arcane stars

Chapter 1 Am I a Miner?
The star calendar is 3050 years, Black Rock Star.

In the empty mine, the sound of shovels colliding with rocks can be heard all around.

Ye Ming was wearing a thin protective suit, with only two eyes exposed, and the shovel in his hand was also pretending to hit the rock wall.

But he was not at peace.

Fragmentary memories kept flashing through my mind.

Ye Ming was born in an aristocratic family in Allen Star on the border of the Lei Ze Empire. He graduated from the Language Department of Columbia University...

His father was originally a big chaebol of Alan Star, and was executed for colluding with the Star Pirates. It was because of his blessing that Ye Ming was dispatched to this mine...

His mother passed away when Ye Ming was ten years old...

He also has a five-year-old sister who was sent to a concentration camp because she was too young to be sent to prison...

What Ye Ming misses the most is his five-year-old sister...

……

He has undoubtedly time-traveled, and he has transmigrated into a miner with the same name and surname as him!

"Am I traveling to the future? Or is it another world?"

Ye Ming muttered subconsciously.

But then I realized that I was still speaking the language of the earth.

Carefully looking around, he was relieved to find that no one else was paying attention.

But thinking about it, he was relieved. The people in this mine came from different planets, and the language differences were huge.

At most he spoke in dialect just now.

Fortunately, the original master is a language major, and besides the common language, he is also proficient in more than a dozen other languages ​​that are widely used.

If it wasn't for his father's death, he should have passed the interstellar translator certificate by now, and his future is bright.

But at this moment, an exclamation came:
"Dead! Dead!"

I don't know who yelled, and many people looked over.

A man in protective clothing fell to the ground, holding a shovel in his hand, and his whole body began to twitch violently.

In just a few short breaths, it was completely quiet.

he died.

This kind of thing is not uncommon, people die in this way every day.

The others were not crying out of fear.

Just to call someone to dispose of the body.

After a while, two people came in wearing thick protective clothing. Compared with the miners like them, these two people could be said to be fully armed.

They are the overseers of the mine and are also responsible for the collection of corpses.

The two quickly lifted the corpse and walked outside the mine.

When passing by Ye Ming, Ye Ming took a quick glance.

The miner's protective clothing was torn, and the exposed corpse was covered in blue, with blue powder falling from the surface of the body as if weathered.

It seems to have noticed Ye Ming's movements.

The supervisor glared at Ye Ming viciously, and reprimanded him:
"What are you looking at? Work!"

Ye Ming turned around quickly.

After the two left, Ye Ming's face slowly sank.

We must find a way to get out of here!

Otherwise, it won't be long before he is the one who will be carried out.

There is a huge amount of arcane energy in the arcane mine, which is a powerful energy source. Now almost all technologies are based on arcane energy.

However, apart from arcanists who can absorb and use arcane energy, arcane energy is a deadly substance for ordinary people.

The arcane energy released by the arcane ore erodes the miner's body all the time, and the erosion will make the miner's physical fitness worse and worse until he dies.

Although these protective clothing have a certain effect, they only delay the erosion time.

However, the Ao Neng field will interfere with technological equipment, and the Ao Neng ore can only be mined manually, so these criminals have become the best miners.

Ye Ming knew he couldn't last long.

Blue powder also appeared on his body, which indicated that the arcane corruption had begun to disintegrate his body from the outside to the inside.

But having said that, it is difficult to get out of the mine.

Or almost an impossible thing.

This is a mine star, and there is no other life, even if you escape from the mine without supplies, it is a dead end.

There is only one way to get out of here, and that is to take the transport ship that comes every month to collect the Ao Neng ore.

Ye Ming's heart was gloomy.

It is unrealistic to want to leave Black Rock Star directly.

Then we can only find another way, such as getting rid of the identity of a miner first, so that at least we don’t have to mine every day.

Then figure out a way to leave.

After having an idea, Ye Ming began to think about how to realize the plan.

But before that, he dug up the mine honestly.

It's not because he likes this job, it's just that everyone has a mission goal, and the ore they dig every day must not be less than the three-star scale.

The astrological scale is a common unit of measurement in the universe, and one astronomical scale is roughly equivalent to ten catties on the earth.

If you can't dig out the mission target, your daily food share will be reduced by half. If you don't dig anything, you can only starve.

Ye Ming didn't want to be hungry, even though those compressed biscuits were hard to eat, he still focused on the stone wall in front of him.

Staring at the stone wall for about two or three seconds, Ye Ming was taken aback suddenly.

Because a crooked line of universal universal text appeared in his line of sight:

"Don't look, even if you dig here for a day, there will be no Ao Neng ore."

Ye Ming blinked, but the text didn't disappear.

It's not an illusion!
He was overjoyed suddenly, and then moved his gaze to the nearby stone wall.

"Worth a dig."

The subtitles appear again, this time plain and simple.

Ye Ming moved his position calmly. Although this stone wall is his territory, he still chooses to be more cautious.

Next, he spent a lot of effort, and before he was exhausted, he finally dug up the stone wall.

When a stone fell and a dark blue streak appeared inside, Ye Ming knew he had dug the ore.

Ye Ming was overjoyed, and dug out the dark blue ore from the stone wall. The ore was about the size of an adult's fist.

The weight should have a star scale.

Today's goal is completed by digging two more pieces.

A three-star scale is a three-star scale, never dig an extra shovel!

Anyway, there is no reward for digging too much, and those guys will not look at you more because you dig too much, but will exploit you more ruthlessly.

Of course, that being said, it’s not the same if digging a piece is exhausting. How to dig enough for today’s goal is a problem.

Thinking of this, Ye Ming picked up the ore from the ground and prepared to put it into his mine pocket.

But the moment he got the ore, Ye Ming's face changed suddenly.

He felt a surge of energy rushing into his body!

The ore in his hand quickly turned from dark blue to black, like burnt charcoal, and it turned into fine powder with a slight force.

"That's... Aoneng?"

Ye Ming's heart beat wildly. He definitely absorbed a wave of arcane energy just now. The ore turned into carbon in his hand is the best proof.

He felt it carefully and found that his body seemed to be getting stronger.

Originally, because of the erosion of the arcane energy, his body seemed to be falling apart, and he was already sweating after digging a piece of ore.

And now he felt full of strength.

This change made him very excited.

What he can be sure of is that no one can directly absorb arcane energy like this!
Even the arcane crystals used by arcanists for training are purified arcane ores, not the most primitive ores.

And Ye Ming soon noticed that a strange progress bar seemed to appear in his vision:
Arcane Charge: 1%.

Is it because of absorbing a piece of arcane mine?
So Ye Ming set his eyes on the stone wall again, and began to search for new ores. After recovering his physical strength, he was eager to verify this possibility!
(End of this chapter)