Path of light

Chapter 340 341. Ore exchange list

The Grantham mine owner quickly turned around and walked up the stairs, and the three gold wine glasses magically disappeared from his hands.

When they first captured the Grantham mine owner, the elf warriors immediately confiscated his magic pocket. Apparently, he had found another magic pocket.

The Grantham mine owner regretted a little. In fact, when he gave the gifts, he should have faced the three elf guards alone. He understood the truth, but the gifts he gave out before were too simple.

These elven warriors had no resistance to these exquisite vessels, which made the Grantham mine owner take it a little lightly.

Unexpectedly, these three elf guards were the only ones who confiscated his little gift...

And they happened to be the guards of Warehouse No. 2. Many valuable items secretly hidden by the owner of Grantham Mine were stored in that warehouse. If you wanted to get those items back, you couldn't get around them.

Slowly walking up the stairs, the elf guard at the second floor saw the owner of the Grantham mine and nodded slightly, indicating that he could go upstairs, but not to wander around on the second floor.

The Grantham mine owner hurriedly continued walking upstairs and smiled at the two elf guards guarding the second floor.

The elf guards on the second and third floors were bribed by the owner of Grantham Mine with gem vessels, and he could move around freely on the second and third floors.

Pushing open the door, the two wives in the room hurriedly came to greet him.

The owner of the Grantham mine rubbed his face that was stiff from smiling, and sat in a chair, closing his eyes and thinking about how to get the three elf guards to accept his gift. He considered whether to change it. Way……

The two wives did not dare to disturb him and could only sit quietly aside.

…

Roy separated from the two elf guards and returned to the room on the second floor alone.

He and Rambo were sharing bunk beds, and Rambo was lying on the bed.

None of the other elf warriors in the room have returned yet.

Many elves of the Tenth Reconnaissance Team were on duty at night, and the beds on both sides were empty. Roy walked quietly to the bathroom. After he washed his face and walked out of the bathroom, he saw Rambo coming out of the bathroom. He sat up on the bed, and then took out a red spinel from his arms, which was the size of a pigeon egg. It was polished extremely smooth. The gem contained countless crystal filaments, which was dazzling.

"Roy, look at this gem, how do you feel?" Lambo whispered.

He showed the spinel to Roy.

Roy took it, tossed it in his hand, and asked, "Is it a gift from the owner of Grantham Mine?"

"How do you know?" Rambo asked in surprise.

Roy threw the gem to Rambo, grabbed the armrests of the bed with both hands, and climbed onto the bed nimbly.

"I just met him at the top of the stairs. He wanted to give me a gold goblet, but I didn't want it. I felt that the owner of the Grantham mine had no good intentions."

Rambo stretched his neck, looked at Roy on the upper bunk and asked, "Roy, are you saying he wants to escape?"

"Maybe."

Roy lay down and said casually.

…

The elf warriors in Roy's room are all on night watch, and everyone gets up very late every day.

When Roy woke up, the other elf warriors were still sleeping soundly.

Roy jumped down from the bed lightly, picked up the thick leather armor, gently opened the door and walked out.

Sitting on the bench in the corridor on the second floor, Roy put the magic pattern structure on his body.

Captain Jones walked out of Captain Yalig's room and saw Roy sitting on the bench, putting on boots on his feet. He walked over and said to him:

"Roy, you will be responsible for guarding the mine entrance this afternoon, and the elf guards over there will be responsible for guarding the warehouse. Let's switch..."

"Yes, Captain." Roy agreed.

Captain Jones patted Roy on the shoulder and sat down next to Roy.

He admired Roy very much. Since Roy joined the 10th Reconnaissance Team, the 10th Reconnaissance Team has become the star team of the Reconnaissance Brigade. When they go out on missions, they can always find traces of plateau headhunters.

The only regret is that Roy is not a Silver Moon Elf and cannot join the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion.

Captain Jones said casually: "Captain Yalig was not very satisfied with the previous mine guards. The punishment they imposed on the prisoners and gray dwarves underground did not have any effect. Do you have any good ways to reverse the situation? ?”

