Whispering Verse

Chapter 2825 Slavin Mine

Shade continued to look through the account books, and finally saw those very sudden and large amounts of money in the "income" item. Each purchase amounted to more than five thousand crowns, which was more than fifty thousand pounds even at that year's exchange rate, and was described as a "silver ore transaction."

"Silver ore trade?"

Suspicious, Shade frowned and thought for a moment, and then remembered that the witcher a hundred years ago said that he found the demon here when he was tracing a mithril vein.

"So this is how the Hoy family made their fortune. This is quite reasonable, at least more reasonable than making money by exploiting lumberjacks. However, the Hoy family is just an ordinary family. Where did they find the sales channel? Probably The handiwork of the devil."

The account book also records the location of the mithril vein, because it states the monthly expenditures for the "Slavin Mine".

Of course Shade didn't know where this mine was, but it was marked on the map sold by the hermits. Shade checked it and found that there was a mark of "Abandoned Mine - Slavin Mine" in the dense forest. The location there was very, very far away from the cave where the treasure was hidden. Because it was in the west of the city, Shade took the gold first. They were all turned into toys and went straight home.

It was almost lunch time when we got home. Shade went to see Vanessa first. The Witch of the Earth gave Shade an alchemy tool that could be used to detect mithril ore to facilitate his actions in the afternoon:

"But didn't you ask me to help you find the mineral vein when I get to the Vista Grove? If there is really enough mithril, everyone will be happy."

The beautiful golden eyes looked at Shade with a questioning expression:

"Shad, you had a party at home last night, why didn't you call me?"

"What party?"

Shade asked the beautiful blonde opera singer in confusion, and then he suddenly understood the daily routine at home last night:

"Who told you this?"

"Hmph, of course it's Carina, who else can it be? Don't leave in a hurry. Do you want to have lunch with us? Sirius is already making arrangements for lunch. You can't leave now that you're here."

Of course, Vanessa didn't just want to keep Shade for lunch. After lunch, she said that she had recently conceived a new script with Dorothy, and invited Shade to her room to watch it. At this glance, I saw that it was half past two in the afternoon. When Shade was getting dressed and ready to leave, the blond lady who was lazily lying on the bed and refused to move commented with a smile:

"Look, even if Carina doesn't call me, I can call you here myself. Shade, you're so powerful. I thought they had fucked you last night."

The second half of the sentence was obviously flirting with Shade. Shade said while buttoning his shirt:

"Vanessa, if I didn't have something to do in the afternoon, just based on your words, you wouldn't want to do anything this afternoon."

"Is it so fierce?"

The witch with a blush on her face smiled ambiguously, then bit her lip and asked:

"Then is it okay if I go to your house again tonight?"

After Shade returned to the woodland, he went into the city to say hello to the ladies, and then heard from Miss Bell that the Slavin Mine was abandoned a hundred years ago. The silver veins there are exhausted, but before they were exhausted, they weren't actually very rich.

It is not complicated to find the Slavin Mine. In the era of Brookwood Town, it was deep in the dense forest, but in today's era of Vista City, that location is not far from the western edge of the city.

After the mine was abandoned, the city hall filled in the entrance to the mine and blocked it with large rocks for safety reasons. Because there was concern that the ground in the mining area would collapse, warning signs were placed nearby by the city hall to keep people away.

Of course Shade didn't pay attention to the warning, but when he was looking for the entrance to the mine, the first thing he saw was the abandoned miners' camp. After the mining area was abandoned, the woods gradually merged with the buildings that had not been demolished and the things left by the miners. However, before Shade had time to appreciate the scenery here in the bleak late autumn, he saw a familiar figure in the camp walking from behind the house. out.

"Professor Uke Wood?"

The old folklore professor who met Shade at a charity auction and recommended him to buy "Ximu Town and World Tree" was holding a notebook as if he was recording something. He was already very old, so he still carried a cane to prevent him from falling in the overgrown camp.

Hearing Shade's voice, he raised his head and looked at him. He was startled for a moment, and then he walked over with a smile. The two stood in the grass in the center of the camp and talked. The fallen leaves of autumn have covered the ground. After several heavy rains, the leaves rot and are absorbed by the soil, but the grass is still luxuriant before winter comes, but they will disappear after a heavy snow:

"Mr. Watson, what a coincidence. Are you also here to inspect the Slavin Mine?"

