"The Third Master Gu discovered a mercury mine. Wang Jude wants to dedicate it to the Second Master Gu. As long as you don't kill me, I can tell you the specific location of the mercury mine!"
Xibeiguo said in horror. The disguise on his face finally faded away, revealing the face of a beautiful black-haired woman. As his true appearance was revealed, his voice also took on a feminine voice.
"Mercury mine?" Yu Sheng'an's pupils shrank suddenly.
Mercury, commonly known as mercury.
This thing is of such high value in this world that it can be called Mithril to Kwir.
The reason is simple: mercury can dissolve a variety of metals, including: gold, silver, zinc, cadmium, tin, lead, potassium, and sodium.
The professional term is: amalgam.
Use it to refine metal ores.
That is, by grinding metal ore into powder and mixing it with mercury, the properties of mercury can be used to dissolve the metal.
Then the mercury is distilled out through distillation, and the metal can be purified.
In this world where rich ores are almost impossible to find, and even poor ores are hard to find, mercury amalgamation is one of the few efficient and feasible methods.
It can even extract metals from sand.
As for its shortcomings of being highly toxic to the human body
Hey, if you don’t have enough to eat, who cares
What's more, in this world, gas masks can be easily condensed and completely sealed distillation equipment is just a matter of thought, so as long as the operating procedures are followed, it is almost harmless.
This shows the importance of mercury in this world.
"I swear, this is true and I will never lie!" The charming black-haired woman quickly raised her hands and swore, with a look of horror on her face that made people feel pity.
"Tell me more about this matter!" Yu Sheng'an said again.
The black-haired woman seemed extremely frightened and hurriedly told the story of the incident.
It turned out that she was a spy placed by Wang Jude beside Mr. Gu, with the purpose of tracing the location of the mercury mine.
For this reason, Wang Jude even did not hesitate to give her the "Mask of Hong's Manifestation" that he had obtained from Mr. Gu.
Relying on this masking ability, the woman was able to get along like a fish in water, and she actually discovered the location of the mercury mine.
However, the black-haired woman was worried that she would leak the location of the mercury mine and be hunted by Mr. Gu, so she became cruel and decided to flee and join other oasis nobles, which led to today's pursuit.
Yu Sheng'an's eyes flashed when he heard this, and he asked: "Why don't you escape to the city? With your ability, wouldn't the more people the better?"
The black-haired woman suddenly had a strange look on her face, and after a while she said: "My ability was rewarded by Mr. Gu. Of course, Mr. Gu can take away my ability at any time."
Yu Shengan nodded.
This inconspicuous detail once again completed his guess about the world.
—The morphological characteristics that nanorobots can combine are indeed limited by permissions.
Yu Sheng'an added: "Tell me about the Gu family in this oasis. Tell me everything you know."
The black-haired woman's expression became increasingly weird, but she still had to tell what she knew.
The Gu family is the ruling aristocracy of New Qingzhou.
The current head of the Gu family is named Gu Tianhe, and he has four sons.
Gu Tianhe is now eighty-seven years old. He can be said to be very old and about to die. If nothing unexpected happens, the next generation of the family head will be born among the four sons.
Therefore, the internal struggle within the Gu family is fierce.
In other words, this is also the norm for nobles in major oases. Regardless of whether the family head is old or not, in order to show sufficient ability, they will fight openly and secretly and kill each other.
It's just that the struggle in New Qingzhou has become more cruel because the old family leader is old.
After Yu Sheng'an listened, he asked again: "Where is the mercury mine?"
The black-haired woman said with a panic look on her face: "I can tell you, but can you take me out of New Qingzhou first?"
"I don't like bargaining." Yu Sheng'an asked again.
"Please, I don't want to die. As long as you take me away from New Qingzhou, I will say anything." The black-haired woman said quickly.
"No problem!" Yu Sheng'an nodded: "By the way, I want to lend you something, and I hope you won't be stingy."
"What?" The black-haired woman looked confused.
"Head!"
As soon as the sound fell, Yu Sheng raised his knife and dropped it. A big head flew up like a water bird, splashing large water drops.
Only, it's red.
The nanorobot attached to the head quickly fell off and evaporated, revealing another female face, but this face looked much more heroic and far less charming than the "black-haired woman".
"Life is like a play. It's a pity that you got too involved in the play. Otherwise, maybe I would have spared your life."
Yu Shengan waved his hand like a fly, and countless black particles poured out like snakes, swimming around the headless corpse, and then presented some fragmentary objects.
Yu Shengan carefully inspected these parts.
In the invisible dimension, a trace of remnant soul lingered on his fingertips and did not disperse for a long time.
