The steam dissipated, and the lava cooled into volcanic rock.
Fang Er, wearing small calfskin boots and holding a trekking pole, with a cigar clenched in his mouth, waved goodbye to Mount Fuji.
"Since you've erupted so much, I won't be polite anymore~"
"Hahahahaha~~"
He sat down, placing his hand on the volcanic rock, and issued a command to the system.
"Sister System, absorb it. If you can't absorb it dry, I, your little brother, will look down on you~"
[You arrogant brat, you've gotten quite full of yourself lately~~]
The system's proud voice echoed in his mind. Despite the complaint, it began to execute the command with full vigor.
[Ding! Points being exchanged~~]
[Ding! Points being exchanged~~]
"Hey? Sister System, can you exchange Thorium and gold for points? Can you do the reverse exchange?"
[You arrogant brat, what are you thinking? Can you turn charcoal into wood using boiling water?]
Fang Er: ........
That makes so much sense!!
"Holy crap! Then leave some for me~~~"
*Swish!*
[Ding, points exchange complete. This time, a total of 279,995,100 points were exchanged~~]
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the system notification.
The next second, he saw a large portion of the volcanic rock before his eyes disappear, an area as large as a football field!
Fang Er was a bit stunned. When exchanging for points, only the Thorium element was extracted, and the useless rocks were left behind. Now, even the rocks were gone?
"Sister System~ Are you that desperate?"
He complained to the system with a wry smile.
"Hiss~~~~"
As soon as he finished speaking, a familiar electric current surged through his body, making his hair stand on end.
[You arrogant brat~ Who are you calling desperate? Don't you look at the warehouse before you speak?]
Fang Er: ???
He quickly opened the system warehouse to check and was surprised to see the large section of volcanic rock that had just disappeared inside. These had actually been collected by the system?
Looking at the ground before him, he finally understood the reason.
Mount Fuji had erupted twice, with more than a day in between. The falling volcanic ash had prevented the two layers of lava from bonding.
Because he had just said he wanted some left, the system had directly collected the entire upper layer of volcanic rock into the warehouse.
"Hahahaha, the System is amazing, long live Sister System~"
With so much volcanic rock brought back and over two hundred million points gained, Fang Er was nothing but satisfied and grinned foolishly.
This volcanic rock was enough to be handed over to Tan Zong for research upon their return, so he changed direction and continued his search.
"Duke! I've found something!"
Just as he got up, he heard Wang Xuance's exclamation through the walkie-talkie.
When he went to find him, he saw Wang Xuance, dressed head-to-toe in medical protective gear with a gas mask, tapping something with a small hammer.
"Duke, gold, lots of gold!"
Wang Xuance pointed at the volcanic rock he was tapping, shouting excitedly.
Fang Er looked closely and indeed saw a hint of yellow mixed in the volcanic rock. He reached out to touch it, saying with a smile.
"Your eyes are playing tricks on you~~"
By the time he pulled his hand back, all the gold within the volcanic rock had disappeared, turning into his point balance.
Wang Xuance was speechless. You want to take it? Do you have to fool me with such words?
However, these thoughts could only be complained about in his heart; he would never voice them.
Besides this spot, gold was also found elsewhere.
After sweeping through all accessible areas around Mount Fuji, his point balance had reached an astonishing fifty billion, equivalent to completing two percent of his goal!
With one Mount Fuji yielding such a substantial harvest, Fang Er eagerly took out the Mineral Distribution Encyclopedia from his warehouse, looking for other places in this pleasant island nation worth blowing up.
After all, the missiles from two aircraft carriers were still there.
Sado Gold Mine, Kurokawa Gold Mine, Hishikari Gold Mine, and others, one after another, large and small gold mountains and mines, were clearly marked on the map.
Fang Er smiled and said, "Let's go to the Pacific again~"
Wang Xuance's eyes widened. "Duke, you're still doing this?"
Xue Rengui, upon hearing this, seemed to have thought of something. He looked at Fang Er, then at Wang Xuance, and couldn't help but shiver.
Damn, do Duke and the Boss have this kind of hobby???
Seeing his strange expression and recalling Wang Xuance's words, Fang Er smacked the back of his head. "What random nonsense are you thinking about?"
Xue Rengui: ..........
They are allowed to do it, but I can't even think about it. This is too much bullying~~
It was only when he saw a massive ship appearing out of thin air on the sea that he realized he had misunderstood.
"Boss, this, this is no longer lava falling from the sky, but a large ship?"
When Fang Er went to collect the missiles, Xue Rengui asked Wang Xuance with utter bewilderment.
As for that fellow Wang Qianli, the moment the Varyag appeared, he was scared unconscious.
Wang Xuance patted him lightly on the shoulder and then said earnestly.
"As I said before, when you're by Duke's side, if you see something you don't understand, just keep it to yourself. It's not something we should inquire about."
The island nation had many gold mines, but most were concentrated near volcanoes. These gold deposits were brought up from underground by volcanic magma.
Due to differences in density, they gradually sank and stratified during the cooling process of the magma.
At this time, due to volcanic activity and earthquakes, the population of the island nation had dropped to an extremely low level. At least in the past few days, Fang Er had encountered fewer than ten thousand civilians in total.
As for where those people were hiding, that was not his concern.
However, he was certain that under such natural disasters, no one would dare venture into the mountains, unless they were looking for death.
Otherwise, the landslides and falling rocks that could occur at any moment would claim their lives in an instant.
Fang Er was as diligent as a delivery driver, delivering missiles to the crater near the gold mines, activating the dormant volcanoes.
The activated volcanoes responded with equal enthusiasm, returning him with massive amounts of lava as a five-star review.
The book did not provide a specific number for the proven gold reserves in the island nation in later generations, but after Fang Er had been busy for nearly half a month, his point balance had successfully exceeded one hundred billion~
This was equivalent to over four million tons of gold!
In other words, the energy required to stabilize the spacetime channel had reached forty percent!
"Hahahaha, awesome!"
After collecting the last gold mine, Fang Er roared to the sky.
"Ptooey~!"
Carelessly, he got a mouthful of volcanic ash, and after spitting it out, he waved to Wang Xuance.
"Let's go back to Song!"
——Two in one——
ps: I'm sorry, I had guests today, and there were many things to do. I'm posting two thousand characters first, and the remaining two thousand characters will be added to the end of this chapter in about an hour and a half.