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——But it’s always good to get the job done. The boys are in a bad state these days. Many of them have nightmares, and you can often hear someone whispering in their ears.

——I can understand, after all, life in underground mines is such a mental torture.

— pack up this door, and it's time for us to go home too.

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Chapter 11 What are you asking from hell?

The log records the progress of the project in black and white, and it is obvious that these construction workers did not know what their goals were.

They only know that they want to dig out these black stones, but they don't know what these black stones can do.

And the governor who instructed them... Lin Luo didn't know if he had enough understanding of these obsidian, but now Lin Luo could at least be sure of one thing - the governor didn't move the obsidian back to decorate his mansion.

Portals, or more precisely, nether portals.

The lower realm, a special dimension in the MC game world, is full of death and hot magma, and countless souls of the dead accumulate here, eventually forming this land of the Dead Sea.

Although the law of the rise and fall of the correction value is still a black box, players have also discussed a vague possibility.

The decline can be seen as a not-so-good direction in the future, but there are various reasons for this.

From this, Lin Luo can estimate the logic chain of this decline.

The opponent took the obsidian and learned how to use it successfully.

However, a person in the real world can only enter the lower realm, so why can he cause such serious consequences for the future?

Lin Luo put down the diary in his hand, he was a little puzzled by this, and began to recall all the special features of the lower realm.

Yes, he has to admit that the lower bound is not a pleasant place, even among most MC players, the lower bound is equated with hell.

But this doesn't mean that the lower world is very dangerous. In fact, you just need to be more careful and don't offend the strange carrion living in the lower world. It's safer here than in the main world.

Is it possible that the governor died while exploring the lower realm, which would lead to a series of butterfly effects?

So are some of his butterflies surprisingly big?

In the mine tunnel, Lin Luo turned the torch in his hand, his eyes swept around when he was thinking wildly, and finally stopped on Laurentina.

The lady from Agor was wandering around beside him, and it could be seen that she didn't have any thoughts about the mine itself, but instead frequently cast her eyes on the place where they came down.

It is not difficult to see that even now, Laurentina still has a strong curiosity about Lin Luo's casual block skills. This phenomenon that cannot be explained by science, origin stone skills, or even witchcraft makes Lauren Tina has some desire to stop.

Even for Lin Luo himself, placing a floating cube is as random as breathing.

For myself...

Lin Luo's expression froze, and he thought of a question.

Whether it is the previous sky farm or the nether portal, these are of course common things for players.

But this is the real world, and looking at these phenomena from the perspective of ordinary people will naturally have different feelings.

Not only the perspective, but also the impact of these phenomena are bound to be different.

As soon as Lin Luo thought of this, he immediately flipped through the diary to check the notes on it.

He noticed that at the end of the diary, the words nightmare and raving were frequently mentioned.

This reminded Lin Luo of the distortion of the player's screen and the screaming sound in his ears when passing through the nether portal.

These are just the contents of exaggerating the atmosphere in the game, but in the real world, they have the real ability of spiritual pollution!

"No, if that's not enough."

Lin Luo tapped his forehead, and various pictures of the lower realm portal began to flash in his mind.

Finally, Lin Luo's perspective was fixed on a display picture.

In that picture, the nether portal stands on a grassland, and the surroundings of the portal are covered with various blocks that should only exist in the nether world.

"If this is the setting, maybe I can assume that the Nether Portal in the real world has the ability to pollute the real world into the Nether...

"And I remember those creatures in the lower realm, those zombie pigs will be randomly generated near the portal of the lower realm in the main world."

After changing an angle, Lin Luo felt that he gradually felt the reason for the drop in correction value:

"On the other hand, the governor should at least know the existence of the lower realm, otherwise, it would be impossible to come here to find some useless obsidian just because of an old map.

"Does this mean that he needs some kind of product from the lower world... hell wart? Soul sand? Or ancient remains?"

Lin Luo became a little troubled, because if he assumed this, there would be too many directions to choose from.

In the end, he shook his head helplessly and put aside related thoughts for the time being.

