After Zhang Ziyi left, only Lin Tian and Xiao Cui were left in the carriage. In order to avoid awkwardness, Lin Tian asked Xiao Cui a lot of questions.
Useful and useless, he asked her everything.
Xiao Cui was also very naive. She answered almost all of his questions. From her, Lin Tian understood that the carriage he was in now was a caravan.
They were from the Zhang family of Sky Snow City in the Northern Plains.
They had just returned from Zhongzhou and were going to Sky Snow City.
Lin Tian was picked up by them on the way.
"Going to Northern Plains …" Hearing Xiao Cui's words, Lin Tian could not help but have a headache. He could not help but smile bitterly.
He originally wanted to go back to the Zaihua Martial Arts Sect to recuperate for a while.
Now that he had arrived at Zhongzhou, he was taken out. Looking at the environment now, he was afraid that he had already entered Northern Plains.
He did not know how many thousands of miles away from the Zaihua Martial Arts Sect.
"Sigh …"
Lin Tian could not help but sigh softly.
Seeing Lin Tian's melancholy face, Xiao Cui could not help but ask curiously, "What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing …"
Lin Tian shook his head and then smiled casually, "I'm just a little homesick …"
"Home?"
Xiao Cui was a little surprised.
She immediately understood and looked at Lin Tian pitifully. "Yes, you should have been out for a long time. Otherwise, you would not have fallen sick on the road."
Speaking of this, Xiao Cui suddenly remembered something and hurriedly said, "By the way, where do you live? When you're well, I'll ask Miss to send someone to send you back. "
"Thank you very much. I live near Qingyun City." Lin Tian replied with a smile.
Hearing this, Xiao Cui was stunned.
"Qingyun City? Is it the Qingyun City in the east of Zhongzhou? "Xiao Cui asked with her mouth wide open.
"Yes, it's there."
Lin Tian nodded and replied.
This was the largest city next to the Zaihua Martial Arts Sect.
If he wanted to go back, he must go here first.
After all, there were no other teleportation channels in other places.
"You came from Qingyun City …" Xiao Cui looked at Lin Tian and asked, "It's so far away. How did a mortal like you come here?"
One had to know that Azure Cloud City was the easternmost city of the Central State, while this place was the northernmost city of the Central State. Now, they had even reached the Northern Plains.
Although they were not in opposite positions, the distance between them was still very far. It was at least a million miles away.
Even for cultivators, this was a very long distance. Without any special methods, even an Enlightened Being would have to spend a lot of time to cross it.
Normally, it would take a mortal several thousand years to walk a few hundred miles a day.
This was a distance that a mortal would never be able to cross in their entire lives.
Lin Tian also knew this. He explained, "I originally lived near Qingyun City. Later, a group of cultivators came and said that I would help them mine. Not only would I be able to eat and drink well every day, I would also be given some money. Those who performed well would even be rewarded with cultivation techniques. So, I followed them to the Northern Plains."
"Who knew that once I arrived, I couldn't go back. I spent more than a year trying to find a way to get to Zhongzhou. Who knew that I would be brought back here …"
At this point, Lin Tian's face was filled with a bitter smile. He looked very helpless. This old monster who had lived for countless years was simply possessed by a drama queen when it came to acting. His expression was extremely cooperative.
Even a Saint would not be able to tell whether he was telling the truth or not. Xiao Cui naturally did not doubt him. She nodded and said, "I see …"
She more or less knew about mining because the Northern Plains contained the richest spiritual ore resources in the entire Divine Prefecture.
Moreover, there were many strange ores, like things left behind from the previous war that eventually turned into ores.
For such ores, some of the ores contained valuable things, while some of the ores contained ordinary spiritual stones.
The disparity was great.
It was precisely because of this that a special industry was born here — stone gambling.
The entire Divine Prefecture was very fond of this entertainment.
Almost everyone wanted to play a few rounds.
It was precisely because of the prosperity of this industry that the demand for ores was even greater.
Therefore, more labor was needed to mine the ores.
And most of these laborers were ordinary people and low-level cultivators. Because few high-level cultivators were willing to do this kind of work.
Moreover, the price to hire high-level cultivators was dozens or even hundreds of times that of ordinary people.
It was not as cost-effective as hiring ordinary people.
After all, the Northern Plains was full of snow mountains, and the ores were almost all buried under the snow.
Even if you were strong, you would not dare to act rashly.
You could only slowly dig down.
Otherwise, if something went wrong, it would cause an avalanche. Not only would it be dangerous, the gains would not make up for the losses.
Therefore, most of the people the forces of the Northern Plains chose to mine were a combination of ordinary people and low-level cultivators.
It was just that mining was a dangerous thing for both ordinary people and cultivators.
Even high-level cultivators could lose their lives if they were to encounter dangerous ore veins.
Therefore, there were not many people who were willing to do such a thing.
Over time, just looking for people in the Northern Plains was no longer enough to satisfy the major forces, so they naturally extended their claws to other regions.
For such a thing, the other forces of the Divine Prefecture also turned a blind eye.
After all, the other party did not directly kidnap them, but offered conditions for them to follow them willingly. Even if they wanted to stop them, they could not.
Therefore, in the end, no one cared anymore.
"Don't worry. After we return this time and deliver the goods, we will make another trip to the Central Province. At that time, when we reach the Central Province, I will beg Miss to find a way to send you to Qingyun City. She is kind-hearted and will definitely agree. Don't worry."
Xiao Cui looked at Lin Tian sympathetically and then comforted him.
In her eyes, people like Lin Tian who agreed to go mining were all people who were poor to the point of having nowhere else to go.
Otherwise, no one would be willing to do such a dangerous thing until they reached this point.
Lin Tian did not expect this girl to be so naive. She actually believed him as soon as he said it.
She did not even ask any questions.
This made Lin Tian feel a little embarrassed. He felt like he was drawing ink on a piece of white paper.
"Then I'll thank you here first."
For him, as long as he could go back, it was nothing even if he was treated as a miner.
It was just an identity.
People at his level no longer cared about whether they were noble or lowly. Some experts had even worked as waiters in order to temper their temperament. What was mining to them?
After all, he was not in a good state now.
Moreover, he did not have any ordinary things on him. If he took out anything extraordinary, it would be too eye-catching and would easily cause trouble.
It was better to use this identity to gain sympathy and safely return to the Zaihua Martial Arts Sect to recuperate. This would save him a lot of trouble.
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