Lin Xi could directly intervene in Zhang Lu's fate.

Let him become a god and an immortal in an instant in an adventure from heaven.

But isn't that a bit too boring?

What's more... For the entire Chaos City, this is the first battle of the heavens within the Chaos City.

Lin Xi also wants to give it a try... Can you take advantage of this momentum and cultivate a useful talent in your own city?

Qualifications, luck, bloodline, and even intelligence are not favored by Lin Xi.

Because these can actually be obtained by means of foreign modifications.

If you have to say, what does Zhang Lu have that Lin Xi likes... Beyond the ethereal edge.

It's because he's strong enough and sad enough... However, even so, he did not degenerate into a demon.

From a victim to a shameless perpetrator.

Lin Xi himself is not necessarily a good demon, but if he cultivates his subordinates... Then I must still hope that this subordinate has some bottom line.

Zhang Lu has suffered a lot, and of course it will not be the Virgin.

But in his heart, there is a bottom line that is difficult to shake and must be adhered to... This can become the cornerstone of his loyalty to Lin Xi in the future.

People who behave too high will choose to betray their past kindness for the sake of morality and standards in their hearts.

And the bottom line is too low... Or people who don't have it at all, the price of their betrayal will be too low, and it will be easy... will choose to defect under the temptation of interests.

In contrast, Zhang Lu, a guy who looks like an ordinary person, but is actually not so ordinary, is a little more likable.

Lin Xi looked away, his gaze constantly jumping between different worlds.

However, a wisp of heart continued to fall on Zhang Lu's body.

Lin Xi understood that in addition to the fact that he was betting on treasure and cultivating candidates.

Whether it is the Blue Dragon Demon Saint, or the Mu Family Half-Saint, Bai Xuan, and the Dream Horror Sword Master... They all have chosen ones.

They can't end up on their own.

However, they will find a proxy to participate in the battle of the realms in Chaos City in their place.

This can be a kind of evidence of one's own ways.

It is also the beginning of a chess game.

In the game, there will be an obvious beginning.

But in real life... People who are qualified to play chess, when did they start, when did they fall... There is no trace at all.

In the world in which Zhang Lu lives, the story of Zhang Lu continues.

"First, it is not allowed to hide the energy crystal, and it must be handed over before going out of the well, if there is a private possession, once discovered, it will be directly shot by the guards guarding. The old miner who was in charge of introducing Zhang Lu said it very lightly.

However, Zhang Lu didn't dare to listen to it casually.

Look around, those standing on the tower, vigilant... And use a sniper rifle to lock on to every miner's soldier at all times.

Zhang Lu dared to guarantee that there would never be a fake word in what the old miner said.

"Second, it is strictly forbidden to bring any sharp equipment into the mine, all mining work is done by both hands, the energy crystal is fragile and will be destroyed if you are not careful, the broken energy crystal is useless, and the consequences of destroying the energy crystal are very serious, the cumulative destruction of energy crystal more than three taels, will also be executed!" said the old miner, the second rule.

This made Zhang Lu frown, although he had put life and death aside from time to time.

But... Before the revenge is avenged and the grievances are washed, he does not want to die meaninglessly.

"You can't destroy the energy crystal... And it sounds like the volume of this energy crystal is not large, otherwise a slightly larger energy crystal will destroy one... It is possible to eat the gun directly. Zhang Lu thought to himself.

"Thirdly, you are not allowed to leave the mine without permission, and even if you want to leave, you must first go through three audits before you can leave. ”

"The Fourth Energy Crystal cannot be immersed in water, so it is strictly forbidden to discharge any bodily fluids in the mine. ”

The old miner said a total of ten rules, most of which have the suffix 'shooting', such a strict rule, not the rule of law at all.

However, as a person who has seen the darkness of the world, Zhang Lu will not feel that there is anything in this.

During the six months of wandering.

He has seen addicts with drug addiction who dare to kill people with knives for a mere 2,000 yuan.

He had seen people who, just to vent the violence in their hearts, put the helpless wandering old man on the side of the road into a sack, then dragged him to the field and beat him violently, and finally abandoned his body in the wilderness.

I've also seen wild dogs in the city, hiding like wolves in the dark and damp alleys, peeking at those well-dressed pedestrians... It's as if looking at a delicious prey.

Civilization and barbarism, cities and deserts... Sometimes they don't have to be completely separated, or maybe they're also an alternative whole.

