Chapter 608: Old Cattle Mine Team
"Ding, ding, ding!" In the dim and narrow tunnel, a topless miner lay down and drilled into a low mine hole, with a small mine hammer in one hand and a small mine chisel in the other, chiseling hard against the hard stone wall.
Not far away, another sturdy miner, holding a large mining hammer in both hands, smashed a pitch-black boulder with a hammer.
Mining in underground caverns is really hard work, and all kinds of minerals are hidden deep in the thick stone walls, which need to be smashed open by miners with hammer and hammer.
The underground rocks are extremely hard, and the lower they go, the harder they become, and you can imagine how hard they are in the depths of the underground like the ghost cave layer.
Like the mining equipment used in the hands of miners, such as mine picks, shovels, mine hammers, mine chisels, etc., can be regarded as a piece of magic tools of good quality.
When miners use it, they need to inject mana, which can chisel or smash through the thick rock walls underground, so miners must be cultivators, and at least they need to practice the middle stage of qi.
"There are goods!" As the mine hammer slammed down, only to hear a muffled sound of "click", the pitch-black boulder cracked into six or seven pieces of different sizes, and another miner on the side hurriedly stepped forward to turn over the gravel, and when he saw that there were irregular red rock blocks embedded in the fragments, he couldn't help shouting excitedly.
These crimson rocks are "fire copper rough ore", experienced old miners, at a glance, recognized at a glance, it is a common mineral, this little half a day has not been in vain.
Then the two smashed and knocked again, digging out the red rocks from the stones, and then carried them to a campfire in the distance.
There are piles of large and small ores piled up next to the bonfire, which is the harvest of the old cattle mining team of the Dry Bones Gang for half a day, and there is a dark skinned naked old man sitting next to the mine, which is the leader of the old cattle mining team "Old Black Niu", an old miner who has been mining in the underground cave for decades, responsible for registering the amount of minerals mined by each miner in the team.
"Golden Retriever, Black Head, Fire Copper Coarse Ore A total of 18 pieces, 363 catties, come to press a seal!" The old black bull lit a pile of fire copper rough ore sent by him, picked up the account book and wrote it down, and asked the two miners to press their fingerprints, and at the end of the month, they would pay according to the account book.
"Bump, bump!" Liu Yu, who was guarding a fork in the distance of the mining team, sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes, and the Jin Chun sword inserted on the ground in front of him, with a flash of inspiration, turned into a sword light and flew out, slashing around the dark mine road in front of him, and flew back to Liu Yu, and the void near the top of the cave in front of the mine road exploded two waves of pitch-black qi before and after.
It turned out to be two shadowless and invisible "shadow souls", floating against the roof of the cave, secretly approaching, and were shot by the Jin Chuen sword like a gourd, Liu Yu has been in the dry bone gang for more than two months, and has been serving as the mine supervisor of the Lao Niu Mining Team.
In addition to Liu Yu, there are two other mine supervisors in the Lao Niu mining team, both of whom are foundation building monks, one is nicknamed "Black Sparrow", a slender northland woman, and the other is nicknamed "Ghost Tooth", who is the captain of the mine supervisor in the six mansions of Zhuji.
Although it is called an overseer, its duty is not to keep an eye on these miners all day long, not to be lazy, but to protect the safety of these miners who are mining.
Although mining is tiring and hard, no one will think about being lazy, because the salary is directly determined by the amount of minerals they extract, if they are afraid of being tired and lazy, they will not come to this dangerous place to be miners.
Not to mention that most of the miners of the Dry Bones Gang are gamblers who owe a lot of debts, who doesn't want to earn more spirit stones and leave this ghost place as soon as possible, you must know that every day, more or less, there are miners who are attacked by ghosts or monsters and die, this is really not a place for people.
At this time, the three mine supervisors, including Liu Yu, each lived in a corner, and they were guarding the main fork in the outer part of the mining area where the mining team operated.
Ghosts like "Shadow Souls" are not a threat to Liu Yu and these mine supervisors, but they are very deadly to the miners who are mining minerals.
"Old bullhead, come and take a look!" said a tall and thin miner excitedly in front of a thick gray rock wall.
"Liuzi, what did you find?" The "old black bull" at the head of the mine got up and ran over, obviously Liuzi had found something good.
"Old Niutou, see for yourself!" Liuzi pointed to the stone wall, it took him a small half a day to dig a small exploration hole two feet deep, Liuzi is the exploration miner of the old cattle mining team, every day with a chisel aimlessly, back and forth on the stone wall to dig holes.
"Silver Sand!" The head of the mine drilled a hole in the stone wall and looked inside, a circle of rocks at the bottom of the cave was glowing with a little silver light, and the "old black cow" had mined the ore for decades, and at a glance it was known that this was the silver sand mine, and the silver sand mine could be refined to extract the mythril, which was a good shipment.
