Chapter 868: The Mystery of the White Stone
Griffin Cliffs area of Erathia.
As the income level in Erathia increased, the wages of the fully full-time Erathian [Regular Forces] also rose.
Those who can become Griffin Knights are all talented people in the regular troops.
Especially for the Griffin Knights in the Griffin Cliff area, their income can ensure that they will not lack gold coins in their daily lives. But they will not mind taking the opportunity to search for some white stones to supplement their family expenses after training.
It’s not tiring anyway, it’s just a convenient thing, who can complain about having too many gold coins?
This is exactly the case with the Griffin Squad led by Gabriel.
Ever since the White Stone Collection Order was announced in Erathia, Gabriel would take his griffin team to some remote wilderness areas to collect White Stone during his spare time from training.
At this moment, their troops have landed on a mountain in a wild monster area.
The griffins, which had been trained for a whole day, were flying happily in the sky, but the griffin riders were like hardworking ants, squatting on the ground and searching repeatedly for stones on the ground.
[Gabriel] picked up a large stone from the ground and wiped the dirt off the stone with a white cloth. As the dirt gradually fell off, the stone became as white as jade.
This white stone is as big as Gabriel's two palms combined.
Gabriel weighed the stone in his hand and was very satisfied. Although he was not a hero and could not use magic to determine the exact weight of the stone, he could infer with his experience that the stone was at least 3 units. One stone was worth three.
With just a few pick-ups and wipes, he got 10 silver coins, which was equivalent to his salary for two days of work.
[Gabriel] happily put the white stone in his pocket and continued searching.
Unfortunately, he was not so lucky afterwards. After searching for half an hour, he only found 10 units of white stone in total.
[Gabriel] was not dissatisfied. After all, the mountain was steep and hidden enough that only the Griffin Knights were capable of climbing up. All the white stones on the mountain were theirs. If they searched slowly, they could eventually collect 3,000 of them.
[Gabriel] I have a dream.
His daughter, Gabrielle, who was just 4 years old, was born with a weak constitution.
According to the church pastor, if she hadn't had that adventure, she probably wouldn't have lived to adulthood.
But Gabriel knew a way to save his daughter. That was to have her make a contract with a griffin cub and become a Griffin Knight before her lifespan expired, thereby changing her physical condition.
To achieve this, not only a large amount of gold coins is needed to nourish Gabriel's body, but also many coincidences.
Because adult griffins can only contract with adult soldiers.
Only underage griffins have a chance to resonate with underage human soldiers.
As for underage griffins, they are the focus of protection for all humans and griffins in the entire Griffin Cliff area. Unless they reach a certain level, they cannot be touched at all.
Fortunately, Gabriel was precocious, sensible, and very cute.
She was chosen by the legendary granddaughter of Edelik, Elena, to be her playmate, and had the opportunity to come into contact with griffin cubs with Elena at a very young age.
This allowed Gabriel to always keep a glimmer of hope in his heart.
After searching for another half an hour, Gabriel counted the white stones in his hand and smiled with satisfaction.
There is value in taking risks.
Choosing to go to this remote area allowed him to harvest three times the usual amount.
[Gabriel] looked up at the sun and estimated that the time was about right.
He was just about to blow the whistle to summon his subordinates to return to Griffin Cliff when suddenly, a series of shouts came from the other side of the hillside.
"Captain! Come and see!"
"Great discovery, we found a huge white stone!"
Huge white stone!
Hearing the excited shouts of his subordinates, Gabriel put the things in his hands on his back and stood up quickly.
He didn't bother to scold his subordinates for not making loud noises in the wild, and shouted anxiously:
"I heard it, where is it?"
“Here! Here!”
Their voices sounded a little ethereal.
[Gabriel] immediately mounted his griffin and rushed over to the sound.
When he went around a mountain and passed through a cloud, he immediately found a dangerous area on the mountainside that he was unwilling to search. His subordinates were cheering around a huge white stone, and the four [Royal Griffins] around it were also curiously looking at the white stone.
Apparently, they were all gathered together, waiting for Gabriel.
"My holy griffin. It's so big!"
