Chapter 33 – Exploring the Crypt, Encountering Open Pit Ore

“A-“

Genpou’s cautious voice echoed through the darkened crypt.

It appeared to be careful.

Fear takes the high ground when standing once again at this fork in the road that leads to two unknown crypts.

Luckily, his master’s voice resonated in his head, and he provided a drop of security in the form of sensory synchronization.

At least it wasn’t faced alone.

“Yuanbao, listen to me, the last time we went to the left fork of the road, we met the ice lump that you gnawed off, it is very weak, which means that the left should be safer …….”

“A?”

Yuan Bao probed left and right, checking out the deep holes on either side, and listened intently to Xu Jingnian’s calm analysis with his ears perked up.

But did it really listen? As in listen.

Xu Jingnian: “Go left.”

Genpou nodded, “A!”

Um, analyze? No need, just listen to your master’s final instructions ……

When Yuan Bao had summoned up the courage, he stepped out on his short little legs, his two front paws cautiously raised, and advanced in a Tyrannosaurus Rex stance.

It was small, not nimble enough, but its body was so light that it walked almost noiselessly.

That’s good.

No one wants to walk up in an unknown cave with the sound of their footsteps echoing all around them.

That would not only reveal the location, but mostly yes, it would look even more horrible!

It will feel like something is following behind.

“Fortunately, Yuanbao doesn’t have this disadvantage ……,” Xu Jingnian sighed in relief.

In fact, Yuan Bao was afraid, and so was he!

Turning on sensory synchronization and then closing your eyes is practically indistinguishable from being there.

There are visuals, there are feelings.

A thin, eerie sound could be heard coming from who knows where, and an inexplicable chill could be felt.

On the contrary, as a human being, he was more afraid!

After all, Genpou is just afraid of death.

And Xu Jingnian that was modern network smoked brain brother, it is necessary to remember a variety of seen horror movies, horror novels …… should be afraid of things can be more!

“A!”

The Genpou walked on, and nothing meant to appear in the dark crypt tunnels, but it suddenly called out.

Taking Xu Jingnian by surprise.

It turned out that it was Yuanbao who saw that his master hadn’t made a sound for a long time and thought he had lost his connection, so he hurried to remind him.

He could only continue to chatter, talking in Genpou’s head.

“Genpou, I’ll teach you two ways not to be afraid, one is to believe in science, weld Newton’s coffin boards shut and there’s nothing to be afraid of!”

“A?”

Genpou wondered what science was, and what it had to do with its fear of death, and if it could even help itself against its enemies.

“That’s natural, and don’t even mention higher end weapons like nuclear flattening or anything ……”

Xu Jingnian laughed, “Fear comes from a lack of firepower, at least at our current level, a rifle with unlimited ammunition is enough to sweep away all evil!”

“A?”

Genpou will be skeptical, and asks again about what a nuclear flat is and what a rifle is.

But Xu Jingnian wasn’t the one who gave it the science of modern weapons.

He continued, “There’s a second way of not being afraid that can be used right now, and that’s for the little head to take the high ground!”

Genpou:?

“When you’re scared, think more about the female pangolin, er, think about the cascading scales and then think about the soft belly ……”

Xu Jingnian was a little excited just thinking about it.

But he shouldn’t be excited!

Instead, Yuanbao is calm, that’s because, she is the female Chinese pangolin ……

“What, are you actually a female?”

Xu Jingnian was a bit shocked, not expecting to even misrecognize the gender of his favored beast.

“A ……”

Genpou spread his two paws.

Although, neither of the two ways Xu Jingnian said to alleviate his fear worked, Yuan Bao wasn’t that scared anymore.

The main thing is just to have the master talking all the time, it doesn’t really matter what he says at all.

Keep exploring forward.

Xu Jingnian realized that this crypt was really big.

Took a very long straightaway with only a few small curves during it, not even a curve.

But nothing was found either.

Traveled a little further and predicted to have gone out a few hundred meters into a very long and large tunnel.

At this point.

Xu Jingnian suddenly shouted, “Wait, Yuanbao, look in that rock wall on the upper left, is there something there!”

“A?!”

Yuan Bao was at once like an enemy.

Xu Jingnian, however, said, “Don’t be afraid, it seems to be set on the surface of the rock, it shouldn’t be anything living.”

Genpou then relaxed.

Look closely.

Sure enough, in an environment where all the surroundings were pitch black, the corner of the rock wall over there seemed to have a little bit of a crystalline look to it.

“A?”

Yuan Bao first cautiously looked left and right, and only after confirming that it was safe did he roll in place, roll over to the edge of the rock wall, and dive to feel his way over.

Come to the bottom of the rock wall.

Looking up, the rock wall did indeed have a different material with some fine black stones set in it.

“Sure enough, looking at this little mold, it seems like it’s an ore, right?!” Xu Jingnian was a little excited.

He asked Genpou to explore the mines.

Isn’t the whole point to find new sources of ore?

“Yuan Bao, be careful, dig out these black ores and bring them back to see what they are.”

Xu Jingnian commanded.

“A.”

With a nod of his head, Genpou swung his claws and used his iron teeth again, and began digging his way to the top of the rock wall.

And Xu Jingnian guessed.

Black ores, he knew of only two: one was called obsidian and the other was coal.

If it is obsidian, I’m ashamed to say that Xu Jingnian only has the knowledge of “my world”, perhaps this thing is very hard!

I don’t know what it’s good for, but maybe it can be used as a material, or worse, traded.

And if it’s coal, it’s a loss.

Because all he could think of for coal was to use it for firewood, and even if he sold it, it wouldn’t be worth much.

All have so many fire crystals, casually exchanged for firewood to add to the fire, long ago realized campfire freedom.

It’s too much of a waste of time to dig it up.

“Of course, there’s also a good chance that it’s another ore, a transcendental resource maybe.”

Xu Jingnian didn’t rule it out.

His knowledge and experience, again, did not work in this misty world called the Imperial Beast Abyss.

What kind of ore it is, whether it’s a waste mine, or a treasure mine, can only be known when the meta is dug up ……

After about half an hour.

With skillful digging craftsmanship, Yuan Bao managed to dig out some of the upper black ores of the rock wall.

Unlike fire crystals, this stuff was of varying sizes and quality, and it was hard to see exactly what was going on in the pitch black environment.

Now that he could barely see, it was considered good night vision for Genpou!

“Let’s just dig this much for now, we can’t take more, bring these ores up first.”

Xu Jingnian said.

Whether or not to follow up depends on whether or not this black mine is worth mining.

After all, digging in an open crypt, the safety conditions weren’t as high as the fire crystal vein that he had pioneered.

After a while.

Yuan Bao, clutching a few relatively large black ores, drilled out of the hole in the ground, and Xu Jingnian went to greet it.

First, he poured some water for his beloved pet.

However.

He then looked at the information panel:

[Black Iron Ore]

[Type: Basic Ore]

[Information: Black iron ore, a basic ore found everywhere underground, can be smelted into black iron through the high temperature of a furnace.]

[Added: Black iron – has high strength and hardness and is often used in the manufacture of steel products.]