Section 27 Riding the Wind

Woo!

The sharp-beaked hoe tore through the air and let out a dull whistling sound, pulling out the afterimage and chiseling towards the ground.

Poop!

The sparks splashed, and the sharp cone hoe chiseled into the ground only an inch before it was blocked by a hard object, and the powerful force pressed the long wooden handle to bend instantly, and then straightened again under the force of the shock, and the whole sharp-beaked hoe struggled in Xu Yun's hands, trembling and wanted to bounce out, but he held it tightly with both hands.

"It's hard." Xu Yun stabilized his posture, and looked at the tool in his hand with some surprise, compared with the heavy battle axe he usually used when chopping wood, this is only five or six pounds of sharp-beaked hoe is so light that it doesn't seem to be equipped with a hoe, I didn't expect the power of the shock to be so great, I almost didn't let it bounce out.

If you take it off, the first unlucky person will be yourself.

"It looks like the buried part is bigger than you think." Clark nodded, and said with some joy: "If you are lucky, you may be able to open two finished pieces of crystal ore generated this time, and dig out to see." He stretched out his leg and pointed in the direction with the tip of his shoe.

Xu Yun nodded, and used the tip of the hoe to dig shallowly on the ground a few times, and the metal hoe dug up the relatively hard clods of soil, revealing little by little the rudimentary form of the crystal ore that fused with the reddish-brown iron ore veins below.

"What can really be used to forge high-level equipment is the high-purity ore in the center that is nourished by the power of the leylines. As for the part where the edge is fused with the iron ore vein, it can be regarded as the best iron ore, which is used to create high-quality weapons, which is a rare good thing for you little guys, and it is much easier to use than the white iron weapons sold on the market.

It's a pity that this kind of high-quality weapon will be a lot of trouble to repair, and if you want to find the best iron ore in the right condition for repair, you can only dig it yourself, and you can't buy it on the market at all. This kind of ore is generally directly cast into high-quality weapons by blacksmiths to sell, and of course selling finished products makes more money than selling ore. Clark explained.

The crystal mine that appeared in front of Xu Yun's eyes was like a little azure pigment dripping into the reddish-brown ink, and the edge part had been mixed with the ink blend, only the azure crystal in the center was the most pure and clear, just looking at it, I knew that it was a very precious treasure.

Swinging the hoe to dig again, the sharp-beaked hoe made of fine iron has a very obvious advantage when it encounters iron-rich ore, with the blessing of great power. In the spark splash, pieces of variegated ore the size of a fist were pecked off the veins by the sharp beak of the hoe, and soon piled up into small piles.

The crystal ore is highlighted as the edge of the edge of the junction of the crystal ore and the iron ore vein is excavated, and the iron ore is stripped off little by little at the edge.

The unpolished crystal ore is the size of a watermelon, and the deeper you dig, the more you dig it, the more it grows, and it shows wisps of crystal blue.

"Stop." Clark let go of his arms, and his previous play-like ease was replaced by solemnity.

Don't look at the digging for a long time, Xu Yun is already tired and sweating, the first reason is, of course, that the weather is too hot, although there is no sun at the bottom of this cliff, but it is also more sluggish because of poor air circulation. The second is that every time he excavates iron ore, he needs to wield the hoe with all his might, just because in addition to dancing the hoe, he also has to divide a small half of his strength to resist the shock force generated by the collision between the hoe and the iron ore.

This back and forth, each chiseling blow consumes several times more force than chopping wood.

Clark approached the crystal mine, crouched down and stretched out his hand to touch the part of the ore that had just been dug out by Xu Yun at the bottom, showing a blue luster.

A pair of thick eyebrows like straight knives are tightly locked in the center of the eyebrows.

"It's true that the upper layer is a crystal mine, but the lower layer actually has a magic crystal mine." He withdrew his hand and stepped back to make way for it, "Keep digging and see what the hell is going on down there." You two! Also come over to help. He shouted at the other side, who were squeezing their eyebrows and pretending to look at the excitement this way, but in fact they were taking advantage of the lazy Shuma and Kerry.

Shuma and Kerry heard Clark hurriedly running over with a hoe, and the three of them stood in three separate positions, working hard under Clark's supervision.

