Chapter 2 Calculation

Lu Ye suddenly felt a strong force grabbing him, and his body followed him involuntarily. He endured the pain in his chest and asked, "Manager Yang, where are we going?"

"Stop talking nonsense!" Manager Yang said fiercely, took a few steps, and looked at the ore basket behind Lu Ye: "It's lost."

Lu Ye didn't dare to disobey, so he untied the ore basket and threw it on the ground, but he didn't throw the pickaxe down. Manager Yang just took a look and didn't say anything else.

Going inside, the light behind him was getting farther and farther away.

The depths of the mine tunnel were very dark, and only torches every few dozen feet would provide a little light. Moreover, the passages in the entire mine vein were jagged and the terrain was extremely complex. Not every mine tunnel was illuminated by torches. Most of the mine tunnels were shrouded in darkness all year round, and no one knew where those mine tunnels led to.

So if you don't follow the traces of torches when mining here, you will easily get lost.

Once the miners with mortal bodies get lost in such a place, the fate can be imagined.

According to the miners, the mine tunnels illuminated by torches are open tunnels, and those shrouded in darkness all year round are hidden tunnels.

There are often cases where torches burn out, open tunnels become hidden tunnels, and miners lose their way and starve to death.

As Manager Yang walked along, Lu Ye found something very strange, that is, Manager Yang would look back from time to time, with a nervous look.

As if there was some danger behind him.

Manager Yang's appearance made him nervous.

"Lu Ye, do you have any hidden tunnels?" Manager Yang suddenly spoke.

"Yes." Lu Ye nodded. It was meaningless to deny this in front of Manager Yang. In fact, not only Lu Ye had mastered several hidden tunnels, but also the powerful miners in the mine, each of them had several hidden tunnels.

Although the open tunnels were safe, there were not many places to mine. On the contrary, the hidden tunnels with many dangers could often find some good goods.

It was with the help of these resource-rich hidden tunnels that Lu Ye could harvest a lot every day, otherwise he would not have any extra contributions to exchange for Qi and Blood Pills.

This is also the reason why Manager Yang took Lu Ye with him after recognizing him.

"Manager Yang, are you going to those secret passages?" Lu Ye asked. Manager Yang's sudden question about the secret passages made him guess.

Manager Yang said, "Take me there, and find the most hidden secret passage."

"Okay!" Lu Ye nodded in response. After walking a few steps, he suddenly groaned and covered his chest with his hand.

The bones in his chest were dislocated from the beating. Following Manager Yang's rapid walk, he had no chance to rest properly. At this moment, his injuries were affected. The pain made him stop and sweat oozed from his forehead.

Manager Yang looked at him with dissatisfaction, hesitated for a moment, reached into a cloth bag on his waist, and quickly grabbed a round, soybean-sized pill, handed it to Lu Ye and said, "Eat it!"

Lu Ye took it, and couldn't recognize what kind of pill it was. He had only come into contact with Qi and Blood Pills in the past year, and the pill in his hand was obviously different from the Qi and Blood Pills.

However, Manager Yang has a place to use me at this time, so he shouldn't harm me. This thing is most likely for healing.

He stuffed the pill into his mouth and chewed it a few times. He immediately regretted it because the medicine was extremely bitter.

"Why chew it? Just swallow it. This is a healing pill." Manager Yang said unhappily.

It was indeed a healing pill. Lu Ye had a bitter face, but he had to be grateful: "Thank you, Manager Yang."

"If you really want to thank me, just leave quickly." Manager Yang pushed him.

Lu Ye had to cheer up and lead the way in front.

Although the pill was extremely bitter, the effect was surprisingly good. Not long after taking it, Lu Ye felt a heat surge in his lower abdomen, and then the wound on his chest was not so painful, but became numb and itchy.

This made him sigh that good medicine is indeed bitter.

Under Lu Ye's leadership, the two continued to move forward in the crisscrossing mine tunnels. Occasionally, they encountered some returning miners, and Manager Yang would kill them with a palm.

Lu Ye's eyelids twitched, and the suspicion in his heart became clearer.

