Chapter 242 Explore the Jukou Salt Mine Cave Again (4000 words!)
Several people mounted their mounts again and headed towards Xu Xin's protected area.
Silver King habitually slowed down and walked side by side with the white horse.
The few people were getting farther and farther away from their previous positions, and the blood lines on Silver King's body gradually faded as the distance increased, and finally returned to normal.
Xu Xin calculated the distance and found that it was now more than ten kilometers away. It seems that the scope of influence of this unknown increase is only about a dozen kilometers in radius.
They can now clearly see Xu Xin's tree house in the distance.
"That tree house is yours, right?" Li Wenxi looked very interested, pointing to the rich green in front of her, "I'm finally going to visit your tree house. It's great. I haven't seen the fourth floor yet." The tree house! ”
"No, let's not go to the tree house first. We are going to a special place over there. Maybe it has something to do with the abilities we have obtained." Xu Xin shook his head.
"Huh? Didn't you happen to be passing by? Just go in and take a look..." Li Wenxi leaned into Xu Xin's arms.
"No, it's late autumn now. It can be seen from the dawn time this morning that the daylight hours are very short now. I'm afraid it will get dark in a few hours. We have to finish the business first." Xu Xin refused.
There is also Lou Fei'er in his tree house. If we really want to meet him, given Lou Fei'er's character, it might take a long time.
"Um...Okay." Li Wenxi pursed her lips and compromised.
"What is so special about the special area you are talking about? Like just now, mutated creatures will become stronger?" Qi Xuefei asked Xu Xin.
She has now basically adapted to the bumps of horseback riding and no longer feels any discomfort.
"It's hard to describe. You can tell it when you go to the place and take a quick look."
Thinking of the salt mine cave that looked like a huge mouth, Xu Xin still felt a little weak.
To be honest, if he were alone, he would not dare to go in and explore. At most, he would just take a look outside.
After experiencing the defense battle and the busyness of these two days, this was the first time he returned there after the red mist incident.
I don't know if the "big mouth" is still a dangerous area and whether salt mining can continue.
He asked on the regional channel that no one else had discovered the salt mine except him, so currently, that mine is the only place in District 188 where salt can be mined.
Now there is not much salt left in his hands. If they can no longer mine it and their population continues to increase, they will really start to lack salt.
"After you have been to Xu Xin's side, you have to go to my side again. There is also a very strange place in my place." Ji Chaoyang pointed to Xu Xin's tree house, "Xu Xin's tree house is further west. , is my tree house, not far away.”
Silver King and White Horse continued to shuttle through the desolate and bare jungle, and soon, several people had entered Xu Xin's protected area.
"Did you see the hills?" Xu Xin pointed to the circle of hills in the northwest, "That's where it is."
"These hills are actually connected together! Is this a circle?" Li Wenxi was a little surprised, because the hills on her side were scattered randomly. "Just looking at these hills, you can feel the specialness there!" In a circle, it looks like a formation..."
"Wrapped in the hills is a resource area. The mysterious altar is in the resource area surrounded by the hills." Xu Xin explained.
"What does resource area mean..." Li Wenxi raised her head and asked.
"Hmm..." Xu Xin then thought that Li Wenxi and the others did not have the ability to identify and could not tell where the resources were more abundant, so he explained, "It is an area with a lot of resources above the green level. The place where you plant the tree house is a resource. District.”
"Where is my place?" Qi Xuefei turned to look at him and asked, "Is my place a resource area?"
Xu Xin nodded and said: "The tree houses for the four of us are all planted in the resource area."
Li Wenxi relied on mineral resources to find a location, while Qi Xuefei looked for a place rich in medicinal herbs. The place where they planted the tree house was naturally a resource area.
"Where is the altar..." Ji Chaoyang's expression changed slightly as he looked at Qiu Ling, "The special area over there is not far from the altar."
Xu Xin was not surprised.
The altar is surrounded by things linked to the so-called "gods", so it is naturally a little special.
"Altar? What altar?" Li Wenxi asked confused.