Although the -2.3 correction value in the chat interface seems particularly dazzling, this is not a problem that can be solved immediately.

Now that the correction value has not continued to decline, it may also show that the situation has entered a stable period and has not continued to deteriorate.

This also means that there is still a turning point for everything, and there is still a chance to recover.

"Phew, I can only say that there is a sense of urgency at last--I remember that the mobile city has its own route. Maybe when I go back, I can ask Norman where Atyrau is now, and then make plans."

Lin Luo closed the diary and threw it into his backpack. He is not a person who will be easily disrupted by unexpected situations. He likes to follow the rhythm step by step, but it does not mean that he is a pure formula person.

Just like someone who hopes to live a peaceful life, if you want to achieve this goal, you must have the ability to handle all emergencies.

Lin Luo clearly realized that with his current ability, he could not immediately reverse the situation.

He needs to develop, to advance existing modules, to get new abilities and equipment.

After all, considering the worst outcome, Lin Luo would have to face the target of a mobile city.

Fortunately, this mine tunnel does not bring all bad news to Lin Luo, it still has a lot of "good news" waiting for Lin Luo to discover.

Lin Luo raised the torch again, and looked around with the help of the fire.

Although there are not rich mineral veins here, the distribution of metal minerals can be considered dense.

Those construction teams had a clear goal. Except for the metal mines on the road, most of the minerals were not moved at all.

And these metal deposits will be in Lin Luo's pocket.

"At least on this point, I have to thank others for saving me the trouble of prospecting and mining."

Even though the mine workers are now in trouble, the supports, mine tracks and ventilation shafts they left behind have truly become Lin Luo's help.

Lin Luo walked to the rock wall in the mine tunnel and touched the exposed iron ore there with his hands.

He waved the pickaxe in his hand and began to hammer violently.

After nearly a minute of knocking, the iron ore finally fell off the rock wall, turned into cubes and was absorbed by Steve's backpack.

This is not where Lin Luo originally found a source of poor iron ore on the ground. After knocking it out, there was only a pitiful bit.

After the iron ore fell off, there was still densely packed rich iron ore behind it.

A huge treasure house is slowly opening its door to Lin Luo.

Lin Luo let out a sigh of relief. After coming to this world for nearly ten days, he finally ushered in the real mining time.

From now on, he can finally announce that he has entered the Iron Age.

And this means that he can make great strides on this path of development.

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Chapter 12 Replacement of magma

As the shadows in the mine tunnel were dispersed one by one with torches, Lin Luo's organization of this abandoned mine tunnel came to an end.

Under the ground here, there are three mine roads intertwined together. These are the traces left by the engineering team after trial and error, but now it has become a good place for Lin Luo to collect mineral resources.

The starting point of these mines all came from an inclined shaft leading to the surface, but after Laurentina's investigation, it was confirmed that this inclined shaft was sealed.

Reinforced concrete completely covered this inclined shaft, but it seemed that people walked in a hurry and forgot to seal the ventilation shafts leading to these mines.

It is not difficult to see that when the portal of the lower realm was dug out, the state of those workers had already experienced serious problems.

Lin Luo also followed the mine tunnel to find the original site of the lower realm portal. Unfortunately, the engineering team did not leave him any clues.

With the help of modern excavation machines, the workers not only removed the main body of the nether portal, but also cut away the rocks near the portal, leaving only a large pit in place.

Originally, Lin Luo was still thinking about whether he could find the remaining obsidian, but now he can only look at the hole and sigh.

But in any case, Lin Luo's mine excavation task was overfulfilled.

He originally planned that it would take him two to three days to dig out a mine tunnel that could function normally, but now it only takes one afternoon for him to produce iron ore stably.

Moreover, the quality of iron ore resources here is very good. Near some ore clusters, Lin Luo even dug a few associated gold mines.

I just don't know if I can dig diamonds here, that is, raw diamond mines.

Although in the world before time travel, diamonds were mostly used in industries such as industrial processing and luxury goods, in MC's world view, the importance of diamonds goes beyond that.

