The Canglan River at night reflects the gurgling light under the lights of sailing boats. This shining river isolates the bustling and lively west bank from the silence and darkness on the east bank, forming a sharp contrast.
A towering lighthouse stands on the east bank of the river. The light from the lamp oil made of giant whale fat can be seen hundreds of miles away, but it cannot illuminate the rocky beach below.
Du Kang, who came from the water and was dressed in gold and iron, walked among the rocks with his back to the firelight. After walking about two miles away, he finally saw the place where the two confessed in the dim light.
He only learned about it when Du Kang tortured the two people to extract confessions.
The Sheng family's Huolingjingshu turned out to be a spell that specializes in refining weapons. The various means such as positioning, sound transmission, and controlling subordinates' self-destruction that he was worried about were not available to Huo Nu.
Because the Ten Thousand Demonic Bell, a top-grade magic weapon, has the ability to enlighten monsters and enslave living beings, people in the Sheng family generally regard the fire slave sacrificial training method as a useless ability.
After the tribe signed a contract with the Ten Thousand Demonic Bells, they could indirectly control the many creatures enslaved by the Ten Thousand Demonic Bells according to the assigned authority. With such an ability, who would bother to make fire slaves?
The caster is not even aware of the life and death of the Huonu. Sheng Qinghai relies entirely on the power and wealth of the Sheng family, the Huonu's instinctive closeness to the caster, and the Huonu's ability to independently advance to spells without the caster. to control subordinates.
Therefore, the two Taoists Tie Chong even dared to sneak out to block roads and rob during work to make extra money. The combination of these factors prompted Du Kang's current bold plan.
It had only been a dozen hours since the Insect Taoist and the Railway Man secretly left the craftsmanship shop. The strong man in the iron helmet under the craftsmanship shop must have noticed that they left without permission.
But reporting to the higher authorities and sending people to investigate will take time.
This time difference is enough for Dukang to make a fortune using their previous shipping channels.
Du Kang has already examined the entire operating mechanism of the black shop called Craftsmanship Workshop. To put it simply, this is a story about a prodigal son who harmed the public and enriched his private life.
The Sheng family's magic weapons are world-famous for their large quantity, low price, and high quality. The number of magic weapons produced by the Sheng family's magic weapons workshop accounts for half of the entire output of Canglan City, and they are extremely famous throughout Daliang.
With such a huge output, a certain amount of defective products will naturally be produced every day. The Sheng family will remelt the defective products into molten iron, separate the various spiritual iron and divine golds that have been integrated into one from the molten iron, and forge them again.
The master of the two Taoist priests, Chong Tie, was Sheng Qinghai, the sixth son of the current head of the Sheng family, who sensed business opportunities.
He first bribed a few masters who re-inspected the magic weapons and asked them to treat some magic weapons with good quality as defective products. Before these magic weapons entered the casting furnace, another group of his men would cut them off. Put into the water channel of the workshop.
Since the workshop is deep underground, the forging water used in the workshop is directly connected to the sea. The rapid water flow in the water channel will wash the magic weapon into a trench somewhere along the coast.
After that, the task of fishing for goods from the sea is carried out by a railway man with a metal body. After the goods are brought ashore, they will be taken to the Tuwei Lane Craftsman's Workshop for sale.
Inside the workshop, they can only win over the workers of the workshop, but the sales outside are handed over to the fire slaves refined by Sheng Qinghai himself, trying to avoid being noticed by the family.
Of course, this is only a method of transporting low-grade magic weapons, while mid-grade magic weapons are delivered directly using consignment symbols. The two of them don't know much about this.
During the confessions of the two men, Du Kang also received news that was beyond his expectation.
That is, the main source of profit for the Artisan Workshop is not the higher-level magic weapons, but the lowest-level magic weapons such as low-grade magic weapons. Intermediate-level magic weapons can only be sold once in a month or two, but every low-grade magic weapon can be sold.
