In the chaos, Lu Yi's big ship was towing a small boat. Under the guidance of several trembling, gray-haired men, it was moving slowly forward along a hidden channel among countless rocks.
On the deck, a large group of naked, skinny, weak men and women were sobbing and spitting at their mouths as they swallowed the big steamed buns distributed by Ah Hu.
Previously, in King Kong City, with the help of the fertile soil of the Eight Heavens, the pioneering group harvested several crops. The yield of each crop was extremely amazing, and the quality was excellent.
Therefore, Lu Yi had enough high-quality food and grass in his hands, which was enough to support nearly one billion lives for several years, let alone these mere thousands of unfortunate enslaved miners?
Lu Yi had seen only a hundred miners wearing tight leather jackets and crystal helmets, mining ore on the black stone. But in the cabin of the 30-foot-long broken ship, it was like a can of sardines, with more than a thousand miners waiting to be replaced.
The bodies of these miners are extremely weak and they have never practiced martial arts. In this rocky river, the thin air, the extremely low or high temperature, the overly weak or overly strong gravity field, and the various toxins and radiation from the ores are enough to kill these miners in a very short time.
Inside the shabby old ship, there were crude formations and restrictions that barely provided an environment for these miners to survive.
If they want to mine ore, they must wear leather clothes that can isolate them from external toxins, high temperatures, and cold, and wear crystal helmets that can provide a certain amount of air, so that they can move around in the outside world for a short period of time.
Even so, the bodies of these miners have been badly damaged by the harsh environment.
In Lu Yi's view, the bodies of these unfortunate people were like beams and pillars that had been gnawed by termites for many years, with holes and holes everywhere. The naked eye could see that the little blood and energy in their bodies were slowly leaking out through these damaged areas.
Fortunately, the big steamed buns provided by Lu Yi contained enough nutrition and life energy. After the miners ate the buns, strands of strong blood essence slowly grew, and the strong life instinct in the "celestial" blood was stimulated. The miners' faces became more red at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the hidden injuries in their bodies were slowly healing.
Lu Yu couldn't help but be shocked.
Given the natural strength of the "celestial beings", these miners could be tortured to this "dying" state, which shows how miserable their daily lives are.
As for the caracal killing dozens of men, Lu Yishen thought that Lord Cat did a great job.
Lu Yu waved at the caracal squatting beside him, staring at the big parrot angrily, "Hey, next time, be slower and don't be so murderous... Although these guys deserve to die, what if? What if there are good people among them?"
The caracal raised its head and let out a "wow wow". It shrank its body to about a foot long and rushed to Lu Yi's shoulder with a flash of white light. It rubbed its chubby face against Lu Yi's cheek, then glared at the big parrot standing above Lu Yi's head in a domineering manner, raised its left front paw in an extremely insidiously manner, and with a "swish", it extended several sharp, cold, white claws.
The big parrot tilted its head, its feathers standing up, and said the same words again: "I'll kill you sooner or later!"
Several old navigation men directed the route and spent several days sailing through the rocks. There were rocks of all sizes everywhere, smoke and dust everywhere, and rocks rubbing against rocks, smoke and dust rubbing against rocks, constantly emitting flames and loud noises.
Lu Yi found it amazing. How could these old men, so frail and so old, remember this waterway in such a chaotic river of rocks?
After walking like this for a few days, they passed a huge rock that was suspended in the void and had a diameter of more than a thousand miles. The thick smoke and dust in front of them suddenly thinned, revealing a gray sky.
Two black stones, about a mile in radius and shaped like egg tarts, were suspended in the air. Between the black stones, there was a passageway as wide as a hundred feet, and several equally dilapidated ships were entering and exiting the passageway. On each of the two black stones, there was a metal-cast sentry tower, about a hundred feet high, with crude runes and prohibitions engraved on the sentry towers, and several crude crossbows on top.
On the black stone on Lu Yi’s left hand side, under the watchtower, there were several extremely simple houses built with stones.
A few shirtless men who did not look like good guys were squatting on the edge of the black rock, gesturing at the ships coming in and out.
A 50-foot-long shabby ship came out from behind a rotating rock in the distance. Along with a shrill scream, more than 30 large birds with wingspans of more than 10 feet, shaped like vultures, with black feathers gleaming with metallic coldness, flapped their wings and chased after the ship.
At the stern of the ship, dozens of men covered in blood were holding swords, drawing longbows and powerful crossbows, trembling as they looked at the big bird that was chasing them, shouting and cursing.
On the black stone, several men suddenly stood up. Seeing the fleeing boat, a burly man with a black snake tattoo on his chest laughed loudly: "Oh my God? Lin Laowu, you are possessed by evil spirits. How did you provoke these gold-eating vultures?"
"Hey, do you want us to lend a hand and save your life?"
"If you want..."
