Chapter 21 – Digging a Mine

A sleep.

Xu Jingnian looked toward the campfire panel:

[Homestead bonfire]

[Illumination range: twenty meters in diameter (changeable …… currently consumes 50 points of firewood per hour)]

[Remaining firewood: 12,412 ↓]

[Estimated burn time: 248 hours ……]

[Current level: Level 1 (no special effect)]

“Ahem, doing the math, I probably only slept about six hours, and I can’t sleep twelve hours anymore without a warm blanket.”

Xu Jingnian coughed.

After each sleep, the cold worsens, and now it’s the day after feeling it, which is considered the pre-intermediate stage.

By the time you get another night’s sleep, you should be in the middle of the worst of it, when the full range of negative statuses come in.

“Ahem, six hours, I wonder how many fire crystals the little guy dug up?”

He turned on the sense step.

In his mind’s eye, however, he found that the little pangolin was still diligently digging and eating while digging.

Click ……

The nutrients from the stone can’t do much to help with growth though.

But it can barely keep the satiety level up, allowing the pangolin to keep going consistently.

“Good morning, little one!”

Xu Jingnian snorted through the mental connection, then asked, “How much ore has been dug up?”

The little pangolin kept repeating its labor, and while it wouldn’t get tired, it was still a bit tedious and boring without the attention of its master.

“A!”

It immediately perked up when it heard its master’s voice in its head, then turned its head to look behind it.

There were very many fire crystals on the floor.

Got to describe it in a bunch!

“Outrageous, these fire crystals, there must be at least fifty or sixty of them or more!” Xu Jingnian exclaimed.

“A~”

Unfortunately, the little pangolin armor didn’t know how to count, it couldn’t count how many fire crystals there were.

It only mines.

Or add another rock eating ……

“Yes, yes, it’s great! Let’s bring these fire crystals up first, I’ll see how many there are.”

Xu Jingnian arranged it.

“A!”

However, instead of immediately following orders, the little pangolin signaled to show him a place.

“What?”

Xu Jingnian was puzzled.

I saw the little pangolin go to the other side, turn a corner of the rock wall, then into a tunnel, climbed dozens of steps again, and then the sky opened up in front of me!

A dozen meters high rocky tops, strange stalactites, and some inexplicable noises, it was slightly larger than the previous grotto the little pangolin had dug out on his own.

Heck, it’s an underground cavern!

“This, you dug it up?” Xu Jingnian asked.

Then he saw the vision in his head bobbing up and down, and it was the little pangolin nodding.

“A ……”

It indicated that after digging the place out, it did not venture in, but backed up and shifted the direction of the dig.

Just waiting for Xu Jingnian to command.

“Not bad, hurry back and bring back the fire crystals first, I don’t feel safe in this cave!”

Xu Jingnian hurriedly commanded.

The state of perceptual synchronization allowed him to gain the hearing of the little pangolin as well.

There was the sound of water dripping.

Strange gasps were also heard, echoing through the cave ……

Even, Xu Jingnian could vaguely hear, some rustling footsteps!

Obviously, in this cave, there are other living creatures.

Unseen.

Xu Jingnian must have defaulted to a threatening beast, so he hurriedly told the little pangolin to retreat and think long and hard.

After a while.

With some of the fire crystals, the pangolin then burrowed out of the hole in the ground and returned to the surface of the homestead where there was a campfire to light the way.

After that, it goes back and carries it again, three times in a row.

All the fire crystals were placed inside the silver treasure chest, and this time, it was directly filled, and there were even a dozen or so that couldn’t fit!

[Fire Crystal*74]

Rich, too rich.

Xu Jingnian’s pupils completely reflected the orange light of the fire crystals, and even though this heat was less than a fraction of the campfire, he felt incomparably warm.

“Haha, I’m sure that right now, even though my favored beast rank isn’t number one, when it comes to resources, I’m definitely deservedly the number one in all of humanity!”

Xu Jingnian was red-faced.

All this from his beloved pet, the little pangolin!

“Here, eat!”

Xu Jingnian directly took out ten fire crystals and placed them into the little pangolin’s notched stone basin.

“A!”

The little guy was also immediately happy, cupping a fire crystal with his paw, he gnawed on it as if it was a nut.

Click it!

Click …….

Xu Jingnian, on the other hand, looked at the feeding pangolin, and had a plan in his heart; until now, the little guy didn’t even have a name.

Main reason.

It’s because he’s a name-taking waste!

But at this moment, he was suddenly inspired.

It is because the little pangolin can keep digging and bring himself rich resources of ore that he can take it and trade it, given that ……

What’s your favorite thing about being an adulterer?

It must be a gold dollar!

Xu Jingnian said, “Little one, you have a name, how about – Yuanbao?”

The little pangolin ate the fire crystals, looked up at his master, and squeaked, “A!”

Signaled no problem.

It then proceeded to dry rice.

In this one meal, the little guy had eaten three fire crystals, and it seemed that as it leveled up, its meal size grew as well.

Xu Jingnian opened the favored beast panel:

[Favored Animal: Chinese Pangolin]

[Real name: Yuanbao]

[Attribute: Gold]

[Level: Cub 4th Order (77%↑)]

[Skill: Bronze Teeth and Iron Stomach]

[Specialty: Digging]

“Not bad, it went from third to fourth rank in one meal, and judging by this progress, maybe the next time we eat, we’ll be able to jump straight to fifth rank!”

Xu Jingnian was very satisfied with the results.

He felt that this copper teeth and iron stomach was simply a divine skill specially adapted to Yuan Bao!

Mining, you need this skill to eat rocks, so you don’t have to waste time and energy carrying rubble to the surface to throw it away.

And both feeding and growing are perfectly adapted to this skill.

Being a gold-type pet beast, but being able to improve by eating fire crystals was a bit of a waste, even though it wasn’t as big as the improvement of his family’s fire-type pet beasts, but it didn’t matter.

After all, digging digs.

The last thing that was lacking was fire crystals!

“A!”

Once he was full, Genpou rubbed his stomach, warmed up with inexhaustible strength!

Eat, drink and be merry ……

It’s going mining again.

“Go on, I’ll help you rest.”

Xu Jingnian nodded in agreement and waited for the little pangolin to burrow into the hole in the ground, but inwardly, he pondered.

“I’ve actually dug into an unknown underground cave, with Yuan Bao’s current strength, I wonder if I can go explore it?”

Honestly.

So far, Xu Jingnian had only taken a few steps out of the confines of the campfire at the very beginning, and hadn’t gone out beyond that.

He was curious about the outside world.

But it can be just as worrying.

The source of all fear is a lack of firepower, favoring him and Yuan Bao now, really is a lack of firepower ……

Even if Genpou is a little strong.

But it can be seen from that time when it was allowed to take on the clawed beasts, it was scared and only dared to curl up into a ball and could only defend, not dare to attack …..

Cowardice, too, is a problem.

“No, speaking of exploration, didn’t I get the solution here a long time ago?”

Xu Jingnian slapped his head.

His eyes, then, went to the heat-sensing drone parked not far from the campfire.

Though the images coming back from this drone only had simple heat distinguishing colors.

But briefly explore the terrain.

See what hostile creatures are out there, that should be enough too!