As soon as Steward Wu's words fell, several middle-aged men with strong bodies walked from behind everyone.

These people pointed at these people with their hands, and shouted loudly: "You, you, and you all come with me, I am your captain, and I will arrange the mining in the future." ”

Lin Yang and the two people from the clan were assigned to a mining team.

They followed the strong man in front of them into the mine.

The mine went down vertically and horizontally, sometimes wide, sometimes narrow, and walked for about three hours before coming to an open place with a radius of twenty zhang.

This is a relatively large mine, and a stone house is built with stone in the innermost part of the mine.

At the door of the stone house is a wooden table, on which is placed an oil lamp.

There was a wooden bed in the innermost part of the stone house, and there was a pile of clutter next to it.

With the help of the light of the oil lamp, you can see dozens of people sitting or lying on the outside of the stone house.

These people were disheveled, their hair was unkempt, and they were all gray-faced, and they couldn't see their faces clearly.

At this time, a few more people with cloth bags on their backs walked to this side from a distance, found an open space and sat on the ground.

At the same time, several people stood up and walked deeper into the mine.

Needless to say, these people must be the miners here.

The strong man who led Lin Yang's team stopped in front of the stone house and turned around.

said to Lin Yang and these newcomers: "My name is Li Er, and I will be responsible for your future mining."

Mining is very simple, each person receives a cloth bag and a mining knife, and you can dig in that direction. ”

As he spoke, Li Er pointed in one direction.

"What you dug up is called a spirit stone, and it is a glowing stone that is more than three inches long, and it is very easy to identify. ”

Li Er said, raising his hand to take out a shining stone from the cloth bag of a miner beside him.

Two fingers pinched the spirit stone and gestured to these people.

Then he said: "This is the spirit stone, you dig up such a spirit stone, collect it, and after a month, the spirit stone will be exchanged for the next month's rations."

There is another thing that you need to pay attention to, and that is to take care of your rations and spirit stones.

If the rations are stolen, I don't have any extra rations for you here.

I also don't have time to investigate who stole whom.

Ugly words said earlier, my main task is to exchange food for spirit stones in your hands.

Two hundred spirit stones, not one of which can be missing, in exchange for a month's rations. ”

Hearing this captain named Li Er say this, Lin Yang thought to himself, it seems that the theft of rations and the robbery of spirit stones here often happen.

If there were no food rations, in this dark and damp environment, people would not survive for a few days, and people would starve to death.

It seems that I will have to be more careful in the future.

Li Er also talked about how to mine and the dangers that need to be paid attention to when mining.

In the end, these new miners were each given a month's rations, a mining knife, and a cloth bag to store spirit stones.

The shape of the mining knife is rather peculiar, with two thumb-thick iron tips, like forks, three hooks, and a wooden handle more than two feet long.

The mining knife can dig ore, and can also dig through the gravel to find the spirit stone inside, and is a tool that specializes in mining spirit stones.

Lin Yang put the rations on his chest, holding the mining knife and the cloth bag containing the spirit stones in his hand, and followed the newcomers towards the depths of the mine.

As soon as he walked more than ten steps, he suddenly heard someone talking in the corner in the distance, and the voice was not small.

I only heard this person say: "This time I can do a few votes again, the person I killed last time got a lot of treasures, and a valuable jade pendant."

In a few months, our three-year construction period will be completed, and when I leave here, I will go to the pawnshop, pawn these treasures, and exchange them for some silver taels to be happy. ”

Lin Yang's heart moved when he heard the word "jade pendant", and he turned his head and swept his gaze to that person.

I saw the man sitting on the ground, his body strong, and his unkempt hair covering half of his face.

However, with Lin Yang's eyesight, he could clearly see that there was a deep scar on this person's face.

This person was staring at these new miners with malicious eyes, and Lin Yang remembered this person's appearance.

At this time, a person next to him pushed Lin Yang and said, "Brother Lin, let's go, the three of us will go over there to mine." ”

Lin Yang saw that this person was the young man named Mu Yu.

This person is slightly shorter than Lin Yang, and he is just one year older than Lin Yang, so it is not wrong to call Lin Yang brother.

