Chapter 379 Floating Island Associated Minerals (Please vote and subscribe)
"Shh! Is there someone?! Did you hear someone talking?" Youye suddenly raised his hand to stop the two from talking, and listened carefully with his ears tilted.
"Captain, it's me, I'm Zongshi who fell from above, my leg is broken, come and save me, I don't want to die here, woo woo woo woo--" A faint cry for help and crying spread around, and entered the ears of Youye and the other two at the same time.
Hiss--
the three of them took a breath of cold air, this time they all heard it, it turned out to be the team member who fell before, he was still alive, such a high vertical drop, how did he survive, he just broke his leg? !
"I'm Youye, Zongshi, where are you, don't be afraid, I've brought people to save you." No matter how the other party survived, it's a good thing to be alive, and it's not too late to ask the rest after the person is rescued.
"Captain, it's really you. I'm here. Come and save me."
Zong Shi heard the response, and his desire to survive suddenly became stronger. He sat in the water at the bottom of the cave, with his back against a huge crystal pillar. Next to him was a dead horse corpse, but the meat on his neck had been cut off by him. For more than a day, he relied on drinking the water in the cave and eating raw horse meat to survive until now. Although he knew that he could not move and the hope of escaping was basically zero, his instinct for survival still made him do so.
Fortunately, he was lucky enough not to fall to death directly from above. There was water and meat below. Even if no one came to rescue him, he could survive for about half a month. Now the captain actually brought people down to find him, which really made him cry with joy.
The way to survive was right in front of him. He no longer hesitated, picked up his military shovel from his side, and kept knocking on the crystal cluster next to him. In the empty cave, the clanging sound immediately pointed out the location of Youye and the other two.
"Listen, it's Zongshi knocking the stone. Over there, let's go quickly, everyone be careful." Youye again told the two people behind him.
"Yes."
The three began to slowly approach the place where the sound came from, and soon the water on the ground submerged their calves. The cold water poured into their leather boots, making the three people grit their teeth secretly.
But even so, several people did not intend to take off their boots, because the seemingly transparent water was not empty. There were broken crystal fragments piled up underneath, which could easily scratch the soles of their feet. Fortunately, they still had standard military boots, otherwise they would not be able to pass here.
The three walked all the way to Zongshi, and they directly knocked off the crystal clusters they encountered on the road, and forcibly opened up a path.
"Captain! Wow - you finally came to save me, woo woo woo woo -" Zongshi saw the three people holding torches and finally couldn't help crying. He was only 14 years old this year and thought he would never survive, but he didn't expect that he would eventually be rescued by the captain.
"I see you, don't cry, brother. We'll take you out."
The three were surprised to see Zongshi escape from death. They sped up and came to his side. Zongshi was sitting in the water. His clothes were soaked. There were many holes on his clothes, which should be small scratches. One leg was stretched out in front of him weakly, but there was no obvious bend. He said that his leg was broken, but it should not be completely broken, which means that it is more likely to be a bone fracture.
Youye comforted him for a while, and then carried him out personally. The other two also searched nearby and found the fallen iron tools. They took two transparent crystals and stuffed them into the bag. The four of them started to go back together.
A few hours later, the four finally returned to the camp. Zongshi also changed into clean clothes. His broken leg had been fixed by a branch. He held a bowl of hot soup and told the others about his experience.
On that thunderstorm night, the moment the ground cracked, in addition to Zongshi, a guide sent by the alliance and three horses fell down. Zongshi grabbed the reins of a horse in a panic, but he didn't expect that there were transparent stone cones standing upright below. The
horse he was pulling was directly pierced by a huge stone cone, but this also slowed down their falling speed. Zongshi held the reins tightly and hung in the air. Finally, when he was about to give up, he swung hard to a crystal cone next to him and slid down. The fracture of his leg was also caused by the impact at the moment of landing, not directly broken, so it was not very serious.
After that, he survived by chance, but the other guide and the horse were not so lucky. They were either stabbed to death by the crystal cluster below or fell to death directly.
After listening to his story, the team members sighed and said that he was lucky and had great luck. It was not enough to be lucky enough to survive. If the leader had not said that there was a mine below and asked them to go down and look for it, they would not have thought that there was still someone alive, let alone send people to rescue him.
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One day later, the giant eagle returned to Hanyang City with the news that a team member had been rescued and a bag of stones. Luo Chong was also very surprised by this discovery. The location of the crystal vein was determined.
Moreover, according to Youye's description in the letter, this mine is very easy to mine. You can directly reach the mine cave at the bottom from the cave. If the crack above can be expanded a little, you can directly hang up with a hanging basket. In addition, this cave faces the river. After mining, it can be loaded on the boat and go down the river directly to the gate of Hanyang City. It is extremely convenient.
Luo Chong thought that this was a good thing, but he didn't expect that something more exciting was still to come. A transport ship from the floating island iron ore area returned to the artificial river of Hanyang City. Two tribesmen who were operating the boat immediately ran to the city to look for Luo Chong.
"Chief, we have dug up associated ore in the iron ore area, but we don't know if it is a metal ore, but the stone feels very heavy, much heavier than an iron ingot." A tribesman found Luo Chong and reported immediately.
"What?! We have dug up associated ore? Where is it? Take me to see it." Luo Chong stood up happily with a transparent crystal cluster in his hand. He didn't expect that he would be so lucky today. It was not enough to just find crystals, but there was also an unexpected harvest in the iron ore area.
The two immediately led Luo Chong to the waterwheel mill outside the east gate. The newly arrived iron ore was being unloaded and prepared to be sent to the mill for processing into powder. However, there were three rattan baskets on the shore, filled with different stones.
One of them was the flaky pyrite that Luo Chong was familiar with, that is, iron sulfide. It was normal for this to appear near magnetite.
The other was a black-gray crystal that looked like a coral. There was no metallic luster on the surface. It did look different from iron ore. No wonder they said it was an associated ore.
Luo Chong picked up a piece of "coral" and it felt unusually heavy. Just from this point, he could tell that it was definitely a heavy metal mineral with a density greater than iron. However, he still couldn't tell what kind of metal it was, but it must be useful.
The last type was a light gray stone with a grayish-white metallic luster. The crystals in it were like a regular cube and were also very heavy. It was easy to tell at a glance that it was a heavy metal. It was silver-gray, much heavier than iron, and had cubic crystals. It was also relatively soft. Luo Chong could scratch it with a crystal and even chip off the debris. This basically confirmed that it was definitely galena, which was a crystal of lead sulfide.
(End of this chapter)
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