Volume Three The Battle of the Sea Clan Chapter 385: Mining City
Seeing the young man's come and go character, Liu Ming touched his chin, smiled helplessly, and then continued to look at the map in his hand, with a thoughtful look on his face.
According to the information he had received previously, the current situation in this mine is not very good, and both spiritual stones and food are in urgent need.
But in this case, the physically stronger person obviously has the advantage.
And with his physical strength, there is almost no need to fear anyone in this mine.
According to Liu Ming's plan, he wanted to take advantage of the fact that he was full of energy and had not exhausted his magic power to go to the depths of the mine to investigate the situation and see what the evil beast was.
After all, if you cannot adapt to the environment here in a short period of time and wait until the mana is exhausted, you will be too passive.
Although he still has some high-grade spiritual stones and elixirs stored in the Xumi snail, even so, with the speed of consumption here, naturally he cannot last long.
And he'd better find a way to get out of here before his mana is exhausted.
Liu Ming thought so, his eyes focused on a place marked on the animal skin in his hand, and his eyes narrowed slightly.
According to this map record, a certain passage at this three-way intersection is the only way to the depths of this mine, and the road will also pass by a gathering place similar to an exchange area.
Liu Ming was naturally familiar with this kind of market-like place where cultivators exchanged items and resources with each other, but he didn't expect that there was such a place in this underground mine.
When Liu Ming thought of this, he no longer hesitated and made a few flashes of his body, before diving into the passage on the left.
Two hours later, after Liu Ming entered the unknown passage according to the map, he finally saw a faint white light flashing not far ahead, and a huge cave was not far away.
Move forward.
This is obviously the so-called "exchange area".
Liu Ming suddenly felt that his vision widened, and an empty place with more than a dozen huge stone pillars appeared in front of him.
Each of these pillars is as thick as a water tank, and their surfaces are inlaid with densely packed luminous fluorite, which illuminates the entire cave extremely brightly.
Liu Ming glanced over.
But seeing that this place is about two to three hundred feet wide, in addition to the passage we came from, there are several other passages, but we don't know where they lead. But according to the map, one of them should lead to the depths of the mineral vein.
It seems that this place is well connected in all directions.
From the numerous large and small pits on the cave walls and the degree of surface wear, we can know that this place was also a mining area a long time ago, and it must have been a gathering place for mining slaves for some time now.
There were forty or fifty mining slaves gathered in the cave at the moment, but it didn't seem too deserted.
Most of the mine slaves are from the sea race, there are also some human race and other foreign races, but there are very few people from the demon race.
These mine slaves all have pale skin, disheveled hair, tattered clothes, and most of their expressions are abnormally numb. The only ones who look calm have ferocious looks on their faces.
These people placed some things in the open air in the central square of the cave and exchanged some materials and food with each other. Among them, there seemed to be some bone weapons like the bone knife on Liu Ming's waist, but there were not many spiritual weapons.
When they saw Liu Ming coming in, except for a few people who turned around and glanced at him, most of them ignored him and continued to talk and meditate on their own.
The surrounding walls of the cave have also been used, and some very simple caves have been built. Most of them are empty. There are a few occupied caves. The people sitting in them have better breaths and looks on their faces.
The mining slaves in the cave square are a bit better, and the things placed on the stone platform in front of them are of much better quality than those placed in the open air. It seems that they should be members of some powerful gangs here.
A master or a powerful person.
Thinking about it, except for a few of the mining slaves left in the exchange area, most of them are the weakest people in some powerful gangs, or even just spiritual disciples. Most of the truly powerful people have probably gone deep into the depths of the mines.
Liu Ming walked into the cave quietly, found an inconspicuous corner where no one was and sat down, and began to observe quietly.
This place was similar to what he had imagined before, vaguely forming a primitive market.
At this moment, there was a noise coming from a certain passage.
Liu Ming glanced over subconsciously.
I saw three bald human men exuding a strong sinister aura appearing at the entrance of another passage, and led by the person in the middle, they walked towards a corner of the cave.
Under the relatively bright light in the cave, Liu Ming found that the two people behind him were each carrying a huge linen bag. There were faint traces of blood overflowing from the surface of the bag. A smell of blood suddenly filled the space of the cave, attracting...
The mining slaves in the square stopped what they were doing and looked up.
The lifeless eyes of many mine slaves were actually filled with a look of longing at this moment.
Under the gaze of everyone, the three bald men strode to a stone cave in the corner and stopped.
The leader made a clasped fist gesture toward a middle-aged man who was meditating with his eyes closed in the cave, then took a small bag from his waist and handed it over, while whispering something in a low voice.
But after hearing this, the middle-aged man stretched out one hand to take the small bag, weighed it for a while, then put it into his sleeve, nodded, and then stretched out his other hand and pointed at the cave wall.
