There was an abandoned mining pick under the rock at the end of the mine. It was obviously left behind during the haunting incident and was too late to be taken away. John picked up one and knocked it hard against the stone wall.
Bang!
Even with John's strength, the mining pick almost flew away, but only knocked off a few pieces of gravel the size of a fingernail.
"so hard!"
As mining picks, they are generally made of solid steel. The world already has steam-driven trains and ships. The popularity of this kind of steel for civilian use is still very high, and it is not as expensive as iron tools in the Middle Ages.
According to common sense, he could at least knock off a palm-sized piece of rock at once. Just now, John observed the texture of the rocks in the surrounding mines and found that they were not of a solid type.
"It seems there is something wrong here!"
Listening to John's sigh, the demon hunter also became curious and came over to touch the stone wall.
"What does John Knight mean to be hiding in here?"
John did not explain, but handed the mining pick to Brandon behind him, then pointed to the remaining mining pick on the ground and ordered to the two guides:
"Knock this stone down for me, and these two gold pounds will be your reward..."
The two guides, who were originally miners, were overjoyed when they heard this. This one gold pound was equivalent to the income they earned after working hard for a month and breaking countless rocks. Now they only need to dig this stone wall. For them, it is simply
Just like picking it up for free.
So the two of them started hammering hard, but like John, neither of them could destroy much of the stone wall.
He saw Brandon holding a mining pick, and a strong life energy flowed from his abdomen to his arms.
"Tsk! Praise..."
The stone wall that was as hard as steel just now was suddenly knocked off by him with a pickaxe, a piece the size of a washbasin. However, the two professional miners next to him could only knock off a little bit of gravel, so Brandon simply let the two of them direct him from which position.
He started banging and chiseling on his own.
Seeing this scene, John felt a little envious.
Qi, the core power of extraordinary knights, is just like the zhenqi in martial arts novels of previous generations. It can be called a universal thing. It can be used to restore physical strength and heal injuries, and can also be used to strengthen the body and weapons, causing powerful killing effects.
Although his ranger profession has reached level 6 Bronze, and his physique and spirit have been strengthened many times, reaching innate or extraordinary levels respectively, he has yet to make a breakthrough in swordsmanship.
This is also because he has a high spirit and has always wanted to integrate the White Crow Swordsmanship with the Hunyuan Sword Sutra and the knight inheritance brought from the plague world, and replace the missing Qi refining techniques in the Hunyuan Sword Sutra with the other two.
Forming a combined version of the Eastern and Western Sword Immortal Cultivation.
This kind of integration is of course difficult. Fortunately, he has a good foundation and knowledge and experience from previous lives. Coupled with the guidance he received from his teacher and his daily communication with Brandon, a formal knight, he has now mastered the skills to create something similar to his previous life.
The threshold of "True Qi" and "True Yuan" of Xuanmen monks is the "Qi", the special energy of the origin of life, that is mastered by the knight profession in the Plague World.
Through analysis and practice, John believes that "qi" actually belongs to the same kind of existence as the refined qi of Taoism in the previous life, and the qi in the three treasures of essence, energy and spirit. Taoism writes "qi" and is pronounced as qi, which is human life
The life energy necessary to form and exist.
Therefore, it is entirely possible to combine the three spiritual paths.
He is now on the verge of breaking through, but he has not yet broken through, so he cannot yet use the power of Qi to empower the weapons in his hands like Brandon, to the extent of breaking mountains and rocks, cutting gold and jade.
With Brandon, a formal knight, cheating, soon a stone wall was struck by him, and a large circle of stones around it was chiseled away, leaving only a large spherical stone in the center.
Under the illumination of the torch, several people could already see the bits and pieces of gold shining in the chipped gravel.
"What is this, a gold mine?" John Salvatore couldn't help but came over and asked curiously.
Then the demon hunter picked up a piece of gravel with glitter, and then his eyes widened as if he had seen something incredible, and his mouth opened wide enough to fit a fist.
"This, this is fine gold! Knight John, I think we may have discovered a fine gold mine..."
John has also heard about fine gold for a long time. This rare metal, which is very famous in the extraordinary world, is not only ranked with mithril as the two most precious extraordinary metal materials in the main world.
Even the past life is famous in the novel.
So he was surprised to pick up a piece of gold-containing ore, and used his spiritual power to examine it carefully. Sure enough, he felt an extremely solid spirituality. This meant that even if the thing inside was not fine gold, it must be an extremely precious extraordinary metal.
, magic material.
"Can you confirm?"
John Salvatore’s excited answer:
"I am 80% sure. Although I have never seen raw gold ore, I have seen fine gold being auctioned at extraordinary auctions in the eastern part of the Federation and I have touched weapons forged with fine gold. Those gave me the same feeling as these ores.
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Get rich! This was John's first thought after listening to the witcher's words, but then John looked back at the two miners who were also in a state of excitement, and decided to send these two directly to the family when they got out.
Set up and monitor on the side.
As for Detective Salvatore, he is a transcendent person and naturally knows the seriousness of this matter. The family behind him has such a relationship with him. Presumably a weapon mixed with fine gold should be able to stop his mouth.
After all, such a big thing as the discovery of a suspected fine gold mine must not be leaked. This is a treasure that several major powers in the Old World are greedy for. Not to mention how many gold pounds it is worth, just one ounce of fine gold will suffice.
Melt into steel to create a thousand pieces of knight armor, the kind of powerful adamantine armor that can withstand steam musket fire without enchantment.
Salvatore saw John's face, and with his shrewdness, he immediately understood this, so he nodded solemnly and said:
"The discovery of the existence of fine gold mines must be kept strictly confidential. Fine gold has extremely high application value in the steam power dominated by various countries today. If you want to obtain stronger power, the core steam engines of steamships and trains need stronger
Metal is used as the material of the cylinder, as well as some precision instruments, such as the differential machine, known as the brain of steam mechanics. It is rumored that its core operating components are made of fine gold and mithril as the main materials. It can be said to be priceless.
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I saw the two guides breaking out in cold sweat after hearing these words. They were not fools. After discovering a treasure of such value, it would be easy to kill someone and silence them in order to keep it a secret.
With the demon hunter playing dumb and John playing red, he calmed the two of them with a gentle tone and promised to give them appropriate arrangements. This made the two miners who were afraid of killing these big shots feel at ease.
As for whether their future lives may be controlled? Being alive is already the greatest luck. As miners at the bottom of society, they are not those middle-aged young people who are ignorant and have not experienced severe beatings from society.
Now that it is basically confirmed that it is an adamantine mine, John doesn't care about steam power and differential engines. Those things are very important to scientists in this world, but they are still too far away from extraordinary people like them. What John wants to confirm most now
The question is whether this place is really a fine gold mine, what is its mineral content, and whether it is enough to make a flying sword.
That's right, in John's view, this metal, whether it is fine gold or not, is undoubtedly a kind of natural treasure, and its properties are extremely strong, and its spirituality is also extremely powerful. It is perfect for refining flying swords.