After leaving the camp, Gordon and his party braved the heat and walked along the map for more than an hour before finally arriving at the location of the ruins marked with a red circle.

"So, where are the ruins?" Looking at the huge lava lake in front of him, and the lakeside covered by layers of solidified magma, Anhill asked with some despair: "Is your map of the distribution of ruins really reliable?" ”

Gordon flipped through the map and the surrounding terrain and muttered, "This should be it?" Alva wouldn't have made a fake book to fool me, would he? ”

Feeling that the effects of the potion he had taken before had been exhausted, Anhill refilled a bottle of cold drink, and his brain, which had been blinded by heat, also regained his coolness.

"If it is the collection of Wang Li's paleontological scrivener team, the content should still be reliable, but you have also seen that the lava is flowing here, and the terrain may change dramatically in just a few years."

As he spoke, Anhill stomped his foot, pointed to the wavy ground beneath his feet, and said, "Perhaps, that ruin is at our feet." ”

After staring at the ground formed by the solidification of the lava for a few moments, Gordon suddenly took out an iron pickaxe and slammed it on the ground.

"Bell!"

The pickaxe was bounced off, and the force of the rebound almost made Gordon lean back, and after quickly adjusting his center of gravity, he looked at the position where the pickaxe had just been struck.

Only a shallow pit the size of an orange was smashed

Glance at Anhill.

Even if they knew that the ruins were buried in the ground by magma, if they wanted to lift all the lava stones on the surface with the power of the two of them and one cat, it would be a big project on a year-by-year basis.

It's numb.

"Could it be that meow!" Eager to help, the pork chop came back from running around, pointing to two small stone hills, or stone piles, in the distance.

"I'll see."

Gordon hurriedly ran over, looked at them a few times, and then said to Anhill, who was also walking over, with some excitement: "The terrain here is quite flat, just these two stone piles are poked here, and it is better to dig from here than to dig aimlessly." ”

Anhill agreed with this judgment, and consciously set up the crystal rifle and began to guard the surroundings, while Gordon took out the iron pickaxe again, shouted a trumpet and smashed the stone pile.

The pork chop was also tried with its paws.

"Kah, meow!!"

The cat, which could easily dig holes in the dirt, scratched at the volcanic rock, and could do nothing but leave a white mark, and used a little more force, and almost broke its claws, making it hurt.

Gordon, who had already knocked down some rubble, couldn't help but laugh, "Pork Chop, you can help me check and sift through these knock-down stones, maybe there will be something mixed in there." ”

"Okay Meow"

The two worked together in a cat, and more than half an hour passed.

Gordon didn't dig up anything but the extra pile of rubble at his feet, but instead Anhill dealt with a lava beast attracted by the sound of the knock.

This small monster, which looks like a seahorse and a lizard, can swim in lava like a fish in water, and has reached an unreasonable level of resistance to high temperatures.

Fortunately, their skin is not hard, and Anhill shot it to death in the lava lake using only the most ordinary LV1 bullets.

"Gordon, look at this meow!"

Just as Gordon was losing his patience, the pork chop suddenly screamed.

Gordon immediately stopped what he was doing and leaned over, "What, did you dig up the talisman?" ”

"It's not a meow" The pork chop rubbed the stone chips in his paws hard, and said, "I don't think this stone is like a naturally generated mineral rock meow!" ”

Gordon took it and looked at it carefully, rubbing the pork chop's head excitedly.

Although it was not a talisman or any other valuable mineral, it had obvious traces of artificiality - it appeared to be a heavily weathered pottery shard.

In other words, there may indeed be ruins under the two stone piles in front of them, which are not much taller than people, and these may be two roofs that have been almost buried by magma?

Gordon, who had a head, suddenly dug harder.

Anhill also came over, leaving the task of guarding the pork chop for the time being, while he studied the pottery shard himself.

Gordon waved his pickaxe and asked, "How, do you see any doorways?" I think it's like tiles, there must be ruins down here! ”

"It should indeed be artificially fired, I can't tell you the date, I may have to ask those scholars to get the answer." Anhill was also interested, he put away the crystal cannon, rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll dig too!" ”

With Anhill joining, the efficiency of excavation has immediately improved a lot.

Gordon guessed wrong, though, the two stone piles weren't roofs or anything like that, and after digging out the outer layer of lava rock, there was nothing left of the building he was looking forward to.

It's a nearly solid lump of stone, more than 90 percent of which is cooled and solidified magma, and what is left is metallic minerals and other messy-looking things.

Anhill speculated that the ruins should be buried deeper underground, but sometimes the contents of the ruins were brought to the surface by flowing lava and condensed to form such piles.

It's not the ruins themselves, but it's a good excavation spot.

"Aha! Good luck! Anhill happily picked up a half-fist-sized piece of rotten metal and shook it in front of Gordon.

"This is the talisman?"

"Well, take this thing back to the village, give it to the craftsmen for appraisal, and after polishing, it will become a usable talisman."

Gordon looked enviously at the metal block in Anhill's hand, "What is the attribute of this talisman?" ”

Anhill shook his head, "I don't know, we have to know after the craftsmen have appraised it, let's dig more, go back and identify it to see who can use it, and give the rest to sell or exchange it with other hunters, as long as you have patience, you can always get what you like." ”

"Good!" Gordon shook his slightly sore arms, and his whole body seemed to become refreshed.

The excavation continued until the cold drinks ran out, and by the end of the day, half of the huge mound had been dug up, and Gordon and Anhill had a good harvest.

In addition to the four talisman rough stones, they also bought a large number of earth crystals, finchite, fossil charcoal and other minerals, and more advanced gyndolonite, Linghe stone, and also bought a lot.

During this period, several small monsters attracted by the movement of the excavation, such as lava beasts, ground beetles, red speed dragons, etc., were simply dealt with by the pork chops without even Gordon and their help.

On the way back to camp, Gordon, who was carrying a huge and heavy package, couldn't help but sigh, "Ah, this feeling of returning home with a full load, even the fatigue has disappeared!" ”

Anhill, who had never done much heavy physical work, moved his sore shoulders and retorted: "That's a delusion! Wait until tomorrow and you'll know what sore muscles taste like! ”

"Impossible! When pigs fly! Gordon is confident in his muscular endurance, "Tomorrow we'll keep digging!" If you don't dig up those two piles, you won't go back to the village! ”

Anhill looked helplessly at the huge package behind Gordon, "I don't object to this, after all, it's not easy to find a good mine, the question is can you bring back so much ore?" ”

Ps. Here is a reminder for readers who may have forgotten.

(MH3) The talisman before the identification is divided into several levels: "Mysterious amulet, amulet of light, ancient amulet, weathered amulet", I don't want to make it too complicated.

The lower hunter can only dig out the lower talisman stone, and the upper hunter digs out the upper talisman this kind of thing, which is natural in the game, and it is too unreasonable in the real world, so it is all up to luck to dig out the good and bad talisman here, collectively referred to as the original talisman stone.

(End of chapter)