Inside a long and narrow cave of more than twenty feet.
Several luminous cyan fluorites inlaid on the top reflect everything in this place clearly. The ground and the walls are all pits and pits, extremely uneven, and at first glance they are traces of manual drilling.
Judging from the old and new levels of the traces, it should not be too far away, and it was cut out by someone directly with a sharp knife.
On one side of the cave wall, there was a well-opened square channel with a height of several feet, but the entrance of the channel was directly blocked by a large monster skeleton that was nearly half incomplete.
At this moment, in front of the passage, a ragged, slightly pale young man from the appearance of a mine slave stopped and stood, looking at the bones of the monster with a thoughtful expression on his face.
This young man is naturally Liu Ming.
After more than a day of continuous deepening, this place is no longer far from the deep channel marked in the second half of the map.
During the past period of time, he could see the dead bodies of mine slaves from time to time. This was the first time I saw a monster skeleton like this one.
On this half of a rather huge skeleton, there was no trace of flesh and blood left on it, nor a trace of spiritual power fluctuations, which should have been dead for a long time.
Judging from the remaining skeleton remains, it can be vaguely seen that when its body shape is complete, it should be three or four feet in size, and its appearance roughly resembles a giant dog. Although the remaining bones of the forelimb and hind limbs are broken, the claws are part of it. They are all extremely sharp, and there are some inch-long fangs scattered on the ground near their heads, and the cold light of Aomori is shining under the dim light.
"This should be the evil beast?"
After Liu Ming pondered for a while, he muttered a few words to himself in a low, inaudible voice.
Suddenly he thought about it, took the bone knife from his waist and moved it to the side of the skeleton. After a little comparison, he found that, except for the new and old levels, the materials of the two are indeed very similar, but there are some subtleties. different.
But the next moment, he suddenly moved his arm, and the bone knife in his hand turned into a cold light slashed down.
There was a "poof".
A thick bone on the skeleton in front of him was immediately cut to pieces easily.
"Sure enough!" Liu Ming nodded, and after putting away the bone knife, a clear look appeared on his face.
Although the half-skeleton in front of him is undoubtedly the remains of an evil beast, the quality of its bones is obviously not as good as the material of the bone knife in his hand. It seems that the evil beasts are also of different types, with huge disparity in strength.
Otherwise, this half-framework won't be abandoned here so easily, and nobody cares about it.
But even so, if the dead beast corpse equivalent to the liquid condensate is placed outside, its skin and bones are still good materials for refining spiritual weapons.
But here, even the better bones of evil beasts can only be simply processed into sharp weapons, the fur is made into map clothing, and the flesh and blood are only used as food to satisfy hunger.
However, seeing that although the miners here have yellow and thin faces, their bodies are much stronger than the average monks of the same rank in the outside world. It seems that the flesh and blood of this evil beast still has some system-enhancing effects. There are a lot of benefits.
A hint of thought flashed in Liu Ming's eyes, but after touching his chin, Dang Even put the bone knife back on his waist, bypassed the evil beast skeleton, and continued to go deep.
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An hour later.
Holding the map in his hand, Liu Ming walked out of a small cave and came to a fork in the road with a look of helplessness on his face.
Since he saw the bones of the evil beast, it has been difficult to find a matching intersection according to the route indicated on the map. After trying several times, he can't help but recall the words of the strange young man he met at Sanchakou. .
"It seems that this place should be considered as the depths of the veins. Often when someone opens up new channels, the map in hand is not so useful." Liu Ming couldn't help but secretly thought.
After he sighed lightly, he put away the map in his hand, and took out another blank animal skin from his body. After a random description based on the current terrain, he found another fork in the road. Flash walked in.
After half a day.
In the new animal skin in Liu Ming's hand, many lane signs have been drawn by him, and most of the routes have been drawn with a cross.
Because he was already in the depths of the mineral vein, in the past time, after repeated attempts, he did indeed find a lot of caves.
But it made him feel a little depressed, these places are mostly ordinary ores of little value, or waste mines that have been mined out.
At this moment, he was holding a piece of dried meat, while biting it, while continuing to carefully search in a narrow passage.
This kind of jerky made from the blood and flesh of evil beasts is quite tough and can hardly be chewed, and even if one mouths it, you can still feel a pungent bloody smell, which makes people feel nauseous and unpalatable. Extremely!
Having said that, this is the second time since he stepped into the realm of cultivating immortals that he has eaten the flesh and blood of beasts so directly.
After all, after refining the flesh and blood of the monster animal into a pill, the effect will be much better, and the impurities and side effects will be less.
Liu Ming was a bit uncomfortable at the beginning, but after experiencing its special effects, he couldn't help it.
