Opening his eyes, Gang Yan saw that he was lying in a cave. There was a crystal lamp hanging not far away, and the light was dim, and Su Chen walked towards him.
"Are you awake? How do you feel?" Su Chen asked.
Gang Yan sat up and scratched his head: "The bed is a bit small."
Su Chen smiled: "You have nothing serious, but your muscles are a bit torn. Using brute force and source skills to resist, this is the first time I have seen... Well done."
Gang Yan smiled embarrassedly.
Then he turned his head and saw something lying on his stomach in the corner. It was the big scary beetle. He was taken aback and jumped up instinctively.
"Don't be nervous, it won't hurt you." Su Chen waved his hand to Gang Yan.
Perhaps it was used to it. After strolling outside for a lap, the gold-eater automatically returned to a corner of the cave and lay down, motionless.
Gang Yan sat back angrily.
Su Chen handed over a bottle: "Drink it, the injury will heal faster. But at the price, you may be weak for a day, or diarrhea or something, but there will be no major problems."
"Oh." Gang Yan took it honestly and took a sip.
Seeing his silent and obedient appearance, Su Chen suddenly said, "Why did you help me just now?"
Gang Yan answered with a straight throat: "You are my master, of course I will fight for you."
"But you are not my soldier, you are just my servant, fighting is not your responsibility. And if I die, you will be free."
Gang Yan shook his head: "I haven't thought about it, I just think I should do that."
"There is no other reason? For example, if you like my master, you think I treat you better than black hands, or some other reason."
Gang Yan continued to shook his head: "I have spoken to four masters, and you are not the one who treats me best. My second heroine is that she is very gentle and never let me do heavy work, which is very good to me."
Su Chen laughed: "You really don't know how to flatter. Then why does your former mistress not want you?"
A gleam of gloom flashed in Gang Yan's eyes: "She didn't want me. She was dead. In a fight, she was attacked and killed by a despicable guy from behind."
"Sorry." Su Chen said.
Gang Yan lowered his head and sat silent.
Seeing his silence, Su Chen's heart moved.
He said, "Do you want to be my soldier? The kind that fights specifically for me."
Gang Yan stayed for a while: "I don't have the power to source energy."
"I can teach you."
Gang Yan shook his head: "I'm stupid. The three masters have taught me before, but I just can't learn it."
"Does it fail to learn, or can't it?"
Gang Yan thought for a while, and replied: "It should be a bad study. The Yan clan has a very low sensitivity to source energy, and it is very slow to practice."
"You can still learn, right? It's just slow."
"But I don't want to learn." Gang Yan lowered his head: "I hate fighting and don't like killing."
Su Chen was stunned. For a while, he said, "Killing is indeed not a good thing, but only by mastering your power can you control your own destiny and not be killed. Don't you want to be stronger? You don't want to do it for you. Does the dead mistress take revenge?"
Hearing the last words, Gang Yan's eyes glowed.
But the next moment, this look disappeared.
He lowered his head and said frustratedly: "I can't beat that person. He is very strong... You can't beat it, and we can't beat it all together."
"But it's only now." Su Chen pressed Gang Yan's shoulder: "If you believe me, maybe I have a way to improve your cultivation."
Gang Yan looked up in amazement, and saw Su Chen's confident eyes.
A stream of heat surged in his heart, and Gang Yan nodded slowly: "Okay, I am willing to be your soldier. What do you need me to do?"
"Now..." Su Chen smiled: "I'm sorry, although your ex-hostess never let you do heavy work, I can't be so generous. Who will let me have no one under my hand? Go digging. All the star silver mines in this mountainside will be dug out for me. When the digging is finished and when we go out, I will take you to practice when the time comes."
"En!" Gang Yan put his heavy head a little.
In the following days, Gangyan fell into the rhythm of mining.
Although this cave is a food cave for gold-eating worms, it has a limited appetite. Once it is full, it will not eat again. Therefore, the consumption of the mine is far less than that of the insatiable humans—for human miners, as long as it is still If they can dig, they won't stop grabbing.
Because of this, there is still a certain amount of star silver mine, which was turned out in pieces under the hoe of Gangyan.
In this case, the gold-eating bug became a problem.
Whenever it was hungry, this big beetle would hum and ran over, dig in a pile of ore, ate wildly and then left.
A lot of the ore dug out by Gangyan was eaten by this guy. So Su Chen simply gave the ring to Gang Yan and asked him to put the ore into the storage ring.
The gold worm could not steal the food, so he whimpered and wandered around the steel rock without attacking, until it looked more like a pleading pug. Gang Yan saw that it was quite interesting, and sometimes he carried Su Chen secretly to the gold-eating worms some ore. The gold-eating worms were not picky eaters, they were very happy to eat, but the more they entangled Gangyan.
Su Chen knew this too, but didn't care.
He is very busy.
In addition to practicing the source skills, he now reads Ulrike's notes and learns ancient Owen every day.
