Chapter 14 Mining Area

I said before Yinxue exploded: "You still have the nerve to tell me whether you want to do this or not? Where is your conscience?"

"What does this have to do with my conscience?" My early anger actually made Yinxue cool down.

I sneered. "What did you eat in the prehistoric era? What do you eat now? What kind of place did you live in before? What kind of place do you live in now? What kind of weapons did you use before? What kind of weapons do you use now? Have you forgotten it all? Forgot where your delicious food came from? Forgot who gave you your gorgeous palace? Forgot who invited the servants who serve you? Forgot who provided the fruit of power that enhances your strength. ? Well, if you say you have forgotten all this, then I have nothing to say. From now on, you will walk on your Yangguan Road, and I will cross mine on the single-plank bridge, and we will have nothing to do with each other!"

Yinxue blushed slightly and said, "Who...who said I forgot?"

"Didn't you forget?" I snorted coldly. "I haven't forgotten that you just don't do this or that? Then what are you here to do? The money our guild pays for you is no less than the cost of maintaining a large fleet. Do we spend so much money just to invite the Living Bodhisattva? Come back to burn incense and play?"

Yinxue is indeed very smart, but after all, she is just a mythical beast from the prehistoric era, and her communication experience is far less rich than mine. Besides, I am already a very good speaker, and most people can't stand it, let alone Yinxue. After a few sentences, she blushed at what I said and wanted to refute but had nothing to say, and she had nowhere to vent her grievances.

"But...but...!"

"But what?" Yinxue couldn't come up with anything for a long time, but I took the first step and said: "The Frost Rose Alliance is a big family. Everyone can dedicate their strength to Frost. Those who can work hard. Weak players can also I will do my part. This is a very good culture. Do you know what culture is? Culture is a code of conduct that is recognized and implemented by everyone in a social group. This is a kind of behavior that has no actual form but can influence a group. An important thing for overall strength. I have been working hard to cultivate and protect such an ethos since I founded Frost. Do you know how difficult it is? Why are Frost staff review so strict? It’s because I don’t want people with distorted values ​​to destroy my hard work. Establish a morale. Yes, you do have the strong fighting power we need. But you also carry a very bad morale. Because of your fighting power, Bingshuang will no longer have the same spirit of devotion and fighting as before. I am not willing to do it for Your fighting ability has ruined the atmosphere I have worked so hard to build. I have been observing you for a while and have been cautious about your behavior, and today, you have finally reached the bottom line of what I can tolerate."

"You...what are you going to do?" Yinxue vaguely sensed some dangerous aura.

"It's not what I want to do. It's what you want to do."

"What am I going to do?"

"You must make a choice now. Become a part of this big family and treat all Frost members as your family. Or leave this home and find the paradise you hope for."

"I, I, I...I didn't say I wanted to leave?" Yinxue said with aggrieved face. "I just……!"

"I'm just saying that there are some things that I don't want to do, and I hope to get more rewards, right?" Yinxue nodded subconsciously. I then said: "Then you are planning to leave?"

"I didn't! When did I say I was leaving?"

"I just said that if you want to stay, you must become a member of this family. Frost needs your fighting power, but I cannot tolerate the good guild atmosphere being ruined by you alone."

"But I want to be a member of this big family!"

"Is it okay for a member of the extended family to just pay lip service?"

"What's going to happen?"

"You don't need to ask me. With your intelligence level, don't you understand what a family member is? Which mother will ask for labor fees from her children when she cooks for them? Which husband will ask for payment from his wife after giving her a massage? Is it true? Which child would ask for wages from his mother after helping his mother? No. Because they are family members. Family means that everyone knows exactly that everything they do for the family is for the entire family. Members bring benefits. Family members do not need to consider what the family provides for themselves. Instead, they must consider what they have done for the family. But what about you? I asked you to clean up the site. This is to facilitate the exploration and mining of magic crystals for a while. .Who does the profit from mining magic crystal belong to? It belongs to our guild and our big family. It also belongs to everyone in the family. Cleaning the site in advance can start construction in advance, which is beneficial to everyone in our big family. There are benefits to all. So why don’t you do it since it’s good for you?”

"because……"

As soon as Yinxue said two words, I was the first to say: "Because you don't regard yourself as a member of this family, so you don't think that mining the ore in advance is good for you. Do you think that the benefits of helping to clean up the site are the Frost Rose Alliance? The guild. Not you personally. This shows that you have put yourself outside the guild. Now you still want to quibble and say that you want to be a part of this family? "

Yinxue was completely mute. The previous aura had long since disappeared, and now she looked like a drug addict after the effects of the drug wore off. Appearing frustrated and exhausted.