He leaned against the stone cave in the center and continued to meditate.
Liu Ming discovered that the middle-aged man's clothes were surprisingly neat compared to other mine slaves, and he looked like an indifferent adopted son. There was nothing placed on the stone platform in front of him. It seemed that he was most likely from a certain force.
Someone sent to manage this place.
When the three bald men came to the cave designated by the middle-aged man, the leader suddenly turned around and shouted loudly:
"Two thousand kilograms of fresh evil beast flesh and blood, two spirit stones or minerals of equal value per kilogram, first come first served!"
As the sound fell, the two people behind him placed the sacks on their shoulders on the stone platform at the entrance of the cave, making two muffled "bang" sounds. As the mouth of the bag opened, they saw that it was filled with pieces of food.
The flesh and blood of evil beasts.
"Yuanmeng, you are so evil! Not long ago, you were paying for one pound of spirit stone." Suddenly a sea tribe mining slave shouted in the square, and at the same time, several mining slaves started to echo.
"Black heart? Huh, the evil beasts now are much more powerful than usual. If you have the ability to hunt and kill them yourself." The bald man named "Yuan Meng" who was the leader glared hard at the sea man, shouted loudly, and then
Then he went into the cave and sat down on the ground, closing his eyes and relaxing.
When the other mine slaves saw this, they couldn't help but look at each other.
In the end, several mine slaves swallowed their saliva and came to the entrance of the stone cave. They lined up to exchange spirit stones for the flesh and blood of evil beasts from two bald men. However, they saw one of the bald men receiving the spirit stones.
Behind the stone, another bald man would use the bone knife in his hand to cut off the corresponding flesh and blood and throw it to the visitor.
As a result, in less than a moment, there was not much flesh and blood left on the stone platform in front of the "Yuan Alliance". Instead, there were bags of spiritual stones and various ores.
Even the man from the Sea Clan named Ye Ye earlier, after seeing everyone going to exchange for flesh and blood, finally angrily took a bag of spirit stones and exchanged dozens of kilograms of flesh and blood from the bald man, and then left from the side passage.
Already.
Seeing this scene, Liu Ming couldn't help but frown. It seemed that the food and spiritual stones here were far more precious than he imagined, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Fortunately, spiritual stones are still common here. Judging from the high-grade spiritual stones in his Xumi snail, there is no need to worry about this matter in the short term.
In this way, Liu Ming stayed here for a while, and after learning a little about the prices of some items here, he quietly entered the passage leading to the depths of the mineral vein.
This time, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, as soon as he entered the passage, he took out an unknown elixir from his body without saying a word. After applying it to his body, his expression immediately became as abnormal as other mine slaves.
pale.
After Liu Ming used his mental power to activate the magic spell, his aura suddenly became weaker. As a result, he looked no different from other mine slaves.
After he finished all this, he continued to pick up the map and continued walking forward according to the directions.
After walking like this for an unknown amount of time, Liu Ming swayed and came to a small cave of more than ten feet in size. There were two passages in front of the cave. After a brief judgment, he was ready to walk towards one of the passages.
As a result, at a casual glance from the corner of his eye, he suddenly discovered several red corpses lying staggering in a corner of the cave.
Liu Ming was startled when he saw this scene. He couldn't help but pause. He walked forward and took a closer look. He found that these people had their limbs broken and their death conditions were extremely miserable. Judging from the state of decay, they should have died only a few years ago.
But within two or three days, all the clothes on his body were stripped off.
What's even weirder is that the faint red light on the surface of these corpses actually comes from the unknown red insects densely crawling on them, which made Liu Ming take a breath.
These small insects are less than an inch long and have two tentacles on their heads. They lie motionless on the corpse. The red round shell on its back glows faintly red under the light of the blue fluorescent stone on the cave wall.
It's extremely weird.
When Liu Ming saw all this, his face twitched slightly for a few times, and then he continued walking towards the passage ahead.
And just after passing the two corners at the bottom of this passage, several figures came towards me from the front.
Liu Ming frowned, but continued to walk forward expressionlessly, without even looking at these people.
A vague sense of consciousness immediately swept over him, but after only a slight contact, he left again.
When passing by these people, Liu Ming clearly felt the unkindness in their eyes.
But fortunately, they didn't seem to have much interest in a lonely mine slave like him. They just glanced at him a few times and passed by without stopping at all.
In the following time, he also encountered several waves of other mining slaves passing by him on the road.
However, although these people did not see the identity of the newcomer, there was always a hint of ill-intention in their eyes when they saw Liu Ming alone.
But fortunately, he was heading towards the depths of the mine at this moment, and he looked like a weak and poor man, so no one really took any action on his own initiative. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster! )