After a while, Yu Sheng'an threw a few scattered items on the ground and said, "Your Excellency has been listening for so long and is still unwilling to leave. Are you going to visit my house?"
After the sound fell, the alley became quiet, with only the faint roar of the engine in the distance making the place even more deadly.
Until Yu Sheng'an turned to look at a corner.
The light in that corner changed subtly, and a bald woman wearing a reflective vest was revealed. She said with a gloomy face: "Kill him, are you planning to get something rare to live in?"
This is a bit confusing.
But Yu Shengan understood.
Before Xibeihuo died, he did not reveal the location of the mercury mine, but Yu Shengan suddenly went on a killing spree. It was not surprising that she suspected that Yu Shengan knew the location of the mercury mine.
"I don't want to get involved in the fight between you!" Yu Sheng'an said.
"It's not up to you. You've been involved since you stepped into this oasis." The bald woman said, suddenly manifesting a tablet, took a look at it and said, "Well, my master wants to see you! "
"who?"
"She's talking about Mr. Gu!" The bald woman raised her chin and pointed at the dead body on the ground.
Gu Sanye who controls the mercury mine
"Huh-" Yu Sheng'an breathed out slightly.
This trip to the oasis was really full of surprises.
"Lead the way!" Yu Sheng'an said.
As soon as the sound fell, there was a sudden light in the sky, and a billowing stream of heat came out.
Yu Sheng'an looked up and saw a car with a chassis spewing blazing flames. It took off from the top of a building, then landed vertically and stopped steadily in front of Yu Sheng'an.
The bald woman walked over, opened the car door, and invited Yu Shengan to enter.
The daring Yu Sheng'an, who is an expert in art, got in without even thinking about it.
There is one more guess in my mind about this world - aircrafts belong to high-level authorization.
The car door closed, and then it floated straight up, shuttling between buildings, like a clown fish in deep sea coral.
As the car flies towards the center of the city, the scenery of the surrounding buildings is also undergoing subtle changes.
The buildings first became taller, denser, and more ornate. Then, suddenly, the buildings disappeared, leaving only a cluster of low buildings.
Looking as far as the eye can see, in the center of the city, there is a vast expanse of greenery, with large farmland distributed among it, like a central garden.
After the car passed the building, it quickly lowered its height and flew close to the ground, just like an internal combustion engine car.
The car finally stopped in front of a low courtyard.
This is a typical oriental building complex. When you enter the main entrance, there is a screen wall blocking your view.
Entering the main entrance, walking around the screen wall, your eyes suddenly open up, and you can see blue bricks and black tiles, pavilions, ancient pavilions, small bridges and flowing water!
The gurgling water flows around the house. If the desert people see it, they will definitely understand what it means: the wine and meat in the rich house smells bad, and the roads are frozen to death.
After crossing the nine-eight-turn bridge built in the middle of the lake, I stepped into a pavilion.
—The bald woman did not follow, but stopped at the entrance of the bridge.
In the pavilion in the middle of the lake, a woman with flowing black hair was playing the strings of the piano with her head lowered. The faint sound of playing the piano lingered in her ears!
As expected of an aristocrat, he just likes to do these "I have what others don't have" moths!
Yu Sheng'an glanced at it and sat down in the pavilion with a sneer. He looked sideways at the countless goldfish surrounding the pavilion. He became playful and gathered a fishing rod and threw it out.
"Are you... a noble?" The sound of the piano suddenly stopped, and the woman playing the piano looked surprised.
"Mud legs!" Yu Sheng'an replied.
"The sand people don't know what fishing gear is!" After the woman playing the piano finished speaking, she suddenly laughed at herself: "Maybe he is a servant serving the nobles."
Yu Shengan took a look at the woman playing the piano and saw that her black hair was flowing and her whole body was shrouded in a white cloak, making her look extremely mysterious.
The exposed hands for playing the piano were glowing with metallic luster and were completely composed of precision mechanical structures. Yu Shengan had no doubt that those fingers could be transformed into firearms at any time, spitting out blazing tongues of fire.
Yu Shengan ignored her and focused on fishing.
"You can't catch fish with a straight hook." After a while, the woman playing the piano couldn't help but say again.
"Didn't I catch you?" Yu Sheng'an turned his head with a smirk on his face.
The woman playing the piano was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, a flash of red and anger suddenly flashed across her thin face, and a laser beam appeared from nowhere, and in an instant, Yu Sheng's left hand holding the fishing gear was interrupted.
Instantly, blood started to pour out from the severed wrist. The severed hand fell into the pond, attracting countless fish to grab it frantically.