Seeing that Yinxue had softened, I softened my tone a little. "You are a new member of the guild. Our guild really needs your power, and our relationship with the Four Sacred Beasts also makes us inextricably linked. I don't want to mess with everyone for this kind of thing. It will be embarrassing to meet you in the future, but your behavior is really chilling."

"I...can I change it?"

"Change is not something you just say and then it's over. Anyone who reviews will say that there are not many people who actually do it. I will remember this time. I will also hide it for you and won't let people in the guild look at it differently. You, but I must warn you. Everyone makes mistakes, but if you make mistakes frequently, there is something wrong with you. If a similar situation happens next time, I hope you can just leave without me saying anything else. "

Yinxue nodded her head desperately. Then he turned around and left.

"Where are you going?"

Yinxue pointed to the side with tears on her face and said, "I'm going to clean up the site."

"You don't need to do it here. After thinking about it, I still think these things have value. Just go and do that Hu Yi."

"Oh." Yinxue jumped up and pointed to the lake with one hand in the air, and a red light shone directly on the lake. At first I didn't see any changes. But after more than ten seconds, the lake began to roll, as if it was boiling. The fish and various aquatic monsters in the lake all jumped to the shore crazily. About half a minute later, the lake surface was completely covered with steaming heat. It seemed that Yinxue was planning to burn the lake dry.

"Yinxue, get some wind to blow away the mist. It will evaporate faster this way." I reminded Yinxue loudly.

Yinxue wiped the tears on her face that were not completely dry with her other hand, and then pointed to the sky with one hand and slowly circled it twice. She saw that the gas on the lake began to converge crazily towards one point, and then began to spiral upward. We watched as a small cyclone gradually formed in front of us and quickly developed into a waterspout. Si Luo was so surprised that she couldn't even close her mouth. She had already heard from the conversation just now that Yinxue was an NPC. But she didn't expect Yinxue to be so powerful.

The waterspout rotated faster and faster, and eventually developed into a huge black tornado, and the water in the lake began to fly upward with the tornado. The water level of the lake also dropped rapidly. Seeing that the tornado was more effective than the heat ray, Yinxue simply gave up the ray on the other hand and used both hands to control the wind. I saw a dozen small cyclones quickly appearing on the edge of the lake. Then the wind became louder and louder, and the dozen small cyclones quickly grew into a dozen black tornadoes and began to circle around the large tornado in the center of the lake. The lake water seemed to be lifted up in an instant. Even the silt and other things in the lake were pumped up. In the chaos, I seemed to see several big figures being blown away in the whirlwind. I guess they might be the large monsters here. They may be the boss here. But meeting Yinxue would only make them feel unlucky!

The huge lake was completely drained in an instant, and the situation at the bottom of the lake made Silo and I dumbfounded. The entire lake bed was actually covered with a layer of sparkling magic crystals. Its density is so high that it's as if the bottom of the lake is made up of a whole piece of magic crystal. I originally considered the possibility of discovering magic crystal mineralization at the bottom of the lake, but I never expected to find so much.

Silo pointed blankly at the lake bed and asked, "Does this mean we've made a fortune?"

I nodded, then shook my head. "If only there are mines here, and there is nothing else like our worst-case scenario, then they will only cover our mining costs. But if it is like here everywhere. Then I suggest you hire security immediately company, and be prepared to deal with crazy suitors.”

"Why?"

"Because you are now a rich woman, there will be many people who will try to get your idea. Some of them may use methods such as kidnapping, extortion, and intimidation. Others may launch a love offensive against you. Believe me, be prepared in advance. It's good for you."

"How can I be so popular!" Silo said with a smile: "I only got a small part, you took the big part, and you still... um? What is that?" Silo suddenly found a person in the sky in the distance. The black dot approached rapidly, and soon more black dots appeared behind the black dot.

I looked up. "Don't worry, it's our guild's shuttle team."

"Shuttle?"

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"A transport aircraft that can take off and land vertically, and has an exaggerated straight-line speed. However, the disadvantage of this thing is also obvious, that is, it cannot turn. If you want to turn, you must first stop. Then use another set of equipment to turn, and wait. Only when the direction is aligned can it return to linear motion, and it takes about a minute to switch. There is basically no possibility of participating in a war. We mainly use it for fixed routes between cities. Anyway, as long as the direction is aligned and we run back and forth, it will be fine. No need to turn around."

While we were talking, those big guys had already flown above our heads. These big submarine-looking guys have a very nice fluid shape, so they all gain respectable speeds and ultra-low power consumption. Silo didn't close her mouth in surprise until these big guys were completely still above us.

The first thing to fall down was a very large shuttle. As soon as it landed, the fairings on the front and rear sides began to rise upward amidst a burst of mechanical roar, revealing two huge hatches. When the fairing was fully raised, the hatch began to slowly lower outwards, and eventually turned into a springboard resting on the surface. Suddenly there was a chaotic sound of starting machines in the cabin, and two Scorpion-type logging machines opened out of the hatches at both ends amidst the squeaking sound of tracks, followed by the same type of logging machines.

