Section 17 Pits

The dwarven blacksmith accepted him as an apprentice so easily, which made Chen Jinyang feel a little surprised, as far as this society is concerned, any technology is a precious secret and knowledge, is the one-eyed dwarf good-hearted? Old Sailu's face is big enough or his character is strong enough? Chen Jinyang does not believe that there will be such good things in the world.

The next day, Chen Jinyang instructed Alos to take care of a few problematic characters, Mi Sha'er was too young and simple, the Moon Elf Girl was too capable of making trouble, Phinea was not familiar with the world, and only Alos, who had been a tavern waiter, could reassure him. Chen Jinyang left all the gold coins for the food expenses of the four people, and the magic bag in his arms contained enough hard bread and drinking water bags, as well as five cheapest tabulipine torches as lighting tools.

When Chen Jinyang arrived at the blacksmith shop of the one-eyed dwarf Singels, the heavily armed dwarves were already waiting impatiently, and Singhs McCrouff, who was wearing a horned battle helmet and a stainless steel scale armor, and carrying a semi-circular steel shield and a short-handled war hammer, roared dissatisfiedly: "Boy! You're too late! We should have set off before dawn! Now! Go and pick a guy to take advantage of! I hope you've been trained in combat before! Right away!" The old dwarf, who had barely slept all night in excitement, pointed his heavy hammer at the large wooden box in the corner of the blacksmith's shop.

Look at this old boy's posture! Is this going to mine or to fight! Chen Jinyang walked up to him and opened the wooden box full of doubts, which contained several good-looking weapons, two one-handed swords, a scimitar, a short-handled battle axe, and even a crossbow mixed with wood and iron and a bag of arrows. Chen Jinyang picked up the scimitar and danced a few times, it's okay! It's a pretty good scimitar, compared to Cui Heizi's ordinary scimitar made of stainless steel, and it is better in terms of center of gravity, he turned back to the dwarf who was a little surprised and asked, "Master Singels, you made this knife?"

The dwarf, who was surprised by Chen Jinyang's strange sword-wielding action, hurriedly stroked the remaining half of his beard, and replied casually: "Ahhh A thought flashed in Chen Jinyang's mind, and he grabbed the crossbow and arrows and put them into the magic bag, and then ran down the ladder with the dwarf.

"Where are we going?" Chen Jinyang asked in confusion as he followed the dwarven blacksmith through the three-story room in a row.

Singers, who was leading the way in front, replied in a suppressed voice: "The pit!

Chen Jinyang was even more confused: "Isn't the mine outside the city?"

"Who told you the pit was outside the city!" the dwarf chattered as he was excited about the start of the mine, "Miraba's city is built on the top of the mine, and you can find the best ore in the world just by digging down from the bottom of your feet! Thousands of the most brilliant dwarves have been digging ore and forging metal here! Furnaces as hot as magma, hammer strikes louder than thunder!Damn liars!Damn underground monsters!No more merry work! This is simply the greatest punishment for the dwarves!" "As Singers cursed, the two men passed through a long, narrow passage to an empty tunnel that was two or three people tall and about the same width, and a two-wheeled tow bucket was parked at the entrance to the narrow passage.

The light in the tunnel was extremely dim, and even with Chen Jinyang's excellent eyesight, it was difficult to see the scenery a few meters away. Singers put his shield into the bucket and picked up a strange lantern from the bucket and lit it and hung it in front of the bucket, he put the hammer on his back and began to push the low bucket forward.

"Boy, follow me!Don't get lost!Otherwise you'll be trapped in this vast labyrinth! Hundreds of years of digging make it impossible for the world's smartest dwarves to fully remember all the tunnels here!Hunger!Loneliness!Monsters!These things will kill you at any moment!" Singhs was angry at Chen Jinyang's absent-mindedness, and he was very unhappy to warn the rookie who set foot here for the first time. Chen Jinyang followed the dwarf in a few big strides, and smiled apologetically, but unfortunately the dim environment in the tunnel did not notice the dwarf.

"Master Singers ......"

"Human boy! Just call me Singhals! McCrouff is not old enough to remember the glory of the past in the respect of others! Dwarf Singhs can still swing a hammer to forge and fight!" The dwarf pushing the bucket was not satisfied with Chen Jinyang's title.

"Oh, okay, Singers, did you come here to mine before?" Chen Jinyang looked at the long dark tunnel, a little uneasy.

"Ahh

The wide tunnel is almost all surrounded by solid stone walls, with only a few loose corners with thick stone slabs stacked with solid pillars. The polished almost smooth stone pavement underfoot stretches into the depths of the earth with a slight slope.

Dark, silent, lonely, oppressive! Only the "squeak" of the wheels and the "click" of footsteps echoed in the empty tunnel. The dwarf stopped chattering because of the previous question, and with the light of the flickering bulls' eye lantern, both of them walked forward in silence. But the uneasy Singers glanced back at Chen Jinyang from time to time, as if he was afraid that this tall human would suddenly disappear.

