Survival for all: I, the creator of the halo.

Chapter 104 Head remains, hematite veins!
There were still three houses left in the village that had not been searched. Ning Ze gathered his thoughts and prepared to search all the remaining houses.

The first two houses were in a mess, and he searched for a long time without finding anything useful. Until he came to the door of the third room, the familiar conversation sounded again:

(The people in the village have gone crazy. What’s the point of worshiping a broken bone? Just because it was taken from the monster leader?)

(I am worshiping this broken bone again. Every time I offer sacrifices, so much food is spoiled in vain. The food in the village is not enough to eat. I have not had a full meal in so many days.)
(I’m really pissed off. I’m the only literate person in the village, but they ask me to do menial work. If I don’t work, I won’t be given food. Good, good, a broken bone can sacrifice so much food, and I don’t give up points. I think this foolish thinking should end here.)
(Hide it, let’s see who can find it. By the way, the food that was sacrificed yesterday can’t be wasted. I have to go get some back quickly, but I’m starving.)
With the lessons learned from the past, Ning Ze listened to the conversation with a cautious attitude, carefully paying attention to possible changes around him.

It wasn't until a few minutes later that everything around him remained the same and the conversation stopped, that he breathed a sigh of relief and then began to recall the previous conversation.

From the sound analysis, this conversation all came from the same person. They were talking about a bone throughout the whole process. The content of the words also highlighted the selfishness of this person, but what he was most concerned about was the mention in the conversation. of that bone.

A bone obtained from a monster was worshiped by the whole village. It was obviously no ordinary bone.

Suddenly, a strange feeling emerged from his heart, causing Ning Ze to subconsciously move his eyes away and focus on a wall of the house in front of him.

Faintly, he felt that there might be something hidden in this wall, and it seemed to be something similar to a sphere.

"This should be the gold-seeking stone starting to take effect. According to the role of the gold-seeking stone, there is likely to be some treasure hidden in this wall."

Ning Ze was filled with anticipation and quickly went to the wall to check. Based on some of the details he sensed, he roughly determined the location.

The walls look unremarkable from the outside.

Simply, Ning Ze took out an iron pickaxe from his backpack. In order to avoid accidentally smashing the treasures that might be hidden in the wall, Ning Ze also specially drew a circle on the wall, and then fiercely struck outside the circle. Chiseled up.

With repeated chiseling, a large number of bricks in the wall began to fall off. After more than ten minutes of chiseling, the iron pick suddenly dug a hole in the wall, revealing a gray-white "round object" inside.

[The head remains of the bone carving wizard]

[Explanation]: Ashes to ashes, soil to soil, bury it, and you may receive unexpected rewards.

Are they the bones of the bone carving wizard again? ? ?
Ning Ze also didn't expect that he would find the remains of the bone carving wizard here again. He vaguely remembered that the last time he fulfilled the bone carving wizard's last wish.

What was found in the wood carving was the remains of the arms, and this time the remains of the head were found on the wall?
"It's too tragic for the Bone Sculpture Wizard. The remains have been dismantled everywhere. According to the conversation, this skull was found in the hands of the monster leader."

Ning Ze took out the skull of the bone carving wizard from the hole in the wall. Judging from the appearance, it was a human skull.

The two empty eye sockets look a bit deep and terrifying, and a lot of teeth in the mouth have fallen out. At the same time, there are many cracks on the skull. It is not known whether it was due to inhuman abuse during life or after being turned into bones. bump.

"Anyway, burying one is still a burying, and so is burying two."

"Let's find a time to bury his skull and arm remains together after returning to the territory."

Ning Ze doesn't mind being a good Samaritan again.

After putting the bone carving wizard's skull into his backpack, he continued to search the village.

Unfortunately, in the end, I only found some scattered hematite in the corner and nothing else.

"The village has been searched. Now go to the west of the village to see if you can find the red stone land."

Because of the existence of Arc Girl, this village was not suitable for staying for a long time. Ning Ze did not intend to continue writing here, so he immediately took out the compass from his backpack.

Surprisingly, the compass returned to normal this time, and the needle accurately pointed due south.

