This is a monotonous world with rolling hills and mountains.
Here, you cannot see the endless flat grasslands, nor the lush green forests, nor the slowly flowing streams...
The plane of mountains is worthy of its name.
The entire plane is almost entirely a strange world made up of dark loose soil and gray-white solid rocks. Even the air is filled with a choking smell of dust!
Without water, clean air, animals and plants, it would be impossible to give birth to thousands of plane creatures.
Therefore, this is a lonely world and a cold world!
At the foot of a huge mountain of broken rock, a small goblin camp is under construction in full swing.
Hundreds of goblin machines are spewing thick water vapor and are cleaning and smoothing the ground with great effort. A dozen guys who look like goblin engineers are standing on a huge rock, pointing around, seeming to be discussing the size of the camp.
and building distribution.
Dozens of combat magic machines, holding magic ray guns in their hands, were patrolling around the construction site, always alert to the surrounding movements.
In the center of the camp, a weird magical device was holding up an elemental barrier, expelling the dirty air here and re-injecting a fresh and sweet compressed air.
A corner of the camp, airship area.
A dozen cigar-shaped goblin airships were turning their propellers, struggling to lift a goblin engineer and seven or eight goblin combatants into the sky, and then followed the terrain to fly somewhere in the distance.
Not yet able to adapt to the air here, every goblin wears a breathing mask to prevent him from inhaling too much air rich in earth elements and turning himself into a stone.
The goblin airship was flying slowly in the sky. Engineer Justin Osik moved a wooden box and placed it on the side of the ship. He climbed up with difficulty and raised his old X-ray II telescope towards him.
He kept scanning.
As a veteran geological prospector, Justin Osik can roughly judge the composition of ores and the proportion of rare ores by just relying on the exposed rock surface beneath him without having to land on the ground.
However, many times, the surface of the rock formation is covered by the ubiquitous dust here.
Whenever this happens, Justin Orsik will order the goblin airship to fly low and use the huge wind generated by the propeller to blow away the floating dust on the rock surface, so that he can observe the composition of their ores.
But such a move will undoubtedly bring certain dangers to the goblin airship.
When it circled at low altitude for the seventh time after flying more than a hundred miles from the camp, the goblin warrior standing on the bow of the ship on guard let out a terrified scream.
"Attack...attack...dodge quickly!"
Under the delicate control of the goblin technician, the goblin airship made a perfect sideways flight to avoid a huge stone thrown from the ground. Justin, who was standing on the wooden box on the side of the ship, tightly grasped the iron chain above with both hands.
, only then was he not thrown off by the airship's rapid maneuvers.
After the airship washed and climbed to a safe height, Justin picked up the telescope and quickly patrolled the ground, finally discovering the hateful enemy.
Next to a thick underground crack, a 3-meter-tall stone element climbed out with difficulty and was waving its stone arms angrily at them.
As if a war horn was blown, more than thirty stone elements with level 1 strength gradually crawled out of the huge crack that stretched for a kilometer. They roared in a low voice while condensing into a shape the size of a washbasin.
Stones were thrown into the sky wildly.
Since the goblin airship was already a hundred meters above the ground, these rocks could not reach such a height at all. So, they rolled all the way to the halfway point, and then fell down weakly.
"These damn stone men..." The captain of the goblin team responsible for the safety of the airship was furious. He raised his magic ray gun and planned to give these natives a hard fight back. However, his action was stopped by Justin.
.
"Don't waste firepower on them!" Justin yelled, scratching his neck, and the howling high-altitude wind prevented his words from reaching five meters: "Notify the captain, fly west along the canyon in front of you, there may be
There are good things..."
After a moment, the goblin airship shook, and after slowly adjusting its direction, it quickly flew into the distance in the direction specified by Justin.
The group of stone elements under him angrily chased him for a distance before returning to the lair angrily.
After this period of exploration, the goblins finally understood that the endless mountains below them were basically the habitat of earth and stone elements.
They either hide in the cracks in the ground, or hide in caves, or simply lie down somewhere to bask in the sun... Since there is mud and rocks everywhere, you want to escape from the rugged rock piles or stone crevices.
Finding them is extremely difficult.
Only when foreign objects invade their "territory" will these grumpy guys lazily come out of their hiding places and drive you away with stone fists the size of casseroles or stones the size of washbasins. And they throw
The huge boulder can be thrown 60 meters into the air, which is quite a threat to the goblin airship.
Fortunately, they have a strong sense of territory, and no matter how angry they are, they will not easily set foot on the territory of another stone elemental family.
