Chapter 498
Chapter 498: Ore
Translator: AstralGhost Editor: Kurisu
"Who is it!?"
Li Tieniu's face suddenly changed as he turned around rapidly, his hands grasping the shovel tightly .
Over ten people suddenly stepped out from the shadows, and a mocking laugh rang out . "Keke, I already told you, Li Tieniu, that you're a careless person . As expected, you've still gone and made such a blunder . Did you really think that you've concealed yourself flawlessly during the day?"
"Gasp!"
Li Tieniu's heart sank as he turned around . The people behind and before him were people who were among the top experts in the mine . If it was just one or two people, he would not be fearful of them . However, he was not a match for so many people at all . Not to mention, two of them were experts in the top 2,000!
"How did you all find out?"
Li Tieniu's face was twisted with anger . He felt that he'd covered his tracks very well in the day and didn't display any flaws at all .
"Take a look at him; do you think he looks familiar?"
Shi Yun smiled lightly . With a clap of his hand, a person emerged from behind the group .
"You were beside me during the day, but I didn't display any actions that were out of the ordinary . How did you know?" Li Tieniu asked with interest .
In that moment, he was suddenly not nervous anymore . Instead, he was more curious as to how he was caught . In any case, these people came for the Star Cloud Metal and Metal Essence . Since there weren't any such ores here, there naturally would not be any conflict nor anything to fight over .
"From childhood, I've never forgotten anything that I've laid eyes upon . After digging here for five years and hearing the sound of the shovels meeting the soil, I've long learnt to differentiate between the sound the shovel made while hitting the Star Illumination Stones," Wei San said with some pride .
Li Tieniu's face stiffened . Getting caught this way was indeed not an injustice . He was throughly convinced of the result . Even so, Li Tieniu had an ugly expression on his face . It was indeed his bad luck to be standing beside a person with such incredible memory .
Shi Yun stood out and said with a half smile, "Li Tieniu, as long as you leave now, I'll take it that none of this ever happened . "
"Haha, did you guys really think that you've won? You can't really believe that I've dug up the Star Cloud Metal, right?"
Li Tieniu suddenly started laughing so hard that tears were almost coming out of his eyes . At the same time, he moved aside, revealing the ores behind him .
Seeing Li Tieniu behaving like this, Shi Yun and the rest suddenly had a bad feeling . But when they rushed forward and saw the silvery white ores, their expressions turned exceedingly ugly as well .
"Didn't you say that it's definitely the Metal Essence or the Star Cloud Metal?" Shi Yun turned around and looked at Wei San with hostility .
"My Lord . . . I really didn't know! To my knowledge, only the Star Cloud Metal and the Metal Essence can remain unharmed under the sharpness of the shovel!" Wei San backed up with panic .
'What the heck, this daddy here doesn't have x-ray vison!' If not for him being weaker than Li Tieniu, why would he come to these people and give them the news?
"Trash!"
"Pa!" Shi Yun directly slapped Wei San across the face, causing a loud, crisp sound to ring out through the tunnel .
Shi Yun thought for a moment, and suggested, "In any case, ores that can block a shovel made of frigid steel means that its sturdiness is still very high . Perhaps its a precious ore . How about this, let's all dig it out together and hand it over to the quarry manager . "
Everyone thought for a moment, and nodded . They were already here, and they couldn't possibly return empty-handed . Since no one could verify its value, there was naturally no need to fight each other to the death . If they bit and clawed at each other like dogs over a valueless ore, that would be the funniest tragedy .
"Clang!"
Numerous shovels rose and landed, stabbing into the soil .
The silver white ore, which was originally only the size of a face basin, slowly revealed itself, quickly becoming the size of a car .
"This ore is so huge?!"
The longer the group dug, the more disappointed they felt . Apart from it being hard, they didn't feel anything strange about it at all .
"Eh? There's more!"
A horse cart-sized ore had appeared on the wall of the tunnel, but as they cleared the soil around it, more and more of the ore appeared!
"What a tough ore, it looks like one huge piece, but it's actually numerous ores connected together . There's basically no way to seperate it into individual pieces . " Shi Yun gasped with shock as he looked at the cracked shovel in his hand . In contrast to his shovel, there wasn't even a single mark on the silver ore .
"Let's just report this matter to the quarry manager . With just our cultivation, it's unknown just how long it'll take us to dig this ore out . We can only let the manager send more people to dig it out together . Besides, if this ore is really a treasure, our efforts will definitely be recognized . "
Li Tieniu's mouth twitched uncontrollably as he looked at the huge ore before him . With a shake of his head, he directly tossed his shovel aside, not wanting to dig any longer . Just how much time would they need to dig this stupid thing out?
Everyone also stopped digging, and nodded their heads in agreement . Although the Heaven Domination Sect was very domineering in their actions, they were also very fair . The disciples and the sect leaders were very united, and there was no need to worry about a higher up stealing another disciple's credit .
Shi Yun and Li Tieniu directly turned around and left hurriedly towards the surface level . The others stayed behind to keep watch .
"Sir Manager, we have something to report . "
Under the lead of a few outer court disciples, Shi Yun and Li Tieniu were brought outside a luxurious room .
"Oh? If it isn't something that satisfies me, the few of you can prepare yourselves to dig here to your death . " Wei Shibing's voice sounded out cooly, like the frigid wind .
Although Wei Shibing had the title of the quarry manager, he was only an ordinary disciple of the sect . The quarry manager would be swapped every 10 years; the position was only considered as a simple sect mission for the disciples .
Normally, Wei Shibing would not even show his face, and would spend all his time cultivating instead . Now that he'd been disturbed from his cultivation, his attitude was naturally extremely cold .
It wasn't just Li Tieniu and Shi Yun who felt a chill run down their hearts . Even the few honorary outer court disciples who'd brought them in were trembling with fear . They knew clearly that those words had not only been meant for Li Tieniu and Shi Yun, but for them as well .
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