Both of them were disappointed at first sight. The bandit didn't dig out the original stone at all, and her Black Death Demon only dug up a strange thing.
"What is this?" Chu Jun looked at the things in the pit, his eyes full of doubts.
Li Xiu was also looking at the thing, but he didn't see what it was.
The Black Death Demon had just dug a hole more than three meters deep. Inside, there was a red ball about the same size as a large yoga ball used by women to practice yoga.
The spherical object was not an artificial material, and its surface was covered with scale-like things, but those scales looked more like metal.
It must be said that this is a demon spirit, but few people have sensed the aura of a demon spirit on it. Chu Jun has inspiration skills. If it really was a demon spirit, he should have discovered it early on.
If it wasn't a demon, what kind of thing was it? New species undiscovered on Earth? Or is it something made by humans?
The bandit directed the Black Death Demon to move the things out. The three of them looked at it carefully for a while, but they couldn't figure out the reason.
There are no gaps on the ball, which first rules out the possibility that something has shrunk into a ball.
They have never heard of any creature that can grow scales on its eggs, and to lay such a big egg, how big of a creature would it be possible? Even if the dinosaurs were resurrected, it's hard to say whether they would be able to lay such large eggs.
"Is it an artificial thing? Who would make such a thing? What's the use of burying it here?" Chu Jun touched the scales of the thing and felt nothing at all. The texture was almost the same as normal metal.
"Do you think this could be a fruit?" Ah Bie pondered.
"Fruit? What kind of fruit can grow so deep underground?" Chu Jun felt that the bandit was just having a whim.
"Maybe my expression is wrong. What I mean is, could this be a plant, like a lotus root buried in the mud, a potato or a sweet potato or something like that?" A bandit explained.
"Then you have to cut it open and take a look." Chu Jun thought it was impossible. There was a metal shell on the outside of the fruit, and it also had scales.
After studying it for a long time, I still couldn't figure out what it was, so I finally decided to cut it open and take a look.
The three people ran far away and hid behind a big stone. Chu Jun controlled the dark blue knight and struck the metal ball on the ground with a sword.
With a bang, the metal ball was knocked out by the Dark Blue Knight's sword, but was not damaged.
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"It's so hard, it seems like it's not a fruit." Chu Jun was talking when he suddenly saw the thing moving on its own.
The scales on the outside of the metal ball folded down and shrank one by one, quickly revealing what was inside.
There are still the same scales inside. When the outermost scales fold and shrink to the bottom of the sphere, the second layer of scales also begins to fold and shrink downwards.
Layer after layer, this thing is like an onion. The scales are peeled off layer by layer, but the same scale structure is still inside.
"It has more than ten layers. Why does this thing have more layers than an onion? What on earth is it?" Chu Jun stared at the metal ball that was almost as big as a blue ball and said with a strange expression.
"If I knew what it was, I wouldn't hide here." Li Xiu said, staring at the thing.
The metal scales peeled off several more layers, and the scales folded and accumulated layer by layer below formed a column, which looked like a pineapple. The sphere on top continued to peel off scales.
Finally, after the last layer of scales was folded down, the three people were surprised to find that inside the layers of scales was a translucent white sphere the size of a fist, like jelly.
The bandit suddenly seemed to have thought of something, pointed at the thing and said, "I remembered it. Just now I thought this thing looked like a fruit. Do you think this thing looks like a large lychee, except that the outer skin is thicker? What’s inside is its pulp.”
When the bandit said this, Li Xiu and Chu Jun really felt a bit similar, except that this guy had thicker skin and less flesh. After peeling off the layers of such a big thing, only fist-sized pulp was left.
"This thing can't really be a fruit, can it?" Chu Jun swallowed.
"You'll know if you try it." Li Xiu smiled.
"How to taste it? Who knows if that thing is a fruit? Even if it is a fruit, what if it is poisonous?" Chu Jun is not stupid, how can he taste it?
Between the three of us, you look at me and I look at you. No one dares to be the first to eat the crab.
After waiting for a while, no danger was found. The three people came out from behind the big rock and came to look around the thing.
"Here I go, there's still the sweet smell of fruit here. Could it really be a fruit?" Chu Jun came closer and smelled it, and immediately shouted.
Li Xiu also smelled it, nodded and said: "It really has a sweet taste like lychee, and it seems to be mixed with the taste of pears and bananas. Maybe it is really an undiscovered fruit species. Do you want to try it?"
"Forget it, it's too risky. Let's continue mining. Is the demon spirit reliable? If we dig like this, if there is a ruby mine in this valley, we should have dug it long ago." Chu Jundu said road.
No one dared to taste the thing. Li Xiu controlled the demon spirit and moved the thing to the corner next to it. Together with Bandit and the others, they continued to dig holes to find rubies.
Who knew that the ruby was not dug out, but soon the red ball was dug out again.
No ruby was found, but seven or eight red balls were found, which made the three of them a little depressed.
