The old man frowned and fell into deep thought for a moment. In the past, he might have refused without hesitation, because he knew that the content of this mineral vein was extremely rich. It could be said to be the richest mineral vein he had ever seen in his life.
Although he didn't care about money, he was really unwilling to give this kind of thing away.
But at this moment, he was a little hesitant, because Jiang Ye's request was not originally like this. He just wanted to buy the red crystal nugget in his hand at three times the market price. Unfortunately, he couldn't sell it.
And Jiang Ye was his savior, and with his own fighting power, he was absolutely terrifying, but he did not take it by force, which shows that Jiang Ye is also an extremely reasonable person.
Most importantly, the old man guessed that Jiang Ye was in urgent need of red crystal agate, otherwise he wouldn't be able to wait even two years.
"All right."
The old man thought for a while and nodded. Although he was a little reluctant, he still agreed. After all, a single life-saving grace is already a life-or-death favor.
"This is where the vein is."
As the old man spoke, a screen of information appeared in front of Jiang Ye's eyes. A thin red line was used to describe the location of the vein. Judging from the scale, the vein was very long, thirty or forty miles away.
.
"Okay, thank you."
Jiang Ye was overjoyed and asked Kubridge to record the light curtain. He came to the Alps because he knew that this mountain was the most rich in mineral deposits on the mecha planet.
Originally, he planned to start with ordinary mineral veins, and start from whichever vein he could find to absorb energy. But now, he directly knows an extremely rich mineral vein, and now he can absorb energy like crazy, saving a lot of time.
.
Jiang Ye said that he was about to turn around and leave this place.
"Wait a minute, Young Master Jiang."
The old man saw Jiang Ye wanting to leave. After thinking about it, he stopped him and asked him to help him since he had already sent the things away.
"What's wrong? Master Meng?" Jiang Ye was a little surprised.
"This is my apprentice, Kurd."
The old man pointed at Kurd next to him and said, "He has inherited my mantle in prospecting for most of his life. Let him accompany you to find the red crystal agate as soon as possible and save time."
"Although red agate is associated with this vein, it is also hidden in the ore. It is difficult to find it without certain experience."
"As for my apprentice Kurd, he has been dealing with this mine for the past three years. With his help, you will definitely have a lot of energy left."
Kurd also walked out at this time, obviously preparing to help Jiang Ye according to his master's instructions. If he could be with such a young master, he might be able to form a good relationship.
"No."
Jiang Ye smiled and waved his hand. It turned out that it was this kind of thing. If it were someone else, he might need the help of such a prospector, but Jiang Ye didn't need it at all.
His purpose is not only to absorb the red crystal agate, but also to absorb the entire mineral vein, but this mineral vein contains more energy.
"I will handle this matter myself."
"But thank you anyway." Jiang Ye refused.
"If there's nothing wrong, I'll leave first."
Under the puzzled looks of several people, Jiang Ye jumped into the sky and flew away from here.
"this.."
The old man Mengboba and Kurd looked at each other, and they were both a little puzzled. Since they were looking for red crystal agate, it would be best for someone with experience in the mineral veins to help, but Jiang Ye directly refused.
"Could it be that this Jiang Ye also knows how to explore for mineral veins?"
Everyone murmured in their hearts.
..
"Over there!"
Jiang Ye was in the air, and after flying for less than fifteen minutes, he saw a large ditch on the raised mountain range ahead. The shape of the ditch was exactly the same as the shape drawn on the map.
"This is it!"
Jiang Ye did not hesitate and directly lowered the altitude. After continuing to fly for more than 30 seconds, he saw an artificially dug hole. The edges of the hole were filled with the sound of howling wind.
"This should be the entrance to the cave."
Jiang Ye landed and stayed at the dark entrance of the cave for a second before flying directly in.
"despair!"
"despair!"
"despair!"
The mine was full of water. Every moment, you could see water droplets falling from above the mine. However, when it fell on Jiang Ye, it was blocked by the aura rising from his body.
"Still inside."
"The entire outer area has been mined, and it is five miles wide in the horizontal direction. Obviously there cannot be anything good."
