Aren't you afraid I'm a bad person?

Walking down the street, Jiang Yuan deliberately asked about Tie Niu.

“It’s not hard to tell if someone is a bad guy or not. You didn’t attack our village when you had an absolute advantage, so you obviously had no ill intentions!” Tie Niu laughed heartily.

"Then why is your village so heavily guarded? Aren't you afraid of killing innocent people by mistake?" Jiang Yuan felt that the people at the village gate were a bit too easily frightened. After all, it was illogical for someone to attack without asking any questions.

"Brother, you don't know this! Let me tell you, within this radius of dozens of miles, apart from the safe zone, only a handful of forces survive. The closest place to our Yanshan Village is Changgan County, but Changgan County was swallowed up when the beast tide came, leaving only a few hundred strongmen to occupy the mountain as kings and commit evil deeds everywhere!"

"For the past few days, bandits from Changgan County have been launching sneak attacks. Perhaps due to their superior abilities, our Yanshan Village has been infiltrated twice, and each time many people have died!"

Tie Niu shook his head in resentment when he mentioned Changgan County, but there was no way to deal with it. After all, this group would fire one shot and then retreat immediately if the sneak attack failed. If you wanted to find them, there was really no way.

Jiang Yuan didn't take the matter to heart; such things were commonplace after the disaster.

"By the way, where did you get your blacksmiths?" Although Jiang Yuan didn't want to meddle, he was still very curious about how Rock Village could have so many blacksmiths.

"Well!" Tie Niu looked troubled.

"If there's anything you'd rather not say, Brother Tie Niu, just pretend I didn't ask, don't take it to heart!" Jiang Yuan waved his hand to signal Tie Niu not to be nervous.

Tie Niu gave an awkward laugh, then changed the subject, "Brother, did you notice the arrows we shot just now?"

"I saw it. Every arrow was deadly. If I hadn't reacted quickly, I don't know how many times I would have died!" Jiang Yuan said casually.

Hearing Jiang Yuan casually recount the perilous situation he had just faced, Tie Niu cursed himself for being an idiot for asking such a question. But since he had already asked, he had to continue.

"Actually, we forged all those arrows ourselves!" Tie Niu said, waiting for Jiang Yuan's surprised expression, but clearly, Jiang Yuan didn't give him that chance.

"I can tell!"

Four very plain words.

"Don't you think the workmanship is excellent?" Tie Niu seemed dissatisfied with only receiving four words and asked Jiang Yuan a question in return.

"That's pretty good, it was almost able to break through my armor's defense!" Jiang Yuan nodded.

Tie Niu was speechless, it was true, their arrows couldn't even break through the opponent's defenses, while the opponent walked in as if there was no one there, wearing armor.

"Brother Tie Niu, have you heard about what's been happening in Nancheng these past few days?" Jiang Yuan asked indirectly.

"South City!" Tie Niu murmured, then shook his head and said, "It's too far away from us, so we rarely inquire about South City!"

"Could you tell me the location?" Jiang Yuan just wants to go back to Nancheng now and see why he can't contact Yanlan and the others.

"Brother, don't be in such a hurry. Come with me to see our forging process. I guarantee you'll be amazed!" Tieshan was very enthusiastic and insisted on taking Jiang Yuan to see their Yanshan Village's unique forging techniques.

Jiang Yuan had no choice but to follow along in the face of such enthusiasm.

From the outside, this rocky mountain village doesn't look very big, but once you step inside, you'll find it's a hidden paradise. There's a reason why such a place could survive the onslaught of beast tides.

"Actually, the fact that our Yanshan Village was able to survive is inextricably linked to weapon forging. If it weren't for all of us forging weapons, we wouldn't have been able to supply enough weapons, let alone resist the beast tide!" Tieshan felt even more proud when he saw the occasional surprise in Jiang Yuan's expression. He was the kind of person who wanted to show the beauty of his hometown to the outside world.

"Forging weapons isn't that simple. It requires not only skill but also materials. Does your Yanshan Village have enough ore?" Jiang Yuan asked pointedly.

Tieshan realized he had misspoke, but since he had already said it, hiding it would be pointless, so he could only say frankly, "There is ore, but not much!"

Jiang Yuan guessed that Tieshan might be lying; there must be rich mineral veins here, otherwise it would be impossible to supply such a large-scale forging.

"Our forging workshop is just ahead. Let me show you around!"

Tieshan excitedly pointed to a building made of stacked rock bricks. The building looked like an old-fashioned small brick kiln, with a huge furnace in the middle that had many passageways, and dozens of forging platforms around the furnace.

Of the twelve forging platforms, only one was empty, and when Tieshan arrived at the forging cave, the others also noticed Jiang Yuan.

"Chief, weren't you going out to defend against the bandits? Why did you bring someone back?" one of the men, whose skin was red from being roasted by the charcoal fire, asked.

"There are no bandits. It's just that a bunch of clueless bastards who attacked anyone who came near, almost hurting Brother Jiang Yuan!" Tie Shan quickly explained.

Jiang Yuan's attention was entirely focused on this forging cave. Many of the legacies left by the Sun and Moon Saint Lord were related to forging masters, and among them were records about the flames used in forging.

"This flame!"

Jiang Yuan squatted down in front of a forging platform, where flames were constantly leaping out. He stretched out his hand and held it in the flames for half a second, but then he was surprised and withdrew his hand.

"Earth core fire! There's actually such a flame here!" Jiang Yuan was extremely surprised. Although earth core fire wasn't a particularly powerful flame, it was truly remarkable that it could be born in Earth's environment.

"This guy actually knows about the Earth's Core Fire!"

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