Chapter 185 Save Her Life
Two huge circular walls surrounded the two mountaintops, and people under these walls were as small as ants.
The Snow Girl flew up and landed on the city wall.
The top of the wall was wide and flat. She stood on it and looked around at the surrounding scenery.
At this height, from this perspective, everything around seems very low, and the higher one stands, the more one feels lofty and aspirational.
The Snow Girl stood on the wall for a while, then floated down again. She looked at Lu Sen who was still digging stones, and asked, "My dear, can you tell me something? Who is your master?"
"In fact, I am not very clear. The master did not tell me anything and ascended into the void." Lu Sen paused, staring into the eyes of the Snow Girl, and asked, "Is this important?"
The Snow Girl was silent for a while. "It's not very important, but more than two hundred years ago, when the spiritual energy between heaven and earth had not yet disappeared, I once saw a Taoist who came from the East. He was also good at construction. Compared with you, he was a little bit inferior, but this technique of quickly building fortifications was very similar. So I wonder if you are from the same lineage as him."
"I don't know." Lu Sen shook his head: "Master never told me about the elders in the sect."
Because there is no doubt about it... this thing was originally made up by Lu Sen.
Then he asked again: "Is this important?"
Still the same question.
"I don't know whether it's important or not." The Snow Girl crossed her arms and thought for a while before saying, "After he came to Japan, he didn't have much time left. He knew me and Nujiao, and we could talk to each other. Before he died, he wrote down all his unique skills in a booklet and gave it to Nujiao for safekeeping."
"Another female prostitute?" Lu Sen was a little surprised. "I can understand why Abe Haruaki gave the Yin-Yang Order to her for safekeeping, but why did that Taoist practitioner also give her his unique skills? Could it be that these two people were her lovers?"
"Hehe, although your idea may sound a bit low, it is also in line with normal inference. But unfortunately, Nv Jiao is not that kind of fox, and most of the time, she appears in the form of a giant fox. Except for a few close friends and confidants, no one has ever seen her in human form."
Pang Meier came over and asked, "Why give it to her?"
In the past, Pang Meier was not interested in such rumors of gods and ghosts. The rumors of gods and ghosts were pure nonsense. But now it was different. The man she married was a cultivator, and he himself was reaping the benefits of cultivation. If she was no longer interested in these things and did not acknowledge the rumors of gods and ghosts, it would be a behavior of "eating and smashing the pot".
"Because Nvjiao is the one who values credibility the most among all of us monsters and shikigami." The Snow Girl said rather embarrassedly: "Even I occasionally break my promises, although it's not a big deal. But Nvjiao, once she promises someone, she will stick to her word until the task is completed."
Pang Meier sighed softly: "She is a heroine, but it's a pity that I don't know where she is now, otherwise it would be nice to meet her and have a chat."
Lu Sen laughed and said, "That's a big fox. Don't you dislike it? Every time Bilian turns into a fox, you are very unhappy."
"That's different." Pang Mei'er stamped her feet and said coquettishly, "Bilian has turned into a seductive vixen, she is full of immorality from head to toe, only you, my lord, like her."
"If you were like that, Mei'er, I would like it too."
Hearing this, Pang Meir felt quite embarrassed and her cheeks turned red.
Although she now also likes dual cultivation, it is both comfortable and fast.
But this doesn't mean that she can be relaxed in front of outsiders.
The Snow Girl came over and asked, "Wait, do you know any other female beauties?"
"Not really." Lu Sen waved his hand: "Bilian has a special method to transform into a two-tailed fox. It will probably be a three-tailed fox soon. But she is not a fox. She is still a human in essence."
The Snow Girl sighed and said, "It seems that the Central Plains has changed a lot in the past two or three hundred years. In the past, people disliked monsters and everyone wanted to kill them. Now, they have become monsters on their own initiative?"
Hmm... Lu Sen found that the other party seemed to have misunderstood, but he couldn't explain it, so he could only say: "Wait for you to go home with us after a while, and you will know what's going on."
"Of course I have to go home with my husband." The Snow Girl walked to Lu Sen's side and said with a smile: "For the rest of my life, I will stick to my husband until my soul flies away."
Pang Meier couldn't help rolling her eyes, and came over to put an iron pickaxe into Xue Nu's hand: "Get to work, why are you talking so much."
