Chapter 179 Mining and Hunting
Early the next morning, Connie took her daughter Liz, and a group of girls like Tina went outside the city to pick wild fruits.
However, according to Tina's secret report when she was sleeping at night, the mother and daughter were actually just playing along. They have no interest in wild fruits!
Jia Zhengjin sent Alvin, Dolma, Buddy, Worf and Carl out to let their camp hunt monsters.
With their group of five and the strength of the four monsters, as long as they don't deliberately provoke the fourth-tier existence like the rock giant, even if they encounter a third-tier monster, they may have a chance to evacuate safely. And the first- and second-tier monsters are the easiest targets for them to capture.
Of course, the order given to them is safety first, there is no need to get injured or die in order to catch monsters. Of course, the necessary honey and stamina potion supplies should not be forgotten.
As for Jia Zhengjin himself, today he plans to upgrade his tool-making skills to level 5, so he took five hundred kobold miners early in the morning, using the excellent iron picks made yesterday, and was protected by a fake dragon to an iron mine outside the city. Concentrated lodes for mining work.
As for the 500 miners in the mine and the village miners who were transferred later, they continued to mine other ores.
There is a fake giant dragon guarding it, and the beasts in the forest dare not approach it at will. Under the command of Jia Zhengjin, the army of miners started the mining industry in full swing.
Mining is a boring job, and Jia Zhengjin has already experienced it. However, in order to upgrade tool-making skills as soon as possible, so that ore can be mined faster, used to improve other skills, and build city defenses, no matter how boring it is, you have to persevere.
One morning passed, and in the middle of the day, I took the team home for lunch. At the same time, I handed over a large amount of subway mines to the kobold artisans in the factory to smelt them into iron ingots in advance. After that, I rushed back to the wild mining area to continue the boring work.
At around 14 o'clock in the afternoon, Jia Zhengjin, who was digging deeply, suddenly heard the miserable screams of kobold miners not far away. It's like the howling of a domestic dog after being beaten.
He hurried over to take a look, only to be surprised to find that a large pit had been dug out near the ore vein. A kobold miner accidentally fell into it and was bitten by an extremely fat worm.
The appearance of the worm is very similar to the mealworm on the earth, but it has a terrifyingly large mouth on the head, and the innermost part is full of dense black teeth. The kobold's lower body was bitten, and it was already dripping with blood instantly. It is estimated that it will not be saved!
What was even more frightening was that more giant worms crawled out of the potholes and began to frantically attack and bite the kobold miners, turning the scene into a Shura field in an instant.
"What the hell?" Jia Zhengjin was taken aback,
Even though the fake giant dragon is here, they turn a blind eye? Aren't they afraid of fake dragons at all?
But then it became clear that these bugs had no eyes at all, probably relying on smell or touch to determine where their prey was. Therefore, they can't see the fake dragon at all, and they can't feel its terror.
Seeing more and more kobold miners being eaten, Jia Zhengjin hastily ordered: "Burn them!"
"Wusu~" The counterfeit dragon immediately dispatched, firing a pillar of fire directly at the worm pit.
Jia Zhengjin also joined the battle, and after putting on a tiger mask, he began to breathe fire at the worm pit.
The combination of the fake giant dragon and Jia Zhengjin, the power of the flame is also quite powerful! Of course, the main reason is that the fake dragon's flame is a third-order magic.
[News] The shapeshifter killed the larvae of the golden beetle, and you got 100 experience points!
[News] The shapeshifter killed the larvae of the golden beetle, and you got 100 experience points!
[News] You killed the larvae of the golden beetle and gained 100 experience points!
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The prompts kept popping up, and Jia Zhengjin's experience value increased a lot.
These larvae are so easy to kill that they are roasted alive right in the pit. And they have a lot of experience, each with 100 points. It's a pity that the number is a bit small, only more than fifty.
At the end of the battle, these worms had no loot, only some strange silk.
The kobolds lost 120. Fortunately, the hiring price was cheap, and Jia Zhengjin didn't feel bad.
To be on the safe side, he immediately asked the kobold miners to dig around the ore veins to make sure there were no other potholes, so he was relieved. Immediately go back to the city and recruit 120 kobolds to bring them back and continue mining iron ore.
Before the sun went down, he finally saved enough iron ore that would allow him to raise his tool-making skills to level 5, and the whole army retreated immediately!
When returning to the city, Alvin, who came home a step earlier, immediately came to report: "Master Keen, we caught two second-tier monsters!"
"Really?" Jia Zhengjin was a little stunned when he heard the news. After all, he himself led the team before, and every time he barely caught one, the sun was about to set. How could they catch two in one go when they didn't go by themselves?
He hurriedly went to the animal pen to take a look, and immediately understood.
It turned out that there were two daklass one size smaller in front of the animal pen, which looked like juvenile larvae. Such a Tier 2 Warcraft is of course easy for them.
"This is what you achieved today?" Jia Zhengjin was a little dumbfounded.
"I'm sorry, Master Keen!" Dolma said with guilt on his face, "but today I don't know what's going on, and there is basically no monster around. We have tried to expand the area as much as possible, but we still haven't found the target! The rock giants who arrived also seemed to have left their original place and disappeared. These two were found by chance in a deep pool on our way back when the sun was about to set. They were too small to leave the pool too far. I suspect that the one in the animal pen is their mother!"
"There are no monsters?" Jia Zhengjin was taken aback for a moment, and then thought of a possibility.
Could it be because of the presence of Connie and Liz? They are all epic creatures, so after staying here, the city is safe, but the surrounding monsters are also afraid because of their existence, so they just move away?
The five people who went out to hunt today were all downcast. Although they caught two second-tier monsters, they didn't feel any achievement at all. This is obviously because their mother was caught earlier, and the two little guys lost their protectors, so they have no resistance.
As for where their father went, it is unknown! Maybe they were killed by other monsters long ago, or they divorced their mothers long ago?
Jia Zhengjin didn't know what his subordinates were thinking wildly. Although they were only Daklas' young creatures, they were at least second-order monsters. No matter what, let's talk about domestication first!