Chapter 57: Everything Under The Martial Arts School
“More than five hundred meters underground?”
Lin Qi looked at the dark-skinned man in front of him, completely unable to understand what he was thinking. Was he planning to probe where the underground limit of the game was?
Or was he really planning to build an underground civilization beneath the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall?
He then glanced again at the dark-skinned man’s stats, and was even more shocked.
Player “I Am Professional at Digging Holes,” age Tested physical fitness: strength 4 kilograms, speed 9 meters per second. Crushing Stone Fist （ entry-level 82% ）, Leopard Shadow Steps （ entry-level 88% ）, Startling Spirit Breathing Technique （ entry-level 23% ）.
This person, I Am Professional at Digging Holes, was clearly a newcomer who had only been in the High Martial Arts World for a little more than six days.
Among the newcomers, the strongest Zhao Hu and Li Ranxing, although their breathing techniques had passed 50% entry-level, were only around 40% in Crushing Stone Fist and Leopard Shadow Steps.
As for the other newcomers, most had not even reached 20%.
But when it came to I Am Professional at Digging Holes, his learning of Crushing Stone Fist and Leopard Shadow Steps was simply inhuman, with both martial skills above 80% entry-level.
At present, only more than half of the first batch of players could manage that. It was hard to imagine that I Am Professional at Digging Holes could surpass those people in martial arts talent.
“Could there be something special five hundred meters underground?” The more Lin Qi thought about it, the more likely it seemed. He then said, “The quality of this ore is very good. The hall can purchase it at ten points per kilogram. If you bring in more than ten kilograms at once, you get an additional reward of 10 contribution value for every ten kilograms. If there is any major extra discovery, there will be other rewards.”
“When you dug down to five hundred meters, was there anything special there? Or anything worth noting?”
The value of Ancient Bronze Ore was extremely high. After all, it was ore that could be used to make weapons and equipment for Martial Artist level experts.
In the City of Light Chasing, anything related to martial artists was not cheap. It was even extremely rare, with the vast majority controlled by the major powers in the city center.
For Ancient Bronze Ore and similar A6-grade primitive metal on the market, the selling price was 3000 Bit per kilogram. Compared with normal A6-grade alloy, it was much more expensive. The main reason was that by adding some other precious metals, it could be turned into B2-grade alloy and made into weapons that could injure living wilderness monsters’ bodies. That alone made it extraordinarily valuable.
The hardness of a wilderness monster’s body was completely different when it was alive versus dead. A living wilderness monster could not be pierced even by an A6-grade spear, but once it died and the energy inside its body collapsed, an A4-grade weapon could pierce it without much effort.
For Ancient Bronze Ore that could be made into B2-grade alloy, Lin Qi was determined to obtain it.
Previously, when he had Luo Qi forge weapons, he had felt distressed about paying to use A6-grade alloy. Now, if he could get a large amount of Ancient Bronze Ore, he could save a big sum.
“That much?” I Am Professional at Digging Holes became even more excited after hearing this.
Although the ore in his hand was not large, it already weighed more than twenty kilograms.
Ores of this size were not common at five hundred meters underground, but there were still quite a few. You could see one roughly every one or two minutes of walking.
That meant getting such a fist-sized ore was a pure profit of 200 points and 20 contribution value.
This amount of points and contribution value was more than what many veteran players earned in a day, and he had only picked up a single piece.
At the side, Yi Ye Fu Yun watched with undisguised envy.
Having just been promoted to inner disciple, there were too many places he needed to spend points.
Not to mention forming his own team, which required at least two smart watches and a large number of weapons.
Even just the Martial Artist level Palm Technique, Lightning Palm Upper Volume, learned by inner disciples alone, cost a full ten thousand points.
Ten kilograms of Ancient Bronze Ore meant one hundred points and ten contribution value. If one person could dig out five hundred kilograms from underground in one day, that was five thousand points and five hundred contribution, simply more profitable than doing transport runs at Grizzly Mountain.
“At five hundred meters underground, the radiation pollution is very high. Even with my physical fitness, I can only stay for thirty minutes.” I Am Professional at Digging Holes thought for a moment and said, “Besides, I dug through a maze-like giant tunnel. Inside, I have seen Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rats several times. I picked up this type of ore in that maze tunnel.”
“A maze giant tunnel?”
“Ore?”
“Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rat?”
After hearing this, Lin Qi did not even know what to say. He felt that these digging players really had a feud with Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rats, competing for underground development rights.
“Brother, you are impressive. You actually discovered a team dungeon so quickly. That is a huge profit.” Fang Zhen, who walked over, also had his eyes shining. “How about you cooperate with our team, brother? We jointly develop that team dungeon, and you get twenty percent of the profit.”
“Old Zhen, you poach people too fast.” Yi Ye Fu Yun reacted, and quickly said, “Digging brother, cooperate with our team. You can not only get twenty percent of the profit, but I will also cover your death resurrection costs. Oh, and I have Blood Essence Rice to eat here. It tastes much better than synthetic food.”
“Old Ye, you think I cannot match that? Digging brother, as long as you join our team, everything Old Ye offers, we will give as well.” Fang Zhen had no intention of giving up this dungeon.
Originally, digging had always been what he did. It was only because the contribution value for the martial hall repair task was too tempting that these days he had stopped further underground exploration.
Now that a new large dungeon had been discovered, they naturally could not let it go.
“You two, please do not argue.” I Am Professional at Digging Holes scratched his head with a wry smile and said, “That tunnel maze is too big, and the ore is extremely scattered. We even need to dig it ourselves.”
“And for anyone below apprentice-level physical fitness, they will die in at most half an hour. Even apprentice-level likely will not last long.”
“This amount of time is far from enough to explore that maze.”
“Is this dungeon a test of the environment?” After hearing this, Fang Zhen analyzed seriously. “If that is the case, it really is hard to explore and clear this dungeon, unless our physical fitness can be greatly improved again. Otherwise, we can only rely on a numerical advantage in manpower to explore.”
“Digging brother, are there many Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rats in this new dungeon’s maze tunnel?” Yi Ye Fu Yun was also a veteran game player with rich experience in dungeon strategy. He spoke carefully. “If this dungeon is very, very large, and the Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rats are few, or very scattered, then this dungeon is a pioneering-type gameplay. We only need to advance step by step.”
“If there are many Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rats, or they are very concentrated, then at the current dungeon difficulty, it is not for players of our level to clear. We need to wait until we level up.”
“Let me think.” I Am Professional at Digging Holes pondered for a moment, then said seriously, “I did not stay inside for long. During that time, I saw Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rats three times in the tunnels. The intervals between those three encounters were all more than five minutes, and each time there were only one or two rats moving together.”
“So this means the dungeon level is not high, and it should be a pioneering-type dungeon gameplay.” Yi Ye Fu Yun’s eyes grew even brighter after hearing this. “According to the hall master’s introduction, a normal quasi-martial artist can deal with a single Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rat. Their strength lies in their group numbers. If they are moving alone, we definitely have a chance.”
“Indeed. The game manufacturer even specifically set a time limit so that you only have about five minutes to deal with a single Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rat. They really copied the bad habits from other games.”
“In other games, if you cannot deal with a wilderness leader monster within five minutes, it goes berserk. Here, I guess if you do not deal with it within five minutes, reinforcements will arrive.” Fang Zhen also nodded, then looked at I Am Professional at Digging Holes with curiosity and asked in a low voice, “Digging brother, did you see any Treasure Chests in that maze tunnel?”
