Beauty and the Bodyguard

Each mine crossing is guarded by experts, with numbers one to ten marked on it. Needless to say, these ten mine tunnels lead to their respective mining areas, and entry is only allowed after showing the corresponding access token.

Meng Jueguang led Meng Tong and Li Zhengming into the No. 7 mine tunnel. The other new disciples entered the No. 8 mine tunnel. As for Lin Yi, he entered the No. 10 mine tunnel accompanied by his senior brother.

"Senior Brother Ku, don't you need a special pass to enter?" Lin Yi turned to look at Senior Brother Ku and said in surprise. When he came in just now, he clearly saw that senior brother Kubi just showed the guard his jade plaque as the senior manager of the Yingxin Pavilion, and the same was true for Meng Jueguang on the other side.

"Yes, the identity card of the steward of Yingxin Pavilion is also valid here, but because I am from Qingyun Pavilion, I can only enter and exit mining areas No. 789. Of course, mining area No. 10 is a public mining area, and you can enter and exit at will." Senior Brother Kubi He nodded.

After a pause, he then complained again: "Junior brother Lin, you really shouldn't have signed this contract just now. I have tried this No. 10 mining area before, and I couldn't dig out any good jade at all. But it doesn't matter now. Okay, let me take you to a few places where I have dug out spiritual jade. Although I can only dig out some waste jade, it is better than blindly doing useless work like a headless fly."

"Then thank you so much, Brother Ku." Lin Yi responded with a smile.

Although he is now in the early stage of foundation building and does not have the same time pressure as other newcomers, three months is not a short time. If he really can't dig out anything at all, it will be a waste of time and it will be embarrassing. However, being able to dig out waste jade is enough.

The mine road is long and winding. According to Brother Kubi, the No. 10 mining area is already very peripheral. It took the two of them more than half an hour to reach their destination.

Along the way, although we occasionally saw a few people, they were only a handful. Even after arriving at the actual mining site, there were only two or three people in the huge mining area, and two of them were guards in uniforms. No. 10 died The name of the mining area is indeed well-deserved.

Seeing Lin Yi and the other two, the two bored guards looked at each other and said jokingly: "Hey, two unlucky guys again."

This kind of dead mining area, even the waste from Qingyun Pavilion is not willing to come here. Those who are assigned here must be the unlucky ones who have offended the people above. As the guards here, they are already used to this kind of thing. .

Kubi's face suddenly darkened. He was actually regarded as an unlucky ghost by the guard! Look at the way Meng Jueguang ate very happily before, and there were acquaintances everywhere he went. On the other hand, he was a hard worker, and he was...a real hard worker!

"I am Senior Brother Ku Chungle, the steward of Qingyun Pavilion stationed at Yingxin Pavilion. I am here to send the disciples into the mining area to mine!" Senior Brother Kubi said.

"Happiness for suffering?" The two guards were obviously stunned: "I have never heard of it. You are the senior brother in charge? Isn't the senior brother in charge Meng Jueguang and Kubi? How can there be happiness in suffering?"

"Well... I am Kupai. Kupai is my nickname, Kuzhongle is my original name..." Senior Brother Kupai explained with a wry smile.

"Halo, if I had told you to complain, it would be fine." The guard nodded, and then waved his hand, indicating that Kupu could go in.

After Brother Kubi nodded and greeted the two guards, he took Lin Yi to a mine he was familiar with.

But before he had taken two steps, he heard the two guards talking about each other behind him.

"It turns out he is a hard-working guy. When I saw him today, he was indeed a hard-working guy!"

"Yes, but I think the one next to him is a little hard-working guy. He is with the wrong person. If he is following Meng Jueguang, how can he come here?"

"Oh, there's nothing we can do about it. In fact, aren't we both the same? If we hadn't offended Dai Wuchang, a powerful figure in Lingyu Hall, how could we have been sent here?"

Lin Yi also heard the previous conversation. It turned out that senior brother Kubi was called Kuzhongle, but apparently, he himself had acquiesced in the name Kubi, so that when he officially signed up, no one else recognized him.

The two walked into the mining area, put down the baskets with names written on them that they had received at the door, took out the shovels inside, and forced their senior brother to demonstrate in person, giving Lin Yi some tips on mining.

It is worth mentioning that in order to prevent the aura of heaven and earth in the jade from being damaged during mining, the shovels used for mining are all made of jade, but they are similar to other iron shovels in use. They are hard and sharp and very practical. . Not only can it break through the soil easily, but it can also penetrate hard rocks easily. Lin Yi even feels that even if this thing is taken out and used as a weapon, it is more than enough.

After mastering the tricks taught by his hard-working senior brother, Lin Yi quickly got started. After all, the matter itself is not complicated, and it mainly relies on strength. And with Lin Yi's strength in the early stage of foundation building, this kind of physical work is naturally not a problem. Even if he works non-stop for a whole day, he will not feel tired at all.

Although this is dead mining area No. 10 and the jade yield rate is extremely low, the point Lin Yi chose now has the experience and experience of his hard-working senior brother, and he was also very lucky today. After just a moment, he dug the first piece of spiritual jade. .

Use a cloth to wipe off the soil on the surface. The white jade soon bloomed with brilliance. It looked exactly the same as the pieces of spiritual jade in your hand. However, after carefully feeling the spiritual energy in it, you found that it was very thin. The concentration is less than 1%, and it is a typical piece of waste jade.

"It's not bad. If you save a lot of this kind of waste jade, you can exchange it for good jade." Brother Kubi comforted him from the side.

Lin Yi nodded, and then he saw one of the two guards in the distance walking over. He took a scale with him, took out the piece of scrap jade that Lin Yi dug out, weighed it, and wrote down the number. Then he threw the waste jade back into the basket and turned around to leave.

"What is he doing?" Lin Yi asked confused.

"This is a consistent monitoring process in all mining areas. In order to prevent anyone from hiding spiritual jade secretly, every time someone digs out spiritual jade, the guard will weigh it and record the number. When the work is completed, all the spiritual jade you have collected will be counted. They will go through the scale again together, and once the number is too different from the number provided by the guard, especially if it is much less, they will be isolated for investigation." Brother Kubi explained.

Lin Yi couldn't help but secretly gasped after hearing this. He had to be rigorously searched when entering and exiting the mine, but he didn't expect that there was such a monitoring process. Not to mention other things, in terms of preventing people from hiding spiritual jade, Ling Yutang also It's really watertight.