Global Mining.

The island is not big, and the whale quickly pulled the boat around the island. No living person was found on the radar.

Dachun remembered what Valrhona said before leaving to conduct a population survey, and it made it clear that it had connotations.

Anyway, now that we have radar and whales, it’s time to get brave enough to land on the island.

Dachun walked to the island cautiously, holding a red blood bottle in his hand like a handshake.

After the battle in the sewer, there were 40 red blood bottles left, but the weight of these 40 bottles made it difficult for the weak Dachun to run, so he took 10 with him and put the others on the boat.

Dilapidated dock streets, hospital signs all over the street, residential buildings covered with plants, and a bank with a gold-lettered signboard that can be roughly recognized even if the vision is blurry!

Damn, there is a bank! If the player becomes a lord and has his own bank... this is simply awesome!

Elaine said: "There is a bar next to it, and there seems to be wine on the counter!"

During the public beta period of the Spring Festival, I had been studying wine. I immediately went in and took a look. I really found a box of 40 bottles of unopened wine among a pile of empty bottles, broken cans and random boxes - huh?

Ailian laughed in surprise: "Tapioca roast?"

This wine is so cheap that no one drinks it because it is often poisoned! But is it because of this that you can keep a box of it?

Dachun smiled and said: "How can I say that the cassava yaki has been preserved for hundreds of years, so it is probably different?"

Ailian disagreed: "Probably."

If you can't move one box, try to carry 5 bottles with you, and then hide the box again.

After leaving the bar, there is a blacksmith shop next to it, with all kinds of tools, molds, stoves, coal, and spare mining hoes in the corner.

Dachun habitually pulled out a mining hoe to defend himself.

Then he saw the golden light shining on the cabinet shelf: "That's it?"

Ailian was excited: "It seems to be gold?"

Dachun immediately stepped forward to check it out. It looked like a trophy covered in dust and cobwebs.

After taking it off and wiping it, it really shines like gold - holy shit! Dachun was excited, and with a creak, a thin layer of gold powder was rubbed off, revealing the core of black iron.

Elen laughed: "It turns out to be gold-plated!"

Dachun was a little speechless: "There seems to be writing on it? Help me take a look."

"Congratulations to Smith on his promotion to the Master Smith Award."

Dachun was really in awe: "It turns out there was a master here!"

It's just that Smith's name is too vulgar, just like a Chinese blacksmith whose surname is Tie Mingjiang.

Elian sighed with emotion: "It is said that the masters in the Great Development Era were all true masters! It's not like now, where standards are lowered and professional titles are rampant."

Dachun was stunned: "Is there such a thing?"

Ailian snorted: "I heard the gentlemen chatting off the stage. Because the Golden Empire wants to monopolize technical talents and prevent the five major cities from becoming bigger, they fooled some water-filled masters, including the master-level dance teachers who taught us. "

Damn it! Hidden information!

Dachun suddenly thought of the mining master who picked up the magic stone, and felt that it was indeed a bit overwhelming. In fact, I have discovered that normally upgrading skills only adds weight-bearing stamina, muscle memory will add life, and illness and fatigue will add energy. Rather than saying that this is the Golden Empire monopolizing technology, it is better to say that the consortium-related households are distancing themselves from ordinary players.

Dachun couldn't help but sigh: "That's right, even Favna said that the Chamber of Commerce Order in later generations will be weakened."

After leaving the blacksmith shop, there were a lot of crows in front of me, which made Da Chun feel nervous!

Elaine said: "It's a church!"

church? That's the resurrection point. It shouldn't be dangerous, right?

Dachun walked forward slowly and saw not only the dilapidated building, but also the densely packed cemeteries around it. Crows were jumping around on the tombstones, not afraid of his arrival at all. As expected of the Plague Crow, he was indeed arrogant.

Dachun's scalp was numb: "At night, will there be many zombies crawling out of these cemeteries? Or the King of Crows or something?"

Elaine smiled: "Then you can stay at the church for the night and have a look. Maybe there will be a dance of the dead?"

Although it seems like a joke, it is most likely the connotation of this island! Even being an undead lord is better than having nothing at all.

"Then let's wait until tonight."

Around the church is a small hill, where several rusty mine carts suddenly fell over.

Elian said: "It's a mine! Do you want to use radar to detect it?"

"Let's explore."

"Stand at the entrance of the cave to facilitate the return of sound waves."

