Mystery: Mr. Witch and Miss Hunter

Chapter 177 The Discovery in the Mine
"How long are you going to stay here?"

Tracy and Adele walked down the hanging ladder together, and walked towards the shore through the sea water.Where Tracy passed, the sea water automatically froze, saving the group of people from getting their clothes wet.

"This time it's just a preliminary exploration, and I won't stay for too long. In fact, if it wasn't for Ms. Wendy, I didn't even want to explore this island this time."

Adele said with a smile.Wendy at the side replied feebly, with an indescribable resentment in her tone.

Just now, the two of Adele formally explained their purpose to her, telling her that they just wanted to build a company whose main business was ocean mining and transnational shipping, and that Tracy was his cousin, this time it was just Happened to pass by.

After seeing the remaining Extraordinary characteristics of the Extraordinary who can manipulate luck, Wendy quickly accepted this statement and agreed to become the first partner to invest in technology. I don't know if it was because of the Extraordinary's magical ability Or because he has now become a Extraordinary characteristic.

Although her major is not geological surveying, as a qualified "generalist", she must have a little knowledge of everything.Moreover, in order to play an "archaeologist", distinguishing rock formations is also a compulsory course.

Only four members participated in the exploration this time: Tracy, Wendy, Adele and the maid Anne.Although Venata, who is a hunter, was very dissatisfied with not being able to enter the island to explore in person, she was blocked by Adele on the grounds that Sophie had no one to take care of her.

In the distance, the Little Warhorse is staying at a natural port near this uninhabited island for repairs.Since the damage this time did not involve the turbine group, it can be dealt with without Wendy.The sailors are busy repairing the holes left by the artillery battle with steel plates, and at the same time fixing the zinc alloy blocks for rust prevention on the outside of the hull.

The island is home to an opencast coal mine exposed by geological changes and is the common resupply point for all ships with fuel problems.Sailors only need to use the detonators on board to blast the topsoil to get ore, and after preliminary digging, they can get coal.Previous peoples simply built a dock out of stone, the only structure left by humans on the island.

"They estimate that they will repair the hull overnight and leave the island as soon as possible, which means we don't have much time."

Adele walked towards the inside of the jungle while parting the branches.Due to the ability of the lieutenant general of the disease, there are not even flying insects within five meters around them, saving the trouble of guarding against mosquito bites.

"Let's go and see the location of the coal mine first. There are crew members on the 'Little Warhorse' headed for the coal mine, and it will be no problem for us to follow them."

Wendy suggested timidly.

Due to the psychological invisibility imposed by Audrey, as long as Adele and the others are still the crew of the "Black Death", they will not be able to observe them until Adele and the others return to the "Little War Horse" and become " The crew of the Little War Horse.

"Relax Wendy, just treat it as if you were doing your own job."

Adele suggested, "We'll follow you. With Tracy here, nothing will go wrong."

I'm just afraid of her...

Wendy glanced back quietly, seeing Tracy's blue eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, she was startled, and hurriedly agreed to bow her head and hurry on her way.

I have to say that "archaeologists" are really good at adapting to the wild environment. Even though she has not been to this island a few times before, Wendy can sense to some extent that there are rock formations of a certain age nearby. And tell the mineral composition contained in it.Along the way, Wendy discovered iron, pyrite, clay, and coal, all of which seemed to be in abundance.

The size of this small island is neither big nor small, and Adele felt that she could walk around the island in a week.The center of the island is a small volcanic cone with a net height of more than 100 meters.Judging from the plants growing in the crater, it seems that it has not erupted for a long time.

"The spinel vein is near that volcano. I tried to ask my pirates to collect it, but they had to give up because they didn't know how to mine."

Tracy said with some regret.Although due to the mixture of different ingredients, spinels have various colors, only pure and colorless spinels can be used as the main material of the "Assassin" potion, but as pure gems, the value of those spinels is also very expensive .If it wasn't for her identity as a pirate, she didn't dare to stay in such a place not far from the main channel for a long time, she would have to intervene in the minerals here no matter what.

"It seems that we need to recruit a group of gem artisans later." Adele nodded, "But what we are going to investigate this time is not spinel, and if we have time after Wendy inspects the coal mine, we can go there again." Have a look over there."

"I will complete the investigation as soon as possible." Wendy responded quickly.

Tracy nodded, did not speak, deliberately slowed down, and signaled Wendy to walk ahead.

A few people soon arrived at the open-pit mine.It is said to be open-air, but because the environment here is not considered dry, and there is rain from time to time without warning, the miners used explosives to open a few holes near the rock formations in the mining area, which can not only mine, but also avoid extreme weather.

The mine pit has a diameter of nearly [-] meters and a depth of more than ten meters, relying on a natural depression.The footprints of the miners continued to a certain mine hole on the side wall. Adele and the others walked along the footprints and inspected the mines one by one. They found that the coal mines here are mainly lignite and bituminous coal. The degree of coalification is not high.

"There is the last mine in front, will those sailors really not find us?"

Wendy stopped not far from the entrance of the cave with some hesitation, and asked Adele behind her.

"You have to trust an angel-level powerhouse...even though his taste is quite unique."

Adele said with a smile, "It's okay, just go in and take a look. Even if you touch their bodies, they won't realize your existence."

"……OK then……"

Wendy nodded and walked in cautiously.However, within two steps of walking in, she backed out with a flushed face.

"Everyone, everyone, I think it's better for you not to go in now..."

Wendy waved her hands carelessly, "Now, now they seem to be busy..."

"Busy?" Adele asked inexplicably, "They are busy with theirs, we look at ours, is there any problem?"

"I'm not busy mining..." Wendy was about to explain, but Annie pushed her aside impatiently, strode into the mine, and Adele followed.

After walking a few steps in, Adele's foot suddenly stepped on something.She squatted down curiously and saw that it was a mimeographed book with pictures of scantily clad women on the cover, and a corner of the black bookmark inside was vaguely exposed.

At that moment, Adele seemed to understand what Wendy meant when she said that the sailors were busy, but Annie had already strode in.

(End of this chapter)