The artifacts of the heavens on the tip of the tongue

Chapter 156 Xiaodongshan Copper Mine

After wiping out the team brought by Poisonous Cat King, Luke had no rivals in the entire Xiaodongshan area. He casually wrote a souvenir for Luo Sanpao to send to Xiong Chumo and others, and he took it with him The remaining team went to Xiaodongshan Copper Mine.

He wants to inspect his first territory in this world.

Xiaodong Mountain, as its name suggests, is located to the east of Donghai City, and the mountain is not big. On one side is the small plain of the East China Sea, and on the other side is a cliff facing the sea.

According to the description of the sphere of influence function interface of Luke's [Swallowing Sky System], this hill is 243 meters above sea level and covers an area of ​​6.5 square kilometers.

Before the Doomsday War, there was a winding mountain road here, which was the main road connecting Yanqing City and Donghai City.

Before being taken over by the Poison Cat King's cat demon tribe, caravans from the two cities often traveled here.

It's just that now, it's been destroyed badly by cat monsters.

It's not that they destroyed the road, but that the originally beautiful environment here was turned into a dirty and smelly cesspit by these little monsters from the Arad continent.

Luke's first order to take over this site was not to let the gold-eating ants start mining immediately, but to order the worker ants to fill up all the garbage here.

Otherwise, the smell here is unbearable, it's almost the same as Luo Sanpao's Invincible Lei Zhen fart.

Luke did not go deep into the mine pit of Xiaodongshan Copper Mine, but only briefly inspected the entrance of the cave and left.

With the power interface of [Swallowing the Sky System], Luke doesn't need to conduct scouting like ordinary people, the system will tell him everything.

Xiaodongshan copper mine is not rich in resources, with total reserves of about 50 tons, and its grade is also quite poor, less than 0.1%.

Such reserves and scale were not worth exploiting before the Doomsday War, which is why it can be preserved until now.

After the Doomsday War, human civilization lost the foundation of industrial society, and transportation became the core bottleneck restricting everything.

Where possible, people would try to transport finished products for trade rather than crude raw materials like copper ingots.

The development of the Xiaodongshan Copper Mine has benefited from the alien forging technology of the Clown Clan in Gray Valley City. Without the Star Blue Chiyan Knife of the Clown Clan, the copper mines here are worthless.

Even if the second force occupies this place, the gain is not worth the loss, because the clowns will not succumb to other forces like they did to Luke.

After all, Luke still occupies the title of Lord Luke, the ninth apostle.

As far as Luke is concerned, the 50 tons of copper mines are enough to supply the clowns in Gray Valley City, so that their star blue red flame knife can greatly increase the output and production speed.

He can also logically insert the line of interest of the Xinglan Chiyan Saber, and he is no longer a stranger isolated from this world.

The only problem now is that the main gold-eating ants used for mining, the worker ants that assist in mining, and the colorful centipedes that are often used as transport vehicles, their existence is too short.

The existence time of 10 minutes to half an hour is too short, so short that Luke has to keep an eye on the depths of the mine all the time to ensure the normal operation of the entire mining assembly line.

If he doesn't want to go into the mine all the time and be a mining rat, he has to find a way to increase the existence time of these mining "workers".

According to the rules of the system, the existence time of the alien beast after its manifestation is related to the two elements of level and combat power. The lower the level, the stronger the alien beast's existence time is the shortest, only a minimum of 10 minutes.

Alien beasts with low levels but equally low combat power have existed for a relatively long time, such as ant slaves, which have existed for a full year.

If the level is high enough and the combat power is high enough, the time limit will be removed, but another limit will be added, which is the quantity limit.

For example, a maximum of 8 colorful tarantulas can exist at the same time.

For example, Fifteen Ton Ant Commander, Poison Elvis, etc., only one can exist at the same time.

There are also special cases, such as the mutated alien parasitic octopus queen, there is no limit to the number, but it can only exist for 10 minutes.

Luke's ideal miners cannot have a quantity limit, at least the number cannot be less than 1000.

The existence time cannot be less than 1 month, and it is best to last as long as an ant slave for a year.

想要达到这个目标，他得把噬金蚁从3级提高到9级，得把千钧蚁工蚁从1级提高到9级，得把七彩铁线蜈蚣从4级提高到9级。

In this way, Luke needs 5 green strengthening stones, 12 blue strengthening stones, and 3 orange strengthening stones.

But now he only got 1 green strengthening stone that he had never had a chance to use at the beginning, and he was at least 10 orange strengthening stones away from his goal.

1 orange enhancement stone is equal to 2 blue enhancement stones is equal to 4 green enhancement stones, this is the number after conversion.

It's a pity that things like strengthening stones are too rare. Luke hasn't gotten a few of them since the beginning, and all of them are used to upgrade skills.

Since the way to upgrade cards is temporarily unavailable, we can only find ways from other aspects, such as increasing the number, improving efficiency, and so on.

As the main force, the gold-eating ants last for 30 minutes, and their moving speed can reach 10 meters per second, which is very beneficial for mining in mines that are only a few hundred meters deep.

To increase mining efficiency, they only need to increase the number.

Ant slaves are the least efficient at work and are very prone to having affairs.

To improve overall mining efficiency, it is essential to increase their numbers, as well as the number of worker ant overseers who oversee their work.

Another important type of work, the colorful iron wire centipede used as a transport vehicle, only exists for 10 minutes, which is a shortcoming.

To make up for this shortcoming, in addition to increasing their number, there are two tricks to improve their efficiency.

The first is to make a vehicle that fits their size, such as a large net bag that can bear weight and be easy for them to wear.

The second is to increase the speed at which they climb up and down after carrying a load, such as a cableway made of dried spider silk spit out by colorful tarantulas.

After such improvements, Luke can drill himself into the mine that is several hundred meters deep without taking risks.

He can easily and comfortably stay in the safe stone house built by the worker ants above the mine. He only needs to manifest a batch of worker ants and colorful wire centipedes every 10 minutes, and a batch of worker ants and colorful wire centipedes every 30 minutes. Just batch gold ants to supplement the mining pipeline.

In this case, apart from being a bit boring, Luke can get 1 ton of Red Flame Copper every day without taking any risks.

The red flame copper refined by the gold-eating ants is [-]% better than the red flame copper refined by the craftsmen of the clown clan, which can improve the toughness of the star blue red flame knife.

Of course, the price of such a good thing is quite attractive, as high as 1 imperial gold coin per kilogram.

In other words, Luke's daily income can reach 1000 imperial gold coins.

He can use these gold coins to buy 1 small colorless crystal blocks from the old fox Xie An, which is enough to replenish the source power spent in mining, and there is still a lot left.

Now, what he has to consider is no longer how to obtain source power, but how to maintain the perfect situation in front of him.

Because he knows that everyone likes good things, and soon someone will come to snatch his hard-won fruits.

(End of this chapter)