We can sell four to five hundred pieces every month.
Since it is a capitalless business, the sales on the black market can bring Sheng Qinghai a huge income of more than 100,000 taels of silver every month.
Even for the Sheng family, which destroys a huge number of magic weapons every day, four to five hundred pieces of iron materials for magic weapons disappear out of thin air every month. Although it is not a lot, it is not a small amount. I don’t know how Sheng Qinghai hid it.
Both Taoists had such doubts in their minds, but Du Kang didn't care about it. He just came to get a vote and ran away. How could he care about other people's plans to hide the truth.
On the rocky beach on the west side of the Canglan River, a ball of yellow light emerged from the ground, spitting out a tall figure. It was Du Kang who was carried by the yellow-faced boy's escape technique.
He looked at the ground with a look of regret on his face.
"Although I have thought of it for a long time, even the city walls have formations for sealing earth escape. How could such an important place like the Divine Weapon Workshop not have it, but how can I be willing not to give it a try."
The Sheng family's magical weapon workshop is huge in scale. It is located a hundred feet deep underground in this rocky beach. It covers an area of nearly 10,000 acres and is divided into several floors. There are more than 20,000 monks and mortals working in it day and night to build magical weapons.
Most people will work there for the rest of their lives from the moment they enter, and will not be able to leave until they die.
The defense is so tight that even a mosquito will be searched when it comes in or out.
For this debt collection operation, Du Kang specially brought the yellow-faced boy with him to prepare an extra escape route for himself.
The Zhendi Ding was placed underground somewhere a mile deep under Canglan City, stored in a huge rock mass, and a red-faced boy was arranged to take care of it.
As long as you are not unlucky enough to encounter a master who knows how to escape deep underground, this place will be safe.
"If we can't take the dry route, we can only take the water route as originally planned."
The waves not far away crashed onto the gravel beach, splashing into fine waves. Du Kang's body quietly transformed into a golden snake, swimming towards the sea surface on the sharp gravel.
Another wave came, and when the wave went down, there was nothing in the place, even the clothes that were taken off were swept away by the waves.
This rocky beach was huge and inserted deeply into the sea. Du Kang dived down for a long time before he saw scattered sand. Seaweeds of different shapes, corals and brightly colored small fish also appeared in his sight.
There are also several dilapidated and decaying sunken ships sunk in the coral reef. They are sleeping quietly in the dark water. Fish are constantly coming in and out of the breaches in the ship. It is obvious that the sunken ship has become the home of these small fish.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Du Kang did not go to explore. The railway man had already gone in and looked at it when he first entered the water. It was empty and had been emptied out, leaving only a huge hull.
wreckage.
Bibohai is famous for its large number of sea monsters, but Du Kang did not see a single monster-like creature while diving all the way, but he was not surprised and continued to go deeper.
The coral reef was left behind, and gradually there was only a reef covered with thick soil and dust in front of us. Du Kang's slippery snake scales crawled over it, creating a turbid undercurrent.
Finally, after climbing over a hill on the seabed, a huge ravine appeared in front of us. At the end of the ravine was a huge hole in the mountain. A large amount of seawater was spraying out from it, washing the stones in the gully extremely smooth.
Comparing the memory of the railway man, this should be the water outlet of the Shenbing Workshop. Du Kang swam forward for some distance and came to a huge rock next to the ravine.
The snake opened its mouth and spit out a demon-refining bead into the big stone bowl in front of it. Then it lowered the snake's head and placed its entire body on the ground. The Yin God transmitted a message to the huge stone in front of it.
"I've seen Grandpa Eight Hands. I followed my master's instructions and came here to get some things as usual. This is an offering to you."
boom!
The ground shook, and the swaying seawater caused Du Kang's heavy metal body to float up. He could only use his snake's tail to hook a raised rock to prevent himself from being washed away by the current.
