Ranch Story: Start Over

When Feng Ling opened his eyes and looked around, as they had said before, Feng Ling entered a not very large space, and it looked like he was in a narrow gap the size of an elevator. The surrounding stone walls were sealed, and using a fire source would accelerate the consumption of oxygen.

The only source of light came from the moonstone that Old Qian had just thrown to him. This moonstone was the most suitable and cheapest lighting item. Just this small piece allowed Feng Ling to see the surrounding environment clearly.

Feng Ling took out the pickaxe from the space pendant and remembered what Qian Lao said about digging upwards. No, digging upwards means digging straight up and down? There is no place to stand like this. Forget it, just start digging like digging stairs.

After Feng Ling made up his mind, he raised the mining draft in his hand and prepared to choose a suitable location to start. Somehow, it seemed that there was an attraction in front of him that was calling Feng Ling. He tentatively launched a detection technique and suddenly found that his vision had changed.

The scene before his eyes was no longer a monotonous stone wall or soil. Countless points of light appeared in front of his eyes. The closest position to him was not a point of light, but a series of small light circles. After his detection technique was activated, it became continuous, but the loss of magic power also became continuous. Fortunately, the loss was not very fast and was still acceptable.

In the field of vision of the exploration technique, Feng Ling found that there were five kinds of minerals to choose from in the current space, namely iron, copper, aluminum, silver, and gold. These five minerals can be seen as long as you check them, and other unnecessary minerals will not be visible as long as you do not check them.

Feng Ling didn't understand why the detection technique could do this, but after trying to select the copper mine, Feng Ling discovered a feature: minerals that were very far away would show very vague names, but when they were closer, their size and weight would be displayed.

Feng Ling had never encountered such a situation before, and he also had the blessing of the goddess on him, which was described as a greatly increased perception of minerals. Could it be that this was the blessing she gave him, and his detection technique had the ability to identify the size of minerals.

It's no wonder that Feng Ling found that the goddess' blessing was a perfect match with his own detection technique. However, this ruffian goddess refused to launch a targeted blessing. After thinking about the countermeasures for a while, Feng Ling suddenly understood what the other party meant at that time.

If the conditions are not enough to make the other party take action, then it must be that the conditions proposed are not generous enough. Feng Ling then understood what the goddess sister meant by that. It seems that she felt that the tribute was not enough.

Fortunately, he was lucky and encountered such an excellent buff for the first time. Looking at the minerals in this space, Feng Ling spat on his hands and started to work.

Because he has a goal and a choice, Feng Ling's mining efficiency is very high, but mining is inherently a physical job, and Feng Ling also needs to reduce physical loss and oxygen consumption.

As a result, Feng Ling had difficulty breathing after filling up the magic backpack, which was a sign of lack of oxygen.

Feng Ling looked at this space helplessly. He had to exit and come back later.

When Feng Ling came out of the mine, Old Qian looked at him in surprise:

"Young man, you're out so soon?"

"Mr. Qian, I'm running low on oxygen. Look, my magic backpack is full. Can I put it on the ground first?"

Old Qian pulled his beard in shock. He watched Feng Ling use magic to extract the iron ore from the magic backpack. He was so shocked that he didn't know what to say.

Others mined a mixture of mud and stone, but Feng Ling's mines were almost all high-purity concentrates, as if he had identified the location and dug it accurately. After a quick estimate, Old Qian didn't want to talk anymore. The 27 cubic meters of ore here could at least extract 8% of the ore, and if it was refined, the purification effect would be refined to 50% of the volume.

However, Feng Ling obviously did not get enough of it, and he didn't know how much material he could extract if he took it back.

"Mr. Qian, Mr. Qian, can I ask you something?"

"go ahead."

Feng Ling quickly asked what the tax rate was for the materials handed in here. This was very critical. If the tax rate was too outrageous, Feng Ling was ready to pay the tax at the checkpoint.

“10t以下税率20%，30t以下30%，最高税率是50t以下50%，普通人每日最大允许开采200t，到手100t。

The 100 tons in the original world is not so scary in this world. Feng Ling thought about the heavy sword he used for physical exercise. Although he could not swing it, there was no problem in moving and dragging it. Even so, the weight of this giant sword was 10 tons. Later, Feng Ling realized that the people in this world were incredibly strong, but compared with the demons, ordinary people were still just a bunch of useless people.

"Then Mr. Qian, do you have any suitable props that can help me transport my ore back?"

"Yes, here is a disposable storage ring made by Sebala. Do you want it? It costs 20 yuan each and can hold tons of minerals each time."

Feng Ling didn't care about the money, he thought he could use the minerals for a long time. This was Feng Ling's fantasy, but when he went back, he realized that he was ignorant.

After paying 76 yuan to Qian Lao, Feng Ling had 20 yuan left. He received three disposable storage rings with a load capacity of t. His magic power was depleted a lot because he continued to detect in the secret realm of the mine, but he could not see the minerals without detection. Feng Ling looked at the shining spots everywhere and realized the difficulty of mining for ordinary people.

It's really like looking for a needle in a haystack and it's a matter of luck. Sometimes, even if there are only two or three fist-sized pieces of ore right next to you, you have to dig about 1 to 2 meters to find them. Add to that the fact that there are so many stones and soil, and the difficulty level increases dramatically.

The distribution of key mineral layers is sometimes compact and sometimes scattered, and it is rare to encounter a large piece. This is why Old Qian was surprised that although Feng Ling did not dig up large pieces of ore, the quality of what he dug was very good. Ordinary people mining, even mining experts like them who go to the secret mine alone, cannot achieve an ore acquisition rate of more than 80%.

Feng Ling followed what Qian Lao said and submitted the ore to Qian Lao. For only 50,000 yuan, he could help Feng Ling purify the ore for the first time, and after the purification, he could get the rough embryo. It really cost money like water, but according to today's progress, Qian Lao said that according to today's purification effect, you have been refining materials for alchemy recently, and you don't need to manufacture large equipment, but small equipment will definitely be no problem.

In this situation, Feng Ling ate something to fill his stomach and then asked Old Qian to activate the secret realm of the mine again.