"I'll go, why is the vein here so much harder than the one we dug up." Shuma didn't dig a few times before she noticed something was wrong, and the two guys were still laughing at the fact that Timmy had dug less ore than she had dug herself, and now she understood why.

"The force of the shock is so strong, I only dug a few times, and my hands are a little numb." Kerry shook his numb hands and said with his hands. After a momentary pause, he regained his grip on the long wooden handle of his sharp-beaked hoe.

"Don't use all your strength, use six points of force when digging down, and leave four points to defuse the shock force, otherwise your hand will not be yours in a while." Xu Yun prompted

"I feel like it's not my hand anymore." Shuma muttered as she waved her hoe.

The three boys started work at the same time, and the excavation efficiency was much higher than that of Xu Yun alone, and after ten minutes, a large pit with a depth of nearly half a meter was dug out of the surrounding iron ore veins.

In the center of the pit, a lone pillar of ore stands in the center.

The top half of the pillar is azure crystal ore, and the bottom half is azure magic crystal ore. The volume of the Magic Crystal Mine is obviously much larger than that of the Crystal Mine, so the overall shape of this rock pillar is a rectangle with a narrow head and a wide bottom. Further down is the mixed ore of magic crystal ore and iron ore, the scope of this miscellaneous ore is quite large, most of the ore rock layers under the feet of several people are composed of a mixture of blue and dark brown, but the overall proportion of blue is relatively rare.

Clark frowned, waved his hand to let the three boys back away, and walked to the side of the rock pillar himself, only to see him swing the top of the posture without much force, and the seemingly solid rock pillar shook in front of the eyes of the three of them.

"It's okay, the purity is not very high." Clark nodded, and continued to exert force, the green tendons on his arms and forehead crumbled, and a thin layer of golden elemental energy appeared around him, as if a layer of armor had been put on him.

Click, click, click

There was a crisp sound like glass shattering from below the rock pillar, and as the sound became more and more dense, the rock pillar made of two rare minerals was slightly crooked under the push of his arms, and broke from the base of the root.

Boom~Knock!

The rock pillars toppled over, and the sound of smashing on the ground was as crisp as iron striking each other, and heavy as mountain rocks falling to the ground.

There was a fluctuation on the ground, and it was evident that the weight far exceeded that of ordinary iron ore.

"There's still a vein of white iron over there, you can rest after digging two bags each, and leave the rest for the other cubs, you can't finish digging up the good ones, you have to leave some for them." Clark sent the three of them to work on the side, while he himself crouched down to take a closer look at the deeper rock formations that had been revealed after the bottom of the pillar had been broken.

In the very center of the bottom, there was only a handful of relatively pure azure magic crystal ore corners, and most of the rest were miscellaneous ore, which made him feel a little relieved.

"Superman, can I pack a bag of these explosives?" Xu Yun pointed to the miscellaneous ore and gravel on the edge of the crystal ore and the magic crystal mine that he had dug out, and asked with a flattering expression.

The other two boys also looked at this side with a look of hope, obviously the two of them instigated Xu Yun to come over and ask, but they didn't dare to come out.

The corners of Clark's mouth hooked, and he groaned slightly. As he groaned, Shuma and Kerry nervously clenched the handle of the hoe in their hands, sweat running down the handle.

"Okay, you've all done your best, put up the parts you dug up, it's really cheap for a few of you. Give me a separate bag of crystal miscellaneous ore, and the magic crystal miscellaneous ore will belong to you. ”

The three of them looked at each other, and they all saw the excitement and joy in each other's eyes.

When Clark came to mine, he prepared a lot of burlap bags for the three boys to carry in, and when they saw the number of burlap bags, the three of them were desperate. Now you only need to dig two more bags of white iron ore to complete the task, and there will naturally be a lot of pockets left.

Being able to harvest good things is naturally full of motivation, and the three of them neatly picked up the miscellaneous ores scattered on the ground, even if they were only a little bit of variegated ore.

The crystal miscellaneous ore contained most of the sack, and the magic crystal miscellaneous ore was relatively large, and the three of them shared it equally, and no one got most of the sack.

Clark didn't allow them to dig any further, or the three boys would be eager to dig up all the miscellaneous rock formations that had been exposed under their feet.