[Gabriel] was shocked by the size of Shiraishi.
He landed on the griffin, ran over eagerly, opened his arms, and pressed his whole body against the white stone.
[Gabriel] was naturally tall, 2.2 meters tall, but he couldn't hug the white stone with his arms outstretched, and his head couldn't reach the top of the stone.
"At least 4 meters high! The circumference is more than 5 meters. This white stone has at least 3,000 units."
[Gabriel] made a quick estimate, and when the surrounding griffin knights heard it, they all cheered excitedly.
There are five people in their team, and each person can get at least 600 units of white stones, or 2 gold coins, which is equivalent to their monthly salary.
Gabriel patted the big baby and said:
"It is indeed a white stone. This white stone is too big for us to take away. We can only go back and inform the captain. The captain is a hero and can use a space backpack to carry the white stone."
At this point, [Gabriel] asked excitedly:
"By the way, how did you find it? Have you looked around here? Are there any other similar large white stones? If there are, it would be a great achievement."
A Griffin Knight replied:
“Captain, this big white stone was discovered by my griffin Seven, and we were brought here by it.
We were not sure whether this big thing was a white stone, so we called you over as soon as we found it, but we hadn’t searched the surrounding area carefully yet.”
"Seven found it?" Gabriel patted a griffin beside him and asked, "Good brother! Well done."
"Let's go and look around together!"
The Griffin Knights immediately began to search the surroundings under the organization of Gabriel, but they did not find anything else after searching the entire mountain. It seemed that the huge white stone was just an accident.
[Gabriel] seemed to be a little crazy. He and his subordinates searched for more than an hour and even led them to defeat a small group of Orc monsters. His shoulder was injured and wrapped with gauze, but he still had no intention of giving up.
Gabriel's subordinates were a little worried. They had already exceeded the time to leave the camp for a long time. If they did not go back, they might be punished. So they all advised Gabriel to leave and come back next time.
But Gabriel was somewhat unwilling.
It was a rare opportunity for him to make a great contribution, as it might be the life of his daughter.
He blew a whistle to gather the griffins playing around, stroked their necks one by one, and asked gently:
"Good brother! Can you find more of these stones?"
"ah!"
The griffins shook their bodies, spread their wings, and motioned for Gabriel and the others to get on.
[ Gabriel ] immediately gave the order for the team members to assemble and get ready for takeoff.
The wind blew past, making a whistling sound.
The griffin riders went down the back of the hillside, passing through woods and streams, and arrived at a valley.
The entrance to the valley is narrow and tortuous, as if it is a shy girl who is unwilling to show her beauty easily.
However, the Griffin Knight flew in and was immediately shocked by the scene before him.
The interior of the valley is broad and flat, surrounded by towering boulders.
The huge rocks lean against each other, like solid barriers, isolating the valley from the outside world.
In the center of the valley is a green meadow dotted with various wild flowers, like a colorful embroidered cloth.
At the edge of the meadow is a clear stream. Under the sunlight, the stream sparkles with silver light, like a flowing necklace, making the valley more beautiful.
The most important thing is that in the streams of the valley, on the meadows, between the cliffs... the Griffin Knights searched all the mountains, but only found one large white stone, which was everywhere in this valley.
A griffin knight flew to Gabriel's side, his eyes gleaming:
"Captain! Captain! There are so many white stones! We have distributed them!"
"What are you posting for? You're just thinking about those few gold coins! What a useless thing."
[Gabriel] suppressed his excitement and said in a trembling voice:
“Although I don’t know why Her Majesty the Queen needs white stones, the fact that they are collected on such a large scale shows that white stones must have a very special function.
There are no large white stones anywhere else, only here.
If we report this location, it will be a great achievement!"
"Captain, should we go down and take a look?"
“Don’t do that!
Captain, I have observed that there are no animals in the entire valley that could be dangerous."
After hearing what his subordinate said, the enthusiasm in Gabriel's head immediately cooled down a lot.
He looked around carefully and found no signs of any living creature.
"Something's wrong...lift off!"
At Gabriel's command, the entire griffin knight squad immediately flew out of the valley.