The rules for miners are strict... So relatively, their treatment is indeed excellent.

As a formal miner, the annual salary plus allowance is almost nearly one million yuan, which is something Zhang Lu did not dare to think of in the past. Not only that, as long as you work for three years, you can get the rank of a first-class non-commissioned officer.

This point made Zhang Lu's eyes shine, if he can become a non-commissioned officer of a certain level, then he wants to overturn the case... He, at least at the official level, has a little bit of connection.

Even if it's still weak...

In three days, Zhang Lu earnestly learned from the old miners how to accurately and completely collect energy crystals.

After another week of repeated practice, under the care of the old miners, they went down the mine together.

The mine is very deep, and the straight lead is about 100 meters into the ground.

After that, the pit was extended in all directions, and there were no minecarts in the pit, because every energy crystal had to be stored in a high-grade incubator.

Under the leadership of the old miners, Zhang Lu entered a mine road and walked to the end of the mine road.

A faint halo of light flashes on a stone wall at the end of the tunnel, visible beneath the pitch-black cavern.

The old miner rubbed his hands on the rock wall, but the rough palm was like a steel brush grinding off the sand and gravel on the rock wall, revealing a small grain of rice grain sized energy crystal wrapped in the sand.

Carefully deduct the sandstone around the energy crystal with his fingers, then catch the falling energy crystal with a towel, and then put the energy crystal into the high-grade thermostatic box hanging on his waist, everything seems to be very skillful, although it is not easy.

Just grinding off a layer of rock with the palm of your hand is enough to be amazed.

"Alright, you're going to dig here! I'm going to another mine. Remember not to be in a hurry at the beginning, it is better to be slow than to hurt Nengjing. There are cameras connected to each of the mines, and people will be able to see them. The old miner said as he walked out of the mine with the box on his waist and walked towards the other mine.

Zhang Lu tried to rub his palms on the rock wall as he practiced, and the uneven rock wall rubbed his palms with hot pain.

Zhang Lu did not stop fragile because of this, but continued to rub until his palm was hot and stinging, and his skin might be broken. Because there may be blood oozing out of a broken palm, which is also not allowed.

Physical pain... In fact, for Zhang Lu, it is a comfort.

When a person's soul feels too much pain, but cannot be released.

Physical self-torture is an inexplicable relief.

After wiping his palms with a towel to avoid residual sweat in his palms, Zhang Lu continued to rub his hands against the wall.

This friction was for most of the day, but there was no change in the rock wall, as if Zhang Lu had been just doing useless work.

At the end of the day, Zhang Lu had nothing to gain.

Silently, a large number of miners gathered directly below the mine, waiting for the crane to come down. Almost all of them make eye contact with each other, and no one speaks.

On the second day of going down the mine, Zhang Lu successfully excavated a grain of energy crystal in the evening.

Holding this energy crystal in his hand, Zhang Lu seemed to see a faint hope.

And then carefully hid this little bit of hope... I'm afraid that it will be easily swallowed up in the invisible darkness...

The crystals are beautiful, and the amber transparent crystals seem to have grains of starlight sand flowing inside.

In the next half month, every three or five days, Zhang Lu will have a harvest, which is basically no different from most miners. There are not many old miners like Yuan Xiang, who took him before, who can easily collect energy crystals from the rock wall, or he is the only one in this mine.

All the miners knew that Yuan Xiang had secrets, but... Actually, it doesn't matter.

After all, it is a 'civilized' mine, not a bitter black kiln.

No matter how strict the regulations are... It's only for the protection of energy crystals and from being stolen by private individuals, as for the daily output of miners... There are no hard and fast rules.

The treatment is the same as how much is collected, as long as it does not damage the energy crystal.

After the most important snow festival of the year, the weather in the northern desert is getting worse and worse, and the heavy snow covers up this originally dusty and noisy world.

The army has a great demand for energy crystals, and the officers in charge of contacting the old miner Yuan Xiang have been urging the workers to rush to work recently.

Zhang Lu guessed... This kind of energy crystal may be related to some kind of weapon that has a demand for special materials.

It's just that the news says that there is peace in the world... Only partial... And in small areas that are not valued by the world, there are wars.

So what is it that makes the army so anxious about harvesting energy crystals?

Rumble!

The wind whipped up waves of snow and broke through the barrier of the windshield and poured deep into the mine.

A bitterly cold wind rushed in.

