A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 938: A non-oppressive appearance
"Don't say it, it really feels a bit like touching gold."

He cut open the bandages on another mummy. After it lost the support of the unknown energy and turned into a tangled mess of bandages that ignited, Lyon was lost in thought and heard a similar wail and sob again.

An indescribable feeling of oppression made Leon frown, always feeling like he was bullying the weak.

But the reality was that the two cremated mummies did not make the other mummies retreat at all. They still insisted on getting close to Leon and tried to strangle him to death with their bandaged hands.

In a life-and-death situation, Leon certainly couldn't be the one who wanted to die.

Apart from their erratic movements that defy gravity and their obvious flaw in immortality, these mummies' combat effectiveness is actually much weaker than that of the Shadow Men.

When the shroud of the last mummy was ignited and disappeared in the flames, leaving behind a dazzling sun essence, there was no other movable existence in this layer except Leon.

After picking up the ores and monster loot on the ground, Leon didn't stay for long. He took out his pickaxe and started to clean up the other raw ores on this floor, looking for the stairs leading to the next floor.

Lyon still remembered the precautions Mr. Qi had mentioned. Unlike the mines in Stardew Valley, each level of the Skeleton Mine could not be guaranteed to be safe even after being cleared. New monsters would appear in each level within just a few hours. So if he didn't want to deliberately kill monsters to level up, Lyon had to reach the next level within an hour if he wanted to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Fortunately, the gold pickaxe had been upgraded and was sharp enough, and because Lyon himself had unlimited firepower, his strength in smashing the ore would not be weakened by the loss of physical strength. He could smash a piece of ore in an average of ten seconds. After five minutes, Lyon successfully found the entrance to the next level.

Still different from the abandoned mines in Stardew Valley, the stairwell leading to the next level in the Skeleton Mine was actually a building with stone steps, wall-mounted torches, and even handrails and a large, flat, open resting platform for users to rest. Its formality was completely different from that of the simple, rusty, straight iron staircase.

This made Leon feel like he was robbing a tomb. After all, which mine would have stairs of this size?

But this is also a good thing. At least Leon will not be in danger of being attacked by surprise while climbing the stairs with his back to the mine on the next level. This type of staircase can keep Leon's sight forward.

Going all the way down, it took two minutes for Leon to enter the second level of the mine. Based on the normal speed of 48 to 63 meters per minute, the depth difference between the first and second levels was more than meters.

This is just the difference between two layers. If there is no change, the depth from the first layer to the 100th layer will make Lyon a little astonished. This has broken through the crust and entered the mantle layer.

"I don't remember seeing layers of ice and lava in the desert mines. I hope it's the same in reality."

Without any equipment to deal with special environments, Lyon prayed silently in his heart. He didn't want to be forced to fail in the challenge because of these external factors.

But this is just the beginning, and Leon is willing to step back for something that has not happened yet. Now all he needs to do is keep going down until he meets Mr. Qi.

The second floor is similar to the first floor. The surrounding rock walls are surrounded by walls made of regular bricks, and the ground is also a flat patchwork stone floor.

If you ignore the ore scattered throughout the floor of the space, this place would be more like the basement of some large building than a mine.

With the experience of the first layer, Lyon naturally would not rashly use a hoe to directly dig through the ore. As usual, he took out a super bomb and threw it into the area with the densest ore, and blew it up first to see the situation.

"Bang!" The dull explosion cleared an area. Among the minerals and stones left on the ground, there were no bandages representing mummies like on the previous floor.

But this did not make Lyon relax. He took out another super bomb and threw it into another area.

The explosion of the second bomb left most of the second floor empty. The range of the explosion covered two-thirds of the space inside the mine, and the only places where the original ore remained were in some corners.

But there is still no trace of the mummies, as if they do not exist on this floor.

After waiting patiently for about twenty seconds and seeing that nothing strange had appeared, Lyon began to pick up the ore and stones that had been blown out on the ground, and headed towards the next level of the stairwell that had been blown out in advance.

"Tick tock tock."

As soon as he arrived near the stairwell, Leon heard the sound of water dripping on the ground in the quiet mine. It was not loud, but it was really obvious in this environment.

So there is no need to look for it. Just look in the direction where the sound received by the ear comes from, and Leon will know the source of the sound.

Coming from the nine o'clock direction in Lyon, the source was the ceiling above. Drop after drop of purple liquid the size of apples dripped from the gap between the two complete stone slabs of the ceiling to the ground, accumulating into a small pool on the floor.

There were clearly no obstacles around, but after the dripping purple liquid spread to a diameter of two meters, it stopped flowing around and instead began to accumulate on the original purple liquid, accumulating more and more.

"What a stupid way to leave. If I had gone downstairs right now, you would have been wasting your time."

Leon, who was watching the purple liquid dripping, really wanted to open the gap in the ceiling where it was leaking so that the liquid would stop dripping faster.

From the color of the liquid, Leon was basically certain that this thing was the purple slime that was a specialty of the Skeleton Mine. It was a special variety that would drop iridium ore, with thick health and high attack.

The pool of water in front of him was still gathering and had not yet condensed into a slime. Leon guessed that it should be a giant purple slime, which would split apart after being shattered.

In fact, Leon could have chosen to go straight up the stairwell to the third floor, ignoring the giant purple slime that had not yet completed its appearance 'ritual'.

However, in order to verify the combat effectiveness of this thing, Lyon chose to stay and observe, so as to accumulate experience for his subsequent exploration and in-depth study.

By the way, let's see if we can get some iridium ore. After all, this is one of the main purposes of Leon coming to the Skull Mine.

Mr. Qi's challenge was just a side job. If the Skeleton Mine did not produce iridium ore, Leon would not have come here to mine at all.

After all, there are mines in Stardew Valley.

(End of this chapter)