The news of the golden skeleton made the people who were ready to start a war pay more attention to it. Joey Smith was going to take revenge for his comrades who might have been sacrificed.
John Junior, on the other hand, was trying to get in touch with people from the same organization who were in neighboring towns. The reason why he paid so much attention to it was that the group of Mages who invaded the mining village and the people on the bounty list seemed to have gathered together. Four people, one man, two women, and a skeleton.
The news that the original target was a man and three women was accurate. Although it sounded incredible that one of the women had been replaced by a skeleton. But considering another rumor, that one of the women by the man's side was actually a Lich, Rhode thought to himself. Then it was understandable that she had turned into a skeleton, which also confirmed the fact that the woman was a Lich.
The bounty was very tempting, but it also depended on whether one had a way to monopolize it. Compared with greed, John Junior, who had been rolling in the Dark World, knew how to be prudent. His first priority was of course his own life. He had seen too many people who valued money more than their lives, and in the end, they ended up in a situation where they had too much money to spend. He was able to live until now, naturally, he was not a hothead who only knew how to fight and kill.
Because of this, both Joey Smith and John Junior postponed the counterattack on the mining village. They needed more preparation.
And the few people in the mine didn't have the feeling that a great war was coming at all, because they didn't know at all. After dragging the carriage with all their belongings to the vicinity of the mine, Lin and Fen flashed directly into the mine tunnel.
The dense aura of authority was supposed to make people feel refreshed. But considering that the mine tunnel was now closed, the air was extremely stagnant, and an indescribable smell pervaded it. Not to mention that in the depths, there was a dead gold-digging worm in the largest mine. The stench was faintly wafting over, and the deeper they went, the more obvious the smell became.
He took Fen to quickly walk through several key points in the mine, mainly to see if the magic stone content here could meet the Lich's needs. Finally, they came to the mine where the two girls were.
The headless gold-digging beetle had already been torn apart by the two girls. Perhaps it was because there was a huge difference between an insect's body and a human's body, or even a mammal's body, so apart from the nausea of taste and touch, there was no mental pressure. Therefore, the two stingy girls searched for a long time and found many good things from the insect corpses.
The first thing he noticed was that the worm had migrated from somewhere else. This could be seen from the numerous stones on its body.
At first, Lin thought that the stones were just junk. However, when Kaya was cutting open the hard outer skin of the gold-digging worm, she had inadvertently shaved off a layer of stone beneath the worm's skin, revealing a metal part that was still shining under their weak Illumination.
The two girls looked at each other and hurriedly removed the gold-digging worm stones that had been thrown to the side as trash, revealing their original appearance.
None of these large and small stones had the same material attributes, and they didn't seem to be associated with the Magic Stone vein. Relying on his teacher's convenience, the two girls had seen many rare materials. Even so, they could only recognize thirty to forty percent of these stones. Even their teacher was blind to most of the ores.
Fen might have recognized them, but she only glanced at them and didn't continue to pay attention. Maybe they weren't anything good, Lin thought to himself. His knowledge of raw ores was based on what he bought and what he wrote when he bought them. What characteristics they had and what they could be used for were almost always the results of other people's appraisals.
Considering that these metals could survive in the gold-digging worm's digestive system, even if they weren't top-grade materials, they should have mutated. Therefore, even if he didn't recognize them, Lin planned to keep these metal lumps.
He left the two girls to help Fen prepare. Ignoring the basic life magic material, the Soup of Life, to create life required an unimaginable amount of power. Lin wasn't surprised by this at all.
He recalled the experiment on the origin of life on Earth. In a special environment, lightning and thunder struck for a long time before a small amount of amino acid was synthesized out of thin air. To create enough materials to synthesize a "human" would require more than a million times more.
On Earth, scientists could use inorganic materials to synthesize organic materials. However, they didn't have any idea how to go further.
In the mysterious land, as long as the relevant materials were available, anything could be created. Whether it was necromancy, life magic, or even the creation of gods, creating living things wasn't that far-fetched and far-fetched.
Even Lin had always had a suspicion. The starting point of this question was the almost non-existent reproductive isolation among all the homo sapiens species in the mysterious land. So, was it possible that all the homo sapiens species in the mysterious land actually had the same origin, and all had 22 pairs of chromosomes plus two pairs of chromosomes? In other words, they were all once human.
If so, then why were there so many species of homo sapiens now? If that was not the case, then what was the reason for ignoring the rules of reproductive isolation?
Lin always felt that there was a shocking mystery behind this. However, Lin's curiosity only lasted for three seconds before he threw it to the back of his mind. There was a reason why he didn't develop in the field of biology but in the field of physics.
