Chapter 54: Speculation

Wang Long was very unfamiliar with this title, the ore in his hand exuded a faint aura, this was obviously a fire attribute spar, but he was not sure, and there was still a trace of doubt in his heart.

As we all know, the spar is divided into four grades, in the world of cultivators, most of the spars used for trading are lower grades, that is, the lowest grade in the spar, Wang Lung once used the spar, and it was cultivated with the spar, the aura contained in it is very pure, but the ore in his hand is very special.

It obviously contains abundant aura, but the feeling to Wang Lung is a little strange, mainly because the aura in the original stone is not so pure, and it is more complicated than the lower grade spar.

The lowest grade of the spar is the lower grade, is there a spar that is even lower than the lower grade, but Wang Lung has never heard of others mentioning it, nor has he seen it, besides, the lower grade spar is the size of an egg, and the rough stone in his hand can be hundreds of times larger than the lower grade spar.

Could it be that everything on the planet of Grith has mutated, giants, giant beasts, and now unclear whether the spar or the original stone, the size is incredibly large, which has never happened on other planets, at least there is no record in the classics.

Wang Lung couldn't figure it out, he looked at the rough stone in his hand in a daze, and Peng Shuai on the side saw Wang Lung with such a look, and he was even more puzzled in his heart, he didn't know why Wang Lung had such a big reaction, it was just a piece of ore.

"Wang Lung, you're okay, right?" Peng Shuai asked softly.

Wang Lung slowly raised his head, shook his head lightly and said, "It's okay, this rough stone is both familiar and unfamiliar to me, I have never understood what it should be called, oh! By the way, what are you using to collect the original stone?"

Peng Shuai said: "The ore we collected was handed over to the elders of the tribe, and this ore was in the hands of the elders. Except for those who have made great contributions to the tribe, they will be rewarded with one or two, and the rest will be used to defend against the invasion of giant beasts. ”

"Resist the invasion of giant beasts, use ore to resist, that can only be used to activate the forbidden formation, does your tribe have a guardian prohibition?" Wang Lung asked.

"I've never heard of the Guardian Forbidden, I only know when the Dao Behemoth attacked. A light curtain will appear above the tribe to cover the entire tribe, so that even if the giant beasts on the periphery are powerful, it will be difficult to enter the tribe and slaughter the villagers. ”

Wang Lung nodded and said, "I understand, the so-called light curtain is a prohibition, but you don't know how to stimulate it, let alone its structure, and you don't know the real role that the original stone can play." ”

Peng Shuai was confused when he heard it, and he wanted to ask another question or two, but Wang Long's murmur came from his ears: "Rough stone, spar." ”

Wang Lung pondered for a moment and looked at Peng Shuai again: "Brother Peng." I would like to meet with Elder Tong. ”

"You want to see the elder?" Seeing Wang Lung nodding, Peng Shuai said in embarrassment, "This is a bit troublesome. ”

Wang Lung asked puzzledly, "What's the matter?" Elder Tong is not in the mine?"

Peng Shuai shook his head and said: "I don't know if the elder is in the mine or not, you should know that in this place, if we want to see the elder, we have to wait until the next ten days, but I just received everyone's rations from the elder yesterday." If you want to see the elders, you have to wait. ”

Wang Long was stunned and asked, "If it's so difficult, there is no other way." In case of an emergency, how do you contact Elder Tong?"

Peng Shuai still shook his head: "There is no other way but to wait." ”

Wang Lung asked, "I remember that Elder Tong once said that he usually guards the entrance to prevent giant beasts from entering, and you only met Elder Tong yesterday. I think he's already back at the entrance, but I can't do it, so I'll go to the entrance to find him. ”

"To the entrance? No. Peng Shuai's head shook like a rattle: "We have been in this place for a long time, and I can't say where we are going now." Even if you have a map to draw on, you may not be able to find the entrance. ”

Listening to the other party, Wang Lung was completely speechless, as Peng Shuai said, the passages in the mine are criss-crossed, and they will lose their way if they turn two corners, from the time they entered this place to the present, the passages they have passed through are not one thousand but eight hundred, and they want to find the way to come, which is comparable to climbing to the sky.

