.Chapter 22 The Scepter of the Earth----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sorry, I'm late to update, and this plot is a bit troublesome. (In fact, my typing speed has begun to decline recently, and the boss has warned me again that I don't dare to write during working hours) So I'm sorry for everyone.

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"The boss is up and buys things." Chen Kai patted the shop owner's table heavily, waking him from his fragrant sleep. After being woken up, the shop owner naturally would not be in a good mood. He widened his eyes and glared at the person who woke him up, but what he saw were three pairs of eyes that were even redder.

Chen Kai felt that he had been cheated because he saw a few zero eggs under the sword. When he sold them, he only sold more than one gold coin, but now he actually saw 3 zeros under the price, plus one 2.

Unfortunately, no matter how angry Chen Kai is, he can't do anything to the store owner. After all, it is their nature for merchants to pursue profits. Moreover, when both parties complete the transaction, Chen Kai cannot manage the store owner to recast his weapons or use them as materials to make other weapons.

But what Chen Kai couldn't accept was that the store owner actually made the weapon into its original shape, even the color was the same. Not much of the sword body became a little wider. Looking at the material of the weapon, Chen Kai knew that the store owner must have made two weapons together.

"If you want to buy garbage, you go to the wall to find it. Also, I am not a grocery store and don't collect rags." The shop owner looked at Chen Kai's appearance and said with a yawn. In his eyes, Chen Kai was the kind of adventurer who was not satisfied. He had just sold his ragged weapons to exchange for money, but now he has to sell the linen on his body to exchange for money.

"Who wants me two sets of plate armor, one set of leather armor, two big swords and three daggers?" Chen Kai took a purse from Wang Xuewen and slapped it hard on the table. The sound of gold coins hitting the table suddenly woke up the sleepy shop owner.

Chen Kai looked at the shop owner's round eyes, as if he saw a hungry wolf. Then he only saw the shop owner's body flashing and disappeared from behind the counter. When he appeared again, he was standing by Chen Kai's side nodding and bowing, and there were a few sets of armor and weapons around him.

"Dear guest, this is the latest full-body plate armor in our store. The whole body is made of Maglan Steel. It has a strong defense ability and can withstand sharp arrows and weapons." The store owner pulled Chen Kai intimately and asked him to watch the two sets of plate armor beside him.

Chen Kai felt that he could not accept the enthusiasm of the store owner, especially when the other party held his hand. The feeling made Chen Kai feel the urge to swing his fist and smash it into the other party's face, and the urge was very strong.

However, Chen Kai finally held back because he didn't want to be arrested by the city guards as robbers and squatted in the wooden prison. So in the end, Chen Kai still pinched his nose and gritted his teeth and resisted his impulse. After bargaining with great perseverance for half a day, he bought two sets of finished armor and various weapons and supplies.

"Mom, this profiteer is so eloquent. I actually spent so much money." Seeing the store owner counting gold coins one by one, Chen Kai suddenly felt that he was slaughtered by the other party again.

"Hey, please don't be busy leaving now. I have better things here. Do you want to have one?" The shop owner looked at Chen Kai with a pale face and planned to go out, and hurriedly grabbed the other party. In Chen Kai's opinion, the other party did not plan to stop if he didn't squeeze the gold coins in his money bag.

"Do you want to pass the map of the Great Rift Valley? It's not the road in the Rift Valley, but a faster and more hidden road?" The shop owner said in a very secretive and seductive manner, while his fingers took out a pamper skin drawing from under the counter.

"Just as long as a purple gold coin, this map will be yours." Looking at Chen Kai's face shop owner gently said his quotation. No matter from any angle, the price of this map is a bit high, but if it is true, it will definitely be worth the money.

"I need to check the map!" Chen Kai thought quietly. He had to confirm the authenticity of the map, and the best way was to directly project the map with video to record it, because then Chen Kai would not have to pay.

"No problem with the deposit of 0 gold coins, I, Sola, is a kind person." The shop owner readily pushed the map towards Chen Kai's body, but still pressed it with his hands until Chen Kai put the money into the shop owner's hands.

