The bright red lake flows quietly, like a colloidal lake, with unrestrained high temperatures spreading around.

Chen Jiu came to the lakeside, and Fengtudao picked up a "string" of the lake water. The viscous and crystal liquid slowly rolled on the blade, refracting to make the blade more sharp and sharp.

"Red Mercury Mine..."

Chen Jiu tapped his knife and pulled it into the lake water, and dug out a pickaxe that was as bright as new, with a flash of red texture oozing between the metal patterns.

【Magic simple iron pickaxe】

The iron pickaxe that was soaked in red mercury for more than two hundred years was reborn, which was enough to make people ignore its simple production craftsmanship and rough raw materials - this group of barbarians could not even make steel!

Effects: high hardness, high toughness, corrosion resistance, excellent metal stability, and to a certain extent immune to the influence of Qi.

Quality: Excellent

It is no exaggeration to say that red mercury is the pillar of this plane.

During this period, Chen Jiu took the time to read the [Plant History Book] and also roughly understood the past of Star Twenty-Six, among which Red Mercury is obviously the most important node.

Before the node, everything was as usual, almost no different from the history that Chen Jiu knew. It was not until the advent of red mercury and related technologies that the entire plane was pulled onto a rapid downhill fork, just like a slow old carriage suddenly loaded with turbocharged.

Steam armor, Guanning Iron Cavalry, Danrui Heavy Cannon... Steel monsters surrounded by steam are coming one after another. The country that seizes the opportunity to get on the car has become the protagonist of the times; those who are self-sustained will become fish on the chopping board.

But this does not mean that the latter does not have red mercury deposits - it is one thing to have a mine at home, but it is another thing to have a matching scientific research level and development background.

Take the Ming Dynasty as an example. Only four of the ten large red mercury mines occupied by the Ming Dynasty were in China, two in Southeast Asia, one in Southeast Asia, two in Siberia, and one in Goguryeo... Six overseas were naturally robbed, called "a small country, the king and father take care of them". Giving a few taels of silver and money to compensate is considered benevolence and righteous. More than a dozen large mines in Africa, America, India and other places had huge reserves, but they were not preserved at all and were eaten up by the European countries.

Among them, a primitive tribe in central and southern Africa even made a joke - it is recognized by the civilized world that red mercury appeared on the stage of the times in the mid-16th century, more than a hundred years ago. But when French colonists entered this tribe, they discovered that the history of these black-skinned barbarians digging red mercury had to go forward sixty years, but the methods they used were extremely behind and extremely funny... They actually used precious red mercury to barbecue and illuminate!

Obviously,

What we see now is the same situation.

"The two hundred years old objects prove that at least two hundred years ago, someone had mined red mercury here... the craftsmanship was rough and the raw materials were poor. The caves along the way were obviously hand-drawn, which was in line with the backward characteristics of the Thibier Khanate's "large-scale slavery and residual primitive commune system."

"With this level of technical foundation, no matter how much red mercury is mined, I can't play any tricks... tsk, why do I feel like a tomb robber... Forget it, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, it's still a piece of meat..."

Chen Jiu put away the iron pickaxe.

In fact, practicality is secondly. The real value of this thing is that as a cultural relic, it has pushed forward the history of human development of red mercury in this plane for nearly a hundred years.

However, Chen Jiu didn't care about these things. What he cared more was the deeper information it reflected.

The Rakshasa demon is a man-cannibal person, powerful and weird. Even the army of civilized countries with advanced red mercury technology is quite difficult to deal with, let alone backward society that cannot be refined with steel. They will only be quickly driven out and have no spare time to mine.

So it can almost prove that the rakshasa monsters have become rampant, which is only more than two hundred years ago.

The ancient kingdom that once ruled Siberia was destroyed overnight hundreds of years ago, leaving only broken walls and ruins...

The Shbier Khanate once mined a large amount of red mercury...

The Rakshasa demon was created by the Red Apostle, and it is somewhat similar to the zombies in all aspects...

Luodiao Valley, a super-large Rakshasa demon, entrenched in the area, "just happens to overlap" with the large red mercury waste mine...

The dragon blood in the dream influenced the human farmer into a deformed and crazy lizard man...

“Something is wrong.”

My son's voice is in his ears.

"What?" As soon as my thoughts broke, Chen Jiu came to his senses.

"This red mercury waste mine is not like being abandoned because of withdrawal, nor is it like being abandoned because of death."

"How do you say it?" Chen Jiu glanced at him.

"It can be seen that these people don't know much about smelting. If they retreat, they will never even bring iron tools; if they die, we didn't meet half of the corpses along the way. This is more like..."

"It's more like a sudden evaporation, right?"