The knowledge that Ulrike left behind is very mixed and lacks a system, and he is groping for it all by himself. But because of this, Su Chen understood better. Because these notes record in detail the whole process of a person pursuing the ancient arcane way, from knowing nothing to achieving something small. If it was really those profound and complicated things, Su Chen might not be able to understand it. Only this kind of constant exploration, full of personal guesses and imagination, made Su Chen easier to understand.
The process of following Ulrike's notes was the process of Su Chen's exploration of ancient arcane arts, and he was quickly immersed in it. Through those few words, Su Chen had a relatively deep understanding of the former Austro Empire. That magical country that had created 30,000 years of brilliance has had countless great phenomena and created countless brights.
A powerful source forbidden magic doll that can fly into the sky and escape the ground; an energy device that can extract source power from the air as a power; unheard of life transformation and blood extraction techniques, as well as various magical and magnificent ancient arcane arts, etc., etc. They were all passed down by the Austrians in that era.
The origin of the blood system that people rely on for survival is just a small branch of the countless studies of the Austro Empire back then.
Thinking of this, Su Chen felt unparalleled shock.
Unfortunately, these studies eventually disappeared into the dust of history over time. Now even the Austrians themselves cannot reproduce their former glory.
In his free time, Su Chen called Gang Yan over and taught him arrow frog absorption.
I have to say that the Yan Clan is really stupid, and they probably have stones in their heads. A simple dart frog soaking technique, Gang Yan actually took four nights to barely be able to use it. I thought he could use it skillfully in one night.
In terms of pure comprehension, the comprehension of the Yan Clan is probably less than half of that of the normal human race.
But perhaps it is precisely because they are a group of dead brains that the Rock Clan is so loyal.
There are losses and gains, and you can never expect a person who is witty and flexible and absolutely loyal to you. In fact, such a person does not exist.
After thinking about this, Su Chen was relieved.
Today Su Chen was studying an experiment in the notes, and suddenly heard Gang Yan's voice outside: "Don't come here, I can't give this to you!"
Su Chen walked out after hearing the sound, and saw Gang Yan holding a piece of star silver ore continuously backing away, while the gold-eater was chasing the ore in Gang Yan's hand. It wasn't malicious, but the pair of giant sickle-like jaw teeth were really terrifying, chasing Gangyan around.
"Why don't you put the ore in the ring?" Su Chen asked.
After the ore enters the ring, the gold-eating bug will not smell it, and it will stop making trouble.
"The ring is full, I can't put this high-purity piece in it, and it has been chasing after me again." Gang Yan replied in distress.
"Then give it."
Although a little reluctant, Su Chen didn't want Gang Yan to be chased forever.
The Star Silver Mine drew a beautiful arc and flew to the distance. The gold-eater, like a well-trained hound, rushed over to bite the ore and swallowed it in one bite.
The contented gold-eater no longer entangled the steel rock, first went to the corner and rubbed the mountain wall a few times, then shook his head and went to sleep on the other side after a few puffs.
Gold-eating insects are life, and life naturally has physiological needs. Su Chen didn't care about it. Anyway, this guy was tuned and taught by Ulrike, knowing that he would find a corner to solve the problem, so Su Chen and the others don't need to worry about it. Just when Su Chen was about to return to the cave, he saw a flash of light passing by the gold-eater's feces.
Su Chen was shocked and walked over.
Because gold-eating insects eat a lot of metal ore, its feces are not smelly, and most of them are hard slag, supplemented by a small amount of clay, at least it does not look so disgusting.
Su Chen smashed the clay gravel dung mass wrapped on the outside, revealing a piece of peculiar metal that shone with silver-white light, which looked like star silver but was not star silver.
"Xingyin Essence?" Su Chen exclaimed.
Star Silver Essence is a high-grade metal refined by re-smelting a large amount of Star Silver. It is specially used to make high-grade source device materials, which can increase the source energy conductivity. It is no longer accessible and used by source spirits of the level of Su Chen. .
Su Chen did not expect that something like Star Silver Essence would appear in the feces of the gold-eating insects. At that moment, the first thought that flashed through Su Chen's mind was: Is this a coincidence? Or is it normal
Thinking of this, Su Chen fiercely smashed the dung mass in front of him to see if he could find the second piece.
No, no, still no.
As soon as he raised his head, he rushed into the darkness, where there were dung pieces left by gold-eating bugs everywhere.
Bang, bang, bang, in the continuous percussion, finally, another light flashed.
Su Chen picked up a silver-white metal ball that was obviously much smaller, with a look of excitement in his eyes.
"Master?" Gang Yan came up suspiciously: "What are you doing?"
He couldn't figure out why Su Chen suddenly became interested in the feces of gold-eating insects.
"It's nothing." Su Chenqiang pressed his heart with joy and said, "Just next, you have a new job to be busy."
"What's the job?" Gang Yan asked.
"Taking manure." Su Chen replied.
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ps: Everyone's monthly pass is very good, and the fate is even more rewarding. Let's fight again tomorrow!