After only walking a few hundred meters, Singhs could no longer stand the dreary atmosphere, he angrily put down the drag, tilted his head and shouted at Chen Jinyang: "Okay, okay! Damn it! Old Singhals admits that he hasn't been down there to mine for years! Damn! The Marquis actually listened to the lies of those liars to cut the number of dwarven miners! and would rather weave more dwarves into Miraba's Axe! Damn bastards! I'm just blind in one right eye, and this little bastard Torg actually excluded me again! Rock warriors who can't knock him down even evil orcs!Fearless Singers McCrouff! To be like a crippled gnome, they can neither dig for fascinating ores nor fight in glory!Hmmm! They are insulting the personality of the great Singers McCrouff! trample on his honor! Hmmm-"

I'm you, you, this old bastard! I didn't dare to venture down there alone, and I actually kidnapped an ignorant human boy to accompany him to the depths of the dark mine, this is simply Chiguoguo's abduction, teasing, and murder......

In the end, the dwarf who complained with a handful of snot and tears looked at Chen Jinyang with an expressionless face in despair, he lowered his ugly head and whispered dejectedly: "Since you don't want to go, then go back!" Chen Jinyang sighed in a low voice and shook his head helplessly, what a speechless old child! He continued to walk forward without saying a word.

The dwarf looked at his tall back suspiciously, and then reacted, Singhs wiped the snot on his face casually, pushed up the tow bucket and quickly swung two thick little short legs, and the wheels "squeaked" and rolled rapidly: "Wait for me! Wait for me! Haha! Haha! You are a good young man! Haha! Your name is William, isn't it? I know that you are a great William! Hahaha! Do you know? Do you know? I am a master miner! As long as you sniff it, old Singles knows where the best deposits are! Speaking of eyes, I've slain five evil orcs! Each of them is as tall as you! The strongest one of them has cut off my right eye! It was a magical axe! Damn! It even cut off half of my beard! But Singh McCrouff, who was as brave as ore, smashed his toes with his warhammer, broke his thighs, and finally smashed that damn orc into meat sauce!hahaha!"

Once again, the tunnels were filled with the chatter of dwarves, and the gloomy tunnels were almost transformed into a lively outing by a thrilling battle, a strange scar, a fellow former miner, a particular piece of ore, or the cursing of metallurgists and alchemists. Chen Jinyang had never met such a nagging guy, and he regretted this action! Chen Jinyang almost had an urge to strangle this old boy to death.

"I bet we'll be able to get to the best deposit excavation area by walking another hundred meters!!" Otherwise my significant other's beard will disappear!" Singers exclaimed after a bend.

"If your bet can be fulfilled! Even a hundred beards won't be enough to disappear!" Chen Jinyang, who was almost crazy, hit the one-eyed dwarf mercilessly.

After several hours of trekking, the two men, who had traveled almost a dozen miles, never found a suitable excavation area. After entering a fork in the road, there was a sudden noise in the darkness ahead, and Singers quickly stopped his mouth and footsteps, picked up the steel shield in the war hammer and the drag, and made a defensive gesture against the darkness. Seeing this, Chen Jinyang also took out the scimitar on his back, took off the bull's-eye lantern on the bucket with his other hand, and the two of them slowly walked forward and gradually explored ahead.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" A dull sound of rock formations knocking on the rocks, someone was mining! Singers shouted excitedly: "I just said it! I said it! Ore deposits! Ore deposits! haha!" The one-eyed dwarf ran back quickly on his short legs to push the drag, and the armor on his body "clicked" non-stop.

When the two people approached the area where the excavation sound came from, the excavation sound suddenly disappeared, the old dwarf was carried away by the excitement, and Chen Jinyang was a master of the arts, and the two rushed to the location where the excavation sound sounded without hesitation, no one was here! Nothing! Chen Jinyang lit a pine torch to illuminate the surroundings, but at the end of a tunnel, there were several piles of rocks falling on the jagged stone wall, obviously knocked down by something, but there were no people or tools around.

Chen Jinyang and Singhals looked at each other for a long time, and the old dwarf's heart was crossed, and he said loudly: "It's time to start! Even a giant dragon here can't stop Old Singers' work!" He picked up the mine pickaxe in the tow bucket and started to work, Chen Jinyang put a torch in the hole in the wall, which seemed to be specially chiseled by someone, he took out the crossbow in the magic bag and put the arrow on it, and the scimitar was also placed in a convenient position, and then picked up the mine pickaxe from the tow bucket.

Chen Jinyang looked at the pickaxe, which was shorter than his arm, speechlessly, and turned back to the dwarf who was greedily touching the stone wall and shouted, "Hey, old Singels, this is the mining tool you prepared for me?"