This place is filled with mist. Although the visibility can be hundreds of meters, it is really difficult to identify the direction without a compass.

After determining the direction to the west, Ning Ze called Fenrir and walked towards the west of the village.

Along the way, Ning Ze kept watching the guide correcting the route. After about 300 meters, the surrounding mist dissipated instantly.

Looking back, I didn't see any fog, as if everything I saw before was an illusion.

"This should be beyond the scope of that village. Speaking of which, how did that village appear? Is it because of this map?"

There must be some connection between the appearance of the village and the map he drew out of the wooden box. It is very likely that this type of map is the key to entering these "relics".

But there are also some loopholes in the existence of these "relics". If they are relics, you can see them without a map. If they are illusions, the materials he harvested before are real.

Moreover, the skull of the bone carving wizard also shows that the village should have existed in this world before, but due to some reasons, it could not be seen under normal circumstances.

Ning Ze thought for a while and still felt that there was no clear clue to this matter, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

"Aww~Aww~Aw~"

Fenrir suddenly howled forward, one sound representing doubt and denial, two sounds representing affirmation, but what did the three means?

He and Fenrir had been together for such a period of time, and it was no problem for him to communicate simple information with each other, but Fenrir could not clearly express any information no matter how complex it was.

At this time, Fenrir also rushed out with a sprint, and Ning Ze looked at it and was stunned for a moment.

"It seems that we need to create a halo in the future, just to enhance the intelligence of the animals in the territory. Otherwise, it will be inconvenient in many situations."

Seeing that Fenrir had already run away, he had no choice but to run and follow him.

One person and one dog ran for hundreds of meters. Finally, Fenrir stopped not far ahead, put his head on the ground, and kept twitching his nose and sniffing.

Ning Ze quickly came behind Fenrir. Seeing Fenrir sniffing on the ground, he also stared at the ground.

"It's just ordinary dirt. What is Fenrir smelling?"

He thought Fenrir had smelled the scent of other creatures, so he calmed down and waited patiently. As a result, Fenrir stayed here.

It wasn't until it sniffed for more than two minutes that Fenrir suddenly began to dig hard at the ground with his two front paws.

No matter how stupid Ning Ze was, he should have seen some clues. Then he took out a shovel from his backpack and dug into the ground.

After digging a few times, the shovel touched the hard stone layer. He couldn't help but speed up his movements and dug out an area of ​​the soil above the stone layer. Just in time, a ray of sunlight penetrated the gaps in the leaves and cast a circle. shaped light spots.

Under the light, Ning Ze saw a hint of dark red color.

"This should be the red stone mentioned in that conversation!"

Ning Ze was pleasantly surprised and quickly used a shovel to clean up the surrounding soil. Large red stone layers gradually emerged. Then, he squatted down and looked at these dark red stones carefully.

The color of the stone is brownish red to be precise. The reason why it appears dark is that the surrounding trees block the sunlight.

He touched it with his hand and found some brownish-red powder on his fingers, but he couldn't smell anything when he put it to the tip of his nose.

"This should be hematite. It's very similar to the hematite I found in the village. No matter what, let's dig out a few pieces and take a look." Without saying anything, Ning Ze took out the iron pickaxe from his backpack. It just so happened that he had shoveled away the soil layer in this small area, making it easier to dig out.

boom!
boom!
boom!
"It's so tough!"

Ning Ze chiseled several times, but no reward came out. The shock force from the iron pickaxe was even more intense than when he chiseled the stone before. Obviously, the hardness of this kind of stone is quite high.

As a last resort, he had to increase his intensity.

[Obtain hematite*1, ultra-rich iron ore*1, thermostatic rock*1, and absorb source value*4. 】

[Obtain hematite*1, simple iron ore*2, and absorb source value*4. 】

[Obtain stone*1, acid-proof rock*1, super-rich iron ore*1, and absorb source value*4. 】

It’s really hematite!

Not only that, under the aura effect of [Golden Hand (II)], other similar materials also exploded, which looked unusual.

Ning Ze stopped mining and checked the iron ore supplies he had just obtained in his backpack.

