"Okay!" Liu Qingsha's soft call brought Xu Qian back from his thoughts.
In front of them, there was a faintly glowing opening, about as big as a door. This was the entrance that Liu Qingsha and Qian Shu opened on the formation. According to their description, entering this entrance would not disturb the people guarding the formation. , you can do it without knowing it.
Xu Qian sighed in his heart. After all, he was also a top student, and he also learned formations from Liu Qingsha, a master of formations. Why was he not good at it? There was no progress after so long. In fact, it was just because he was lazy. With these two people around him, learning the formation was naturally not so urgent. Besides, he was indeed busy, and things were happening one after another.
"The mine is roughly an oval shape, with two entrances and exits, one on the east and west. There is a team of soldiers guarding each side, and a third team of soldiers patrolling between the two entrances. Even with the help of this monster, As long as there is any movement within the formation, the formation controller will feel it. If it is normal mining, they will ignore it. If an outsider sneaks in, they will be discovered immediately. Therefore, there is almost no way to enter the mine without alerting the defenders. .”
After listening to Gu Qingyang's story, Xi Jiuhai asked puzzledly: "What's the trouble? Can't we just fly in?"
"If it doesn't matter if you are discovered, you can fly in directly." Gu Qingyang glanced at Xi Jiuhai with an idiot look, "Can you try and see if you can fly?"
Liu Qingsha said softly: "This formation has the effect of restricting flight, unless I break the formation. Naturally, the formation with high cultivation cannot suppress it, but it will definitely alarm them."
Xi Jiuhai was a little unconvinced. He was teased by Gu Qingyang and wanted to make up for it.
"Then what's the point of talking so much? Aren't you still unable to get in?"
"The three teams will switch defenses. When they switch defenses, there will be no one patrolling for a quarter of an hour. That is our opportunity."
"The defense change should also be at the entrance and exit. Why is it the right time?"
The corner of Gu Qingyang's mouth curled up slightly, "There is an entrance to the south that is not usually open. Except for patrols passing by, there is no one guarding it all year round. We can enter from there."
Xi Jiuhai felt quite depressed, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? Asking and saying is like squeezing out toothpaste."
Xu Qian and others acted according to Gu Qingyang's arrangements. They were lurking near the west entrance in advance, watching the situation at the entrance from a distance. When they saw the defense team coming, Xu Qian left the three fainted guys there and hid them thoughtfully. will be discovered, then quickly head towards the south entrance.
Arriving at the legendary south entrance, everyone discovered that the south entrance was actually closed.
"How to do this? It's easy to break this door with one palm, but won't it be discovered?" Xi Jiuhai finally found the opportunity to take revenge on Gu Qingyang.
Unexpectedly, Gu Qingyang took out a token and put it into a depression on the wall. The token fit perfectly into the depression without any difference.
The stone door opened slowly and effortlessly.
Xu Qian and Liu Qingsha both knew the details of Gu Qingyang, so they were not surprised. However, Xi Jiuhai's eyes widened, as if asking, how did you get this token? Can you enter the mine with this token? Is it as simple as going home? There is a kind of young man who is often deceived by others and brings outsiders back to his home to steal things.
Entering the mine, it was still busy inside.
"It's so late, why are you still mining?"
"The tasks given by Zongli are heavy, and the Xie family has been able to barely complete them all these years by doing this. The miners and the guard soldiers take turns working in two shifts a day, and every year the miners are exhausted to death." Gu Qingyang seemed like He was talking to himself, his voice was very deep.
"With so many people, it's not easy to enter the mine without the eyes and ears."
"Qingsha, use your spiritual sense to check and see if you can find the ore."
"I have tried it. The soil quality of Hongmeng Continent is different, and it is difficult for spiritual consciousness to enter. My spiritual consciousness can only enter about 20 meters underground and cannot go deeper, but the ores are all deeper."
Xu Qian couldn't detect it himself. He thought it was his own problem. But now it seems that it is indeed difficult to detect it directly with his spiritual sense.
"Something happened! Dalun fainted!"