After packing up the miscellaneous ore, the three of them launched a crazy siege on the tiny veins not far away, and completed the assigned task in just half an hour, and Xu Yun even dug up half a bag of tarite ore.

It's not how hard-working Xu Yun is, but because he saw the name prompted by the system when he was digging the marcasite, and the small green character was buried at the edge of the pit he dug out.

Landis once said that items containing magical powers are occasionally found around the leylines, that is, holy relics, Xu Yun feels that it is not strange to find items with the names of the system prompting here, others can't recognize which items have magical powers, but of course he can easily identify them, but this egg-shaped item still made him a little surprised.

Wind Wings (Activation)

Green quality Wind Wings, but why Wind Wings are an egg shape He is really a little confused.

Along with the Wings of the Wind, there were other items whose names were no longer eligible for the system to be revealed, notebooks that were more than half corroded and mutilated, silver hilts that were lightweight and delicately carved but had been partially corroded, tattered cloaks of unknown material, hourglasses that were only half-framed, and monocles that were too old to be preserved relatively intact.

Including the Wind Wings, these things were wrapped together by the tattered cloak before they were dug out, and as Xu Yun pulled out the cloak, they were brought out of the shallow pit.

Xiuma and Kerry saw that Xu Yun had dug up something, so they came over to watch the excitement, Xiuma picked up the hilt of the sword and groped carefully, using her fingernails to pick out some of the attached mud and rust, while Kerry fluffed up the broken notebook and flipped through it.

"It's a diary, but unfortunately the first half is rotten, and the remaining bottom half has very few words." Kerry shook his notebook and said, dust and scraps of paper falling from the crippled spot as he moved.

"This is a relic left behind by some adventurer who went deep into the ruins, right?" Shuma put the hilt back on the ground, picked up her glasses and looked at them, rubbing the rusted shell and sludge off the frames, revealing a golden essence.

"Real gold frame, crystal lenses, ah~ This chain is also gold."

The egg-shaped Wind Wings are the size of a goose egg, and they still have some weight in your hand. He grabbed the shabby cloak in his hand to cover up, and while no one noticed, Xu Yun quietly put the Wind Wings into the backpack space. Throwing away his cloak, he twisted the lid of the water bottle that the Adventurer's Gold Cup had turned into and took a sip of water.

"Let's leave it alone, wait and see what the instructor decides to do with it, maybe we have to bury it back."

"Superman, we're done." He shouted to Clarke, who was still crouching there studying the Magic Crystal Mine.

Clark waved his hand without looking back. "Have fun around by yourselves, the monsters around here have been cleaned up, and it's safe." Clark had checked all the surroundings when he had led the three of them down, and he was not in the least worried that the three would be in danger.

In the distance, I could already hear the second-year students shouting loudly, asking their peers to cooperate with each other. Occasionally, there will be one or two monster roars or the screams of female apprentices.

"It seems that the big army will arrive soon, and they follow the second-grade seniors to observe and practice, which is really enviable." Shuma said

"We've done our job, it's time for them to mine." Kerry crooked his lips with a smug expression.

"Come on, they're working, let's stand by and watch, I'm afraid we're not going to be hated by everyone." Xu Yun pursed his lips and said with a look of disgust.

He still understands these most basic human feelings.

Besides, the people of Mondstadt are not very able to hide their minds, and if they don't return at night, they will have to invite revenge.

It's impossible to fight, after all, there are instructors watching, but cynicism is absolutely indispensable, but even if this group of guys has studied cultural classes for several months, their vocabulary is still lacking.

"Take advantage of this time to move freely, let's also take a look at the ruins, Superman has said that there is no danger, so why don't you come in, you can't see it, right?"

"What's so beautiful about this broken wall and broken bricks? I'm going to find a cool place to lie down for a while. Shuma looked up at the surrounding cliffs, they are now in the canyon at the bottom of the cliff, the ruins are at the top of the cliff, you have to climb the stone steps to go up, even if you go up, you have to look at the ruins, the monsters have been killed by the second-year people, do you want to help them clean up the corpses?

He didn't bother to take the initiative to send it to the door as a coolie.