【Hematite】

[Explanation]: Iron ore with average iron content contains 35% iron element.

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【Super rich iron ore】

[Explanation]: Iron ore containing 70% of the theoretical value of hematite.

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【Simple iron ore】

[Explanation]: Iron ore containing 50% iron element barely reaches the threshold of rich iron ore. The only advantage is that it is faster and easier to smelt wrought iron of qualified quality.

good guy! ! !
The iron content has reached 70%. Doesn't that mean that with complete equipment and using ultra-rich iron ore to smelt iron, one ton of ore can produce [-] kilograms of wrought iron of acceptable quality?

Of course, there must be some loss during the ironmaking process, but the loss will not be too great.

And this simple iron ore is also a good thing. Even judging from the current conditions of the territory, the value of simple iron ore is greater than that of super-rich iron ore.

Although the iron content is a little lower, it is easy to smelt, and it can smelt high-quality iron faster, which means it also saves some other resources.

The most important thing is to save time. Time is the most precious thing in this world.

"As expected of the Midas Touch, it has never let me down."

"I don't know how much iron ore there is. You can explore how wide this iron ore field is while digging."

After making up his mind, Ning Ze warmed up for a while and then started to take action on this iron mine.

In the dialogue, this piece of hematite was washed out by heavy rain, so it became an open air state.

But maybe it was too long ago, which may have caused the hematite to be covered with soil again, which undoubtedly added a lot of work to Ningze.

Fortunately, the soil layer is not thick. In thick areas, there is only [-] to [-] centimeters of soil accumulated. In thin areas, you only need to dig down [-] to [-] centimeters to reach the hematite.

This soil is also a kind of resource, and Ning Ze did not let it go and put all the suitable and usable soil into his backpack.

[Endless Life (II)]: You become stronger and gain strength*1, agility*1, and experience*100.

The halo effect is triggered again.

Ning Ze felt a slight change in his body, but it was difficult to feel the specific changes in his body without carefully sensing it.

After all, in his current attribute panel, the proportion of one or two attribute points compared to the total attributes is too small, but the change in the total attribute value of sixteen points obtained in a day is still obvious.

"Whoo~"

"Let's take a rest first. These hematite ores are really difficult to dig, and I have to dig the soil at the same time. Even an iron man can't bear it."

Ning Ze straightened up and let out a heavy breath. He had been digging for almost two hours.

He didn't dig much of the hematite, but he dug up a lot of the covering soil. Of course, he wouldn't be stupid enough to dig out all the soil in this area, but chose to dig every few meters away. Open up a small area of ​​soil.

Mineral veins are usually connected together. Even if there are partitions, these are rare cases. However, he has dug up a lot of soil in an area of ​​almost [-] square meters, and the bottom is exposed. Brownish red hematite.

"It seems like this hematite vein is not a small vein."

Ning Ze happily took out a few hematite stones for comparison and murmured, this area is continuous, and even a short estimate of the hematite ore that can be collected on the surface exceeds [-] square meters.

What about depth?

Iron tools are the treasures coveted by all players in the current survival world.

Until now, there are still many survival players still using the novice stone ax given by the system.

Furthermore, these hematite ores fully meet the subsequent development needs of the territory and can completely enter the Iron Age.

The work efficiency of the citizens will also increase a lot.

Unfortunately, the only disadvantage is that the iron content of these native hematite is not high, generally between 30% and 37%, which is still far from the threshold of rich iron ore.

To be honest, Ningze is not willing to use these native hematite to make iron. If the iron content is too low, the efficiency of iron tapping will be greatly reduced, and a large number of other resources, such as coal mines, will be consumed in vain.

Perhaps you can wait until later to sell these native hematite to other players. As for the current stage, most players are still unable to make iron.

After resting for more than ten minutes, Ning Ze felt that his physical strength was almost restored. This time he chose to go to a pit that had been dug out of the soil and started digging into the hematite below.

"Huh...is this?"

But before he chiseled a few times, a flash of grayish white in the distance suddenly attracted his attention.

　I...I can still...well. (fall down)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)