Chapter 179 Coal Mine, Steel Fire!
Xu Xin walked to the window and looked outside the tree house.
Although his eyesight is no longer so strong, Xu Xin's hearing is now extraordinary and he can clearly hear the movement around the tree house.
He heard the cry of the little pangolin under the tree house, as well as the chirping of various insects and birds, but other than that, there were no sounds from animals.
Without yesterday's super vision, he could no longer see things in the distance clearly, but he still remembered that one of the treehouses of other survivors he had seen before was in the east direction. He decided to go all the way east, Go find that survivor's treehouse.
Since the distance is so close, the tree house over there should be owned by the people in Jungle Area 188.
But before that, he still had to take care of some things around the tree house.
Looking at the lake next to the tree house, the lake was rippling in the wind. On the map, there was no red dot showing the location of the lake.
Because Xu Xin has eaten blue-level resources, her ability to withstand water pressure has increased, and she can now explore deeper into the lake.
Also, the yellow patch in the field of vision a hundred meters away from the tree house is the alchemy material. It’s time to dig it out and see what it is.
He planned to go down to find his concubine first to dig up materials.
"Hey!" It could be seen that Xu Xin was about to go out, so he also climbed up from the sofa and quickly climbed onto Xu Xin's shoulders.
Xu Xin rubbed Coco's little head, took Coco out together, and came to the concubine's cave under the tree house.
A ring of red berry bushes has grown around the entrance of the cave, laden with fruits. This was cooked by Xu Xin using green grade fertilizer last night. The purpose is to cover the entrance of the hole. This looks much more comfortable.
Cocoa was immediately attracted by the red fruits and jumped down to pick the fruits to eat. Xu Xin slipped into the hole.
Aifei was lying in the hole, and the two little guys next to her had just finished eating and were lying on the ground with their bellies in the air, twisting their bodies slightly.
Good guys, these two little guys... are they a little bigger? Xu Xin stepped forward and picked up one.
Concubine Ai just glanced at him and didn't stop him.
He weighed it, causing the little guy in his arms to scream twice. Sure enough, it has sunk a lot more!
The growth rate of the giant beast bloodline is really not slow, I really look forward to them growing up.
"My beloved concubine, come with me. I need you to help me dig a place." Xu Xin put the little guy down and said to his beloved concubine who was lying on the ground.
Concubine Ai made a sound as clear as a bird's chirp, stood up, and said yes.
Xu Xin crawled out from the hole, followed closely by her beloved concubine, and the two little ones followed their mother.
"Ugh!" Coco looked at the two little guys in surprise with her small mouth, and there were still berries in her mouth that she had not swallowed. It feels like these two little guys are going to be bigger than it soon!
As soon as the little guys came out, they were pushed into the hole by my beloved concubine. They were well-behaved and did not come out again.
With Aifei and Coco, Xu Xin came near the yellow light. The yellow light was obviously emitted from the ground. Looking closer, it was not even shallow, at least five or six meters deep.
"This is it. Dig down. There should be something underneath." Xu Xin also took out his shovel.
Concubine Ai immediately started digging at the location pointed by Xu Xin. The scattered soil caused Xu Xin, who was about to swing the shovel, to stop his movements.
Good guy, the digging speed is really fast. He even took out the shovel to help, but it was completely unnecessary.
Seeing his beloved concubine completely plunged into the hole, Xu Xin put away the shovel. He would only be doing a disservice.
While it was digging a hole, Xu Xin walked around.
It is nearly two hundred meters away from the tree house and outside the protection range of the plant heart. Except for the yellow light shining in this area, there is no other yellow light around.
It seems that only that area around the tree house contains alchemy materials.
He walked around again near the entrance of the cave with the mutated plant heart. Unfortunately, the cave disappeared together with the mark on the map.
Why? Was it filled in by someone?
Xu Xin stepped on the original location of the hole and dug a few times with a shovel. There was thick soil underneath.
Strange...
But it's a pity that he probably won't be able to go to the place where Ji Chaoyang knows the secret.
Xu Xin turned around twice more and returned to the position where Ai Fei was digging a hole. At this time, a hole about one meter in diameter had appeared on the ground, and the sound of digging could be heard from inside, but it was not digging soil. Instead, it seemed like he was chipping away at stone.
