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Chapter 45 Fifteen Meters Underground

After leaving the Recreation Center, Geng Xuan did not stay in the market any longer and quickly returned to his home in Changpingfang.

After returning home, Geng Xuan did not stay long and soon left in the name of going into the mountains to practice.

In fact, he had returned through the tunnel, picked up a box in the corner of the house, and went into the basement.

This box is filled with some elementary school books, pens, ink, paper and other items from my predecessor's elementary school days. Since the end of elementary school, my predecessor has basically never touched these things again.

The last time the books were turned over and scattered all over the floor was because of Wu Youren. All the books and papers with words on them were "destroyed", but many things "survived".

Later, Geng Xuan cleaned up the house and put all these things back into the wooden box.

Entering the basement, Geng Xuan quickly gathered a set of writing tools.

In order to recover the memory of his previous incarnation's writing, Geng Xuan first practiced for a while until he gradually recovered his memory of writing. Then he opened the "Earth Travel Chapter" and quickly copied down the text according to the instructions.

At the beginning, Geng Xuan wrote relatively slowly, and each stroke was clear and distinct. As he became more proficient, his pen strokes became faster and faster, as if flying and leaping on the paper.

It was inevitable that it would become more and more sloppy, but Geng Xuan didn't care.

He didn't deliberately make trouble with his writing, which shows he has a conscience.

……

The next day. Morning.

Teahouse opposite the market, second floor.

In the same room, Geng Xuan and the man sat in the same position as yesterday.

The man looked at the stack of things Geng Xuan handed over and immediately frowned.

The paper was of poor quality, the handwriting was even worse, and the sheets were stacked one on top of the other and not bound into a book at all. It looked as bad as it could be.

It would be difficult for anyone to practice such a thing together with the priceless family secret method at first sight.

But soon, as he focused on the words on the paper, he was no longer confused by these terrible appearances and was completely immersed in the twisted and scribbled words.

After reading the first page, he wanted to read the next page.

"Snapped!"

A hand pressed heavily on it, and he could only give up with regret.

He looked at Geng Xuan and asked hesitantly, "Did you just transcribe this?"

"Do you mind? Then you can wait a little longer." Geng Xuan's attitude was perfunctory and casual.

The man looked at Geng Xuan with a scrutinizing expression, "You didn't tamper with the text, did you?"

"Is it necessary? If you don't believe it, forget it."

The man stared at Geng Xuan for a while, and finally reached into his arms, placed a book on the table, and gently pushed it in front of Geng Xuan.

Geng Xuan took a quick glance and saw the words on the cover clearly.

Running Dog

"Clang."

The man placed a package at his feet on the table. As soon as he opened the package, Geng Xuan saw a silver flash in front of his eyes.

Fifty-five silver bars were neatly stacked there.

About a cup of tea later, the man walked out of the room.

Not long after, Geng Xuan also came out of the room carrying a heavy package.

The transaction was completed and some hidden dangers were temporarily suppressed. Geng Xuan did not stay in the market for long and started his return journey.

When passing a long street, Geng Xuan's heart moved. He kept walking, but his eyes looked around carefully.

There was originally a tree here.

Later, due to an "accident", the tree was uprooted.

Here, Geng Xuan saw a "little mud monkey" whose tongue was deliberately cut off, and also saw an ugly beggar with a deformed leg who had an unusual name.

Although he only met these two people once, they both left a deep impression on Geng Xuan.

When he passed by here again this time, he inexplicably thought of the child who got lost in the market yesterday, and somehow thought of the two people he had met here.

What made him feel a little regretful, yet also a little relieved, was that he didn't find anything unusual this time.

There were no beggars hanging around either.

…When he returned home again, Geng Xuan piled the three silver bars he had on this small "silver mountain".

Fifty-eight silver bars and five hundred and eighty taels of silver alleviated the emptiness brought by poverty and gave him confidence again.

But soon, he ran into trouble.

How to spend it?

