King from scratch

After a long absence, the top of the mountains became lively again.

Aizhijin was the first to take action. After the initial survey of the mineral veins and evaluation, he immediately built a stable space transmission channel, formed a professional mineral vein survey and development team, and opened up a daily life in the steep mountain. safe living area.

Its professional level is enough to beat all intelligent creatures in this world.

From the preparations for the mine development to the professional teams entering the mountain one after another, the situation where there was only one person facing the huge mine suddenly turned into a lively scene of people coming and going.

Everything necessary for daily life is placed in a safe area: single bedroom, collective kitchen, separate bathroom and even recreational facilities such as a library. With sufficient logistical support, Aizhijin has opened up a comfortable place in the depths of the mountains. Assembly point.

They even carried out corrective excavation of the original rough mine within a few days, and dug a wide mine along the side of the vein. Although the mine has not officially started mining, everything has been done for the mine. Get ready, just wait for a permit to dig with maximum efficiency.

This team is composed of dwarves, goblins, humans, orcs, mages and other intelligent creatures hired by Aizhijin, covering most of the races on the mainland.

This kind of organizational ability, personnel mobilization ability, and division of labor and cooperation for large-scale tasks fully understand why Ai Zhijin has become a business empire.

The team swimming in Aizhijin appeared in the mine and went back, and then stationed here was replaced by another unfamiliar human, Jin.

This is the fifth elite npc revived by He Xingwen.

He allowed Ai Zhijin to be busy, and spent most of his time in the living area established by Ai Zhijin, drinking tea and reading books, occasionally chatting with other races who returned from work, and blended into the scene naturally.

There was a loud whistling sound from the sky, and a huge shadow shrouded the mountains, bringing a strong sense of oppression.

"Where are people? Why didn't I see Ai Zhijin's team?"

"In the belly of the mountain, your body is too big, come down after you get smaller."

The bustling mountainside was as busy as ever, and Jin, who had been idle for a long time, finally found the person he was waiting for.

"Ai Zhijin, Du Lei." Du Lei introduced to the miniature dragon behind him: "Tor Jin, the patriarch of the Dragon Clan."

Jin closed the book, stood up from the chair, glanced at the human-sized golden dragon, and introduced himself: "Jin, currently responsible for coordinating the development of the mine."

"I'll take him to see the pure crystal mine." Du Lei asked Jin while leading the way: "About the dragon clan, do you need me to introduce you?"

"No, the king mentioned it to me before." Jin followed behind him, and once again cast his gaze at the human-sized golden dragon, with unclear meaning in his tone: "The dragon clan who declared war on the kingdom."

Tuo Er Jin looked impatiently: "Why do you keep looking at me?"

"I heard that the dragon clan is very large. I didn't expect to see such a small dragon. I was a little curious."

Tul Jin disliked him—of course, he disliked most humans.

"If it weren't for humans to use their own size to build everything around them, I wouldn't have to become so small to fit the tools humans build."

"If there are so many dragons that they can use their size to build everything on the continent, then humans will also choose buildings that adapt to the size of the dragons."

Before the smoke of the conversation intensified further, Du Lei interrupted the conversation: "He will be responsible for protecting the safety of the mine."

Jin naturally changed the topic: "Let the dragons protect the mine veins? Will it not become self-defense?"

"Of course not," Tuo Erjin vowed, "I can't take such a large ore vein with me."

So you really thought about it that way?

Du Lei explained: "Ai Zhijin guarantees him. If he guards against himself and steals himself, then Ai Zhijin will be responsible for compensating the king for all losses."

Tuol Jin snorted twice, but didn't answer the second half of the sentence.

Ai Zhijin will not be so kind as to compensate for free. This sentence means that Ai Zhijin will be responsible for recovering the robbed mine from the Dragon Clan—by all means.

The conversation ended here, and Du Lei passed by other team members and walked into the dark cave against the flow of people.

The ore lode itself is located in the deepest mountainside of the top of the mountains. When Ai Zhijin was making preliminary preparations, he almost hollowed out the mountainside to build a safe zone.

But even so, the entrance of the vein is still deeper.

Tuol Jin followed for a while, and could understand why the dwarf kingdom hadn't found this mine.

The dwarf kingdom claims to be built on the top of the mountains, but in fact, with such a vast area on the top of the mountains, only one dwarf kingdom can't cover it at all, so the original dwarf kingdom only covered some areas outside and in the middle of the top of the mountains .

The so-called depletion of resources on the top of the mountains means that no mineral resources can be found in the outer, central, and deep areas of the top of the mountains that can be explored by the dwarf kingdom.

