Chapter 074 Mine Disaster
Can you imagine a scene where twelve earthworms, magnified countless times, drill out their heads from the cliffs, with ferocious mouths that look like a bottomless abyss?
Unlike the soft and vulnerable earthworms in our impression, these earth dragons have mouths full of sharp teeth that can split mountains and rocks. If they are bitten, the consequences will be unpredictable!
Just as Xu Kun was about to take action, the ground tremor intensified again. His expression changed, and he quickly pulled Sikong Ting aside and shouted, "Retreat!"
Just as Xu Kun pulled Sikong Ting away from their foothold, the hard ground began to sink, like a whirlpool in the undercurrent, the earth cracked, and the gravel continued to sink into the ground!
This was not just one place. Soon, black sunken caves appeared one after another on the ground of the mine, and the caves were next to each other, squeezing the foothold space of Xu Kun and the others.
Sikong Ting's face changed, and he exclaimed: "Are these earth dragons crazy?"
Xu Kun didn't say anything, but his eyebrows were already locked into a "川" shape.
On the cliff where the Thunder Crystal Mine was just excavated, earth dragons continued to break out of the ground, densely packed, and with their fangs and claws bared, making people feel sick when they saw them!
The ground became a minefield. In the rumbling tremor, Xu Kun couldn't be sure which place would sink in the next moment. If he stepped on empty air, what was waiting for them below was a group of earth dragons ready to eat them alive!
Not daring to hesitate, Xu Kun pulled Sikong Ting's arm, dodged a depression again and again, and ran towards the cliff that was originally facing away from them!
However, the idea was good. Before Xu Kun had time to get close, the sand and gravel on the rock wall that had not been ravaged shook, and in Xu Kun's shrinking pupils, a earth dragon gnawed the stone and rushed out with a howl!
Boom!
Xu Kun raised his sword to block. With the attack power of 2180, the earth dragon could not shake Xu Kun's defense. Unfortunately, Si Kong Zhen beside him did not have as strong defense as Xu Kun. His body loosened and he was out of Xu Kun's palm and flew backwards!
"Damn it!" Xu Kun was annoyed by these earth dragons. The locust stone in his palm slipped and he used his own skill [Throw] to smash it out!
-6850!
The bright red number was enough to kill this earth dragon more than five times!
Even if the earth dragon was an S-level common monster, it could not escape Xu Kun's instant kill!
[Ding, you killed an earth dragon, experience +5%, current experience pool 1st level 1 5%]
This was the first monster Xu Kun killed after entering the original ore layer. It was indeed a 1st level 8 monster. Xu Kun was now equivalent to killing a monster seven levels higher. One gave him 5% experience!
After the earth dragon was killed instantly, its huge body began to weather in a short time. The next second, the wind blew and it turned into dust!
In the pile of loess blown by the breeze, a piece of thing could not hide its brilliance!
With a long sword, Xu Kun picked up the thing from the pile of earth.
[Ding, you picked up S-level metal Ziyang Xuantie, triggered by the Son of Destiny and Luck, level +1, upgraded to SS-level metal Ziyang Xuantie crystal! ]
Earth dragons are creatures unique to the mining area. Since their race was sucked into the Haotian Tower, they have been dependent on the major mining areas!
Whether it is the living environment, food, or the power of becoming stronger, they cannot avoid the ores produced in the mining area!
The earth dragon feeds on this and absorbs the essence of heaven and earth in the ore to evolve and upgrade and improve its talent!
Therefore, after killing the earth dragon, the materials that can be picked up are the precious metals extracted from the ore corresponding to its talent level!
It has been mentioned before that it takes an average of ten pieces of ore to refine a piece of corresponding metal. The purple sun black iron that originally dropped from the earth dragon killed by Xu Kun in seconds required ten pieces of purple sun black iron ore to refine!
After passing the level +1 of the Son of Destiny and Luck, the S-level purple sun black iron was upgraded to the SS-level purple sun black iron crystal!