Wang Lung didn't want to go to the next meeting point to find Elder Tong, but unfortunately it wasn't just him, even Peng Shuai didn't know where the next meeting point was, only when the time came, they could find the road sign when they passed through a certain fork in the road, Peng Shuai It was difficult for them to find Elder Tong, but it was very easy for Elder Tong to find them, and it seemed that they could only wait for a while.

The reason why Wang Lung wanted to find Elder Tong was nothing more than to confirm the conjecture in his heart, the original stone may be a spare, but it is an inferior variety than the inferior spare, if this conjecture is confirmed, then Wang Lung will no longer have to worry about the bud of the ground.

Although the size of the two is different, the aura contained in the spar is more pure than the original stone, and even more reserves than the original stone.

Wang Lung suspects that this rough stone may be the embryo of the formation of spar, and if the entire mining area is silenced for millions of years before being excavated, then this will not be the original stone, and it is very likely to be a spar.

Waiting to continue, mining must continue, after the discovery of a piece of ore, everyone's enthusiasm was completely ignited, digging harder, even the injured Hodge squatted aside and giggled.

The stone where the ore was found was the one that smashed Hodge, and with the unanimous consent of Peng Shuai and Wang Long, this piece of red ore will be used as Hodge's trophy, with a piece of ore in hand, even if Hodge no longer has any gains in the future, according to past practice, it is enough, after all, a tribe can only find more than 100 pieces a year, and a thousand people can only find more than 100 pieces, and everyone knows what its value is.

In the entire group, Hodge was temporarily unable to continue working due to injury, and the others were still working hard, including Wang Lung.

Wang Lung knew very well that he was not 100% sure whether the original stone was a spar or not, it was just a guess, if he wanted to get the desired result, he could only wait for nine days to ask Elder Tong.

During this period of time, Wang Lung didn't want to be idle, because there was another case, no matter whether his conjecture was correct or not, there were only two results, one was that the spar could replace the original stone, and the other was that the spar could not be replaced, if it was the first one, it would be easy to solve. In case it is the second type, Wang Lung can only continue to mine and accumulate rough stones.

Time passed slowly, perhaps because of the favor of God, or maybe Wang Lung's efforts were finally rewarded, and on the third day after the discovery of the first rough stone, Wang Lung finally found a grass-green rough stone.

At that time, Wang Lung happened to be in the middle of the rubble. The stone containing the ore is squeezed in the middle by several stones, and it is impossible to see it clearly from that direction, so you must lie down in the narrow gap and risk your head being crushed by the stone to see what is going on.

At first, Wang Lung didn't have much hope, he had seen too many of these stones, and he had never found one, but when he barely stuffed his head into a small gap, he took advantage of the limited gap. He finally realized that there was something special about the stone.

In the dim light, the grass green color easily blends with the surrounding colors, and it is even more difficult to spot than pure black, at first, Wang Lung only glanced at it, and did not find anything special, just when he was about to retract his head, because the gap was too small. There were also protruding stones, and his neck was scratched by the edge of the stone. The movement of shrinking his head couldn't help but slow, and his eyes inadvertently skimmed again, and then he noticed that something was wrong, and after looking carefully, he confirmed that it was a piece of ore.

Finally harvesting a piece of ore made Wang Lung very excited for a while. As the saying goes, the beginning of a good fortune is half the battle, perhaps because this rough stone can bring him good luck.

In the next few days, Wang Lung's group did not find any more ore, and when the meeting time came, Peng Shuai took Wang Lung and Hodge to the meeting point.

The meeting place was not too far from where Wang Lung was. Following the sign left by Elder Tong, it took half an hour to reach the destination.

By the time Wang Lung and the others arrived at the assembly point, there were already many people gathered there, and Elder Tong was surrounded by everyone, checking everyone's harvest and distributing rations for the next ten days to each group by the way.

Wang Lung and the three of them were not in a hurry, he had something to ask Elder Tong, and after all the others left, Peng Shuai took Wang Lung and Hodge over to greet him.