The miners cowered into the depths of the mine in fear, waiting for rescue.

Heavy snow filling is the biggest disaster, because when the snow melts, it is water, and the Nengjing Mine Cave is the least water-infallible. Therefore, the soldiers in charge of the rescue need to pull out the snow little by little, and they cannot melt the snow directly with boiling water, let alone use fire.

The enclosed mines lacked food, clothing, or even air.

A day later, some miners went crazy in fear, frantically rushing towards the snow that was spreading deep into the mine, and then being covered by the snow. By the time they were dragged out, the bodies were frozen and stiff.

Two days later, some miners were hungry and tried to fight their hunger and thirst by eating a lot of snow, and then died of dehydration in the cold.

For three or four days, the hope of survival became slimmer and slimmer, and the few remaining miners looked at each other with green eyes, as if they were about to bite off a piece of meat from each other at any moment.

Yuan Xiang was old, suffered from the wind and cold, and developed a high fever in the absence of food, and his will became blurred.

Several miners finally couldn't hold back their hunger and gathered around Yuan Xiang.

"What are you doing?" Zhang Lu stood in front of Yuan Xiang, holding a piece of energy crystal in his hand.

"If you take one more step, I will crush this energy crystal, the substance that overflows from the energy crystal will be left on our bodies, and this energy crystal in my hand is more than three taels. "This piece of energy crystal was accidentally excavated by Zhang Lu who was closed in the well in the past few days, and it is in excellent condition, if it is handed over, it will be regarded as a great achievement.

Looking at the energy crystal in Zhang Lu's hand, several miners showed fear on their faces.

If Zhang Lu was serious, then even if they ate Yuan Xiang, it would only delay the time of death.

The mines are domesticated with special military dogs, which can smell the miners if they have a breath that can be broken out of crystals.

"Okay! Wang Qiu, you kid is amazing, wait for us. Wait a few more days, we won't eat Yuan Xiang, we will eat you. A swarthy and short miner looked at Zhang Lu fiercely, threatening to retreat with a few miners, but always looked at Zhang Lu and Yuan Xiang with hungry wolf eyes.

Zhang Lu was very familiar with this kind of look, he had seen many of them in the six months of wandering, and he himself had such looks. In the face of hunger, even civilized people can degenerate into wild beasts at any time.

On the fifth day of the heavy snowfall, the mine was finally dug up, and the miners, who had already fainted from hunger, were carried out of the mine. This time, a total of nine miners died completely underground. Their family receives a five-million windfall, which can be the inheritance of a distant relative or an unexpected lottery win.

And their traces will be deliberately erased by invisible forces, and gradually even those closest to them will forget them.

Zhang Lu was given a week of recuperation, and Yan Yu brought him some supplements and food through layers of checking, and was sent out without chatting with Zhang Lu for a few more words. Although he is nominally the owner of this mine, he has no qualifications to meddle in the affairs of this mine. All he has to do is to spread suspicion outside, so that countless people believe that he is a mine owner, and there is an ordinary small mine with a very inconspicuous name and not much output.

Of course, the critical moment... He's also a warning light, a siren.

If there are foreign forces, they want to meddle in the Neng Jing mine.

Then it must be targeted at the owner of this mine first... Yan Yu.

"Can I come in?" Yuan Xiang had already pushed the door and walked in.

He recovered quickly, even much faster than Zhang Lu, not at all like when he was in the mine before. It was obvious that someone had used some rare special medicine on him.

"Do you have something to do with me?" Zhang Lu looked at Yuan Xiang with a cold expression of resistance.

Yuan Xiang sat directly on the edge of the bed, and then said with a stiff face: "You saved me, I won't hide it from you, I know that you have always wanted to learn mining skills from me, and I have heard about your situation, it is not easy." ”

For Zhang Lu, it is almost a nightmarish bloody past, but in the eyes of others, it is just the ups and downs of life and not easy.

"My method is also very simple, the ancestral rough iron sand palm, now it is the world of guns... It's useless to learn. It's easy to kill people when you use it.,When you're young, you can use it to fight fiercely.,When you're old... The deficit of qi and blood has to be made up for with your life, if you are willing to learn... I'm also willing to teach you, not to mention anything else, it's very easy to use for mining. Yuan Xiang said stereotypically.

It seems that he is not a very articulate person.

Zhang Ludao: "Learn! Why don't you learn?"

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