"I don't know what altar there is." Qi Xuefei also couldn't understand what Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang were talking about.
"Huh? There are no altars around your tree house? After the expansion of the protected area, have you carefully searched the protected area?"
There were so many things going on in the past two days that Xu Xin almost forgot about the altar. He and Ji Chaoyang's altar was discovered more than three kilometers away after they obtained the gold treasure box and expanded the protected area to six kilometers.
He had never heard of anyone else seeing the altar.
But now, everyone's protected area has been expanded to six kilometers. According to the previous rules, other survivors should have discovered the altar one after another.
"Hmm... I haven't searched carefully." Li Wenxi shook her head and looked at Qi Xuefei, "Where are you, Sister Xuefei?"
"Don't look at me, today is my first time to go on a long trip after the reserve was expanded." Qi Xuefei waved her hand, a little helpless. It was her first time to go on a long trip and she encountered something like that. It was really a bad start.
"They should not have an altar." Ji Chaoyang spoke at this time, "I have paid attention to this matter before, and also observed the conversations of other survivors on the map channel. I also tested it anonymously, and no survivors saw it. Been to the altar.”
"That is to say...maybe there is an altar in the protected area where only the two of us are in District 188?" Xu Xin said to herself.
"That should be the case. Maybe it's just that the two of us are just right next to the two altars, or maybe it's because... the altars only appeared in our protected area after we obtained the gold treasure chest and expanded the scope of the protected area. Inside." Ji Chaoyang analyzed and gave two possibilities.
"...So what are you talking about!" Li Wenxi and Qi Xuefei listened in confusion, as if they were listening to a conversation between two Riddlers.
Xu Xin explained the situation of the altar to them.
"Ah! No wonder your points in hunting activities are so high! It turns out that you have killed mutant beasts at that time! Five hundred points for one, my God!" Li Wenxi exclaimed, "What a profit!"
"It's not profitable. With our ability at the time, it was very difficult to kill an intermediate mutant beast." Xu Xin said to Li Wenxi angrily. He pointed to his left shoulder, "At that time, my shoulder was directly I was pierced by that rabbit hole. If it weren’t for the iron armor set made of iron blocks and Sister Xue Fei’s blue-level hemostatic grass, I’m afraid I would have ended up there.”
"Sacrifice...and then the stone statue shattered and resurrected, turning into a mutant creature?" Qi Xuefei was also shocked by what happened at the altar, "What you experienced is really magical."
"You have blue-level armor, so it's pretty good." Ji Chaoyang couldn't help but smile bitterly when he thought of the scene where the wild cat attacked him like crazy just after being summoned.
"I didn't even have blue-level leather armor at the time, and the white horses at that time were smaller and much slower than they are now. I finally managed to kill the blood-striped cat. Both of us were covered in heavy metal. It's a deep injury. Without Qi Xuefei's hemostatic grass, it and I wouldn't be able to survive." As he spoke, he touched the white horse's head.
The white horse also barked in response to Ji Chaoyang.
"Oh... let me tell you," Qi Xuefei showed a look of surprise, "When I was talking about hunting activities, why did you ask me for so many styptic grasses? It turned out to be because of this. I was still surprised at the time, even I didn't Why are you injured? Why is there something going on over there? I thought you were a smart person but not very capable physically.”
"It's okay if you say that," Ji Chaoyang said with a smile, "Compared to Xu Xin, my combat power is indeed weaker, let alone Wen Guixin. I can't do any of the things she does. to.”
"Sister Guixin is special. Her abilities must be of the combat type, and we can't compare to them. However, you were so dangerous that time..." Li Wenxi's voice was slightly worried, and she touched Xu Xin's left hand with her hand. Shoulder, "There are no sequelae, right?"
"Of course not, the effect of styptic grass is still good."
Compared with the more advanced hemostatic pills that Qi Xuefei can make now, which can quickly heal all injuries after being eaten, the hemostatic grass does have great flaws. It needs to be ground and applied, and can only repair wounds on a certain part of the body.
But for the original penetrating injury, it was completely sufficient.