"It seems that you have gained a good harvest, at least two pieces this time, right?" Before Wang Lung could speak first, Elder Tong asked first.

Peng Shuai nodded and said, "Fortunately, Hodge and Wang Lung each found one." ”

After Peng Shuai finished speaking, Hodge took the lead and handed over the ore in his hand, and after Elder Tong took it, he took out a leather scroll with his backhand and wrote a few strokes on it with his bare hands, only to see a faint flash of inspiration, and Hodge's name and the amount of ore harvested were recorded.

After writing, Elder Tong looked up at Wang Lung and asked, "Where is your ore?"

Wang Lung had a faint smile on his face, patted the storage spirit weapon on his waist, and a green rough stone appeared in his hand, stretched out his hand and handed it to Elder Tong, Elder Tong took a look, nodded slightly, put away the original stone, and when he turned his hand again, there was already a small animal skin bag in his hand.

"Here, this is what I said at the beginning, there are the fragrant buds you need, you can see the quantity. ”

Wang Lung took the animal skin bag and didn't look at it too much, and directly put it into the storage spirit vessel, and then said to the other party: "Elder Tong, the junior has something to ask you about. ”

Elder Tong nodded and said, "You waited until the last day to come over, and sure enough, you have something to find me, tell me, what is the matter?"

Wang Lung said: "The junior wants to ask what the use of this ore is, according to Brother Peng, it is used to resist the invasion of giant beasts, I think it should be used to stimulate the protection and prohibition of the tribe." ”

Elder Tong was stunned when he heard this, raised his eyes to look at Peng Shuai, and said lightly: "Yes, if there is no original stone to stimulate the prohibition, how can the old and young in the tribe survive when the giant beast attacks." ”

Wang Lung said: "Sure enough, if the juniors are not mistaken, the seniors are using the aura contained in the original stone to stimulate the ban, when the aura is consumed, the ban will automatically disappear, unless the original stone is replaced in advance, in order to ensure that the ban continues." ”

Elder Tong frowned slightly and asked, "How do you know about the Dao, only the tribal elders understand this prohibition, and Peng Shuai and they are just a little bit of the Dao." ”

Wang Lung chuckled and said, "It seems that my guess is right, seniors don't need to doubt it, you take a look at this thing first." ”

As he spoke, Wang Lung took out another object from the storage spirit vessel with his backhand, stretched out his hand and handed it to Elder Tong who was full of doubts, and the other party took it and looked at it carefully, the thing was too small, like the size of an egg, and the whole body was white, and it contained a pure aura, which was a metallic inferior spar.

The inferior spar was like a grain of rice in Elder Tong's hands, even so, Elder Tong's face was full of incredulity, and there was no need for the other party to say more, Wang Long knew that his guess was already right.

After a long time, Elder Tong turned his gaze to Wang Lung and asked, "What is the name of this thing, and how many do you still have in your hand?"

Wang Lung said: "This is a spar, don't look at it small, but the purity and capacity of the aura contained in it are much larger than a rough stone, I think it should be completely okay to use it to replace the original stone." ”

Elder Tong said with a hesitant face: "I don't know if it can be replaced, I only know the Dao after trying it, but this one alone is not enough, and a total of eighty-one rough stones of various colors are needed to stimulate the prohibition, which is ...... What's it called, hedron isn't it, how many do you have in your hand?"

Wang Lung said: "I don't have much in my hand, just a few pieces, but my two companions still have some on them. ”

"Your companions, where are they?"

"They're not waiting for me on your planet right now, they're in outer space, and I made an appointment with them that when I collect enough buds, I'll contact them and they'll come and pick me up. Wang Lung said.

Elder Tong pondered for a moment and said, "Can you contact your companion now?" Seeing Wang Lung nodding, Elder Tong turned to Peng Shuai and said, "This is your ration, you and Hodge go back first." ”

After Peng Shuai took it, he took Hodge back and forth with a slight salute, and when they were far away, Elder Tong said to Wang Lung: "Go, take me to meet your companion." (To be continued......)