Fan Ganglie looked at the bottomless cliff in front of him, then looked at the direction of the footprints. They disappeared at the edge of the cliff. His face changed. "Could it be …"
"There are other footprints here. It must have been chased by something and fell off the cliff." Ye Chenshan glanced at the surroundings and said tactfully.
Fan Yujing and Li Ying's faces turned ugly. They had gone through a lot of trouble to find this place. In the previous battle, Fan Ganglie had lost his Azure Snake-Winged Dragon. If the Blood Fox had fallen off the cliff and died, their efforts would have been in vain.
Su Ping didn't say anything. He slowly glanced around, taking in the scattered footprints on the ground, the traces of a battle, the remaining red hair, and the broken bones. He took in all the information.
He suddenly jumped off the Magical Corpse Beast and came to the edge of the cliff. He crouched down and looked into the cliff.
The reason he crouched down was to prevent being attacked and pushed off the cliff. Although he knew Fan Ganglie and the others had no reason to do so, he still had to be vigilant.
It was dark inside the cliff. It was night, so visibility was extremely low.
"Do you have any light sticks?" Su Ping asked Fan Ganglie and the others behind him.
Seeing that Su Ping had come to the edge of the cliff, Fan Ganglie and the others were too embarrassed to continue sitting on the Magical Corpse Beast. Li Ying said, "Yes." He took out a few light sticks from his backpack and handed them to Su Ping.
Su Ping twisted one and threw it into the cliff.
The light stick fell straight down, illuminating the cliffs along the way. The brown cliffs were extremely rough. Dozens of meters away, Su Ping saw a clump of red hair between the cracks. It was the hair of the Blood Fox. The light stick continued to fall, passing over the rough cliffs and illuminating some withered vines that crawled out from the cracks.
Suddenly, Su Ping seemed to see a strange object, but the light was too weak and the fall was too fast for him to see clearly.
He twisted another light stick and threw it down the same path as before.
This time, he saw it clearly. It was an irregular piece of hard rock with dark golden granules embedded in the cliff wall. Its surface was rough.
"Could it be a gold mine?" Su Ping couldn't help but stare blankly. In this unknown region, no human had ever mined before, so it wasn't strange to find a gold mine. This was also the charm of pioneering. Who knew how many pioneers had found a gold mine or uranium mine and become rich?
Su Ping did not expect that he would be so lucky to encounter such a good thing on his first visit. He was pleasantly surprised. However, it would be too difficult for him to harvest this item by himself. He would need to borrow the strength of others.
Besides, it was unlikely that he would be able to monopolize the ores. His storage space was too small. If the ores were metal ores, he would have to rely on his pets to transport them back even if his storage space was full.
At this time, Fan Ganglie picked up a stone and threw it down the cliff. He listened carefully, but there was no response for a long time. His face turned ugly. He turned to Li Ying and said, "Use your earthworm beast to search. If you find the corpse, bring it back."
Li Ying nodded. He summoned his earthworm beast and drilled into the rocks at the edge of the cliff.
Although both pets were of the stone family, the Mountain Quaking Beast did not have the ability to drill into the ground.
Su Ping heard Fan Ganglie's words. His previous surprise disappeared. He sighed to himself. If that was the case, his mission was going to fail.
A moment later, Li Ying suddenly opened his eyes and said in surprise, "The earthworm beast has found the Blood Fox. It is still alive!"
"Huh?" Su Ping, Fan Ganglie, and the others were surprised.
Found? Still alive?
Considering the depth of the cliff, how could a pet like the Blood Fox, which could not fly, survive the fall?
Seeing their stunned expressions, Li Ying smiled and said, "The earthworm beast was found in a cave inside the cliff. The Blood Fox is inside."
"A cave in the cliff?" Su Ping had a strange expression. He suddenly thought of some old men who had been waiting for a long time.
Fan Ganglie was pleasantly surprised. He said at once, "Take us there."
"Yes." Li Ying said, "I will ask the earthworm beast to drill a path."
Not long after, a slanted path appeared under their feet. The earthworm beast had used its body fluid to melt the rocks. They supported themselves with their arms and slowly slid down. At the end of the path was the cave where the Blood Fox was.
After entering the cave, Su Ping quickly looked around. This was not a cave. It was just a hole in the rock wall that was about four or five meters deep. The Blood Fox Flame-tailed Beast was resting inside. When it saw them, it stood up immediately and assumed an aggressive posture. When it saw the familiar faces of Fan Ganglie and Fan Yujing, the hostility disappeared. A look of surprise appeared in its fox-like eyes.
"I finally found you." Fan Ganglie could not help but smile. Although he had suffered a great loss, at least he had completed his mission.
The Blood Fox Flame-tailed Beast lay in front of Fan Ganglie and rubbed against him intimately. Although Fan Ganglie was not its master, he would often feed and tease it. They were very familiar with each other.
Su Ping saw that the Blood Fox only had some wounds on its body. It was not a big deal. He was relieved. This way, his mission could be considered completed.
"So there are withered vines here. It must have used them to slow down and jump here." Ye Chenshan looked at the situation above the concave wall and said in realization.
Su Ping thought of the protruding thing he had seen that looked like a gold mine. He guessed that the Blood Fox had used it to slow down. He immediately said to Li Ying, "There seems to be a metal mine above. Let your earthworm beast make a path there. We will go and take a look."
"Metal mine?"
Li Ying was stunned. Fan Ganglie, Ye Chenshan, and the others also looked over. They were a little shocked, but soon their eyes were filled with joy. They all knew what it meant to find a metal mine in the space crack. If it was a gold mine, they would have made a fortune!
"Let's go and take a look." Fan Ganglie hurriedly urged.
Li Ying was also very tempted. He immediately ordered his earthworm beast to open a path. Everyone climbed up the path and saw a hard object seven to eight meters long and four to five meters wide in the soil.
Fan Ganglie took out a small instrument from his backpack. He scanned the object and measured it. He could test the amount of gold inside.
The others also had such instruments, but they did not take them out. They just moved closer to Fan Ganglie to take a look.
"Uranium content … 0.002%, gold content 2.902% … silver content …"
The contents of many elements appeared like a list. When he saw the contents of uranium and gold, the smile on Fan Ganglie's face disappeared. He was filled with disappointment.
The contents of iron, copper, nickel, vanadium, and other metal elements were also very low. The contents of all the elements on the table did not exceed 5%.
Su Ping looked at the list on the instrument and felt a little strange. If such a big lump of ore did not contain these elements, then what could it be? At that moment, the little skeleton at his feet suddenly sent out an excited consciousness. It reached out its skeleton claws and touched the lump of ore, looking very envious.
Su Ping was a little surprised. Then, he realized that this was most likely not a mineral of earth elements, but some other unknown mineral that was useful to undead creatures.
"System, can you identify it?" Su Ping asked silently in his heart.
The system said, "Yes."
Su Ping was pleasantly surprised. "Then what is this?"
"Appraisal fee is 100 energy points per attempt." The system said.
Su Ping almost vomited blood. This also had to be charged?
Thinking of his remaining six to seven hundred energy points, he gritted his teeth and paid.
The system first notified him of the energy deduction information, then said, "This is a nether stone mine, a condensation of undead energy. It can be refined into nether stones. Nether stones can be used for cultivation, and they are also used as currency in the underworld and the world of the dead."
"Nether stones?" Su Ping was stunned. "So, this is something similar to spirit stones?"
"You can understand it that way."
Su Ping came to a realization and asked, "Can you refine this thing?"
"Yes."
"Really? That's too emotional …"
"Refining costs 100 energy points."
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