Volume 19 Chapter 131 Mining Blocked

Following my call, the ghost and the Queen of Blades soon appeared beside me, but what was more confusing was that these two guys actually came with a large group of people who were chasing them.

"Damn it, I asked you to come here to take over the mission, but I didn't ask you to bring the enemy over too!"

"We don't want to either!" Queen of Blades complained helplessly: "They don't know what they did, they just stared at us!"

I glanced at the crowd, and then suddenly noticed a guy standing at the back of the chasing crowd, and then I understood everything. "Look over there."

Following my finger, both the Queen of Blades and the ghost noticed the person I was pointing to, and then these two guys with intelligence not weaker than the player also reacted.

The guy I'm referring to doesn't have any special appearance or fancy equipment. The only difference between him and those around him is that we just saw him once, in the cave before the collapse. He was the last guy to escape. The ghost collapsed the cave just to kill him, but it seemed like this guy ran out again. If it wasn't that he had a way to avoid the pursuit of missiles, it would be that he had resurrection skills. In short, this guy who was supposed to have died and been buried underground now appeared on the ground, and seemed to be alive and well.

When I saw that guy appear, I didn't need to guess what this group of people were here to do.

"Ghost, go and block those guys. Queen of Blades, follow me to capture the leader and bring him back for questioning."

"Catch the leader?"

"It's just that group of people over there, no matter who they are, just grab anyone."

"Can't you just rush over and get this sort of thing done? Why do you want me to go?"

"Stupid! Compared to us, the other side is a very weak force. If they see me appearing here, they must know that the Frost Rose Alliance has joined in. They must know that they are not our guild's opponent, so as long as they are not too Stupid, they will definitely unite to deal with us first, and then whatever I want to do will be ten times more difficult."

"Oh, I understand." The Queen of Blades quickly turned towards the group of big bosses who were still fighting, and then suddenly a large ball of liquid metal rose from her shoulders. The liquid metal kept changing. It was greatly elongated and finally formed something like a short-barreled artillery piece. "President, can we just grab anyone and come over?"

"Of course. But what do you want to do with a cannon?"

"This is a catcher, not a cannon. You will understand once you see it." Blade said and locked the target on one of the big bosses, and then only heard a muffled bang, and a rather large metal ball He suddenly flew out, and then rushed behind one of the big bosses at lightning speed. Just when he was about to hit that guy, the metal ball suddenly exploded and turned into a huge sheet of metal.

As a director of one of the largest guilds in South America, Habu can be regarded as one of the most powerful local figures. The confrontation with the guild leaders who came to rob the mines after not knowing where they got the information made him more confident in this point. The leaders who came to rob the mines were indeed powerful enough, but with He was just the middle of the pack, and there was basically no one that was so strong that he felt he couldn't resist, which convinced him that his combat prowess was something to be proud of. However, just when he was confidently fighting his opponent, he suddenly found that the opponent's expression in front of him was a little wrong, and he seemed to have seen something that surprised him.

As a capable master, Habu's battlefield reactions are naturally not too weak. The moment he saw his opponent's slow movements due to surprise, he immediately rushed forward excitedly, but before he could take action, a big sheet suddenly opened up from behind and enveloped him completely. Then it tightened instantly and was suddenly covered by a wave of force. Pulled back with great force. Habu struggled desperately in the middle, but it was all in vain. It's so damn strong that it feels like it's a metal cage instead of a sheet, but it happens that this thing can still bend. No matter how you bend it, it just won't stop.

Habu, who was tied like a wild boar, screamed and was dragged in front of me, and then he was let go. Before Habu could react, a cloth bag was put on him, and he was packed and transported out of the battlefield.

Carrying this struggling guy away from the chaotic battlefield, I waited until we found an open space away from the battlefield before letting this guy down. In order to get the other party to cooperate, the interrogation work cannot be carried out by me, so the Queen of Blades became the best candidate for interrogation. Most of my demon pets are too famous and are not suitable for this task like me.

After I hid, the Queen of Blades pulled the bag off the guy's head, and the ghost returned before that, just taking over my position, so that the guy couldn't notice that I was hiding due to the number.

As soon as the bag was pulled off, the guy suddenly jumped up from the ground, shouted his collision skills and bumped into the ghost. But the result was accompanied by a golden sound like a bell. At the same time, the guy was immediately bounced back. He rolled all the way for seven or eight meters before stopping while hugging a big tree. No matter how lightweight materials are used, the ghost is after all a humanoid construct made of a lot of metal. Besides, he is more than two meters tall. Even if an ordinary person grows to this size, no one can hit him. Besides, the ghost is still a solid lump of iron. Its weight must be measured in tons, and that guy is not. A powerful warrior would be considered a ghost if he could really hit and move.

