Mercenaries and Adventurers

Zhao Ji came to the silver passage in the ruins, where he prepared some preparations for long-term work, drinking water, food, sleeping bags, lighting, he was all ready.

Then, he began to use the tools he brought to disassemble the silver wall panels on both sides of the outermost passage.

Each silver wall panel is fifteen centimeters high, thirty centimeters long, and about two centimeters thick, very heavy. Zhao Ji pried the edge of the wall with a specially borrowed iron farm tool for plowing the land, and forcefully removed the silver plate.

With a bang, the silver plate that fell on the ground made a loud impact sound, and the loud noise spread into the ruins, waking up many dormant bats and chirping dissatisfiedly.

Zhao Ji didn't care about these at all. He picked up a piece with both hands, and it was very heavy, about ten kilograms. He didn't know the exact weight, but based on a rough comparison with other things he usually came into contact with, it was about ten kilograms. (One cubic centimeter of silver weighs 10.5 grams, and the silver plate Zhao Ji is holding weighs 9.45 kilograms.)

He carried the silver board to the entrance of the ruins, put the silver board on his shoulders with both hands, supported it with both hands, and threw it forward with his strength.

Woo.

Soon, the silver board flew only a few meters away before falling down and hitting the bat droppings at the bottom of the tree hole.

After observing the distance, Zhao Ji was a little dissatisfied, but he had tried his best just now, and this distance was already the farthest he could throw.

He planned to spend five days removing as many silver plates as he could in this silver channel. All were thrown into the bottom of the stump first, and then it took five days to transport the silver plates from the bottom of the stump to the outside of the stump through artificial jacks.

Afterwards, he had to find a place to dig a pit to bury all the silver plates transported from the ruins.

Compared with the clues that are so large and easy to be found in the ruins, the barren and vast wilderness is the place where so much wealth can really be hidden.

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Zhao Ji was full of energy, and he couldn't resist kissing every piece of silver board that passed his hands. Therefore, he started working vigorously as soon as he woke up these days.

For some unknown reason, he hasn't had any dreams about female elves these days. He didn't know the reason, maybe it was because he had been very tired for the past few days before resting, which made the elf's dream no longer connected to him.

It is also possible that the power of the ruins restrained him from having that dream? But wasn't the first time he had a dream about elves inside the ruins?

Zhao Ji couldn't answer these questions, so he had to shelve them.

During these five days, he dismantled the silver wall panel from the entrance of the ruins to the stone gate of the ruins. Throwing the silver board with all his strength in the past few days has made his arms and muscles stronger.

Regarding whether to continue, after thinking about it, Zhao Ji decided to get it here temporarily. He has other things to do, so he can't move the materials in the ruins all at once for a long time. The rest should be divided into several times Do it again.

However, he first lifted all the gemstones on the chargers in the room on the left after entering the Shimen.

He has been coveting these gems for a long time. Each of these gemstones is as big as a thumbnail. Although there is only a small spot in the middle of each charger with gemstones as a node, he has made a whole bag of gemstones of various colors in this way.

The shape of these gemstones is very regular, and they are neatly and precisely processed by the elves into various geometric shapes such as squares, circles, rhombuses, triangles, etc. They are not specially polished into the shape of ornamental gemstones. It seems that these gems are used by elves for magic.

Zhao Ji also discovered that these gemstones can emit gemstone-colored light at night after being irradiated by the sun. Although it was not big, Zhao Ji was inexplicably excited.

Sure enough, in addition to the basic gems' precious ornamental value, these gems also have magical uses thousands of years ago. After being irradiated by the sun, they have accumulated some extra energy from the sun.

Therefore, Zhao Ji specially put these gems into a birdcage and let them bask in the sun every day.

No need to install a birdcage. The birds in the woods behind are quite greedy for Zhao Ji's gems. It seems that they want to take these gems away and use them to decorate their nests.

Zhao Ji, who was nervous about these gems, noticed the birds wandering around his camp. He carefully reinforced the birdcage, and then covered the inside of the cage with gems.

