Mining the Eucharist
Cinderella star.
The sky was gloomy, the light dim, and the entire planet was shrouded in a gray veil, as usual. A heavy horn pierced the air, not sharply, but with a force that could not be disobeyed.
Cinnabar Star is located at the edge of the empire's map. On this uncared-for mining planet, there live tens of thousands of people who make a living from mining. Some of them were born here, while others had no place to stay in the empire after many things happened to them, so they were exiled here. They are almost miserable people forced by life.
Chen Shi is one of them.
Hearing the horn, he jumped up from the bed, washed his face and rinsed his mouth with a basin of cold water, changed into a cloth skirt, wrapped it around his body to cover the key parts, and then walked towards Nian Ge's cave.
As usual, he patted the iron gate heavily. After a while, the door opened from the inside and Brother Nian appeared at the door, staring at him with a frown.
Chen Shi was startled.
"Brother Nian!" he said with a wry smile, "Time to start mining."
"Yeah." It took a long while for the other party to respond.
Chen Shi's heart was pounding. Why did Brother Nian look so strange today? It was as if he was seeing him for the first time and didn't recognize him. After looking him up and down, a look of disgust appeared on his face.
"..." Chen Shi was puzzled. They were wearing the same clothes, so why did Brother Nian dislike him?!
"Let's go."
Brother Nian withdrew his gaze, closed the door, and walked to the right.
"Hey..." Chen Shi didn't react in time. The other party had already walked a long way away. "Brother Nian! Who's that over there..."
…
Su Yanxi walked along the corridor. Along the way, there were caves similar to where she lived. The caves were about one meter apart and were very crowded.
Along the way, she met many miners coming out of the cave to work. The men were all naked from the waist up, and the women wore tube tops on their upper bodies. Regardless of gender, they all wore a cool cloth skirt on their lower body, which was very eye-catching.
Her eyes are dirty!
Whenever she came across miners, she would avoid them as if they were a virus.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, the road was blocked by a stone wall. Su Yanxi stopped and was offline for a moment.
Chen Shi was panting behind her. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw her stop. He asked cautiously, "Brother Nian, is there anything special about this wall?"
"?" Su Yanxi turned around, "What?"
"Uh, Brother Nian, what I mean is, the mine is over there, and you have been rushing here. Is there something wrong with this wall? Is there a mine inside?" Chenshi asked innocently.
Su Yanxi didn't answer his question.
She was so angry that she walked towards the right. The system told her that when she got here, she would not only have to mine in the system mine, but also in reality. She couldn't understand it.
She took the wrong road, but Chen Shi followed her all the way, and a hint of red appeared on her face.
"Why didn't you say it earlier!" Su Yanxi took the initiative.
No wonder we were going in the opposite direction of the flow of people just now.
Chen Shi scratched his hair in confusion. "Brother Nian, are you sick? Are you confused? Isn't the mine always over there?"
Chen Shi left Su Yanxi speechless.
She opened her mouth and looked at Chen Shi again. The other party looked at her with clear eyes and wanted to raise his hand to touch her forehead to check if she was really sick.
Su Yanxi dodged his hand, quickly distanced herself from him, and turned to walk towards the mine.
"Okay, stop wasting time."
Chen Shi scratched his hair again and continued to follow his brother Nian back.
Brother Nian is really weird today. Is he running back and forth early in the morning to warm up before mining?
It would be better to save this energy and dig two more pieces of ore!
*
Cinnabar mining area.
Su Yanxi learned her lesson this time and followed Chen Shi's actions, letting Chen Shi do it first and then she followed his example.
Following Chenshi, he received a pickaxe and a bamboo basket and came to their usual mining site.
This is a newly opened mine, with the type of ore hanging at the entrance - black crystal ore (Z1084).
The mine was not deep, so Chen Shi brought Su Yanxi to the old place, put down the bamboo basket, and started mining.
There is no difference between mining in reality and mining within the system. In the system's words:
[Isn't it just a little dirty and tiring?! For the sake of dreams...]
"Shut up!" Su Yanxi's eyes were blazing with anger.
If people knew that the eldest daughter of the Su family was mining on a barren planet, they would have laughed their heads off!
Su Yanxi was bargaining with the system while mining, "I don't care, I want to take a hot bath today!"
After digging for a while, Su Yanxi's wrists were so sore that she threw away the pickaxe and sat down against the wall.
The pickaxe fell to the ground with a thud, which startled Chenshi.
There are only Chen Shi and Su Yanxi in the new mine. Others would rather try their luck in the old mine where good ores have been dug out than come here to open up new land. The two of them can be more casual in the mine.
"Brother Nian, do you want to rest now?" Chen Shi didn't know what time it was. He counted the ore in the bamboo basket, and there were only a few pieces.
"We've just started digging, Brother Nian." He reminded gently. Seeing that Su Yanxi had no intention of getting up, he said more clearly, "Brother Nian, if you rest now, you won't be able to finish today's quota."
They need to dig 100 pieces of black crystal ore every day. If the ore is good, the quantity will be converted according to the quality. For example, blue crystal ore requires 70 pieces. The better the ore, the less quantity is needed.
"..." Su Yanxi was unmoved, "Noisy."