A huge tentacle passed in front of him, swept away the demon refining bead, and then retracted the tentacle into the rock. Through the suction cup on the tentacle, Du Kang confirmed that it was an octopus demon.
The inside of the water outlet of the workshop is winding and winding. Sometimes the magic weapon placed in it can rush directly to the outside, and sometimes it will be stuck in the water channel. In this case, railway personnel need to go in and search for it.
This huge octopus is a big monster in the sea. After being subdued by the Ten Thousand Demons Bell, it was arranged here to guard the outlet of the workshop. Sheng Qinghai also had the authority to command it, so naturally he had already opened the back door for his subordinates.
This octopus is so greedy that it has devoured all the sea monsters within a dozen miles. As long as a monster is offered as blood food every time it comes and is greeted by someone from above, it will turn a blind eye.
Close one eye.
After seeing the octopus with his own eyes, Du Kang was very glad that he disguised himself as a railway man and got through. The octopus was huge. If he met it on the shore, Du Kang could easily take care of it if he turned into a giant spirit.
But on the bottom of the sea where it is difficult to put his feet on the ground, Du Kang may not be a match for the octopus demon, not to mention the huge noise that the fight may cause.
When the water flow calmed down again, and the rocks transformed by the octopus monster also calmed down again, the guards had been bribed, and it was time to get down to business.
Du Kang's smooth snake belly squirmed, and a small hook appeared. The hook first penetrated deeply into the rock beneath him, and he tested it to confirm that he could hold it firmly.
Beside the ravine where the current was surging, he jumped and disappeared into the surging water.
Different from the cold sea water, the water flowing out of the water outlet has a hint of warmth, and is also mixed with some gold and iron aura, which is obviously the aura left in the water after the magic weapon is quenched.
The outlet of the waterway was extremely wide. After crawling a certain distance with the claws on his abdomen, Du Kang saw a group of monsters clinging to the rock wall and covered with weird tentacles.
This kind of monster is called carnivorous grass. It is a low-intelligence monster planted here by the Sheng family to prevent people from escaping along the waterway. When they sense flesh and blood, they will swarm up and eat up their prey. They will also prey on human excrement.
A very useful sewer security and cleaning monster.
Dense carnivorous grasses were planted all over the rock wall of the waterway, and their tentacles were swaying with the current. However, Du Kang, who was covered in metal, was not interested and allowed him to crawl past. After turning several bends, the inside gradually narrowed, and the water flow became smaller.
More and more turbulent.
There are many branched waterways ahead, and water flows out of these branches and converges into this main waterway.
The railway people had only walked here at most before. Even if the magic weapons packed in boxes were stuck, they would mostly be at this fork, and Du Kang would have to walk the rest of the way on his own.
The only thing he knew was that the water channel on the left must be connected to the casting furnace, because the railway man always found the magic weapon stuck in the water channel on the left.
Du Kang felt it carefully and found that it was indeed the case. The water on the left was the hottest and had a bit of gold and iron. The water in the middle still had a faint fishy smell even if it was eaten by carnivorous grass. The water on the far right had no smell.
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The waterway on the far left should connect to the forging and recasting sites, the middle waterway should lead to where people live, and the right side should correspond to the unknown.
After thinking on the spot for a moment, Du Kang crawled straight to the left. No matter where the warehouse he was looking for was, the magic weapon would be put into the warehouse after it was forged. It was always right to go to the left and take a look first.
As they meandered forward for nearly a stick of incense, the carnivorous grass beside them could only be seen sporadically. Through the water above, a red light could be seen, and a slight sound of gold and iron was heard reaching Du Kang.
in the ears.
"It seems that this is it, that's right."
Du Kang's body was pressed against the wall of the waterway, an earthy yellow light emerged, and he blended into it silently.
As early as the previous section of the waterway, he discovered that Earth Escape could be used normally again.
Now that I think about it, the ground-suppressing formation deployed by the Sheng family should only be able to block the entry and exit of Earth Escape, but cannot prohibit the normal use of Earth Escape outside the range of the formation.