About an hour later, the two stopped in front of a secret passage. Lu Ye had a torch in his hand, which he had taken from nearby. He said, "Manager Yang, this is the most hidden secret passage. After you go in, turn left at the first intersection, and the second intersection..."

Before he finished speaking, Manager Yang kicked him in with one foot: "Lead the way!"

Lu Ye's heart sank to the bottom of the valley. He didn't want to lead the way in front. Judging from Manager Yang's various actions along the way, if he really led him to the place, he was afraid that there would be no good end.

But the last attempt had failed. Manager Yang obviously didn't intend to go deep into the secret passage alone. It was much better to have Lu Ye, who was familiar with the terrain, to lead than to grope by himself.

Lu Ye had no choice but to continue moving forward.

After many twists and turns, even Yang, a monk, had forgotten the way back. After more than an hour, the mine tunnel ahead was blocked and there was no way forward.

Lu Ye stuck the torch into a hidden stake on the rock wall.

Yang took a long breath, sat on the ground and panted, turned his head and glanced at Lu Ye, and couldn't help laughing: "You are really capable. You can find such a place."

Lu Ye smiled: "Good luck."

Yang nodded and said no more.

Lu Ye said: "Yang, I will go back first."

Yang raised his eyelids slightly and said lightly: "Lu Ye, you are a smart person, and smart people should do smart things."

As he spoke, he stood up and walked towards Lu Ye. The flickering firelight cast his shadow like a dancing ghost.

Lu Ye's face was full of panic: "What do you mean?"

Manager Yang sighed: "I might as well tell you clearly, the people from the Haotian League are here, and this mine vein may not be saved for the time being. I am here to avoid disaster. Although I am very grateful for bringing me here, I can't let you go back."

Lu Ye retreated step by step, thinking in his heart that it was indeed so. When he saw Manager Yang killing those miners before, he had some vague guesses. Manager Yang was afraid that the news of entering the mine tunnel would leak out, so he naturally wanted to kill everyone who saw him.

And the reason why he was surprised to see Lu Ye at the exit of the mine tunnel was because he knew that Lu Ye could take him to find a hidden place to hide.

Hiding in such a place, even if the people from the Haotian League occupied the mine vein, they could not easily find him, and there was a high probability that he could escape.

It was because he realized his situation that Lu Ye wanted to get away all the time, but Manager Yang didn't let go, so where could he get away?

"Then I'll stay with you. I won't leave." Lu Ye's back was against the rock wall, with no way to retreat.

Manager Yang paused, as if thinking seriously, but soon shook his head and said, "I don't bring much food, and I don't know how long I will hide here. Although Haotian League can't stay here for a long time, there is always a month or two. You will starve to death in such a long time, how can you accompany me. So as a thank you, I will send you off!"

The two were only three feet apart. When he finished speaking, Manager Yang slapped Lu Ye with a palm.

Although his cultivation was not high, it was easy to kill Lu Ye, an ordinary person.

But he never expected that at the moment he took action, Lu Ye actually rushed towards him with a pickaxe and smashed his head with the pickaxe.

Lu Ye's ruthlessness and decisiveness surprised Manager Yang, but that was all...

However, what happened next made him feel dead.

He suddenly found that the spiritual power in his spiritual orifice was running obscurely, as if there was an inexplicable force that imprisoned the spiritual power, and he could only mobilize a tiny amount.

The pickaxe came head-on, and it was too late for Manager Yang to retreat, so he could only block the palm that was hitting Lu Ye in front of him.

With a crisp sound, the pickaxe hit Manager Yang's arm and broke his arm.

Manager Yang couldn't help but screamed and retreated repeatedly.

After a successful attack, Lu Ye's heart was relieved immediately. It seemed that some of the rumors he had heard before were true, so there was still a way to survive.

He took advantage of the situation and pressed forward step by step. The pickaxe in his hand kept swinging down, and Manager Yang was almost powerless to fight back.

Although Manager Yang was a cultivator of the Evil Moon Valley, his cultivation was not high, so he had to take on the idle position of managing the mine veins. He rarely fought bravely with others in his life. When dealing with the miners, he used his own cultivation to flatten and round them at will, but after his cultivation was greatly suppressed, he was only slightly stronger than ordinary mortals. When he met a ruthless person like Lu Ye, he was immediately beaten dizzy.

