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Chapter 2 The Mine

Rune lamps shaped like torches emit a dim orange-yellow light in the mine.

Xu Shenxing put down the pickaxe in his hand, sat on a big rock, and wiped his sweat with a dirty towel around his neck.

During the time he had just passed, he thought that the heavy work he did in his previous life was at most just moving computers, and he would definitely not be able to adapt to life here. As a result, two weeks have passed, and now whether it is digging a mine all day or pushing a wheelbarrow full of stones is nothing to him.

This made him involuntarily sigh that humans are the most adaptable creatures on the earth except for mice and cockroaches.

Of course, it would be even better if I could have a full meal...

The mining industry in Göerland, or the world's mining industry, is still stuck in the relatively old manual excavation. Miners dug out the stones suspected to be ore together, then push them out of the pit with a cart, and then other miners sort them out, and finally pack them onto the ship and transport them to the place where the refinery is located.

Even if the miners want to leave the island, the only way is to take a cargo airship that the mining consortium only starts once a week.

Although Xu Shenxing intentionally quit this job and left here on a cargo airship to find a simpler job, it is definitely not a good thing to wander around in such a completely unfamiliar world without any self-protection ability; secondly, he hasn't received his salary this month. According to the memory of this body, he can get hundreds of lions by just a few more days... Although it's a little less, it's better for himself who is about to go out to make a fortune than being penniless, right?

Based on these two points, he gritted his teeth and stayed in this place for half a month, while silently accumulating resources, while working hard for that meager salary.

Of course, there is another reason, that the minerals here are also useful for his game system.

Thinking of this, he looked at the pile of unclassified rough stones not far away.

A few little guys as big as a palm took small steps and sneaked up on the pile of stones. Perhaps because Xu Shenxing issued the order "try not to let others discover it", the little guys now look a bit sneaky, like a child playing agents sneaking into the game.

As for the degree of secretness of doing this, Xu Shenxing could only hold his forehead and smile.

Compared with the morning, their appearance has not changed much, but there is a matchbox-sized backpack behind them.

After touching the ore pile, the little guys began to put the stones into their backpacks.

Interestingly, although many ores are obviously big in fists, some are even bigger than those little guys, but they can easily be packed into matchbox-sized backpacks.

Could it be that it is some kind of space equipment... but it can only be equipped with stones, and the internal space does not seem to be very large. The space equipment seems to be of little value.

Xu Shenxing complained in his heart.

Suddenly, the little guys stopped the work and raised their heads, then scattered as if they felt some danger, and hid in the darkness of the mine.

One of them might have tripped on the uneven ground and fell to the ground with a thud. So another technician elf immediately dragged her down companion’s hands in panic and dragged her into the gap in the ore pile.

Fortunately, these little guys are flat-breasted...

Xu Shenxing turned his head speechlessly and saw a burly man like a bear, pushing a crunchy wheelbarrow, walking out of the tunnel next to him with a smell of sweat.

He poured the stones in the wheelbarrow onto the ore pile, and the dark man laughed and asked Xu Shenxing: "What's wrong? Isn't it okay after you have only worked for a while?"

"If Uncle Will, you can give me the bread for lunch, I think I can hold on for a while."

The same mining bitterness, Xu Shenxing's predecessor had a good relationship with most of the miners, and Xu Shenxing, who inherited the other party's memory, could naturally make some jokes with them calmly.

"Haha, this is not possible. My fiancée Lisa is still waiting in her hometown for me to get back to get married with the bonus. I have to eat enough and then become the top performer in this year!"

The strong man named Will grinned, showed a cheerful smile, and said in a deafening loud voice.

"Then you can do it more."

Xu Shenxing beat him up, but because the technician elves had not been recycled, he did not stand up.

At this time, the entire mine cave seemed to have suddenly encountered an earthquake and suddenly vibrated.

Xu Shenxing subconsciously leaned against the rock wall behind him so that he would not fall down. The strong man Will skillfully pulled out his iron pickaxe and held the stone like a crutch, barely stabilizing his body.

Fortunately, the vibration came and went quickly, and it quickly calmed down.

Xu Shenxing had just breathed a sigh of relief, but when he looked beside him, his heart immediately became hung.

There was a technician elf who seemed to have been shaken out of the hiding place because of the vibration just now. She curled up like a hamster, holding her small backpack tightly with her eyes closed.

Perhaps because he noticed that the vibration had stopped, the little guy opened his eyes carefully and met the stunned Xu Shenxing's sight. Then the little face showed a shocked expression, and he panicked and crawled back to the corner where he was originally hiding.

"What are you looking at?"

Will's voice came from behind Xu Shenxing, causing him to quickly cover up, "It's nothing, maybe it's just a mouse."

"Maybe it's a mineral vein fairy." Will's words attracted Xu Shenxing's attention.

"Mine Vein Fairy? What is that?"

"Who knows, it's probably the same thing as the little fairy and elf. It is said that if you see it, you will be lucky." Will replied absent-mindedly: "Although I don't believe this, it seems that several people here have seen it... Tsk tsk, does that kind of thing really exist?"

It seems that the technician elves have begun to attract some people's attention.

Xu Shenxing secretly strengthened his determination to leave here immediately after building an airship and get a salary. At the same time, he tried to change the topic: "Speaking of it, it seems that there are more and more air shocks recently?"

"It's true. It seems that winter will soon be coming." The simple Will naturally didn't notice that Xu Shenxing was changing the subject. He wiped his forehead, didn't know if it was cold sweat or the sweat he had just worked, and sighed.

As an island floating in the sky, although the location of the Sky Island will not change much in a short period of time, the airflow differences caused by different seasons will have a little impact, especially small islands like Gerland, which have more obvious impacts. So some people living on small Sky Islands can judge the changes in seasons based on the frequency of this air shock - unlike the earth, the world only has warm seasons and cold seasons, and they are very long, for example, this warm season lasted for nearly three years.

Moreover, the transition time of the season is also very irregular... At least so far, humans have not been able to find the rules.

"By the way, you should be careful when encountering Kong Zhen. Hasn't you hit the head by the falling stones on the surface half a month ago because of Kong Zhen? In the end, you took a few days off?"

Then Will kindly reminded him.

"Don't worry, I know." Xu Shenxing scratched his head and replied embarrassedly.
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