"Fire Tiger, Ice Monkey, come here!" the old black bull immediately shouted loudly.
"It's coming!" Soon, two miners, one strong and one thin, trotted over, the strong man nicknamed "Fire Tiger", one red-haired, and the thin man nicknamed "Ice Monkey", and the other silver-haired, both of whom were the backbone members of the Lao Niu Mining Team.
"Blast!" said the old black bull, pointing to the thick stone wall in front of him.
"Get out of the way, look at my Fire Tiger. The strong man took a few steps back, motioned to the "old black bull" and a few people to get out of the way, and then waved his hands in succession, forming a magic seal, and took a deep breath.
With a "whew", he actually spat out a flame, and the raging flames continued to gush onto the stone wall in front of him, which lasted for a long time of a pillar of incense.
The original brownish-gray stone wall was scorched black by the flames, and some corners were dark red, and wisps of green smoke were emitting, apparently the temperature of the stone wall was extremely high at this time, and it was emitting bursts of heat outward.
"Frost Condensation Technique!" As soon as the fire tiger retreated, the "Ice Monkey" who had been accumulating strength for a long time on the side immediately cast a spell.
The temperature in the cave condensed into a gray frost mist, and layers of frost and mist gathered on the surface of the stone wall that had just been scorched by the flames, driven by spiritual sense.
I only heard the sound of "click, click" and cracking, and the surface of the stone wall cracked one after another, like a spider web, and stones fell from time to time.
"Break!" At this time, the old black bull drove the mana to condense more than a dozen spiritual energy bullets, shooting towards the stone wall, with a loud bang, the entire stone wall collapsed instantly, revealing the silver sand layer buried deep in the stone wall, and the silver light appeared in the dim mine tunnel, and the whole stone wall shone brightly, just like a star curtain in the night.
"Put down the work you are doing and come here!" The old black bull's face turned red, and he puffed out his neck and shouted loudly, so many silver sand mines are rare, and the mining team is lucky today.
"Liuzixing! When you go back this time, my brother will take you to the town to open meat. Soon, more than 30 miners from the mining team all came, and when they saw the scene in front of them, they were all smiling, and one patted the young sixth son, and said with a smile.
"Don't talk nonsense! Everyone, hurry up and get to work!" the old black bull waved his hand and ordered, and the miners immediately picked up the guys in their hands, and rushed forward, the people in front hammered and pickaxed, and the back rummaged and carried, and they were in full swing.
In this layer of silver sand mine, the whole mining team dug for most of the day, until the end of the day, when the camel team carrying the ore arrived, it was mined cleanly, and more than a dozen piles were stacked around the bonfire where the minerals were stacked, and the harvest was very rich.
"Ghost Tooth, your mining team looks good today?" The camel team is composed of more than two dozen moose, and the leader is the deputy gang leader Mang Shark, who glanced at the pile of various minerals piled up next to the bonfire, and said to the ghost Fang on the side with a smile.
"Boss, these people have found a silver sand mine, and they haven't worked in vain!" Ghost Tooth smiled, and a row of teeth appeared at the corner of the right side of the mouth, and the corner of the mouth on one side of the ghost tooth was injured by a sharp blade, and it was okay not to open his mouth, but as soon as he opened his mouth, the corner of his mouth was scarred, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth, disgusting and hideous.
Ghost Fang is in a good mood, the more minerals the mining team mines, the more rewards and shares the overseer will receive, and as the captain of the overseer, he gets a bigger share, digging out so much silver sand ore, can Ghost Fang not steal fun?
"Pack it up!" said the shark with a wave of his hand.
The head of the mine, "Old Black Bull", led his miners and began to load piles of various ores into the spirit mustard box in batches, and then transported them to the back of the moose.
And with the pack team, another mining team "Lion Belly" that had finished work also stepped forward to take a hand under the greeting of the "lone lion" at the head of the mine.
"Old bull, you can do it today!" said Dushi as he approached his old friend "Black Bull", looked at boxes and boxes of silver sand mines, and said enviously.
Today, their "Lion's Belly" mining team, except for digging some "cold iron", found nothing, and was also attacked by the "Shadow Soul" and broke a brother.
"Let's move quickly! Go back and rest early!" said the "old black cow" after a tiring day.
The mining team starts from the camp at the end of the day and finishes work for nearly a day, and when the work is over, the camp will send three or four pack teams to pull the minerals mined by the mining teams back to the camp.
The camp is still six or seven miles away, and it is necessary to go to meet other mining teams in the middle, finish it early, get on the road early, and return to the camp to rest early.