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Chapter 085 Don't mess with the shackles

Of course, there was nothing to choose from for the remaining beds. Everyone just found a dozen or so connected and sat down. Tang En briefly stated his plans and then asked them to find an opportunity to reconnaissance the surrounding environment.

Not long after, the strong man brought a stack of quilts and medicines with a few people.

The quilt is black and smells bad, and it smells like a corner of the wall in winter. As for those medicines, most of them are inferior trauma potions, but it is always better than nothing.

Everyone quickly applied the potion to their bodies. Luke used the most. His abdominal wound was very long, but fortunately there was no sign of infection. Tang En didn't need these. His perverted physique was recovering from his injuries every moment. Now some trauma are almost invisible.

Lunch is delivered directly to the house, a large bucket, and everyone has an equal share. Of course, don’t expect any meat dishes to be found in it.

The working hours of miners are divided into two shifts, either during the day or at night. So until Tang En and his friends put on their gray miners' uniforms and set off, they did not see anyone in the house coming in.

The towering mountain peak facing the gate was the ore veins, and dense mine caves were opened on the mountain. Under the leadership of the strong man, Tang En and his friends took sharp mine picks and backpacks in a small house and were assigned to a mine cave.

The entrance of the mine was about a width of three people walking together. Every time they walked for dozens of meters, the mountain wall was inlaid with illuminated crystals with faint light. They were neither bright nor dark, and dim. After walking for hundreds of meters, in front of a downward passage, an old man with gray bearded face was waiting there.

"Old Martin, these are all newcomers. Just teach them a little bit." The strong man said to the gray-bearded old man.

"Okay!" the old Martin responded.

The strong man nodded, then turned to Tang En and the others and said, "If you want to live better here and save some money, learn from Old Martin."

The miners’ remuneration is not fixed, and the system is adopted here to get more work and more income. In addition to having to pay ten kilograms of ore every day, dig one kilogram and you can get ten copper coins. If you dig a rare ore, the price will be calculated separately.

After saying these words, the strong man turned around and walked out of the mine.

"My name is Bill, just call me Old Bill. Come on, go down with me now." Old Bill walked towards the passage first.

The ladder was very long, and Tang En and the others continued to walk down with Old Bill. After about ten minutes, they finally touched the bottom and continued to move inside. The mine was connected in all directions and there were many forks. Old Bill was very familiar with this place and led everyone to go deeper.

"Please note that there is an arrow next to each lighting crystal, which indicates the direction of going out. Of course, if you stay here for a long time, you don't need it to guide you... There is a bell on it, and once the bell rings, it means you can go out."

"There are all mined here in the front, and there is unlikely ore, so if you mining, you must go deep into the end of each branch route..."

"This is a copper ore vein. If you find blue plants in one place, then mine next to it and you will usually find ore..."

"After finding the ore, don't dig blindly, it's likely to crush the ore. If there is a rare companion ore next to it, the loss will be great! You can estimate the size of the ore based on its exposed shape, and then decide where to pick up the pickaxe... As for how to judge, here are a few tips..."

The old Bill was explaining the key points and precautions of mining on the road, while Tang En and the others kept nodding. Since they couldn't get out for the time being and had to recover from their injuries, the minimum problem of food and clothing needs to be solved. And the medicine, after the supply of this time, the supervisor will not care whether they are well. If you want to get these things again, you must accumulate some coins to buy them. Of course, when Tang En's injury is better, stealing is also an option...

"What are these? Are they also ores?" David asked, pointing to some glass-like things that shine on the wall.

The deeper these things are, the more they discover, and their light even overshadows the lighting crystal. Along the way, red, yellow, blue, green and purple... all kinds of lights bloom, which are quite magnificent and fantasy.

"Oh, that thing is called a glass stone, it's useless, it's just bright colors and fragile texture." Old Bill glanced at it and explained casually.

"This mine is very deep, it has been mined for a long time." Tang En found a question and asked. Every time he went to a strange environment, he had to collect various information. This is the quality of a killer.

"Yes, this mine vein has been discovered for several years now. It is estimated that more than half of the ore inside has been mined, and the mountain is almost hollowed out... Last year, I remember that it was last year, and people dug up the other end of the mountain, but it was immediately blocked..."

Old Bill has the usual habit of the elderly, which is that they are very talkative. Perhaps there are not many people who usually talk, so he followed Tang En's question and said a lot.

As Old Bill was talking, they finally arrived at the end of the mine. Old Bill first waved the pickaxe to find a copper ore as big as a fist, so that everyone could identify it. Then he kept guiding everyone to get the pickaxe. Perhaps it was quite speculative, and Old Bill also talked about his years of experience in finding ore.

In such an environment, people cannot feel the passage of time. Only after the ringtone rings, everyone realizes that half a day has passed without realizing it.

Everyone's record was not good. The more they dug a few pieces, and they could barely weigh a few kilograms, and the fewer ones were not even a single piece. Fortunately, they were novice, and there was no rigid rule a few days ago that they had to pay ten kilograms of ore, but they just hand over all the digging.

Only Tang En dug ten kilograms in this place, which made Old Bill very amazed. He said that he had been leading newcomers for several years, and he was the first to dig such a large number in one afternoon. In fact, Tang En could dig a little more, but he thought that he had no money to get it now, so he didn't have the effort to do so.

The reason why Tang En achieved such a success was not because of his quick understanding or good luck. He discovered that he could vaguely see the shallow buried ore, which was targeted and naturally had no disadvantages. The ten kilograms of ore were dug up so well. Of course, Tang En would not say this. He attributed all the credit to Old Bill's guidance, which made the latter straight to the beard and laugh endlessly.

Behind David, everyone followed Old Bill out of the mine. It was already sunset, and it was evening.

Old Bill was having a lot of chatting at this time. After learning that Tang En and the others did not live with him, he shook his head regretfully. But then he slapped his head and told Tang En and the others solemnly that they should not mess with the miners wearing shackles in the wooden house.

Tang En and the others nodded and said goodbye to old Bill after handing in the ore.

Dinner is also something you need to eat in the house, about an hour after work. If you haven’t arrived at that time, then you’re embarrassed, you can only spend money to buy it yourself.

Tang En and the others entered the wooden house while secretly observing the guards everywhere. At this time, there were more people in the house and it seemed very lively. Of course, the smell became more and more unpleasant.

David frowned as soon as he entered the wooden house: "Hey, boss, my quilt is gone."

"Boss, mine is gone, either." "Min is too..."

When Tang En looked at him in surprise, he saw that most of the beds they occupied at noon were empty. Among the ten people, seven or eight of the quilts disappeared.

"Boss, over there!" Mixiu suddenly pointed in a direction.

It was a place against the wall and the place was good in the house. There were three quilts piled on the bed there, and a strong bald man lying on the side of the bed.

"Your mother, what are you looking at?" Perhaps feeling the eyes of Tang En and the others, the bald man turned his head and sat up and cursed fiercely.
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