Chapter 11 The Miner at the Bottom of the Cave
There are not many prisoners on death row, only forty or fifty, but they all have a fierce aura, and you can tell at a glance that they are not easy to mess with.
The five hundred people who donated their lives were obviously much weaker in the face of these thugs. They were all trembling with fear and did not dare to act rashly.
Although Longbao was rough and heroic, he was not without brains. Seeing that all the prisoners on death row were holding weapons while he was bare-handed, he knew not to be impulsive.
However, there are still some young ones with angry expressions in their eyes.
Most of the young people among these dedicated people are well-nourished and strong, and usually do not have any control except for the practitioners who need to be worshiped, so they are not cowardly.
If it hadn't been for the current situation, I'm afraid the death row leader would have rushed up to take action as soon as he said harsh words.
"What? Are you dissatisfied?"
The bald man glanced around and sneered, "It's okay if you don't accept it. If you can, don't eat."
Wu Feng and others all received a simple mining tool and were told that they must rely on the mined minerals in exchange for food and clean water.
"What about you?"
Although the bright weapons in the hands of the death row prisoners were scary, some people still couldn't help but ask.
Everyone knew that these prisoners on death row were not doing supervisory work, but were just like themselves. They just arrived earlier, but they had weapons, didn't have to do anything, and controlled their diet. Of course they didn't accept it.
"We? Hum hum..."
The bald man snorted coldly, and several death row inmates behind him stepped forward and pulled the man who made the noise out of the crowd. "Bahba" was two whips, and he hit the man's face hard, causing blood to flow all over his face immediately.
Everyone fell silent immediately. Since they couldn't fight, they had no choice but to obey their arrangements.
Looking up, the prisoners on death row did not follow them down together, but stayed in the open space.
The place where Wu Feng and the others are now is the real mining site. They must use ropes to hang people from that open space and lower them here.
When the mines are mined here, the death row prisoners who stay there can calmly collect the mined minerals, temporarily withdraw their tools, and completely control the mining people.
However, for this group of death row prisoners to have so many weapons in their hands, it must be that the soldiers guarding the mine did this deliberately, using the death row prisoners in the mine to suppress the new people who came to donate.
"We will spread out. After mining the crystal ore, we will come back here to rendezvous." Longbao said loudly.
The space here is much smaller than the open space above.
As the people who donated their money gradually descended here, there was almost no place to stand.
Fortunately, there are many naturally luminous stones down here. Although the light is dim, there is not much problem with lighting. Otherwise, the situation would be even more difficult.
There are many narrow gaps here, which can only allow one person to pass sideways. They were dug by former miners. If you want to mine crystal ore, you have to drill through these narrow gaps, and then rely on luck to find those crystal ore branches.
excavate it.
As for being close to the main vein of the crystal mine, you have to burn high incense.
Depending on the quality level of the crystal ore, many crystal beasts will be generated near the main vein.
These crystal beasts generally only move around the main veins, and their food is the high-quality crystal ore on the main veins.
After these crystal beasts die, their corpses will become part of the main vein of the crystal ore again, and become high-quality crystal ore.
The grade of a main vein of spar mine slowly changes during this process, although this change is very subtle.
Theoretically speaking, if the time is long enough, a main vein of inferior spar ore,
It is not impossible for it to eventually grow into a high-grade spar mine.
But this must have a prerequisite, that is, the main vein is not damaged.
Therefore, although this crystal mine looks like a dead thing, it can only passively wait for people to dig it.
But the crystal mine is not capable of protecting itself at all.
After it is exposed, it will actively branch out into many branches to confuse miners and try to delay the discovery of the main vein.
Ore prospectors can only roughly estimate the location of crystal mines. Specific mining requires people to search deep underground.
This gives the crystal mine an opportunity, and when it feels that it is in danger, it will generate a large number of crystal beasts to protect the main vein.
Wu Feng's current mission is to uncover all the discovered branches.
If these sects own the spar mines, they will never exploit them so roughly. Instead, they will adopt a method of cultivating and mining at the same time, taking appropriate branch veins while cultivating and upgrading the spar mines.
But the [Liuyun Crystal Mine] is different. Princess Changle has a lot of high-quality crystal mines in her hands. Even if they are all mined, she only needs to hum in front of King Li, and King Li will seize them from the sect.
The crystal mines that came from the house were given to her.
And these people who are mining here, whether they are dedicated people or those on death row, in the final analysis, Princess Changle is not prepared to let them live.
Although we know that it is safe if there are many people together, the terrain here in the crystal mine is such that mining can only be carried out in a scattered manner. If they always gather together, I am afraid that most of the people will be hungry by then.
Wu Feng also entered alone. In one of the gaps, he discussed with Long Bao about the wounded man with a broken arm. Long Bao would arrange for one person to take care of him, and then Wu Feng would complete the mining work for these two people.