Based on the conversion ratio of 10:1 between metals and spirit stones of the same level, the market price of an SS-level spirit stone, although Qian Manlou did not say it explicitly, is definitely not less than 10 billion. The price of this piece of purple sun black iron crystal is equivalent to the price of the S-level spirit stone that Xu Kun sold to Qian Manlou before!
And this is just the drop from an earth dragon!
Xu Kun's eyes instantly became eager, and these originally hideous and terrifying earth dragons seemed to have become a moving vault!
Xu Kun simply stopped running. On the cliff in front of him, there were falling rocks everywhere. It can be seen that deep in this rock wall, earth dragons are coming towards him from underground!
"Sikong Ting, are you dead?"
"Brother, I'm here!" Sikong Ting poked his head out of a haystack.
Xu Kun breathed a sigh of relief and immediately said: "Don't run away, kill all these earth dragons, otherwise when more earth dragons appear, this place will probably collapse!"
The scene was damaged and the damage caused was at the level of natural disasters. Even if Xu Kun was confident, he didn't dare to gamble that he would survive after being crushed by two collapsed rock walls!
But now it seems that there are earth dragons everywhere. The two of them have no way to avoid it. If they drag it on, it will only wait for more earth dragons to gather!
The only way is to kill some of the underground earth dragons before they have gathered. Otherwise, once the rock walls on both sides are broken by the earth dragons, the chain reaction may cause a mining disaster!
Mine disasters are the most horrific natural disasters in mining areas, and they cannot be stopped by human power!
Once a mine disaster occurs, the ore in the original soil layer will be buried. Even if Xu Kun is lucky enough to escape the disaster, he will not be able to dig up the ore required for the SS-level mining task!
"I'll deal with the earth dragons here first, you watch out for the earth dragons on the opposite rock wall!"
During the conversation, earth dragons had already broken out of the rock wall in front of Xu Kun, but with Xu Kun's speed, he would have time to dodge even if an earth dragon came to him if he was prepared!
"Damn it, they just dug five pieces of thunder crystal ore! They didn't dig up your ancestral graves, these earth dragons are crazy!"
Although Xu Kun was not afraid of these earth dragons that could not do anything to him in terms of attributes, the current situation was too weird. It was true that earth dragons lived on ores, and if they could not digest them, they would choose to take care of the ores they belonged to!
After digesting the ores in their bodies, they would continue to devour and strengthen their abilities!
Once someone peeked, the earth dragons guarding these ores would fight to the death and not give the other party the opportunity to covet the ores they were guarding!
This phenomenon was especially common with high-level ores!
But even if there are many, five S-level ores don't need so many earth dragons to guard at the same time!
Xu Kun was puzzled before. When he was digging ore, there were no earth dragons to guard. After he finished digging, these earth dragons came belatedly. This situation seems to reveal a bit of weirdness!
The opposite rock wall is already densely packed with half of the earth dragons, like a chessboard!
Xu Kun's place is better, but there are also earth mounds on the rock wall. It won't take long for the earth dragons in this rock wall to break out of the ground. It's hard to estimate how many there are!
"Damn it, if there is no sealed skill, I will use fire and poison to scatter all your ashes!"
Xu Kun's movements are not slow. Even if he kills monsters with normal attacks, with Xu Kun's speed that is difficult to see with the naked eye, when these earth dragons react, Xu Kun has already raised his sword and cleared the opponent's blood line!
Even before the ashes had time to disperse, Xu Kun had already found time to pick up the fallen metal!
Sikong Ting was concentrating on guarding against the earth dragon on the opposite rock wall. He had twisted his body and pulled the lower half of his body out of the rock wall. The more than ten-meter-long earth dragon body rolled down from the rock wall to the mine tunnel!
Looking at the circles of threads on the earth dragon that were enough to clamp him in, Sikong Ting sipped his saliva.