She glanced at Chenshi, and Chenshi stopped talking and continued to dig hard, sighing as he dug.
It’s okay, if he digs a little more, Brother Nian’s mine will come out.
Su Yanxi could barely accept Chen Shi's suppressed sigh. She was not idle either. She had just asked the system for hot water and then had a new idea.
"System, look how tiring it is for me to mine in the real world. I don't get any points, and there's no benefit. I'm digging all day long, so how can I have the energy to go to the mine at night? Think of a solution!"
[The host's words make sense. What do you think?]
Seeing the system's approval, Su Yanxi became interested and took the opportunity to make a request: "It would be great if the things in the system could take effect in reality!"
[Simple.] The system agreed easily.
So, Su Yanxi used the iron pickaxe produced by the system. Every three knocks, it would automatically lock onto a piece of black crystal ore. While mining, he would recover 20% of his physical strength.
Apart from being a little dirty, it's no different from mining in a mine.
Su Yanxi felt better.
Compared with the difficult-to-use pickaxe in reality and the fact that no black crystal could be seen after digging for a long time, Su Yanxi actually felt that mining in this way was not bad.
Chenshi heard the sudden "dong dong" sound and noticed that Brother Nian had started mining again, and he felt very relieved.
He was really worried that Brother Nian would give up, and that his ability was too poor to dig out enough to share Brother Nian's share. He had already made up his mind that if Brother Nian couldn't dig out enough today, he would give his share to Brother Nian and he would take the penalty.
Now, Brother Nian continues to mine. Even if the speed is slower, there will be no penalty for two people digging.
Chen Shi breathed a sigh of relief.
The whip of the mine supervisor left a deep impression on him, and he never wanted to think about it in his life.
Chenshi continued to dig. He was worried that Nian Ge didn't have enough ore, so he dug faster. After relaxing, he felt a little weak and his mining speed slowed down by half, but he still didn't want to stop and rest, so he kept digging.
In case Brother Nian doesn't want to dig anymore, he has a little more here, which can just make up for it.
In the past, it was Brother Nian who gave him the additional share. This time it’s his turn, and he can’t let him down.
Chenshi gritted his teeth and persevered. The sound of the pickaxe colliding with the rocks in the mine was crisp and pleasant.
"Dong-dong-dong-dong"
"Boom boom boom! Boom boom boom! Boom boom boom!"
Two mining sounds with different rhythms mixed together, the former was Chen Shi's, and the latter was naturally Brother Nian's.
Chen Shi felt something was wrong. Who swung the pickaxe so fast when digging? Even when he was full of energy, he would pause before continuing to dig. How could Brother Nian dig without stopping?
He turned around and saw it, his eyes widened, and his digging movements unconsciously froze in place.
Su Yanxi, wearing the shell of Shen Yunian, swung the pickaxe with ease. Every three hits, a piece of black crystal ore fell out of the wall. He picked it up and threw it into the bamboo basket. He dug again, picked up again, and threw again...
Every time you knock three times, a piece of black crystal ore will appear!
Chen Shi was stunned by his discovery.
What’s going on?!
Is Brother Nian mining? If you don't know, you might think he's looking at a small mountain of black crystal ore. He doesn't need to dig, he just throws the ore into the box!
Chen Shi glanced at the pickaxe in his hand and dug three times unconfidently. Apart from falling gravel, he could not even see the shadow of black crystal ore.
Looking at Brother Nian again, "Boom boom boom!" The black crystal ore came out, "Boom boom boom!" The black crystal ore came out again.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
The sound of the pickaxe mixed with the heartbeat of the stone.
Is this what mining is?
It was his fault. He had embarrassed the miners and held them back! He apologized! But why was Nian Ge able to dig so quickly and produce so much ore? Was he gifted? Why did he dig for so long and all he found was rock? Was he ugly, and the ore didn't like him, so they hid away? I'd never heard that ore valued appearance before!
Chen Shi has been mining for most of his life, and only today did he realize that people are different.
He squatted in front of Su Yanxi with starry eyes and an envious look on his face.
Su Yanxi was immersed in mining. She looked up and saw a pair of puppy eyes looking at her eagerly with a greedy smile on the corners of their mouths.
"..." Su Yanxi threw the ore into the bamboo basket, and there was a hint of hesitation in his digging movements. "What are you doing?"
"Brother Nian!" Chen Shi grabbed Su Yanxi's wrist and shouted, "When did you practice the Mining Sacred Body without telling me?!"
"Ah?" Su Yanxi was frightened and tried desperately to pull his hand back.
The more she struggled, the tighter Chen Shi gripped her.
"You didn't even tell me! Aren't we the best brothers in the world?" Chen Shi looked like a bullied wife.
Su Yanxi shuddered.
"Let go of my hand first."
She was responded with a pair of starry eyes.
"Let me go, and I'll tell you my mining secret." Su Yanxi tempted.
When Chen Shi heard this, he let go of his hand obediently, then hugged his legs and urged Su Yanxi to speak quickly with his eyes.
Su Yanxi cleared his throat and looked at the innocent Chen Shi, and suddenly an evil idea came to his mind.
"I can tell you the secret, but what can you give me in return?"
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