Chapter 252 Mining Achievements
Rubin was sitting at his desk working.
Miners lined up in front of his desk, and after being examined by Rubin, they registered, received tools, and then turned around and left to work in the mine. Rubin was the god who controlled the miners' livelihoods. Only miners with his permission could get the qualification to enter the mine, and they had to work hard all day in exchange for a little reward.
Nowadays, the world is becoming increasingly difficult, and refugees who have no other way to survive can only run to this mine to exchange their labor for the opportunity to eat.
"Don't just stand there and stare!! Get to work!! If the money you earn is not enough to buy tickets, you can only lie outside and wait to be fed to the night ghosts!!"
This day would have been no different from any other day, but then a young job seeker showed up.
He was very young, no more than fifteen years old, and was wearing the most common cloth. He looked very handsome, with delicate skin, like a spoiled child from an aristocratic family, not like a refugee who had nowhere else to go to make a living. If you ignore the little octopus on his shoulder, this boy looks quite ordinary.
Rubin found that he couldn't take his eyes off the strange little octopus. It was a small octopus that was only slightly larger than the palm of his hand. It looked slippery, and its octopus legs were firmly clenched on the boy's clothes. The boy looked accustomed to it. The little octopus was staring at him, as if to say, "What are you looking at? Haven't you seen an octopus before?"
"Sir." The boy's voice brought him back to his senses.
Rubin coughed and said, "You want to come here to mine?"
"Yes. I want to make money by mining here."
"Oh..." Rubin looked at the other man's small figure and said, "Mining is a tough job. You don't look very old, don't you have any family? Uh, okay. Go to the side to get the tools, a shovel, a spade, and a pickaxe. After digging and finishing work, go directly to the furnace room, where you can forge your ore into metal blocks. Come out before it gets completely dark and find Coslin to exchange money."
The boy nodded and registered his name: [Liu Xingquan].
He turned around, took his tools and left. Rubin looked at the boy's back for a while, then turned to ask a man with glasses beside him, "Coslin, can an octopus live without water?"
Coslin said lazily: "Maybe this octopus is his food today."
Rubin thought it made sense.
The day is about to end. Miners come to exchange their harvest for payment. Most miners have earned enough to pay for the night entrance fee. The so-called entrance fee is the qualification to live in this miner's village that night. Since when, night ghosts appear in this world every night. They are more terrible than wolves and feed on lone humans at night. If you want to escape the attack of night ghosts, you can only hide in human gathering places such as towns or villages.
This miners' village was built to protect the miners who were resting at night. It can accommodate more than 300 miners. The external defense facilities are extremely strong and there are special people guarding at night. It can be said to be a very safe rest base. During the day, it is open to the public, but at night, it only accepts miners who have bought tickets.
The ore that an adult miner dug out after working so hard all day was just enough to buy a ticket, and the remaining money was enough to buy two pieces of hard bread. Such work was just to keep you alive. But for the refugees nearby, it was the only way to survive in this world.
The sun has not completely set, but once the sunlight disappears, the terrible night ghosts will appear, and their powerful claws and teeth can tear people into pieces. Every miner cherishes every minute to dig ore and earn more profits before night falls.
Today, like every other day, a few miners had bad luck. The ore they mined was of relatively low quality, and the copper nuggets they extracted were not of sufficient quality to be exchanged for tickets.
"Please, please let me spend the night here!" the miner begged, "I have elderly people waiting for me at home."
"Please! I'm almost there!!"
There are people like this every day.
"Rules are rules," Rubin said. "There's nothing to bargain about here."
“Please!!”
Rubin gave Coslin a look, and soon, several burly men dragged the men out. "You are killing people!" Their shouts became increasingly distant.
Coslin showed reluctance on his face. Rubin said without raising his head: "Let the guards throw some weapons into their sheds. The rest is up to them." The sheds he mentioned were the sheds outside the miners' village, which were shelters for those who could not afford tickets and did not have time to return to the town.
After one night, some people will disappear forever, but many people will survive.
This is how the world is, only the fittest survive.