"What about you? Kerry. ”

"I'm going to take a look around the leylines, it is said that there will be some rare herbs around the leylines, if I can find one, maybe the instructor will count it as my personal income." Kerry had clearly planned it a long time ago.

"You just dream." Xu Yun and Xiu Ma said at the same time.

"Where~ you don't come, I'll go up and see for myself. It's the first time I've been to this kind of place, and it's an ancient temple building, so wouldn't it be nice to see the history of Mondstadt and see what the ancient Mondstadt architecture was like? Xu Yun looked at the top of the cliff, but the direction was not the side that came down the mountain when he came.

There are no steps to the other side of the cliff, where the cliff is higher and steeper. A layer of misty fog shrouded the top of the cliff, and it was impossible to see what the scenery was on the top of the cliff.

Shuma and Kerry didn't pay attention to this detail, and just said that you like to see for yourself, just don't get lost. Then they went their separate ways. Shuma soon found a green meadow at the bottom of the cliff and lay down happily.

Xu Yun followed the stone steps back to the location of the ruins, interspersed between the ruins and broken walls, and followed the memory to find the jumping platform where the ruins protruded from the edge of the cliff.

There was no one around, and the seniors were still shouting and practicing, which was also mixed with the instructor's scolding, especially Hiro's voice was the loudest.

Xu Yun took out the egg-shaped object that the system gave the name of the Wind Wings, and studied it in his hand. Wind Wings (Activation)

'How do you use this thing?' ’

He rubbed his fingernails little by little to remove the old dirt from the surface of the egg-shaped object, revealing a bit of the original color of the copper shell.

After the sludge was removed, many slender patterns appeared on the egg-shaped object, Xu Yun carefully observed between the patterns, and finally found a button, and pressed it lightly with his fingertips.

No response.

But the system pops up his long-awaited prompt dialog.

It can be activated by using Primogems

Xu Yun immediately took out a rough stone, and watched the rough stone in his hand melt outside the eggshell of the Wind Wings, and he grinned with a toothache.

"Everything needs rough stones, and the gap in the rough stones is too big." Looking at the remaining 26 rough stones in his backpack, even though he had only used half of them until now, he still had a sense of crisis that his savings were about to be exhausted.

"With the Dawn Sword, the weapon is not worrying for the time being, but in the future, I still want to strengthen a few full-level holy relics, how can such a few primordial stones be enough." A full-level holy relic is much stronger than a tabula rasa. ”

The original stone melted into the wings of the wind, and after absorbing the colorful liquid made of the original stone, this mottled and old brass goose egg instantly regained its life, and the surface became as smooth as new, Xu Yun could even see his own reflection on the eggshell.

And its name has changed:

Mechanical Wind Wings

Pressing the button he had found before, the Wind Wings quietly transformed, a pair of copper wings spun and slowly spread out in his hands, and when each feather was fully stretched, the egg-shaped object the size of a goose egg magically turned into a pair of metal wings with a wingspan of more than two meters.

But it's still that question, how to use it?

The use of Wind Wings in the game is particularly simple and brainless, but in reality, he really doesn't understand how to attach these wings to himself.

The system is also stingy and does not give any hints.

Xu Yun could only grope for himself, and carefully observed the metal wings again, the degree of delicacy had surpassed Xu Yun's imagination, and every detail of each feather was almost exactly the same as the real feather. This kind of craftsmanship is not at all what Xu Yun remembers that Mondstadt can have today.

"It's amazing. Cow's! Xu Yun couldn't help but give a thumbs up to his wings.

Then, he noticed that there were two buttons in the center of the core of the wings he held in the palm of his hand, and the buttons were marked with symbols, but unfortunately he did not recognize the words. One of the symbols is a circle with four lines deep into the corners, and the other is a circle with two lines intersecting in the middle to form a cross.

"Does one mean to expand and one to contract?" Xu Yun muttered to himself and pressed the expand button.

After pressing the button, four metal rods slightly thicker than grass stems pop up in the central core area, and the metal rods continue to extend new metal rods from the inside, and one after another looks at the antenna that works like a radio, but the extended metal rods continue to be spliced longer and longer, and the two metal rods on the same side are successfully combined, and they are assembled in mid-air as if they are metal rings used as schoolbag straps.