Looking at the ugly guy over there who was hit by him, the ghost strode over and picked him up, then threw him back to his previous position.

Although Habu was still very proud of his fighting ability before, he had an advantage that others did not have, that is, his thoughts changed very quickly. At best, this means being flexible and adaptable, but at worst, it means that you are not firm-willed and like to adapt to the changing circumstances. After the collision, he decisively changed his view and immediately surrendered in front of the ghost, acting like a trained hound, which is called honest.

"Why don't you resist?" The ghost looked at this guy in surprise, who just took the opportunity to sneak attack, but now suddenly became extremely honest.

As soon as Habu heard the other party's question, he quickly replied: "I have fully realized your great strength, and it is necessary to surrender in front of the strong."

"You're really thinking about it." After Ghost said this, he wanted to say something more, but was stopped by the Queen of Blades.

"Tell me, what resources are you fighting so hard for here?" After grabbing the ghost, the Queen of Blades directly cut to the chase and asked. The ghost's reaction is obviously not right recently. He seemed quite taciturn when he first came out of the laboratory, but in the past few hours, he has started to talk more and more, just like a boring guy who has been talking for a few hours. Nei has turned into an eloquent playboy. This change is quite surprising. Of course, the Queen of Blades was not aware of this situation. The reason why she went to pull the ghost was mainly because I reminded her through the communicator.

"I……"

As soon as the guy said a word, the Queen of Blades said first: "I advise you to think carefully before speaking. The information we know is only incomplete, not completely missing. If you dare to mislead us with wrong information, I will let you know what is regrettable."

Habu nodded quickly when he heard this, and then replied seriously: "We came here to rob the pumice mine, but we don't know where the news was leaked, and so many guilds came to rob us. That area The information about the mining area was bought by our guild, and I don’t know how..."

The guy seemed to be quite dissatisfied with the leak, and he complained endlessly as soon as he opened his mouth. However, I was not interested in the subsequent information at all. The only thing that really made me pay attention was the pumice stone. The snowmen among the two NPCs we captured previously said that this kind of ore is used to build spaceships, and now this guy has confirmed that this kind of ore is pumice ore. It is not difficult to draw the correct conclusion based on the two corroborating evidences.

To be honest, I really didn't expect that there would be a pumice mine in this place. You must know that pumice is definitely not a high-yielding resource. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a scarce resource. Besides, pumice is not like fine gold or mithril. Just adding a few grams can change the magical and physical properties of the equipment. The only function of pumice is to suspend, so it can only be used to increase the weight of the equipment. drop, or simply use a lot to make something fly straight up. However, the supporting force that a unit mass of pumice can produce is limited, and this ratio is quite low, so if you just want to make your armor lighter, that's okay, but if you plan to make a certain piece of equipment To take you flying, the dosage will definitely be calculated in kilograms. Therefore, once pumice is used, its dosage will be very large. But its output is just like gold, often tens of grams or hundreds of grams. That amount is enough to even modify a piece of flying equipment. If you want to do anything else, if you don’t save up for three to five years, then don’t even think about it. think.

After confirming that the guy was not lying, I asked the Queen of Blades to ask again: "Do you know the specific location of the mining area?"

"It's just underground in the place where we just fought, but there used to be a cave entrance there, but unfortunately it collapsed for some reason. I guess it was those guys who did something good. We came late and saw the first ones to arrive. Someone from the guild may have entered that cave."

Needless to say, the group of people this guy saw should be the group we killed, and according to what he said, isn't the floating corpse mine in the prison snake's den? Really, if I had known earlier, why would we have come out? But anyway, with the pioneers here, digging a hole should be quick.

Now that we know where the mine is buried, there is no point in fighting with these guys. We are not here to fight. After letting the blade knock the guy unconscious, I immediately summoned the pioneer and rose vine and started digging back. Of course, the entrance was sealed after we entered to prevent anyone from using the hole we dug to follow us.

It is said that although pioneers and rose vines are creatures that are good at digging holes, it is not easy to find the cave we left before under the ground. When we came out before, we didn't have to look at the road at all, we just dug up, but we were in trouble when we looked down from the ground. That underground cave is right under the battlefield. It is impossible for us to dig a vertical well from the middle of the battlefield. We can only dig diagonally downward from where we are now. However, it is actually not easy to ensure the direction of the passage under the ground. It often deviates as you dig, and the final result of this deviation may be...

"Holy shit, what's going on?" Looking at the underground river flowing in front of me, I was dumbfounded. "Hey, Pioneer, where did you dig from?"