At dusk, when it was almost dark, the boy appeared, carrying a bag of minerals, with a lot of dust on his fair face. When he opened the bag, Rubin was really surprised. The bag was full of copper, iron, silver ingots, and even a small piece of gold.
Normally, an adult man could not fill a bag of minerals in a day's work. Most of them produced copper and iron nuggets, and silver ingots were a rare harvest, not to mention the rare gold nuggets. Expensive ores were all deep in the mines. The deeper the mine, the greater the chance of encountering high-level monsters and the higher the mortality rate of miners. He took a breath and carefully examined the metal nuggets in his hand. They were of good quality and the weight was in compliance. With the boy's ability, it was impossible for him to go down to the lower mines. The only explanation was that the boy was lucky enough to dig up a good vein.
Rubin didn't say anything, while Coslin weighed the metal blocks in the bag one by one. After a while, he took out a heavy purse from the drawer and handed it to the boy. "The amount you have today is equivalent to the amount of ten people." Coslin said.
The boy turned around and poured most of the money in the purse onto Rubin's desk. Rubin used his finger to draw out a stack of copper coins, "This is enough for your overnight stay tonight. Put the rest away, kid."
"gentlemen."
"Um?"
"I just saw a few people who didn't make enough money to stay overnight. What will happen to them?"
"Those people can only stay in the sheds outside the village at night. You know there are night ghosts at night." Rubin shrugged, "Whether they can survive depends on their luck."
"This money can be considered as their overnight fee," said Liu Xingquan.
"Are you serious?" Rubinchi asked, "Even if you are lucky enough to earn so much today, your luck tomorrow may not be as good as today."
"I'm not worried." Liu Xingquan pointed at the little octopus sticking its head out of the backpack, "Because I have a lucky little octopus."
A small octopus. Rubin stared at it. It was not eaten.
The little octopus waved at him. The boy turned and left. Tonight, he will sleep in this miners' village.
The money Liu Xingquan earned today allowed him to own a clean miner's dormitory. The dormitory was very simple, with nothing but a bed, a table and a chair. After Liu Xingquan entered the room, the little octopus climbed onto the table, and Liu Xingquan poured the remaining coins onto the table.
The narration echoed in the house: [The young hunter foolishly ran into the mine to waste time. He didn't realize that mining would not help him improve his abilities except for a little money.]
Xiao Zhen's octopus legs quickly counted the coins and said, "These should be enough."
Liu Xingquan said: "Yes."
[The young hunter should realize that there are more paths ahead of him. Instead of wasting time mining here. ]
Xiao Zhen said, "We'll continue tomorrow. Let's go to bed early today."
Liu Xingquan said: "Okay."
【Obviously, the hunter is continuing on the wrong path.】
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The next day , the boy appeared in front of Rubin's desk again, registered, and received tools. The little octopus was still lying on his shoulder.
After the boy left for the mine, Coslin said, "I don't think he will be so lucky today."
Rubin didn't say anything. He felt that this boy, like the little octopus on his body, had a mysterious aura, just like the adventurer he had met long ago.
When the sun was about to withdraw its last rays, the boy named Liu Xingquan came back. He was still carrying a mineral bag when he came back from the furnace room. When he opened the mineral bag, Ke Silin shouted out loud. There were fewer copper and iron blocks in the mineral bag today, and the more valuable silver ingots accounted for the majority. Like the first time, there was also a small piece of gold in it, but this piece of gold was obviously larger.
"..." Rubin raised his head and asked, "Good luck again?"
"Because I have a lucky little octopus." The boy answered, and the little octopus on his shoulder nodded in agreement.
This time the boy's reward was four times that of yesterday, and he still gave out some coins as ticket fees for tonight for those miners who did not earn enough.
After the boy left, Coslin said, "This is really weird. You know, these silver ingots represent that he dug up a lot of silver ore, but the silver ore is basically in the lower mines, where there are many ferocious monsters. This boy is no match for those monsters."
Rubin weighed the small gold nugget in his hand and said nothing.
On the other side of the village, two miners with ill intentions were staring at the boy. "Have you heard?" one of them said, "This kid has been lucky for two days and dug up a lot of good stuff."