The first ship has not yet been unloaded. The second and third searches have landed. Just like the first ship, the hatches at both ends were opened, and some large and strange-looking machinery came out one after another. Seeing Siluo in the original place, she breathed cold air.

"Are these from your guild?" Silo couldn't help but ask after holding it in for a long time.

"Of course, can we drive here if it's not ours?" I suddenly spotted Rose and quickly waved to her. "Wife. This way."

Rose rode up to us on the giant white wolf I gave her, and then jumped directly from the wolf's back into my arms. "How's it going? I brought all the remaining machines from Essinger and temporarily transferred them from Steel City. I originally planned to send them to the prehistoric era mining equipment. This is our fourth mining team. We are busy with so many mining areas. But come."

"Can't you call more people?"

"There are a lot of people who want to join. But you set the standard so high. How many can come in? There are so many NPCs, but we can't afford to hire them like this? Recently, both the Dark Temple and Heavenly Court have refused to sell NPCs to us. "

"Why?"

Rose pointed with her hands and said: "Last month, fifteen million soldiers were killed in the war against Japan. Last month, an outpost was established in the United States and more than 40 million soldiers of the Dark Temple were trapped. Last month, we fought with the European Temple of Light. When the war started, only a few people died. But then we needed workers and almost emptied the Black Temple's reserve population. In the past month, you have been on various expeditions. Do you know how many NPCs have died during this time? There are also natural losses when mining ore. Our guild kills more than 10 million NPCs every month on average, and there are also limits on the sales points!"

"Damn! Then there's no way to recruit people?"

"That's not true. But we need this." Rose rubbed her hands, and we understood immediately.

"When did Heaven say it would not supply NPC troops?"

"Today. But they didn't say death. They just asked us to pay attention to consumption. There have been too many work-related injuries in several mining areas recently. This kind of non-combat attrition is really scary!"

"Then just comfort me first. What did the Dark Temple say?"

"Arni said they could sell soldiers, but the craftsmen said they wouldn't give any. The Dark Temple in Europe can still provide labor NPCs such as craftsmen, but the limit is no more than two million per month, and there is no one more. "

"Our guild has so many cities. What is the number of natural recruitments?"

"It's about a little over a million a month, which is not enough."

"Isn't that no one is using it anymore?" I pointed at the people who were unloading the goods and asked, "Then where did these people come from?"

"Guess!" Rose smiled very proudly. I knew that she must have finally figured this out. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be asked to guess.

I thought about it and felt that there seemed to be nothing else I could do to get people involved. "Can't guess."

Rose smiled and said: "I bought it from a second-hand dealer."

"Second-hand dealer?"

"The fact that our bank is restricted on imports does not mean that other guilds are also restricted. I went to discuss it with Feng Yin Piaomiao and Ashford, and used their remaining shares to buy labor and then transfer it to us. Although the price is higher It’s a bit more expensive than buying it directly, but it’s better than having no one use it. In fact, we have just started too much construction in the past month, and there are not enough people to build cities and mines. It will be relieved next month. "

I looked at the engineering team who was unloading the goods with satisfaction, and then said: "With these things, it will be easy to handle. As long as the area and approximate reserves of the mining area are determined, we can decide whether to build a city or just a mine. I hope We can discover a large area of ​​high-density mining. I don’t think there are too many colorful magic crystals.”

"Report." An NPC belonging to Frost ran over. Seeing us turning around, he immediately began to report: "The mining exploration team and primary site cleaning equipment have all been unloaded. Can you please indicate whether to start exploration immediately?"

"First determine the approximate mine area and ore reserves, and then report to me."

"Understood." The NPC saluted me, then turned around and ran to his team and began to instruct everyone to separate. The shuttles that had unloaded the cargo took off and returned to make room for us.

A group of NPC trainers rode trolls past us, and those trolls carried some large mechanical parts in pairs. The scorpion wood-cutting machine drove into the edge of the forest with a roar and stopped. The mechanical legs stretched out from under the huge scorpion-shaped machinery to push itself up, and then the two plier-like logging openings were separated. Grabbing toward two trees. The large pliers bite a tree and stroke it from bottom to top. All branches except the trunk were rolled down. As the large pliers moved to the part of the tree trunk close to the surface, a large roulette saw inserted through the middle of the pliers with a roar, and then retreated. The large pliers easily set the straight tree trunk aside, and then stretched toward the next tree. The whole process took less than twenty seconds. The efficiency is amazing.

Silo opened her mouth and sighed: "What a powerful wood-cutting machine. Have you always cut down trees like this before?"

"Absolutely! As you know, our guild has many cities. Naturally, we need a lot of wood. It's impossible to cut it with just people!"

