Survival of the Nation: My luck was a tiny bit worse.

Leng Ruolan was used to it. She comforted Nanbei and continued:

"But to be honest, the pangolin is always so respectful when it comes to deliver ore. It neatly stacks the ore at the camp entrance, bows, and leaves. It's like it's on a pilgrimage."

Ou Yun imagined that scene—

A gigantic pangolin king carefully stacked the ore at the entrance of the camp...

"Why doesn't it just have its men deliver it? Ha."

"His true intentions were not in the bar."

"Oh, that's true."

"I guess it's in a good mood, and it's doing pretty well." After all, it's really unlikely that it'll end up with the North or South...

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After walking for about an hour, the outline of the mine came into view at the edge of the horizon.

The mine area has expanded considerably since my last visit.

At the foot of the mountain, there were several towering piles of ore, gray, blue, and red, neatly arranged in categories.

Several new mine entrances have been added to the main body of the mine. Each mine entrance is wide and clean, and has obviously been carefully repaired.

At the foot of the mountain, a giant pangolin is directing a group of smaller pangolins to move ore.

The bigger one is the Pangolin King. It doesn't look much different in size, but its mental state is obviously much better than when we last met. Its scales are shining in the sunlight.

The two walked over, and Ou Yun shouted at him, "oi!"

Upon hearing this, the Pangolin King immediately turned around, saw who it was, and then visibly froze for a moment before swishing its tail and trotting over.

"Woo-woo!" and let out an excited, unidentified cry.

Ou Yun waved his hand, not bothering with formalities, "I came to see you and ask you something."

Anyway, according to the rules, everyone's on our side.

"Waaaaah?"

As the Pangolin King responded, he subconsciously glanced around at the two of them.

Where is that snow-white figure?

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Leng Ruolan could tell what this guy was thinking at a glance, and she couldn't help but want to laugh.

Nanbei knew this was pangolin territory and absolutely refused to come over—there was no other way but to leave Nanbei outside and walk over themselves.

She glanced at the mountains of ore piled up around the mine and changed the subject, "Looks like you've been quite busy lately."

“Wuwu!”

When the Pangolin King was asked about his favorite mineral, his voice immediately became proud.

Leng Ruolan smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

I recall Chen Hao mentioning that the ores sent by the Pangolin King were all of high quality, and the farm tools made from those ores in the furnace were superb, making farming much more enjoyable.

Some of the materials were made into equipment, and one of the materials used in some of the high-level equipment they are currently carrying is the high-quality ore sent by this king.

Judging from this, it seems that the king himself chose them.

Unfortunately, the North and South are khakimi, not pangolins.

Leng Ruolan shook her head regretfully in her heart.

As the Pangolin King was talking to Ou Yun, he suddenly bent down and pulled out a fist-sized, dark red ore from the pile of ore next to him, then presented it to the two of them.

"Woo-woo!" It was still a cry that didn't make any sense.

Ou Yun took the ore first and weighed it in his hand.

This ore is indeed different; you can feel a slight warmth when you hold it in your hand, and the texture on its surface seems to be flowing.

Leng Ruolan didn't even need to handle it; the ore was of exceptionally high quality, visible to the naked eye. "The quality is indeed excellent."

Ou Yun smiled and put the ore into his spatial ring. "Thanks! We just built the Abyss Forge, so the more of this kind of good material, the better."

“Wuwu!”

"Oh, right, there's something else I wanted to ask you..."

Ou Yun went straight to the point, "Have you discovered any new mineral veins around here recently? Or anything else that seems a bit off?"

"Mmm..."

The pangolin king thought for a moment, and his ears twitched as well.

Then it turned around and roared in the direction of the mine.

Soon, two little pangolins came running over, huffing and puffing as they carried a map made of animal hide.

The Pangolin King took the map and spread it out on the ground—

It was covered with densely packed mineral vein distribution lines, marked in such detail and rich in color that it surpassed even the topographical map of the forbidden area in Pakistan.

"Whoa!"

It amazed everyone.

"Is this the map you made?"

“Wuwu!”

The pangolin king was very proud.

This is what they do. Since the mineral veins are interconnected, they record them all in their own way, keeping them for later mining.

They even used different colors to distinguish the types of ore. Gray was common iron ore, red was high-grade iron ore, blue was ore with special energy reactions, and black was the best vein—

The pangolin king gestured with its claws on the map, its voice excited and earnest.

Although neither Ou Yun nor Leng Ruolan could understand it.

But that's okay, the map is simple, marked with colors, even a fool can tell that these colors represent different ores—

"This gray one should be the one we're using now."

As Ou Yun spoke, he kept an eye on the expression on the Pangolin King's face.

"Woo woo!" Nodding.

The red ones are the kind they just received.

"What about the blue one? It looks a bit like the lightning bolt color of Black Hawk. It can't be an energy-infused ore, can it?"

"Waaah!" she nodded frantically.

"Ha, you guessed right."

"That black one—"

Leng Ruolan tilted her head. "It does look a bit like an abyss crystal."

As soon as she spoke, the Pangolin King nodded even more vigorously.

"So that's the abyssal ore vein?"

The two immediately examined the location marked on the black vein carefully.

"This location... I remember Hassan and the others marked it on the map too; the location seems rather subtle."

Upon hearing this, Ou Yun immediately took out the map that Hassan and the others had given him.

"Indeed. One is on the east side of the circular valley, and the other is on the west side—could they be connected?"

Leng Ruolan pondered for a moment, then said, "That's possible. The Abyss Bone Demon's activity range is very large, so it's normal for it to leave behind some abyss energy residue wherever it goes."

Besides, wasn't that fertilizer field formed from the corpse of the Abyss Bone Demon? Maybe there's something similar buried under the mine.

Upon hearing this, Ou Yun's eyes darted around, and he looked at the Pangolin King: "How deep have you dug? Ten meters? Twenty meters?"

The pangolin king made a "V" sign with its claws.

"Twenty meters..."

Leng Ruolan frowned slightly. "I'm afraid it will be difficult to dig any deeper."

The ore vein gets harder as you go deeper, and if even pangolins can only dig up to twenty meters—

But from another perspective, this ore is definitely a good thing.

"Okay, we've noted down this vein."

Ou Yun patted the Pangolin King on the shoulder, "When we get back, we'll throw these ores into the furnace and try them out. Then we'll bring them over to you and see. Maybe we can use this vein to forge even more advanced equipment, haha!"