Chapter 1236 Extra Large Vein (Ⅰ)

Joan, Hyrule, Audrey, Holden, Belling, Klein, and Scholz rested in the mythical crystal python's lair for a day, and did not see any crystal python return to the lair during this period.

This abnormal sign obviously cannot be explained by "coincidence". After some discussion, everyone reached a consensus: the mythical crystal python probably sent telepathy to all her offspring before she died, warning them to stay away from the lair and never come back die!

If the truth is indeed as everyone guesses, there is no point in staying here.

After a day of recuperation, together with Zion's brothers and sisters casting spells for treatment, everyone's injuries in the battle with the mythical crystal python have basically healed, and their physical strength has also returned to the best condition. Set off and continue to explore the magic crystal veins in depth.

For the next few days, the journey of Qiao An and others was uneventful.

The Blood Mosquito spies who were exploring the way before had also found traces of the crystal python, but when everyone chased after them excitedly, the crystal python had no intention of fighting at all, and just plunged into the ground, escaping into the depths of the earth instantly , Never show up again.

Seeing this dumbfounding scene, Qiao An had to admit that the crystal pythons might have identified the seven of them as the murderers of the mythical crystal python through some means. Knowing that they were unable to avenge their mother, they simply hid Get up and try to protect yourself.

This kind of cold survival wisdom really makes people wonder how to evaluate it.

In this underground mining area, at least for now, the crystal python is undoubtedly at the top of the food chain.

Even the crystal python avoided Qiao An and the others, and the other weaker monsters were even less likely to pose a threat worth mentioning to the seven-member expedition team.

Despite this, everyone's mood was not as calm as the journey, and they oscillated back and forth between surprise and fright every day.

At the beginning of the journey, everyone is looking forward to finding a rich mine. However, fate played a big joke with them, leading them into a rich mineral vein that they could not even dream of. Suffering from panic.

From the day he left the mythical crystal python's lair, Joan's "obsessive-compulsive disorder" deteriorated sharply, and he had to check the "navigation compass" almost every half an hour.

At first, he expected to find traces of magic crystal veins from the map. However, as the prospecting team advanced all the way north, the mineral veins presented on the map changed from intermittent "capillary" lines to continuous clear pipes, and then evolved into The dense network structure is like the veins of leaves observed under a microscope. It is rather difficult to find an area without the distribution of magic crystal veins.

At the same time, Klein and Scholz, two experienced prospecting experts, also estimated the reserves of this magic crystal deposit differently every day.

At first they thought they had found a small vein with 100,000 tons of reserves.

On the second day, this overly conservative conclusion was overturned, because the proven reserves of magic crystal ore cannot be less than 5 million tons.

By the third day, the valuation of 5 million tons proved to be a joke, and 30 million tons was a valuation that seemed more reasonable.

On the fourth day, 30 million tons also seems too conservative, and 50 million tons of ore reserves is a more realistic valuation.

However, today, that is, on the evening of July 31, surface time, when the prospecting team camped, Klein sat by the campfire and told everyone with a heavy face:

"Sorry, the previous estimate must be invalidated. Judging from the distribution of ore veins that have been surveyed so far, what we discovered is likely to be a super-large magic crystal mining area with reserves exceeding 100 million tons! An unprecedented super-rich ore!"

"My lord Pelor, I would rather this was just a sweet dream..." Audrey prayed while holding the holy emblem, her beautiful face was shrouded in haze.

There was silence in the camp.

Joan and the others sitting around the campfire were also as uneasy as Audrey.

Exploring a rich mine is of course a good thing, but the mineral reserves are too rich and the distribution range is too vast, and things become less wonderful.

If what they found was a rich mine in the conventional sense with a reserve of tens of millions of tons, everyone would be happy.

According to the contract signed between the prospecting team and the colonial company, the prospecting team can get a dividend equivalent to 5% of the total reserve value, which is a bonus of 500,000 Gold Durga. Everyone will be satisfied with this income.

However, when the proven reserves of magic crystal ore soared sharply, reaching the level of 100 million tons, according to the contract, their small prospecting team could get at least 5 million Gold Durga dividends, and this matter became It's a bit scary!

5000000!

Such a large amount of money is enough to make people crazy and inspire the most terrifying greed and malice in the depths of people's hearts!

The contract and the law can only guarantee that Joan and the others enjoy this right in theory, but the reality is more complicated than the terms of the contract on paper.

Let's put it this way, 5 million Gold Duga is equivalent to the sum of the profits earned by all the industrial and commercial departments of the Midgard Colonial Company in the past year!

The Midgard colony is actually equivalent to a semi-independent country, and the colonial company is the de facto government of this country. The annual fiscal revenue of a country's government is used to give you bonuses?

Isn't that scary enough?

Joan and the others are legally entitled to this huge bonus. The question is, can they still get the money alive?

Compared to paying 5 million Gold Durga, the relevant departments only need to spend one-tenth of this amount to invite the legendary strongman, so that this small prospecting team will completely evaporate from the world, as if it never existed.

Money, or life?

This is a frightening question.

Qiao An and the others have not yet mapped out the whole picture of this super-large mineral vein. In the farther north, it is likely that there are more abundant magic crystal deposits than the proven reserves.

This leads to a bigger problem.

Joan's current position corresponds to the southern area of ​​Linyuan Castle in the surface world. If they continue to explore, they will enter the Iron Forest area, which is the disputed area of ​​the two colonial governments of Midgard and Jotunheim.

According to the practice of international law, if a piece of land belongs to a certain country, the mineral deposits under the land also belong to that country.

The Iron Forest is a primitive coniferous forest with a harsh climate and rampant monsters, which is not suitable for colonial development.

In such a piece of land with poor mountains and bad waters, the two major colonial governments in the north and the south are still unwilling to give up the ownership. Now a huge mineral vein has been discovered 300 feet underground in the Iron Forest. Seems desperately fighting for?