Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 177 Discovery in the Mine
"How long do you plan to stay here?"

Tracy and Adele walked down the ladder together and walked towards the shore on the seawater. The seawater froze automatically wherever Tracy passed, preventing the group from getting their clothes wet.

"This is just a preliminary exploration. We won't stay here for too long. In fact, if it weren't for Ms. Wendy, I wouldn't even want to explore this island this time."

Adele said with a smile. Wendy beside her responded weakly, with an indescribable resentment in her tone.

Just now, Adele and her friend formally explained their purpose to her, telling her that they just wanted to establish a company with offshore mining and transnational shipping as its main business, and Tracy was their cousin and just happened to pass by this time.

After seeing the remaining extraordinary characteristics of the extraordinary person who could manipulate luck, Wendy quickly accepted this statement and agreed to invest in technology as the first partner. It is not known whether it was because of the extraordinary person's magical ability or because he has now become an extraordinary characteristic.

Although her major was not geological survey, as a qualified "generalist", she had to know a little bit about everything. Moreover, in order to play the role of an "archaeologist", identifying rock layers was also a required course.

There were only four people who participated in the exploration: Tracy, Wendy, Adele, and the maid Annie. Although Vinata, as a hunter, was very dissatisfied that she could not enter the island to explore in person, Adele blocked her by saying that there was no one to take care of Sophie.

In the distance, the Little Warhorse was staying in a natural harbor near this uninhabited island for repairs. Since the damage this time did not involve the engine room, it could be repaired without Wendy. The sailors were busy repairing the holes left by the artillery battle with steel plates, and at the same time fixed zinc alloy blocks on the outside of the hull for rust prevention.

There is an open-pit coal mine on this island that was exposed due to geological changes. It is a common supply point for all ships that have fuel problems. Sailors only need to use the detonators on the ship to blast the topsoil to get the ore, and after preliminary rummaging, they can get coal. The previous people simply built a dock with stones, which is the only building left by humans on this island.

"They will probably repair the hull overnight and leave the island as soon as possible, which means we don't have much time."

Adele parted the branches and walked towards the jungle. Due to the ability of Admiral Disease, there were no flying insects within a five-meter radius around them, saving the trouble of being on guard against mosquito bites.

"Let's go check out the location of the coal mine first. The crew of the Little Warhorse is heading towards the coal mine, and we can just follow them."

Wendy suggested timidly.

Due to the psychological invisibility imposed by Audrey, as long as Adele and others are still crew members of the "Black Death", they will not be able to observe them until Adele and others return to the "Little War Horse" and become crew members of the "Little War Horse".

"Relax Wendy, just think of it as doing your job."

Adele suggested, "We'll follow you. With Tracy here, nothing will go wrong."

I'm just afraid of her...

Wendy glanced back quietly and saw Tracy's smiling blue eyes. She was frightened and quickly agreed and kept on going.

It has to be said that "archaeologists" have a strong ability to adapt to the wild environment. Even though Wendy had not been to the island many times before, she could sense the nearby rock layers of a certain age to some extent and tell the mineral composition contained in them. Along the way, Wendy discovered iron, pyrite, clay and coal mines, which seemed to have abundant reserves.

The island was neither too big nor too small. Adele felt that she could walk around it in a week. In the center of the island was a small volcanic cone with a net height of about 100 meters. Judging from the plants growing in the crater, it seemed that it had not erupted for a long time.

"The spinel vein is near that volcano. I once tried to get my pirates to collect it, but they had to give up because they didn't know how to mine."

Tracy said with some regret. Although the colors of spinels vary due to the mixture of different ingredients, only pure colorless spinels can be used as the main material of the "Assassin" potion, but as a gemstone, the value of those spinels is also very expensive. If it weren't for her identity as a pirate that made her dare not stay in such a place not far from the main channel for a long time, she would have intervened in the mineral resources here.

"It seems that we need to recruit a group of gem craftsmen later." Adele nodded. "But we are not investigating spinel this time. After Wendy finishes inspecting the coal mine, if we have time, we can go there and take a look."

"I'll finish the investigation as soon as possible." Wendy responded quickly.

Tracy nodded without saying anything. She deliberately slowed down her pace and motioned Wendy to walk in front.

The group soon arrived at the open-pit mine. Although it was called an open-pit mine, the environment here was not dry and there were occasional rains without warning, so the miners used explosives to dig several holes near the rock formations in the mining area, which allowed them to mine and avoid extreme weather.

The mine pit was about 100 meters in diameter and 10 meters deep, and was located in a natural depression. The miners' footprints continued to a mine hole dug on the side wall. Adele and others followed the footprints and inspected each mine hole. They found that the coal here was mainly lignite and bituminous coal, and the coalification degree was not high.

"The last mine is just ahead. Will those sailors really not find us?"

Wendy stopped hesitantly not far from the cave entrance and asked Adele behind her.

"You have to trust a powerful angel...even though His taste is rather unique."

Adele smiled and said, "It's okay, just go in and take a look. Even if you touch their bodies, they won't be aware of your presence."

"……Oh well……"

Wendy nodded and walked in carefully. However, she walked in less than two steps before she walked out with a red face.

"Everyone, I think it's better for you not to go in now..."

Wendy waved her hands randomly. "Now, now they seem to be busy..."

"Busy?" Adele asked in confusion, "They are busy with their own things, and we watch ours. What's the problem?"

"Aren't we busy mining..." Wendy was about to explain, but Anne pushed her aside impatiently and strode into the mine, followed by Adele.

After walking a few steps inside, Adele's foot suddenly stepped on something. She squatted down curiously and saw that it was a mimeographed book with a picture of a scantily clad woman on the cover, and a corner of the black bookmark inside was vaguely visible.

At that moment, Adele seemed to understand what Wendy meant by the sailors being busy, but Anne had already strode in.

(End of this chapter)