This gave the goblin airship a chance to use height and speed to get rid of them!
As a last resort, Justin could only order the goblin airship to maintain an altitude of about 80 meters, and then he lay on the side of the ship and slowly observed the trends and changes in the rock formations on the ground. When he encountered a place that interested him, Justin would also order
The goblin warriors accompanying the ship fired several shots at the rock formations, and then used the reflections from the broken rocks to determine the distribution of the ores here.
Finally, near a valley 317 miles away from the outpost camp, Justin discovered some strange places.
The goblin airship circled in the air for three times and scanned the surrounding ground. No trace of earth or stone elements was found before it cautiously landed on the ground.
Holding the metal sling with one hand and holding the magic ray gun tightly with the other, the five members of the seventh goblin team wearing magic weapon armor fell heavily to the ground.
Dong dong dong...
The thick metal mechanical feet stepped on the ground, leaving two deep footprints.
Dust on the ground swirled up, causing each member of the seventh goblin combat team to cough violently.
"Damn, damn, damn... the environment here is really bad!" Captain Taz put on the breathing mask with his backhand, and a dull and distorted voice came out from inside: "Hurry up, hurry up... let me occupy it quickly.
The commanding heights here. Beta, you take the magic artillery to the commanding heights...Xue Na, establish a firepower point near the airship...Hansen, you and I protect Lord Justin..."
"Got it, head!"
"Leave it to me..."
"OK!"
Many of his subordinates agreed one after another and began to rush to their positions.
Justin climbed down the rope with difficulty from the goblin airship, holding a pickaxe in one hand and a magic energy spectrometer issued by the geological exploration headquarters in the other. He stood in the shadow of the airship and looked around, and finally designated a direction.
"Go over there!"
Immediately, the three-person team set off without any hesitation!
This journey was almost scary.
These little goblins are only about half a meter tall, and they are just like little cubs in front of those stone elements that are three to five meters tall. Without fighting, most of the goblins would probably be crushed just by the stone elemental's terrifying big feet.
He is about to die.
Therefore, the two goblins responsible for protecting the geological surveyors, one in front and the other in the back, drove a magic weapon armor of less than 2 meters, marching slowly and arduously on the rugged ground with one foot solid and one foot weak.
And the geological prospector Justin seemed to quickly forget the danger. From time to time he would talk about breaking open a certain rock with a pickaxe and quickly scan and analyze it with a spectrometer. Many times, when it discovered some strange places, it would
I pounced on it with cheers all the way, and then kept banging on it, completely forgetting that this was a strange and dangerous world.
Faced with such a leader who neglected everything after his selfless work, the two goblin bodyguards could only follow behind with all their strength, the magic ray guns in their hands always pointed at the more dangerous places in the surrounding area.
Finally, while walking and exploring, Justin's cheers became louder and louder.
The various strange whistling sounds emitted by the spectrometer may be incomprehensible to outsiders, but it can clearly identify the components of many rare metals. And as they continue to advance, the components of these rare metals are constantly improving.
Justin dared to say that there must be an extremely valuable rare metal vein not far ahead!
Finally, in front of a huge and strange rock mountain, Justin stopped, threw himself in front of a huge rock five meters away, picked up a pickaxe, and started banging on it.
As the gravel on the surface of the giant rock peeled off, a fist-sized purple gem was clearly visible in the exposed cross-section. And around the gem, there were dots of metal particles shining with silver light.
Purple agate...star ore...
Seeing this scene in front of them, the three goblins couldn't help but feel ecstatic, and almost couldn't help but sing and dance.
But just when they were ecstatic, the rocky mountain in front of them suddenly trembled and shook violently. Rock fragments the size of millstones rolled down from the top of the mountain like raindrops, turning the area of more than ten miles around into a dusty garbage.
field.
The three goblins didn't care about celebrating anymore, turned around and fled to the outside, crying for their father and mother.
When they rolled and crawled hundreds of meters away, they looked back and were horrified to find that the originally tall and majestic stone mountain had transformed into a towering stone giant, which was slowly and difficultly climbing out of the pit.
Get up in shape.
And on its huge body, you can see colorful and strange gems and various rare and precious metal ores everywhere.
"Damn it, damn it...go back to the camp! This stone giant is probably at least level 3, and our strength is simply not enough to fight it. Get away, get back..."
After a while, all the goblins fled back to the goblin airship, then struggled to fly, flying towards the direction they came from without looking back. At this time, the stone giant had just stood up and was looking around.
Those hateful little things that disturbed its sleep... (To be continued)