The small sea boat is on the edge of the Phuket Islands, a medium-sized island with lush mountains and forests. Among the water plants on the edge of the island, a hidden ferry stopped.
Ye Fan and Zheng Zhenan went up first to see if there were any sea beasts lurking within a few miles around to confirm safety. Afterwards, the other crew members on the ship and the mining warriors were allowed to go to the island one after another.
A group of thirty or forty people left the boat and landed on the island.
Ye Fan quickly noticed that this group of miner warriors were either old and weak, or simple boys with low strength, and they were all lazy and lacked energy. There are actually very few truly decent strong warriors.
"Donglai City can't recruit better miners?"
Ye Fan glanced at Zheng Zhenan.
Zheng Zhenan smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Mining is a dirty and tiring hard work. Although I have paid a high salary, not many people in Donglai City are willing to do it. If they didn't have other good ways out, I'm afraid they wouldn't want to come to this sea. Island, risk your life to mine. Even if the miners you recruit are unable to endure hardship for a month, many people will leave."
Ye Fan nodded silently.
If you can find a job in Donglai City, it will be more practical than on this small island in the sea. At least you don't have to worry. When you wake up, there is a sea beast of unknown strength nearby.
The jungle trees on the island are tall and very dense.
The crowd followed a path, holding swords and splitting the branches and thorn bushes blocking the road, and headed halfway up the mountain.
Deep in the middle of the mountain, there is a mining village with a radius of several hundred feet.
This mining village is tightly surrounded by a thick wooden wall. These wooden walls are one foot thick and several feet high. There is also a towering watchtower high up in the mine village, with an archer watching from above.
The archer alertly saw a large group of them approaching the mine, and immediately shouted loudly, asking who it was.
"It's me, Zheng Zhenan!"
Zheng Zhenan responded loudly.
"President Zheng, please open the door for you right away!"
When the archer saw that it was President Zheng of the Wanbao Chamber of Commerce, he hurried down and opened the gate of the mining village.
President Zheng warned Ye Fan at this time: "The wooden walls of this village look very strong, but they are actually of little use. During the day, the miners occasionally bask in the sun in the village, but they dare not leave the village at night. Once they arrive When the tide comes on a full moon night, even this wooden village may be destroyed by sea monsters. Everyone will retreat to the mine and seal the entrance to avoid being attacked by sea monsters. Your daily task is to patrol the island Just drive away the sea beasts that accidentally come ashore on weekdays. But on a full moon night, be sure not to go outside the stockade. You must stay in the mine with other Martial Lords. When the tide of beasts subsides, you can come out again. Put this wooden stockade Just rebuild it and it'll be fine."
"OK!"
Ye Fan nodded slightly.
It was his first time to go to sea, and he had never seen what a sea monster wave looked like. If the tide of sea monsters was severe, of course he would hide in the mine.
The gate of the mine village opened.
Three blue-clad warriors came out and hurried out with several supervisors and guards from the mining village to greet Zheng Zhenan.
Zheng Zhenan took Ye Fan and the miners into the mine.
"President Zheng!"
The three blue-robed warriors saluted Zheng Zhenan together.
"How is the situation in the mining village this month?"
Zheng Zhenan said.
"It's okay, everything is as usual. We all entered the cave on a full moon night, and the sea monster did not cause any casualties. It was during mining that a tunnel collapsed, injuring more than a dozen miners, and they had to be sent back to Donglai City. Go for treatment. This accident caused the Blue Water Sea Sand Mine to be 10% less than last month. Alas, this mining island is too old, accidents often occur, either water seepage or collapse. It also lacks enough manpower to maintain and excavate Create a new mine tunnel."
The leader, a middle-aged and sturdy man in blue, Wu Zun, complained to Zheng Zhenan.
"I know. I will arrange for a few people to move the blue water and sea sand produced last month to the ship! Thirty new miners have arrived this month. You should try to make up for the reduced sand mines last month. "
When Zheng Zhenan heard that the mine volume had dropped by 10%, he frowned and didn't say much.
He pointed at Ye Fan and introduced them, "This is Brother Ye Fan, a first-level martial master. I specially invited you to help you share the pressure of defending the island! He is not familiar with the situation here. You guys If you guys stay here for a long time, please take more care of me!"
The leading tall man looked at Ye Fan a few times, showing a little surprise.
He was puzzled.
Ye Fan looks like he is only nearly twenty years old. There are not many such young Wu Zun in Donglai City.
Such a young Wu Zun should have a very good future. Either he is studying hard in Donglai County Academy, or he is a distinguished guest of a wealthy family in Donglai City. He is too busy socializing with the ladies of the wealthy family. Why did you come to this deserted island to guard the mine?