"I saw that he received a lot of money today." Another man stared at the boy's back with greedy eyes.
"I say, you see this kid is very weak, not as good as us..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he was suddenly surrounded by seven or eight figures. The leader shouted, "These two bad guys want to attack our benefactor! They are so shameless !"
"Yes, if it weren't for that young man, we would have been driven out and eaten by the night ghosts yesterday! Beat these two heartless guys! Let them learn a lesson!"
After a few screams, the miners' village returned to peace.
Coslin, who was standing by the window, turned to Rubin and said, "Don't worry, it's okay." He looked at Rubin's face and asked, "What are you thinking about ?"
Rubin stroked his chin and said, "I was just thinking that this boy might bring about a big change here."
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Liu Xingquan returned to his room, and the little octopus climbed onto the table again and counted the money quickly with its octopus legs.
The narration echoed in the room again, [You are wasting your time! ! Mining has nothing to do with the main storyline you want to explore! ]
Liu Xingquan picked up an apple and asked the little octopus: "Do you want to eat it?"
"I'm not hungry," said the little octopus.
[Hunters should level up and explore their way to the capital instead of wasting time in this corner! ]
Xiao Zhen said: "We will continue mining tomorrow."
Liu Xingquan nodded and said, "Okay."
[You will suffer the consequences if you ignore the well-intentioned guidance! ]
The little octopus made a small bed for himself with a towel and covered his small octopus body with the towel. "It's getting late. Go to bed early."
Liu Xingquan said: "Good night."
[Very good, maybe we should add a mining achievement for this stupid hunter who wastes time and his disgusting monster. ]
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It was the evening of the fourth day.
Cosley's mouth was open, and Rubin was just breathing heavily.
A handful of small gold nuggets were poured out from the mineral bag. The friction between the gold nuggets made a pleasant sound. Although each nugget was small, both the color and weight showed the value of this precious metal. Rubin had seen miners show him their results countless times, but never like today, when his table was covered with glittering gold nuggets.
"These gold nuggets," the boy said, "I'm going to buy the entire mining village."
After an almost suffocating silence, Coslin wiped his sweat and said, "This is definitely enough. This gold is enough to buy three mining villages."
The boy picked out two small gold nuggets and handed them to Rubin and Coslin respectively. "I still want to hire you two."
"ah……"
"Would you like to work for me? I think the salary I offer will be much higher than your current salary."
"Of course!" Coslin shouted.
"Well, the two of us work for the Mining Guild. I need to explain the situation to the guild first."
"Sure." The boy said, "Maybe I'll donate a bag of this gold to the Mining Guild."
"Well, I think if you give each guild presidium member a few small gold nuggets, just one-fifth of this bag of gold, you'll be the president at the next election."
The boy nodded and said, "Very good."
Rubin swallowed his saliva and asked the future president of the Mining Guild: "Excuse me, I would like to ask, how can you obtain so many precious ores in a short period of time? Is it really because..."
Liu Xingquan replied: "Because I have a lucky little octopus."
Cui Mingzhi felt a little depressed.
Now he finally got the time-travel adventure he had always dreamed of, but he always felt like something was wrong.
For example, the pastor teammate next to him is Wei Hongzhuo, the father of his schoolmate Miss Wei Jingjing. All middle school students and even college students have the same feeling, that is, playing games is fun, but as long as there are parents watching, no matter how fun the game is, it will instantly become tasteless, and they will only feel uncomfortable and lose their desire to play .
Cui Mingzhi is in this situation right now. In his eyes, this adventure world is tailor-made for him, with a bright pixel style and an easy-to-understand RPG gameplay. His current profession is also a thief, which he has always liked. Real-life three-dimensional panoramic enjoyment, is there a better time travel than this! But the problem is that his teammates are his classmates' parents. Although they are not his parents, they are also parents, and they are classmates' parents with natural pressure. As soon as Cui Mingzhi saw Wei Hongzhuo's gloomy and majestic face, his heart immediately wailed like a groundhog.
Why! Why is my nanny a parent! And this nanny has put all her skill points into agility!
