Chapter 86 Cave
Seeing Anna's pretty face flushed with excitement, Gervis smiled, then turned around and stepped into the space gate first.
"Huh? There is such terrain?"
When Gervis stepped completely into the space gate, he instantly arrived at the mineral space. When Gervis took a closer look, he was a little confused. Most of the terrain in front of him was rocky cliffs, and there was a large entrance under the rocky cliffs.
"Master Gervis, did you find anything?" Because Na Shen was closer to the space gate, he was the second person to enter the space. When Na Shen came to the space, he looked around and saw Gervis standing there in a daze, so he asked Gervis.
"Nothing, I just didn't expect there would be such cliffs in space."
Gervis was indeed a little surprised. He thought that the terrain in this space was mostly flat or slightly undulating, but he didn't expect that there were even cliffs, which was exactly the same as the real world.
"Haha, Master Gervis, the spaces opened up by the elf bugs are ever-changing, especially the spaces opened up by the golden elf bugs. Your place is relatively normal. The terrain is actually not important. The main thing is to see what minerals are there."
After hearing what Gervis said, Na Shen laughed out loud. Although such terrain was uncommon, it was not rare either.
Nashen walked forward to Gervis and continued, "I once heard from Lord Gandalf that a noble in the Principality had a golden elf worm that opened up a space by the sea, half of which was sea water and half was rocky. After searching for a long time, he couldn't find any minerals. The noble was so angry that he almost threw the golden elf worm into the sea. This incident became a joke for many nobles. Fortunately, the noble was quite smart. Since his place was inland, he actually thought of using sea water to boil sea salt and sell it. He made a small profit and recovered the loss."
"Haha, there is such a thing. That noble is really unlucky!"
After hearing the second half of Nashen's words, Gervis also laughed. An ordinary green elf worm starts at least with dozens of gold coins, and the price of a golden elf worm is only higher, not lower. However, mineral elf worms are like gambling stones on Earth. Before the space is opened up, no one knows what minerals can be obtained. It may be mithril and gold, or it may be coal or other useless minerals that have never been seen. Therefore, the value of the golden elf worm needs to be determined by the minerals in the space.
It was unknown which big shot the noble had offended, and he had encountered such a bizarre thing. Even the most ordinary coal mine could have made a steady profit, but it was just a little less. Fortunately, he made his money back in the end by making salt from seawater.
In inland areas, sea salt still has a large market because it is white and clean. The nobles pride themselves on their nobility and only use sea salt for food even if the price of sea salt is high due to inconvenience in transportation.
"I hope that Boss Rongguang can continue to protect me today!"
After making fun of the noble, Gervis became a little worried again. His strange terrain was not common, and cliffs almost occupied most of it. Could it be a rock mine? But I didn't plan to build a castle or anything. It would be useless, and no one would buy this thing.
"Let's go and look around to see what kind of mines there are!"
The more he thought about it, the more guilty Gervis felt, so he quickly stopped his thoughts and started walking inside, hoping that his luck would be better.
The space opened up by Wall-E is not small. Gervis estimates that it is comparable to the space opened up by Betty, but most of the area is occupied by steep rock walls. The rock walls are more than 20 meters high, so Gervis cannot climb up for the time being. He can only search in the open area below the rock walls. The vegetation in the open area is still dense, with many small trees and weeds. Gervis and others need to use long swords to clear the way while searching.
He didn't know how to find the ore, so he could only look around to see if there were any ore exposed on the surface. If not, he would dig underground later.
Gervis led the way, followed by Nashen and Anna. The three of them looked around as they went along. From time to time, Gervis used his sword to cut off some weeds and trees. As a result, after walking around for a long time and searching the entire open area, they still found nothing.
"Lord Nashen, have you found anything?"
At this moment, Gervis has returned to the entrance of the space. Without any clue, he could only ask Nashen to see if they had discovered anything.
"Master Gervis, there is no discovery, and I have no experience in finding ore!"
Na Shen shook his head helplessly. He was not even as good as the elf bugs, so his experience in this area was certainly not richer than Gervis's. As for the information related to the elf bugs, they were not secrets but common sense. After all, Na Shen had been a lord for more than ten years, so he was familiar with them and could teach Gervis a little. He knew nothing about the things within the space.
"Anna, what about you? Did you find anything?"
Gervis turned his gaze to the last maid again. At this moment, Anna was holding Wall-E's jade box and looking around curiously.
"Nothing, sir!"
Hearing Gervis's question, Anna shrank her neck, blushed, and quickly answered Gervis' question, because she had not paid attention to the ground just now, but was only looking at the surrounding environment, fearing that Gervis would blame her.
After getting Anna's answer, Gervis was not angry. Anna was not even a titled knight, and her five senses were not as strong as his and Nashen's. Even if she observed carefully, she might not be able to discover anything.
"Should we start digging?"
After making sure that no one had discovered anything, Gervis began to think, since nothing was found on the surface, it could only be buried underground.
"Forget it. I don't even have any tools with me. Let's go check out the cliff first."
Although he felt that there was a high possibility that the minerals were underground, because he had no tools for digging, Gervis planned to go to the cliff first to check if there were any traces of minerals, especially the cave there.
"Let's go check over there."
Gervis waved his hand and signaled to Nashen and Anna behind him.
Pushing aside the low branches, Gervis led the way to the edge of the cliff. In front of him was the entrance to a huge cave. The entrance did not look very big from a distance, but when he got closer he discovered that the space inside the cave was very large. The terrain inside the cave was deep underground, with a drop of three or four meters from the ground. However, the way down was very flat, and with the light coming in from outside, he could see the situation inside clearly. This cave was at least the size of two basketball courts.
"Let's go in and take a look!"
Seeing the scene inside, Gervis walked in first. The light inside was sufficient, and there were no living creatures in the mineral space, so there was no need to worry about safety. Gervis went straight into the entrance of the cave and slowly walked down the gentle slope.
After reaching the bottom of the cave, the whole cave seemed even more spacious. Except for the muddy bottom, the surrounding area was all rocky. The rocks were relatively flat and did not look jagged. Only the top was hung with some large and small stalactites. A few drops of water from the stalactites fell to the ground from time to time, and there was a small puddle of water on the ground not far from Gervis and the others.
Seeing this kind of terrain, Gervis' heart was pounding. He had a vague guess, so he hurried to the side of the puddle and squatted down.
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