Without waiting for Roy to answer, Captain Jones continued:

"Captain Yalig wants to restore the mine to production before the logistics team comes. Even if it is only half of the previous ore output, it will be easier to deal with. We can't say that we should let those mixed-blood elf mine slaves go. This place The mine will be completely paralyzed."

Roy was a little speechless. In the past, this kind of work of digging gem mines underground was mostly done by the mixed-blood elf mining slaves.

Now that these guys have left the mine, how can production here be restored?

If they really had their way, these mine owners would not hire plateau headhunters to capture mixed elves everywhere.

"How about we go down to the mine to negotiate with them?" Roy rubbed his forehead and suggested to Captain Jones.

"This is not a good idea. Who knows what kind of murderer is hidden underground!" Captain Jones decisively rejected Roy's risky proposal.

Seeing Roy frowning, Captain Jones patted his shoulder again and comforted:

"Don't be anxious, just take your time and think of a solution. The worst result is to maintain the status quo, what else can you do!"

Roy actually wanted to say, 'I plan to make a deal with the prisoners and dwarves in the mine...', but before he could say this suggestion, Captain Jones walked towards the other side of the corridor.

Lambeau, who gets up early, will go to the restaurant and bring back two apples after his morning exercise.

He threw an apple to Roy, sat where Captain Jones was sitting just now, and asked curiously: "Roy, what did Captain Jones say to you just now?"

"It's nothing, it's just that the place I'm responsible for guarding has changed. I have to guard the mine entrance in the afternoon." Roy replied.

…

During lunch, Roy saw the two wives of the owner of the Grantham mine walking out of the room, and the two elf ladies were leaning against the pillars of the third floor corridor chatting.

The Grantham mine owner even appeared in the restaurant, queuing up with the elf warriors to receive their meals.

Captain Yalig's supervision of the Grantham mine owners is not so strict.

Roy was a little confused. The elven warriors were hostile to the plateau headhunters, but they were very tolerant of the Grantham mine owner and didn't seem to care about his past...

Roy chose a piece of breadfruit and a cup of fruit tea, walked over and sat down opposite Lambeau.

The two elf warriors who were on duty at Warehouse No. 2 with Roy yesterday actually walked up to the owner of the Grantham Mine and started talking very familiarly. The owner of the Grantham Mine was even more energetic, looking at Roy. Yi was a little stunned.

"That Grantham mine owner is really capable. He bought so many elf warriors in just two days..." Roy said in a low voice.

"In my opinion, these elf warriors dare to do this, at least with the tacit approval of their superiors." Rambo whispered, and then said with a worried look: "When I chatted with them in the morning, I heard that Captain Hercules gave Swinburne The Earl wrote a letter in which he proposed that the owners of Grantham be put back in charge of the mines."

Roy was completely dumbfounded. If the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion chose to cooperate with these mine owners, it would be a disaster for the mixed elves on the Pagisto Plateau.

"No, then why do we need to capture this mine?" Roy retorted.

Lambo said: "Of course we must capture it, so that the Silver Pegasus Legion will have the right to speak, and then we will redistribute the mines with the mine owners. By then, the Silver Pegasus Legion will be able to get the bulk of it."

"No officer in the Seventeenth Silver Pegasus Legion is willing to manage this mine..." Roy said.

"That's why Earl Swinburne is considering cooperating with these mine owners again!" Lambeau said with a bitter face: "Roy, I think it's better for me to leave here as soon as possible."

"Where did you hear this news?" Roy asked curiously.

"I overheard it when I was carrying water by the river in the morning..."

Rambo said moodily.

Roy quickly comforted Lambo: "Lambert, don't worry too much. As long as these mines are in the hands of the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion, the use of mixed-blood elf slaves as miners will definitely be eliminated."

"I hope so, otherwise we really won't be able to live on the Pagisto Plateau." Lambo's words were full of worry.

…

It's easy to understand why the Silver Moon elves don't want to manage the gem mines.

The captains of the cavalry brigade ran faster than rabbits. They even wanted to get away from the gem mine even at the expense of offending Captain Yalig. They simply didn't want to stay in the gem mine.

The idea of ​​Earl Swinburne is hard to figure out. He wants to capture all the mines on the plateau and then discuss cooperation with the mine owners who have lost their homes...