When Chen Kai bought the map, he felt a slump in his hands. The texture was not an ordinary sheepskin map, but a heavier and strange leather. After opening the map, Chen Kai's face became ugly because there was nothing on the whole map.

"Do you think it's strange? Because this is a secret picture, you need this kind of thing to see clearly." As the shop owner said that, he slowly dripped a drop of purple potion onto the leather. Accompanied by a faint purple light, the map slowly showed its original appearance and recorded information.

It was a map with the entrance from a cliff north of Altinis, and it seemed that the whole road was shuttled underground, which means that if Chen Kai and the others walked this road, they would have to walk slowly underground for about a month. Because all the underground passages are very dangerous, the most important thing is that they are very narrow and cannot ride horses.

While observing the information on the map, Chen Kai used video to record all the content on the map, but the more he looked, the more information he found, the more information it appeared, including the environment around each road, as well as fatal traps and monsters in the underground places, etc. Seeing the information that appeared and disappeared immediately and had no time to record, Chen Kai knew that the store owners had used tricks and did not let him remember it.

"What if the map is wrong?" Chen Kai closed the map. Too much information and characters made his eyes look a little bulging, but he had already confirmed the authenticity of the map to a certain extent. Because the two places mentioned on the map are the announced underground lava roads, these roads are the only way to pass through the Great Rift Valley.

These roads are famous for many forks. Without official maps and guidance, you might go directly to the underground world. In fact, this kind of thing happens often, and many merchants eventually disappear into the underground world and never appear again.

"Don't worry, this is not the first map I have sold. I often use that road to walk. After all, there are more opportunities to walk this road than to walk the Great Rift Valley." The store owner said, blinking at Chen Kai, and smiled with a very intriguing smile.

Looking at the owner's smile, Chen Kai suddenly felt like he wanted to vomit. Anyone who saw a fat old man smiled with a feminine smile would feel uncomfortable. So Chen Kai directly pulled back his hand holding the map and stood behind Su Xinghe to signal him to bargain with the other party.

Su Xinghe, who received Chen Kai's instructions, looked bad. Just now, the four of them took turns to fight, but the slatted armor was killed by the store owner. Almost no discount was reduced, and he was fooled to buy a bunch of miscellaneous things. If they hadn't returned it in the end, they would have to leave the store with some hammers and scissors on their backs.

Sure enough, after more than ten minutes of fierce firefighting, Su Xinghe brought Fei Yun and Wang Xuewen with him and continued to defeat him. They finally took out a purple gold coin to buy the map and the permanent appearance potion.

"Damn this damn profiteer, my money." Wang Xuewen looked at his shriveled wallet and felt a sad feeling surge in his heart.

"Okay, stop scolding, why do you say there are at least a few hundred gold coins inside, right?" Chen Kai patted Wang Xuewen on the shoulder. Now he is going to buy some things and then go to the underground passage to check. If you are sure that the passage exists, then inform Xu Fei immediately to let him rush back.

If the passage does not exist, then run back to settle the score with the store owner. At that time, he will definitely make his head bloom and turn into Pig Head Three. Chen Kai is very sure he will do that, because he really wants to label the profiteer as Pig Head Three.

---A day later---

In the north of Altinis, a place called Anchi Valley is the northernmost territory of the entire Altinis, and then it is the territory of the Great Wilderness. The entire area is extremely desolate. Apart from the herbivorous antelope nearby, only some bighorned bison wandering around.

Of course, in addition to these, there is a kind of monster that makes Chen Kai extremely troubled, that is, the wilderness hooligan buck-toothed rabbits who keep cursing swearing beside Chen Kai and the others. These bandit-like creatures are not interested in Chen Kai and the others at all. Although they keep following them, at most they just hide in the distance and keep talking swearing.

And once Chen Kai rode to the side of them on Lal, the long-legged rabbits immediately ran away without even a shadow. Therefore, the buck-toothed rabbits here made Chen Kai feel even more unhappy than those in other places. The swear words that filled his ears kept igniting the anger in Chen Kai's heart, but they just didn't let him have a place to vent.

