Chapter IX Mines
In the morning, the white fog curls and the fog rolls over. Xu Zifan rode a motorcycle, driving all the way, he was on the way to the mine.
The mine was where the bus stopped to rest when he came home from Sioux City.
After discovering that the stone ring could absorb the "divine substance" of the azure stone, he planned to come here, maybe this place could solve the mystery of the stone ring, which was the only way he could think of at the moment.
In order to understand the role of this heavenly treasure, he has tried flooding, fire, hammering, etc. in the past few days, and even tried it according to what he wrote in the online novel, but the stone ring is like a real stone, and there is no response.
The only thing that was extraordinary was that it was hard enough, and he tried hammering it with a hammer, and the force went from small to large, and the stone ring did not shatter, or even cause any damage.
He came here this time to look for the sky blue stone.
"Maybe after 'absorbing' enough sky blue stones, the stone ring will change!" Xu Zifan thought as he walked.
After riding for more than three hours, it was almost noon, and Xu Zifan finally came to the entrance of the mine, which was the rest place for the bus.
He parked his motorcycle in front of a nearby private restaurant, said hello to the shopkeeper and asked him to watch the motorcycle, and then carried his backpack and a long gun wrapped in cloth tape and a sapper shovel into the mountain.
There is a mine more than 1,000 meters away from this resting place, where someone opened a mine more than ten years ago, and then due to the national policy, the mine also stopped mining, and it has been abandoned.
Xu Zifan observed the surroundings while walking into the mountains, everything was different after the world changed.
It's autumn now, and at this time of the year, the trees have begun to lose their leaves, and the grass has begun to wither, but now the trees are lush and the grass is flourishing, and the cries of insects are heard from time to time.
Now the grass on the surrounding grass is half a person high, and Xu Zifan takes a sapper shovel to open the way.
In a short time, he had already walked to the place where he had dug up the blue stone a few days ago, which had been covered with other weeds.
Continuing to walk inside, Xu Zifan observed and searched as he walked. He's looking for the blue flower that was so beautiful last time.
After climbing over a small dirt slope and walking forward for about a thousand meters, you can still faintly hear the occasional honking of vehicles on the road behind.
The surrounding mountains and forests are full of trees, and many trees have grown taller and thicker after the changes of heaven and earth, with green leaves, mountain wind, and fresh air mixed with the fragrance of herbs is coming, which makes Xu Zifan feel refreshed unconsciously.
Suddenly, a wisp of flower fragrance came, Xu Zifan was shocked, looking around, through the fog in front of him, he could vaguely see a cluster of blue flowers blooming in the grass, swaying in the wind.
The flowers are blue, mixed with the grass, the size of an adult man's fist, crystal clear, with a misty blue mist, like a dream, the fragrance of flowers hits people, bursts of fragrance come, refreshing.
Xu Zifan opened the way with a sapper shovel and walked to the cluster of flowers, which was exactly the same as the last time, it was the blue flower he was looking for.
Pushing aside the grass, I saw blue flowers swaying in the wind, and there were a few only flower branches around.
Looking closely at the surrounding ground, there are still traces of manual digging, and there are still residual leaves on the ground. Yes, after the changes in heaven and earth, many people have begun to go into the mountains to hunt for treasures, how can they not be concerned when they encounter this kind of flower that is obviously a different species.
Xu Zifan put down his backpack, put his homemade spear aside, and used a sapper shovel to dig the ground of the blue alien roots, hoping to find the sky blue stone like last time again.
It wasn't long before I dug about a foot deep, and a blue light flashed through the soil.
Xu Zifan searched carefully and dug up two pieces of sky blue stones, the size of a little finger, light as nothing, and extremely hard, the overall blue light was shining, the feel was warm, but it was not very transparent, the stone was occasionally mixed with white magazines, and I didn't know that it was formed after many thousands of years in nature.
Xu Zifan put the stone ring and the sky blue stone together, looked carefully, the initial few minutes were not obvious, about five minutes later, a faint wisp of light particles as thin as a light veil was seen floating towards the stone ring.
The stone ring is like the stone tool of the primitive tribe in ancient times, the surface of the simple texture criss-crossed, mottled and old, deep and shallow, like natural formation, and like artificial carving.
After absorbing the light particles as thin as a light veil, Xu Zifan noticed that some of the lines on the stone ring near the outer ring lit up with a hint of golden light, but it was fleeting and calm, as if everything just now was like an illusion.
He looked at the two sky-blue stones, which had become gray powdery substance, slipping between his fingers and drifting slowly into the air and dust as the mountain wind blew.
Seeing this, Xu Zifan was not only not unhappy, but also very happy, he found the right way. Sure enough, the stone ring reacted.
He packed his backpack, picked up his spear, and sappered the way to continue his search.
He then found three more clusters of blue flowers along the way, and only two clusters of them had dug up a total of three azure stones in the soil at the roots of the two clusters.
"It seems that not all of the roots of the flowers have sky blue stones, and the growth of these flowers is not necessarily related to the sky blue stones?"
Xu Zifan dissipated the thoughts in his mind, after the world changed, there were too many weirdness, and it couldn't be measured with common sense. Even if it's this sky blue stone, has anyone ever seen it?
Along the mountain road, all the way forward, almost after walking more than a thousand meters, Xu Zifan found that there was an artificial building in front of him.
It was the abandoned mine, the entrance of which was now locked with a steel door, half-obscured by vines falling from the mountain.
The steel door has been blown by the wind and rain in the mountains for more than ten years, and it has been rusted and mottled, and the seal of the state post in previous years can be vaguely seen on it, and now the handwriting has been blurred.
"Huh?"
Xu Zifan was surprised that he found a lot of blue flowers growing on the flat ground outside the steel door at the entrance of the cave, like a dream, floating blue mist, beautiful to the extreme, swaying and shining.
Here, Xu Zifan dug up more than 20 sky blue stones, which surprised him very much. I couldn't help but think, "Could it be that the sky blue stone has something to do with the minerals here?"
This time, a large number of sky-blue stones provided the stone ring with a large amount of light particles and mist material that was clearly visible to the naked eye, and Xu Zifan also clearly saw the flash of golden light on the outermost ring of the stone ring.
"Squeak!"
Suddenly, a faint sound came from the grass a few meters away.
Accompanied by the sound of rustling in the grass, Xu Zifan held the sapper shovel in his hand and looked at the grass, under the cover of the hazy mist, a gray shadow dragged a long tail and flashed.
"What's that?" Xu Zifan was shocked, his back was drenched in cold sweat, thinking that he had seen it wrong, but when he thought of the changes in the world and the alienation of all things, he didn't feel strange.
"Babble!"
There was another sound of animals trampling on the grass, and two gray animals ran out of the grass and appeared in Xu Zifan's field of vision.