At the entrance of a mine, several people ran out in panic. One of them was carrying an unconscious man on his back, which should be Dalun.
"Are you trying to be lazy and pretend to be faint?"
"Master Jun, what are you talking about? Dalun is on the day shift today. He wants to go home early in order to dig enough ore as soon as possible, so he often works in two shifts together. He is tired."
The soldier pinched Dalun's cheek with his hand and turned his face to look at him, then waved his hand in disgust, "Let's go, let's take him down to rest and give him some water to drink. Don't wake up, otherwise we will lose another labor force." .”
When the person carrying him heard this, he immediately ran away.
When Xu Qian saw this, he was overjoyed and asked everyone to hide in place and wait for him.
There was a shed in the distance for miners to rest, drink water and eat. It was not the break time and there was no one there. The man put Dalun under the shed, fed him a sip of water, and then left in a hurry.
Most of the prisoners here are poor people who came here with false claims. In the final analysis, they are all because of poverty and have become free labor. After entering, you need to dig a certain amount of minerals every day. If you don't dig enough, you have to make up for it the next day. If you don't dig enough in a month, you won't have to make up, and your sentence will need to be lengthened. On the contrary, if you dig more than a certain amount, your sentence can be reduced. Therefore, many people will work hard to dig day and night, just so that they can go out early to reunite with their families.
There will be times when manpower is exhausted, and there will be times when even the strongest body collapses from exhaustion. Dalun fell down without any surprise.
Xu Qian came to his side and sighed, "Since I'm borrowing your appearance, let's use this as payment."
He stuffed half of the elixir into Dalun's mouth, then took out the golden mask and put it on, and an energetic Dalun suddenly appeared. With a wave of his hand, he moved Dalun, who was sitting against the shed, to a more secluded place, and strode toward the entrance of the mine.
"Are you the one who fainted just now?" The soldier looked confused.
"Master Jun, it's me. I drank some water and I'm fine."
"Can you do it? Don't tire yourself out!"
"It's really okay. It was too stuffy inside. I couldn't catch my breath just now, but now it's really okay. Just let me go in and dig more mines." Dalun begged.
This soldier was actually kind-hearted. He had seen too many exhausted miners, but he refused to allow them to mine because the ore value was not enough. He saw that Dalun was indeed radiant and didn't seem to have any problems, so he agreed.
"Go, go, be careful, you will never get out if you die."
When Xu Qian heard this, he immediately thanked him and trotted into the mine.
The mine tilted downwards, and Xu Qian came to a relatively open place. Many people were carrying loaded barrels in and out of the surrounding mine tunnels. Xu Qian counted and found that there were as many as eight mine tunnels, leading to eight. direction.
"If we continue digging like this, the mountain will collapse." Xu Qian had seen before that there were at least hundreds of such mines in the entire vein, and each mine was divided into eight directions to dig deeper. Now, There must be thousands of holes in this mountain range.
He chose an entrance at random and entered. The mine tunnel was two meters square up and down, with wooden pillars as temporary supports. After walking dozens of meters, he reached the end. In the dim environment, there were three miners digging with tools, sweating profusely. Some of their buckets were almost full, and some were only half full.
"These are the Star Source Stone ores?" He has seen a lot of Star Source Stone, but he has never seen the original stone. The Star Source Stones he has on hand are all standard products after cutting and processing. They are exactly the same as the Star Source Stones that Xu Qian Qian remembers from his time as an immortal. Back then, he could not afford such high-end products, so he could only watch them on TV. Saw it on.
The rough stones vary in size and look similar to ordinary stones, but are darker in color. If you are a monk, you can feel the rich aura on them. These miners can probably only make judgments based on experience and the hardness of the rough stone.
"Da Lun? I heard that you fainted just now, why are you down again now?" A miner was a little surprised when he saw Xu Qian.
"Don't work too hard, take it easy and leave only when you have your life."
These people were not the ones who sent Dalun out just now. They only heard about it but did not see it with their own eyes.
"Haha, it's okay now. I have plenty of strength now."