He took the initiative to introduce without waiting for Xia De to ask:

"Ximu Town is a lumberjack town, and the second most popular occupation is hunters. Miners are rare here. Most of the workers used to develop the Slavin Mine were outsiders. So there was a formation among these miners. There are some very unique cultural phenomena, which are different from miners in other areas.”

He works at "Vista City University". The folklore major of this school and himself are mediocre, so Professor Wood mainly does local folklore research, which makes it easier to apply for funds from the city hall.

"Is that so? Professor, I heard some legends about this mine in the local area. It is said that someone once dug a road leading to the so-called 'underground world' deep in this mine, and I want to investigate it."

Xia De also explained his purpose. Of course, the excuse was fabricated, so the old professor immediately shook his head:

"I have heard too many legends about the underground world. I really don't know where similar urban legends come from. I can guarantee that this is definitely not true. But don't you know? The entrance to the mine is now completely closed, and there is no way to get in there."

After that, he added:

"But speaking of it, I have seen some information. Before the mine was abandoned, there were indeed some strange accidents. But the official said that when the miners were digging underground, they encountered an unknown hallucinogenic gas that seeped out from the cracks in the ground.

I don't know who discovered the method in the first place , as long as you put the green leaves in front of your eyes, you will soon be unaffected by the hallucinogenic gases. But soon this method was useless, so the closure of the mine was not only due to the depletion of the mineral veins themselves, but also related to the continuous occurrence of production safety accidents. "

Shade had never heard of this statement:

"Mining has dug up hallucinogenic gases. Have you ever been in a mine?"

The professor immediately shook his head:

"Of course not, although I am very old, I am not as exaggerated as a hundred years old. When I was born, the Slavin Mine was already like this. It is said that when it was prosperous, it could almost be regarded as a small village, but minerals are not like fruits on big trees. The latter will always reappear with the passage of time, and the former will really disappear after being dug up. "

However, although he said this, he still told Shade the specific location of the entrance to the mine, so that Shade could go and have a look, but don't expect to gain anything.

The mining area was not far from the miners' camp at that time, but now the mining area can no longer be seen. Without human interference, forests and nature can easily return to their original appearance.

After Shade found the big stone blocking the entrance in this bleak dead forest, he first used "Strong Space Perception" to determine the size of the space behind the stone, and then directly used "Raglai's Jump" to enter the mine.

There is no oxygen in the completely closed mine, but this is not a big problem for Shade. The mine tunnels that extend in all directions are as complicated as a maze, so Shade chose to move forward along the main mine tunnel to the deepest part.

A hundred years have passed, and many mine tunnels inside the mine have collapsed, so during the journey, Raglai's jump or fossils have to be used again from time to time.

The alchemical props that Vanessa gave Shade were not specifically used to detect mithril ore. The palm-sized compass can theoretically be used to detect any metal vein. Just grind some purified metal into a diamond shape and put it in the center of the compass, and the compass can detect the corresponding ore.

After the Green Lake incident, in order to thank the "God Summoner" for his help, the church not only gave Shade the "Star Trace" longbow, but also gave him a lot of rare metals. There was still some mithril left in Shade's hand, so he could use the compass.

He walked in the dark, watching the compass needles spinning irregularly. As he went deeper into the mining area, in addition to encountering a few miners' ghosts on the road, the compass needle actually gradually reduced the range of shaking, until it finally pointed out the direction clearly:

"Really?"

As an important strategic material, no matter how much mithril Shade had, it would not be too much. Top-level alchemical tools and weapons often require the participation of mithril, and even a piece of ordinary metal mixed with mithril is enough to directly affect the spirits that are completely immune to physical damage.

Therefore, if a mithril vein that has not yet been exhausted can be found, its value is much greater than Shade's gold mine shares in the Randall River Valley.

With anticipation, Shade walked faster into the depths of the mine, and more collapsed areas became during the period, but this did not stop him. Until he finally came to the deepest part of the mining area, and the needle still pointed forward:

"It is indeed an undiscovered ore. If people knew that there was ore deeper, this place would not have been abandoned."

The efficiency of the spell "Fossil to Mud" was too slow, and Shade was naturally unwilling to mine by himself. So he switched to "Felianna's Witch Light", which consumed more but was faster, and continued to dig deeper into the ground according to the guidance of the compass.

After digging about a hundred meters diagonally downward, there was a sound of gravel falling to the ground, and then Shade found that he had actually dug a large underground cavity.