ebookland Chapter 268 Happy Digging, Digging, Digging, Collecting Some Gold Fragments
Chapter 268 Happy Digging, Digging, Digging, Collecting Some Gold Fragments
The unsteady footing caused Wenwen to jump back three steps.
Wen Chengbin glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, thinking she had made a new discovery, "Little sister, what did you find?"
Wenwen glanced calmly at the pit, recalling the soft ground beneath her feet. She wasn't quite sure, "There's a pit here, that's strange."
Wen Chengjian came over and said, "Where? Let me see."
After saying that, he used his spiritual power to dig deeper into the pit a few times.
Before they had dug out much mud, a rat hole appeared before them. They were certain it was a rat hole because after brushing aside some grass and leaves, they found a pile of wild fruit and some animal hair. The hole wasn't big, but it looked like it could hold seven or eight rats. As they rummaged around in the rat hole, a foul stench instantly filled the cave.
Wen Qiyuan protested, "What are you doing? This stinky smell is ruining my soup."
Wen Qilin: "Quick, cover it up, or it will really stink."
The two people cooking put down what they were doing and shut down their sense of smell to get closer.
"Wow, this mouse is really good at digging holes. Look at that row of little holes along the edge of this big pit. It's a real burrowing expert."
In just a short while, Wen Chengjian and his siblings turned the rat hole upside down and found a small piece of gold ore at the bottom of the cave. It was only about three fingers wide and it glittered under the torchlight.
"Hey, hey, look here, there really is gold ore!"
"It's unbelievable that gold can be hidden in a rat hole."
Could there really be a gold mine here?
"Is it true or false? Didn't you see it all?"
"I saw it, but I just want to get to the bottom of it."
"Get to the bottom of things? Dig into whose roots, and ask whose bottom line?"
In a moment of madness, Wenwen blurted out, "Of course it's a mouse!"
"......Hahaha."
The group gathered around the rat hole, each offering their own opinions, but couldn't reach a conclusion for the time being.
Wenwen also wanted to use her detection spell to investigate, but unfortunately, the spell didn't work on Jinshan and couldn't detect any trace of gold. This was truly a blind spot for the detection spell.
The rat hole wasn't big, but the smell was incredibly strong. It took everyone a long time to clean it up with cleaning techniques before the smell finally dissipated.
Wen Qilin suggested, "Alright, let's eat first and then discuss it. The cave is here, it can't be run away. Let's go."
Fortunately, they built a stove on one side of the cave entrance, and the mouse hole in the corner was a little far from the entrance.
The moment you taste the fragrant chicken soup with shiitake mushrooms, you can temporarily forget the allure of mountains of gold and silver.
On a spring night, a cool breeze carrying a hint of chill blew past the cave entrance.
A cool breeze refreshed their minds. Although the group of people drinking chicken soup didn't speak, their brains were working at a rapid pace.
Inside the cave, apart from the occasional sound of someone drinking soup, there was no other noise.
Suddenly, Wenwen downed the chicken soup in her bowl in one gulp, her tone firm, "Let's dig down along the mouse hole, just in case there are more."
After finishing the last bite, Wen Chengbin didn't even have time to wipe his mouth before hurriedly agreeing, "I agree."
The others looked at each other, swallowed the food in their mouths, and nodded in agreement.
Since it passed unanimously and we've had our fill of food and drink, let's get to work. We're just idling around anyway.
You won't know until you dig, and what you find will shock you.
The ground around the rat hole was like a hornet's nest, with small holes every few steps, showing how rampant these rats were. They would dig as much as they could find a spot. However, thanks to these small holes, they actually found a few small gold ore pieces, all hidden at the bottom of the holes, covered with leaves, weeds and hair.
Fortunately, everyone was a cultivator and could suppress their sense of smell, so the impact was not significant.
The spiritual energy transformed into wind blades, digging several meters down until it encountered a layer of rock. Caught off guard, water slowly seeped from the cracks in the rock wall.
"Hey, have we struck an underground river?"
"No way, what a coincidence?"
"It's just such a coincidence. Others dig wells by digging down several tens of feet, but we've only just started. We've already encountered an underground river before we've even reached ten feet."
"Wow, this luck is unbelievable."
Wenwen touched the stone wall, released her divine sense, and felt the water seeping from the stone wall. Her spiritual power pushed back along the water flow, penetrated the stone wall, and flowed upstream until her divine sense could no longer reach it. Only then did she discover that there was indeed an underground river outside the stone wall. Moreover, about two zhang away from their current location, there was a stone cave that only one person could pass through. It looked like a hiding cave dug by a pangolin.
Upon hearing this, Wen Chengbin couldn't help but say, "No way, another cave? Why do the animals here love digging holes so much? Could it be that there are really large amounts of gold and silver to be found underground?"
Wenwen shrugged. "I don't know if there are large quantities, but I reckon there will be a few here and there. You can tell by looking at these rat holes."
Wen Chengjian asked, "Father, Second Uncle, shall we continue digging?"
Wen Qiyuan spoke first, "Let's dig! After eating so much, we need to stretch our legs, right, big brother?"
Wen Qilin: "Yes, go ahead and dig. It's not much trouble anyway."
It's really not difficult. They are cultivators, so it only takes some spiritual energy. If ordinary people were to dig it up, it would take a lot of manpower, financial resources, and materials.
As expected, with the swing of the spiritual energy wind blade, a passage large enough for one person to pass through was opened, leading directly to the pangolin's cave.
There were no pangolins in the cave, and we don't know where that guy went.
Wen Chengbin quickly shoveled away the outermost layer of branches, leaves, and grass clippings in the cave. Sure enough, there was gold deep inside the cave, and not just one piece. He counted five pieces, each about half the size of a palm.
"Haha, we've really struck it rich, sister, look!"
Wen Chengbin was overjoyed and shared his happiness with others.
Luckily, we found a few small caves next to the pangolin cave. Following them, we found several pangolins hiding in the caves. Since we found them, we decided to take them, not only the gold in the caves but also the pangolins.
This trip was worthwhile; we chased pangolins all the way to the edge of an underground river.
The underground river was pitch black, and nothing could be seen. Fortunately, cultivators have stronger senses than ordinary people. The group focused their spiritual energy into their eyes and stared at the underground river for a while until their eyes were slightly sore, but they still found nothing new in the river.
Wenwen was not giving up. She drifted along the underground river for a while and saw a glimmer of light ahead.
"Father, there's light ahead, let's go take a look."
Guided by a tiny glimmer of light, they approached it only to discover that it was actually a candle burning on the stone wall.
The underground river is enclosed in a corner here, surrounded by stone walls, with a candle hanging at the highest point of the walls.
Before they could even get their footing, a shout came from inside the stone wall.
"Manager, we're not sick, I'm just tired. I'll be fine after a couple of days of rest. Manager, please have mercy! Ah—"
thump!
Someone has fallen into the water.