It turns out that this kind of jerky, shortly after swallowing it into the throat, it turns into a wisp of subtle heat everywhere in the body meridian, giving the limbs and limbs a vaguely unspeakable feeling of comfort, and even the mind seems to be more sober. .
It seemed like he had previously guessed, the flesh of this evil beast really had a certain benefit to the flesh.
But what makes Liu Ming a little strange is that the body of the evil beast's body's mana recovery is minimal, which is very different from the flesh and blood of ordinary monsters.
It seemed that this evil beast could not be regarded as a real monster beast, and its origins are deeply studied.
When he walked along the passage for no less than a few hundred meters, he saw a new passage that seemed to have just been opened at the end of the passage not far ahead.
With joy in his heart, he quickly speeded up his pace and walked over. Before and after he came to the entrance of the cave, he looked at the small sword marked with black and red blood at the entrance, and immediately frowned.
After hesitating for a while, he shook his head and turned to leave, looking for another mine tunnel.
Although there should be a lot of extremely rare mineral resources in this passage, since there are marks left, they have obviously been taken by people.
When Liu Ming walked along the road, from time to time, he could see some abandoned mine tunnels that had been dug out. A considerable part of the tunnel entrances were marked with various marks.
Given his current situation, naturally there is no need to proactively provoke other forces.
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at the same time.
Another cave not far from the mine trading area.
The cave is relatively spacious, about thirty meters in size, and a few simple stone houses made of huge rocks are located beside it.
The stone house is completely enclosed, there is no window, only a few holes are left above the four stone walls.
In the open space in front of the house, there are two burly miners patrolling back and forth, each equipped with a weapon made from the bones of evil beasts, and their eyes are constantly sweeping towards the only passageway here. , A look of caution.
And in one of the largest stone houses, there is a big bonfire at this moment.
Several pieces of barbecue were set up above the bonfire, and bursts of meat scented with a strong bloody smell were drifting out, permeating the entire stone house.
By the bonfire, a man with a face full of flesh, a hideous face, and a figure as large as two feet was walking back and forth, and looked fiercely at a small, green-skinned, uncomfortable miner slave in front of him.
"So, it was my brother who was killed by a newcomer. But where did you hear the news?" Suddenly, the big man said coldly, his two thick palms just shook lightly. , There was a burst of crackling joints.
"Return to Boss Sha, I recently used monsters to perform secret techniques on Tielin and others. I wanted to explore their movements to see if there are any newly discovered resource points, but I never thought of hearing the news of Brother Ling from their conversation. So I rushed to inform you as soon as possible." The little mine slave hurriedly replied with a smile.
"Hmph, I will verify this news myself. As long as it is confirmed to be true, your benefit is naturally indispensable. But if you dare to deceive me, I will break your bones inch by inch."
After hearing this, the big man stopped for a while, and the sound of his hand joints suddenly stopped at the same time. The muscles on his chest and arms bulged high, revealing a layer of crystal color, as if cast of steel.
"Boss Sha, how dare I deceive you. I will swear by a heart demon, and it will never be half false." Under the aura of the big man, the short mine slave couldn't help but stunned, and then said with a vow to pat his chest.
"Very well, you released the news to me, saying that Sha Mou offered a reward of two thousand spirit stones to find the whereabouts of this newcomer. A newcomer even dared to attack my people, although my brother is just a waste, but this hatred is not If you report, others don't know how to think of me. As long as this newcomer is found, I will definitely make him regret coming to this world." The big man with a grim face then ordered the short mine slave.
The little miner naturally said yes again and again, and then after the big man waved his hand, Wei Wei Nuo left the room.
The tranquility was restored in the stone house again.
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Liu Ming naturally didn't know his life, and in the eyes of some people, it was only worth two thousand spiritual stones.
At this moment, he was already in a self-developed stone cave deep in a certain mineral vein, and he was drawing out a flag from his sleeve, arranging a temporary array.
At the entrance of the stone cave, a white bone scorpion with scarlet scales lay quietly on the ground, watching everything nearby.
This passage was a deserted place that he had spent a lot of time finally found. Using the low-grade iron sword spirit weapon obtained from the vein guard, it took him a long time before he barely opened it. This place in front of you.
Although the stone hole opened on the mine tunnel wall is not too big, it is only two or three feet in size, but this place may be because it belongs to the rare mineral vein area. Even ordinary stones are hard as iron, even if he now has With a body far surpassing a monk of the same rank and an infinite brute force, in the case of not daring to easily consume mana to spur the dragon and tiger underworld prison skills, every sword cut can only cut a few inches thick on the stone wall. Only one floor.
At this time, Liu Ming finally understood why the mine slaves were so desperate for some rare ores.
If all the ores in the passages are so difficult to mine, it is really not an easy task to make up the amount for a month, and it is even more difficult to obtain a larger amount of rare ores.