It's obviously like giving a stick to two sweet dates.

But here’s the problem: even the sweet dates come from other people’s trees.

But the owners of Grantham Mine have no better choice...

However, Roy is still somewhat skeptical about the bad news in these rumors.

When he saw the owner of Grantham Mine again, Roy was just about to go to the mine entrance to handover.

This time, the smile on the Grantham mine owner's face was somewhat complacent, and he no longer mentioned the golden wine glass to Roy. He could walk around in the inner courtyard as he pleased.

The elf guards at the edge of the well stood for the last time with a depressed look on their faces.

In the morning, they were severely scolded by Captain Yalig because they mishandled the prisoners and gray dwarves below the mine.

Now I saw Roy and three other elf guards coming over for handover, with joyful smiles in their eyes.

"I've been having nightmares for several days after listening to them wailing under the well all day long. You guys came just in time. Now I can finally have a good sleep." An elf warrior said to Roy and the others.

The other elf warriors guarding the mine entrance also felt the same way.

"They won't climb up along the mine, right?" an elf guard who came to hand over asked curiously.

"That's not possible." The elf guard guarding the entrance of the mine said with some embarrassment.

This time Roy became the leader of the duty team. He personally handed over the task. In fact, there was nothing to hand over. He just casually talked about the basic situation at the mine head.

Roy thought that in the morning, Captain Jones asked him to find a way to let the prisoners and gray dwarves in the well continue to work.

Thinking about it now, Captain Yalig probably wanted to make a final profit. If someone could manage the mine well, then the Silver Pegasus Legion would not need to cooperate with the mine owners.

Otherwise Captain Jones wouldn't have talked so much with Roy in the morning...

Roy knew that there were a large number of spinels in Warehouse No. 2. Although he didn't know the specific value of these gems, it didn't matter, there were just a lot of them anyway.

After the handover, Roy felt a gaze falling on him from upstairs. He subconsciously raised his head and saw the Grantham mine owner standing in front of the railing on the third floor, staring expressionlessly.

When he noticed that Roy was looking up, he immediately showed eight neat teeth and smiled at Roy.

The boom next to the mine is more than two meters high, which is just enough to hang a rope down from the wellhead. There is a large wooden box tied to one end of the sling. This wooden box looks very stupid, probably because it is often loaded with ore. The boxes looked dirty.

But Roy didn't care about this. He walked around the wooden box and took a look into the deep well mouth.

Inside the dark wellhead, I don't know if it was the sound of wind or howling, which made people feel uneasy.

Roy found a piece of seagrass paper and wrote on it:

‘New notice: Ale, apples, breadfruit, lemon slices, honey, and salt can all be exchanged for gemstones. The exchange details are as follows:

Twelve pieces of low-quality gemstones can be exchanged for an apple...etc.'

Roy wrote in great detail on the seagrass paper. He even divided the gem mines into grades: low grade, medium grade, top grade, top grade, and treasure.

He actually couldn't finish writing on one piece of seagrass paper. He wrote two pages in total.

Roy pasted these two pages of seaweed paper on the wooden box, and then worked with the three elf guards to deliver the wooden box to the mine.

After waiting for about half an hour, Roy lifted the wooden box up from the mine. Sure enough, there were several more piles of gemstones in the wooden box.

Roy ran to the warehouse where the mine workers were detained and called a mixed elf who specialized in screening gem mines and asked him to sort these piles of gem mines...

There is nothing to distinguish, they are all the lowest quality gem mines, and the demand is written under each pile of gem mines.

After the gem mines were screened, Roy went to the canteen to retrieve some apples and breadfruit, stacked them in wooden boxes by category, and then put the wooden boxes back into the mine with the three elf guards.

After this set of procedures, it was already dark.

Feeling that the rope of the crane arm was no longer tight, the wooden box finally fell steadily down the well...

Roy didn't know how the prisoners underground distributed the food, but at least the wailings disappeared, and then cheers came from the underground.

The next day, more high-quality ore was also delivered. Roy once again followed the details on the exchange list and sent the prepared fruits and honey down to the mine...