While the earth dragon army on the opposite side fell into the mine tunnel, and the earth dragon that failed to use the [Earth Sinking] skill poked its head out of the cave, Sikong Ting took the time to look behind him.
With just one glance, his eyes shrank violently!
The human figures were completely invisible. All that could be seen were the earth dragons being beheaded, and then their bodies fell and turned into dust. The fallen metal also flashed by in an instant, and it would not be noticed if you didn't look carefully!
While Sikong Ting was in a daze, Xu Kun had already chopped off the heads of more than a dozen earth dragons in succession. The first earth dragons that stuck their heads out of the rock wall had been killed by him, and the remaining ones were just a bunch of shaking earth mounds!
"What are you daydreaming about? The monsters are right in front of you!"
"Ah!" Sikong Ting quickly came back to his senses, looking at the army of earth dragons that were less than ten meters away from him, and thinking of Xu Kun's easy-going way of killing the enemy just now, he felt that if he didn't show off, he might not even be qualified to be his younger brother!
Sikong Ting gritted his teeth, raised his hands, and raised the staff with lightning above his head!
"Thunder, please accept my call!"
As Sikong Ting finished speaking, the originally cloudless sky was instantly shrouded in darkness, and thunder pythons surged in the layers of clouds!
Sikong Ting waved forward and shouted angrily: "Come on, thunder!"
This is the only A-level weapon in his B-level suit that has a group attack skill. The range is the same as Xu Kun's Flame Spirit Armor's [Flame Dragon's Fury], both are 500*500, and the damage is not as good as [Flame Dragon's Fury], which can only cause 2000 damage per second!
But the good thing is that this stunt has no trigger probability, but is replaced with a six-hour cooling CD!
If Xu Kun did not have the bonus of full luck value, [Flame Dragon's Fury] would probably be difficult to trigger. Excluding these external factors, Sikong Ting's staff's [stunt] is indeed more useful!
Almost at the moment when the first earth dragon opened its huge mouth and bit towards Sikong Ting, the thunder with extremely fast attack speed fell!
Crackling!
Sikong Ting's little face was pale. Seeing the earth dragon close at hand being hit by thunder, his originally limp body instantly stood straight and hard!
But this kind of firmness was caused by external forces, not his own ability, and it only lasted for one second. After one second, the thunder scattered into the earth. The first earth dragon to bear the brunt remained firm, turned into dust in the air, and drifted away with the wind!
And the subsequent earth dragons also entered the baptism of thunder one after another!
A strange picture suddenly appeared in the field!
The earth dragons that were originally S-shaped curves soon turned into I shapes one by one!
The power of thunder made the earth dragons feel unprecedented hardness, and even the wrinkles on their bodies were smoothed, but this fierce effect naturally came at a heavy price!
The [Thunderbolt] stunt that came with Sikong Ting's equipment created a good killing effect. At least more than half of the earth dragons in the mine tunnel were destroyed. It is roughly estimated that more than 20 earth dragons were killed in one second!
With a flash of light on his body, Sikong Ting's experience pool rose to level 1, step 1, and some of it overflowed!
The remaining earth dragons also seemed a little panicked. Even though their IQ was limited, they could notice their companions dying one after another and they were so scared that they stopped for a moment!
Sikong Ting, as a ranged profession, naturally would not miss this opportunity to hit the downed dog, and once again activated another passive skill on his staff - [Thunderfall]!
[Thunderfall] - Converts ordinary attacks into thunderfall attacks, and comes with 100% of its own lightning attribute, the state lasts for 2 minutes, and the cooldown is two hours!
Once the state is turned on, Sikong Ting entered a two-minute thunder control time, and the surrounding thunder attributes continued to flow into his body.
And the originally harmless appearance has also turned into a cold boy, especially on the black hair, there is lightning surging, the original watermelon head is standing up, extremely flamboyant!
As a ranged profession, Sikong Ting's attack speed is naturally very slow. Just as Xu Kun understands, if a ranged profession relies on ordinary attacks to deal damage, it is too bad. One by one, it is not enough to tickle!
