Good luck with koi carp

Chapter 91 Black Iron
Chili sneaked into the formation quietly. Before she could see clearly what was inside, she was choked by the thick smoke and dust in the sky and coughed repeatedly, almost losing her breath.

Fortunately, she immediately used the strange water in her body to form a water shield around her body, using the light water to filter out harmful gases in the air, so that she could resume normal breathing.

Looking up at the surrounding environment, what he saw was countless thick smoke spreading into the sky. The level of pollution was completely no different from that of a city called the Fog City in the modern world.

What is this doing?
Looking at this situation, it seems that something is being smelted on a large scale. Could it be that this cultivation world is engaged in an industrial revolution?
Chili made an unreliable guess. Of course, she didn't know whether this was the case or not. She had to wait until she went in to investigate before drawing a conclusion.

Since she was not sure whether there were other monks here, or whether there were any surveillance methods left behind, Chi Li did not dare to use her spiritual sense to directly explore without restraint, so as not to be discovered and alert the snake, so she still kept her figure hidden. Erasing the sound, it was like a ghost, silently approaching inside.

The area above the halfway point of the mountain is covered by the formation. The internal space is huge, but the space for people to move is very limited.

Almost all the vegetation on the mountain has been cut down, leaving only a bare, dark patch of land.

This black color was naturally not the original color of the earth. Chili squatted down, picked up some soil and rubbed it on her fingertips. The dirt fell off one after another, leaving only dark traces between her fingertips.

These traces are like the ashes left by charcoal fire, echoing the thick smoke in the sky.

In addition to the thick smoke and black soil, there are also some dusty earth bags scattered near the edge of the formation. Without exception, these earth bags only have a small hole for an adult to get into, and almost every time The entrances to each earthbag were tightly sealed with various things.

The better ones are made of rags or animal furs, while the rougher ones can only be stuffed with random balls of dry thatch, which can more or less block the entry of thick smoke.

Chili looked a little silent.

Even if she didn't open the sealed door and poke her head in to check, she would know what these bags of dirt and weeds were.

--house.

To be precise, it is the residence where the villagers at the foot of the mountain lived when they were forced to come up to work for the so-called immortals.

They built it this way to reduce the choking smoke from outside entering the house as much as possible, but they didn't know that this would make it easier for them to suffocate inside.

But what can we do otherwise?

When time is up, they cannot leave this place sealed by the formation, and they can only work hard day and night until the last bit of blood and sweat is squeezed out of their bodies, and they can survive until they are released.

Chi Li didn't know how to describe her mood.

Words couldn't express it, so she could only put it into action. No longer worried about whether she would be discovered, she directly rose into the sky, flew to the top of the mountain in an instant, and looked down at the mountain whose lifeline had been destroyed.

Many smelting furnaces were artificially built on the top of the mountain, and they were densely distributed throughout the mountain. The people working back and forth were like worker ants, numbly and tiredly carrying batches of goods.

Piles and piles of firewood were made into charcoal, and the prepared charcoal was then transported to the smelting furnace to be used as fuel. A hole was opened on the other side of the mountain, and the ore contained in it was dug out in batches and also transported to the smelting furnace. Under the raging burning of fuel, it was forged into pieces of black and silver metal bit by bit, and finally packed into boxes and stored in storage.

These should be the 'tributes' that the villagers call the immortals.

Seeing the key point at a glance, Chi Li fell from the sky, first chose an unmanned warehouse and entered it, opened one of the sealed boxes, picked up a piece of metal and looked at it carefully.


The hands are shaking a little.


It's not fear, it's pure anger.


Because what she held in her hand was a piece of black iron full of impurities.
You want to ask why she was so angry after knowing that these were black iron?

Originally, Chi Li thought that the monks who did not know who or what the force was had secretly recruited these mortals to work as cheap labor for them, in order to let them mine some spiritual minerals or something. Even if it was not good enough, it should be a low-level spiritual stone mine. ?


Unexpectedly, they took advantage of these mortals to mine the soulless iron ore in this mountain. They also built a smelting furnace on the spot, letting the mortals cut down the trees on the mountain to make charcoal as fuel, and smelt the iron ore into black iron.


Ordinary black iron is of no use to monks at all. Even if a magic weapon can be made with this metal, it is still the lowest level. Even a child with the third level of Qi training can easily break it.


Therefore, it stands to reason that no monk would bother to mine such a useless thing, let alone waste resources, set up such a large formation to encircle it, and risk compromising moral integrity to oppress a group of mortals. .


So, following this line of thinking, who is the person who really needs these black irons?

With almost no need to think, several answers came to Chili's mind.


Among them, the most likely ones are those emperors in the world who are in high positions of power but are also mortals, or they are ambitious people who intend to start a war.


What would happen if these things fell into the hands of those people?


The two words jumped out instantly, shocking Chili's heart, and then she couldn't help but sigh with compassion.


--war.


That’s why I say that if what the people behind the scenes want is an ore with spiritual energy, it is much better than an ore without spiritual energy. Of course, the properties of both are equally bad and harmful to nature, but the consequences they can cause are quite different. .


The former can only be said to be the greedy behavior of a certain person or a certain force. Having sufficient spiritual mines may enhance their strength and thus their status in the world of cultivation. The consequences will at most affect themselves and those who follow them. No matter how some people have interest disputes with them, their scope of influence is limited to the world of cultivation and will not affect the mortal world very much.


Of course, those unlucky mortals who were forced to work as coolies were counted separately.


The impact of the latter may be between countries. How many casualties will a war between two countries cause?


Chili didn't dare to calculate that number. It was too shocking and made her angry.


This can no longer be described by the simple word greed. Those people are creating disasters!

Now that she has discovered it, she cannot ignore it.


Chi Li originally wanted to leave directly and make a long-term plan to go back and find a way to expose the 'black workshop' here to the world and force the rat lurking behind to come out and accept punishment, but she watched a woman with a tired face push the loaded bag with difficulty. The ore cart passed by her numbly, and she...


There was no way I could take the step to leave.


"Ugh……"


The woman who was struggling to push the cart seemed to hear a soft sigh coming from her ears, with a gentleness as clear as water, which miraculously soothed the fatigue in her body.


Before she was surprised by this, the woman and the other mortals working on the mountain heard a clear female voice: "Everyone, immediately put down your work and gather at the top of the mountain within half an hour. No disobedience is allowed. "


Chi Li deliberately spoke more seriously in the voice transmission to make everyone listen, but she didn't notice that her body's own tone was so good that it didn't sound majestic and seemed a bit soft.


Fortunately, all the mortals present were frightened by the immortal, and no one cared about the sound of this 'order'. As soon as they heard it, everyone put aside what they were doing and scrambled to get it. Rush to the top of the mountain.


I was afraid that if I took one step too late, I would be dead.

(End of this chapter)