Chapter 1208 Diving in the Earth

The compact mud layer in front, as well as large chunks of rock, touched the yellow magic radiance emerging from Joan's body, and were crushed and separated like snow, opening a way forward for him.

However, every time Joan took a step forward, the road behind him was immediately filled with sand, but the texture became extremely loose.

Joan gradually went deeper into the strata according to the route on the map. While burying his head on the road, he suddenly had a funny idea, feeling like a big earthworm, working hard in the depths of the soil.

After walking forward for about five minutes, Joan found the umbilicus entrance where the flail snail had sneaked into, and the tunnel ahead was still filled with mud.

Joan walked a long way in the tunnel blocked by sand and gravel. It was not until the magic power of the "Secondary Stone Walking Technique" was about to be exhausted that the front suddenly became clear and became dark and empty.

Qiao An secretly breathed a sigh of relief, shook off the mud and sand on his body, and compared the navigation compass to check the route he had traveled.

After some simple calculations, Joan found that the tunnel space where he was standing at the moment, and the ground above Klein and the others had a vertical drop of nearly 700 feet, which had exceeded Klein's maximum teleportation distance.

The dwarf miners need to dig a tunnel as deep as 100 feet in order to shorten the vertical drop to less than 600 feet and provide Klein with a safe path to use the "any door".

Joan drew two "Sid Mana", cast the 2nd ring "Wind Information", and conveyed the data he had surveyed to Klein and others.

Five minutes later, when he received a reply, Klein had summoned all the dwarf miners under his command to dig along the route that Joan just walked.

Although the ground that Joan had "ploughed" became very loose and easier to dig, the amount of work required for the hundreds of feet deep tunnel was quite large. Even if the dwarf miners dug overnight, it would not be possible to complete it in one day.

Joan wanted to bless the "Secondary Stone Walking Technique" again, turned back the same way, and accidentally glanced into the depths of the tunnel, and found a trace of reflection, and couldn't help but feel a little bit of a movement.

Raising his hand and snapping his fingers, Blood Mosquito Agent got out of his coat pocket and flew towards the reflective trace.

Joan switched his perspective to the blood mosquito and observed the reflective area. It was indeed a long and narrow glass track, attached to the surface, extending deep into the tunnel, and the luminous path disappeared at the end of the darkness.

Qiao An was aroused by the strange sight in front of him, and since he had nothing to do, he ordered the blood mosquito to follow the glass rut ​​to explore the way, and followed behind, trying to track down the whereabouts of the flail snail.

Walking forward for about half a mile, the winding tunnel still had no end, but Joan was keenly aware of the light blue color seeping from the rock wall on the left, and granular crystals could be seen faintly.

This special rock formation is exactly the characteristic of the magic crystal vein!

This discovery excited Joan, and he quickly turned on the navigation compass, recorded the currently surveyed mineral veins, and marked the coordinates.

Walking forward for a while, the blue ore disappeared, and the rock formation in sight turned into ordinary sandstone again.

Joan was not disappointed because of this. Before actually entering the core area of ​​a rich mine, the ore veins observed in the periphery were always intermittent and sometimes absent. The closer to the core area, the more frequent the ore veins appeared.

To obtain the mining right of a mineral deposit, it is useless to only explore the outer veins. According to the generally accepted principles of the exploration industry, only the team that first arrives at the core area of ​​the mineral deposit and maps out the complete distribution of the mineral veins has the right to discover.

Every step Joan takes now, while taking risks, also adds a point of competitive advantage to his prospecting team.

Walking forward for a while, an empty cave appeared at the end of the tunnel.

Through the eyes of the blood mosquito, Joan saw a huge shadow wriggling in the grotto, and there was a faint creaking sound, as if someone was chewing hard candy.

Joan had a premonition that something was about to happen, so he quickly blessed himself with "Mage Armor" and "Shield Technique", after a little thought, added an "Invisibility Technique", and quietly walked into the cave.

With the help of the "dark vision" attached to the prosthetic eye, Joan discovered that the mottled dark blue crystals protruding from the surrounding stone walls were the magic crystal ore that had once disappeared from his eyes.

The natural magic crystal ore contains too many impurities, so it is actually not very valuable.

Even if it is a relatively high-grade magic crystal mine, an average of 100 tons of natural ore can only smelt 1 pound of industrial magic crystal with a purity of 10%. It is conceivable how low the magic crystal content of natural ore is.

The market price of one ton of high-grade magic crystal ore is about 50 Gold Duga.

Two years ago, when Joan was too poor to catch leeches to make money, he was more than happy to dig ore for money.

However, times have changed, and now he is no longer willing to work hard for such a small amount of money, so he just picked up two pieces of ore at random and put them in a storage bag as a specimen.

Continue to walk forward for a certain distance, and when approaching the middle of the cave, Joan finally saw the shadow clearly. It turned out to be a huge snail, which was gnawing on the magic crystal ore with its head buried, and there was a glowing crystal track behind its buttocks. , isn't it the flail snail he's been following for a long time!

The creaking sound Joan heard just now was the sound of this guy chewing ore.

Seeing that the flail snail has such good teeth and eats so sweetly, Joan couldn't help but rubbed his belly, feeling a little hungry.

Just at this time, the aroused gluttonous stomach let out a rumbling bowel sound.

The big snail, which was concentrating on eating the ore, suddenly became alert, shook its tentacles, and turned to look at Joan.

The two sides faced each other, and Joan was able to see the appearance of the flail snail.

This huge snail has a hard shell like a small house on its back. At first glance, it looks colorless and transparent, and you can vaguely see the wriggling flesh and blood in the shell. But when Qiao An observed carefully, he found that the snail had a hazy colorful luster, like glass. Reflective in sunlight.

Four slender and flexible tentacles protrude from the head of the flail snail, with mace-like calcifications at the ends, which appear strong and full of oppression.

These tentacles connected to the hammerhead are the reason why this large snail is named "flail".

Qiao An clutched her stomach tightly, fearing that there would be any more movement, held her breath and stood quietly with her back against the rock wall.

The flail snail has both "dark vision" and "tremor perception". If Joan moves his body, even with the protection of "invisibility", he will still be noticed by it.

But Joan stood there motionless, and the "water breathing" on his body made him not need to exchange air with the outside environment, so he would not cause airflow disturbance due to breathing and trigger "tremor perception".