Jiang Ye decided that in the next few days, he would try to get a batch of houses out.
Before sleeping, he still remembered to check the conditions required to upgrade his base to level 7.
The previous upgrade conditions were basically all about spending money.
However, the upgrade conditions for a level 7 base had undergone a terrifying change.
[Two conditions are required for upgrade, achieving either one is sufficient:]
[1: Spend 2 million yuan]
[2: Kill a person]
Jiang Ye touched his neck, feeling a chill.
Why would such an option appear in the upgrade conditions?
When most people on this planet reached level 6 base and prepared to upgrade to level 7, wouldn't they kill each other if they saw these conditions?!
Jiang Ye was very scared and shrunk into his quilt to sleep.
He would honestly save money to upgrade and not think about those crooked paths.
In the early morning, the plantation was filled with the glint of swords!
Whoosh!
Crack!
The sound of sharp sword wind and the crisp snap of cut corn stalks continued to ring out.
Jiang Ye swung his samurai sword, continuously chopping down withered plants, clearing them as quickly as mowing grass, and soon leveled a large area.
Then, he pushed the cut branches and leaves to the outside of the plantation, piling them into a huge bonfire.
Only short stalks and withered leaves remained in the field.
Jiang Ye took the magical seeds he had prepared from the pot next to the plantation and bent down to sow them.
His movements today were much more skilled than yesterday, and he finished sowing in less than two hours.
Jiang Ye got into the base vehicle, stepped on the accelerator, and left the lake.
Following the tire tracks he had left earlier, he sped towards the mining area.
Soon, he saw the dark galena hills, reflecting countless bright lights in the morning sun, as if covered in dew.
Jiang Ye eased off the accelerator, and the base vehicle slowly decelerated, gliding for a distance before stopping right next to the mining area. He clearly had a talent for driving; he had only been driving for a few days and already possessed the grace of an experienced driver.
Carrying the pot, he got out of the car and began picking up ore.
The new day of picking money and picking ore had begun.
The galena ore in the early morning was ice-cold. Holding it felt like grasping ice; it seemed the ore had absorbed the night's chill and hadn't had time to warm up in the sun.
However, as he worked, Jiang Ye noticed a strange phenomenon.
He seemed to be sweating unusually little today.
After selling over a dozen pots of ore, he was only slightly sweating.
A week ago, he would have been drenched in sweat by now.
He took a short break and stood on a high slope, feeling the wind blowing against his face.
It didn't seem as hot as in previous days.
In fact, it was quite cool!
Could it be that autumn was coming?
Jiang Ye's intuition told him that this was indeed the case; the previous hot weather was purely due to the unbearable heat. This planet likely had seasonal changes as well. Summer was over, and autumn had arrived!
However, as the old saying goes, there are still eighteen autumn tigers, meaning autumn would still have a long period of scorching heat.
But upon closer thought, perhaps the heat of the past few days had already been the autumn tigers!
If that were the case, the weather would soon turn cooler.
Jiang Ye bent down and continued to pick up the galena ore scattered on the ground.
The galena stones smaller than his fist were almost all picked up. The remaining ones were large, as big as footballs.
They were incredibly heavy, like footballs filled with lead – well, they were lead ore.
The easy work became strenuous.
Jiang Ye's breathing became heavy. Working hard, he put the large ore stones into the pot, and once a pot was full, he would drive into the base and sell them at the trading post.
Each pot could sell for around a thousand yuan, a considerable amount.
He worked almost non-stop until noon, clearing all the scattered ore, large and small, from the surface nearby.
The remaining ore was buried underground and required a pickaxe to excavate.
Judging by the smell at the site, there shouldn't be much ore left, perhaps only a few dozen pots, meaning tens of thousands of yuan.
Jiang Ye looked at his hands covered in lead dust and decided to abandon this mine for now.
Extracting all the remaining ore would be exhausting, and more importantly, the profit was too small. It would take at least two days to complete, earning only tens of thousands of yuan, which was less profitable than farming.
He would look for other mines nearby; if none were found, then he would reconsider.
Getting into the driver's cabin, Jiang Ye glanced at his personal account balance, which coincidentally was exactly 100,000 yuan.
He stepped on the accelerator and drove forward.
The window was open, and a cool breeze whistled against his face.
Jiang Ye kept sniffing, trying to catch a scent.
After driving for a kilometer, just as he was about to give up due to his rhinitis, he finally caught a faint smell!
He immediately stopped the car and got out to carefully discern the direction.
It seemed to be coming from the front right.
He got back into the car, stepped on the accelerator, turned the steering wheel to the right, and drove forward quickly.
The smell grew stronger, and he could finally distinguish its composition.
This smell was very interesting; it was a distinct chocolate aroma, with a hint of red wine.
Jiang Ye immediately rejoiced. His intuition told him that this mine should be quite valuable!
The car continued to drive forward, and after another few hundred meters, the smell in the air began to fade.
Jiang Ye braked, reversed, and at the same time, stuck his head out the window, carefully observing the ground.
The ground in this area looked like nothing, just yellow earth with many broken stones, identical to the soil in the surrounding few kilometers.
However, the smell was unmistakable.
The ore must be buried deep underground.
Jiang Ye stepped on the brake, grabbed a shovel and a pickaxe, and jumped out of the car.
Following the scent for about ten steps, he began digging on the spot!
There were quite a few stones in the soil, all small, bean-sized stones.
After digging for a few minutes, Jiang Ye found that he really disliked this type of soil.
Firstly, it was difficult to dig; every shovel of earth encountered hard stones, requiring double the effort.
Secondly, it damaged the shovel. No matter how good the shovel's quality, it couldn't withstand the constant grinding of small stones.
But there was no other way; for the sake of the ore, he had to dig with growing frustration.
He dug for a full two hours without stopping. Even with the cool breeze, his clothes were soaked with sweat.
However, the pit was only dug to a depth of one and a half meters, much slower than excavating ordinary soil.
Jiang Ye lost his patience.
He decided to do something drastic!
He returned to the driver's cabin and drove the base vehicle far away.
Then, he took ten blood grenades and put them into the pot.
Carrying the pot, he walked towards the mining pit.
He stopped dozens of meters away from the pit, pulled the pin on a blood grenade, and hurled it with all his might!
After throwing it, he quickly lay down and covered his head with the pot.
Boom!
He clearly felt the ground shake.
A few seconds later, sand and dust rained down, some falling on the pot with a light patter, like raindrops.
Jiang Ye lifted the pot, grabbed another grenade, stood up, and threw it!
He lay down again, with the pot covering his head.
Boom!
Another deafening blast echoed through the surroundings, dust billowed up, and a dense blood mist followed.
Jiang Ye waited for a moment, then lifted the pot and stood up, looking towards the mining pit.
Two large craters had been blasted out, but they were not adjacent, separated by five or six meters.
This wouldn't do; he hadn't thrown accurately.
Keep throwing!
Jiang Ye repeatedly threw grenades, lay down, threw grenades, lay down. The explosions sounded one after another, as lively as fighting the Japanese.
Soon, all ten blood grenades had been detonated.
Jiang Ye stood in place, waiting for the wind to blow away the blood mist and dust.
A pit five meters in diameter appeared!
Explosives were so convenient. Wouldn't it take a whole day to dig such a large pit?
Jiang Ye walked forward happily. If all went as expected, the ore should be exposed after this round of bombing.