"Ding, Ding, Ding!" in the dark and narrow tunnel, a naked miner lay half naked and drilled into a low mine cave. With a small mine hammer and a small mine chisel, he worked hard to chisel the hard rock wall.
Not far away, another robust miner, holding a large mining hammer in both hands, smashed a dark boulder one by one.
Mining in underground caves is really hard work. All kinds of minerals are hidden in thick rock walls and need to be smashed by miners one by one.
The underground rock is extremely hard, and the lower it goes, the harder it becomes. One can imagine the degree of hardness at the bottom of the earth, such as the ghost cave layer.
Like the mining instruments used by miners, ore picks, ore shovels, ore hammers, ore chisels and other objects can be regarded as pieces of high-quality magic tools.
When a miner uses it, he needs to inject mana, so that he can chisel or smash the thick rock strata and walls under the ground. Therefore, the miner must be a cultivator of truth, and his accomplishments at least need to practice Qi.
"There are goods!" as the mine hammer hit it, I heard a dull sound of "click", and the dark boulder broke into six or seven pieces of different sizes. Another miner on the side hurriedly turned over the gravel. When he saw that there were irregular red rocks embedded in the fragments, he couldn't help shouting excitedly.
These reddish rocks are "crude copper ore". Experienced old miners recognize them at a glance. They are regarded as a common mineral. They have been busy for a long time.
Then they smashed and knocked, dug out red rocks from the stones, and then transported them to a bonfire in the distance.
There are piles of all kinds of ores, large and small, stacked beside the campfire. This is the harvest of the old cow mining team of the withered bones gang for half a day. Beside the mine pile sits a dark naked old man, who is the "old black cow" of the old cow mining team. An old miner who has been mining underground caves for decades is responsible for registering the amount of minerals mined by each miner in the team.
"Gold wool, blackhead, crude copper ore, a total of 18 yuan, 363 Jin, come and press a seal!" old black cow ordered a pile of crude copper ore sent, picked up the account book and wrote it down, asked the two miners to press their fingerprints, and paid according to the account book at the end of the month.
"Touch, touch!" Liu Yu, who stood at a fork in the distance of the mining team and sat with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes. The golden sword inserted on the ground in front of him flashed into a sword light and flew out. He crossed the dark tunnel in front and flew back to Liu Yu's body. Two dark air waves burst out in front of and behind the tunnel near the cave top.
It turned out that there were two invisible "shadow souls", floating close to the cave roof and sneaking close to it. They were shot and exploded like a gourd with a sword of the golden sword. Liu Yu has entered the withered bones gang for more than two months and has been serving as the mine supervisor of the Laoniu mining team.
In addition to Liu Yu, there are two other mine supervisors in Laoniu's mining team. They are all friars of building foundation. One is a slim Beidi woman with the nickname of "black bird", and the other is called "ghost tooth". The sixth house of building foundation is the captain of the mine Supervisor.
Although he is called a supervisor, his duty is not to stare at these miners all day. Don't be lazy, but to protect the safety of these mining miners.
Although stone mining is tiring and hard, no one will want to be lazy, because the salary is directly determined by how many minerals they mine. If they are afraid of being tired, lazy and slippery, they will not come to this dangerous place to be miners.
Not to mention that most of the miners of the kugu gang are gamblers who owe a lot of debt. Who doesn't want to earn more spirit stones and leave this ghost place as soon as possible? You know, every day, more or less, miners die from attacks by ghosts or monsters. This is really not a place for people.
At this time, the three mine supervisors, including Liu Yu, each lived in a corner, and guarded the main fork in the periphery of the mining area where the mining team operated. Underground caves and tunnels were complex, so they needed to be vigilant at all times, otherwise ghosts would sneak in and hurt miners, especially in this ghost cave layer, all kinds of ghosts were rampant.
Ghosts like "shadow spirits" are no threat to the mine supervisors like Liu Yu, but they are very deadly to the miners who are mining minerals. If they are touched and sneaked by these silent "shadow spirits", nine out of ten will be dead.
"Old ox head, come and have a look!" then a thin miner said excitedly in front of a thick gray Hill rock wall.
"Liuzi, what have you found?" the mining head "old black cow" got up and ran over. Obviously, Liuzi found something good.
"Old ox head, look for yourself!" Liuzi pointed to the stone wall. It took him half a day to dig a small exploration hole two feet deep. Liuzi was the prospector of Laoniu's mining team. He took the chisel aimlessly and went back and forth to dig exploration holes on the stone walls every day.
