The person who pushed open the stone door was none other than a strange beast with black and white fur, short limbs, and a bulging belly. It looked cute and innocent.
"Iron?" Yang Tao recognized at a glance that the strange-looking beast in front of him was the strange thing they had been looking for these days, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
But then he also noticed the figure on the back of the alien beast.
It was a girl who looked not much older than them. She had a slim figure, slender legs, and very strong arms. Her whole body was filled with the beauty of power.
But the most eye-catching thing is her bronze skin and her ear-length short hair, which is quite rare in this era.
"You are..." Yang Tao was startled.
"Chi, aren't you here to find me?" the short-haired girl on the iron bar frowned.
As soon as she opened her mouth, Lu Jing and the others recognized that it was the rough voice that came from the cave before.
The three of them couldn't help but look at each other in confusion for a moment.
Lu Jing recalled it again and found that Ye Gongmei did not seem to have specifically mentioned Chi's gender before, but only used "she" to refer to her.
However, at that time, Lu Jing was preconceived and thought that the person obsessed with refining weapons should be a man, so he mistook the "her" in Ye Gongmei's mouth for "he".
In addition, Chi's voice did sound more masculine, so the three of them were surprised when they saw the girl sitting on Zhitie's back.
"Senior Ye, want to borrow my rod?" Chi continued to ask in her unique rough accent, looking at the three of them with a somewhat suspicious look.
"No," Lu Jing hesitated, and finally chose to tell the truth, "We wanted to borrow the iron rod. The three of us were punished by the Yellow Prison for trespassing in the forbidden area. We went to get a bamboo path to chop bamboo. It happened that a friend was at the top of the mountain. We once saw Chi... er, senior's iron rod, and we were reminded that we can use this object to deal with the bamboos on the bamboo path that are as strong as fine iron.
"I went to find Senior Ye first. After receiving some advice from Senior Ye, I found out that Senior Chi lived in seclusion here. Then I came to visit with two friends."
Chi heard the words without comment, her eyes turned around on Lu Jing and others, and then said, "The three of you are quite good at Qinggong. You dare to jump off such a high rock wall, but it's a pity... you guys are... It’s a waste of time.”
Before Lu Jing could speak again, Chi continued, "It's not that I don't want to lend you the rod. In fact, when my master was still alive, many students who were punished to go to the bamboo path to get bamboo thought about borrowing it. Ratchet comes to help.
"Master would usually ask them to use ore in exchange. Depending on the quantity and rarity of the ore, he would lend them the iron rod for a few days."
"We can also exchange for ores," Xia Huai said at this time, "My father is an official in Xizhou. The mineral deposits there are quite rich. Senior, you can have as much as you want."
Chi heard the words and seemed a little tempted, but quickly shook his head and said, "No, it's not that I'm stingy, it's mainly that you came at the wrong time, let alone you. Even if it was Senior Ye himself who came to me to borrow the iron, I The answer is the same."
Chi had talked to this point, and it seemed that the three of them were destined to leave empty-handed this time.
But then Lu Jing still asked with the attitude of giving it a try, "Senior Chi, can you please tell us the reason why you can't lend the rod?"
"It doesn't matter, I tell you to give up completely," Chi nodded proudly, "I am trying to refine the most powerful weapon, and the key to this is Jie Tie.
"Speaking of which, this is the path that Senior Ye pointed out to me. She told me that I can try to use the ability of the iron rod to digest impurities, and let the iron rod swallow the same material repeatedly to extract the essence of the essence. So now I must strictly control it. food, don’t let it eat anything else.”
After Chi finished speaking, he found that the expressions of the three people in front of him became strange.
Xia Huai, in particular, looked at Zie Tie with sympathy in her eyes. The girl felt that eating her own excrement was miserable enough, and having to eat it repeatedly could not be worse.
Yaotie looks so honest and honest, he probably gets bullied a lot.
Chi seemed to have noticed something and hurriedly explained, "No, it's not what you think. I didn't let it eat it directly. I fed it to it after smelting it."
"…………"
It was okay if she didn't explain, but it didn't sound much better when she explained.
However, when Xia Huai and Yang Tao heard what she said, they also knew that Chi would never lend them the rodent iron again. After all, it seemed that this senior Chi was determined to use the rodentiron to forge her strongest weapon, cutting bamboo. We can only find another way to solve the problem.
The two were about to leave, but when they turned around, they found Lu Jing frowning.
Lu Jing was not worried because someone was suspected of abusing giant pandas and he didn't know where to call the police. He thought of another thing and asked Chi, "Senior, can I see the materials you are going to use to refine weapons?" ?”
"Why, do you also know how to refine weapons?" Chi heard this and said in surprise.
"You know a little bit," Lu Jing said. After all, he had learned basic chemistry knowledge in high school.
Chi looked a little hesitant. Her master was the most famous weapon-refining master in Si Tianjian. Even the teacher who was teaching the weapon-refining class in the academy had to be respectful and address her as senior when he saw her master.
Therefore, as a true disciple, she naturally has her eyes set high, but as a weapon refiner, she does not refuse to have some exchanges with her colleagues.
She wasn't afraid that Lu Jing would secretly learn her weapon refining skills. After all, she was the only one in the world who had the iron rod. Others wanted to copy the cat and imitate the tiger, but they were directly stuck in the material step.
So she then said to Lu Jing and the others, "Okay, you can come in with me."
After saying that, she reached out and patted Jie Tie, who was sitting down, and the latter turned his round body and walked towards the cave.
The three of them were also eye-opening along the way. Wherever they looked, there were all kinds of weapons, many of which looked quite sharp. On the outside, they all started with a thousand taels of silver, but here In the cave, they were just thrown to the ground or inserted into the wall.
In addition to these normal swords, there are also some weird-looking weapons. I don’t know what the people who refined them originally thought.
For example, there were two gleaming blades stuck in the middle of a spear, and the blade of a scimitar was uncharacteristically opened inward, which reminded Lu Jing of a man with a cross scar on his face. man.
In short, this place looked like a garbage dump made of weapons. After walking through this long garbage corridor, the three of them finally had a clear vision, and they had arrived in the heart of the mountain.
