"What are you yelling about? It's just a silver-level energy crystal beast! Why are you so agitated? You scared me half to death. You're a grown man, yet you act like a child, so immature!"
Jiang Hao's barrage of questions left the City Lord of Jinling speechless. The guards standing nearby pretended not to see anything, desperately trying to suppress their laughter.
They are professionally trained and generally do not smile.
If they can't help it, they will try their best to control the muscles in their faces.
Unless, of course, they really can't hold back anymore.
One of the guards chuckled. The others could no longer hold back and all started laughing.
The city lord of Jinling City lost face and glared fiercely. Several guards immediately lowered their eyes, mouths, and minds, pretending that they had not seen or seen anything and that nothing had happened.
"You don't know the value of this energy crystal, so of course you're not excited."
"Do you know how much preparation we had to make to take down a silver-level energy crystal beast? We had to deploy 50 gold-level guards to have any chance of obtaining a fragment of a platinum-level energy crystal."
Jiang Hao disagreed.
"Even so, warriors, be prepared to sacrifice yourselves. Do you know how many of us will have to give up for a single energy crystal fragment?"
Jiang Hao shook his head, and the city lord of Jinling City extended his right hand.
"Five, on average, it takes sacrificing five gold-level guards to get a silver-level energy crystal fragment."
The city lord of Jinling City had slightly moist eyes. Jiang Hao also noticed that the eyes of several of his personal guards were red.
"Then... what about before that? I mean, much earlier. How did you obtain energy crystals back then?"
"Initially, we discovered the energy crystal mine here, which is why we decided to build Jinling City here. However, we didn't expect that the depths of this mine were polluted. As the mine was dug deeper and deeper, every now and then, energy crystal monsters would appear out of nowhere in the mine."
"At first, we only dispatched the guards of Jinling City to kill these strange beasts."
"But as the mines were dug deeper and deeper, more and more energy crystal beasts appeared, and their levels became higher and higher."
"We have mobilized warriors several times to try to extinguish these strange beasts, but each time we have suffered a crushing defeat."
"However, by this time, Jinling City had already been built, and it required a huge amount of energy crystals every day. As the energy crystals in the warehouse ran out, the strongest person in Jinling City at the time, the guardian Tar, personally led 10 diamond-level, 50 dark gold-level, and 500 gold-level guards to fight in the mine for a whole month, bringing back countless energy crystals of various sizes. However, the battle was extremely costly. The epic-level expert Tar fell, only one of the 10 diamond-level experts survived, all 50 dark gold-level experts perished, and only 48 of the 500 gold-level experts returned in the end."
"From then on, if Jinling City wanted to obtain silver-grade energy crystal fragments, it could only rely on the lives of gold-grade warriors."
The city lord of Jinling spoke with deep emotion, which gave Jiang Hao a general understanding of the mine's history. However, a question also arose in Jiang Hao's mind.
How come the city lord of Jinling City is only a Dark Gold level?
So weak!
However, these words seemed more like a slap in the face, so Jiang Hao didn't dare to ask them.
See through things but don't expose them; a steady person doesn't talk much. Leave room for maneuver in your actions, and your future will be brighter.
Let's continue.
Jiang Hao raised his staff again. The city lord composed himself, and the group began clearing monsters once more.
Although silver-level monsters have extremely high health, with several people attacking at a maximum rate of twice per second, each beast only lasted a little over a second. The monster-killing speed was clearly reduced by more than half compared to bronze-level monsters. However, the energy crystal fragments dropped by silver-level monsters were far larger than those dropped by bronze-level monsters. In just half an hour, they had already surpassed all the loot from killing bronze monsters, so everyone felt a great sense of accomplishment.
Four hours later, all the silver-level energy crystal beasts were cleared out, and Jiang Hao finally collapsed, exhausted.
The city lord of Jinling City didn't feel tired at all. He reached into his robes, pulled out a cloth bag, and bent down to collect all the energy crystal fragments he hadn't had time to pick up from the ground. Several of his personal guards, though looking somewhat weary, also followed suit and collected the energy crystal fragments. They all had beaming smiles on their faces, as if all their previous fatigue had vanished.
Jiang Hao was quite puzzled by this scene.
"My Lord, why are you all so happy?"
"Of course I'm happy! If we take these energy crystal fragments to Qiongfeng Pass, I estimate we can hold out there for at least two months!"
Holy crap, is this thing really that awesome?
"Um, what's this energy crystal used for?"
"you do not know?"
The city lord of Jinling turned to look at Jiang Hao in disbelief. Then he nodded, as if he already knew the reason.
"Energy crystal, energy crystal, means energy crystal, of course it provides energy."
"When you entered Jinling City, did you see the war bunkers in the square?"
"You saw him? What happened?"
"Did you see the cannon up there?"
"No, that thing is placed so high up, how could anyone see it?"
After thinking for a moment, the city lord asked again.
"What about the statues in Heroes' Canyon inside the city gate? You must have seen those ten giant statues, each over a hundred meters tall, by now, right?"
"Of course I'm not blind!"
The city lord of Jinling City wasn't angry. He pinched a rice-grain-sized piece of energy crystal between two fingers and said...
"Simply place this one fragment of energy crystal inside the energy shield on the statue's chest, and those statues will be able to unleash the power of a diamond-level bodyguard, fighting continuously for a whole day without any problem. Isn't that awesome?"
Jiang Hao's eyes widened in disbelief. No matter how he tried to guess, he never imagined that these inconspicuous energy crystal fragments would have such a huge effect.
"If we had enough energy crystals, wouldn't we be invincible?"
"That's right, the reason we chose to build Jinling City here was precisely because of the energy crystal veins here!"
"Um, Lord City Lord, I have another question."
"Ask, ask, ask anything."
"Why not build a machine...?"
"Yes, of course! Do you think such a large mine shaft was dug out by man?"
"No, no, what I mean is, is there a machine that can deal with energy crystal monsters? Like that statue you mentioned that's hundreds of meters tall, just stuff it with energy crystals and let it clean up the energy crystal monsters, wouldn't that be awesome?"
"Oh, I understand."
The city lord of Jinling said excitedly.
"No!"
Jiang Hao was taken aback. The city lord of Jinling City thought Jiang Hao hadn't understood, so he explained again.
"This kind of machine doesn't exist now, and it won't exist in the future."
"Hmm? Why is the city lord so confident in his assertion?"
"The statues in Jinling City are mainly for attack. What's needed in the energy crystal mines are materials that can withstand the attacks of energy crystal beasts. But what kind of material can withstand the attacks of thousands upon thousands of energy crystal beasts? Putting aside whether such materials even exist, even if they do, why make them into machines? Wouldn't it be more cost-effective to make them into shields for my personal guard?"
Jiang Hao really wanted to say something, but in reality, many people's jobs have already been replaced by robots.
Why doesn't this happen in games?
For a moment, Jiang Hao couldn't figure it out.
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