Until they left the valley, the Griffin Knights did not encounter any problems. The surroundings were extremely peaceful, so peaceful that it was even a little eerie.
If I go back to report now, although the effect won't be as good as going back after finding out the truth, I can still get a relatively large credit.
Before, on the mountain top, Gabriel was confident that he could lead his brothers to escape safely even if they encountered wild monsters, but here, he was not so sure.
High in the sky, Gabriel turned around and looked at the valley, took a deep breath, and made up his mind:
“Brothers, you can earn more merits, but you only have one life.
Let’s go back to find the captain and report the situation here truthfully.
Whether to explore or not, and how many people to send, will be decided by the higher-ups."
"yes!"
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In the territory of Diya, in the desolate and gloomy underworld, a huge [Chainsaw Zombie King] is roaring forward.
Its tracks crushed all the hard bones, making a deafening sound.
As it continued to move forward, patches of dry and dead trees were cut down, revealing bare black land.
The blade of the chainsaw in his hand rotated, cutting trees and bushes into small pieces.
These small pieces of wood were thrown aside and piled up into small hills.
As the machinery continued to advance, these small hills became more and more numerous, eventually forming an open plain.
Following the giant chainsaw zombie, countless skeleton soldiers and zombies were carrying white stones under the command of Nimbas and spreading them flat on the underworld.
Soon after these white stones were placed on the dark soil, they began to show signs of melting. However, the white stones did not melt into liquid. Instead, they took on a gel-like state and continued to extend outward.
The white stone of the castle power is extremely stable and solid. As long as the white stone is spread on the ground, it can prevent the cemetery territory from transforming the white stone into underworld.
The dead energy of the undead in the underworld will still soften the white stone, causing the white stone and the underworld to mix into loose and soft white stone soil.
This is the foundation of the Underworld Farm - the white stone foundation.
The first step in building a netherworld farm is to cover the netherworld with white stones.
For a farm, the flatter it is, the better.
In order to take over the Underworld Farm, Diya dispatched a large number of troops to help.
Zombie giants as huge as mountains moved away the peaks and filled in the valleys.
The vast Bone Dragon Legion transported white stones to the front line.
The eerie dark knight dragged the plow and galloped across the reclaimed land, crushing all the larger stones along the way.
Near the white stone foundation, Jonesfield commanded a large number of iron men to line up.
When the white stone foundation is completed, these iron men will form an iron man shed like a stack of monks that wraps the white stone foundation.
In addition to these iron men, there are more iron men coming from Bracada on cargo airships.
These mindless puppet creatures will use their bodies to become part of the Underworld Farm, using their bodies and virtual souls to resist the ubiquitous undead death energy of the cemetery forces and protect the healthy growth of crops in the Underworld Farm.
Near the white stone foundation, there is a large group of skeleton soldiers and cavemen wielding pickaxes and digging a river channel.
This river will directly connect to the border of Aveli, and divert the life-rich spring water in Aveli to the Underworld Farm.
In the future, this river will become the river of life that runs through the entire Avili and Diya.
Nimbas held a pen and paper, writing and drawing on the clear square on the paper. Beside him, Qi Ge squatted on the ground and said in a deep voice:
“Turning half of Dia’s famous map into a ghost farm is bound to be an enormous project that cannot be completed overnight.
You have to start with phase 1. Only after the success of phase 1 can you start phase 2, phase 3 and even the final 46 phases.
The whole process will take at least three months.”
“If we want to complete the construction of all the underworld farms, we can’t be impatient and must proceed step by step.
But the Phase 1 test field must be completed as soon as possible.
Only by building the first phase of the experimental field as soon as possible and planting enough food in the first phase of the experimental field can we completely dispel the doubts of the four major forces and make them devote themselves to the construction of the Underworld Farm."
Qi Ge pinched a handful of the netherworld and squeezed it hard. Thick black oil flowed out of the netherworld, smelling fishy and foul.
No living creature would like the environment here, but in Qi Ge's opinion, this is the real place of hope.
It is the top priority and the future, and there must be no mistakes.
