Online Game: Super Beast Tamer

Chapter 86 Mining
The Conculos Mountains belong to the official Vardanis, and every player who enters needs to pay a handling fee of 10 gold coins.

These ten gold coins only allow the player to mine in the mine for 8 hours.

Even though the price is so high, there is still a constant stream of players coming here. In the two months since the game was launched, there have been countless stories of people getting rich overnight by digging out top-quality ore.

Su Ming paid the money and walked into the mine.

In places like mines where there are a lot of players, stalls are indispensable, but the players who set up stalls here are all selling ores, not equipment.

Su Ming first walked around the area, looking for white crystal among the stalls. He checked more than ten stalls but didn't see anyone selling white crystal.

"It should be a quest item. Just like when you kill monsters, it will only drop after you accept the quest."

Now I can only mine by myself.

Some of the players who entered the mine were holding pickaxes, and some were holding drills. Su Ming walked in the opposite direction of the players who entered the mine and found a merchant NPC.

I bought my pickaxes and drill bits from him.

After Su Ming talked to the NPC, he opened the store:
初级矿镐：挖矿速度增加5%，附带挖矿（LV1）。耐久：100/100，售价:10金币。

中级矿镐：挖矿速度增加10%，附带挖矿（LV2）。耐久：100/100，售价：20金币。

Advanced Pickaxe: ...

初级钻头：挖矿速度增加30%，附带挖矿（LV4）。耐久：150/150，售价:60金币。

Intermediate Drill: Mining speed increased by 50%, with mining (LV5). Durability: 150/150, Equipment requirements: Intermediate Miner, Price: 120 gold coins.

Judging from the properties of these pickaxes and drills, the best mining equipment for non-professional miners is the primary drill.

Although there was no time limit for the task, Su Ming felt that the sooner it was completed the better, so he gritted his teeth and directly purchased a primary drill.

"Once the task is completed, I will make sure to use up the durability of this drill, so that the money spent is worthwhile." After buying the pickaxe, Su Ming looked at other items.

In addition to selling mining equipment, merchants also sell work clothes, miners' hats and the like. These items have only one attribute, which is to increase physical strength.

Su Ming asked a player next to him:

"What is this physical value?"

"You can't keep mining, it will consume your stamina. One tube of stamina can last about an hour." The passerby player was also quite patient and said, "Are you new to mining? Don't buy the merchant's costumes, it's a waste of money. Just buy his stamina potion, it's more economical."

"Thank you. I hope you find good ore."

Su Ming followed the player's advice and found the stamina potion.

Stamina potion: Restores 50 points of stamina consumed by secondary job work, drug resistance: 1 (only one bottle can be effective per hour).

After purchasing the equipment, Su Ming went to the mine.

The drill is easy to operate, with only two buttons on it: start and stop. When Su Ming took it in his hand, a temporary "Mining (LV4)" skill appeared in the skill bar.

There are already many people mining in the mine.

Su Ming followed their example and pointed the drill at the wall of the mine.

sizzle.

The drill bit started to rotate, and a progress bar with the words "Mining..." appeared in front of Su Ming's eyes. It would take about 30 seconds, and the time would be slightly adjusted depending on where Su Ming collected the data.

System: You were mining for ore on a rock wall, but unfortunately, you didn't find any ore.

System: You mined ore from a rock wall and collected 4g of iron ore.

System: You were mining for ore on a rock wall, but unfortunately, you didn't find any ore.

After collecting for a long time, almost half of the prompts given by the system were "regrettable"... The most important thing was that Su Ming didn't even collect 1g of white fluorite.

After asking the players passing by, they said they didn't know if there was any white fluorite, but they suggested that Su Ming go deeper into the mine to have a look, as there were very few types of ore at the entrance of the cave.

Su Ming moved deeper into the mine, where kerosene lamps had been installed in advance and the mine was filled with golden light.

Deep in the mine, monsters such as bats and gnolls appear, and these monsters will attack players who are mining.

There is a group of players who specialize in clearing monsters in the mines and then collecting tolls... They can exist because the charges are not expensive.

Su Ming also paid a silver coin before coming in.

"Maybe there will be more ore in places with fewer people." Su Ming thought so, walked around in the interconnected mines, and found a place where no one was digging.

"This is it." Su Ming was very confident. He picked up the drill and was about to start mining when a scream came from above his head.

A "dark night bat" half the size of a human pounced on Su Ming.

Su Ming dropped the drill, rolled over to avoid the attack of the dark night bats, and complained in his heart:
"Didn't they say that the monsters have been cleared? These people are just trying to cheat people out of their money..."

Su Ming called out Xiao Hei and Zuoemon and said to them:
"Kuro, Saemon, you protect me while I'm mining."

"Yes." The two pets answered in unison, rushed towards the dark night bat and beat it up.

Su Mingcai finally felt at ease to start mining.

However, there are a lot of "unfortunately" again.

Su Ming used reverse thinking and came up with a not-so-good fact:
"Is it because there is too little ore that no one comes here?"

"No, no, maybe they haven't found this place yet. If one person digs in one place, the harvest will be greater than if ten people dig in one place, right?"

"Dig for another half an hour!"

Su Ming calmed down and started mining.

He stared at the time closely. 30 minutes were almost up. Su Ming was a little desperate and decided to follow the crowd and go to crowded places to mine. At that time, a system prompt gave him hope.

System: You mined ore from a rock wall and collected 12g of white ore.

"White crystal ore?"

Su Ming quickly opened the task bar and found that the progress of the paint task had indeed increased.

White fluorite (1.2/3000).

Originally, Su Ming was given 3000 units of white quartz, but now it seems that the task requires 30 kilograms of white quartz.

"It took me more than an hour to collect 1.2 grams of white fluorite. How long will it take to dig out the 30 kilograms?" Su Ming opened his friend list and found that Venus was not online. He couldn't even send a message to Venus to ask her to help find mining strategies.

"Forget it, let's continue digging here. At least I found it. Maybe I was just unlucky." Su Ming aimed at the place where he had just dug out the white ore and drilled hard.

2.6.

5.4.

Su Ming's task progress is slowly increasing.

Amid the noisy sound of the drill, Su Ming heard footsteps, turned around and couldn't take his eyes away.

She is a female miner, but her gender is not the point; the point is her mining equipment.

He was wearing professional brown miner's uniform, holding a golden drill in his hand, and even had a few explosive pipes inserted around his waist.

She was holding something like a radar in her hand, and she looked very professional.

The woman ignored Su Ming and walked right past him, heading deeper into the mine.

"I don't know how to find a place to mine, but other people can." Su Ming immediately put away the drill and followed the woman happily.

(End of this chapter)