As soon as Dachun arrived at the entrance of the cave, the red light alerted - the system prompted: Warning! You are exposed to poisonous gas, and your Whale Power becomes immune to the poison's effects.

Damn it, just the entrance to the cave is poisonous, and it’s even poisonous inside!

As the radar was activated, a deep, grand and dense underground terrain map like a spider web appeared before Dachun's eyes.

It’s poisonous and so big, this is what this island is about!

Dachun immediately became excited: "Do you think there are any precious minerals in this mine?"

Elaine sneered: "How precious can it be? If there really is a gold mine, how can it not be abandoned just because of a plague? Even if prisoners are sent to death row to wear anti-virus equipment, they still have to mine it——"

At this point, Elian was stunned again: "No, if there is a gold mine, the Golden Empire's invincible fleet will definitely come to snatch it! Who can go to Black Iron City to mine it?"

"That's true."

Dachun still hoeed the mine at the entrance of the cave out of habit.

——System prompt: Do you want to enable automatic idle mining mode?

Oh? You can also automatically hang up here! That's fine, I'll recall the large mining skills here when I go offline one day.

Then around the mine is a large fence covered with weeds. Dachun can't see clearly: "Is it a vegetable field?"

Ailian sighed: "It looks like a wild pumpkin, but it's only as small as a fist. This island is really barren."

Dachun's heart skipped a beat: "Could the pumpkin grown in the plague land be a herbal medicine to treat the plague?"

Ailian said: "It's very likely. Maybe you can get rid of the plague after eating it for a while."

Although so, Dachun has tasted the sweetness of practicing skills with illness to increase his spirit, so how can he bear to treat the disease? There is still one and a half days left in the three-day new player blessing promotion. In fact, we should not care about this island in this last time. We should focus on practicing skills, right?

After bypassing the weed vegetable field, we returned to the residential area and the dock.

In general, it is not a city, just the size of an island town, but it has all the shops and institutions that should be there.

Ailian sighed, "This island is neither the closest nor the largest, nor does it seem to have any fishing grounds, and the land is not as fertile as the later developed Watermelon Island and Vanilla Island. I really doubt the vision of the Black Flag Chamber of Commerce."

Dachun also felt that it was hard to say: "Maybe it was because it was nothing, so there were no powerful monsters here at the time, so it was easy to build..."

Ailian sighed, "Do you think it's worth 10 billion?"

Dachun didn't have the concept of 10 billion, but he did feel something was wrong.

Suddenly, Dachun remembered an online joke - if a large courtyard villa suddenly appeared in a barren mountain that was nothing, then it was either treasure hiding or tomb robbery! Because only by building a large-scale project on the treasure land can you cover up the treasure hunt.

Dachun was inspired: "Ailian, I still think this island may have particularly precious minerals!"

Ailian was stunned: "I just said the reason why it is impossible!"

Dachun forced a reason: "Is there a possibility that this island was built because of the discovery of the gold mine, and then an accident caused the secret to be leaked. This plague is to cover up the existence of the gold mine and prevent it from being robbed by the Golden Empire, so the whole island was wiped out?"

Ailian laughed: "You are so bad, I like it!"

Dachun said unhappily: "I just inferred this possibility."

Ailian smiled and said: "Then go to the mine according to your idea, anyway, you are not afraid of poisonous gas."

Most likely there is a hidden big boss, how dare you go? But according to this inference, it is impossible to dig gold directly under the noses of so many people on the island, right?

Dachun's thoughts continued to diverge: "I think that mine is used to deceive people. The gold mine is definitely not on this island. Maybe it is on the seabed, or maybe it is on the seabed of a distant island."

Ailian smiled: "Then let the whale go to the seabed to find it!"

Well, although the idea is unreliable, it is better to have a clear idea than to have no clue now. The key is that you can use the excuse of finding the seabed gold mine to practice your skills in the last day and a half!

...

Dachun returned to the boat. In order to reduce the burden on the whale, he first moved a large part of the water and food on the boat to the dock, and then found a broken box to cover it up-by the way, is this broken box infected with plague?

Then he called the whale: "Let's search the surrounding seabed islands to see if there is any treasure?"

The whale excitedly sprayed water and pulled the boat again.

Soon, what was supposed to come finally came!

——System prompt: Congratulations! You have overcome extreme weakness, and your muscle memory has recovered the advanced fishing skill level 1, and you have obtained additional achievement rewards: life +1, spirit +1! The skill proficiency of the module combination has been improved.