How can you exchange these riches for resources that can help you accumulate quickly?
At first glance, whether through Chen Rongshan or Mr. Chai, he could easily convert this money into resources suitable for him.

Based on his understanding, he believed that they would not cheat him.

But there was a problem, he couldn't explain where this windfall came from.

Another thing is that under normal circumstances, I got 25 kilograms of tiger bone, deer ginseng wine from Uncle Chen and 30 kilograms of bear heart and leopard gall wine from Grandpa Chai. Even under high-intensity training, they are enough to last for a long time.

It would be very abnormal for him to ask them for a large amount of auxiliary resources at this time.

If possible, he still wants to try his best to maintain a normal and reasonable personality within Changpingfang. He can show his "genius" side appropriately, but he cannot be a "monster" that cannot be understood by common sense.

As a result, the seemingly most reliable channel in Changpingfang is no longer usable.

Then go to Kangleji to find a solution?
Kangleji has just as many channels for selling supplementary resources as Changpingfang. Although the prices are a bit higher, there are a lot of good things as long as you are willing to pay.

But soon, this idea was directly rejected by Geng Xuan.

Compared to Changpingfang, Kangleji itself is more chaotic, with complicated forces. Any transaction related to cultivation will be watched by countless eyes, openly or secretly.

Without any connections, if you just bring a big bag of silver to someone's door to make purchases, you would be sorry for this dangerous world if you are not taken advantage of.

At this moment, Geng Xuan deeply understood a truth.

Money is important, but a channel to spend the money safely is equally important.

"Forget it, let's just leave it at that for now, and come back to this problem in a few days."

Geng Xuan decided to put this issue aside for the time being.

Just because he had an important schedule these few days, he decided to go all out.

These days, although the river water is still turbid, its size is decreasing at a visibly fast rate.

Slower flow rates and reduced flow rates are all visible changes.

Geng Xuan decided to use these last few days to excavate the site as quickly as possible through the river channel.

Now he has dug a tunnel leading to the other side of the river where Changpingfang is located. In order to maximize efficiency and ensure that the support is stable and will not cause ground collapse, Geng Xuan decided to choose the place closest to the tunnel exit to expand the underground space.

Geng Xuan’s idea is to use this final time limit to increase the volume of the underground space as much as possible.

When we can no longer dump large amounts of soil into the river in the future, if I have any new ideas, these underground spaces can also be used to store the waste soil.

If we create more underground space now, we won’t be too short of space in the future.

Because of this consideration, Geng Xuan did not dig everywhere as he had done in the past. Instead, he dug deeper and to the left and right sides in an area very close to the tunnel exit, with the principle of transporting and dumping the waste soil in the shortest possible time.

The time spent transporting earth was shortened, allowing the daily growth rate of underground space to exceed 300 cubic meters.

After eight consecutive days of high-intensity work and seeing the river water becoming clearer and clearer, Geng Xuan decided not to continue after today.

I was also planning to seal the exit directly below the river tomorrow and try to restore it to its original state, leaving only some air holes to avoid being discovered during the dry season.

The deepest part of the underground space he excavated was more than fifteen meters from the surface.

At this depth, the soil becomes increasingly dense and it would be more appropriate to call it rock soil.

When Geng Xuan inserted his palm into the rock and soil again, he suddenly felt something unusual in his fingers.

This is because the ends of the fingers do not seem to be inserted into the tight rock and soil, but instead seem to be completely exposed to the air.

Geng Xuan was filled with doubt and suspicion, and he gently exerted force in his fingers and palms, causing the hard rock and soil around his palms to crack into large and small pieces.

The next moment, when the fragments fell to the ground, Geng Xuan clearly heard a hollow echo.

Geng Xuan was stunned for a moment, and then he quickly inserted his palms into the rock and soil.

After a while, Geng Xuan took down an oil lamp from the rock wall and shone it towards the hole that had just been dug in front of him.

A tunnel hidden fifteen meters deep underground, empty and deep, leading to an unknown place, suddenly appeared in Geng Xuan's sight.

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(End of this chapter)