While dodging Lu Ye's fierce attack, he reached into the cloth bag on his waist, and then raised his hand, and a cold light flashed.

Lu Ye was startled and hurriedly stopped his body and raised his pickaxe to block it.

The cold light cut the front end of the pickaxe, and the pickaxe made of fine iron was directly cut in half.

Lu Ye looked at Manager Yang's hand and found that he had grabbed a long sword without knowing when! He took it out of the cloth bag on his waist.

Manager Yang swung the sword in his hand fiercely, and the intimidated Lu Ye did not dare to move forward casually.

The situation was at a standstill. In the deepest part of the mine, the mortal body and the monk confronted each other. The former had a cold face, while the latter looked embarrassed. The severe pain made his expression distorted.

"Magnetic field?" Manager Yang gritted his teeth and said in a low voice. In just a short moment, he had figured out why his spiritual power was imprisoned.

There is a lot of magnetic ore here!

Magnetic ore is a very rare mineral. In terms of preciousness, the value of magnetic ore in this vein is second to none. This ore is very useful for some monks.

However, there is a characteristic of magnetic ore, which is that it will release an invisible force field, which will limit the flow of all spiritual power within the range.

Once a monk is in this force field, his strength will definitely be greatly reduced.

Manager Yang has limited cultivation. Being enveloped by this magnetic field, his spiritual power is almost completely banned. He has fallen from a lofty monk to an ordinary mortal.

He suddenly remembered that Lu Ye did occasionally mine some Yuanci ore in the past year, but other people also mined it, but the quantity was not large, so he did not care too much, after all, this vein contains various minerals.

But now it seems that Lu Ye has always been in control of the location of a large number of Yuanci ore, but he did not mine it in large quantities to exchange for contributions, but only occasionally mined a few pieces to avoid being coveted by others. He is really scheming.

"Are you plotting against me?" Manager Yang was almost crazy. At this time, he didn't understand that Lu Ye brought him here on purpose.

Manager Yang was furious that the mortal who thought he had the power of life and death actually showed his fangs to him. However, now that one of his arms was broken and he was injured in many places, he was really no match for Lu Ye in this environment where he could not exert his own cultivation.

So he made a quick decision and turned around and ran.

Seeing this scene, Lu Ye felt bad.

He had only a vague understanding of the Yuan magnetic field. When he first handed over the Yuan magnetic ore, he had heard the monks from the Evil Moon Valley talk about the properties of this ore, so he kept it in mind.

Having seen Manager Yang slaughtering the miners he encountered halfway, he knew that this trip was more dangerous than good, so he brought Manager Yang here. Before he broke Manager Yang's arm, he was not sure whether the magnetic field here could limit Manager Yang's strength.

Fortunately, good luck comes naturally, and the magnetic field really made Manager Yang feel helpless.

But the range of the magnetic field is also limited. Once Manager Yang escapes from the range of the force field, he will be dead.

Manager Yang must not be allowed to escape!

Lu Ye was ruthless, bent down to pick up a fist-sized stone, and threw it at Manager Yang.

Manager Yang, who was running away in a panic, never thought that Lu Ye had this trick. He was hit on the back of his head and staggered to the ground.

Before he could get up, the whistling wind had already reached his ears. Manager Yang turned over in a hurry and saw Lu Ye rushing forward and swinging the half-broken pickaxe in his hand.

There was no way to avoid it now!

Between life and death, Manager Yang shouted, "Let's die together!"

He thrust out with the long sword in his hand!

The next moment, his head was smashed by the pickaxe. Lu Ye was still worried, so he smashed it a few more times. Looking at the figure twitching in front of him, he was sure that the other party would not survive.

Severe pain came from his thigh. He looked down and saw a long sword stuck in his leg. It was the one in Manager Yang's hand.

I didn't know when I was stabbed! He didn't feel it at all just now.

Throwing down the pickaxe in his hand, Lu Ye sat on the ground, gasping for breath, feeling the beauty of life.