The shells of these red balls are indeed very hard, and Li Xiu plans to take them back to Ximen Official to have a look, maybe they can be used as materials for magic equipment.
"It seems that we were most likely deceived by that unparalleled king. There is no ruby mine in this poor place." Chu Jun was so tired just looking at the excavated stones that he slumped on the ground and said.
"That's not right. If the Unparalleled King is really that scheming, it must have its own purpose in tricking me into coming here, and it should be good for it. What good can we do to it by digging a hole here? It can't be It wants to eat fruit, and you tricked me into coming here to dig out these fruits and bring them back to it?" Li Xiu felt that this shouldn't be the case.
"Then what do you think we should do? Should we continue digging?" Chu Jun said.
"Let's do this, get all the demon spirits here, and let's dig a big hole deep into it. If we don't gain anything, then go back." Li Xiu also felt that the chance of digging out the ruby was probably low.
Several people brought the demons into a pit and dug down. Some dug, some transported the excavated earth and rocks, some picked up rocks, and some took out the garbage. These demons worked non-stop, sweating more than blood. Factory employees still have to work hard.
Peng!
When the big pit was dug more than 20 meters deep, a black death devil's feet sank, as if he had stepped on empty space, and suddenly disappeared, only a hole appeared on the other side.
"No way, is there a cave demon here?" Li Xiu was shocked. After making sure that there was no problem with the nearby ground, he quickly came to the edge of the cave.
Looking down, I found that there was a tunnel-like passage extending to both sides at a depth of about two meters.
Li Xiu jumped down and looked at both ends of the passage, and was immediately startled.
I saw a huge creature wriggling at one end of the passage. It looked like a giant earthworm, but it was covered with red scales and was constantly drilling holes.
"What's going on down there?" Chu Jun asked at the breach above.
Li Xiu quickly made a silent gesture, and then motioned for him and Bandit to come down together.
After Chu Jun and Ajie came down lightly, their expressions changed slightly when they saw the giant earthworm that was swallowing earth and rocks and drilling holes.
That thing is like a burrowing machine. Its lotus-like mouthparts continuously swallow earth and rocks, and then the earth and rocks are discharged from the hole at the rear end of the body, drilling holes very quickly.
The thing didn't seem to notice Li Xiu and the others, and kept drilling holes there.
Chu Jun quickly used his inspiration skills, and then lowered his voice and said to Li Xiu: "This thing is a demon spirit. Its name is Stone Breaker, an A-level demon spirit. I guess there may be a gem mine here, but the I’m afraid all the rubies have been filtered and swallowed by this thing, so we can’t dig up the rubies.”
Li Xiu thought so too, and was about to summon the Jedi Knights to kill it, but saw the stone crusher suddenly stopped.
The three of them thought that the stone crusher had discovered them, but who knew that after the stone crusher's body shook for a while, a red sphere squeezed out from another smaller hole in the back, and then continued to drill holes.
Li Xiu and the other three looked at each other, feeling sick for a while.
No matter how you look at it, the red ball looks like the excrement of the Stonebreaker after eating too much. Thinking about the three of them smelling it at such a close distance just now, and saying that there is such a scent, they all feel a little nauseous and want to vomit.
Li Xiu directly summoned a Jedi Knight and rushed forward. The Jedi Knight chased after the Stonebreaker's body and slashed out with a bloody slash, directly making a big hole in the Stonebreaker's body and almost breaking it into two. Duan's body was still moving, and he was struggling to escape.
This demon spirit was strange. Although its body was quite big, it was not good at fighting. The Jedi chased it and cut its body into sections. After a few cuts, this guy became completely motionless.
When the Stone Breaker struggled to escape, some of the dug tunnel collapsed. The three people dug out all the collapsed earth and rocks, and then found a magic core inside its broken corpse.
That magic core is nothing, just an ordinary A-level magic core, not even of any quality.
But in addition to the magic core, they also found a ruby inside the Stone Breaker's body.
"Is this a ruby?" Chu Jun's eyes widened, looking at the crystal ball in front of him in disbelief that could be described as huge.
In fact, this crystal clear, seemingly impurity-free, ruby-like ball is only as big as a basketball.
But if it is really a ruby, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as huge. Such a ruby must weigh dozens of kilograms. Compared with rubies weighed in carats, it is a giant.
"It looks a bit like it, but I have never seen or heard of such a large ruby and such a pure ruby." Li Xiu looked at the ruby ball from a close distance and could not see any inclusions inside. It's so pure that you can't believe it's a ruby.
"Let's get it back first. I don't know if there are any other stone crushers down here. If there are a few more of these, it is estimated that this ruby mine will be almost finished, and it will be impossible to dig out rubies." Li Xiu was helpless. said.
I thought I would finally make money, but I didn't expect that it would all come to nothing.
Now he can only hope that there are no other stonebreakers down there, and that the gem mines here have not been eaten up.
Li Xiu himself didn't plan to dig anymore, so he asked Sha Chu to find a few professional prospectors or gem hunters to come over and take a look.
