Under the urging of Cassiopeia and the other three, the members of this "expedition team" dragged their tired bodies and quickly arrived at the calibrated mountain col.
Although this kind of natural terrain embraced by the mountain col made everyone in the team energetic, but when they followed the opening of the mountain col and entered the mountain col, their excitement quickly turned into disappointment.
Yes, the topography here does seem to give people the feeling that "there is something here", but after getting closer, I found that there is almost no difference between the mountains here and the mountains of the Huangqiu Mountains.
They are all basalt exposed to the air.
Although the northwest foothills of the Huangqiu Mountains are not as barren as the southeastern foothills, and there are even many tenaciously growing plants in the gaps between the rocks on the mountain, at a glance, the entire interior of the mountain is simply unobstructed, and no part of it is blocked at all.
blind area of vision.
Looking at this featureless basalt mountain and the uneven ground, most people in the team felt that there might really be nothing here.
However, Cassiopeia looked confident.
Indeed, this mountain col doesn't seem to have much of a problem. If you focus on the mountain, even the most professional person will be destined to get nothing.
But Cassiopeia, who had read the original prospecting data, knew that the key to this barren hill tomb was not on the ground, but on the seemingly solid basalt!
Blood crystals are often born between the gaps in large basalts, so the prospecting team at that time needed to investigate the conditions of the basalts.
As a result, the problem was discovered by chance while surveying the rock conditions and taking samples.
According to the survey report, although the mountain basalt here is natural, it has been artificially processed - there is no trace of blood spar in the gaps between the large basalt rocks!
You know, blood spar is often the "filler" between the gaps between large basalt rocks. Although it is blood red in color, it is essentially a high-concentration rock element material that can be found in the gaps between large basalt rocks.
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Precisely because the Barren Hills Mountains are the largest basalt mountains in the Shurima continent, they are the main source of blood crystals.
However, there are no traces of blood crystals in the gaps in the basalt mountain in this mountain col - this explains the problem!
There is no blood spar where there should be blood spar. This is obviously because the gaps in these large basalt rocks are man-made, otherwise such a situation would never be possible!
Based on this, Cassiopeia directly ordered the miners accompanying her team to start the process of prospecting.
The confused prospecting workers started the prospecting work honestly based on the principle of taking money from others and doing things for them.
Look for gaps in large pieces of basalt, and ask the rock elemental mage hired at a high price to open holes in the gaps, fill them with a large amount of black powder, and then detonate them...
Following this process, Cassiopeia received a "bad" news three days later - there was no trace of blood spar in the gaps in the basalt.
According to the prospector, he has never seen such poor basalt - not to mention the lack of blood spar, or any of the common associated ores of basalt!
However, after hearing this "bad news", Cassiopeia was almost overjoyed. She directly found the rock element mage in the mining team, gave him ten times his salary, and asked him to find the place with the highest concentration of rock elements.
Relying on element concentration is also a common method for prospecting. The higher the element concentration, the easier it is for elemental crystals to appear, so this guy didn't think much about it. After spending three days, he finally gave Cassio
Pea's answer.
"It's that cliff over there." In order to earn this sky-high reward, the rock elemental mage worked hard to overdraw his magic power and felt almost the entire mountain col. "The element concentration there is the highest and the most active!"
“Great!”
Cassiopeia followed the direction of his finger and looked at the featureless cliff, and then finally called the other members of the mining team.
"Show off your ability to mine mountains and mines!" She once again used her money offensive. "For ten times the reward, blow up that cliff for me!"
"We have already surveyed that place, and there is no blood crystal at all." The prospector was a little confused, "There will be no harvest if we explode it——"
"Use money to do things, don't talk too much." Cassiopeia narrowed her eyes slightly, and finally showed a dangerous expression on her face, "I won't lose your money, is that enough?"
The foreman, who felt a little stiff, nodded hurriedly, and then honestly directed his miners to start setting up black powder blasting again.
Seeing them busy, Sivir found Cassiopeia.
"You are increasing costs and diluting my profits." Sivir said in a bad tone, playing with the cross blade Charikal in his hand, "I didn't come here to mine with you - I have no interest in mineral veins.
I just want to find the Huangqiu Divine Tomb!"
"The tomb of the gods is in the rock." Cassiopeia said with a smile, "As for the additional costs... what is paid is the cost."
Hearing what she said, Sivir was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but stick out his tongue and lick the corners of his mouth.
"This is against the rules." After hesitating for a moment, Sivir sighed, "Professionals should always receive preferential treatment. They are not mercenaries."
"This is the rule of you Shurima people." Cassiopeia laughed when she heard this, blinked her smiling eyes, and then her eyes fell on the weapon Charikal that was constantly turning in Sivir's hand.
"Besides, I have heard that this weapon called Chalikar seems to have some problems with its origin?"
"..."
After hearing what Cassiopeia said, Sivir finally fell silent.
In fact, the weapon Charikal in her hand was indeed obtained by her killing people and grabbing treasures - theoretically, the owner of this weapon should be the employer who hired her at the time, but after getting this weapon, she felt
When the power seemed to be connected by blood, Sivir killed the stingy guy without hesitation and kept the weapon in his own hand.
Now when Cassiopeia talked about this matter, the subtext was "You are not a rule-abiding person", and this was enough to make the profit-seeking mercenary lady speechless.
In the end, Sivir could only snort angrily, leave the sentence "I won't do this kind of thing", and left the tent.
Just like this, three days later, when Kassadin and Ezreal finally arrived at this mountain col after all the hard work and supplies through the oases along the way, what appeared in front of them was actually
It is a scene of enthusiastic mining.
"Mr. Kassadin, are you sure this is the location of the tomb of the god?"
"Of course." Kassadin looked sternly, "Besides, it seems that someone else has already got there first!"