The Blazer tried his best to defend himself in the spiritual connection, and I knew I couldn't blame him, so I didn't say much and could only let him dig back. Unlike regular large excavators, although the Trailblazer is also good at digging holes, he is a living creature after all, so he cannot dig through rocks and other objects like an excavator. During the excavation process, pioneers will almost instinctively avoid hard materials such as rocks and try to choose softer parts to open holes. During this avoidance process, pioneers will be like people walking through the forest, because of the constant Avoid the trees in front of you and end up deviating from your original route. Although the pioneer relied on his strong sense of direction to avoid getting the east, west, north, and south wrong, the passage he dug was not a straight line after all, and it was completely understandable that he missed something in the process. Besides, drilling holes under the ground is not like walking on the ground. The space under the ground is also three-dimensional. Even if you are aligned, you may pass above or below the target without knowing it due to depth issues.

Although the process of opening the road in the opposite direction again could not prevent the pioneer from going astray again, I learned smartly this time. In addition to letting the pioneer dig a hole in front, I also summoned the pepper. The spiritual force field of chili peppers can penetrate a certain thickness of soil, which invisibly widens the hole dug by the pioneers. As long as the pioneers can maintain the general direction, once we pass near the target, as long as we do not exceed the pepper's sensing range, we can find the cave immediately.

Sure enough, my luck was much better this time. The pioneers had just dug far when Pepper shouted: "Stop, I feel the underground cavity. Dig to the lower left. It's only about twenty meters away from us."

After hearing this, the Pioneer immediately turned around. After advancing twenty meters in one breath, the Pioneer really punched through a big hole. After taking back the Pioneer and the rose vine, we finally returned to the previous crescent cave, but now we entered through the entrance. It's at the top of the cave. If we couldn't fly, it would be really troublesome how to get down.

Although the guy who provided the information before said that the ore is in this cave, we don't know the specific location, so we still have to find a way to find it. Fortunately, we know that the pumice is black, like coke. This feature is relatively easy to recognize. After letting Xiaochun arrange the lighting, I released a lot of Death Guards and Qilin Warriors to help find the ore. Of course, their main job was to clean out the collapsed hole, because that side was also part of the cave, with pumice buried underneath. The possibility of a mine is very high. Besides, after I asked Lilith to clean up the corpses, the treasure cave below collapsed before I could clean it up, so it is very necessary to clean up that side as well.

Originally, this workload was quite large, but fortunately we had many people and no shortage of large-scale construction equipment (several giant dragons), so the excavation work was quite fast. However, problems still arise.

The pumice mine was soon discovered, but problems arose. After discovering this thing, I planned to dig some of it back first. Fortunately, the pepper was nearby, otherwise it would have been really troublesome. Just when I was about to let Lucky start digging, Pepper suddenly reminded me that behind the ore is the bed of the underground river we dug before. Because this cave is much lower than the underground river, once it is Once the ore is mined, the river water will immediately pour into the caves here. Although many of my demon pets have the ability to survive underwater, it is definitely not that easy to mine underwater.

After all, my magic pets are just magic pets. They exist for combat or to support combat. It's okay to temporarily open a mine for investigation, but you can't use them as miners, right? Besides, after our research, this mining area should belong to the kind of relatively annoying large-reserve loose minerals. The total amount of useful pumice is very high, but the distribution area is very large. Most of the stones dug out per unit volume will be useless. , the useful pumice content is extremely low. The annoying thing about this kind of mining area is that the mining volume is huge. You can't simply extract the pumice. You can only dig out the nearby rocks together, and then separate ore and beneficiation to finally process the pumice. Not to mention that this series of processes itself is very complicated, the additional stones mined will also greatly increase the workload. In addition, the mining area is so large, the entire mining process will definitely not take a day or two, and it will take several days. It would be quick to finish mining within a month.

Such a long mining time determines that I will definitely not be able to use my magic pet to mine. In the future, I can only leave it to the construction workers in the guild to mine. Once the mining area is flooded, even large equipment will not be used. Even if everyone When digging under water with a helmet with underwater breathing function, without equipment assistance, the mining speed will definitely be reduced by more than half. Besides, how do you use tools to dig out rocks when they are suspended in water? Swinging pickaxes and shovels in the water is simply useless, and explosives cannot be used underwater, otherwise the entire mine will definitely collapse.

Even if you don't consider the issues of mining equipment and time, once the mining area is water-permeable, the mud alone can annoy people to death. As long as you start mining underwater, you will inevitably muddy the water, and the sediment suspended in the water cannot fall to the ground as quickly as the dust in the air. By then, there will definitely be pits full of mud, let alone When I was mining, I accidentally hit the tool on someone's head and they couldn't even see it.

Seeing that such a large pumice mine cannot be dug is like asking a cat to look at the fish on the plate and refuse to eat it. Isn't this deliberately killing people? I couldn't think of a way for a while, so I simply activated the communicator and contacted the military god. The three cobblers are still supporting Zhuge Liang. It would be a waste to leave the brain trust in the guild unused.