The rain stopped yesterday evening, the air in the valley in the morning was very, very good, Zhang Tie's nose seemed to be able to smell the grass fragrance of the grass on the side of the road, and the fresh air corresponded to the road conditions in the valley, the valley originally had those paths that were walked out by people, in this morning, has become muddy, and very slippery, if you are not careful, there will be mud that can fall all over your body, Zhang Tie only slowed down, slowly walked towards the mine a few kilometers away.
Soon after Zhang Tie left the tree house, he met two teams of trialists who were going out to hunt today, there were more than ten people in each of the two teams, and when Zhang Tie passed by them, those guys glanced at the mine basket on Zhang Tie's body in surprise, and then one by one with a slight trace of disdain in their eyes floated past Zhang Tie, and then they held their heads high and strode away with pride In the past two days, Zhang Tie has been immune to these contemptuous eyes, Zhang Tie doesn't remember when he seems to have seen a passage A man who can't bear loneliness will never grow up.
Now this situation, for Zhang Tie, is the process of growing up in loneliness.
What grew up was the Black Iron Castle, as well as Zhang Tie's heart that gradually became stronger.
After Zhang Tie's hard work in the past few days, the basic energy reserve value in the Black Iron Castle has reached 2000, compared to the basic energy reserves before the trial, the difference between the two is nearly 100 times, this is the result of Zhang Tie's labor during this time, after throwing all kinds of messy stones from one mine basket to the Pool of Chaos, these stones and ores that have been converted into basic energy are rapidly making the Black Iron Castle stronger.
These energy reserves can actually allow Zhang Tie to do some small terrain modifications in the Black Iron Castle, such as creating a small pool first, but Zhang Tie is not satisfied, he is ready to accumulate a little more, and wait until the end of the interview to make a decision as needed.
In addition to the basic energy reserves, the aura value in the Black Iron Castle is also increasing rapidly, all the seeds given by Mother Teresa have sprouted, and they are growing well, and the potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and other grains planted in Zhang Tie's own land are also growing gratifyingly, and the current Black Iron Fort is no longer a bare wasteland, but has begun to have some scattered, vigorous greenery, and the vitality brought by the vigorous greenery makes Zhang Tie feel good every time he enters and leaves the Black Iron Fort in the past two days.
Taking advantage of the opportunity brought by this trial, Zhang Tie always intends to exchange his food for some wild fruits and other things collected by girls these days, those things, where there are seeds, Zhang Tie will bring those seeds to the Black Iron Fort and scatter them on the ground at will, these days, Zhang Tie's memory, has scattered more than ten kinds of wild fruit seeds, the most of which are pine seeds, that is, pine nuts, Zhang Tie scattered several acres of pine nuts in the Black Iron Fort, There are also some plant seeds that Zhang Tie can't even name, but when he sees a flowering or fruiting plant on the road, Zhang Tie picks it up or picks it off and throws it into the mining basket, and then after entering the Black Iron Castle, he will find a vacant land for those unknown seeds and throw them on the ground.
I don't know if it's an illusion, when I came to mine two days ago, on the way back and forth in the morning and evening, Zhang Tie always had a feeling of being watched, and this morning, when I was on the way to mining, the feeling of being watched and tracked was gone, which made Zhang Tie a little strange, whether it was his neurotic problem again, but he didn't think deeply.
After the first rain in June, the dandelions in the valley grew everywhere overnight, and the white hairballs of the dandelions scrambled out of the grass one by one, as if waiting for the arrival of a strong wind, seeing these lovely dandelions, Zhang Tie was in a good mood, and he did not dislike it, and picked up more than ten dandelion hairballs on the road, and threw them into the mining basket on his back.
Half an hour later, Zhang Tie came to the nearest iron mine cave from the wolf castle, this mine is only more than two hundred meters away from the wolf castle, many people who come to mine are gathered in this mine to work, on the ground covered by weeds outside the mine, there is a rusty half-dismantled small mine cart track, which seems to tell the prosperity and liveliness of this place before, this mine may have been important before, but now, it is also the place where a few unlucky students exchange their coolies for food.
Because it was too close to the wolf castle, right under the noses of those girls, perhaps because of the fear of embarrassment, no boys chose to set up camp in this mine, which made this mine a lot cleaner.
In the past few days, there will be a lot of fresh faces who come here to mine every day, and there will be a lot of old faces who disappear, and those who are really fixed to mine here, Zhang Tie observed, and even his own words, there are probably more than ten people, maybe this job really can't make people have any sense of honor, those guys who decide to come here to mine, all of them are introverted and taciturn, basically don't like to talk much, Zhang Tie came here to work for several days, but he didn't even get to know a friend, but this is just as Zhang Tie meant, It's better that no one pays attention here, Zhang Tie also pretended to be introverted and taciturn, and did his own thing in the mine in a muffled voice.