The Snow Girl waved her pickaxe and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Madam Mei, I won't compete with you for your husband. All you need is for you to give me some soup base occasionally."
This is a very meaningful statement.
Pang Meier spat, "Give up, I won't even let you touch the bottom of the pot, I don't have enough to drink myself."
There is only one official, and the things are not enough to be shared among three people. Pang Meir is not so stupid as to add more competitors to herself.
Seeing that the two women were talking more and more ridiculously, Lu Sen became too lazy to pay attention to them and focused on his work.
He hoes the earth and rocks into cubes and collects them together. When the quantity is enough, he will start to build the 'palace' on the mountain.
Because they wanted to develop the silver mine under the mountain, they had to cover it up and "wrap" the entire place. Then, a secret passage inside the palace would lead to the underground veins. The mined silver ore would be directly refined in the blast furnace built by the system, and finally packed up in storage boxes and taken away.
The storage box was very small, and no one except his own people would have thought that there was a large amount of silver hidden in it. Lu Sen said on the surface that he wanted to build a palace for practice, but in fact he was digging a silver mine underneath.
In this way, a large amount of silver mines here can be transferred back to Hangzhou City without attracting the attention of the Japanese.
The three men chiseled for another two days and lowered the mountain by more than 20 meters.
At this time, Lu Sen and his team were able to chisel out some scattered silver ore.
The bright silver ore was revealed piece by piece.
"Really." Pang Meier dug a few more times and found a few more pieces of silver ore. She picked up a piece and looked at it for a while, then sighed, "The purity seems to be quite high."
"We need to build a palace to cover these things." Lu Sen looked around: "And we can't dig any further. We need to dig soil and rocks from another mountain."
Just as Lu Sen turned his gaze to another undeveloped hill, he suddenly heard what seemed to be someone's roar outside the wall.
He listened carefully for a while and said with a smile: "Pan Zhihai and others are here."
Then he walked to the foot of the city wall and used the system's power to create a gap in the wall. After Pan Zhihai and a group of black-clad generals came in, he sealed the gap with blocks.
After Pan Zhihai came in, he exclaimed to Lu Sen: "Son-in-law, what you did is really scary. After we landed, we didn't walk far before we saw the wall you built. At the small port where we landed, the natives of Japan were so scared that they drew a high wall over there and worshipped some gods and immortals."
Lu Sen smiled and said, "Ignore them. You guys are here just in time. Help with the work."
As he spoke, he took out a bunch of pickaxes from the system backpack.
"It is my blessing to be able to work for you, my dear."
Pan Zhihai picked up the pickaxe and put it on his shoulder.
The other black-clad generals took the tools in their hands without saying a word.
With more than twenty men, things will be easier.
The construction progress was extremely accelerated.
Lu Sen no longer needs to dig blocks, he just needs to stack blocks and build a palace.
It took four days to build the huge stone palace on the top of the mountain, almost covering the entire mountain.
Inside the palace, Lu Sen and others had dug a secret passage leading underground.
"Wow, these are extremely pure silver mines." Pan Zhihai swallowed his saliva: "I estimate that if we dig them all out, we can probably get one-fifth of the silver in the Song Dynasty."
A long mine tunnel, illuminated by the fire, with spots of reflected light flashing on the walls on both sides of the tunnel.
Lu Sen shook his head: "More than that, if we really dig them all out, there will probably be more than what is currently in the Central Plains."
This is the largest silver mine in the world, and the Northern Song Dynasty was naturally short of silver.
So logically speaking, the silver in the Northern Song Dynasty at that time could not be compared with the silver here.
More than Central Plains?
Pan Zhihai's heart was beating fast: "So, doesn't that mean my husband is already rich enough to rival a country?"
Lu Sen smiled and said nothing.
After Pan Zhihai's excitement, he broke out in cold sweat. He looked at Lu Sen with some fear, and then suddenly looked away.
But the mine was very quiet at this time, and Pan Zhihai's intense heartbeat was very obvious.
Lu Sen didn't look at him, but continued to walk slowly along the mine tunnel, saying, "Don't worry, I don't mean to silence you. I can't do that kind of thing. Besides, even if outsiders knew about this silver mine, it would at most cause me some minor troubles, and it wouldn't hurt the foundation."