Lin Yang nodded, and the two followed the middle-aged man from the Mu family in front, and the three of them walked towards the depths of the mine together.

Lin Yang silently recited the word "jade pendant" in his heart, and immediately thought of Mu Yiping's second son, Mu Feng.

Could it be that Mu Feng is also mining in this Li Er's team.

Is it really that coincidental?

As soon as he came here, he got news from Mu Feng.

If the jade pendant in that person's mouth is the one on Mu Feng's body.

Based on what this person said just now, it is very likely that Mu Feng was killed by this person, and this matter will have to be investigated in the future.

Lin Yang, Mu Yu and the middle-aged man, they are all from the Mu family, so they naturally take care of each other and can't go alone.

The three of them went to a pit where no one was digging and began their mining life.

Mining is actually not difficult, as long as you have the strength, digging up to 200 spirit stones per month is not a problem.

These spirit stones are mixed between some stones and soil ash, and after digging through the soil and stone layer a few times, a shining spirit stone may be found.

If you are unlucky, you won't be able to see a spirit stone in half a day.

Beneath the mine there are countless caves, large and small, some extending upwards, others downwards, many of which are dead passages.

Most of the caves are connected to each other, and it can be difficult to orient yourself if the terrain is unfamiliar.

There were no oil lamps in the mine, and it was pitch black.

After a long time, in the dark cave, you can also see a few feet ahead.

And these spirit stones shimmered brightly, and they were easy to spot.

For a few days, Lin Yang was mining while thinking about how to find out Mu Feng's whereabouts.

If there is really a dead person here, just dig a pit and bury it, and no one will find it.

And Lin Yang also knew that it was very common for someone to die here, and no one would care, let alone care.

Whether they are sick or killed.

This makes things easier.

Lin Yang had already thought about it, and he had to find a way to deal with the miner with the scar on his face.

In half a month, Lin Yang had already packed two hundred spirit stones into a cloth bag.

It's not that spirit stones are easy to dig, it's that Lin Yang is not only physically strong, but his eyes are also farther than ordinary people.

After a few days of observation, Lin Yang also found a lot of caves where spirit stones gathered.

Therefore, the task of this month was completed in this half a month.

Lin Yang was like other miners at the moment, his clothes were covered with mud and his hair was unkempt, and he sat down to rest in the open space in front of the stone house.

After half a month, Lin Yang has become familiar with the nearby terrain and how each passage is connected.

You know which passage is a dead end that is not passable, which passage can be bypassed, etc., all know it well.

In the past few days, Lin Yang has also inquired about many old miners, whether he has seen people named Mu Feng and Mu Lin.

The result is unknown.

It's no wonder that no one here is interested in what other miners are called, and no one asks for their names.

It's pitch black, and you can only tell by your height and size, and it's hard for the average person to tell who it is.

It seems that the only way to ask the scar-faced miner is to ask.

However, this person is physically strong and does not look like a good person, and this person must be subdued.

As for how to subdue this person, Lin Yang had already thought of a way and deduced the whole process, feeling that it should be foolproof.

On this day, when Lin Yang came back from mining, he deliberately put on the jade that Mu Yiping gave him, and exposed it a little, and the fiery red jade pendant was particularly eye-catching in the dark cave.

The spirit stone bag in Lin Yang's hand was bulging, and he walked to the open space in front of the stone house, and found a place where no one was sitting down to rest.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the others next to him, and it just so happened that the Scar Miner he was looking for was there.

This man has a scar on his face, and he often goes in and out with another person who is shorter than him, and this person happens to be resting here today.

Lin Yang deliberately accosted a miner next to him loudly.

"How's it going, brother, have you dug up the spirit stone this month?"

The man glanced at Lin Yang, and then glanced at the bulging cloth bag on Lin Yang's shoulder.

He asked, "Boy, you dug fast enough, I'm still a little behind, I have to dig quickly, if you don't dig enough, you won't be able to get this month's rations." ”

With that, the man stood up, patted his buttocks, lifted the cloth bag in front of him, and walked deeper into the mine.