In fact, it was not only Chen Kai, but also others. Wang Xuewen and Fei Yun were extremely angry at these annoying buck-toothed rabbits. One of them turned nearly half of their magic into spells and vented them, and the other directly wasted two boxes of crossbow arrows, but they failed to get even a rabbit hair.

So they could only try hard to plug their ears and prevent those annoying sounds from entering their minds. Fortunately, the place marked as the passage is no longer the territory of the Buck-toothed Rabbit. After entering the Anqi Valley, all the buck-toothed Rabbits following Chen Kai and the others scattered, and the only thing left was the swearing words that made Chen Kai and the other four look so blue.

"I will destroy them next time." Chen Kai almost roared at the buck-toothed rabbits who were leaving. The other three people who were also angry were in this image, roaring at the buck-toothed rabbits with their fists.

After venting hard, Chen Kai and the other two left weeds and broken trees at the entrance of the valley and slowly walked towards the cave under a cliff in the valley. Although the map marked in detail, there were still mistakes. After all, it was not a military map, and some places were just roughly marked with some text. However, even so, this map was more carefully, with only one place name or a few thin lines.

"It should be here." Looking at the dark cave in front of you, Chen Kai slowly took out the map and compared it. In order to determine the location on the map, he drew several surrounding marking patterns, and of course text as annotations.

After carefully comparing the text and the simple pictures, Chen Kai finally confirmed that he had not found the wrong place. Because once he found the wrong place, the next path he would definitely take was wrong, and it would be bad that he would take himself to death by then.

"Okay! Let's camp here for a break today, and then go down to explore the road when it's dawn tomorrow. We just need to find this fork road." Chen Kai pointed to a three-way road on the map and said, which was an important place to determine whether this map was real, because you can reach the Rift Valley by walking through a fork road there.

"It's really dark here." Fei Yun lowered his head and looked into the cave. As a result, he saw nothing except some rocks nearby. The place where he could see was only a few meters nearby.

"Boss, where are we sleeping? Are we looking for a place to camp outside in the cave?" Wang Xuewen shook the tent in his backpack and said. This was a two-person tent he specially bought to make it easier for them to sleep at night. After all, sleeping in a tent is much safer than sleeping outside.

"Wait first, Lao Su will accompany me to check the cave. If there is a place to camp, just stay in the cave. Look at the weather and it will rain again at night. nnd This ghost weather rains every few days, which is even more troublesome than the plum rain season in reality." Chen Kai looked up at the sky. It was obviously only four o'clock in the afternoon, but there was no light in the sky. There were still rumbling thunder and lightning lightning in the distance, which all heralds a heavy rain coming again.

"Boss, we won't be in trouble again at night. Last time it rained, we met that saint. Last time it rained even worse, we met a bug-raising person and was bitten to death. This time we won't be able to run out of the evil dragon to eat us, right?" Fei Yun looked at the dark cave and trembled a little. After all, the dark place gave people too much fear.

"Nothing is that coincidental..." Chen Kai said with courage. To be honest, he felt a little nervous when listening to Fei Yun's words. "I guess he has prayed too little recently." He comforted himself in his heart, and then he and Su Xinghe held torches and walked slowly into the depths of the cave, or deep in the entrance of the cave.

Watching Chen Kai and Su Xinghe slowly walked into the cave with a torch, Fei Yun and Wang Xuewen rubbed their hands and began to prepare food for the evening. Of course, there were also things used to light a bonfire, especially the firewood needed to prepare more. After all, if this road could be walked, they would have to stay underground for a long time. Without sufficient firewood, they would probably have to live under the ground with dry bread and cold water.

"I hope this rain will come slowly." After saying hello to Wang Xuewen, Fei Yun walked towards the woods next to him with an axe and a saw. There were basically no large beasts in this valley, at most some herbivores. Of course, there were exceptions occasionally. At least when Chen Kai and his friends were looking for a cave, they saw a wild boar, but at this time, they were all washed and lying in Chen Kai's backpack.

