Chapter 164 Harvesting Dark Gold
In the underworld, after occupying the dark gold mine, Lu Daoguang returned with a small team of heavily armored paper figures.
The same goes for the corpse-driving craftsmen from the Jiang family in Xiangzhou. After all, except for Jiang Henian, everyone else is still a captive or a surrendered soldier?
"Puff~Puff~"
A huge paper eagle flew across the sky, and below was the strange terrain of the underworld and various areas that looked dangerous.
Although this was not the first time he rode a paper eagle, Lu Daoguang still felt a little nervous.
After all, a place like the underworld might be targeted by terrifying weirdness and cause death at any time.
Fortunately, when they came, the army of paper figures had already explored a relatively safe route, and soon the paper eagle successfully arrived above the military camp.
"Huh~ I'm back!"
After getting off the paper eagle, Lu Daoguang's legs trembled a little, but he soon stood up.
Because those corpse-driving craftsmen performed even worse than him, and their angry, aggrieved and fierce expressions became a little cautious at this time.
Because they just saw clearly the figures of nearly 20,000 heavily armored paper figures inside and outside the military camp.
"Crack, crack, crack"
As the paper eagle landed, the heavy-armored paper figures around came here directly to take away the collected dark gold.
Although there was a dark gold mine there, Lu Daoguang searched everywhere and found only a total of nearly 100 kilograms of dark gold.
In the end, he even separated the corpse-driving craftsmen for questioning, but the amount of dark gold mined was so much.
And after smelting nearly 100 kilograms of dark gold, it looked only the size of two bricks, and it was really not much.
"Lord Lu, what should we do next?"
Jiang Henian looked at the soldiers around and saw that they didn't seem to come over to take other tribesmen and imprison them, so he immediately asked Lu Daoguang.
"Ahem, you go back and rest first, remember that you are not allowed to run around in other places except the room assigned to you, otherwise you deserve to be killed by these soldiers!"
Lu Daoguang coughed twice in a pretentious manner, and then directly warned Jiang Henian sternly.
In fact, as long as you don't run out of the barracks, you will be fine, but Lu Daoguang will not explain this to him.
"Yes, yes, yes! I understand!"
Jiang Henian agreed honestly, and then ran to the third aunt to help her go to her room to rest.
"I can still walk by myself!"
However, the third aunt did not appreciate his flattery, and the others still looked at him as a traitor.
"Hmph!"
These people walked around him and snorted deliberately, as if they could draw a clear line between them.
The cold eyes of the clan relatives and the suppression of Lu Daoguang made Jiang Henian feel like crying but without tears.
"Didn't you also admit defeat and surrender?!"
Although he wanted to say this harshly to the others, he didn't say a word after all.
In the end, Jiang Henian had to return to his room to rest dejectedly. As for the fate of the other people in the clan, it depends on how the adult will arrange it.
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"The amount of dark gold in hand is still a little small!"
Lin Feng, who was originally thinking about how to improve the engraving of the jade talisman, also saw the dark gold that the heavy armor paper man finally got and shook his head directly.
"Next, we have to make two more strange doors, connecting to Black Stone Mountain and Dark Gold Mine respectively. In addition, the number of miner paper figurines is a little insufficient, so we have to make another batch."
As the main material for making the highest-level talismans, according to Lin Feng's estimation, each black jade dark gold talisman probably requires more than 200 grams of dark gold.
That is to say, one pound of smelted dark gold can only make two high-level talismans, and one hundred pounds of dark gold can only make about 200 talismans in the end.
This does not include the talismans that failed in the final fusion. If the possible failed talismans are counted, it would be a blessing to be able to make 100 talismans in the end!
"Burning money! No, that's not right, it's basically burning gold!"
"The failed talisman should be able to be refined into dark gold again, but even so, the cost of making a high-level talisman is still a bit terrifying."
"No wonder there are not many relevant experiences in the old Taoist's book. I'm afraid he hasn't really made a few..."
Thinking of the old Taoist's appearance, Lin Feng couldn't help but complain in his heart. After all, how could ordinary ghost drivers get a lot of black jade and dark gold in the underworld.
Even those corpse-driving craftsmen dug out black jade and dark gold not to use them as consumables, but to build special corpse-raising coffins that can be passed down.
"Forget it, money doesn't have much use to me anyway."
Finally, Lin Feng shook his head and continued to focus on the mechanical sketch in his hand. If he finished this thing, he could directly get the carved black jade talisman base.
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In Yunzhou, the corpse-collecting paper man and his three apprentices were collecting corpses in some remote villages and towns.
Now these places have been looted by barbarian soldiers and left a large number of civilian corpses.
"Master, they are too cruel!"
Goudan carefully dragged out the body of a woman holding a child, and at the same time spoke to the corpse collectors who were dealing with several charred corpses.
"These dogs are not human at all!"
On the other side, Goudan also carried out some corpses from the house. These were the corpses of children who were only a few years old.
But now, either they were pierced by a sharp weapon or half of their bodies were eaten by wolves.
"..."
Xiao Hui silently dug a grave outside the village to bury the body parts. Some of the scenes she saw just now almost made her vomit.
Logically, she has come into contact with various corpses and has long overcome the psychological barriers at the beginning.
But the massacre-like scene in this village still made her face pale and frightened.
"Master! Master! There are still alive!"
Suddenly, Shi Tou ran out of a stone house. Hearing his words, Goudan and Xiao Hui hurried over.
"These guys are lucky to hide in the cellar and were not discovered by those barbarians!"
Following the direction of Shi Tou's finger, they saw an opened cellar, and several half-grown children huddled in the narrow space inside.
"Master, why don't you take them in too?"
"Yes, yes, Master, so I have junior brothers and sisters!"
"..."
Shi Tou saw the corpse-collecting paper man coming over and spoke quickly. A half-grown kid like this would definitely not survive in such a place by himself.
"Ka Ka"
The corpse collector nodded at the scared kid hiding in the cellar.
These homeless kids with no way to survive were the ones Lin Feng had chosen to be his disciples.
"Hahaha, great!"
"Come out, come out quickly, as long as you kowtow to our master, you will be my Shitou's junior brothers in the future, let's see who dares to bully you!"
Seeing that the corpse collector agreed, Shitou and others were overjoyed, and they shouted to the people hiding in the cellar.