[Item: Quartz Gold Ore]
[Item Description: Mostly quartz, a small amount of gold, and trace amounts of associated sulfides. Gold is primarily used in manufacturing jewelry, electroplating equipment, terminal equipment, printed circuit boards, and semiconductor systems. It is often used in satellites, spacesuits, and some weapons. Antiques in prosperous times, gold in turbulent times, a scarce resource that never depreciates.]
[Valuation: 800 Yuan]
Jiang Ye jumped up excitedly!
It was indeed gold ore!
A small piece sold for eight hundred yuan, it was indeed quite expensive.
Sold, personal assets became 685,800 Yuan.
Carrying his pickaxe and shock gun, and donning his diving suit, Jiang Ye walked onto the deck and dove back into the water with a backflip.
Having dived once before, the speed of diving again was much faster.
Soon, his fins touched the gold mine again.
Jiang Ye swung his pickaxe, striking the rock.
But after a few swings, he set the pickaxe aside, no longer using it.
The reason was simple: the resistance in the water was too great, making it difficult to swing the pickaxe. When the pickaxe head struck, the rock remained unmoved, rendering it useless.
He could only use the shock gun.
Jiang Ye tightly gripped the shock gun, pressed it against the gold ore, and pulled the trigger!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
His tiger's mouth felt numb from the recoil.
A small piece of egg-sized gold ore finally cracked and broke off from the larger rock.
Jiang Ye worked for half an hour, toiling hard, but only managed to collect 20 pieces of gold ore. The largest was only the size of an apple, and the smallest was like an apricot.
The efficiency was extremely low.
The most crucial point was that the shock gun's recoil was too strong, causing severe pain in his wrist joint.
If he continued like this, his hands would be ruined!
Jiang Ye pulled on the rope, ascending quickly, the shock gun and pickaxe tucked under his arms, a sack hanging from his waist, filled with the chipped gold ore.
Back on the ship, he entered the cargo hold and dumped all the ore into the trading bay.
After scanning, the valuation appeared: 17,800 Yuan.
This speed was still too slow; he earned less than twenty thousand in the time it took for one class period. If he were fishing, he could probably earn two to three hundred thousand.
Even mining on land would yield money much faster than this.
After finally finding a gold mine, but it being at the bottom of the sea, making rapid extraction impossible, Jiang Ye was quite frustrated.
He leaned against the wall, lost in thought.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
Why not use explosives?
He went to the captain's cabin, opened the storage box, and took out a grenade.
If he simply threw it into the water, the grenade would explode before sinking, failing to break the rock.
Throwing it into the water himself was too dangerous; who knew what the explosion would be like underwater?
Jiang Ye pondered for a moment, then took a fire axe to find a fishing net.
The fire axe was the same one he had used to chop the Black King Octopus, its blade was already nicked, but it would suffice.
Jiang Ye detached the fishing net from the machine, picked up the axe, and cut several long lines from the edge.
He tied one long line to the grenade and another to the pull ring.
This way, he could trigger it remotely!
Donning his diving suit, folding the sack and putting it in his pocket, he gripped the grenade and dove into the water with a backflip.
Jiang Ye descended rapidly, reaching the area above the gold mine.
He wedged the grenade into a crevice in the rock.
Then, gently pulling the line, he slowly retreated.
The line was forty meters long, and Jiang Ye dared not pull hard, moving inch by inch, retreating for half a minute.
Finally, he retreated to forty meters away.
He slowly lay down and yanked the line controlling the pull ring!
The grenade's pull ring came off instantly.
After a brief wait, a loud muffled thud!
The ore bed was shattered, and thousands of gold ore fragments erupted upwards, a rather spectacular sight.
Some small fish swimming nearby were instantly killed by the blast!
Just as Jiang Ye was about to swim forward, he felt a strong force push him backward.
The grenade was indeed powerful; it still had enough force even from forty meters away.
Fortunately, he wasn't injured. Jiang Ye waited for the debris to settle and slowly approached.
The crater was smaller than expected, perhaps because the water had absorbed much of the grenade's energy.
However, the amount of gold ore blasted out was considerable. Excluding the fine debris, and only counting the pieces that could be picked up, there were at least a hundred.
Jiang Ye took out a sack from his diving suit's pocket, unfolded it in the water, and bent down to pick up the blasted rocks.
Pale yellow quartz, with countless pores on its surface, filled with glittering gold dust.
After five minutes of picking, the surrounding broken ore was almost all collected.
Jiang Ye turned upwards and swam with all his might, soon surfacing. He grabbed the rope and climbed onto the ship's hull like rock climbing.
Back in the cargo hold, he dumped the sack of wet gold ore into the trading bay.
After a brief scan, the information appeared.
[Valuation: 88,000 Yuan]
Sold, personal assets increased to 791,600 Yuan.
Despite selling for nearly ninety thousand yuan, Jiang Ye frowned, looking displeased.
He felt that this pace of earning was still too slow.
It could only be considered mediocre.
Logically, with a valuable large gold mine, his earning speed should have skyrocketed.
If mining was as fast as fishing, why wouldn't he fish? After all, fishing only required tapping on the screen in the captain's cabin, as comfortable as playing a game.
After a moment of thought, Jiang Ye suddenly thought of something.
This item could significantly increase the speed of mining gold!
Sea mines!
Giant sea mines with immense power, detonated on the gold mine, could blast out thousands of gold ore pieces at once. He would only need to pick them up!
There was no Galaxy Mall on the ship, and the cargo hold's trading bay could only sell, not buy. To get sea mines, he had to return to base.
Jiang Ye clicked on the screen, quickly turning the fishing boat around and heading back at high speed.
As he returned to base, it was also time for dinner, so Jiang Ye first opened a can of meat to eat, and then stewed a can of pumpkin, adding some rice to the pot to make a thin porridge.
After eating his fill, he walked to the base panel and opened the Galaxy Mall.
He selected [Spherical Sea Mine].
The price was fifty thousand yuan, slightly expensive.
He decided to buy one first, placing the order!
His personal account balance was deducted by fifty thousand, dropping to 741,600 Yuan.
The trading bay flashed with light, and a large black sphere rose up.
It indeed looked quite large, its casing made of metal, smooth and brand new. Jiang Ye reached out to touch it, and clear fingerprints immediately appeared on the dark exterior.
As soon as the sea mine arrived, a private message popped up.
Jiang Ye clicked to view it, his eyebrows raising.
Isabelle: Esteemed guest, we detected that you have just purchased a spherical sea mine, is that correct?
Jiang Ye: Yes, it has arrived.
Isabelle: It's like this, the item you purchased is classified as a dangerous product, so there are some related precautions we need to inform you about.
Isabelle: Firstly, the spherical sea mine you purchased contains 20 catties of high explosive, with a triple-layer casing. Between the first and second layers of casing, there are 1200 steel balls, which will scatter upon explosion, causing serious injury to the human body within a hundred meters. Therefore, when detonating the sea mine, please stay at least one hundred meters away from it.
Jiang Ye: That brutal? What else?