They were accompanied by hundreds of slave miners holding fluorescent stones as they groped their way through the dark mines.
The mine is very deep and winding, leading to the deep underground. The further you go down, the more turbid the air becomes, and a very strong putrid smell floats in the air.
In the darkness, there was suddenly a slight squeaking sound.
Then there was a scream.
A slave miner screamed and rolled on the ground. Everyone looked around and saw that there was a palm-sized spider on the man's shoulder, with red veins on his back, biting his neck.
In the blink of an eye, the slave miner's neck swelled up as if he was blowing air, and became twice as thick as his head. He gasped for breath, and it didn't take long before he stopped struggling.
"Damn, what the hell."
Seeing the spider crawling down from the fallen miner, the miner on the side quickly picked up a stone and threw it at it.
call out!
The spider was incredibly fast and disappeared into the darkness in an instant.
The faces of the miners were extremely ugly.
I thought that going into the Black Crystal Mine and being poisoned by the toxic poison of Black Crystal would be miserable enough, but I didn't expect that there were other dangers in this mine.
This spider is so poisonous and so fast.
Their cultivation is locked, and if they are bitten, they will die.
"Damn it, this Mo family is really not a human being. They clearly want us to die."
"Is it useful to call here? The entrance to the cave is guarded by them. If we go up, we will die."
Everyone cursed and vented their anger, but there was nothing they could do.
Even though they knew the outcome would be death, people's survival instinct made them prefer to stay alive and continue walking down. Everyone was more cautious, but accidents continued to happen along the way.
Weird little silver snakes, purple venomous centipedes over a foot long, mosquitoes that spray venom...
There are more than one or two kinds of poisons in the underground mines.
Even though these miners were very careful, due to their inexperience, seven or eight people were still bitten by the poison along the way. Those bitten by the poison either died or were maimed.
A few hours later.
The miners finally arrived at a camp underground and met a group of miners who had come down before.
When they saw the newcomers coming in, the old miners had no expression. They all looked at them coldly, with even a hint of schadenfreude in their eyes. The unlucky ones were always willing to see more people being unlucky with them, as if this would balance their psychology.
Yao Qing and the black-haired young man walked together.
Along the way, other people were more or less attacked and frightened by poisonous substances.
But Yao Qing found that they were very safe all the way.
He was careful and vigilant along the way, but did not encounter a single poisonous creature.
This made him feel a little strange, and he could only attribute it to luck.
After resting for a while, many people dispersed. Everyone remembered the task. They must dig a storage bag of ore within a month before they can go up to rest.
The shorter the time underground, the safer they are.
So everyone was forced to rush to find the ore.
"Brother Mute, we have to go and find the ore quickly." Yao Qing pulled the black-haired young man. He didn't want to, but the supervisors above gave him a death order and handed the black-haired young man to him. Two people were required.
You have to dig enough ore before you can go up.
So Yao Qing could only take the black-haired young man to dig together, otherwise this "idiot" would just stand there blankly.
In the blink of an eye, I have been underground for three days.
"Brother Dumb, it's there, dig it out."
With a clanging sound, the black-haired young man dug out a large piece of black hexagonal stone.
"ox!"
Yao Qing quickly put the stone into his pocket.
After staying underground for a few days, he finally learned to find black crystal ore. He thought dragging the black-haired young man with him would be a burden, but after a few days, he found that he had found a treasure.
The black-haired young man has great strength.
Black crystal ore is generally embedded in mineral veins, and sunglass ore veins are extremely hard. Because they are locked in cultivation, they can only be dug out with a pickaxe and a spade. Digging out a piece of ore often makes your hands bleed.
Once, Yao Qing asked the black-haired young man to go down with a shovel, and the shovel shoveled down the stone like tofu.
This surprised Yao Qing.
After verification, it was finally determined that the black-haired young man was born with supernatural powers and was incredibly strong.
Even if you don't have mana, you can easily dig out ore.
Yao Qing was overjoyed by this discovery. He looked for ore and asked Brother Ya to dig. The efficiency of the two of them was greatly improved.
After the two men dug out the ore, they continued walking forward. Not long after, they saw a corpse lying on the ground, covered in purple and black, and the skin was covered with pustules.
"Another one was poisoned to death."
Yao Qing was so numb that he took off the storage bag from the body's waist and pulled Brother Mute around.
In the past few days, there have been at least dozens of corpses encountered in the mine.
Many of them came down together at the beginning.
In this mine, dangers are everywhere, poisons are everywhere, and the mortality rate is extremely high.
But Yao Qing was a little strange. He and Brother Du had also been wandering underground for several days, walking around many corners, but they had never been attacked by poison.
If we say that when we first entered the mine, we can still explain it by luck.
Then Yao Qing is not a fool.
For three days, no poison was encountered, but others were so unlucky?
This is obviously not something that can be easily explained by the word "lucky".
Yao Qing didn't think he had the ability to make the poison retreat, so... his eyes fell on the dumb brother next to him. The black-haired young man walked calmly beside him. For some reason, Yao Qing looked at the black-haired man.
The young man's eyes didn't seem so empty anymore. After looking at them for a long time, he even felt a little palpitated, as if there was something terrifying deep in his eyes.
"Brother Dumb, you are definitely not an ordinary person."
Yao Qing quickly looked away.
The two of them continued walking and found some bits and pieces of ore, which they dug out easily. In three days, Yao Qing's storage bag was already filled with more than a third of it.
This speed is definitely very fast.
Because I am a newcomer after all, I was just trying to figure it out at the beginning, and it only took less than two days to actually dig it.
He turned around and screamed strangely, and a smell of blood floated into his nose.
A man was leaning against the wall of the cave, with a big hole in his head, blood mixed with brain marrow flowing out, and his eyes were round and unblinking.
Yao Qing was about to pick up the storage bag in the same way.
But I found that this man's waist was empty.
"Did someone get there first?" Yao Qing was not disappointed. After all, even if they didn't pick it up, at their speed, they could complete the task in ten days and a half at most.
But then, Yao Qing's eyes shrank, and he turned his head again, staring at the corpse.
This man... wasn't poisoned to death.
If he was killed by poison, his skin would definitely turn black and rot, but this man's skin was still normal. Yao Qing looked at the big hole in his head, then raised his mining pick and slowly placed it on the big hole... the shape matched.