Coco jumped off his shoulder and jumped directly into the hole.
Soon, the sound of digging stopped, and Xu Xin looked into the cave.
Not only did the yellow light representing the alchemy materials appear in front of me, but there was also the green light representing the color grade.
Green-level materials have been dug out!
At this time, Coco crawled out of the hole with a black thing in its mouth, then spit it on the ground and stuck out its little tongue. The sides of its mouth were black, and the hair on its body was also black. Stained with some black.
Xu Xin picked up the fist-sized black pieces spat out by Coco.
【Obtain coal*1】
[Coal (green): A very efficient furnace fuel that can improve the melting efficiency of the furnace. It is also one of the indispensable raw materials for refining steel. 】
The notification sound made the corners of Xu Xin's mouth curl up.
It’s really coal, awesome! With coal, he can burn steel blocks!
Xu Xin slipped directly from the hole.
Aifei has stopped digging, and it has dug out a lot of space below. Xu Xin discovered that the area under his feet is all black coal mines!
"So many! This is too much!"
The cave was filled with coal that Ai Fei had dug up while digging, and Xu Xin immediately collected the coal.
【Obtain coal*367】
Good guy, it only took a long time to dig, and so much has been found!
Xu Xin took out his pickaxe and swung it down. "Crack", the coal mine shattered on the ground, and more than a dozen pieces of coal were scattered.
Come on, there is a lot of coal shipped. With this coal mine, he can refine steel!
A steel fire requires 25 pieces of coal and 1kg of mutant vine juice. He originally thought that it would consume a lot of materials and might not be able to be mass-produced. Unexpectedly, the output of this coal was ridiculously large!
Moreover, there is no need for him to do it himself. Concubine Ai can produce hundreds or even thousands of coals just by digging for half a minute!
As for the mutant vine juice, he still has a lot of it, and although he gave them some of the bloody thorn vines last time, there is still a lot left. After collecting all the juice, another few hundred kilograms will not be a problem.
"My beloved concubine, dig a little more!" Xu Xin directed her beloved concubine.
Aifei continued to use its sharp claws to mine the coal in the cave. Soon, the amount of coal in Xu Xin's hand reached 1,000 pieces.
"Okay, oh, by the way, dig the hole wider, otherwise you have to climb up and down every time." Although the hole with a diameter of one meter is enough for the concubine to get up and down, for a man like him who stands and walks, Still too small. This is a mine he will come to frequently in the future, so of course he needs to handle it better.
After making the entrance of the cave bigger, Xu Xin walked out of the cave. His scales had turned pitch black.
Xu Xin, who had been lying at the entrance of the cave and looking in, could see that Xu Xin, dressed in pitch black, came out of it, was stunned for two seconds, and then covered his mouth with his little paws, as if he was laughing.
"You little guy!" Xu Xin angrily lifted Coco onto her shoulders, "You don't even look at yourself. There is no hair on your body that is not black!"
"Hey!" When Coco heard what Xu Xin said, he immediately shook his body, the black powder scattered, and the hair on his body immediately became shiny again.
I really envy Ke Ke’s body that can be very clean without taking a shower.
Carrying thousands of pieces of coal, Xu Xin quickly returned to the tree house. He did not rush to refine the steel fire first, but went to the lake to clean it first. Concubine Ai also rolled in the mud by the lake, washing the black ash from her body in the unique way of pangolins.
Standing in the shallow water by the lake, looking at the deep and calm center of the lake, Xu Xin considered whether to go down now and take a look.
Now that his ability to withstand pressure has become stronger, he should be able to collect the green ore at a depth of forty meters.
"Hey!" Coco suddenly called out by the lake, her voice a little anxious.
...Is there danger in the middle of the lake?
Xu Xin's pupils shrank, she retreated from the lake, and asked Coco standing by the lake: "Is there any danger in the lake?"
"Hey!" Coco nodded with certainty.
After receiving a positive reply from Coco, he looked at the map and saw that there were no red dots. It seems that it is probably the giant anaconda in the middle of the lake. Could it be that after the second stage, the giant anaconda will return?
Probably not... Even if teamwork is possible in the second stage, it would be a bit exaggerated to deal with an extremely huge anaconda that can dive into the water. This guy cannot be dealt with without large thermal weapons!