——System prompt: Congratulations! You are extremely intelligent and have overcome your weakness from the disease. You have successfully mastered the first level of elementary boat driving and received achievement rewards: +1 weight and +1 physical strength. You have received an additional achievement reward: +1 spirit!

Advanced, mastered, and added 2 points of spirit, awesome! By the way, is this considered a genuine advanced level?

And after you reach advanced level in fishing, your proficiency is still increasing! So you can put everything on the island aside!

Just when you were in high spirits, the whale snorted-the system prompts: The whale is hungry and needs to find food first.

Yeah, that's right!

Dachun felt distressed: "Then don't pull the boat first, go find food."

The whale snorted a few times-the system prompts: The whale is unwilling to give up guarding you.

Dachun was anxious: "I can go ashore!"

Ailian said: "Actually, it's okay. Let the whale help find if there are any fishing grounds around. If there is any danger, we can still protect it."

Dachun realized: "That's right, I was too worried just now."

But, how can we protect it?

The boat was pulled to the open sea, and Plague Island became a floating shadow in the distance of the sea level.

Just then, the whale let go of the fishing rod and began to circle and wander.

"Found a fishing ground?"

Dachun turned on the radar in surprise. Although he could not probe far below the sea surface, he did not see a single fish.

Ailian said in a deep voice: "Where there are fishing grounds, seabirds usually gather and large sea beasts and fish appear. The water here is so dark, it must be very deep."

That's right, green water is deep, black water is abyss, this is the abyss!

And the deep sea usually has the old enemy of sperm whales, giant squids and octopuses! But with this whale in its old age and skin injuries, can it beat the giant octopus?

The whale wandered for a while, and it seemed to have determined its target and dived into the deep sea.

Although Dachun's radar could not probe far under the sea, the whale of such a large size could still be tracked all the way.

Ailian also kept confirming the depth: "100 meters, 200 meters, 300 meters..."

Da Chun was shocked. I didn’t know this in the game, but in reality the limit for human beings to dive without equipment is 100 meters. The limit of the most advanced diving equipment is 700 meters. As for sperm whales, 2000 meters is common! This game even creates the void, and it can really create a 2,000-meter ocean abyss! I can't help at all!

Then it disappeared from the radar.

Dachun waited for more than ten minutes for a panicked batch! The only thing you can do is to clap your hands to call it back. Isn't it just looking for food? There is no need to fight to the death with the sea monsters of the deep sea.

——System prompt: You start "Whale Guardian"...

After a while, it appeared on the radar again. Spring breathed a sigh of relief.

Ailian sank down and said: "Its surface speed is not much faster than its submersible speed."

Da Chun felt nervous, could he be injured?

Finally, there was a loud crash, the sea turned red instantly, and the whale was covered in blood!

Dachun was stunned: "How are you injured?"

The whale spits out a tube of red blood - system prompt: The whale discovered a large octopus in the sunken ship below.

Shipwreck Octopus! ?

Octopus is a soft body, so it should just be a scratch on the skin? But even though Dachun's vision was blurry, he could still see several large dents! Could this octopus be as strong as a giant python?

The only thing Dachun could do was to bring out 40 bottles of red medicine: "Treat it first, then I'll pour it into your mouth!"

These 40 bottles are just a drop in the bucket for the whale, but it only needs to stop the bleeding a little.

At this moment, Elian made a discovery: "Look what's stuck in its head?"

Among the scraps of sand, stone, sawdust, and blood left behind by the fight, Dachun faintly saw a glint of something, whether it was black light or golden light, shining!

Damn gold mine! !

Dachun hurriedly took it off and took a closer look. He saw a gold nugget as big as a mung bean! ?

——System prompt: You have found unknown artifact-level materials.

"Artifact material!!!"

Elian was shocked: "It's not gold, it has a black glow, it's the legendary magic gold!"

Damn it! ! ! Magic gold and mithril are the top artifact materials in the game. If you get one, you can divide the world!

Dachun was as unbelievable as dreaming about winning the lottery: "It's really a mine! I just guessed, and I guessed it right!"

If you think about it carefully, Favna said at that time that it would be enough to find an ownerless mine. Is this actually a hint? It's just that the search was so smooth, it seemed like I couldn't find the whale without it. It felt like something was obviously coincidental!