A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 676 The Miners Who Died

In the area covered by the bomb explosion, there was no bulge except the hard rock ground. Lying quietly on the ground were stones left by the shattered ores, gold and iron ores, as well as clay and cave radishes hidden under the overturned sandy soil.

Under the rock where the two shadow men disappeared, the appearance of a staircase mine was revealed. It was obvious that they really ran along this hidden staircase pit instead of hiding in the rocks to launch a sneak attack.

This gave Leon an idea, that is, whether he could try to spare the shadow man when encountering him and let it run away, so that he could accurately locate the staircase pit covered by rocks?
However, although this method is useful, Leon is not sure whether there will be any hidden dangers. After all, if these shadow people run away, who knows whether they will really run away, or go to the lower level to regroup and then set up an ambush in advance. After all, these shadow people also have a certain degree of intelligence.

While thinking, Leon did not collect the various drops after the explosion, nor the void essence left by the two shadow men he had killed before. He also mined the gold and iron ores that he had not had time to mine before, and collected the raw gold and iron ores. After there were no conspicuous ores on this floor, he entered the next floor along the stair pit.

Instead of sliding directly to the bottom of the stairs, Leon hooked his feet on the stairs when he was still halfway up the stairs. Then he took out a super bomb, lit it, and threw it at his feet, letting it fall to the ground due to the effect of gravity.

Lyon was not sure whether the things he was worried about before would happen, so he had to be careful of small mistakes. If he really encountered an ambush, the super bomb would clear the way and free up some space for Lyon, and clear out a safe place to stay.

After waiting for the super bomb to explode, Leon, who was still hanging on the stairs, only felt a buzzing in his ears. The environment of the stair pit was relatively closed. The sound of the explosion spread through the air and echoed in the space inside the well surrounded by rock layers, making Leon quite uncomfortable.

Fortunately, it only lasted for a few seconds and did not cause much impact on Leon. Leon shook his head and made sure that the tinnitus had subsided. He grabbed both sides of the stairs with both hands, retracted his feet, and slid down directly.

The moment he landed, Leon took out his Galaxy Watermelon Knife and looked around. It was empty. The rocks that should have been standing in a forest were all shattered by the super bomb, and the view was unobstructed.

However, the expected ambush circle of Shadowmen did not appear, nor did he see any Void Essence or other loot dropped by Shadowmen. It seemed that everything Leon had just done was a game with the air.

"Am I overthinking?" Seeing this, Leon stroked his chin and complained. He still did not put away his weapon, but he did not miss the stones, coal and the few pieces of gold ore lying on the ground. After putting them in his pocket, he began to search the mine on this level with a knife.

The environment on this level was different. A rotten, rusty railway track lay on the ground, but its end was nowhere to be seen. A remnant of an oil lamp still clung to the rock wall. Its light still flickered, dispelling the darkness within the mine. Although the lava was invisible, the heat of the air could still be felt.

The distribution of rocks and minerals is also very sparse, but the space is not small, and it extends and is inlaid all the way, looking like a four-lane mountain tunnel.

There were no stairwells to be seen, so Leon walked forward along the direction of the tunnel. He did not see any traces of monsters along the way, and the surrounding environment was also similar. Only a small section of scrapped rails could be found occasionally on the ground.

Only when he reached the end did Leon see the rock wall blocking the road. A mine cart was quietly parked in front of the rock wall, and near the mine cart were many oak barrels.

The stairwell that Lyon had been thinking about was right next to the mine cart, but Lyon did not rush down. Instead, he jumped onto the mine cart and looked inside.

The minecart was filled with black coal. He didn't count it, but it was definitely a lot. Leon immediately put it all into his system backpack, increasing the amount of coal in his backpack from 16 to 51. It was a windfall. Of course, Leon was more looking forward to the oak barrels. Last time he encountered one, Leon got a lot of smelted copper ingots for free. This time, Leon was also looking forward to what these barrels would bring him.

Instead of destroying them roughly, Lyon, being a civilized man, naturally opened the lids of the barrels one by one to see what was inside.

The first bucket looked empty, with only a large rotten wooden spoon in it. It seemed that this bucket once contained the miners' stored water.

Lyon was not discouraged and opened the second wooden barrel beside him. This time there was something inside, but it was not what Lyon wanted.

And if possible, he didn't even want to see her.

Because inside was a human skeleton without flesh and skin, but it was still relatively intact, kneeling and leaning quietly against the wall of the barrel. This oak barrel, more than one meter high, was his coffin.

"Miner? Or explorer?" After observing the bones in the barrel, Lyon couldn't figure out what it was. Based on the principle of respecting the dead, Lyon closed the barrel lid and put the whole barrel into the system's backpack.

No matter who this corpse belonged to before, Leon planned to take it out. After all, it was a good thing to bury it. It was a convenient thing to do. He couldn't just leave the body exposed in the mine.

Continuing to explore, Leon discovered that the third barrel also contained a corpse with only bones left. He frowned immediately, as he had a bad feeling.

When I opened another oak barrel, I still found human skeletons inside. I kept turning over until I found the last 7 oak barrels. Except for the first one which was empty, the other six barrels were all filled with human skeletons.

"This is the annihilation of an entire mining team."

Without exception, Lyon put all these oak barrels into the system backpack. Each oak barrel containing a corpse occupied a storage grid of the backpack, but Lyon did not feel that it was a hindrance at all. Instead, he felt that it was quite heavy, because these oak barrels represented a once-living life.

Moreover, Leon has confirmed the identities of the six corpses. They are indeed miners, because in the last barrel, there is not only a corpse, but also a diary.

Although the front half has rotted away, the back half is still relatively intact. At least one can make out what is written on it. It was through reading these words that Leon understood the experiences of these miners and the tragedy that had occurred here.

All of this is related to the mine collapse that caused George to lose his legs decades ago, and these miners were once members of Pelican Town.

(End of this chapter)