I Just Won’t Play by the Book

Chapter 3: Being a miner is really exhausting

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After going up the mountain, Jiang Beiran quickly learned about the content of his trial from the Taoist priest.

"Beiran, cultivation is a matter that requires hardship and perseverance, and mining is the best way to exercise these two qualities. As long as you persevere and pass the test of the mountain guard, the poor will come to pick you up. Zong."

Leaving behind these words and Jiang Beiran, who was full of fighting spirit, the black-robed Taoist priest turned and went down the mountain.

'Master, I will definitely work hard to repay your kindness of knowledge! '

After secretly swearing in his heart, Jiang Beiran followed a mountain guard into the mine.

However, such ambitions were completely extinguished on the second day, the reason is very simple, mining is too tiring!

Jiang Beiran was just an ordinary sophomore in junior high school before crossing. He didn't even take a few sessions of physical education, and his physical fitness can be said to be quite poor.

After time travelling, his body hasn't been strengthened much, and the food he eats is not nutritious, so it's not an exaggeration to describe his body as skinny.

Without any training, Jiang Beiran was taken to a mine by two mountain guards early the next morning. After getting to know a few taciturn workers, the mountain guard gave him a basket and a pick and told him to work hard.

In Jiang Beiran's imagination, mining should be like hitting a piece of ore "dang", "dang" and "dang" a few times like in a computer game.

However, in reality, the smelly, stuffy, dark, and cramped environment of the mine made him stunned. Where had he seen such a posture when he was still in junior high school not long ago

But the two mountain guards obviously didn't intend to give him time to prepare mentally, and pushed him directly into the "nest road" supported by wooden boards.

Because of the different heights of the "West Road", Jiang Bei sometimes walks standing, sometimes squatting, and sometimes even rolls on his back like a beetle, so his physical strength is almost exhausted just after arriving at the mining site.

There was no rest time. As soon as he arrived at the place, he was urged to dig by two mountain guards. As the saying goes, it is not difficult to see people carrying burdens. Jiang Beiran used to watch those workers wielding hoes on TV and always wondered how much effort it would take.

However, in reality, he was so tired that his throat was burning after just hitting it a dozen times, and his hands seemed to be filled with lead, so heavy that he couldn't even lift them up.

"Ha ha… "

Jiang Beiran, with sore hands, leaned on the mining pick and tried desperately to inhale some fresh air, but there was only a smell like gas in the mine, which made him feel dizzy the more he smelled it.

"Who told you to rest, do you still want to pass the trial?"

Just when Jiang Beiran was about to faint, a mountain guard came up and pushed him.

Hearing the word trial, Jiang Beiran breathed out again, wanting to continue fighting, but he couldn't lift his hands.

'Ugh! I'm so useless, I'm sorry, master, my disciple let you down. '

Cursing himself in his heart, Jiang Beiran shook his head and said, "I... I really can't dig anymore."

"How many times have you dug? You can't dig anymore. You still want to join the sect like this?"

"Yes... I am useless. I will apologize to the Taoist priest. I let him down. I'm sorry."

After Jiang Beiran finished speaking, he sighed deeply, and felt in his heart that the protagonists of the novels he had read were all able to erupt incomparably tenacious will for cultivation, so why was he so weak? This broken system doesn’t know how to help me .

Jiang Beiran, who admitted in his heart that he was weak, was about to accept the outcome of failure, when he felt a sudden sharp pain in his abdomen.

"Damn it! You're such a waste. The few who came in front have been fighting for months to join the Bird Sect. You're a badass and you're not good enough on the first day."

The mountain guard gave Jiang Beiran another kick while talking.

Jiang Beiran was stunned by these two kicks. He only felt a whirlwind, a buzzing in his head, and an ominous premonition rushed into his heart.

But before he could figure it out, the mountain guard squatted down and grabbed his hair and shouted: "You trash, listen carefully to me, what kind of genius are you to enter the sect and become a master? Let me tell you, you are a piece of trash, now let me dig mine, if I can’t dig it, I will kill you, understand!?”

After hearing this, Jiang Beiran shook his head and shouted, "I want to see my master, I want to see my master."

"Your master? Hahahahaha." The mountain guard laughed wildly for a while and asked, "What's your master's name?"

"My master's name is... my master's name is..."

Jiang Beiran was dumbfounded again. After two days, the Taoist priest never told him his name, and he never asked.

"I... my master is a Taoist from Lihuo Sect. He brought me here yesterday. I want to see him, I want to see him!"

"Hahahaha." The mountain guard's laughter became wilder, and then he kicked Jiang Beiran's stomach again: "You are still away from the Fire Sect, let's have your Spring and Autumn Dream, I will give you two choices now, Either continue to stand up and mine, or get kicked to death on your stomach, you only have three seconds."

As soon as the mountain guard finished speaking, three options appeared in front of Jiang Beiran.

[Option 1: Continue to lie down. Completion reward: Qinglian Secret Record (Earth-level low-grade)]

[Option 2: Beg the other party to let you go down the mountain. Completion reward: Earth Fire Kung Fu (Mysterious Class Top Grade)]

[Option 3: Get up and continue mining. Completion reward: random basic attribute points +1]

"2!"

When Jiang Beiran was looking at the content of the options, the mountain guard had already counted to 2 and kicked him in the stomach again.

At this moment, Jiang Bei realized it! He understood that the contents of these options are not important at all, all he needs to do is look at the rewards, the better the rewards, the more dangerous the option is!

Because judging from the strength of the kick just now, Jiang Beiran fully believed that the other party dared to kick him to death, and if he continued to lie on his stomach, he would definitely die.

So before the "3" in Shoushan's mouth was about to be called out, Jiang Beiran immediately chose three, and stood up with a strong will to survive.

"Very good, isn't this still powerful? Dig quickly if you don't want to die! Did you hear me!?"

Although Jiang Beiran was trembling all over at this time, in order to survive, he still tried his best to raise the pickaxe and smash it down.

[Optional task completed, reward: Constitution +1]

Looking at the system prompt that floated up before, and the traces of strength gushing out of his body, Jiang Beiran was stunned.

' Just finish it? '

When he chose [Seek Taoist to accept me as an apprentice] before, he didn't give the reward immediately at all, but it became a task, but now he just got the reward directly after completing the content on the option.

He was stunned by the huge difference in difficulty.

"What are you in a daze for again!?"

Hearing the mountain guard... oh no, the supervisor yelled angrily, Jiang Beiran hurriedly continued to raise the mine pick and knock.