Chapter 56 Today Is Also a Day of Hard Work in Mining!

In the literature, sulfur, a natural ore, was called "sulfur" as early as the biblical era after it was found.

In ancient Egyptian and Greek records, sulfur was used as medicine and fumigation.

Early mining involved miners in volcanic areas, such as Sicily, and sulfur could be found on salt domes until the 20th century.

Generally, sulfur mines appear either in volcanic areas or in salt dome areas.

"This terrain doesn't look like a place where sulfur mines can be produced. Is it really a random burial of resource points, or was there volcanic activity here before it was put into use?"

Carefully digging the soil on the ground, Su Mo found bits of sulfur mines like gravel.

If you don't look at this kind of thing carefully, or know that there are minerals here, you won't think it's sulfur at all, you will only think of it as a small colored stone.

Along the terrain, Su Mo measured the distribution range of the broken sulfur mine with his footsteps, and there were traces of its existence within a range of nearly 100 meters.

After a round, Su Mo found a small slope with no trees and slightly higher terrain. He took out a high-quality shovel and started digging.

"Wow, this high-quality shovel is so much better than the ordinary quality?"

A flash of light flashed on the iron shovel, and it triggered a critical hit at the first shoveling. The resistance of the soil was greatly reduced within 20 seconds.

With one shovel, Su Mo pulled out a shovel of soil effortlessly, almost like shoveling tofu.

As the soil was brought out, Su Mo dug it and confirmed that there was sulfur ore inside, and then he started digging with confidence.

Digging a pit is also a technical job. If you simply dig down, it is very likely that the surrounding structure will collapse due to instability, and people will be crushed to death underneath.

When Su Mo was a child, he saw someone digging a cellar in his hometown village with his own eyes, but before he dug two meters deep, the surrounding soil structure collapsed.

When the neighbors around found him, the man had been pressed under the soil and covered his mouth and nose, and suffocated to death in a small pit less than two meters deep.

Therefore, Su Mo chose the most reliable step-by-step digging method, which sacrificed some efficiency but was safer.

Under the bright sun, shovels of soil were piled up on one side as Su Mo moved.

Although it took half a day to make the shovel, Su Mo felt it was worth it at this moment.

The efficiency bonus of the shovel was extremely terrifying, especially the critical strike, which was unreasonable and could be stacked infinitely.

It means that as long as you can keep digging, you can trigger this effect all the time.

This means that when there are no mechanical tools for digging, this shovel can completely act as a small half excavator.

"There is no sulfide gas spewing out of the ground, how did the sulfur mine form?"

After digging about one meter deep, the shovel gradually encountered resistance, and the sound of ding-dong came as the shovel head touched the ground.

Squatting down, Su Mo wiped the surface of the soil with his hand and immediately found the earthy yellow sulfur ore.

There are a few tiny pores on the surface of the sulfur ore, which means that the sulfur gas is escaping.

After putting the shovel back into the storage space, Su Mo took out an excellent quality iron pickaxe.

[Iron Pickaxe (Excellent)]

Description: An iron shovel made by a conscientious craftsman "Su Mo", made of solid materials and rough workmanship, but for some unknown reason, it was upgraded to excellent quality.

Special effect: Sharpness +1

When mining ore, there is a small probability of critical hit (ore with strength less than 5 disintegrates)

Evaluation: It's a pity that it is not the enviable golden pickaxe!

After taking out the mineral water bottle filled with psionic water and drinking two gulps to restore his strength, Su Mo picked up the iron pickaxe and hit the yellow ore on the ground hard.

A refreshing sound rang out.

The relatively hard yellow sulfur ore on the ground suddenly disintegrated into scattered small pieces of ore.

Lowering his head, Su Mo silently recited the storage space absorption, and the ore slag on the ground was immediately collected into the storage space.

"Oh, this efficiency is really high. It seems that one hour of mining should be enough for me to use for a long time!"

After looking at the number of sulfur rubbles collected, Su Mo had an idea in mind.

The disintegration special effect was triggered, and a critical hit could harvest about 20kg of sulfur ore.

Without a large amount of hot weapon ammunition or gunpowder, basically digging about half a ton is enough.

Ding bang ding bang, the sun rising in the east slowly began to descend to the west with time.

Every five minutes of digging, Su Mo had to raise his head and climb out of the pit to patrol the surroundings to see if there were any signs of mutant creatures.

Gradually, the sun finally reached the horizon.

A ray of sunset light fell on the vast land, reflecting a touch of sulfur color on the earth.

"Okay, I'll dig this much. I'll dig more when I run out. There's no place to put this stuff if I have too much."

Raising his head, Su Mo looked at the sky and stopped the work at hand.

At this time, the extra space in the two cubic storage space was almost filled with sulfur ore. According to the purification efficiency, there would be no shortage of sulfur for a long time.

Climbing out of the pit, patting the soil on the raincoat, Su Mo began to fill the excavated soil back.

Sulfur without roots will dissipate, and the burial of soil can also increase the preservation time of sulfur ore.

The small hillside that was originally excavated became flat after being covered.

After making a mark, Su Mo turned around and returned to the shelter.

Compared with the heat outside, the shelter looked more like a cool cellar after sinking.

As soon as he entered the entrance tunnel, most of the heat was isolated. It was not until he entered the shelter that the temperature rose again.

"When will this day of not being able to take a shower end!"

Standing in the weapons and equipment room, Su Mo took off his raincoat and looked at his vest that had been suffocated and turned yellow, with a sad face.

He was too reluctant to do such a beastly thing as washing clothes with psionic water for the time being.

The hoarding talent buried in the genes of the Chinese.

Even though he had hoarded about 20L of psionic water, Su Mo only dared to wipe his face with a rag dipped in water in the morning when washing his face.

"What the hell, this world has deployed billions of earthlings at one time, but not a single person can be deployed near the water source"

"We can only wait until the blizzard comes before we can hoard a large amount of ordinary water"

He smacked his lips and drank the remaining psionic water in the mineral water bottle again. The burning feeling in his throat was much less.

A strange world of survival.

This is the fact that everyone has discovered in the past few days.

These mutant creatures seemed to have fallen from the sky just like humans. Because there was no water source, a large number of creatures had begun to die of thirst in the wild.

Except for a few animals that survived by drinking acid rain, most mutant creatures could only kill each other and survive on blood.

There was no fresh water source anywhere.

The world seemed to have deleted the setting of having a water source, or to put it bluntly, there was no option to add a water source.

If humans wanted water, apart from opening treasure chests, they could only try to rely on some scientific methods, such as:

Put a plastic bag on a young branch with dense leaves, and the transpiration of the leaves would produce condensed water.

Or dig a small pit on relatively humid ground, put a water collector in the center of the bottom of the pit, and hang a plastic film stretched into an arc on the surface of the pit.

Light energy raises the temperature of the moist soil and air in the pit, evaporating to produce water vapor, which condenses into water droplets when it contacts the plastic film and slid down into the container.

Both methods can barely mix a little water source that is enough to sustain life.

The collection method has also been shared by most people and gradually popularized.

Just because of the express fee, some people can't trade even if they have extra water.

"I don't know why, even if I make a second well device, the system can't upgrade it."

Just like the raincoat can't be upgraded if it's not placed in the closet, the well is the same.

Shaking his head, throwing away the weird thoughts, Su Mo began to review the gains of this trip.

Yesterday I played Wallace, today I turned into a jet fighter, I hate Wallace!!!