"Silver sand!" the head of the mine digs a exploratory hole on the stone wall. Looking inward, a circle of rocks at the bottom of the exploratory hole is suffused with a little silver light. The "old black cow" has mined the mine for decades. At a glance, it can be seen that this is a silver sand mine. The silver sand mine can extract secret silver. This is a good product.
"Fire tiger, ice monkey, come here!" the old black cow immediately shouted.
"Coming!" soon, two miners, strong and thin, trotted over. The strong man was nicknamed "fire tiger", with red hair, and the thin man was nicknamed "ice monkey", with silver hair. They were both backbone members of the Laoniu mining team.
"Blast it off!" said the old black bull, pointing to the thick stone wall in front of him.
"Get out of the way, look at my fire tiger." the strong man stepped back and motioned the "old black cow" to get out of the way. Then he waved his hands to form a seal and took a deep breath.
With the sound of "Hoo", he spit out a flame. The flame kept gushing to the stone wall in front of him for a long time.
The original brownish gray stone wall was baked black by the flame, and some corners were dark red and emitting wisps of green smoke. Obviously, the temperature of the stone wall was very high and sent out bursts of heat waves.
"Frost curdling skill!" as soon as the fire tiger retreated, the "ice monkey" who had accumulated power for a long time immediately cast the spell.
The temperature in the mine cave drops and condenses into gray frost fog. Under the promotion of spiritual knowledge, layers of frost fog gather on the surface of the stone wall that has just been baked by the flame.
Just listen to the sound of "click, click", the surface of the stone wall cracks and breaks like a cobweb, and stones fall from time to time.
"Broken!" at this time, the old black bull drove the mana to condense more than a dozen aura bombs and shot them at the stone wall. With a loud bang, the whole stone wall collapsed instantly, exposing the silver sand ore layer deeply buried in the stone wall. A little silver light suddenly appeared in the dark ore way, and the whole stone wall glittered like a star screen in the night.
"Put down your work and come here!" the old black cow shouted with a red face and a bulging neck. So many silver sand mines are rare. The mining team is lucky today.
"Liuzi OK! When you get back, I'll take you to the town to have a meat dinner." soon, more than 30 miners from the mining team came to see the scene in front of them. They were all smiling. One person photographed Liuzi, who was still young, and laughed.
"Cut the crap! Let's work quickly!" the old black bull ordered with a wave of his big hand. The miners immediately picked up the guys in their hands and rushed forward. People in front smashed them with hammers, picked them up with pickaxes, and picked them up in the back. They were busy carrying them.
The silver sand mine in this layer was dug by the whole mining team for most of the day until the closing time. When the camel team carrying the ore arrived, it was mined clean. More than a dozen piles, large and small, were stacked next to the campfire where the minerals were stacked, and the harvest was very abundant.
"Ghost tooth, today your mining team has a good harvest?" the camel team is composed of more than 20 moose. The leader is the Deputy gang leader mang shark. Mang shark glanced at all kinds of minerals piled by the campfire and smiled and said to ghost tooth.
"Boss, these people found a silver sand mine and didn't work in vain!" the ghost tooth smiled and exposed a row of teeth at the right corner of his mouth. The ghost tooth was hurt by a sharp blade at the corner of his mouth on one side. It's OK not to open his mouth. Once he opened his mouth, the scars on the corner of his mouth opened, revealing a yellow tooth, disgusting and ferocious.
Ghost tooth is in a good mood. The more minerals the mining team mines, the more rewards and shares the supervisor gets. As the supervisor, he gets a big share. Can ghost tooth not have fun digging so many silver sand mines?
"Pack it quickly!" the mang shark waved and said.
The "old black cow" at the mine head took the miners and began to load piles of various ores into the spirit mustard box in batches, and then transported to the moose's back.
With the pack team, another mining team, "lion belly", which has finished work, also came forward to give a hand under the greeting of the "single lion" at the head of the mine.
"Old ox head, today is OK!" Dushi came up to his old friend "black ox", looked at boxes of silver sand mines and said with envy.
Today, their "lion belly" mining team found nothing except some "cold iron". It was also attacked by "shadow soul" and broke a brother.
"Move quickly! Go back and have a rest earlier!" said the "old black cow" panting after a hard day.
The mining team set out from the camp at Mao and finished work at midnight. It needs to work for nearly a day. After working hours, the camp will send three to four pack teams to bring the minerals mined by each mining team back to the camp.
The camp is still six or seven miles away. In the middle, you need to pick up other mining teams, collect them early, go on the road early, or go back to the camp to rest early.