"Listen to what you said, isn't this altar a special existence? Your two top and second-largest bosses in the region are beside the altar."
Xu Xin is actually more inclined to the possibility that the two nearby altars have always existed.
After all, the Changyin family wanted to find this altar when they came out of the underground. They had learned decades ago from a mysterious voice that there was an altar on the ground.
So the altar should not have appeared recently.
Or...sometimes and sometimes not?
At this time, several people had arrived less than one kilometer away from the circle of hills. And because the surrounding trees were all bare and the view was much better than before, they could already see the entirety of the hills relatively clearly.
"Huh?" Ji Chaoyang first made a sound of surprise, looking at the hill near the salt mine cave not far away.
Xu Xin glanced at him out of the corner of her eye and found that his expression was a little solemn.
It seems that he has discovered something abnormal.
This guy's observation ability is really strong. It took him a long time to discover it. Of course, at that time, there was a dense jungle blocking the sight, and the sight was not good. If you don't find a good angle, you can't see the whole picture from a distance.
Soon, they were within five hundred meters.
"There are a lot of metal mines here, almost the same as my place!" Li Wenxi looked at the hilly road ahead.
"Metal mines? Where are they?" Xu Xin thought of something and asked her immediately.
"Hmm... It's a bit strange. The metal mines are not in the mountains, but underground in the mountains. There are no metal mines in this hilly mountain. Why is this?" Li Wenxi was a little confused.
There is no ore in the mountain, but there is...
Xu Xin felt a little scared again.
He thought that during the rainy season, all these hills disappeared without a trace. After the rainy season, they came back without any change, not even the crooked-neck trees on the hills.
But now, those crooked-neck trees have all withered to the point of being bare as the weather turns colder.
These hills are really probably alive.
"Okay, here it is."
Silver King stopped a hundred meters away from the salt mine cave, and White Horse also stopped together.
"What's going on here?" Li Wenxi looked around. Ahead was the entrance to the resource area surrounded by hills. She thought she was going to go in directly.
"The mine in front is where I collected salt before. I told you, it was very dangerous here."
"Ah, it's that hole! You did say, is it still dangerous now?" Li Wenxi asked, touching Coco who was still confused in her arms.
Ji Chaoyang had already narrowed his eyes and started looking at the hills.
"Ah!" Qi Xuefei also noticed the clue, covered her mouth and opened her eyes wide.
"What's wrong with you?" Li Wenxi was a little puzzled. She followed the gazes of several people and looked at them carefully: "Hmm...? Is there something wrong... Ah! Oh my God!"
Li Wenxi also noticed the situation, her eyes widened instantly, she pointed at the hills ahead and exclaimed: "This...is this a head?"
The three people except Xu Xin all looked nervously at this strange hill.
"Come on, let's take a closer look. There may be danger nearby." Xu Xin got off the Silver King and slowly approached the salt mine.
At this time, he missed Mimi a little. If Mimi is here, you can let her go in quickly and take a look.
His tree house is nearby now, so he can call Mimi over.
...Forget it, let Mimi look at Lou Fei'er first. That woman can't completely believe it at this stage.
Several people walked slowly towards the cave.
"...Huh?" Coco, who was held in Li Wenxi's arms, suddenly woke up. Looking at the familiar salt mine in front of him, he tilted his little head and let out a somewhat confused cry.
"How is Coco? Is there still danger in the mine now?" Xu Xin asked Coco.
"Huh..." Coco tilted her little head again, as if thinking for a moment, and then shook her head, "Huh."
"What does it mean?" Ji Chaoyang, who had been looking at the hills, glanced at Coco and asked.
"There should be no danger in the cave now," Xu Xin touched Coco's little head and said, "However, you still have to be careful. Coco's general attitude means that although it doesn't feel any danger now, it is still not sure. It's safe inside, but there may be potential dangers."
"This giant head is sleeping, is that what you mean?" Qi Xuefei made a joke.
Several people stopped at the entrance of the salt mine. Looking at the huge mouth-like entrance, they felt a little frightened. (End of chapter)