Of course, the dwarf kingdom initially tried to go deeper into the mountains to mine, but the undeveloped area was too dangerous and damaged several teams looking for ore veins, and finally they gave up going deeper, which was more dangerous for the dwarves. deep.

"This location is too..." Tuo Er Jin sensed the location, and couldn't help expressing emotion: "You have to dig out the whole mountain to find it."

After the kingdom of the dwarves fell apart, the legend that the lost treasure of the kingdom of the dwarves was on top of the mountains attracted a wave of treasure hunters eager to get rich overnight, but they found nothing.

It's too normal. Unless every mountain range is dug up to the sky, how can it be possible to find the bottommost mineral vein hidden in the depths of the mountains?

At the bottom of the mountain, the well-organized hole is like a black hole, swallowing all life that tries to enter here.

"But then again, how did you find this vein?"

Tuol Jin looked around, the mountainside had already been cleaned up, and all dangers were strangled in the cradle, so safe that even a living creature could not be seen.

"It's in the depths of the mountains, and it's close to the ground." Tuo Er Jin asked curiously: "Even for the aborigines, it's a very dangerous area, right?"

King said casually: "Obviously, this is not a very dangerous area for whoever finds it."

Tuol Jin muttered in a "whispered voice": "What did those dwarves do all these years to achieve this level?"

Du Lei stepped into the entrance of the black hole, and continued: "Dwarves are the best engineers, as long as they are given enough time, they can forge tools to overcome all difficulties."

"Ever since the Arcane Academy came up with the Ethernet, and what kind of Noah's Ark did those scientists come up with..." Tuo Er Jin followed into the open cave and muttered: "I know that one of these brainy guys It cannot be underestimated."

Jin followed into the cave at the end.

The front of the cave is very dim due to insufficient light, and the passage extending downward seems to lead to another world, bottomless.

Du Lei continued to walk along the excavated tunnel, saying as he walked, "It's obviously unrealistic to ask other races to remain in a state where they can't protect themselves forever."

"Then their requirements for self-protection are too high, and they can destroy a race casually."

Tuol Jin muttered, flapped his wings, and flew forward first.

After walking in the dark cave for a while, a sudden light lit up from the ground.

"Pure Crystal Mine!" Tuol Jin's voice came from the depths of the cave, causing an echo.

As they continued to move forward, from the faint light on the ground to getting brighter and brighter until the crystal ore emitting light could be seen directly from the excavated soil layer, this ore vein was completely presented in front of them.

Small fluorescent ores are scattered above the soil layer, and the soil layer is filled with fluorescent light, so that the fluorescent light converges into a river, lighting a lamp in the dark.

Tul Jin hovered above the luminosity, watching his treasure.

Jin lowered his head and picked up a scattered pure crystal from the ground. There were dots of golden light floating in the small transparent crystal block, as bright as containing gold.

Other than that, there are almost no impurities, only gradually richer golden light and transparent and clear crystals.

This is not the value of pure crystal. Its real value is its affinity for ether. As a high-rare ore with extremely low output, it is the best and most expensive alchemy material, and its value is high because of the short supply.

Jin put the pure crystal in his hand back on the ground, greeted Du Lei, and continued walking forward.

Du Lei reminded the golden dragon who was obsessed with the dazzling light.

"Toll."

"Understood, I won't take it secretly..." Tuo Er Jin circled around here twice, followed Du Lei's footsteps, and chattered endlessly because he was too excited: "Even if I secretly put it into the ether space, you also I do not know……"

"So you better not do it."

"I'm the patriarch of the Dragon Clan anyway. In your eyes, don't you have any credit at all?"

Du Lei said without hesitation: "No."

The conversation paused briefly for two seconds, and Tuo Er Jin flew past them and flew forward in a huff.

"If it were someone else who said that, then he would definitely not be able to see the sun tomorrow morning, but if it were you, I would just pretend that I didn't hear what I just said."

Tuo Er's voice echoed further in the passage: "Our Dragon Clan is the most honest and trustworthy... What is this?"

The smell of sulfur came from not far away, and the temperature in the passage suddenly rose. Even at a distance, the rise in temperature could be clearly felt, enough to glimpse the violent fire not far away.

"Tor?" Du Lei took out the communicator and held it in his hand, cautiously calling out the name of Jinlong.

Jin stopped and looked ahead: "The detection has not been completed yet, the dragon should have encountered a dangerous creature that has not been cleaned up."

But considering that it is the dragon who is in danger, strictly speaking, it may not be called danger.

