The Legend of the Great Wilderness

Chapter 54
"Oh! Never mind! Those idiots don't want to go into the water, so we can do it ourselves. I don't believe so many of us can't find something!"

It's not to blame Gu Yi's rough nerves, but does what Xiao Fen said have anything to do with him?
People in this huge and weird world, even if their brains are all brains, it has nothing to do with him. The ghost place is serious.

Yes, that's right, he wanted to escape!

Ever since he got the copper [Iron Court Monument] from the old dwarf, he has already started thinking about this idea!
It's just that he has no understanding of this strange world, and he has no chance to leave [Sunken Valley] and [Blue Stone Mine] to inquire about the surrounding areas. Guyi dare not act rashly, so he can only stay here temporarily Dormant for a while.

In this [Sunken Valley], even though he wanted to fight to death, he did not have to worry about eating and drinking. Now, taking advantage of the fact that the food in the valley was running out, Guyi decided to find an opportunity for Ge Qiao to take him out to inquire about information first. , is better than rushing into this dangerous world with a blind eye.

Since there is gold placer in the [Xiankong River], there is no need to worry about the source of funds. Gu Yi clapped his hands with a "pop! Pop!" After attracting the attention of the Baimin, Roufu and Mao people, he called them together and started A large number of tools were moved out of the iron courtyard, and they began to move around with great enthusiasm, planning to do a big job.

[Zukong River] is only tens of meters wide at the widest point and several meters deep at the deepest point. It is very turbulent only at the exit of the underground river, and a large amount of sand and rocks and underground water creatures with various appearances are spewed out.

In the middle and back section of the [Xukong River], as the river surface gradually widens, the water flow will naturally slow down, and a small lake is formed in the depression in the middle of the [Xukong Valley], which has become a paradise for rich aquatic life.

Although shrimps and crabs are running rampant in the river, giant river eels and weird archeopteryx are everywhere, but after Guyi's investigation, he did not find any too dangerous creatures, just be careful when entering the water to prevent the big mouth fish covered in exoskeletons from rushing over Biting is basically not that dangerous.

While Baimin, Roupu and Maoren were busy preparing the utensils that Guyi needed, Guyi dived into the river several times and found the alluvial zone of [Xiankong River]. All the sand and rocks accumulated in this section of the riverbed, which was exactly the location he was looking for.

The sand and stones spewed out of the underground river are generally not too large, and the heavier large stones will settle near the water outlet.

The fine particles flowed down with the turbulent water, and the lighter sand was washed directly into the small lake, while the heavier placer gold settled on the riverbed in front of the small lake, and was trapped The water of the river] has been scoured day after day for years and months.

Gu Yi, who dived into the bottom of the river in the alluvial zone and took out a handful of sand to look at it, almost choked to death in the water!

He just dug out the bottom of the river casually, and the sand he grabbed was golden. How rich is this gold mine somewhere in the underground river?

Guyi doubts that there is a thick layer of placer gold deposited under the entire [Xukong River]. Unfortunately, under the current conditions, it is impossible to mine the placer gold deposits under the entire [Xukong River]. You can only pan for a little in the enrichment area.

Although he knows that this world is no longer his original space, and gold is just gravel that he can't eat or drink, but Guyi still can't help his heart beat faster and blood pulse, and his eyes are full of greedy golden light , Looking at the flowing river, I feel that it is golden.

Ge Qiao's boy called placer gold "gold fine gravel", which made Gu Yi very strange. After asking, he found out that people in this world call "copper" "gold", and gold is rare and difficult to mine. The precious metals are called "jinjing" by them, which means "the essence of gold".

No wonder he heard them yelling "gold cakes" all the time, which made Gu Yi think that the world's gold reserves were so huge that they could be directly minted into palm-sized gold cakes to be used as currency.

And their so-called "Dragon Marrow Jade" is actually quartz ore associated with gold ore, or mica ore, most of which are milky white. Guyi found some in the upper reaches of the placer gold-enriched area, and the small ones can have fingers The size of the head, the big one can be the size of a fist, and the crystal clear washed by the river water is very beautiful, but it is a pity that they are all buried in the mud at the bottom of the river and cannot see the light of day.

In order to facilitate excavation of sand mixed with placer gold, Guyi selected the narrowest section of the riverbed not far from the upper reaches of the placer gold alluvial belt, and then led Baimin, barbarians, and Maoren to manually dig out two sections of the riverbed on both sides of the river bank. A drainage canal was built to transform this section of the riverbed into a "middle"-shaped buffer zone.

Even in order to slow down the flow of the river, the mighty hairy people were asked to carry huge boulders weighing a thousand catties and throw them into the river, and build a dam in the river to block the river water. The river level in the placer gold alluvial belt has dropped several meters, and the water level is only up to the waist when people stand in it.

Fortunately, no matter if they are Mao people, barbarians, or white people, they are all strong men who can lift a thousand catties, and they can walk like flying while carrying hundreds of thousands of catties of boulders and logs. The rock-filling dams in the riverbed are like human-shaped excavators and forklifts. The reconstruction projects are not small, and it only took half a day to complete them.

They tossed and tossed indiscriminately on the river, the most direct situation was that the river was muddy and yellow, all the aquariums in the river were unlucky, they fled in panic, and a large number of people were captured by Guyi and the white people , piled up on the river bank for extra meals.

The most interesting thing is that with the stone dam blocking the river, Guyi no longer has to bother to catch fish, shrimps, crabs and mussels. Instead, he finds long thick vines and weaves them into a huge vine net, which is tied at both ends. On the big trees on both sides of the river bank, the bottom was buried in the bottom of the river and pressed down with stones, and then tied a few kudzu sacks woven by little dumb people on the rattan net. Just the hemp straw bag, full of fish, shrimp, crab and eel.

Shaking a pan-like copper dish to pan for gold is a meticulous job that rough-handed and big-footed people cannot do. Gu Yi simply arranged for two hairy people to carry a large cauldron to dig out a large amount of gold from the placer alluvial belt. The sand was transported to the soft servants and Baimin who were in charge of panning for gold in the lower reaches of the alluvial zone.

In this way, a large amount of sand washed away will be carried downstream by the river water, so as not to cover the unexcavated placer gold alluvial layer again, which will cause trouble for the subsequent gold panning work.

(End of this chapter)