For a man like Xu Kun who moves like the wind, it is extremely difficult for Sikong Ting to hit him!
But the silly earth dragons didn't have so many fancy abilities and ideas. After the initial panic, they quickly gathered again and headed towards Sikong Ting, the murderer who killed their fellow tribesmen!
Although Sikong Ting's attack speed was slow, it even took two seconds to release a normal attack!
But the original [Spirit Bomb] became [Thunderfall Technique]. Lightning fell from the sky. At the speed of light, unless there was an early warning and the landing point of Sikong Ting's normal attack was predicted, otherwise, when it fell, it would be too late to escape!
Sikong Ting, who had opened the [Thunderfall Technique], also achieved a rate of one earth dragon per normal attack on the damage panel. With the point kill, the earth dragons on the mine tunnel continued to fall.
One and a half minutes passed. With Sikong Ting steadily releasing the [Thunderfall Technique], no earth dragon could cross the thunder pool!
Just when Sikong Ting was about to make good use of the last half minute, Xu Kun suddenly shouted from behind: "Go!"
Sikong Ting turned around and saw a scene that made him dumbfounded!
The entire rock wall was broken, and countless earth dragons were scrambling and extremely irritable. The crowded earth dragons finally made this wide rock wall overwhelmed!
The thick soil layer, with pieces of S-level ore hidden deep inside, fell down!
A mining accident happened!
Sikong Ting had long lost the ability to think, his brain was blank, and when he saw that the soil layer was about to hit him, his waist was hugged by a pair of heavy hands, and then his feet were empty, and he was taken away by Xu Kun.
Avoiding being buried by the soil layer, Sikong Ting breathed in fresh air like a drowning person, and said with a pale face: "Brother, fortunately you are here!"
"It's not time to be thankful now, look!"
Sikong Ting looked back, his legs suddenly clamped together, his calves began to tremble, and they were as soft as two noodles!
Looking around, there were densely packed earth dragons. After the rock wall on Xu Kun's side collapsed, the other rock wall also collapsed. More earth dragons fell into the mine tunnel, and then twisted their bodies and half stood up, joining the army of earth dragons!
Half of the mine tunnel was buried, but this disaster for Xu Kun and Sikong Ting was not a pressure for the native earth dragons. Some earth dragons were pressed into the soil layer
"How many are there?" Sikong Ting said with a trembling mouth.
"At least hundreds, retreat first, otherwise so many earth dragons will perform ground sinking at the same time, and we will be buried alive!"
Xu Kun did not dare to hesitate, and pulled Sikong Ting, who was already scared and unable to move, to flee in the direction of the way they came.
The distance between the two sides was quickly pulled apart. Not far away was the A-level mineral area. Logically speaking, these earth dragons were also clearly divided and would not enter the low-level mineral area. In addition, there were so many ethnic trialists in the A-level mining area, even if there were more earth dragons, they would be killed one by one!
However, the idea was beautiful. When Xu Kun only needed a few seconds to withdraw from the S-level mining area, the rock walls on both sides suddenly collapsed. The speed was so fast that if Xu Kun had not braked in time, he would have been buried alive!
Looking at the dozens of meters high natural moat blocking his eyes, and the subsequent earth and rocks that continued to fall, Xu Kun hurriedly pulled Sikong Ting back dozens of meters!
There was a natural moat that was still collapsing in front of him, and hundreds of earth dragons chasing behind. Could it be that this mine tunnel would become the burial place of Xu Kun and Sikong Ting?
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(My wife passed away the day before yesterday. I took care of the child alone yesterday. The child also had a high fever in the middle of the night. I didn’t sleep much all night. Starting in the evening, I also started to have chills. I wrote this chapter wrapped in a quilt. I will try to write another chapter later. If it gets worse tomorrow, I will probably take a leave. I will make up for it later. Please forgive me!!)
