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The arrival of the appraisal masters made the atmosphere of the exploration team a little tense again.

Because several managers were not tight-lipped, the news that "that mithril mine might be innate mithril" had spread. The price difference between innate mithril and acquired mithril is too big, and as an exploration team that can get a share of it, the difference between the two is the difference between eating a big piece of meat and drinking a small sip of soup.

If any piece of mithril mine is really innate mithril, then the total value is not 20,000, but 200,000 or more - of course, it will be more troublesome to cash it out, and it will take time to slowly hype it up, and it will have to be sold in batches. It may take ten or even twenty years to turn them all into money. But no matter what, this share will be obtained sooner or later. Even if they can't get it when they are alive, they can leave it to their descendants as a legacy after they die. With the support of the Northwest Republic, no one can think of refusing to pay the money they deserve.

So everyone hopes that the mithril mine is innate mithril. When thinking of the possible benefits, even Hopps can't help but feel a little heartbeat and shortness of breath. Only Dudu, a rich man who has no shortage of money, doesn't care. He even has time to make fun of everyone, saying "Don't take money too seriously".

But it's not a question of whether it's important or not. That's a lot of money! If it's changed into gold coins and placed in front of you, it's really heavy!

Hopps answered like this at the time, causing everyone to laugh.

In this tense expectation, the two appraisal masters finally arrived. But because of the fatigue from the journey, they rested for three consecutive days after arriving at the camp, and only set out for the cave on the fourth day.

There was nothing they could do about it. The two appraisal masters were not young anymore. They were really tired after traveling for seven or eight consecutive days in such a cold weather. If they didn't take a good rest, they would not be able to work, and they would probably get seriously ill.

Fortunately, after a good rest, the bodies of the two appraisal masters were fully recovered. Then they followed the joint exploration team to the cave. Of course, they didn't walk, but were led by someone.

Of course, there was no other way. The location of the cave was remote and the mountains nearby were steep. Even though the two appraisal masters were in good health, they could not get in. In fact, there were only a few people in the entire joint exploration team who were able to climb into the cave.

This time, it was Clito who took action. The identities of the two appraisal masters qualified him, a legendary strong man, to help.

With his help, not only did the two appraisal masters enter the cave smoothly, but even Hopps and his team easily entered the rather steep cave without much effort.

It was close to noon, when the sun was at its best. But the cave was pitch black, with only some light near the entrance, and it was almost pitch dark when you stretched your hand further in.

When Hopps came here, the situation here was similar. However, he had low-light vision, so he could roughly see the surrounding situation even in this environment, so he was able to explore smoothly.

Of course, the two appraisal masters did not have his dim vision ability, so Hopps quickly took out the sunstone he had prepared in advance and inlaid this stone that could emit soft white light like sunlight in several places on the cave wall, just like a torch or wall lamp, illuminating the dim cave.

Under the illumination of the sunstone, everyone clearly saw a large area of ​​bright silver light on the cave wall not far ahead.

That was the silver ore vein mixed with mithril. Although it was only a small piece, it was priceless.

The two appraisal masters took a short rest and walked forward with tools. They used a small chisel to chisel off a few pieces of silver-gray ore from the wall, and then used special tools to appraise it.

This appraisal took several hours, and they didn't even have lunch during the period. It was not until the sun was setting that they completed all the appraisal work.

The two masters discussed it again and finally reached a consensus.

"It's innate mithril," they announced. "The reserves are not high, but the quality is good. If you use magic, it should be possible to extract it relatively smoothly - but the silver mine will be destroyed."

Compared with mithril, silver is like soil to gold, especially this mithril is the most precious innate mithril. So no one cares about those ordinary silvers at all. If they are destroyed, they are destroyed. No one will feel sorry for them.

The first step of the two appraisal masters has been completed, but they can't go back now. They have to stay in the camp for a while.

Because the exploration team has to temporarily change their jobs to miners, all this precious innate mithril vein has been mined, and then they have to identify it bit by bit and verify it all.

Innate mithril and acquired mithril often coexist. Even after collecting them, they must be carefully distinguished before they can really start refining.

Only high-purity innate mithril will have slightly different properties from acquired mithril. Once impurities are mixed in, this difference will be greatly reduced, and the value will of course plummet.

Therefore, the exploration team planned to dig out the ore bit by bit along the veins, and make each piece as small as possible. Once the veins were found to be bifurcated or other places that might affect the purity, they would take it to two appraisal masters to confirm it to ensure the purity of the ore.

This is also reasonable. A large part of the reason for the high value of innate mithril is also due to this difficult mining and refining work.

Without a professional appraisal master, it is simply a fantasy to want to refine high-purity innate mithril!

Sui Xiong floated above the camp, watching them busy every day, using those convenient small tools to dig out the rocks, dig out the silver ore containing mithril, carry it back to the camp on their shoulders, and then carefully screen it, just like a group of ants moving.

Of course, the screening work cannot be handed over to the two appraisal masters, otherwise they can't finish it even if they have three heads and six arms. First, the mineral processing experts such as Hopes will conduct preliminary screening to separate the silver ore and mithril ore, and at the same time, specially pick out the mithril ore that follows the vein, and then hand over the mithril ore to the two appraisal masters for confirmation.

This is a delicate job. When the vein has been completely mined, the appraisal work has only been completed by less than one-tenth.

But what can we do? There is no easy money in the world. Moreover, for this batch of innate mithril, not to mention the exploration team, even the caravan that controls this mining area said that exploration is not urgent, and ore selection is the most important.

Of course, Hops and his team don't mind selecting ore all day long. Anyway, as long as it is valuable work, it doesn't matter what you do. Ore selection is at least easier than exploration.

Don't forget, they originally learned ore selection, not exploration.

Just when they were so busy that many people felt that they were about to become cross-eyed, an amazing news came.

A fierce conflict broke out at the boundary between the merchant faction and the noble faction.

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