Chen Kai, who was proactively provoking and attacking, was a little crazy by those buck-toothed rabbits, and did not show any mercy. He rushed up and chopped off their heads. He was so fast that he almost had no chance for others to take action. Of course, it was because of the high-speed sprint. Now, Lar is half a head taller than other Andean horses, and his speed is more than one line faster.

"The trees here are quite tall. It's probably enough to cut two of them for half a month." Fei Yun touched a big tree. The entire tree pole was half a meter wide. Moreover, because Fei Yun picked hard wood, it was very difficult to cut down. Although it was not easy to burn, it often burned for a long time after it was ignited.

"It's true that the matter of chopping wood is still a man. He would be better if the pillar was here. He was so strong that he would definitely be more suitable for this than me." Fei Yun shook his axe and made a hole in the tree pole, and sighed, because the tree he picked was too hard, so he cut it for a long time before cutting a small hole.

"When will you cut it to the end?" Fei Yun felt a little depressed when he looked at the tree pole that was nearly half a meter wide. At this time, a small drop of raindrops gently fell on his face, and then a huge silver lightning flashed through the sky and shone everything around him.

"It seems that you have to get some firewood back quickly. Let's cut this tree tomorrow." Fei Yun felt the growing rainfall, and quickly stuffed all the firewood collected on the ground into his backpack and ran quickly towards the place where the cave was. There, Wang Xuewen had already started to raise a bonfire and worked hard to support the tent, but there was no figure of Chen Kai and Su Xinghe.

"Brother Mosquito Shui and the others have not come back yet?" Fei Yun shook his body quickly, shook the dripping rainwater on his body to the ground, and used a dry towel to dry his hair. Although there was no cold in the game, there were still wind and cold, and getting sick was not a good thing.

"No, but didn't you watch the team channel? They found a vein of the iron ore below and digging stones there!" Wang Xuewen took some fresh firewood from Fei Yun's hand, slowly put them in a dry place to save, and then continued to build a tent in the cave.

"No, isn't it about exploring the cave? Why are you digging stones?" Fei Yun felt very strange, but after checking the information in the team channel, he finally understood what was going on. It turned out that Chen Kai and Su Xinghe easily checked the situation at the entrance of the cave. There were basically no monsters in the entire cave except for a few bats, and they also found some domestic garbage to prove that someone had entered and exited here.

Fei Yun stood at the downward entrance of the cave with a torch and listened to the jingle sound coming from inside, and realized that Chen Kai and Su Xinghe were really digging stones there at this moment. After all, everything will be much easier after determining the road. All they have to do now is wait for Xu Fei and the others to come over, and then continue to explore the underground passage. As for the remaining time, it is simpler, and it is used to store firewood and food when preparing to pass through the underground passage.

Then with the orange torch, Fei Yun quickly found two muscular men who were working hard in the underground cave. Miners are not a very popular profession in the game. It is basically because all kinds of ores are controlled by those lords, and it is very troublesome to find minerals in the wild cave. And once they are found, a large group of people will come to draw the ground and occupy the circle.

In fact, there are only ten mining areas occupied by ordinary players in the entire game. Compared with the hundreds of mines in each empire, these places are really small. The most important thing is that all of these places are deserted places with sagging feet. The most around are not players but those monsters that appear wildly.

So it is very hard and extremely dangerous to be a miner in the game. Of course, there are occasionally some barren mines for players to practice in some places. However, the number of players is too large, so those mines were dug up almost in a few months and collapsed several times.

After all, mining is the fastest and easiest way to make money in the early stages of the game. If you are lucky enough to dig hundreds of kilograms of iron ore, you can earn at least dozens of gold coins. And you can also exchange ore with blacksmiths for some equipment, which is much cheaper than spending money to buy.

However, Chen Kai and Su Xinghe mining are not for exchange of money, or exchange of money is second. Their main purpose is to increase their mining experience. After all, an ore area that few people dig is a good practice place for a garbage blacksmith. At least he does not have to worry about not enough materials when using materials to forge weapons.