Pan Zhihai breathed a sigh of relief. If Lu Sen didn't speak, he would be even more scared.
But since Lu Sen said so, his life would naturally be saved.
He couldn't help but clasped his fists and said, "Son-in-law, I will keep this to myself. From today on, I have seen nothing and know nothing."
"Don't be so scared." Lu Sen bent down, picked up a piece of ore from the ground, and then threw it back: "Take it, pick up a few pieces and take them back, hide them well and refine them yourself. Don't tell me you can't refine silver."
"Thank you for the reward, son-in-law." Pan Zhihai looked at the silver ore in his hand over and over again, smiling so hard that his back teeth were visible: "Even if I don't know how to refine it, I must learn how to refine it when I get home. I can always find a way."
These silver ores are of very high purity and are also accompanied by copper ores of good purity.
At this time, copper mines can also be directly converted into money.
In other words, if Pan Zhihai picked up a few pieces and melted them down, he would make a fortune.
The two continued to walk forward, and then they heard the light of fire and the sound of hurried footsteps. Soon, a general in black came over and said nervously, "My dear, something is not right ahead. Can you go and take a look yourself?"
Something wrong?
Lu Sen didn't find it strange. After all, mining is a dangerous business, especially underground.
Things like ground water flow and landslides.
Lu Sen originally thought that he encountered trouble while digging the tunnel, but when he got to the end, he found that he was wrong. This trouble was more "interesting" than he imagined.
At the end of the mine tunnel was a small, dark entrance; it seemed that they had dug into a huge underground cavity.
Lu Sen placed the torch close to the cave entrance, leaned over to take a look, and was stunned.
The firelight didn't reach far, but it was still possible to see that there were several huge stone pillars in the cave ahead.
The stone pillars formed a huge circle, and in the center of the circle, there seemed to be something lying there, but it was dark and not very clear.
Lu Sen thought about it, took out a small redstone lantern from his system backpack, lit it up, and threw it over with force.
Products produced by the system must be high-quality.
The redstone lantern drew an arc, fell to the ground, and bounced forward a few times, but it was still bright, illuminating everything nearby.
Then everyone took a breath.
A terrifying white beast was lying in the middle of the cylinders.
The redstone lantern fell on its left side, so only a small half of the monster's body could be seen.
It was at least two meters long, but the height was hard to estimate because the opponent was lying prone.
Lu Sen looked at it carefully for a while, and then he said to the black-clad family general beside him, "Aniu, go upstairs and invite the Snow Girl down immediately."
The black-clad general immediately ran away at an extremely fast speed.
The more Pan Zhihai looked at it, the more his scalp tingled. He lowered his voice and muttered, "It is rumored that great luck must be accompanied by great evil. Could this thing be a treasure-guarding spirit beast?"
Ever since Lu Sen came out of nowhere, the most popular thing among storytellers now is to tell various ghost and god stories.
The audience loves to listen to it too.
Lu Sen didn't think so. He took out two more redstone lanterns from his system backpack, lit them up and threw them over.
Now, we can see many details of the giant beast's body.
For example, it seemed to have several long, bushy, white tails.
Seeing these tails, Lu Sen became more and more certain about what the giant beast in front of him was.
At this time, the Snow Girl also floated over from the mine tunnel.
Since she can fly, her speed is naturally not slow.
After she came over, she floated to Lu Sen's side and asked, "My dear, you called me over?"
Lu Sen nodded, then moved aside and pointed inside.
The Snow Girl looked sideways, hesitated for two breaths, and then shouted in surprise: "Nu Jiao!"
Then she floated into the cave and flew straight towards the beast.
Lu Sen thought about it and slowly followed.
The Snow Girl flew to the giant beast and shouted several times: Nujiao!
Her screams echoed in the cave, but the giant beast still did not move.
At this time, Lu Sen also came over, and he finally saw the full picture of the giant beast's head: it was indeed a huge fox head.
The fox had its eyes closed and was quiet, as if it was already dead.
The Snow Girl was anxious. She flew to the fox's head and stood there. Then she put her hands behind one of the fox's ears. After a few breaths, she floated up from the air and said hurriedly, "My dear, Nujiao is still alive, but she is almost dead. I beg you to help her save her life."
Lu Sen was quite surprised when he heard this. This Snow Girl actually knew that foxes are actually canines?
