Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

"Gray, how many pieces of copper did you find?"

"2 dollars, how about you?"

“...2 pieces. It seems that the copper mine output rate on the first layer is not high!” Lin Xia said slowly.

Gray nodded, and the two of them followed the stairs to the second underground floor. The light in the cave was darker, and the torches on the wall could only illuminate about 2 meters around. Lin Xia asked Gray not to move away from the stairs for the time being, in case anything went wrong, he should leave the mine in time.

This time, Lin Xia held a bow and arrow and began to explore the surroundings more carefully with the searchlight on her head. This time, she finally saw the "slime" emitting a dark green light about 5 meters away in the distance.

Lin Xia approached cautiously and found that these slimes would not actively attack at a certain distance, but once they stepped into their area, they would start attacking and even launch a surprise attack.

This is actually easier to deal with. Lin Xia's bow and arrow is a long-range weapon. In this way, Lin Xia can just stand still and fight monsters, as long as he can find the hidden slime in time.

With a "whoosh", Lin Xia's golden arrow flew out and accurately hit the first slime. Lin Xia was also prepared for a follow-up shot, but the slime fell to the ground immediately after being hit by the first arrow.

"Wow! Lin Xia, you're awesome!" Gray also saw Lin Xia's actions and wanted to applaud her.

"Haha, the golden arrows should have more damage. It seems that the rusty sword is too weak. I just chopped it more than ten times!" Lin Xia said modestly, "However, although the bow and arrows are more lethal, we still have to avoid being stuck to them."

Gray nodded in agreement. Lin Xia left Gray behind and continued to patrol the surroundings. After eliminating several slimes hiding behind the rocks in advance and confirming that there was no danger, she came back to knock on the rocks with Gray, looking for copper ore and stairs at the same time.

I don’t know if the two of them were unlucky today, but they finally found the stairs to go down after knocking over several mine holes. They had knocked over dozens of stones and only found a few pieces of copper ore, and both of them were very exhausted.

"Gray, let's not go down for now. Let's replenish our strength on this floor first. The time in the room remains unchanged anyway. As long as we have enough energy, we should be able to find Clint to build a furnace tomorrow." Lin Xia said, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

"Okay! I'll listen to you."

This level of the mine had been cleaned up by the two of them and was absolutely safe, so Lin Xia simply took out a simple small table and two chairs, and also took out udon noodles and mixed juice, and the two of them buried their heads in their food.

After finishing her meal, Lin Xia glanced at the time on her watch.

"Ah!!!~"

"What's going on? What's going on? Is there a monster?" Gray was so scared that noodles came out of his nose.

Lin Xia looked at Gray with a tearful expression on her face: "Look at what time it is now?"

"It shouldn't have been long, right? We entered the mine around 3 pm, and we're only on the second floor now, so it should have been less than 5 minutes, right?" Gray said as he looked down at his watch. After looking at it, he froze and looked at Lin Xia in disbelief.

"20:03!!!"

"Hmm~" Lin Xia nodded sadly, "It seems that there is nothing wrong with my watch, but the time in the mine here is not stagnant, it is the same as outside."

The two were so sad that they had no tears left!

They both knew that staying up late was not advisable, whether in Mineral Town or in Pelican Town where they were unfamiliar with the place, they should conserve their energy and get enough rest.

After discussion, the two decided to go up first. After all, it was their first day and they hadn’t found a place to put the tent yet. It should be dark outside!

The two quickly packed up their things and went to the stairs to leave the mine. Fortunately, leaving the mine was the same as leaving Mineral Town. They didn't need to go up one level at a time and could go directly back to the ground level, which was where they met Malone.

However, before leaving the mine, the two of them looked through the first floor again with the help of the light and found a mine cart on the left side of the cave entrance, but it seemed to be damaged. On the wall directly opposite the cave entrance was an elevator, which was intact.

The two were a little happy. They should be able to take the elevator directly down to the 2nd floor tomorrow. This was how Mineral Town was. As long as it was a mining layer they had been to, they could take the elevator directly to the next level.

The two left the mine contentedly, and the next step was to find a camping site.

After exiting the mine, on the right is the Explorer's Guild which is temporarily inaccessible. The entrance to the mine is not very big, so it is definitely not possible to set up a tent.

The two could only go out along the bridge on the left and follow the path forward. At this time, they found a bonfire burning on the upper left hillside. Could there be other people camping here?

Following the mountain road, we moved forward towards the fire and finally came to a relatively open and flat place. There was indeed a small tent standing at the edge of the hillside.

As a male comrade, Gray immediately stepped forward to take charge of diplomatic affairs, while Lin Xia took out a sickle and roughly cleared away some bushes and weeds that had popped up. This was actually a good place to set up a tent as it was very close to the mine.

"Lin Xia, I found out that the person living in the tent is called Linus. I heard he is a homeless man~" When saying the word homeless man, Gray whispered in Lin Xia's ear.

"But I feel that this person is not a bad person. On the contrary, he was quite nervous when he saw me. It seems that he is even more timid than me. And he doesn't seem to be good at speaking." While Gray was speaking, he took out his tent and started to find a place to set it up like Lin Xia.

Both of their tents were bought from Huo An. They were high-end products. Not only were they easy to set up, but the internal facilities were also incomparable to ordinary tents.

Because there was a homeless man next door, Gray set up the tent in the middle, separating Lin Xia from the homeless man, which was barely safe.

Lin Xia looked at Gray like this and said with a grin, "Gray, don't be too nervous. This is not an uninhabited place. Since Linus can live here all the time, he must not be a dangerous person. Besides, I have a lot of camping experience. If there weren't people coming here at any time and I was worried about hurting people, I could also install an electric fence!

But I think there won't be any danger here. With Ah Huang and Da Zhuang guarding the door for us, it's absolutely safe. Don't worry."

"Oh, you brought all your pets, right?" Gray asked in surprise.

"Hey, yes, I can't bear to leave them!"

As he said that, Lin Xia released Ah Huang and Da Zhuang, and placed Ah Huang's doghouse next to the tent. The two pets were quite curious about this unfamiliar environment and started exploring and looking around.

Lin Xia also invited Gray to come to her tent to enjoy dinner.