"What kind of ore is there in the head?" Fei Yun, holding a torch, slowly approached the place where Chen Kai and the others were. According to the route he recorded from Chen Kai's map, Fei Yun found that he had actually walked into a fork, and the fork was not marked on the map.

"There are only some pyrite and the grade is not high, but the companion ore is good, this thing is for you." With the dim torch, Fei Yun quickly saw clearly what Chen Kai and the others are now. A bright silver armor had been thrown into the backpack by Chen Kai. Two muscular men were trying hard to waving the pickaxe to mine hard ore, and the thing Chen Kai threw over was a piece of amethyst the size of a fist.

"How can iron ore still be accompanied by crystals?" Fei Yun stared blankly with the crystal in his hand. Although the purple crystal is not valuable, it is also a very good thing, at least worth a few gold coins. Of course, if it is polished into a crystal ball, it can be several times more valuable, but it is a very lucky thing to polish a crystal ball bead half the size of a fist.

"Who knows? And you can also dig a vanadium titanium ore here, although it is only a piece the size of a thumb." Chen Kai took out a small piece of ore from his backpack. The small ore was very inconsistent with its own value. It can be said that there is no way to tell what it has to do with holding a vanadium titanium ore worth thousands of gold coins per kilogram.

"But why isn't anyone here to dig here?" Fei Yun stared at the thumb-sized ore in Chen Kai's hand for a moment. He didn't have much research on ores, so he naturally could not compare to Chen Kai and others' blacksmiths. But what surprised him was that although it was very close to Altinis, no miners came here to mine.

"I don't know! If I knew, this place would not be so unattractive. Do you think those miners would give up such a good place?" Chen Kai added to the word "miner", of course, it specifically refers to professional miners who use mining as their source of livelihood.

"It's probably a private mining that has been abandoned," Su Xinghe stopped the pickaxe in his hand and said. The private mining in his mouth is worthy of the mines that illegal merchants have mined privately. Usually they only dig some valuable ore. They don't care about mining the barren veins because they don't have that time. After all, they have to be locked up if they have privately mined precious ore for a long time.

At this moment, a clattering sound came from the depths of the mine. Chen Kai and the others, who had heard this sound countless times, realized what those things were in an instant. At the same time, they also understood why the mine was abandoned because there were dead creatures in it, and there were quite a few.

"Tmd's was fooled by that profiteer again." Looking at the red light that kept illuminating in the dark, Chen Kai and the other two cursed again, pointing to the owner of the store who sold them the map.

"Ah snee~~~" At this time, the shop owner who sold Chen Kai and the other map in the blacksmith shop in Altinis was counting gold coins, but a sneeze beat him and forgot all the numbers he counted. "Who is the bastard scolding me behind his back? Could it be those stupid guys yesterday? I hope they won't run into the death mine cave with money, there are a few skeleton knights there, and they have sinned." The shop owner rubbed his nose and thought, but soon he continued to invest in the cause of counting gold coins.

At this time, in the mine tunnel, Chen Kai and the others were working hard to run wildly. The hundreds of meters long mine tunnel seemed so long to Chen Kai and the others. Because behind them, more than a dozen bone swordsmen with a strong aura of death were trying to catch up, and more dead creatures seemed to be slowly recovering and moving further away.

"Damn it, a damn profiteer, why didn't I tell you that there are so many dead creatures here?" Chen Kai ran away in despair. He felt that he had become so declining recently. He would encounter unlucky things almost every rainy day. Or he had never been successful since he arrived at the Rift Valley. First, he was chased down the cliff and died by two dead creatures, then killed by a group of demonic people, and then met a bitch, Sword Saint, and almost died again. Finally, he was bitten to death by a large group of insects.

Now he encountered a group of reviving dead creatures. The strong breath of death from the distance made him feel instinctively frightened, and then he turned around and ran away. Chen Kai's turn around and ran away surprised Fei Yun and Su Xinghe, but they also followed him very decisively. The facts proved that their judgment was very accurate. When they left the place, they heard the sound of horse hooves coming from the mine. Naturally, the living horse that would not be normal. Only the skeleton horse of the skeleton knight would live in this kind of place.
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