Chapter 15 Becoming a Miner

The square in front of Wild Wolf Castle is even busier than the public square in Heiyan City at this moment. Zhang Tie only took a cursory glance and found that there were at least eight or nine hundred people in the square, boys and girls in piles. Gathering together, some are bargaining and trading things - most of them are exchanging food, the girls are using all kinds of wild vegetables they have picked, exchanging some prey and meat brought by the boys, and some boys are Form a small team with the girls, trying to get to know each other or introducing members of their own group to each other. At the same time, in Zhang Tie's eyes, there are dozens of animals proudly showing their strong muscles on their arms and patting their chests among a group of girls, in order to bulge up that poor biceps on their arms , Some guys who didn't know much at first blushed, causing a bunch of girls around to cover their mouths and snicker.

This is also one of the most attractive parts of this trial—as long as both men and women are willing, everyone can freely form a trial team to complete the trial, except that the woman must return to the castle before 8 o'clock in the evening. No one will interfere with the free team formation of men and women. Of course, if something else happens under your wish, no one will interfere. After several years of compulsory education in separate schools for boys and girls, in this trial, the school finally released this scourge and let them toss it by themselves. Apart from the prohibition of using force and going against the wishes of the woman, there is no bottom line for the relationship between the two parties. After all, things like men and women, if they are small, they are other people's own business, if they are big, they are the foundation of the existence of the human race, and they cannot be managed by anyone who wants to.

In the process of getting to know each other, the initiative is in the hands of the woman, and the animals can only do their best to attract the girl's attention.

The more reserved ones take advantage of the opportunity of exchanging items and food between the two parties to keep making friends there, while the thick-skinned ones see a bunch of girls and rush over and ask, "Beauties, do you want to form a team? We are very powerful , as long as you are with us, you will be sure to let the beauties have meat every day!" - most of these guys will meet a bunch of blank stares. And some guys with good luck and strength, who know how to figure out women's hearts, directly brought their prey to the square, where they shouted to invite some girls to have dinner with them. Guys who use this last resort have a high success rate.

After coming to the square for a while, Long Liexue saw a bunch of animals from No. 2 Middle School carrying a killed wild boar. Xiong Jiu came to the square with high spirits, and said that he would invite the girls to go down the valley together at night. Under the banner of eating roasted wild boar, after a while, two teams of girls joined in, and then the animals from the No. 2 Middle School walked away with the two teams of girls proudly, as if they had been injected with chicken blood. Seeing this, Zhang Tie understood why the dead fat Barry insisted on bringing a pot. Needless to say, he must be planning to come here later to hang girls. When it comes to making food, there is a big difference between having a pot and not having a pot . Everyone will stay here for two months. No matter how strong you are, you can hunt prey every day, but it is estimated that few girls can stand eating barbecue for two consecutive months...

Zhang Tie seemed to see the smirking face of the fat man!

In addition to getting to know each other, another function of this square is to showcase one's strengths and abilities. Among the things traded, Zhang Tie was surprised to find that on the third day of the trial, someone had already made some practical things. I took them out, and they were some mats woven from bamboo, medicine cages, pillows, and some stools, soup bowls, tubs and barrels made of wood. Practice is the standard that can best test talents. For those handmade products, Zhang Tie thought of the pride of the Seventh National Boys, the talented Chinese senior named Li Shizhen. I heard that the senior was an ordinary and unknown student at school, but he shined in the trials. Showing his talent as a pharmacist, he made several powerful potions in succession and sold them.

All of a sudden it caused a sensation, and then it soared into the sky. Therefore, for many schools, this trial is the most important time to determine the number of school recommended places.

If you have advanced to a powerful soldier, then go and bring back the corpses of those beasts...

If you have the talent of a pharmacist, then, make those miraculous elixirs and potions...

If you have a good hand and a special skill, then show what you can make...  

Of course, if you are a wimp who doesn't even have the confidence to obtain food in the wild, then go digging and do coolies. As long as you have a lot of strength and can endure hardships, this trial will not let you starve alive Death, the social composition and division of labor of the human race always requires some hard-working guys to do some jobs that others are unwilling to do. Not everyone can live in glory and flowers.

At the gate of the outer castle, a mission notice was posted, and a small circle of people were watching there. Some people looked at the mission and shook their heads and left, while others were full of joy and eager to try...

Without much effort, Zhang Tie squeezed under the mission notice board, and looked up at the notice that had obviously just been released.

