Chapter 289 Difficult to Dig
No matter if they are female or male prisoners of war, they are not paid with star coins and are working for nothing here.
The male orc who had said they were cheap frowned and remained silent when he heard this. He seemed to have realized what was happening and silently added, "Oh, by the way, you are prisoners of war, free labor."
Butterfly Orc: ...
Mining was already unpleasant enough, and now I’m being hurt.
The butterfly orc pursed his lips, but finally said nothing and continued to mine.
"Why are you standing here? Aren't you digging?" The sheep girl came to Jiang Mian's side at some point and looked at her with confusion. Her clothes had long been stained by the ash from the ore, and her face was covered in sweat.
At this time, she spoke weakly: "If you don't dig, don't expect me to share the nutrients with you."
Jiang Mian looked at her. His shovel only knocked off a thin layer of soil. He said silently, "I don't think I can get a tube of nutrient solution even if I dig hard today."
"If you dig tomorrow, you might not be able to get the nutritional supplements until the day after tomorrow, which means you'll be hungry for three days." The sheep girl muttered speechlessly.
"Yeah." Jiang Mian silently picked up the hammer and started hammering.
The sheep girl didn't say anything when she saw this scene. It was naturally a good thing that the other party could take action.
However, when the sheep girl inadvertently looked at Jiang Mian again, she found that she had taken a break, so she went to see how much ore she had dug out of her basket. Unexpectedly, she dug out mountain rocks mixed with a few small pieces of ore.
Sheep Girl: ...
"You can't even tell the difference between ore and rock, right?" The sheep girl twitched her lips slightly. "And you're resting after digging so little. You really don't want to drink the nutritional supplement tomorrow."
The sheep girl probably knew that it would take her two days to dig enough for a full basket.
Not only her, it would probably take the female orcs two days of hard work to dig enough.
Before, she thought Jiang Mian was very confident and that he was a very capable person. However, she didn't expect that he was so weak that he couldn't even distinguish between minerals.
Jiang Mian raised his eyes to look at her, and naturally saw the other person's face covered with oil and sweat, and his expression was speechless.
She also knew that the other party was reminding her with good intentions, but it was not that she couldn't tell the difference between minerals and rocks.
"I can tell the difference between ore and rock." Jiang Mian smiled helplessly, "I'll use these rocks to mine."
"Whatever you want." The sheep girl didn't want to say anything more. After all, saying one more word would consume her saliva.
Jiang Mian didn't explain much. After all, if she really had to use manual labor to dig it out, it would be really tiring, so she planned to make a reagent.
The reagents can dissolve these hard rocks but will not destroy the actual ores, so digging will be more efficient.
Jiang Mian was about to go out to look for plants. The sheep girl next to her noticed her movements and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Shall I queue up to get some drinking water?" Jiang Mian noticed that there was well water outside the mine when he arrived.
However, not only do you need to queue up, you also need to fetch water yourself.
"Oh." The sheep girl looked at Jiang Mian speechlessly.
She now felt that Jiang Mian was even more pampered than her.
"Go get some water? I want to go too. Let's go together." The Butterfly Orc also stopped mining.
Jiang Mian had no objection, she walked out, and the pink butterfly girl followed her out.
The two men walked outside, and when they were about to reach the entrance of the mine, they saw a female orc walking out in front of them.
Who knew that as soon as the two female orcs in front of them reached the mine entrance, they were scolded by the orcs guarding the mine entrance: "It's not time for dinner yet, you are not allowed to leave."
After the orc scolded, he casually whipped the two female orcs.
The two female orcs screamed and ran back quickly.
So Jiang Mian and the Pink Butterfly Orc subconsciously looked at each other.
Then the two of them walked back silently with a tacit understanding. It seemed that they could not leave early.
After returning, the sheep girl looked at them in surprise: "Why did you come back so soon?"
Jiang Mian simply explained what had just happened.
"It turns out that we can't leave the mine before the time comes to go down." Jiang Mian sighed slightly.
The air inside the mine is very thin and hot, and it feels very depressing to stay here.
"Didn't you bring any water before you came in?" The male orc was surprised and picked up the bottle of water next to him. "I have a bottle of water here. If you don't mind me drinking it, you can drink it."
Before Jiang Mian could say anything, the butterfly girl next to him walked over and said, "I don't mind, I don't mind."
But Jiang Mian didn't want it, because her original purpose was not to go out to drink water. Going out to drink water was just an excuse she made up.
After all, there are not only a few of them in this mine, there are also some other people. Just because they don't speak doesn't mean they don't exist.
Jiang Mian naturally wouldn't tell his friend in person that he wanted to make a potion.
This little incident did not affect everyone's continued mining.
Until night, the mine became even darker and no light could get in. From outside, I could hear the bustling sounds of people going down into the mine.
Everyone went out carrying their own baskets and tools.
Jiang Mian didn't want to carry the contents of the basket away, but the sheep girl next to her reminded her, "Those who didn't fill their baskets also left with their ore. We'd better carry it too. If we leave it here, half a day's work might be gone by the time we come back tomorrow."
Jiang Mian only dug out a few pieces of rocks and ores for experiments and stopped digging. The bottom of the basket was not even full. It was unlikely that anyone would steal those scattered ores, right?
But despite thinking so, Jiang Mian still went out with the basket on his back.
The male beastmen could actually dig a basketful of fish in a day, and they all went to report and receive nutritional supplements.
Those who didn't dig enough to fill a basket returned to the camp to rest.
Jiang Mian didn't even hear the mine manager say where they should live. It was the sheep girl who pulled her into a place with a large bunk bed.
"There is no fixed accommodation here. Whoever comes back first can sleep in whichever bed they want." The sheep girl explained to her.
Jiang Mian was surprised, but he just picked a bed that looked dirty. No, all the bunk beds were very dirty, so there was nothing good to choose from.
Her bed was next to the sheep girl's bed.
"I'm going out to queue up for water. You take care of our baskets of ore." The sheep girl instructed her.
Jiang Mian paused and agreed.
(End of this chapter)
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