After Lin Luo returned to the wooden house, he began to burn the raw ore into metal ingots.

Metal smelting that originally required complex industrial processes, with the support of Steve's furnace, can easily produce a high-quality metal ingot by consuming the same unit of coal.

However, this magical processing method has been difficult to touch Laurentina's numb cognition. After being shocked for long enough, people will gradually get used to everything they encounter.

But the original version of the furnace still has a flaw after all, that is, the firing speed can never be raised.

It takes an hour to produce metal ingots in the real world, and Lin Luo didn't get such a heaven-defying props such as an accelerated torch. Apart from waiting in front of the furnace, all he can do is build a furnace array outside the wooden house , using quantity to enhance efficiency.

Originally, he could use the huge smelting furnace of the Craftsman's Soul for metal processing. Even Lin Luo's smelting furnace was a beggar's version of a beggar's version. It could smelt nine pieces at a time in less than half an hour. Blocks of metal ore.

But when he saw the diary and saw the Nether Portal recorded in the diary, Lin Luo discovered another blind spot.

To start the craftsman's soul smelting furnace, the heat required is not something that charcoal and coal can provide.

It needs magma, and it needs buckets and buckets of magma.

This put Lin Luo in a difficult position. Where would he go to find magma for this big guy?

Neither transportation nor storage is a problem. The problem is that Lin Luo can't find magma now.

It is obviously impossible to dig all the way to the mantle to get magma in the mine tunnel.

Then there are only two ways to find magma: one, find a volcano to collect magma; Not much, magma is really enough.

Or there is another way, that is to look for existences with the same calorific value as magma, to replace magma as the fuel for the craftsman soul smelting furnace.

Lin Luo stood in front of the smelting furnace and began to think. Generally speaking, the fuel that can replace magma comes from other modules.

For example, the blaze of flames in the thermal expansion module, or the flame water in the ender port module...

"So in this Terra world, is there any product that can replace magma to generate heat?"

After thinking of this, Lin Luo also immediately sent his question to the chat group to see if any group members had researched it.

Drinking collapse liquid: I can't answer, because what I know is more about the theoretical content that has been put forward in the game before time travel, and what you need involves practice.

Red Alert Lao Hou: I have a suggestion, Lin Luo, you can try the Origin Stone Mine. As an energy unit, it has good performance. At least my MCV relies on burning the Origin Stone to move.

Gundam Norman: Indeed, those Sakota people here still use origin stones to make bullets, and they cough with bullets made by other methods.

Lobotomist Blisk: It is actually feasible, I have similar records here.

Cube Liver Emperor Lin: Oh, Lao Bu, tell me how it works.

Lin Luo was refreshed. Blisk was one of the few technical emperors among the group of friends.

Lobotomist Blisk: High temperature, I'm still researching how the Leitanians used phonographs, but I'm sure they used high temperature to change the nature of the origin stone.

Lobe Manager Brisk: From a specific perspective, what they do is to increase the vibration frequency between molecules, causing disintegration and rapidly increasing the temperature.

Lobe Controller Brisk: Those people originally used this method to suppress those infected with ore disease, but I observed that some infected people near the center of the Source Stone skill range had the Source Stone on their bodies before they turned into blood mist. The lesion once erupted with incandescent light, approaching the albino state of metal, and indeed vaporized a considerable portion of the tissue.

Lobotomist Brisk: I'm not sure how long the source stone can last in this high-temperature white state, and whether its own shape will change in this state is also unknown, but if your smelting furnace needs high temperature to start , this may be a solution.

Cube Gan Di Lin: Strong, it has to be you, Old Bu.

Lobotomist Blisk: Don't be too strong, I'm having a really bad headache right now.

Meat Pigeon Suffering Salted Fish: Oh?You have encountered troubles, hurry up, tell everyone, let us have a good time.

Lobotomist Blisk: My influence modifier has been reduced to -5.

Norman, a tough and reckless man: Wai Ri, what have you done to be so wild?

Meat Pigeon Suffering Salted Fish: My buddy has only dropped 0.5 so far, how did you manage to be ten times that of your buddy?