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Digging a pit is easy to say, but it is not always so easy to do.

Choosing a suitable location, avoiding too hard or too soft soil layers, and avoiding underground water veins are basic skills; digging the tunnel into a suitable shape to facilitate entry and exit and transportation of soil and rocks is a compulsory course; reinforcing the tunnel while digging to prevent collapse is the first priority.

These are things that must be done, and they must be done well, otherwise, either you can't dig any further, or an accident will occur while digging.

The most common accident, of course, is collapse.

The most common and terrifying.

The tunnel is buried deep underground. Once it collapses, almost everyone in the tunnel will die. Even those professional adventurers find it difficult to survive in the collapsed tunnel until rescue arrives.

In the past, such accidents have occurred more than once in Pyroxene Town, so that miners have become the most feared profession for people. It was not until Mayor Felix arrived and led a new era in Pyroxene Town that the excavation technology was improved to avoid this danger.

The price is that the cost of excavation has increased greatly, at least three times that of the past.

There are also mineral veins around the Gold Rush Town, but unlike the Pyroxene Town, its mineral veins are shallow and are generally open-air or semi-open-air. Mining itself is less risky and the harvest is slightly more.

This is also the reason why the Pyroxene Town gradually fell into disrepair, while the Gold Rush Town was able to maintain itself.

But this has both advantages and disadvantages. Because mining was easy in the past, the Gold Rush Town lacked experienced miners and could only be regarded as elementary school students who had just started mining. If some people had not been sent to Pyroxene Town - and later Pyroxene City - to learn over the years, I am afraid they would not even have been able to enter the door.

After all, the technology called "pyroxene excavation" is really complicated. It not only involves the judgment of soil quality and the construction of supporting projects, but also a very detailed inspection technology to ensure that the tunnel can be firmly supported and will not collapse.

Using the Pyroxene excavation technique is safe, but the work efficiency is really not high. Over the years, Taojin Town has tried to recruit as many people as possible, but it has only dug a small underground farm, which can only raise about one pool of ice fish.

This slow-growing fish takes three years to grow up to be sold, and it needs constant care during the three years, which costs a lot of labor. But every time the fish meat is on the market, the price will drop a lot because of the slightly higher output. At present, the gourmets in the main plane have even learned that they will not pay as high a price as they did before when they waited for the summer ice fish every three years.

In this case, the mayor of Taojin Town has been thinking about digging another underground farm. But he really can't adjust more manpower. At present, there are only four or five people working on the construction site, and the progress is so slow that it makes people sigh.

If the workers are replaced by skeletons, these problems will be much easier to solve.

Collapse? If it collapses, it collapses. Anyway, the skeletons will be crushed to death and then summoned. Besides, it may not be crushed to death, and the skeletons don't need to breathe.

Insufficient manpower? Anyway, you don't have to pay the skeletons wages, and you don't even have to provide food and accommodation.

The only thing to note is that the area around the construction site must be designated as a restricted area, and no one is allowed to approach. Only those holding the magic weapon made by Tuyaan that can block the breath of the living can occasionally come to check the progress of the project.

"The skeletons will not be very efficient." Tuyaan summoned the skeletons, gave them orders, and then said, "You can't expect to dig out the tunnel quickly."

"I'm not in a hurry." Mayor Almark said with a smile, "It's like a proverb, if there is a date or not, you can hit it twice. It's good to have it, but it doesn't matter if you don't have it. Anyway, it doesn't cost anything."

Tuyaan also laughed. It's best for Mayor Almark to have such a peaceful mentality.

He has seen too many people who failed in things that could have been done well because of impatience. For example, a senior brother entered the door earlier than him and achieved more than him, but because of impatience, he failed in the final impact of the legendary realm, and even failed to transform into a lich to continue living, and finally died.

He thought for a moment and reminded, "Be careful of people destroying the no-approach signs around here, and of course people straying in."

"Don't worry." Mayor Almark said, "People in the northwest are reasonable and abide by the rules. As long as I tell them once, no one will dare to approach again. You know, we actually have a lot of psychological trauma about skeletons!"

At this point, he laughed, and laughed heartily.

"If someone deliberately lured these skeletons out..." Tuyan frowned and said.

"Just lure them out." Mayor Almac said nonchalantly, "There is a purification array around the town, and the skeletons can't get in."

"But... what if they lead them to the construction site?"

"There is also a purification array around the construction site."

Tuyaan shook his head: "The purification array can be destroyed."

Mayor Almac laughed: "You worry too much! If there is really someone with such great ability, why bother? He can kill people one by one, maybe he can kill faster than a group of skeletons."

He pointed to the skeletons who were slowly digging the soil with bone tools on the designated construction site and said: "Look, there are about 200 skeletons here. It seems a lot, but skeletons can't walk fast and their combat effectiveness is not strong. With a dozen strong men, we can rush out of their encirclement. What's so scary?"

Tuyaan thought about it carefully and it was indeed the case.

A small number of skeletons are not actually dangerous to people.

He just fell into a misunderstanding before, thinking that the undead are too dangerous for ordinary people. In fact, let alone other things, at least skeletons are almost impossible for ordinary people to be killed by them unless they are caught off guard or form a large scale.

If you can't beat them, can you still run away?

Of course, it will be another matter after the skeletons are upgraded, but with Tuyaan here, he certainly won't let these skeletons have the opportunity to upgrade.

To say that a skeleton can be upgraded under the nose of this legendary necromancer is simply a contempt for his professional skills!

Not to mention the advancement, as long as there is a sign of advancement, he will capture the skeleton and summon ordinary skeletons to replenish it.

The advanced skeletons are quite useful, it would be a pity to use them for mining...

After doing this, Mayor Almark began to discuss the issue of compensation with Tuyaan.

Tuyan certainly didn't want any reward. First, he felt that His Majesty the Void Mask had already given him enough reward. Second, he really didn't take the small town of Gold Rush seriously. How could such a small town have the foundation to pay a legendary wizard?

But Mayor Almark's words dispelled his idea.

"I plan to divide the income of this farm into three parts, one part will be handed over to the Republic according to regulations, one part will be left for the development of the town, and one part will be your reward. You can leave it as a good asset to your descendants, or your relatives, friends, students... Even if you don't need it, they may need it."

Tuyan thought it made sense. Of course, he didn't think much of this little money, but he would definitely have students in the future. When students graduate, it would be nice to give them a family property as a gift.

Even if there are no students, Tessa is now resurrected, and she will need a dowry when she grows up. It would be so face-saving to have an industry as a dowry!

But... thinking about his sister getting married in the future, he couldn't help but frown, and his mood became less happy...