"So is that one over there also sawing trees?" Silo asked, pointing to the large piece of equipment that the trolls were assembling in the distance.

What Silo was referring to was a tower-like device that stood about twenty meters high, with many handle-like things extending out from around it.

I took one look at the thing and shook my head. "That's not a woodcutter. This thing is much more advanced than a woodcutter. In fact, it's an energy detector. It was originally a war detector, but recently we found that it can be used to find minerals just as well. As long as there are samples, this thing You can find all substances with similar properties within a certain range."

"So how big is this certain range you call?"

"It depends on what you are looking for." Rose answered for me: "Substances with strong energy responses like colorful magic crystals only need to be as big as a grain of rice. We can detect them from a thousand kilometers away. But if What you are looking for is just steel or some kind of stable element. The detection range can only be guaranteed to be within a range of three kilometers, and the precise positioning must be within a range of two kilometers."

"That's great. It's much faster than digging, right?"

"Of course." I pointed to the trolls who were grabbing the handles and moving the machine. "It's a pity that it's as powerful as it is heavy. We had to use Troll Guards to move it!"

An NPC technician ran to me and asked: "President, we need the samples here as reference objects."

I raised my hand and aimed at the void of the lake bed that had been dried up. A fist-sized colorful magic crystal immediately flew into my palm. I threw this colorful magic crystal stone over. "Just use this."

"So big?" The mechanic looked at it, then ran back holding the colorful magic crystal. Almost as soon as he loaded the colorful magic crystal into the machine, all the red lines on the entire machine lit up instantly, followed by a red halo of light exploding on the machine. It spread out quickly like a shock wave and enveloped us all.

Several workers shouted to our side: "Get ready, cover your ears."

Silo didn't know why she had to cover her ears, but seeing how quickly we all covered our ears, she followed suit and covered her own ears. Almost as soon as she covered her ears. The red aperture that had just spread out came back with a sharp whistling sound, and unlike before it was just a light curtain, this time the aperture obviously had something more substantial, and we could clearly feel a strong airflow coming from it. Scratched around. When the light circle completely disappeared into the machine, the red lines on the surface of the machine gradually dimmed. A group of workers followed and ran to the bottom of the machine to catch the edge of a piece of paper that had just come out of the machine. The workers were carefully dragging the paper backwards, and the machine outlet was continuously spitting out paper. It seemed that this thing was quite long. After pulling out a paper tape about ten meters long and half a meter wide, the workers ran back and started to pull out the second paper tape, while the rest began to write and draw on the first paper tape.

Silo had never seen such a machine before, so she ran over curiously to see what they were doing. But the paper full of lines seemed too complicated to her, and she couldn't understand what was written on it.

The workers pulled out more than 20 pieces of paper at one go before stopping. Another group of people brought a set of folding boards and unfolded them on the surface to form a 20-meter-square flat surface. The workers spread the papers on the flat plate in order, and then aligned their seams. As more and more paper was laid out, Silo finally realized that it was a picture.

"Is this a picture?" Silo turned around and asked us excitedly.

I nodded. "This is the mass diagram and element ladder diagram of this area. These red dots are substances that have a similar structure to the reference object. Those substances with different colors next to them need to refer to the catalog over there to know what they are. What these lines represent It’s not the shape, but the mass density. When mining, you can avoid cavities and aquifers according to this picture, and you can also reinforce the softer structures in advance to avoid collapse, so our guild rarely mines minerals. There is water penetration or landslide accident.”

"The big guilds are different! The equipment is so advanced! Does your thing have a computer? Why does it have an automatic printing function?"

"If we had computers, we wouldn't have to make it so big." Rose said a little frustrated: "In order to complete this thing, our mages can only stack magic arrays layer by layer. You see this thing looks like a tower, but in fact it is It is composed of more than 10,000 layers of three-dimensional magic arrays. Just the bottom square where the paper comes out uses a triple legal array of water, illusion, and fire. Do you know how difficult it is to make the combined array?"

Silo shook her head. "I'm not a formation mage. I've never played this kind of thing."

I explained to Silo with a smile. "In fact, the work of the Array Mage is a bit like playing a jigsaw puzzle. The key is to ensure that there is no energy hedging between the magic arrays. The Array Mage has a skill called identification, but it can read the energy flow direction of the magic array. , and when compounding the magic circle, you must pay attention to try to make the magic circles of different systems flow in one direction, otherwise both magic circles will lose their effect. It is easy to say, but very complicated to do, but if you are a math expert If so, there is definitely a future for you to become a Formation Mage."

"Oh, I think before discussing my career, you'd better solve those people's problems first." Silo suddenly pointed into the distance and said. We followed her fingers and saw a huge team heading towards us.

"Flies come here really fast!"