On the bow of the fleeing boat, a big man with a huge hole in his chest and at least two or three pounds of flesh and blood missing shouted and cursed: "Give me money, help me!"
The boat escaped to a place less than five miles away from the two black stones.
On the two black stones and the tops of the two watchtowers, a total of twelve crossbows lit up with a faint glow. Crude traces of runes flickered on the crossbows, and the mechanism made a continuous "clicking" sound. The gears rotated, and the crossbows were strung. The archers standing on the watchtowers placed the spear-shaped crossbow arrows on the crossbows, guiding them to lock onto the flying gold-eating vultures.
Lu Yi smiled as he looked at the crossbows that were ready to fire.
He had seen the crossbows in the wilderness. They were powerful and forceful like thunder, and their power was extraordinary.
However, the crossbows in the long river of rocks here seem to have some improvements in mechanism and triggering, and I don’t know how to use them specifically...
The next moment, Lu Yi couldn't help but widen his eyes slightly.
Then, they saw the twelve crossbows making a loud thundering sound, and twelve crossbow arrows as thick as arms whizzed out. After being sprayed out for more than a hundred feet, a flash of light flowed on the surface of the crossbow arrows, and the arrowheads and arrow shafts melted rapidly, and actually exploded into balls of blazing Xinjin thunder lava that shot forward.
The speed of an arrow is extremely limited.
No matter how powerful the crossbow is, the arrow is heavy, and the speed that the bowstring can bring to the arrow is just that.
But after the arrow turned into lightning plasma, the speed of the arrow... no, the lightning plasma soared by more than a hundred times? Almost in the blink of an eye, twelve balls of extremely sharp plasma with a sharp aura hit the twelve gold-eating eagles.
With a hissing sound, the plasma cut through the feathers on the surface of the gold-eating eagles, which were as tough as armor, cut through their tough skin and flesh, and penetrated deep into their bodies. The current was pulsating, and between the extremely fine electric light flashes, the high-temperature current made the gold-eating eagles scream miserably, and their feathers kept burning and turned into wisps of black smoke. Wherever the plasma of the pungent metal attribute passed, the flesh, tendons and bones were severely cut and damaged...
"There must be a master behind this crossbow!"
Lu Yu narrowed his eyes.
With his mediocre weapon-refining skills, the moment he saw these crossbow arrows transformed into plasma, he was able to analyze the principles behind their changes, and even understood the ways in which the talismans and Taoist inscriptions therein changed.
However, although Lu Yi understood it.
But based on the experience he gained from Zhou Laodao and others, this kind of knowledge and skills are not something ordinary people can obtain.
“Interesting!”
Amid the roar of the bowstrings, another wave of twelve crossbow arrows fired out.
With sharp bird calls, only seven gold-eating eagles were hit by the crossbow arrows this time. The other five gold-eating eagles flapped their wings, and spun lightly, narrowly avoiding the straight trajectory of the crossbow arrows before they turned into plasma, avoiding the subsequent blows.
This group of gold-eating eagles seemed to have trouble using their brains. After being attacked twice in a row, the leading gold-eating eagle with a wingspan of about two meters suddenly looked up and saw two black stones and the watchtowers on the black stones.
The leader of the gold-eating eagles let out a long roar towards the sky, and with a group of large birds flapping their wings in a panic, they turned into a mess of black light and turned away. In a few flashes, they rushed into the messy torrent of rocks behind them.
The ship being chased by the gold-eating eagle slowly approached the two black stones.
The big man with a poisonous snake tattoo on his chest laughed at Lin Laowu, who was covered in blood on the bow of the boat: "Master Wu, how do you settle this account? In order to save you, the cost of the twenty-four Thunder Crossbows, and the hard work of the brothers... You have to settle the bill, right? Hey, you have money now, why don't you just give me the money? Or, my two brothers will accompany you to ask the boss for the bill?"
Lin Laowu cursed and shouted a few times into the cabin.
Teams of naked and extremely weak miners slowly climbed out of the cabin. They carried out baskets of ore and piled them directly on the black stone.
The miners even brought out two large water tanks, one of which was filled with water, and the other half was half full. The men on the black stone were all smiling, and the man with the snake tattoo on his chest said with a smile: "Fifth Master is open-minded, Fifth Master is generous, hey, Fifth Master will definitely be able to kill those girls tonight and make them cry!"
Lin Laowu cursed again, holding the wound on his chest that was dripping with blood, and cursed: "I have to have that intention... I lost money, I lost money this time... Go find the young lady? It's good enough if I'm not beaten to death by my big brother!"
With a few sneering laughs, Lin Laowu's boat slowly sailed into the passage between the two black stones.
He suddenly turned around and pointed towards the location of Lu Yi's big ship: "I say, Brother Snake, there is a boat over there that looks unfamiliar. Take a look, is it a fat sheep from outside... It's a good deal for you!"
The twelve crossbows slowly turned and locked onto Lu Yi's position.