Chapter 2 Substantially Increased Basic Energy Reserves
The rain only stopped yesterday evening, and the air in the valley was very, very good in the morning. Zhang Tie's nose seemed to be able to smell the grassy fragrance of the roadside grass, and the fresh air corresponded to the road conditions in the valley. , the paths in the valley that were originally walked by people have become muddy and slippery this morning. If you are not careful, you will fall into the mud. Zhang Tie can only slow down. He walked towards the mine a few kilometers away.
Not long after Zhang Tie left the tree house, he met two teams of testers who were going to go hunting today. There were more than ten people in each of the two teams. When Zhang Tie passed them, those guys were surprised He took a quick look at the mine basket on Zhang Tie's body, and then glanced at Zhang Tie with a hint of disdain, and then walked away with his head held high, proudly striding away...
In the past two days, Zhang Tie has been immune to these contemptuous eyes. Zhang Tie can't remember when he seemed to see a passage-a man who can't bear loneliness will never grow up. The current situation, for Zhang Tie, is a process of growing up alone.
What grew up was Black Iron Castle and Zhang Tie's gradually stronger heart.
After Zhang Tie's hard work in the past few days, the basic energy reserve value in the Black Iron Castle has reached 2000. Compared with the basic energy reserve of only a few dozen before the trial, the difference between the two is almost a hundred times. This is the result of Zhang Tie's labor during this period. After throwing a basket of various messy stones into the pool of chaos, these stones and ores that have been transformed into basic energy are rapidly making the Black Iron Fortress stronger. stand up. For Zhang Tie, these energy reserves can actually allow him to do some small terrain changes in the Black Iron Fortress, such as creating a small pool first, but Zhang Tie is not satisfied, he plans to accumulate a little more, and wait until later When the interview exercise is over, make a decision as needed.
In addition to the basic energy reserves, the aura value in the Black Iron Castle is also increasing rapidly. All the seeds given by Mother Teresa have germinated and are growing well. Those potatoes and corn grown in Zhang Tie's private plot , sweet potatoes, pumpkins and other food are also growing gratifyingly. Now the Black Iron Fort is no longer a barren wasteland, but has begun to have some scattered, vigorous greenery, that vigorous greenery The vitality brought by it made Zhang Tie feel good every time he entered and exited the Black Iron Fort in the past two days. Taking advantage of the opportunity brought by this trial, Zhang Tie has always intentionally exchanged his own food for some wild fruits collected by the girls these days. After arriving at the Black Iron Castle, they scattered on the ground at will. In the past few days, Zhang Tie has scattered more than ten kinds of wild fruit seeds in his memory. Among them, the seeds of pine trees are the most, that is, pine nuts. , Zhang Tie scattered several acres of pine nuts scattered in the Black Iron Fortress, and there were some plant seeds that even Zhang Tie couldn't name, but he saw flowering or fruit-dropping plants on the road. Just pick it up or take it off and throw it into the mine basket, and then after entering the Black Iron Fort, just find an open space to throw those unknown seeds on the ground. It doesn't matter whether Zhang Tie grows behind or not.
I don’t know if it’s an illusion. When I came to mine two days ago, Zhang Tie always had a feeling of being watched on the way back and forth in the morning and evening. But this morning, when I was on the way to mine, the feeling of being watched and The feeling of stalking was gone, which made Zhang Tie a little strange, whether his neurotic problem was committed again, but he didn't think about it deeply.
After the first rain in June, dandelions in the valley grew everywhere overnight, and the white fur balls of dandelions emerged from the grass one by one, as if waiting for the arrival of a strong wind. Seeing these cute dandelions, Zhang Tie was in a good mood and didn't dislike them. On the road, he picked more than a dozen dandelion fur balls and threw them into the mine basket on his back.
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half an hour later,
Zhang Tie came to the nearest iron mine to Wild Wolf Castle. This mine is only more than two hundred meters away from Wild Wolf Castle. Many people who came to mine gathered to work in this mine. On the ground covered by weeds, there is also a small mine car track that has been rusted and half dismantled, which seems to tell the prosperity and bustle of the place before. This mine may have been important before, but now it is not. , it is also the place where a few unlucky students exchange coolies for food.
Because it was too close to the Wild Wolf Castle, right under the eyes of those girls, perhaps because of fear of shame, no boys chose to camp in this mine, which made the mine a lot cleaner.