The entire formation is spherical and wraps the workshop. Only a few dozen feet of land near the spherical surface is affected by the ground-suppressing formation. The formation is extremely large, but the workshop does not occupy all the space within the spherical shape. This is
The earth and rocks in the middle became Du Kang's hiding place and walking passage.
A blurry earth-yellow face appeared at the top of the workshop, and his eyes swept through the stone room. The strong men were busy beating the red iron blocks, the several workers who stepped on the bellows hard, and the handymen who poured the quenched wastewater into the sewer.
…It’s a very busy scene.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "What is being forged are ordinary soldiers. Is the Sheng family also involved in the industry of ordinary soldiers? Or is it the training of apprentices before they leave the army?"
Du Kang muttered to himself, and then the face at the top of the workshop followed the layout of the workshop, walked through the passage and walked out of the small forging room.
Hearing the noise of the crowd, Du Kang's eyes suddenly became brighter.
What comes into view is the dazzling firelight. A huge three-story underground building surrounds a huge high-ceiling square. Densely thick stone pillars support the structure of this behemoth. The architectural style shows roughness and strength.
The air was full of stuffy heat, the men were naked from the waist up, and the women were also wearing cool tube tops and shorts.
People were pushing carts back and forth on the road, with charcoal, coal, and finished weapons piled on the carts. They were entering and exiting stone rooms, creating a lively atmosphere.
Du Kang opened his spiritual eyes and observed for a moment, and found that the entire square was in the shape of the Eight Trigrams. There were a large number of scattered divine weapons shining in the second and third floor buildings corresponding to each hexagram of the Eight Diagrams. Obviously, that was the place where the divine weapons were forged.
The obstruction of the spiritual eye by the earth and stone buildings was too strong, and he could not find the location of the warehouse for a while. Du Kang simply moved inside the rock wall and searched room after room.
Du Kang was initially on the bottom floor of a three-story building, and the soldiers on this floor were all ordinary soldiers. From what Du Kang could see, the quality was indeed excellent, and many of them could even reach the peak of ordinary soldiers.
Among these blacksmiths, except for a few who were sent here by the Sheng family after completing their studies, most of the others were born and grew up in this workshop. In the foreseeable future, they will continue to grow up here.
Go and die.
With hundreds of years of skill inheritance, they only do one thing from birth to death. Even if they are just ordinary people, they can become masters in a field. They devote their whole life to making weapons. These mortal craftsmen are already close to those made by ordinary soldiers.
The pinnacle of skill.
The space on each floor of the workshop is extremely large. Du Kang wandered around on the first floor before heading to the second floor.
Monks began to appear among the craftsmen at this level. Most of them practiced fire and metal spells and made all kinds of low-grade magic weapons, knives, spears, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, forks, maces, sticks, hammers...
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Common weapon styles, strange weapons, and weird weapons that Du Kang couldn't name were forged in stone chambers one after another.
Each stone chamber is presided over by a monk, who leads several apprentices to create a kind of magic weapon. He is familiar with the proportions of different spiritual irons. The style of the magic weapon is exactly the same, and the force of the falling hammer can always be neither light nor heavy, quenching
The heat is always just right.
These monks and craftsmen will also devote their lives here. Unlike the mortals who are trapped here all their lives, after they have taught their crafts in old age, they will have the opportunity to return to the ground with generous rewards and live in a strict building in Shengjia.
He spends the rest of his short life on a small island under surveillance.
Du Kang focused on the direction of transporting the finished magic weapons and collecting spiritual iron materials on the second floor, and then swam through the rock wall to the third floor.
The space on this floor is as vast as the lower two floors, but the number of people is not large. There are only three to four hundred people, but they are all monks. They gather in the room near Bagua Square.
When Du Kang arrived at this level, he saw more than twenty mid-level monks exuding strong spiritual light.