He hung the birdcage in a place where the sun would often shine, and left it alone.

In the next five days, Zhao Ji put the silver boards in the wooden barrel of the artificial jack he made, and he only transported two silver boards at a time.

After loading the silver plate into the hoisted wooden barrel, Zhao Ji did not dare to stand under the barrel, and pulled the ascending rope after a little distance.

As Zhao Ji pulled the rope, the wooden barrel rose up with the rotation of the pulley little by little. Because of the existence of pulleys, Zhao Ji did not use much strength and completed these movements easily.

When the wooden barrel with the silver plate was raised to the top, Zhao Ji tied the rope that controlled the lifting of the wooden barrel to the belt around his waist, and pulled the rope that turned the trunk column of the jack on the right side.

The rope was not labor-saving. Zhao Ji pulled the rope hard, and finally turned the jack on the top of the tree stump to the outside of the tree stump.

As the wooden barrel was blocked by a wooden stick placed horizontally, the wooden barrel lay down horizontally, and then the heavy silver board in the wooden barrel fell down.

Boom! Boom! Twice.

Hearing the sound of falling from the tree stump beside him, Zhao Ji was satisfied that he heard two falling sounds.

In this way, Zhao Ji spent another three days transporting the silver boards stacked up to several cubic meters from the bottom of the tree stump to the outside of the tree stump.

Zhao Ji didn't go out until he couldn't find the next silver board.

There was also a small pile of silver boards piled up outside the tree stump. Who would have thought that such a small pile of silver would weigh dozens of tons.

The soil on the ground outside the tree stump was crushed by these silver plates.

Zhao Ji made persistent efforts and pushed the trolley over. He only carried fifteen or sixty-seven pieces of silver plates at a time, loaded with more than 100 kilograms of silver, and pushed the cart to a place beyond this hill, not far away. Outside the woods with the nearest water source outside the hills.

Zhao Ji cut down a small tree at the place closest to the hill in the woods, and then dug with a shovel. After digging a dozen or so cubic holes, Zhao Jicai placed the silver board neatly in the pit. , After going back and forth hundreds of times, the dozens of tons of silver boards were arranged. Finally, fill the soil back, and the excess soil will be piled up in place. Regardless of the pile of soil now, after it rains, the soft soil will sink in again, and because the silver in the pit is heavy, it will definitely fall to the ground due to the weight. If it sinks, over time, this place will still become a depression.

Of course, this is also convenient for Zhao Ji to recognize the place when he does not know when he will come to pick up the silver again.

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After everything was done, Zhao Ji hid the birdcage containing the gems in the ground in the camp. He will come here again in the future, but not now. He has been stuck in the tree root camp for twelve days. The most time-consuming thing was prying the silver board in the tunnel at the beginning, because it was easy to pry off the board, and he could pick it up and throw it out of the tunnel. , which is the most time-consuming.

His physical strength couldn't keep up, and he was fine at first, but after that, he had to take longer rest periods until the end of the day and he couldn't hold on any longer.

After that, using the artificial jack at the bottom of the tree stump was very fast. He only took two simple steps to put the silver board into the barrel, and it didn't take much effort to pull the rope afterwards.

As for transporting the silver boards back and forth with a trolley, it didn't take much effort. If he wasn't worried about crushing the trolley from the borrowed village, he could transport twice the weight of silver at a time without any problem.

After going out for more than ten days, he wanted to go back to the village and give an explanation to the villagers. No matter what, he had to kill at least fifty goblins to count.

Zhao Ji thinks this number should be ok. Going out for more than ten days and killing three or five goblins a day can almost be used as an explanation.

All the extra things were left in the tree root camp. He only took the tools and supplies needed to hunt down the goblins later, and set off directly.

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After more than ten days of exhausting labor, Zhao Ji exudes a strange smell that can drive away wild boars. Compared with goblins, Zhao Ji feels that he is now more like a monster wandering in the wild.

He didn't take a bath at the water source near the tree root camp. The water in that water source was for him to drink. If he used that drinking water to take a bath, Zhao Ji feared that it would be difficult for him to drink the water there again.