For those dangerous creatures, what they encounter is the real danger.

The temperature was still rising, gradually making people feel a little too high, and as the temperature rose, came the voice of Thor King.

"I met a group of monsters, and I was shocked." Tuo Er Jin said to himself: "What is this thing? Why does it look so strange?"

He raised his voice: "Du Lei, come and take a look."

Du Lei and Jin quickened their pace, walked towards the direction of the sound, and gradually went deeper along the passage.

Tuoer Jin seemed to fly a little far away. Du Lei and Jin quickened their pace and walked for a long time without seeing his figure, but the passage gradually narrowed, and the pure crystal veins exposed on the ground were covered again by the soil layer. The light then dimmed.

Du Lei and Jin continued walking in silence, Tuo Er Jin's voice gradually became weaker, as if he was attracted by something.

Silence, darkness, and narrow passages gradually depress the atmosphere.

Something was not quite right, Jin carefully observed the darkness, including everything that seemed normal, he broke the silence: "Du Lei?"

"What's the matter?" Du Lei asked gently, "Are you tired from walking?"

He glanced forward, the dark cave was bottomless, and under the current lighting conditions, he couldn't see anything.

"Listen to the sound, Thor should be right ahead..." Du Lei pressed the communicator, and a gentle light lit up from his hand until it filled the entire narrow passage, dispelling the darkness and illuminating the narrow road ahead .

Du Lei continued to move forward, took a few steps, and suddenly realized that Jin hadn't followed, and turned to look at him suspiciously.

"Do you know what the problem is?" Jin stared at Du Lei, or to be precise, at this phantom of unknown composition: "The elevated temperature returned to normal temperature too quickly."

Tul Jin's fire-breathing behavior in the distance forcibly increased the temperature inside the cave, but now, that heat has disappeared at some point, making the place a bit gloomy and cold.

The figure of Du Lei standing in front of him was blurred for a moment, and then stabilized quickly.

"What did you say……"

The protracted voice due to force majeure came vaguely like a bad signal.

Du Lei took steps in Jin's direction, and when the steps fell, his figure became blurred again and began to change at a high-speed frequency.

The figures familiar to Jin appeared one by one, and then quickly disappeared. A few seconds later, they began to change in the direction of the alien, and unimaginably terrifying appearances appeared one by one.

Jin waited for a few minutes, before he could wait for the opponent's next move, he took a quick step, took out his dagger, and killed him with one blow.

The illusory shadow disappeared under the dagger, and it collapsed together with the surrounding dark and narrow space.

Something slowly drifted away under the dagger.

Jin looked down and saw the dandelion-like creature impaled with a dagger.

It is about one meter high, floating in the air, without roots, and there are small fluffs floating on the branches and vines. In the middle of the branches and vines is a closed eye.

At this moment, the eye was pierced by the dagger, and it fell from the air and quickly withered, leaving only one eye pierced by the dagger, and the rest of the branches disappeared after withering.

The fluff on the branches scattered in the air, and after leaving the mother's body, eyes slowly grew out of the fluff, looking at Jin in unison.

Jin looked at the eye on the dagger, and heard a familiar voice behind him.

"The eye didn't disappear?"

Tuol Jin's voice was very close, and as soon as Jin turned his head, he saw the head behind him impatiently approaching him.

To be honest, the scene where the head was stretched out was far more terrifying than the constantly changing figures just now.

The fluff that had just grown eyes hadn't grown branches yet, and it was floating in the air, following Tuoer Jin's movements, it swayed away from Jin's surroundings, and squeezed into a ball with other fluffs on both sides of the passage.

Jin looked around.

There are traces of fire left on the ground and walls, and the light from the pure crystal mine is still stable, illuminating the place.

The entire passage was occupied by floating fluff, occasionally interspersed with a few large "dandelions" he had just seen.

And Du Lei was standing in the pile of fluff right now, an invisible barrier separated him from the fluff.

Compared to just now, they seem to have reached a deeper place in the passage.

Jin was still thinking, Tuo Er Jin couldn't wait to use his claws to arch Jin's hand that was holding the dagger firmly: "How did you do it?"

"That's how it was done." Jin withdrew his thoughts, and looked at Du Lei through the dense fluff.

Du Lei took a few steps forward and explained to him: "The rosemary has mutated..."

"Eyes have grown, this is not a mutation, is it a direct mutation?"

Tuol Jin yelled: "I remember it was a plant? It looks like it's alive now, right?"