Besides, it didn't matter if he knew the answer or not. After all, a person's energy was limited, and knowledge was boundless. Knowing astronomy and geography, being able to be both an artist and an inventor, the best example of this was the European Renaissance. Since Leonardo da Vinci, there had never been a genius who could shine in different fields with the same brilliance.
This wasn't because the geniuses of later generations weren't as good as the geniuses of ancient times, but because the depth and breadth of knowledge were on a completely different level.
Maybe in the future, when he had time, he would discuss with Fen and throw this topic to her to see if she was interested in finding some homo sapiens other than humans to study.
Right now, Lin had another thing to do, and that was to dig up the collapsed tunnel again.
Although Blink was very convenient, and it wasn't difficult to take the two girls away now. However, considering that there were many precious or rare materials in the mine, using Blink to move didn't seem like a good choice.
The fact that a higher dimensional world could bring both psychological and physical pollution to living creatures had been confirmed. Even plants couldn't completely escape this influence.
Lin Yong flashed back continuously. The pot of Ghost Lantern Grass that he brought back for Hallumi was now used as meat, and it had a particularly good appetite. The pot of grass even looked just like its owner when it ate. It was especially fragrant and sweet, and it would squint its eyes in excitement when it ate something delicious. The people watching couldn't help but have a great appetite and eat a few more mouthfuls of food.
The high-dimensional world would also have an effect on inorganic objects. When he was experimenting with magic earlier, the frequent flashes made a certain person's cloak suddenly open a big moving eye, which scared the master and disciples … Well, it was basically a certain transmigrator who was scared.
Lin Yong wasn't in the mood to study what this thing was and simply destroyed it. It was too similar to the big eyeball of the G-cell monster in the Ghost Castle! The area of his psychological trauma was too large.
The various phenomena that he observed later also confirmed that everything that entered the high-dimensional world would be polluted and mutated to some extent. To avoid such a situation, the Blink protective shield that was used to carry people could also be used. However, Lin Yong couldn't use Blink multiple times while activating the protective shield. Also, the larger the volume that had to be protected, the greater the consumption.
In order to protect inorganic substances, there had to be more targeted research. Otherwise, when he entered the high-dimensional world, he could only choose to run naked in order to avoid the pollution of his belongings. Doing so felt like putting the cart before the horse.
There were many good things found in the mine, and most of them were quite precious. If they were polluted by the high-dimensional world because of this, even if it wasn't all a bad change, it would be too much of a pity. To this day, Lin Yong still hadn't found a way to reverse these pollution phenomena. He could only use a more passive method to deal with it.
Therefore, in order to safely bring the things out of the mine, he had to face this tunnel that was blocked by the collapsed earth and rocks. So what should he do?
What else could he do? Dig.
Although he wasn't a civil engineering major, he could still set up wooden pillars to support wherever it collapsed. This simple operation was still possible. The idea of using the Dimensional Banishment Spell to open up the tunnel in one go was ruled out from the beginning. This place would collapse precisely because there was no support. Even if he opened up the tunnel in one go, it would only collapse again.
In the direction of the excavation, Lin Yong chose to dig from the outside to the inside. The most important thing was the firewood used to support the pillars. The village had prepared quite a lot of it, but they were all placed by the small square outside the mine. It was also because these tools and materials placed by the entrance of the tunnel were not concealed at all from the beginning that a certain someone felt that this group of villagers had bad intentions. After entering the tunnel, he was a little more careful.
However, since it had happened, it had to be wrapped up. The seemingly heavy work of civil engineering was not an easy task for a mage. He cast the Potency Spell on himself and the Lightness Spell on the wood. He used the Dimensional Banishment Spell to cut away the earth that was blocking the tunnel bit by bit to avoid cutting too much in one go and not having enough time to support the pillars.
Because the three women were busy in the depths of the mine and no one disturbed them, Lin Yong's work speed was actually faster. Before the sky turned dark, the tunnel had been completely opened up and reinforced. As he didn't plan to stay here for long, this tunnel was also a temporary one, so Lin Yong didn't consider anything about aesthetics or convenience. He just inserted pillars wherever he needed.
As for the problem of others mining in the future, to be honest, based on Fen's posture, she planned to suck the vein dry. Because he didn't plan to stay for long, a certain someone didn't feel the pinch at all when this mine was destroyed. In any case, it wasn't destroyed, and he couldn't take much away, so he might as well let Lich use it all.
Firstly, she had a use for it. Secondly, it was better to benefit his own people than others. Besides, this was a private mine that no one knew about. It was much better than going to the heavily protected magic stone mine in the future when there was a need.
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