So after starting the goblin hunting operation from the tree root camp, Zhao Jicai took a refreshing cold bath at a water source southeast of the tree root camp.

He first used torches and spears to disperse the small animals that came to drink near the water source, then dug a half-meter-deep hole, and covered the bottom of the hole with thin branches to prevent the soil under the hole from being stirred up after the water came in for a while. become cloudy.

Zhao Ji dug a shallow aqueduct from the water source to the pit he dug.

After the water flowed in, it quickly stirred up the soil around the pit and became turbid, but after standing still for a while, the puddle became clear. Zhao Ji couldn't bear it anymore, he put the spear and sword beside the puddle, took off his stinky clothes, and then jumped into the puddle, scrubbing his skin carefully.

The dried sweat, the oil expelled from the skin, the exfoliated skin debris, the waste produced by the breeding of bacteria, and the dirt accumulated on his body in the past ten days, he carefully washed them off with his hands dipped in water.

The same is true for the hair. After many days of work, the clean and tidy golden brown long hair has long been clumps. Now, after washing with clean water, they gradually become clean and soft.

Even when Zhao Ji was clearing his hair, he had been carefully observing the situation in the surrounding woods. Many small animals who were driven away by him and not allowed to drink water did not go far, but just watched Zhao Ji in a place not far from the water source, doing things they didn't understand.

The guy walking on the ground seemed to be rolling in a puddle, and like those wild boars, they both liked to romp in the water.

But this guy is a little different, he seems to have dug a new puddle with his front two feet, so smart, even if some animals are thirsty, drinking water will not follow him Occupies a pond.

The little animals looking around at Zhao Ji still didn't disturb Zhao Ji's cleaning process when he was taking a bath. Zhao Jineng could see the curious look in the eyes of those animals. These animals probably didn't understand what he was doing, so they didn't bother him.

After taking a bath, Zhao Ji washed all the clothes he was wearing inside naked. He leaned his back against the pond to do the laundry. He didn't dare to expose his back to the woods, even if he confirmed that there were no large animals.

Not far from the pond, Zhao Ji found an open space and set up a campfire to eat some food and dry his freshly washed underwear.

As soon as the clothes are dry, he will leave here.

He sleeps at night, even if he sleeps in the wild without shelter, he will not sleep next to a water source. This is where all the animals around come to drink water. It is really unsafe to sleep here.

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One day later, Zhao Ji walked all the way to the forest under the mountains in the south, and soon came to the sphere of influence of the goblins~www.readwn.com~ On the trunks of the surrounding forests, occasionally there will be goblins staying behind. Totem traces and works of art.

Goblins are a rambunctious race, and they especially like to leave their unintimidating paintings on tree trunks or boulders. Most of them are portraits of headless animals. The headless animals are not scary, and the images of goblins surrounding the animals are not realistic.

Obviously, some animals that looked bigger than goblins had their heads removed, but the images of the goblins greatly exceeded the size of those animals.

Compared with the previous visit, this time it is not as gloomy and slippery as the previous rainy weather.

More than ten days of sunny days made the forest much drier. Zhao Ji felt that it would not be so easy to clean up the goblins this time.

According to previous predictions, if Zhao Ji went to provoke the goblins again this time, he would definitely encounter a large number of goblins swarming up. The goblins would not give him a chance to kill batch after batch of goblin warriors in small waves.

As long as Zhao Ji dares to come and mess with them again, they will definitely go crazy.

Of course, Zhao Ji has countermeasures for this.

This time he was specifically targeting the forest terrain, carrying a lot of tools that could set traps.

He wants to design several trap belts, and kill the large group of goblins that will be angered later in these traps.

Of course, when setting the trap, it cannot be spotted by any patrolling goblin squads that may be present.

But maybe, the goblins won't send out patrols? After all, they must know that a small group of goblins has no ability to resist a human being like him. It's better to gather the soldiers near the settlement, and once they find an intruding human, they will all attack and drown that human.