With a flick of his claws, Tuo Er Jin pulled over a bunch of larvae with eyes, and poked them one by one. The fluff quickly withered under his hands, and the eyes that hadn't fully grown melted like water and disappeared into the air.

"Once the mature body of this thing is killed, the immature body that falls off will grow rapidly. After the immature body is killed, it will truly die."

Toll King has clearly studied its special features-this grand occasion full of passages is the result of his research just now.

"But how can you still keep an eye?" Tuo Er Jin was obviously very curious about this completely different situation, and eagerly tried to take the eye from Jin's dagger.

Jin raised his dagger, avoiding his claws.

Du Lei waited for Tull King to finish before continuing: "Rosemary is a plant that uses special etheric fluctuations to confuse the prey's perception, allowing them to walk into the trap without knowing it, so as to achieve the purpose of hunting. It is small and poses no threat to intelligent creatures, and it often grows around meteorite mines, spreading seeds through the wind for reproduction."

Tull King glanced at the "rosemary" plants that were floating in the air and were as tall as a person: "They have all changed from plants to creatures, maybe it's not rosemary that has mutated? It's a brand new species that hasn't been discovered yet? "

He chattered on the sidelines: "It is very sensitive to ether fluctuations. The more intense the ether fluctuations, the stronger its ether fluctuations will be. If a normal intelligent creature enters here, it is absolutely impossible to survive."

Speaking of this, he reacted: "No, isn't this guy just an ordinary intelligent creature? Why is he okay?"

Tuol Jin stretched his head to Jin's side again, looked him up and down, and finally set his eyes on his dagger.

Jin avoided the dagger again: "I think it's better to have this checked by a professional."

Jin has other ideas: "If you want to know if it is a rosemary, you just need to find out if there is a meteorite mine nearby."

"It makes sense." Tuoer Jin retracted his gaze, wandered around the passage, and then reacted: "But isn't this pure crystal mine?"

Du Lei, who had been tinkering with the communicator in silence, interjected, "Because of the changing terrain, it's possible that several ore veins are very close to each other."

Tuol Jin's eyes lit up: "That is to say, there is another mineral vein nearby?"

Without waiting for others to pick up, he couldn't wait to say: "I'll go find it."

The golden dragon flapped its wings and rammed everywhere, easily breaking through the soil layer, revealing the... soil layer behind the soil layer.

When the golden dragon was crashing, Du Lei said to Jin: "Anuta told me about the abnormality on the top of the mountains. Do you know the situation?"

Jin handed the dagger and the eye on it to Du Lei: "Is there a suspected mutation in the creatures on the top of the mountains?"

Du Lei took the dagger, nodded and said: "Obviously, the closer to the top of the mountains, the more obvious this mutation is..." He paused: "Judging from the situation of rosemary, it is retaining its basic characteristics. Under the premise, it became another kind of creature.”

Du Lei told Jin what he didn't see when Jin was bewildered by rosemary just now.

"The flame can't harm it. On the contrary, any irritating behavior will cause it to stress. Its etheric fluctuations will increase, and the range of its envelope will increase, so it will directly affect you across a distance."

Jin interjected: "Didn't it affect you?"

"Tor was mesmerized for three seconds," Du Lei explained: "Considering the physical fitness of the Dragon Clan, being able to confuse him for three seconds is a very remarkable achievement."

"If it is replaced by ordinary intelligent creatures, this is enough to create a dreamy dream for the entire country until they are completely digested."

Jin had heard about the power of the dragon clan for a long time, and his focus was not on Tuoer Jin: "What about you?"

Du Lei pointed to the invisible barrier on his body: "As you can see, at the first moment when the abnormal ether fluctuations appeared, the 'ether isolation' ensured that my consciousness was always awake."

In other words, he wasn't confused for a second.

"Ether isolation?"

"New civilizations always have many problems." Du Lei seemed to be sighing, but he seemed to just mention it casually: "One of the spells created by the Arcane Academy, the automatic defense spell cast by the great magician."

"The characteristic is that it is very expensive." If Ai Zhijin can say the word "expensive", it must be really expensive.

"The Arcane Academy relies on these self-created spells to earn a lot of money from the Aegon."

Jin continued: "And then you earned the money back by providing them with magic materials?"

Du Lei winked at him: "This is the essence of trade."

Tuoer Jin's voice came from the depths of the cave, echoing through layers: "I found it! Come here, there really is a meteor gold mine. By the way, there is a little trouble on the road. When you come here, pay attention."

Jin glanced at the endless "rosemary flowers" scattered here, and had an ominous premonition about the so-called "little trouble" in the other party's words.