A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 492 Special Structure

Although it was already past three in the afternoon, Lyon, who had put away his advanced slingshot, chose to continue exploring.

After entering the 71st floor through the stairwell, Leon noticed that the surrounding environment had changed. The walls of the mine were previously original rock walls, but after the 71st floor, the walls became walls made of regular bricks.

The ground is no longer an uneven rock formation, but a stone floor composed of various flattened stones. Although it is called a mine, it actually feels more like an underground palace to Lyon.

Interestingly, on the wall, Leon could see some decorative items that shouldn't appear in a mine. There were chains embedded in the wall, and the shackles on the other end of the chains were basically broken. It seemed that many prisoners were imprisoned here in the past.

As for what the prisoners looked like now, Leon also knew it, because as soon as he landed, he saw a skeleton walking towards him tremblingly.

The skeleton had no flesh on its body, but there were severely decayed shoulder pads on its shoulders and a pair of tattered leather boots on its feet.

The most distinctive feature is the red glow in the skull's eye sockets, which gives a very oppressive feeling.

What’s even more interesting is that when the skeleton was less than ten meters away from Leon, it stopped, broke off its own ribs with its hand bones, and threw them towards Leon like a boomerang.

The force was so great that the bone flew out at a very fast speed, but because it was a large bone and was in a spiral shape, it was not as difficult to predict as an arrow, and its flight path was very straight. Leon simply took out a machete, held it in front of him, and blocked the thrown bone.

"clang!"

There was an extremely crisp sound of metal clashing, and Leon also felt a little numb in his wrist. The impact of the bone hitting him was not small, comparable to a huge rock flying towards him.

"interesting."

Leon moved his wrist and then rushed towards the skeleton. Seeing that Leon was actively closing the distance between them, the skeleton stopped breaking off another rib, raised his arms, and rushed towards Leon, moving much faster than before.

But the moment they made contact, Lyon's blade cut through the exposed lumbar vertebrae of the skeleton. For the first time, Lyon felt a slight pause in the blade, but the effect of this blocking was minimal. With a little force, he easily cut it off.

Without the support of the lumbar vertebrae, the skeleton fell apart like a disassembled Lego, with various bones scattered all over the ground. Eventually, they weathered away under the influence of the rules, leaving only a small piece of bone fragment left in place.

"Bone Fragment (Resource): A small piece of bone."

Lyon picked it up and looked at the description given by the system, and had some ideas.

"I wonder if a dog will eat this if I feed it to them. If they do, will they be affected by some mysterious force and turn into a monster?"

It's a pity that Dahuang is currently undergoing metamorphosis, so Lyon has no way to conduct experiments. There is a dog in Pelican Town, but that dog has an owner. Lyon doesn't dare to try such an uncertain thing rashly, so he can only put the idea aside and put the bone fragment into his pocket.

Even if you don't feed them to dogs, the bone fragments have other uses, such as being put into a bone crusher as fertilizer, or used to make some other equipment. Keep them for now.

After dealing with the skeleton, Leon took a look at the task panel on the system interface and found that the task of hunting ghosts had increased its completion level and was now 11/66.

It was 10 before, but now there's an extra counter, which makes Leon realize that the skeleton seems to be counted towards the mission count. "Ghosts and skeletons, although they have different forms, are they both the dead who escaped the ferryman of death?"

Lyon felt that this discovery was quite reasonable, but he also realized that this underground palace-like mineral layer did not seem simple.

Unfortunately, there was too little known information, and Lyon couldn't analyze it clearly, so he temporarily put this doubt aside and started mining and looking for pits in this mine.

After the 70th floor, the frequency of the appearance of iron ore has obviously increased. The iron ore that appeared sporadically before is now basically gathered in groups of three or five, becoming Lyon's preferred mining target.

Mining, killing monsters, picking up ores and loot, and occasionally finding tear crystals lying quietly on the ground, this is basically the main theme of Leon in the mine.

"Uh-huh!"

With a casual blow, he killed the ghost that had just emerged from the wall, and then Leon picked up the iron ore that had just been mined on the ground and the sun essence dropped by the ghost and put them in his pocket.

"It's getting late. It looks like we won't be able to reach the 100th floor today."

Looking at the time, it was already past seven in the evening. Leon moved his numb arms and slid down to the next floor along the stairwell that had just been dug.

This floor happened to be the 75th floor with an elevator. After turning on the switch, Leon pressed the elevator button and went home.

In the elevator shaft, Leon took off his snow monster fur suit and put it into his backpack. When he reached the surface and left the mine, Leon turned around and went to the Explorer's Guild.

"You're back with your equipment?" Ma Long, who was chewing on bread, asked Leon who pushed the door open.

"No, I'm here to renew my lease."

Lyon shook his head, then handed another 250G to Malone.
"I rarely see you working so actively in the mine. Are you short of metal ingots?" Ma Long asked casually after receiving the money.

"No, I just want to reach the bottom of the mine as soon as possible so that I can go down to the mine as needed later." Lyon said perfunctorily.

"Okay, but you still have to pay attention to the combination of work and rest. I smell a lot of death on you. It seems that you have encountered a lot of monsters today." Malone nodded and reminded Leon at the same time.

"By the way, speaking of monsters, President Malone, do you know why the mine after the 70th floor is built like an underground palace? Those walls are obviously man-made. And who are those shackles and shackles hanging on the wall holding?"

Since he was already here, Lyon would naturally not miss the opportunity to find Marlon to find out the reason for the formation of the underground palace-style mine after the 70th floor.

"I'm not quite sure. After all, I'm also an outsider. I once had the same doubts as you, but I didn't find the answers. I can judge from experience that there were once the remains of a lost civilization there, but I'm not sure what it is specifically." Ma Long explained, shaking his head.

"The mines aren't that simple. Even the Explorers Guild knows very little about the secrets they hold. Similar mines exist in almost every area of ​​this world, but some are safe and harmless, while others, like the mines in Stardew Valley, are infested with monsters. Many explorers have tried to uncover the secrets and patterns within, but to no avail."

(End of this chapter)