In short, diving in the center of the lake is temporarily unavailable.
Taking one last look at the seemingly peaceful but deeply dangerous center of the lake, Xu Xin turned and left.
Back in the treehouse, Coco ran to communicate with Silver King Mimi, while Xu Xin came to the alchemy room again, clicked on the production list of the alchemy synthesis station, and found Steel Fire.
[Steel Fire: Add it to the furnace together with the refined iron blocks to smelt steel blocks of the same grade. Requires mutated vine juice*1kg, coal (green)*25】
He immediately clicked on refining.
Although it is called steel fire, it is not fire, but a black viscous liquid that is somewhat similar to the universal alchemy material. He filled it with a reagent bottle, and a bottle of steel fire was completed. Next, he only needed to pour it into the furnace together with the iron block to refine the steel block!
Xu Xin came to the furnace, put a piece of iron (blue) in, poured in the steel fire, and finally put a few pieces of coal under the furnace. The introduction of coal says that it can improve the efficiency of the furnace.
[Smelting: Steel block. Remaining smelting time: 50 minutes. 】
ah? 50 minutes? !
It takes too long to make steel! This is still the time after coal improves the efficiency of the furnace. The normal time will not be one hour...
No, smelting is not his strong point. This kind of thing should be left to Li Wenxi. She has many furnaces and has an enhanced smelting room, and her speed is many times that of his.
Xu Xin went to the alchemy room to refine several copies of Steel Fire, and then directly initiated a transaction with Li Wenxi.
Within two seconds, the transaction was accepted, and at the same time, Li Wenxi's video call came directly.
After Xu Xin got through, he found her outside the tree house, riding on the back of a cow, wearing a close-fitting leather armor, looking heroic.
He suddenly remembered that Li Wenxi's blue-level armor was given to Wang Lei during the last event.
"Aniu, go back, we're not going, let's go back to the tree house! Ah, Xu Xin, how did you find the materials that can make steel?" Li Wenxi, who was urging the ox under him to go back, saw Xu Xin picking up After watching the video, he immediately asked a little excitedly.
"Well... I gained an ability, alchemy." Xu Xin decided not to hide it from her. Not only was he not going to hide it from her, he was not going to hide it from other people in [Explorer] either.
Alchemy is too powerful to increase the survivors' own abilities. Now they are all grasshoppers in the same boat, with the same interests and interests. It is time to crowdfund materials and benefit others and ourselves.
"Alchemy?!" Li Wenxi's eyes widened a little more, "It sounds so powerful. Are you asking me for so many materials just for alchemy?"
"Yes, this steel fire is made through alchemy. I tried it myself. The refining of the steel block is very time-consuming, so I want to ask you to refine it. The refined steel block will be divided into 50 and 50. How? ”
He produces the steel fire, Li Wenxi produces the iron block, and is also responsible for refining it, and then splits it into 50-50, which is very suitable.
"Leave it to me!" Li Wenxi patted her mediocre chest and said confidently, "My smelting room is absolutely fast. I have added all the decorations sold in the points mall to the smelting room. Now the smelting speed has increased. More than doubled, you are guaranteed to be satisfied! Mass production is not a dream!”
"I don't need any 50/50 split. If you are short of materials, I will help you make it. However, if you have it, I want it too!" Li Wenxi knew that even if she made the steel block, she would not be able to use it to make things. , after all, only Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang can use metal to make weapons and armor, and the most she can do is use metal to make survival tools.
Xu Xin naturally had no problem. He was going to open the alchemy products to the outside world: "Okay, no problem. Go back and refine it quickly. I will carve a statue for you to help you increase the smelting speed."
"That's great! You have to follow my body proportions this time, hehe."
Thanks to [Yueyang Chihan] for the reward of 200 starting coins and [With Light and Dust] for the reward of 100 starting coins. Thank you both for your support! Thank you!
Today’s two chapters are presented!
At the beginning of a new stage, there are a lot of things to deal with, and it’s a bit difficult to write. I originally wanted to post more today, but I couldn’t write anymore. I just wrote so many revisions. I won’t do any updates recently. I have to plan carefully for the second time. Stage
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