Chapter 377 A Brief Story (4k) (1/2)

Chapter 377 A Short Story (4k)

"Hmm, let's keep going inside."

Alicia returned to the road leading deep into the cave, carefully stepping on the slippery stones due to the night tide. Ji Lin vaguely saw the amber eyes flashing with joy.

Not everyone likes to stay in a place without any changes, staying in the office to handle chores.

"Hey, Ji, so you say we really won't find treasure?"

Coastal caves are often the places where treasures are buried in stories. These strange and possibly interconnected special geological environments are natural mazes.

They are submerged by sea water when the tide rises and exposed in the sun when the tide falls.

But it's a pity.

The territory looked around, not to mention pirates, there was not even a ship that did not belong to the territory.

Naturally, there would be no buried treasure here. All rewards from the system were directly distributed to the lord's personal terminal...or these crystal crabs were the biggest treasure here.

Some lords born on islands can form salvage fleets to obtain rare blueprints and rare materials. That is a special route for their series of lords.

They have less land under the sun, but face a larger and more vast world - but most of that world is ocean.

"Well, if it is that kind of man-made treasure, maybe not, but this cave is of great help to the development of the territory."

Ji Lin stopped walking as he looked at Alicia walking in front of him, and his eyes fell on the quartz growing on the edge of the wall.

It was a ten-centimeter-long almost perfect hexagonal crystal, growing alone on the edge of the wall.

She stood on tiptoe to cut the crystal completely, and raised the almost perfect regular hexagonal prism in her hand to show Ji Lin. This crystal also flashed with the same luster as the ground crystal that Ji Lin got from the seagull.

This special crystal cave has a large number of quartz crystal clusters, which grow on the rock wall like mushrooms. Those quartz ores that have not been transformed into ground crystals by the surging ground veins have become amplifiers for spreading the luster of ground crystals.

‘Quartz ore’, ‘gem ore’, ‘energy-conducting crystal’.

This is a rich mine, and a very rich mine.

These minerals did not originally exist in this cave, but were carried to this cave/weak point by the earth veins, and then began to grow on the wall like a living thing.

Ji Lin didn’t know why, but he vaguely had this idea... He suddenly missed Gui Yu who could answer his questions at any time. If she had been there, the territory would not have to grope for the changes brought to the territory by the special earth veins in a half-understanding.

The wealth it can bring will continue to grow with the exploration, and will be brought by the earth veins as time goes by.

This cave itself is the best embodiment of wealth, containing a large amount of ores that can be processed into energy conduction media, as well as crystal materials that are the backbone of magic civilization.

The changes that the Star Vein Tower brought to the territory were definitely not as simple as the "10% increase in crop yields in the territory" written on the paper data provided by the system...

'New project added: Ground Vein Research'

'We have never realized what kind of power is surging in the land under our feet. The land we rely on for survival may be deeper than the sky. '

'Unlock special ground vein buildings as the research process progresses, providing special bonuses for the territory. '

When Ji Lin realized this, the system timely placed the special research project in the research project column of the territory, behind the steam core research project.

Keep going forward.

The karst caves on the coast, where water flows converge, and the seawater with a lot of salt erodes and takes away a layer of stone parts that belonged to the original ground in rounds of ebbs and flows.

Then the hard stone turned into accumulated water, the accumulated water connected to form streams, and the streams turned into pools.

"Hey... Hey..."

The pale white boots gently landed on a stone exposed above the water, the priest's uniform swayed slightly with her jumping movements, and the soft shawl was gently lifted with her movements.

Precise, perfect.

She landed on every stone exposed from the shallow water without missing a step, and smoothly crossed the road blocked by the sea.

The light ball suspended in the air to provide temporary lighting slowly floated forward with her movement, illuminating the center of the crystal cave.

An irregular, semi-circular geological cavity with a large amount of accumulated water, densely covered with stone pillars and crystal clusters.

This crystal cluster forest that has not seen sunlight for a long time began to refract various colors of light under the light created by the divine art. The colorful light confirmed that the light emitted by the suspended light ball was similar to or even the same as the sunlight.

