Chapter 208 - Bug Slave
“So annoying!”
Ji Hao complained, while stretching his arms and standing in front of the other people. His whole body was burning like a human-shaped torch. Countless black bugs opened their jaws, showing their dense and sharp teeth, spurting dark-green saliva, and rushed madly towards Ji Hao.
However, whenever they came at a hundred zhang distance from Ji Hao, their bodies would begin to turn red. If they moved tens of more zhang closer, all their internal organs would be burned, causing their bodies to become solid and empty, black carapaces.
A visible, muddy sphere of wind appeared behind Feng Xing’s body. Within that sphere, a blurred silhouette could be seen twisting madly and intensely. After the appearance of the silhouette, countless tiny streams of whirlwinds blew up from the ground, rolled the empty carapaces up and out of the mine.
Large groups of Rong Mountain Clan people, holding all kinds of tools, happily carried those carapaces away, and piled them orderly up on the ground. Each of them had faces filled with a smile.
The bug queen, which was curled up on the ground, raised its upper body slightly, and stared at Ji Hao viciously, with all eighteen compound eyes on its small head, while spurting out thick, dark-green liquid from its mouth. The queen then began to scream shrilly. Followed by its voice, even more bugs rushed out from the tens of paths, buzzing and screaming, darting towards Ji Hao, showing no fear of death.
Those large bugs, which had over a zhang wide carapaces, shook their heavy body and moved slowly towards Ji Hao. When they were still hundreds of zhang away from Ji Hao, these large bugs would shake their wings intensely and emit wisps of black and silver helix-formed thorns, along with which, their bodies swelled quickly.
These thorns were only a foot long and a-thumb-thick, glowing and especially sharp. Along with high-pitched swishing sounds, these thorns madly darted towards Ji Hao. However, Man Man laughed out loud and leapt up towards Ji Hao. She lifted her pair of hammers up and shielded him behind them. All of those thorns clanged against her hammers then fell on the ground.
Man Man’s hammers were forged by a master craftsman of the Zhu Rong Country with all kinds of natural treasures. Therefore, the naturally-grown thorns of these bugs were unable to do any harm to it.
Elder Iron Yan hurriedly walked up while carefully avoiding the streams of flames spurted out by Ji Hao, then grabbed a black and white thorn. He took out a tiny hammer and hammered hard on that thorn a couple of times, then abruptly yelled out in excitement, “Silver tungsten!! This tungsten steel mine is accompanied by a silver tungsten mine! It is a treasure!! Ten times more valuable than tungsten steel!!”
Iron Yan excitedly raised both of his arms and shouted, “We are blessed by our great ancestors, this silver tungsten mine belongs to our Rong Mountain Clan! With this mine, our Rong Mountain Clan will certainly thrive! Thank our good ancestors, this silver tungsten mine is ours, ours!”
Ji Hao threw a glance at Iron Yan. A mine of silver tungsten was quite rare and hard to find, which was why it was known as a kind of precious mine. Silver tungsten on itself was nothing too special, but after melting it and using it with other metals to form alloys, it would hugely improve the rigidity and the sharpness of such an alloy. For example, if we compare two sharp swords that was crafted by one master blacksmith, using the same materials, except that one contained a bit of silver tungsten and the other didn’t, the one with silver tungsten would be able to cut the other one into two.
In the Southern Wasteland, high-quality weapons that contained silver tungsten was unreasonably expensive. Ji Hao remembered clearly the time when he was three-year-old, a trade caravan passed by their clan, buying all the stored leathers and beast bones that had been saved up by all the people of the Gold Black Mountain for a whole year and a half, with only a hundred silver tungsten weapons. Nearly ten million Gold Black Mountain people had worked very hard for an entire year and a half, saving those leathers and bones bit by bit as their properties, but they traded all that property for only a hundred weapons that contained little bit silver tungsten.
Facing such a valuable mine, Elder Iron Yan’s reaction made Ji Hao feel very unpleasant. When the Rong Mountain Clan begged the Magi Palace to help them for this task of immigration and mine exploitation, they never mentioned a word about the possibility that the tungsten steel mine might be accompanied by a silver tungsten mine. Only one small silver tungsten mine was many times more valuable than all three tungsten mines that they had detected so far.
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