In Wu Feng's words, "Send Buddha to the West and save people to the end." There is absolutely no reason to abandon people halfway.
Long Bao was also a loyal person, and without saying a word, he arranged for a person to take care of the wounded with broken arms, and said that Wu Feng only needed to be responsible for the mining volume of one of them, and he would take care of the other.
Behind this gap, it was still very narrow. Wu Feng turned sideways and slowly moved along the narrow passage. After about forty or fifty meters, the passage began to become wider.
After traveling another hundred meters, Wu Feng entered a relatively spacious cave.
The cave is about two or three meters high and wide enough to accommodate three adults side by side. It is not clear how deep it is, but it is winding and winding, extending inward with no end in sight.
On the roof of the cave and around it, some exposed stones emitted a blue light, dotted with stars, so that the space here seemed brighter than the space outside the gap.
Wu Feng stepped forward and shoveled away the area around a luminous spot. Sure enough, he saw a fist-sized stone mixed in among many stones. There was a little blue in the center of its interior.
This is the crystal mine!
Although the entire crystal ore is about the size of a fist, the only useful part is the blue spot in the middle of the stone.
The higher the quality of the crystal ore, the darker the blue color in the middle and the wider the range.
Wu Feng threw the crystal ore into the bamboo basket on his back and continued digging for the next target.
If there were no accidents, the crystal ore here would be enough for him and the injured with broken arms to complete the required mining tasks, and there could be much more.
The mining tools in Wu Feng's hands are a backpack and a small shovel.
Such a crude tool can only be used on the surface of the stone wall. If you are unlucky, you may not even be able to get food.
However, Wu Feng's luck is obviously overwhelming. The crystal ore visible on the surface here is enough for him to mine.
Wu Feng was overjoyed when he saw this. He kept moving and dug out everything he could see.
The more crystal ores that are mined, the more food and water can be obtained, allowing more people to maintain their physical strength and facilitate his subsequent operations.
Unexpectedly, extreme joy can lead to sorrow. Before the basket was half filled, the small shovel broke.
Wu Feng was dumbfounded at this moment.
It was not that he was completely helpless. Ever since he controlled the [Mu De Sword Light] from his heart, the [Bao Sword Peak] turned into a sword-shaped mark and attached itself to his palm.
Wu Feng now only needs to think, and the mark on his palm can turn into a sword and appear.
Although Wu Feng is still unable to master all the magic in it, there is still no problem in using it as an ordinary sword.
Just want to use this sword, which carries the weight of the mountain gate, to mine? Wu Feng is not so luxurious.
While he was racking his brains, thinking of what tools he could use, the mark on Wu Feng's palm suddenly jumped, and a stream of heat surged.
He raised his left hand involuntarily, and the sword-shaped mark on his palm glowed faintly.
The crystal ores on the surface of the stone wall, as if they were seeing relatives, rushed towards the mark on Wu Feng's palm...
Then……
These crystal ores seemed to have melted and disappeared in Wu Feng's palm.
Immediately afterwards...
The crystal ore deeper in the stone wall also automatically drilled out of the stone wall and threw it towards Wu Feng.
If someone were around at this time, they would be able to see that the crystal ore in the entire mine seemed to come to life all of a sudden, rushing towards Wu Feng crazily, and then magically disappearing into his palm.
Wu Feng only felt a burning sensation in his palms. He completely lost control of his body, and his whole body moved forward involuntarily, letting the raised arm lead him.
Wherever it passed, the crystal ore was absorbed, and the stone walls collapsed, completely burying the way out behind Wu Feng.
Wu Feng couldn't express his sorrow at this time. He had not expected such a change and had no way to control it.
Wu Feng now was like a puppet being led by strings, he could only passively walk step by step towards the depths of the mine.
Soon, there was no road in front of Wu Feng, and behind him, the mine had completely collapsed and was completely blocked.
But the mark on his palm did not stop because of this.
The stone wall in front of Wu Feng was rotating like a whirlpool. The stone wall that was originally a single piece turned into extremely fine particles.
From these rotating small particles, countless crystal ores were projected out, and then quickly landed on the mark on Wu Feng's palm.
In front of Wu Feng, a new road began to appear, and it stretched farther and farther.
He continued to move forward involuntarily, and wherever he passed, the crystal ore was still absorbed.
When Wu Feng finally stopped and his body returned to normal, his face was full of shock, his mouth opened again and again, and finally two words came out.
"I……!"
There was a vast space in front of him. A crystal vein that was a hundred meters high and extended to unknown distances at both ends, emitting a deep blue light, lay in front of Wu Feng.
The dreamlike blue color makes people feel confused as soon as they see it.
Chapter completed!