This mine was sloping downward, looking like a long downhill slope. The surrounding rocks were convex and jagged, and there were many holes. Jiang Ye just glanced at it and moved forward quickly. He knew that the surrounding areas were not covered with holes.
What will be gained?
"let's start."
Five minutes later, Jiang Ye's figure appeared in a narrow passage. Apparently, Mengboba's group happened to dig here and turned back.
"Wow!"
Jiang Ye's right palm suddenly stretched out towards the surrounding rocks that were about five or six meters away. However, as he stretched out, his palm continued to grow in size, and in appearance, it also turned into a giant black...
It is in the shape of a claw, faintly glowing with scales.
"boom!"
This giant claw did not press against the surface of the rock, but pierced directly into it like tofu.
"boom!"
Suddenly, a glorious light began to emit around the giant claw, and the rock wrapped in the glorious light shrank sharply, and disappeared completely in less than five seconds.
At the same time, the giant claw went deeper into the cave.
"boom!"
Likewise, Jiang Ye's left palm turned into a giant claw in an instant, absorbing energy crazily.
Hand and claw swapping is a skill shared by Jiang Ye and the symbiotic beast Sand King. Jiang Ye discovered that after his palms turned into the Sand King's giant claws, the speed of absorbing energy was almost ten times faster.
After all, the giant claws of the Sand King were many times the size of his hand, and he discovered this by accident.
"A cell."
Half a minute later, Jiang Ye saw a cell inside his body burst and blooming into three petals, which meant that his combat power had increased by three points.
"One hundred cells."
Three hours later, Jiang Ye muttered to himself.
"Five hundred cells."
One day later, Jiang Yexin said.
"A thousand cells."
Three days later, Jiang Ye calculated.
"It seems that the metal of this mecha planet is much better than that of the earth, and the energy it contains is not at the same level as the earth."
Jiang Ye estimated that although the energy contained in this ore was not as rich as the Elta Divine Crystal obtained on Earth, it was definitely not much different.
"Two thousand cells."
Ten days later, Jiang Ye thought to himself.
"Three thousand cells."
A month later, Jiang Ye was a little speechless, because up to now, all he had absorbed were ores, and he had not seen the red crystal agate that contained rich energy.
"Over there!"
"Yes!"
Fifteen days later, Jiang Ye finally saw a red agate emitting red light next to an oval-shaped black ore. He was so happy that he directly grabbed it with his claws.
"boom!"
Rolling energy began to run through Jiang Ye's body, and in just an instant, a cell matured.
"two."
"Three."
..
When the red crystal, which was only the size of a fist and weighed more than fifty grams, completely disappeared, Jiang Ye's cells had matured to 600 again. Counting the total results in one and a half months, Jiang Ye's mature cells now reached five.
Thousands.
"Now a total of 96,000 cells have matured, and the basic combat effectiveness has reached 288,000."
"Come again!"
Jiang Ye didn't stop and started absorbing it again.
"Black Marrow Rock!"
Three days later, when several pieces of black and yellow ore appeared, Kubridge shouted, obviously excited by the appearance of this ore.
But Jiang Ye was not familiar with it and asked doubtfully, "What's wrong?"
"Sent!"
"Now the master is angry!"
Without waiting for Jiang Ye to ask again, Kubridge explained excitedly, "Although this kind of ore is not as rich in energy as red agate, compared with the two, the gap is not very big."
"For example, one gram of red agate can mature five of your cells, and only five grams of black marrow rock can achieve this effect. In other words, the energy of the black marrow rock is one-fifth of the red agate.
one."
Kubridge's words made Jiang Ye stunned. Since he didn't have much energy, how could he be so excited?
Perhaps seeing the doubts in Jiang Ye's heart, Kubridge continued, "Master, this is not important. Although the energy contained in one gram, the black marrow rock is not as good as this red crystal agate, but in terms of quantity, it is completely
Explode with it! It’s much higher than it!”
"The black marrow ore is formed by the compression of the earth's crust during a certain period of time. Once it appears, it is often a short-lived small vein. The red agate is not an associated, independent individual."
"I dare say that this black marrow rock is the essence of this vein!"
"Small veins?"