However, white light is composite light, and it will present different lights after being deflected by the prism.

Crystal is the medium for transmitting light. The crystal cluster alternately transmits light, mixed with the light of the ground crystal, making the interior of the crystal cave that has never seen dazzling light begin to sparkle.

The priestess waved at him from the other side.

Ji Lin followed Alicia's steps and wrapped his feet with source essence to avoid being soaked by the cold sea water. He wanted to learn from her and jump over the stones that had been corroded by sea salt countless times.

The commander underestimated these smooth and reflective stones and overestimated his own balance ability... This was his misjudgment.

If Alicia hadn't been keeping an eye on him, he would have fallen into the water.

The most serious injury the lord suffered was caused by falling down while playing ladder jumping on a slippery stone while dating a female friend. The stone may become the MVP.

It was hard for him to imagine that there was such a place on the coast less than 20 kilometers away from his territory.

It was a pity that he could only choose between the mine and the natural landscape.

If a plank road could be built here, it would be a perfect scenic spot without any extra development... but compared to the scenic spot that basically does not bring any income, the income from turning it into a mine is immediate.

Crossing the stream formed by the accumulated water, they really entered the interior of the crystal cave.

No monsters came to greet the two uninvited guests, and the only response to them was the knocking sound of water drops falling on the stone surface.

"There are fish."

Ji Lin saw Alicia standing by the stream, she lowered her head slightly and stared at the water.

The fish that usually live in the dark environment were disturbed by the light emitted by the light ball floating in the air. They fled around in the clear and transparent stream, not noticing that two outsiders who did not belong to this place were staring at them.

They fled in panic, hoping to find a shadow in the light stream to cover their bodies.

"Hey, Ji, do those big crabs grow up eating these fish?"

Ji Lin measured the length of these swimming fish with his eyes and fingers. If the crystallized crabs, which were almost the size of a car, really had to survive by eating these fish, they would probably start killing each other before they grew to twelve.

"Well, they are too small to eat."

After all, if the monsters want to survive, they must have their own food source, maybe crawling out of the cave to hunt on the seabed, or maybe hunting for something suitable as food nearby.

The system will not specifically provide energy to these monsters that are thrown out remotely, at most creating some food sources for them nearby... These food sources will eventually benefit the lord.

If the people of the territory encounter such monsters, they will have no power to resist, and humans will become their blood food.

Maybe it was not discovered before, but now that the monster's nest has been discovered, it must be completely eradicated.

There are other things...

When Ji Lin's source essence was used to protect himself, he felt a strange and familiar breath from the surrounding environment, but the divine light ball above his head was like a big light bulb that interfered with his observation.

As an observation of human vision, as an exploration of source essence.

"Alicia, can you turn off the light ball... I want to take a look here."

The girl was stunned for a moment, looking at the surrounding environment, and lowered her head slightly to turn off the light ball.

The light went out, and the azure light extended and replaced the main position of the white light.

It was not the light emitted by the earth vein crystal that only contained a little earth vein power.

That was the brilliance of the earth vein, just like what he saw in Gui Yu's world, with a heavy and cold breath, but with a little more vitality of life.

The girl took a step closer to Ji Lin at the moment the light went out, and Ji Lin reached out and held her hand.

Alicia's eyes lit up, this is the story she wanted!

Following the data fed back by the source, Ji Lin pulled Alicia through the cave.

They passed through a jungle of stone pillars and crystals.

Killed the crystal crabs that blocked the way.

Marked the spawning site of the crystal crabs, and secretly used divine magic to heat and roast two of them.

A well, an unattended well.

A pool of water, and a pool where you can see the flow of surface veins.

‘You have found a vein node/weak point.’

‘You can build a branch vein tower/star vein tower here to completely control this area, and use the power of the star vein magician to improve the climate and terrain of the surrounding area.’

‘You have completed the exploration of the crystal cave-the weak point of the vein.’