Two metal ring straps were displayed in front of Xu Yun's eyes, so that even if Xu Yun reacted slowly, he knew how to put on this equipment at this time.

Arms are threaded through two metal ring straps, and the metal wings are placed on the back. As soon as the two harnesses were put on, the Wind Wings had a new change. The two metal rings were instantly retracted, firmly fixing Xu Yun and the wings together, and between the two straps, there were metal rods extending from each other, and after the buckle was connected and assembled, the metal rod that was originally only the thickness of a slender grass stem was deformed again and turned into a flat metal shell.

After the transformation, Xu Yun seemed to be wearing a streamlined metal cuirass, or metal vest. However, this does bring more stability, and the comfort is much better than the previous strained thin rod.

He tried to move, the wings would make simple movements according to the movement of his shoulders, he folded his arms, and the wings would converge into a triangular dorsal armor several times thicker than the carapace on his chest, and he only needed to press the button on his chest, and the wings would spread out on their own.

This design gives him a sense of déjà vu in some movies.

Standing on the jumping platform again, looking at the bare cliff on the opposite side, there is still no wind in the canyon, so the bottom of the cliff will be stuffy like a sauna.

But in my memory, Ambo's words have long been engraved in my heart.

"It takes courage to fly." He whispered silently.

'Now that I'm here, let me go crazy for once.' ’

Dingdong~

Xu Yun seemed to hear the soft sound of the strings.

Gathering his outstretched wings, he hooked the corners of his mouth and took a few steps back, the soles of his shoes stepped on the hard stone slabs, the muscles of his upper legs burst out with the maximum force he could drive, and he began to sprint towards the empty cliff, and after three steps, the boots that fell stepped on the edges of the very edge of the jumping platform, kicked with all his might, and the whole person leaped into the air between the two cliffs.

As the power of the dash ran out, he began to fall downward.

Right now

Without hesitation, he pressed the button on his chest, and the mechanical wings spread almost instantly, and he stretched his arms as hard as he could, because of the excessive tension.

The metal wings caught the air by the air flow brought by the fall, and an upward pull rose from the back, instantly dissolving the trend of Xu Yun's fall.

The entire metal vest enveloped him firmly, and the force of lift lifted him as he slowly glided diagonally forward in the air.

Flying, really flying.

Xu Yun was stimulated by nervousness and excitement, her lips trembled, and her upper and lower teeth kept bumping. He didn't know if he was more excited or scared now, at this point, his mind was almost blank, and the only thing he could think about was to hold his posture and not fall off.

The Wings of the Wind led him forward to the other side of the cliff, and as he got closer and closer to the cliff, a wind from nowhere lifted him up from the bottom up, and carried him higher and higher, and kept climbing.

But this wind was not enough for him to rise to the top of the cliff, Xu Yun followed the memory and slightly deflected his body to the right, and the wind wings began to turn with the deflection of the master's center of gravity, although he was very rusty and stiff, he successfully drew an arc in mid-air to complete the turn.

A new wind blew up from below the right, lifting him up again and climbing.

The feeling of successful flight is too fascinating, embracing the sky and flying freely is no longer a dream, the fear in Xu Yun's heart is completely suppressed by excitement and pleasure, if it is not for the fear of being discovered by the instructors and classmates below, he even wants to howl loudly to release this joy.

After changing another rising wind field like this, Xu Yun finally came to the top of the cliff with the power of the rising wind.

A relatively intact temple hall building came into his view.

Learning the posture he had seen countless times in the game, he leaned forward and broke away from the rising wind field, and began to slowly glide and land towards the small square in front of the main hall.

A crossbow arrow broke into Xu Yun's body in flight without warning, the arrow tore through the air, and flew into the distance with its metal wings, and several metal feathers were injured by the crossbow arrow.

Xu Yunren was almost stupid, and it was only then that he heard the sound of the bowstring trembling and the 'whoosh~' sound of the arrow tearing through the air.

The emotions of excitement, tension, excitement, and joy faded in an instant, and he was forced to turn his attention back to reality from the state of immersion in his inner world.

Behind the stone walls around the small square of the temple, hilichurl archers are holding bows and crossbows, and there are four of them!

In addition to the shooter who had already completed one shot, the other three were aiming for their own kicks.