, I was thrown here as a mine slave by the orcs. Banga seemed to sink into memory and whispered.
"The armament of the gods is the weapon of war of the gods, and the war only came to a god, and the protoss wearing the armament of the gods destroyed all the more than a hundred warships that were fighting against the beast soldiers at that time."
"But the God's armament is much larger than the one you just had, and yours is not like an armament, but more like armor or clothing."
Lao Qin was obviously attracted by the word god, "Is there really a god in this world?" ”
"Well, I don't know where the gods came from, in less than 30 years, they have conquered the five major star fields, hundreds of races have been wiped out, and those who have survived have either become vassal races like beast soldiers, or they have become mine slaves like humans, collecting all kinds of minerals needed for the gods."
"What does a god look like?"
"I don't see what a god looks like, it's said to be handsome, much taller than a human, and when he appears, he is dressed in silver-white god arms."
"The miners on this planet, just us? Why don't you see anyone else? There should be a lot of them, right? ”
"Alas, most of the miners are in the mines to complete the ore gathering tasks, and it is usually good to come up once a week to replenish food. Our team also went down the mine a week ago, and only came out last night to get some food. ”
"It's been more than ten days, but I've collected less than 200 glowstones, and I won't survive the next harvest at all, so I just rested for one night, and then I have to come down again."
"Then this mine star is not guarded? Overseer or something? Is there no one to manage it? Lao Qin asked the question in his heart, "It looks very relaxed."
"Yes, there are no guards or overseers here, there is no need, the 17th Mine Star is just a barren Mine Star, the environment cannot produce food, it needs to be transported from the outside world, we must work hard to mine if we want to live." A deep sadness welled up on Banga's face, "Most of the other miners didn't complete their mission, and were killed by the orcs or starved to death in the mines. ”
"There are basically almost 50 people in each squad, and there are only 15 people left in our squad. I guess I'll add some manpower next time. ”
Lao Qin was greatly shocked, this mortality rate is too high.
"The orcs come every 90 days to collect ore. It's been less than 5 days since the last time I came. ”
"But we don't have any food anymore, and last night was the last bit. It seems that it will be difficult for a dozen of us to hold on until then, and even if we do, we don't have enough ore in exchange for food. ”
When it came to ore, Lao Qin suddenly thought of the blue ore that he had just dug up, but they were all eaten by his own bracelet. He quickly got up and searched the vicinity, and sure enough, he found several fingernail-sized blue ores in a pile of rubble covered with debris that had fallen from the top of a nearby mine.
"Is this a high-grade ore? Can I change the food? ”
Lao Qin asked, holding up the ore in his hand.
"Ahh ……”
Benga's eyes lit up with excitement, and he grabbed the small stones and touched the tools to them, emitting a dazzling blue light.
Lao Qin didn't know if Banga was holding the blue ore with the same sting as him, but he didn't ask when he saw Banga's face full of excitement. However, Lao Qin felt that the moment Banga came into contact with the ore, he became a little abnormal, as if he was drunk, and a flush surged on his face.
"What kind of ore is this? It looks like it's the best ore. ”
"We've never dug for it, but we've heard of this ore, most notably because it's the only one that makes tools glow blue."
"That's enough for us to get food."
"41082, you're really ......" Banga couldn't say any more, turning around and shouting outside, "We've got enough food, we can finish this mission, you all come and have a look." ”
After a while, everyone's faces were full of joy and they all looked at Banga's hand, "The blue ore found in 41082, high-grade ore!" He is our hope. ”
Tears flashed in Banga's eyes, "We won't die, and I can't bear you to die." ”
Everyone came over and grabbed Lao Qin's hand, their faces full of excitement.
Lao Qin felt that he had integrated into the team at this moment, and he was also full of joy and surrounded Banga with everyone.
"But we can't all exchange these ores for food this time, we still have to collect more low-grade ores, otherwise we will still be in trouble."
With that, Banga opened the crate, carefully put the blue ore into the middle grid, and put the glow stone dug up by everyone into it.
"Let's all go to work, at least we won't starve to death for a while."
Banga patted the young man's head and said with a smile.
I don't know how long it took, Lao Qin heard Banga calling everyone, so he withdrew from the mine and came to the hall where the mine road intersected.
Although Lao Qin worked hard to chisel the rock wall during this time, his luck was not as good as before, he only dug out more than a dozen pieces of flarestone, and two pieces of ore that I don't know what their names were, but judging from the light emitted by the tool, it was not a high-grade ore.
"It's almost time, let's go out."
Banga led the group back to the ground and put the tools back on the shelves. Then they returned to the shed, collected the ore that had been dug up by the crowd, and placed it in the grid of the crate. The others cut some wood from the bushes not far away, and rekindled the fire to form a fire, and everyone gathered around the fire, but no one spoke, but most of the faces were light.
When it was almost noon, I saw a bright white halo from the tops of all the tall towers not far away.
Banga immediately summoned the team and asked them to carry out the crates containing the ore collected from the previous mines, and led them to the huge square in front of the middle tower, where the other teams also walked in this direction.
Soon, Lao Qin found that there were still many squads, it seems that there are still a lot of people, according to the number on the body, there should be at least more than 40,000 people, but there are obviously not so many people who come to the square, it is estimated that there are only three or four thousand people, although the number of people looks quite a lot, but few people speak, and they don't make much noise, almost all of them are naked, barefoot, and their faces are full of exhaustion.
From time to time, a team of miners passed by the vicinity of Banga's team, and the people who seemed to be the captain nodded slightly to Banga, it seemed that Banga's popularity was not bad, but they didn't speak, and everyone walked to the designated position to stand on their own.
All the miners stood in the area around the square, and the center of the square and the passages were empty.