After hesitating for a moment, Li Xiu took those red balls back and asked Ximen Officer to test them to see what they were.
Although it is highly doubtful that these red balls are the excrement of the stone crusher, the scale-like shell is more like metal, and it may be useful.
When Li Xiu held a ruby ball that was slightly larger than a basketball and placed it in front of Ximen Guan, Ximen Guan took one look at it, frowned and said, "Why did you bring a glass ball over here?"
"What glass ball? This is a ruby." Li Xiu said.
"Ruby, are you sure?" Ximen Guan looked at the ruby ball in disbelief. Even if it is a synthetic ruby, it is not easy to get such a large and clear one.
"You will know if you test it." Li Xiuxin actually had no idea whether the ball on the stone crusher's body was actually a ruby.
If it was really a ruby, Li Xiu felt that his trip was not in vain, but such a big ruby ball could be sold for a sky-high price.
Official Ximen didn't believe that this thing was a ruby at all. After taking it for a test, he found that it was really a ruby, and there was no trace of artificial synthesis. All the indicators were the same as natural rubies.
Official Ximen thought that there was an error in the test, so he personally debugged the instrument and tested it again with several different types of instruments. The result was still the same. This was a natural ruby, and it was frighteningly pure, with almost no impurities visible to the naked eye.
"How could there be such a big ruby?" Although Ximen still couldn't believe it, the test results were there, so he couldn't help but not believe it.
"Where did you get such a natural ruby? It's very valuable. Why not sell it and exchange it for some equipment." Ximen Guan had no interest in the gem and only wanted to exchange it for equipment.
"I'm still useful." Li Xiu immediately took the ruby ball back, joking, how could this thing be sold casually.
In order to comfort the somewhat unhappy Official Ximen, Li Xiu asked Chu Jun and Bandit who were waiting outside to bring in a large box filled with red metal balls.
"Old official, I found some good things for you, see if you can use them." Li Xiu pointed to the red ball in the box and said.
"What is this?" Official Ximen obviously didn't recognize what it was.
"Good stuff." Chu Jun controlled the Black Death Demon, placed a metal ball on the table in front of Ximen Guan, and then hit the metal ball hard.
In the next second, the scale-like shell opened layer by layer, finally revealing the fist-sized thing inside, which looked like lychee pulp.
"Is this a man-made device? It doesn't look like it. It can't be some kind of plant, right? That's not right." Ximen Guan came closer to the pulp-like thing and sniffed it. He seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly stretched out his finger. I scratched the thing, and some transparent liquid stuck to my fingers, and then I put it in my mouth.
This move made the three of them, Li Xiu, so sick that they almost vomited on the spot.
After Ximen Guan tasted it, he showed excitement: "Where did you find this thing? It is a natural catalyst and can be used to refine demon materials. I have seen some in Changshengtian before, and it tastes like this. It turns out that the catalyst is extracted from this kind of thing, where did you get it from? With this thing, I can save a lot of time when refining the magic spirit wood."
"Uh." Li Xiu and the other three looked at each other, but no one spoke.
"What are you looking at? Tell me quickly. This is a good thing. Do you have any more? Can you get it in the future?" Official Ximen asked anxiously.
"Yes, yes..." Li Xiu saw that Chu Jun and Bandit were silent and completely ignored his eyes, so he coughed lightly and told the origin of this thing.
Originally, they thought that after hearing this, Official Ximen would have some uncomfortable psychological or physiological reactions.
Who would have thought that after hearing this, Official Ximen smiled sarcastically: "For science and technology workers, we only have the constituent elements of matter in our eyes, and nothing else is important, let alone mere excrement. I haven't tasted anything for the sake of research. But, you are really making such a fuss. You cannot let others take away such a good thing. You should organize people to continue digging as soon as possible. It is best to bring back every last one for me."
"Did you see? This is a profession. You all should learn from it and don't be surprised all the time." Li Xiu was right when he thought about it. In recent years, Ximen Official was imprisoned for decades, and he was eating, drinking, and defecating in a water tank. We have done everything before, so what does this mean? So he said to Chu Jun and Bandit.
Chu Jun and Bandit looked at Li Xiu with contempt, and he had the biggest reaction just now.
"The old official still has a pattern, but I am superficial." Chu Jundong admitted his mistake to Ximen Guan.
"You are still young, and it is normal that you do not have enough skills. You will just learn slowly in the future. Stop talking nonsense and quickly organize people to dig out the red metal balls." Official Ximen urged them to dig out the red metal balls.
After the three people left, the old official closed the door and rushed into the bathroom, where he vomited profusely. The sound made people fear that he would vomit out his stomach.
He had eaten, drank, and defecated in a water tank, but it was living water. He drank high-grade water, and even defecated in the bottom water. Moreover, it was his own thing, so he could accept it psychologically.
What's more, now that I'm used to living a good life, how can I suffer like that again?
Li Xiu asked Chu Jun and Bandit to dig out those metal balls, while he came to the construction site and went deep into the hole again wearing a ghost-faced devil costume.