“Great!”

Alicia looked at the condensed energy flow that flowed slowly like a stream, showing surprise and joy.

"Is this what the monsters are guarding?"

"It's the earth vein, a very special resource. This is the treasure they are guarding."

Ji Lin explained, tentatively inserting his finger into the earth vein.

The earth vein flows around his hand like a stream, and the arc light flickers. This is the pulse of the earth, and it will not be easily used by anyone.

It will not violently inject everything it touches like an electric current, but it can penetrate all containers like hydrogen.

"Amazing... I'll try it too."

She stretched out her hand and felt the surge and fluctuation of the earth vein. The materialized earth vein flows around her palm like a stream, and drops of water fall on the ground like water.

"Alicia, I have something to tell you..."

Standing next to the flowing earth vein, Ji Lin coughed lightly and spoke to the girl who was leaning over the weak point of the earth vein.

If you want to make things clear, now is the best time.

Ji Lin felt that he had inexplicably become a bad guy who took advantage of other people's emotions.

"Hmm..."

She tilted her head, and a hint of complex emotions appeared in her amber eyes.

"I actually have two female friends who are very close to me..."

Ji Lin saw a devilish smile on her lips, as if the wait had finally paid off.

Her amber eyes looked directly into Ji Lin's eyes, and her voice was very light and ethereal.

"After all, Ji, you are a guy who doesn't like to clean your room..."

It was like the god of death rubbing his blade leisurely.

Ji Lin was sweating coldly when he heard it. He really didn't have the habit of cleaning his room... and before that, his room was given to Jeanna for a while.

During that time, he lived in the reception room, and left the most comfortable room for Jeanna.

"I found super long golden hair in your room. The magic can only tell me that it was a girl, aged 23... She must be very beautiful, right?"

She is not stupid.

But if there is resentment, there must be some. He didn't promise his story, and he went to hook up with other girls.

His heart told Alicia that he was an absolutely reliable person, the heart that cried blood and flashed with cold light and held high a dazzling flag - at least it was like this when they first met.

A shining heart that cried blood.

It's not that she had never seen other lords, but their hearts were covered with dust, and the best people only showed luster.

What kind of people would cry blood and be unwilling to accept their past failures?

So she knew that the guy in front of her, Ji Lin, could bring her very interesting stories, but even if there were no stories, she would be quite happy to be around him.

He turned out to be a jerk.

She had been waiting for Ji Lin to speak first during this period, but this guy was working all the time.

She blinked and asked the question that Ji Lin was most concerned about.

"Do you want me to stay in the territory and help you work?"

Ji Lin nodded, feeling the blade of the god of death wandering around his neck, and he could already see the cold light on the blade.

His first thought was that it looked like his original wife was going to die.

His second thought was that Chongshan might have to return to his job as 007 next.

"Did you kiss?"

Ji Lin nodded with difficulty.

"Did she kiss you or did you kiss her."

Ji Lin nodded and shook his head.

"Did she kiss you or did you kiss her."

Ji Lin didn't speak, he was already sweating.

He took a deep breath, looked back at what he had done in the past, and felt that he was indeed a jerk.

Words were no longer meaningful, and the communication in the eyes had conveyed all the information.

She closed her eyes, her amber eyes no longer staring at him, and raised her chin slightly.

Ji Lin didn't know in which novel he had read that when a girl closes her eyes to you, it means she wants you to take the initiative. Sometimes he really didn't want this bad knowledge to come in handy.

Ji Lin closed his eyes and lowered his head with a desperate heart.

Very soft, not as hasty as Jeanna's time, so he could almost feel the tenderness perfectly.

"Okay, that's enough..."

Alicia tapped her lips lightly, as if she was savoring the kiss just now... and didn't feel anything.

But she was very happy, really happy, but she was also a very greedy guy.

So.

Alicia reached out and hugged Ji Lin, tiptoed, and her well-developed body was tightly pressed against Ji Lin with only a layer of cloth between them.

She wanted to take the initiative again.