Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 89:
After about two months of training and running-in, the joint exploration team was finally ready and officially set off.
And long before them, a pioneering team of adventurers had arrived. Unlike the exploration team, the task of the development team is to build camps and repair roads. This camp will be very large and can accommodate three to four hundred people. Because this will not only serve as a camp for the exploration team, but also a simple smelting site. Once the ore is found, preliminary smelting will be carried out to determine its accurate quality and to estimate the value of this vein.
Moreover, if it is determined that this vein will be mined, in the future this camp will also be a transfer station connecting the mine and the outside world. It is a place similar to a processing factory and a small fortress.
There is a saying on earth that “build roads before you want to get rich”, and it’s the same in this world. To do great things, roads must be built first. With convenient transportation, it is much more convenient to transport people or goods.
Leave aside, if there is no road, the carriage will not come up, and the tools needed for exploration and the furniture needed to build a small smelter, can it be carried on one's shoulders?
How much manpower is that! How much more risk!
Especially the terrain here is relatively northerly, and it's better now. When it's mid winter, snow and waist are commonplace. If there is no road, the traffic inside and outside will be cut off. If something goes wrong at that time, it will really be a bad idea for every day and the ground will not work.
Building roads is not only for the convenience of mine development, but also for their own safety.
In almost two months, a simple road was built. This road is really simple to the extreme. It is nothing more than removing the vegetation, removing the stones, and leveling it out a bit. Don't look at this way, it's still improvised now, it will cause problems over time. Especially when it snows in winter and the snow melts in spring, it will surely turn into mud.
But anyway, it's enough to make do with it now and make the carriage passable.
I will talk about the future.
Not long after the road was repaired, the prospecting team arrived.
Because of a delay of two months, the weather is already very cold at this time, but cold has the advantage of coldness-when the weather is cold, all kinds of venomous snakes will hibernate, which is safer for exploration. As for the beasts and monsters that move around in ignorance of the cold, anyway, even when the weather is hot, they also move around, there is no difference.
The adventurers are not afraid of the cold, nor are the prospecting workers. In other words, compared to the less terrible cold, poisonous insects and snakes are more dangerous.
That's what the Ministry of Mines thought, so it deliberately delayed until winter to start prospecting.
What's more, even if you want to be faster, it is not convenient to start exploration when the road is not repaired and the camp is not built.
The prospecting workers are not adventurers. They don't have the strong physique enough to fight black bears, and they can't climb the mountains with heavy supplies on their backs. However, they need to carry more things than adventurers—someone has counted that, on average, one exploration worker will bring out at least 20 kilograms of various stones at a time when entering the mountain. To carry such a heavy thing on the mountains and rivers, of course, a stable camp is needed. With a reliable rear, they can carry out this kind of high-intensity work.
Hopes didn't think so much, he was only happy for the end of the journey.
"Huh...it's really cold!" With a breath, he jumped out of the carriage, looked at the peaks that had been covered with snow, and couldn't help saying, "But the scenery is really beautiful!"
Indeed, there was a heavy snowfall a few days ago, and now the mountains are all wrapped in silver shirts, and they are all white in the clear sun, the sky is cloudless, the blue sky and the white peaks set off, it is refreshing .
These days, I’m either studying or hurrying. I look up and I see either the roof or the awning. In short, I don’t see the sky very much. Now I can finally relax. The so-called desire to promote and suppress, at this moment, I am happy. It is a big win over weekdays.
If it weren't for the repeated warnings during this period of training and repeated admonitions that he must not yell in the snow-covered mountains, he really wants to roar and express his joy at the moment.
Just then, he heard a roar coming from behind a carriage.
"Ah——Ou——Ah——Ou——"
Hopps covered his face with his hands, unwilling to look back.
And Ruby has rushed in angrily, grabbed a pighead who was yelling, and threw him to the icy ground with a fist.
"You stupid pig! I forgot what I emphasized in class. You are not allowed to yell in the snow!"
The pig-headed man is really thick-skinned, and he didn't fight tightly after receiving this punch. He still stubbornly lying on the ground: "I'm not a prospector."
"If you are not a prospector, you must abide by the rules! In case you yell at you and an avalanche occurs, those who are prospecting in the mountains will be in danger!"
"But everyone has just arrived and haven't entered the mountain for exploration yet."
"There are other adventurers in the mountains!"
"What do other adventurers do to us?"
Ruby was so angry that his nose was crooked, and he didn't bother to talk nonsense with this bastard. He raised his fist and punched the left and right, hitting the guy with ghosts and howling, and the last pig face turned blue and purple before stopping. Let's start.
"I don’t know how to reason like a school teacher, and I don’t know how to persuade people with reason. I’m a rough person." After the fight, he clenched his fist coldly and made a quack, quack." Rough people can only use rough people to solve problems, do you understand?"
The Pighead stared at him viciously.
"Very well, next time you let me hear you yelling like this, I'll hit it with a stick!" Ruby turned a blind eye to the pighead's ferocious eyes and turned away.
During the two-month training, he was recognized by his teachers and classmates and was elected as the leader of the prospectors. As the captain, he needs to lead the team to inspect the camp and prepare a lot of things. There is no time to waste time here.
When he walked away, Hopps sighed and walked to the pig head who was still lying on the ground, with a faint green light on his hand, falling on the pig head.
"Ferra, you guy knows Ruby's temper, why do you want to tease him?" He sighed and said, "Is it interesting to be beaten again for nothing?"
"Sooner or later I will...return his..."
"You just had a little contradiction at the beginning, are you always aiming at him?"
"A grudge...will be reported!"
"Why is it so serious! What's more, you are a chef, how can you avenge him?"
"There will always be... chances~IndoMTL.com~ Under the healing effect of natural spells, Fera the Pighead's injuries quickly healed, and after a while, only a faint trace remained. He said to Hopps. Thanks, got up and turned away.
This chef Fella is a stunned young man. During the training camp, he didn't know how to look at Ruby, and then the two sides quarreled and started hands. Of course, Fella couldn't beat Ruby and suffered a beating. After that, this guy took a grudge. He provokes Ruby every three to five times. He would be beaten every time, but he never knew how to repent.
Hopps has a gentle personality and a little natural spells. Every time he gets beaten, he will heal him. After going back and forth, his healing ability has improved quite a bit, and he has become friends with Fira.
It's just that Fella's character is relatively withdrawn and stubborn to death. Hopes' persuasion several times was useless, and it was the same this time.
Seeing him and Ruby go busy separately, Hops couldn't help sighing.
(I really don’t know what the Ministry of Mines thinks, why does Fera have to participate in this exploration? There is a lot of confusion, but it’s a big taboo!)