Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

After getting the first Philosopher's Stone, things got much easier afterwards. When Ah Huang had a target, Lin Xia reached the corresponding floor. As long as he cleared the route for Ah Huang, Ah Huang would "scan" all the ores in the field. If there was one, it would tell Lin Xia the target; if not, it would let Lin Xia go to the next floor.

Maybe I was just unlucky today. I knocked all the way to the 255th floor, but only found one more Philosopher's Stone. The mineral layers I visited today will not be refreshed again.

Lin Xia could only take Ah Huang back home.

But now that I have two pieces, I can immediately ask Sebala to help forge them.

It was still around 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Lin Xia immediately rode his horse home, took the mithril hoe and rushed to the blacksmith shop.

"Oh~ Lin Xia, you are worthy of being the mining master of this town. You dug out the Philosopher's Stone in just one day. It's amazing!" Sabala touched his mustache and laughed.

"Is this still considered an expert?" Lin Xia said in disbelief, "I searched through all the mineral layers, and only found these two."

"You should be content. The reason why the Philosopher's Stone is so rare is because it is difficult to dig. You dug two pieces in one day. You are lucky, okay?"

"Okay, Sebala, then help me transform the hoe into a sage!"

"Why did you choose the hoe first?" Sabala just asked casually. It didn't make any difference to him which one he modified.

"In the spring, the fields have to be re-cultivated, and the hoe is the most urgent thing to use, followed by the sprinkler." So the next thing is the sprinkler, but -

"But today is the 23rd, and it takes 5 days to upgrade the Sage's farm tools. The hoe will be upgraded on the 28th, and your sprinkler will definitely not be upgraded in time for Spring 1st!" Saibala said worriedly.

"It's okay. I have the dwarves to help me. Besides, I also have the blessing sprinkler. I can handle it."

"Oh, by the way, you are using Mithril Farm Tools to upgrade them, but upgrading Mithril Farm Tools to Sage is more expensive than upgrading Blessed Farm Tools!"

"That's no problem. I can still afford it." Lin Xia didn't care.

"That's good! Okay, just leave the ore and farm tools here, and come pick them up on the 28th." Sabala said with a smile.

After commissioning the hoe, Lin Xia left the blacksmith shop. She had to go back and sort out the ore she had knocked out today.

Today, I collected dozens of boxes of ore. Since the first ore layer I went down was the 60th layer, there weren't many copper and silver ores. There was only a little more than 1 box of copper ore, about 3 pieces, and boxes of silver ore.

The most numerous items are gold ore, mithril, diamond and orchid. There are thirteen boxes of gold ore, nine boxes of mithril, and about twenty boxes of diamond and orchid together.

In fact, Lin Xia doesn't really need the copper mine. Gold and silver can be made into various jewelry or handicrafts. Copperware is really not her cup of tea!

However, she still planned to take them all back and melt them into copper ingots in the furnace and store them away. After all, it would save space!

As for the mithril mine, Lin Xia always felt that the mithril itself was very beautiful, a bit like the platinum in the previous world, but with a slight hint of blue, which was very beautiful.

She also planned to melt the gold and silver mines into ingots for collection, and then ask someone to make them whenever she needed them in the future.

Diamond is the material for making processing machines, while orchite is the material for making jewelry. Lin Xia does not need either of them. After she has knocked out enough philosopher's stones, she will sell them all to Gray or Cebala.

Or she could ask Huo An some other day if he has a better sales channel. It would be fine if the price could be a little higher than in Mineral Town. She still needs to save money to build a villa!

After returning home, Lin Xia came to a small shed that Gotz had built, where the furnace and coal kiln were placed, and the feeder was also connected.

It takes 10 minutes to burn 30 pieces of wood into a piece of coal. Lin Xia first put 1000 pieces of wood into the feeder of the coal kiln, which can burn out 100 pieces of coal. It takes 50 hours to burn all of them, which is about 2 days.

As for the furnace, the time required to refine gold, silver and copper ingots is different, and Lin Xia doesn't need copper ingots for the time being, so he will just refine some gold and silver ingots first.

The smelting time of silver ingots is 2 hours, and that of gold ingots is 5 hours. I have never smelted mithril ingots before so I don't know the time, but Clint said that the smelting time of iridium ingots there is 8 hours. Lin Xia estimates that mithril will take about the same amount of time.

Lin Xia put in 50 pieces of silver ore and 50 pieces of gold ore for refining first. It would take a long time to refine them all.

Lin Xia looked at the gold and silver and felt very happy. Gold and silver, if it was in the previous world, she would have become rich!

After being intoxicated for a while and watching the machine operate normally, Lin Xia clapped her hands and went back to the house. Just as she entered the house to take a shower and prepare dinner, she saw Zack coming over with a silly smile on his face.

"Lin Xia~are you busy?"

"I'm done! Zach, why did you come to see me?" Looking at Zach's expression, he asked in confusion, "What's the matter?"

"Well, Lin Xia, you haven't made dinner yet, right? Huo An asked me to invite you over to eat together!" Zach said cheerfully, "He said he hasn't had dinner with you for a long time and he missed you!"

Lin Xia: "...Do you believe what he said?"

Zach: I don’t really believe it, but he won’t say.

Seeing Zack's constipated face, Lin Xia knew that Huo An probably wanted her to do something, so he made up a random excuse to ask Zack to treat her.

I looked at the sky. Since someone was treating me to a free meal and I didn't have to cook it myself, why wouldn't I be happy?

"Okay, I'll take a shower first, then come over and tell him, oh, I want to have a big meal!"

"Okay!" Zack touched the back of his head and happily walked to the shipping box to collect the goods.

Just as Lin Xia was about to enter the house, Zack called her: "Lin Xia, your recent shipment volume is not good. Why don't you consider going to the mine to dig some ores, or raising more animals. Their products can also bring in some income!"

Lin Xia: ... It’s been a long time since I heard Zach’s urging for delivery. I miss him so much!

After thinking for a while, Lin Xia took out 4 boxes of diamonds and Oliha from the space, put them into the shipping box, and said to Zach: "I just came back yesterday, and I went to mine today. I was so busy that I forgot to put out the shipping box."

"Haha, I knew that Lin Xia is a hard-working person. She will definitely not come back empty-handed. Okay, I'll take the things away!"

With someone like Zach who will nag you in a good-natured way if you don’t produce anything in a day, few people would be lazy!