In the past few days, there will be many new faces who come here to mine every day, and many old faces will disappear. Those who have really settled down to mine here, Zhang Tie observed it, and even with his own words, probably There are only a dozen people, perhaps because this job really does not give people any sense of honor, those guys who decided to come here to mine are all introverted and taciturn, and they basically don't like to talk much. Zhang Tie has worked here for several My God, I didn't even meet a single friend, but that's exactly what Zhang Tie wanted. It's better if no one pays attention here. Zhang Tie also pretended to be introverted and taciturn, and he was fucking himself in the mine in a muffled voice. thing.
There is a large piece of abandoned gravel outside the mine. On rainy days, these gravels make the road around the mine much easier. At least there is not so much mud. Ten square meters, Zhang Tie took a rest at the entrance of the mine, stepped clean of the mud on his shoes on a stone at the entrance of the cave, and then took out the torch and pickaxe from the mining basket. After lighting the torch, Zhang Tie held the torch, Into the mine...
Even in broad daylight, after walking tens of meters into the mine, especially after turning two turns in the tunnel of the mine, the tunnel of the mine begins to become invisible. If there is no light source, it is impossible to enter. Fortunately, the ground of the tunnel is fairly flat without too many obstacles, which makes this pitch-black tunnel easier to walk.
The light of the torch and Zhang Tie's footsteps startled the bats at the entrance of the mine, and the sound of those bats flapping their wings in the dark mine was very loud, often making some first-timers People who came here for the first time were taken aback, and Zhang Tie was also taken aback by those bats when he first came, but he got used to it after two more visits.
The light of the torch pulled Zhang Tie's figure out of the pit into a shadow that danced with the light of the torch. The shadow stuck to the wall of the mine and moved forward with Zhang Tie. Every time Zhang Tie came, Zhang Tie couldn't bear to I can't help but quietly look at those weird walls in the mine. On the yellow-brown walls, there will be circles of strange marks like tire tracks. There are too many strange marks, densely covered with the entire mine. The tunnel of the cave, Zhang Tie can be sure that it is definitely not the traces left by man. Every time he sees those traces, Zhang Tie thinks of what Shawen said about the legend of the gold-eating python that appeared here thirty years ago. Three to four meters in diameter, extending underground, in the round tunnels with strange marks all over the body, when I think of those exaggerated bodies that crawled through these tunnels decades ago, they can eat anything. Boa, Zhang Tie will always have some shuddering feeling in his mind, as if there is always some monster staring at him in the darkness of the tunnel, although he knows that this is a psychological effect, but every time Zhang Tie passes through those strange tunnels , I still can't help but speed up my pace a little...
Zhang Tie's little heart was calmed by the faintly audible tinkling sound coming from the front. It was the sound of the mining pick hitting the ore. After walking a few hundred meters in the cave, he came to this tunnel. At the end, a huge space appeared in front of Zhang Tie. This space was bigger than the public square in Heiyan City. It was a bit like a natural karst cave. Several faint fires radiated from some places in this dark underground space. The light is the torches that those who came earlier planted in their mining place. In this dark place, the light of the torches becomes as inconspicuous as an oil lamp. There are fragmentary and one after another sounds in the space. The echo effect in this huge mine makes those sounds seem far away and very close at the same time. Seeing the little light in the darkness in front of you and hearing the sound of the mining picks one after another will make people feel relieved and at the same time feel a sense of happiness. At least for Zhang Tie...
Zhang Tie usually digs in a place that is more hidden than other people. The place where he digs is another tunnel dug out by mining in this underground mining space. There was not much light from the outside of the torch, and there were several forks and turns in this tunnel, which seemed to lead to further underground. This place was really ideal for Zhang Tie.
When he came to his usual mining place and set up an inconspicuous mechanism with a few pieces of gravel at the entrance of the tunnel, but it could remind him that someone was coming from behind, Zhang Tie relaxed completely.
Put the torch in the gap of the wall of the tunnel, the light of the torch immediately illuminates the space of tens of square meters in the tunnel, put the mine basket on the ground, and pour out the spare torches and dandelions in the mine basket , and took off the dagger, water bottle and dry food on his waist, Zhang Tie took a sip of water, picked up the pickaxe, exerted enough strength, and began to join the chorus of pickaxes in this underground cave!
When Zhang Tielun was picking up the mine pick, what he didn't know was that, above the Wild Wolf Castle, a messenger falcon flying from Heiyan City brought some latest news about Heiyan City in the past two days. Just yesterday, A major event happened in Heiyan City, which was related to the envelope sent by Zhang Tie. After a week of fermentation, the storm caused by Heiyan City shook the entire Andaman League. Rain, for everyone in Heiyan City, seemed to be a harbinger of an even bigger storm coming...
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