Chapter 248 Mine Guardians
Meng Qingyin immediately posted the [Clay Mining Permit] in the group, telling everyone not to mine ore without authorization.
Lu Cheng was very curious about the "mine guardians," but he didn't dare to mine rashly. Besides, he hadn't encountered any mines, so he made a note of it.
Strangely enough, although the map is called "Plant Paradise", there are not many plants on both sides of the road. At a glance, there is only an uneven hillside.
It doesn't look like there's any mineral in it.
Perhaps it was because the map was still in its early stages, so she had to search slowly. Meng Qingyin kept looking at the chat area and noticed that other players hadn't found anything either, so she wasn't in a hurry.
A single supply box card lasts for only one hour. In one morning, she collected 13 supply boxes, but only got one ordinary planting pot from each box. This shows that the drop rate of planting pots is not high at all.
The price of planting items in the trading hall has been driven up, with an ordinary planting pot selling for 5 silver coins.
Despite the outrageous price, no one is selling it – only two-thirds of the players can get the completion reward, and nobody wants to miss out on it.
Therefore, even though the price of planting pots remained high, no one was willing to sell them.
In the afternoon, Fei Qiu sent a message in the group saying that he had come across a clay mine, and it was quite large.
Without saying a word, Meng Qingyin teleported over directly.
Chen Leying and the others also came over, ready to help with the mining.
The six people gathered by the roadside. To their right, in a small hill, stood an unusually tall mine.
The mine is surrounded by a fence that is more than half a person high, with an iron gate in the middle.
Lu Cheng couldn't wait to walk ahead: "Let's go see who the mine guardian really is."
The mine was only a hundred meters away from the road, and the group quickly arrived at the iron gate.
Lu Cheng peered inside, and after a while, he asked, puzzled, "Strange, there seems to be no one inside? Where are the mine guardians?"
Suddenly, a large yellow wasp appeared above the iron gate, its voice deep and muffled: "This is a clay mine. Do you have a mining permit? If you don't have a permit, leave immediately and do not enter!"
It was two meters tall, wearing a suit of silver armor, and its wings flapped rapidly, creating a gust of wind that almost made Lu Cheng lose his footing.
The venomous needles at the tail end are huge and sharp, and they look terrifying.
Lu Cheng staggered back several steps, staring in shock at the enormous hornet before him. "This is the mine guardian? How can a hornet grow this big?"
He turned around and whispered to Meng Qingyin, "Can your little one handle it?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the enormous stinger of the giant hornet immediately pointed at Lu Cheng, going on high alert: "Don't overestimate yourself and try to challenge the swarm!"
As soon as it finished speaking, a swarm of bees suddenly appeared behind it, its wings beating and buzzing loudly.
Judging by appearances, there are at least a thousand.
Lu Cheng immediately admitted defeat: "Lord Hornet, I misspoke! We have permission!"
He presented the clay mining permit with both hands, his eyes as clear as a primary school student's.
The giant hornet took the permit, examined it carefully, and then opened the iron gate. "Alright, you can come in now."
None of the six people moved.
Ahead lay an overwhelming swarm of bees; they dared not move.
The enormous hornet flapped its wings to disperse the swarm, and solemnly reminded everyone, "The mining time is two hours; please leave on time."
Lu Cheng nodded repeatedly, "Yes, Mr. Wasp, we've got it. You're busy, you're busy..."
The enormous wasp didn't even glance at him, hovering motionless in the air.
Without the oppressive presence of the swarm of bees, the six entered the mine without looking to the side, following the instructions and walking straight ahead into the dark interior of the mine without pausing.
With that line of sight completely blocked, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Lu Cheng leaned against the stone wall and patted his chest: "I was scared to death just now. So many bees. If they had attacked us, we would have been riddled with holes."
Fei Qiu took out a flashlight and illuminated the space in the mine. "Time is limited, let's dig for clay first."
The flashlight beam shone on the stone walls of the mine, and the clay ore was immediately visible. It was a soft, brownish-red mineral that was easily distinguishable from regular stone.
Chen Leying took out the pickaxes she had made beforehand and distributed them to everyone. Each person found a spot and began mining.
For a moment, only the crisp clanging sound of hammering could be heard inside the mine.
I don't know how much time passed, but suddenly a shouting sound came from outside.
Listening carefully, it seemed that some players outside had discovered the mine and were clamoring to come in.
Qin Jiu was closest to the cave entrance. She glanced outside and said, "The people outside seem to be that Peach Strawberry Tea guy, and a dozen or so men."
Lu Cheng paused in his ore-cutting motion, somewhat surprised. "It's her? Who are those men?"
Qin Jiu looked closely and shook her head: "They are all nicknames I don't recognize. The man in the lead is called Wu Zilong. And their clothes are so strange. They have black ribbons tied around their heads and they look so silly."
"A black bag?" Fei Qiu pressed. "Isn't there a touch of red at both ends of the strap?"
Qin Jiu nodded. "Yes, what, you've seen them before too?"
Fei Qiu frowned: "The members of that murder-for-treasure convoy were wearing the same kind of headbands."
Lu Cheng: "What, do they use this strap to distinguish whether someone is one of their own?"
The elderly man asked, "How many of them are there?"
Qin Jiu roughly counted, "There seem to be more than twenty people."
The elderly man turned to look at Chen Leying: "Can we handle this?"
Chen Leying was rather conservative: "I don't know the other party's strength."
Meng Qingyin suddenly said, "I wonder how our car is doing."
"Damn, they're not going to smash our car, are they?" Lu Cheng asked anxiously, quickly walking towards the entrance of the mine.
The people outside were about to leave after seeing the swarm of bees, but they stopped when they saw the people at the mine entrance.
Peach Strawberry Tea's face lit up with surprise: "Brother Lucky Guy, we used to be teammates, do you remember me?"
She whispered a few words to the bald man at the head of the group, Wu Zilong, who nodded slightly and smiled, "Brother Ouhuang, since you and Taotao are old acquaintances, why don't you talk to this mine guardian and ask him to do us brothers a favor?"
Lu Cheng ignored the two men's attempts to get close to him. He glanced at their car from a distance, and when he saw that the car window had been smashed, he looked coldly at Wu Zilong: "Did you lead your men to smash our car?"
Wu Zilong's smile remained unchanged, and his tone showed no apology: "It's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding. Why don't you let our brothers in first, and I'll explain to you slowly, how about that?"
As they spoke, Meng Qingyin and the others also walked out of the mine.
Of their vehicles, only Chen Leying's car was reinforced and not damaged; the others all suffered varying degrees of damage.
Among them, Meng Qingyin's train was the most severely damaged. Her train door was violently smashed open, and the windows were shattered all over the ground.
Seeing this, even the usually smiling old man was furious.
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