Chen Jiu continued the conversation.

The boy nodded silently.

Chen Jiu took out a cigarette casually and looked at the red mercury lake that was so close to him. He didn't dare to ignite it, but just bit it in his mouth.

A guess gradually took shape in my mind, about red mercury, about red apostles, and about Rakshasa demons... but it was just a guess.

"It's still a little bit."

On the one hand, Luodiao Valley and Hong Mercury Mine cannot rule out the possibility of coincidence overlap.

On the other hand, he had never seen creatures with close contact with red mercury, or even blood-combining creatures, Shandan horses, steam knights, and Tatar slaves who were injected with diluted red mercury, all belonged to this category, but they had no signs of becoming immortal monsters.

On the other hand, the scope of influence of the Red Apostle seems to be limited to Siberia at present, while the red mercury mine is spread throughout the plane, and the gap is really big.

"Please note! Long-term exposure to high concentrations of red mercury may cause uncontrollable changes in your weapons!"

Hearing the words,

Chen Jiu frowned, shook his wrist gently, and removed the gel droplets from the knife.

It seems like a good thing that red mercury can improve the properties of metals, but based on that speculation and the uneasiness that has been lingering in my heart, Chen Jiu would rather not be greedy for this "good thing".

"Let's go."

Chen Jiu turned his head and took steps away.

"You're leaving now?" Yazi was stunned for a moment.

"It's too hot, go shopping somewhere else."

After saying this, Chen Jiu strode to another hole, then suddenly turned around, slapped his palm in his chest, and took out a long bow and a feather arrow from his personal space.

He touched the arrow with his fingertips, and put the arrow on the string. The patterns on the arrow blade were bright red and pointed directly at the red mercury lake!

"What are you doing? Are you going to commit suicide?!"

My son was shocked.

He had seen the power of this kind of explosion arrow. If one arrow is to throw a torch on the pile of gunpowder.

The Danrui Lake is not deep and cannot guess the geometry of its reserves, but the area is there, and the fanatical equivalent of the instant explosion is enough to cause the entire cave group to collapse in succession!

"It's fun."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Jiu let go of his fingers.

The sharp arrow was wrapped in a harsh sound of breaking through the air, and penetrated into the bright red like lava!

clang!

Almost at the same moment, a large splash of water splashed in the lake, and a graceful figure broke out of the water.

Brilliant hair, curved and white skin, like a sculpture, the key parts were wrapped in thick red mercury, and a thin layer was covered with a mask, just like a mask, revealing only a pair of eyes surging with golden and red light.

The enchanting waist twisted in the air and threw out a sharp and wide bear hunting spear in its left palm.

The sharp spearhead collided with the arrow in mid-air, but the explosion did not occur as expected.

It was just an ordinary feathered arrow painted red.

"It's taken the bait."

Chen Jiu spread his five fingers and grabbed the other person from afar. The bleeding wound on his fingertips was healing rapidly.

【Photographed by Willow】

The beautiful figure suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. Chen Jiu twisted his waist and back, and then he swung it up with a knife!

The metal is heavy and bumpy,

The fierce and terrifying force followed the bear hunting spear in the other hand toward her body, shaking the viscous liquid splashing everywhere. The opponent's toes were barely off the ground, and the lower plate was hanging in the air. This made her lose her center of gravity and flew backwards.

Chen Jiu bent his knees slightly, and the soles of his boots made the rocks crack, like a black sharp arrow, and a long sword in his palm swung out a shaking iron stream.

clang!

Puff ~

Ding! Ding!

puff……

Bang!

Gunshots suddenly erupt.

The woman's head tilted back heavily, and a big bloody hole opened on her forehead. A dozen steps away, Jason skillfully pulled the pin machine, and a faint smoke came out of the muzzle.

The sword force of Fengtu's sword was extremely fierce, without any pity, and he took the lead, as if the tiger was rushing through grass and rushing to the stream, making the opponent feel overwhelmed, and the blood light on his body exploded one after another. The shot instantly broke the shaking situation. The round-roof knife wheel flashed, bringing a string of red mercury and blood light soaring into the sky, and splitting half of his chest.

If the woman hadn't forced herself to lift her spear and blocked it, she might have broken into two fans on the spot.

The delicate body fell down, and the beautiful light golden hair was stained with dust.

Chen Jiu was cold on her face, and the sword light fell again!

At this moment, the other party suddenly raised his head, his red lips slightly opened, and a "bang" sound was made.

Chen Jiu's eyelids trembled, without hesitation at all, and immediately closed his arms to block the door.

Tang Yankai's arm armor was sunk out of thin air, like a bullet without physical strength.
To be continued...