Jiang Ye was also overjoyed. If what Kubrich said was true, the effect of this black marrow rock would be far greater than that of the red agate. After all, the amount contained in a small vein was far greater than that of a few pieces of red agate.
match.
"good!"
Jiang Ye's eyes shone, and without hesitation, he directly pressed his huge claw on it and began to absorb it.
"Ten cells."
"One hundred cells."
"A thousand cells."
In just two days, Jiang Ye's cells matured by a thousand again, and the energy absorption rate was much higher than in the previous days. You must know that these one thousand cells require
The energy is many times that of the previous thousand cells!
But the time is one-fifteenth of the previous time!
"This speed is really fascinating."
Jiang Ye was also muttering to himself. This speed of cell maturation has made him feel very obsessed. No one wants to increase combat effectiveness very quickly.
"A thousand cells."
Five days later, Jiang Ye once again increased his combat power by 3,000 points.
Ten days later, another thousand cells matured.
Eighteen days later.
"boom!"
"boom!"
Jiang Ye's cells mature one every ten minutes. Although the speed has slowed down a lot, Jiang Ye's face can still see joy from the bottom of his heart when he sees the cells continue to mature and their combat effectiveness continues to increase.
"boom!"
"Another thousand!"
Ten minutes later, Jiang Ye's cells had matured by a thousand again.
"One hundred thousand!"
"My cells have finally matured into 100,000 cells!"
"The basic combat strength alone has reached 300,000!"
Jiang Ye's face was full of joy. His physical basic combat power finally reached the terrifying three hundred thousand at this time! Think about the hardships he has experienced from the first one on Earth to the one hundred thousand now.
It’s really not easy through ups and downs.
What makes Jiang Ye most happy is that the small black marrow veins in front of him have not lost much at all. Now nearly a month has passed, and the black marrow veins have only disappeared for about fifty meters vertically and more than a hundred meters horizontally.
That's all.
Kubridge estimated that it was at least three miles long in the longitudinal direction, and could be widened by more than 500 meters in the horizontal direction.
This will be such a crazy energy!
Even Jiang Ye and Kubridge didn't expect that this vein of minerals would contain such a heart-stirring thing!
"Well, what's going on? It's been twenty minutes, why hasn't one cell matured yet?"
Jiang Ye suddenly felt a little surprised, because it had been twenty minutes and he hadn't matured a single cell yet. This should have been impossible in the past.
"kindness?"
After another ten minutes, Jiang Ye frowned when he saw that his cells were still immature.
"not yet?"
Another ten minutes passed, which meant that forty minutes had passed since the 100,000th cell matured. Jiang Ye still hadn't matured a single cell, so he couldn't help but feel that something was unusual.
"Kubrich, what's going on?"
"Why can't my cells mature? Logically speaking, the energy absorbed should be enough."
Finally, twenty minutes later, Jiang Ye still saw no signs of maturity in his cells, so he couldn't help but ask Kubridge.
"Master, you have forgotten that one hundred thousand, your cells have already matured. Every one hundred thousand is a hurdle, a big hurdle. At this time, if you want to mature the cells again, the energy required is
It will be more than the previous sum total.”
"I thought you remembered it," Kubridge explained.
"kindness?"
Jiang Ye frowned. Hearing what Kubridge said, he suddenly remembered that Kubridge had indeed said this to him when he was in the cave on the earth. Every hundred thousand cells is a hurdle. As long as you get over it,
, it will be smooth sailing again.
Just to get through these 100,000 cells, the energy required will reach a crazy point again, but no matter how crazy it is, he can't remember it for a moment, as if Kubridge didn't elaborate at the time.
"Then when and how much energy will I need to get through this hurdle?"
Jiang Ye asked, he didn't want to spend too much time stuck on these 100,000 cells and 300,000 basic combat power.
"Double!"
"The master can survive by absorbing the total energy of the original 100,000 cells!" Kubridge explained.
"so much?"
Jiang Ye was stunned. He never imagined that he would have to absorb the energy of 100,000 cells again in order to continue to grow cells!
"But where did the absorbed energy go?" Jiang Ye frowned for a moment.