The first task is that the Wolf Castle is about to open a kiln to burn charcoal. It needs a lot of wood in the short term. Those who are strong but have not harvested any prey in a short time can get an ax and chop wood by themselves. and wood for food. Those who have enough confidence in charcoal-burning technology can apply to join the charcoal-burning team. Everyone has learned the method of charcoal-burning in school, and it is not complicated. This provides a way out for many people. But these two errands also have no honor at all, just to keep you alive or to tide you over for a few days.

After the charcoal is fired, it is naturally used to make iron. It opened together with the charcoal kiln. There is also an iron smelting workshop in Wild Wolf Castle. The opening of the iron smelting workshop requires not only charcoal, but also iron ore and a lot of iron. A guy who is confident in his iron smelting and blacksmithing skills. Although iron smelting and blacksmithing are also technical activities, they are much more advanced than burning charcoal and mining. People who really have craft and skills in this area, just show it to their heart's content.

The third task is the news that the lime kiln for burning lime requires a lot of manpower. In the later stage, lime is also an indispensable material because a large amount of animal skins will be nitrated.

There are still a few more tasks to come, but Zhang Tie has no intention to read on...

After reading the mission notice board, Zhang Tie did not stop, and walked directly into the Wild Wolf Castle, walked in from the castle gate, turned right for more than 30 meters, and it was on a small square between the inner castle and the outer castle. Zhang Tie saw When I arrived at the small room with the sign of the Integrated Logistics Management Office, there was a table in front of the door, and two girls were sitting behind the table, chatting, until Zhang Tie approached, the two girls were He raised his head and took a look at Zhang Tie. The 15-year-old Zhang Tie is not ugly, but he is not very handsome either. He is not short, but he is not tall. After glancing at him, he was not interested in looking more, one of them asked Zhang Tie in a business-like tone, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

"I'm here to get the pick and basket!" Zhang Tie said calmly.

"Are you going to mine?" Zhang Tie's words surprised the two girls. They looked at Zhang Tie again, and the weird eyes already explained everything.

"Well, I haven't tried it before, and I think mining should be fun, so now I will take this opportunity to experience what mining is like..." Zhang Tie said with a smile, not embarrassed at all, watching With Zhang Tie's hearty smile, the strange look in the eyes of the two girls was relieved a lot. The two girls glanced at each other, as if to say that these boys really like to do some strange things.

"Okay, classmate, please bring your student number plate and let me register..."

Zhang Tie took off the metal student number plate around his neck and handed it over. The student number plate was issued by the school when he enrolled, one piece per person, which is equivalent to the ID card of the students in Heiyancheng, and he doesn’t usually use it much. , but for this trial, the school required everyone to bring their student number plate, and Zhang Tie also hung up this student number plate. Among those animals, there is a saying that they carry their school number plates, which is convenient for the school to identify when some unlucky fellows die beyond recognition.

After registering the number on the school number plate, the girl returned the school number plate to Zhang Tie, "I want to remind you that the picks and baskets received here cannot be damaged, and compensation will be made at the price if damaged. , at least 100 kilograms of iron ore must be handed in every day. The iron ore turned in can be exchanged for food. The more you turn in, the more food you can exchange. In order to be qualified as a miner, you must return the pickaxe and basket!"

"Okay, is there anything else I should be aware of?"

"Do you know the locations of the abandoned iron mines in Wild Wolf Valley!"

"I know, the nearest one is less than 200 meters below the castle!"

"Then there is no problem. Also, if you don't know how to distinguish iron ore, you can go to the iron smelting workshop over there to find out. There are many samples of iron ore there!" The girl pointed to a direction in the small square of the outer castle.

"OK!

At least 100 kilograms of iron ore per day, the requirements are very low, which makes Zhang Tie completely relieved, so that he has a lot of time to do other things. It seems that the profession of miners is really difficult to recruit. The quantity is completely prepared for those guys who are too hungry to eat to tide over the difficulties.

After explaining this, one of the girls turned around and walked into the warehouse next to her. Within half a minute, she took out a steel mining pick and a mining basket. These two things seemed to have been cleaned in the past two days. No one used it, but it wasn't dirty at all. Zhang Tie threw the mining pick into the mining basket, and then carried the mining basket taller than a child on his back. He thanked the two girls and waved his hand. He took his long gun and left the Wolf Castle with this dirty equipment.

This outfit really made everyone I met along the way look sideways.

As soon as he walked to the gate of the castle, Zhang Tie heard a strange voice beside him, "Oh, who is this freshly baked miner? Isn't he the kind guy from our school?"

As soon as Zhang Tie turned his head, he saw Greis' dog legs, looking at him with condescending contempt. This is called the narrow road of the enemy...

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