There is a large piece of abandoned gravel outside the mine, in the rainy day these gravel make the road around the mine a lot better, at least there is not so much mud, the hole exposed outside the mine is very large, dozens of square meters, Zhang Tie rested at the entrance of the mine, the mud on his shoes on a stone at the entrance of the cave, and then took out the torch and the mine pickaxe from the mine basket, after lighting the torch, Zhang Tie held the torch and entered the mine Even in broad daylight, after walking into the mine for dozens of meters, especially after turning two corners in the tunnel of the mine, the tunnel of the mine began to become invisible, and if there was no light source, it could not be entered at all, but fortunately, the ground of the tunnel was quite smooth, and there were not too many obstacles, which made this dark tunnel a little easier to walk.
The light of the torches and Zhang Tie's footsteps alarmed a few of the bats at the entrance of the mine, and the sound of the bats fluttering their wings in the dark mine would be very loud, often startling some first-time visitors, Zhang Tie was also startled by those bats when he first came, but he got used to it after coming twice.
The light of the torch pulled Zhang Tie's figure out a shadow dancing with the light of the torch in the pit, the shadow was pasted on the wall of the mine, and Zhang Tie was moving forward, every time he came, Zhang Tie couldn't help but quietly look at the strange walls in the mine, on the yellow-brown wall, there would be strange traces like tire prints in a circle, there were too many strange traces, densely covered with the entire mine tunnel, Zhang Tie was sure that it was by no means a trace left by man, every time he saw those traces, Zhang Tie thought of the legend of the gold-devouring python that appeared here thirty years ago, walking in these round and slippery tunnels with a diameter of three or four meters, extending to the ground, and strange traces all over the body, when he thought of the exaggerated size of the terrifying python that crawled in these tunnels decades ago, and could eat anything in his stomach, Zhang Tie always had some shuddering feelings, as if in the darkness of the tunnel, there were always some monsters staring at him, although he knew that this was a psychological effect, But every time Zhang Tie passed through those strange tunnels, he couldn't help but speed up a little The faintly audible clanging sound from the front calmed Zhang Tie's little heart a little, it was the sound of the ore pickaxe knocking on the ore, and continued to walk a few hundred meters in the hole, and when he came to the end of this tunnel, a huge space appeared in front of Zhang Tie's eyes, this space was larger than the Civic Square of Black Flame City, a bit like a natural cave, a few faint fires were shining in some places in this dark underground space, which was the torch that those who came first inserted in their own mining place, In this dark place, the light of the torch has become as inconspicuous as an oil lamp, and the sound of the mine pickaxe hitting the stone in this space is broken and ringing one after another, and the echo effect in this huge mine makes those sounds seem far away, and it seems to be very close, for all those who have walked through the long pit there, to be able to see the little light in the darkness in front of them, and to hear the sound of the mine pickaxe one after another, will make people breathe a sigh of relief at the same time, and suddenly generate a sense of happiness.
At least for Zhang Tie Zhang Tie's usual mining place is more hidden than other people, the place where he mines is another pit dug out by mining in this underground mining space, in the tunnel, even if there is a torch inside, there is not much light outside, and there are several forks and turns in this tunnel, which seems to lead to the farther underground, this place is really ideal for Zhang Tie.
After coming to his usual mining place, he set up an inconspicuous small mechanism at the mouth of the tunnel with a few pieces of gravel, but he could remind himself that someone was coming behind him, Zhang Tie completely relaxed.
Insert the torch in the gap of the wall of the tunnel, the light of the torch immediately illuminates the space of dozens of square meters in the tunnel, put the mine basket on the ground, pour out the spare torches and dandelions and other things in the mine basket, and untie the dagger, kettle and dry food on his waist, Zhang Tie, who drank a sip of water, picked up the mine pickaxe, exerted enough strength, and began to join the chorus of the mine pickaxe in this underground cave When Zhang Tie wheeled the mine pickaxe, what he didn't know was that in the Wild Wolf Castle above, a letter falcon flying from Black Flame City brought some of the latest news of Black Flame City in the past two days, just yesterday, a major event happened in Black Flame City, this big event is related to the envelope sent by Zhang Tie, after a week of fermentation, the storm caused by Black Flame City shook the entire Andaman Alliance, and yesterday's rain seemed to have become a harbinger of an even bigger storm coming to everyone in Black Flame City: