The Legend of the Great Wilderness

Chapter 28 Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes

When he found out that there was gold sand in the river, Guyi was a little excited, but he soon became discouraged. Even if he found a gold mine, what would it mean to him?
Guyi explored along the river bank and found out the general environment of [Sunken Valley]. It is obviously a tiankeng caused by some kind of ground subsidence, but the geology is not the karst soluble limestone that is common in tiankeng terrain, but the hardness. High blue-gray siderite, this kind of blue-gray siderite is also the source of the name "bluestone mine".

Under the sinkhole terrain, there is usually abundant groundwater. The small river with a large amount of water in [Sinking Valley] is a branch of the underground river emerging from the ground. According to Gu Yi's judgment, there must be a river near the ground. There is a gold mine vein and a crystal vein, otherwise the sand and rocks spewed out from the underground river driven by the strong current would not contain gold sand and crystal grains, so this place can be regarded as a treasure land.

When they were exploring in the valley, they saw some Jie people moving from a distance, but there were not many of them. Most of them were moving in the burning stone caves and iron stone caves around the mountain wall. mine.

Gu Yi remembered that the little boy Ge Qiao said that Jie people seem to be able to use the produce in [Sunken Valley] to exchange for food and necessities at the Iron Court.

This is obviously the "Tai Bo Kui" who did not show up in the iron courtyard, taking advantage of the privilege of supervising the Jie people in charge of food and fodder, and privately let the Jie people who are mainly responsible for earning money for the mine Zhenggao fight for him to do private work for him.

I don't know what kind of agreement there is between Mine Zhenggao and this mysterious Tai Bokui. Mine is providing them with money and food, while Tai Bokui is guarding and suppressing these rebellious Jie people for Mine. It means not to intrude, but using these hundred Jie people to work is completely Tai Bokui's private behavior.

Apparently, Tai Bokui does not need much resources produced in this [Sunken Valley]. It is enough to rely on the food and fodder of the Jie people and force them to get some for themselves. Otherwise, more will be transferred from the bluestone mine. Mining slaves are better than letting these people who don't even have a piece of iron pick them up with bare hands.

This kind of self-serving behavior is obviously acquiesced by the miner. Anyway, Tai Bokui doesn't want much, and it won't affect the Jie people's "fat" to accumulate combat power, and delay his main source of income. Just let Tai Bokui go to toss around casually, and do some work as a way to build up strength, so as not to grow too thick, become obese, and lose his combat power instead.

Gu Yi didn't dare to get too close to those Jie people, he took a look at it from a distance and then avoided it. The stagnant blood essence in his belly hadn't been digested, so he wasn't in a hurry to "hunt" these "prey". It's better for them to fatten up a bit before killing them... The strength is not enough, and they don't know the strength of these old-fashioned Jie people in [Sinking Valley], so Gu Yi can only comfort himself like this.

His plan to demolish a few houses to get some wood fell through, and he could see those grass and wooden houses from a distance, surrounding the small lake in the center of the valley, divided into several "small villages", large and small.

Guyi, who does not intend to conflict with these Jie people for the time being, can only take Erxiao back to the iron courtyard in the upper reaches of the small river. He discovered a few very strange phenomena. One is that almost all Jie people are digging coal and iron ore. However, no one went down to the small river to salvage the so-called "gold fine gravel and dragon marrow jade"!
This may be because the output of these two things is too small compared with the coal and iron ore that can be picked up anywhere in the [Sunken Valley], and the factor of luck is too large. You can't get a few grains even after a hard day. It's not worthwhile to waste your energy. It seems that coal and iron ore, which can be obtained with a little effort, are much easier to deal with.

The most interesting thing is that the Jie people who live around the small lake are not so harmonious. Obviously, here, they are also in the environment of "where there are people, there are rivers and lakes". According to the distribution of houses, the Jie people are divided into A few small groups.

Among them, the most powerful group occupies the Tieshi Cave on the mountain wall towards the north bank of the small lake, and the second most powerful group occupies the Burning Stone Cave on the mountain wall towards the south bank of the small lake, forming a pattern of "south coal and north mines". However, the two sides looked like there were 30 people each.

As for the other small groups, they were obviously the small groups of Black Tooth, Rou Pu, Bai Min, and Mao Ren who entered the valley with them last night, temporarily attached to these two forces.

I just don't know whether that Jie man belongs to "Southern Coal" or "North Mine". As the only Jie man allowed to go out of the valley, and he also holds the post of head of the Qianshan [Qingshi Mine], he has a lot of talents. With less power and convenience, I think it won't be too bad to get along in this [Valley of Hollow].

The second peculiar phenomenon is that the Jie people don’t dare to get close to the Tieyuan at the bottom of the Xitou valley, they avoid this area far away, and only move around in the middle and lower reaches of the small river. Tai Bokui's strength was still being used by Tai Bokui to not allow them to approach.

But Guyi doesn't intend to engage in an undisputed "struggle for power" with those Jie people. The environment in the upper reaches of the small river is much better than that in the middle and lower reaches. He plans to build a small wooden house next to the iron courtyard.

Before the strength reaches the level where you can ignore the threat of those Jie people, it is still very beneficial to borrow the "tiger skin" of Tieyuan, which is very deterrent to Jie people, to protect the weak three of you, at least not It is a waste of energy to guard against the sneak attacks of the Capricorns all night.

Judging from the contact with the boy Ge Qiao from the Iron Court last night, it seems that he is relatively easy to get along with. He is just a naive little kid. It should be easier to fool if it is not strong enough to go there.

As for the mysterious Tai Bokui who hasn't shown up so far, although Guyi doesn't know what he's doing hiding in the wooden house in the Iron Court, he presumably belongs to the type of thing that only focuses on his own interests, regardless of foreign affairs. It can be seen from the fact that he is responsible for supervising the Jie people, but he only conducts extensive management of the Jie people.

Thinking about it, as long as the three of us don't provoke him, given the "drinking friendship" between them and the little boy Ge Qiao last night, they shouldn't be driven away, and they won't be allowed to live together next to the iron courtyard, right?
Regarding this point, Gu Yi is at least [-]% sure. That kid Ge Qiao is still begging him to brew wine to compensate his Tai Bokui, so it should not be too unreasonable.

The three of Guyi, who had been walking around, did not go back empty-handed. They picked a lot of plants that Guyi knew along the way, and one of them tied a large bundle and carried it back, ready to start work.

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