The big man was puzzled, but his rough face remained calm. He immediately patted his chest and agreed: "It's easy to talk about! Everyone here is a brother, so of course we have to take care of it and nothing will go wrong. President Zheng, just don't worry. that is!"
"Brother Ye came to this mining island to help. He is a free man and can come and go anywhere at will. You don't have to control him too much. Let him do whatever he wants!"
Zheng Zhenan explained to several Wu Zun, and then he and the sailors carried several large bags of blue water sea sand ore to the small ship on the shore of the island.
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The tall man looked respectfully. After Zheng Zhenan walked away, he straightened his back, turned around and grinned at Ye Fan and said, "I'm here, Lu Guang. This little brother Ye, who has become a martial master at this age, should be Donglai." A county student from the county court, right?"
"Yes, he is a county student!"
Ye Fan nodded.
"I'm so envious! When we three brothers became martial masters, we were already in our thirties or forties, and we couldn't get into the county court even if we wanted to. We could only practice blindly on our own and just hang around. It's not as good as you, brother, who has a bright future!"
The sturdy man said with envy, and then asked doubtfully, "But why don't you practice in the county courtyard? As far as I know, there are many places suitable for cultivation in the county courtyard, and Donglai City is also very prosperous, much better than this desert island on the sea. "
"I came here to practice, and I came here to hunt sea beasts and earn some yuan stones. It happened that President Zheng needed help to clean up the sea beasts around the island, so he came over to help. Brother Lu is familiar with this area, you know, Are there any sea beasts near this island?"
Ye Fan smiled.
The big man surnamed Lu seemed to be thinking for a moment, and then said hesitantly: "Sea beast? I know this! In a cave on the seabed on a water grass beach to the east of the island, there is a turtle tribe beast living there. You stay there After a while, you can see it often catching sea fish to eat. However, it is best not to provoke it! This guy is very powerful and holds a grudge. If you provoke it, it will cause trouble for you every day!"
"Thank you, I'll go take a look and talk about it later!"
Ye Fan smiled and left the mining village.
Alone, he flew away towards the water and grass beach on the east side of the island.
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In the mine village, a Martial Lord next to Lu Guang whispered: "Brother, why did you deliberately lead him to find that turtle beast?! That old turtle is not easy to mess with. If you don't do it well, I'm afraid this kid will Gonna get hurt!"
"Hmph, it's better to let this kid suffer. Don't you see President Zheng's intention of arranging him to Mine Island?"
Lu Guang just sneered.
"What does President Zheng mean?"
The Martial Lord said in surprise.
The big man surnamed Lu's face darkened and he said: "This guy is so young and is from Donglai County Courtyard. He doesn't look like someone who will suffer hardships at sea! The guy surnamed Zheng probably suspected that we secretly took blue water sand. Mine, so he plans to send someone to monitor us! But if he finds another veteran Wu Zun like us who doesn't have much prospects and just wants to live a casual life, he is worried that we will collude together and will not be able to monitor us. So, This guy surnamed Zheng found such a young and energetic person and placed him on the mining island to monitor our actions. This kind of young boy has a tough temper, but it is difficult to bribe him."
"Brother, what should we do? If this kid keeps staring at us, he will definitely discover what we did in the mine."
"On this shabby island, we only have two Yuan Stones a month, and can only buy two of the lowest Yuan Qi Pills to practice. It's not even enough to fit between our teeth. If we don't sell some Blue Water Sand Ore privately, we will never be able to survive in this life. Don't even think about earning more Yuan Stones!"
"How about we give this kid some color? Let him stay out of trouble!"
The other two Martial Lords were all shocked, and their expressions changed drastically.
"There's no rush, we don't need to do anything! Doesn't he want to kill the sea beast to earn the Yuan Stone? Let him fight with that turtle! That old turtle, even the three martial masters of our brothers can't deal with it. He's a hairy If the little boy is gone, he will definitely be unlucky! The most important thing is that the old turtle is very small-minded and very vindictive. It can run away in the sea and on land. If you mess with it, you will not have a stable life. When the little boy is unlucky, When he begs us!"
The big man surnamed Lu crossed his arms and sneered.
"Big brother is still smarter!"
"This hand used to kill people with a borrowed knife is too powerful."
"That kid is very young. It looks like he has never been at sea. How can he compete with big brother and the rest of us?"
The other two Martial Lords finally understood and couldn't help but admire him greatly and praised him one after another.
They no longer cared about Ye Fan's actions and directed the new mining warriors to enter the mine to mine the blue water sea sand mine.
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Ye Fan ran quickly through the dense jungle on the island, and soon he landed on the east coast of the island, a beach with water plants growing on it.
"The turtle beast Lu Guang was talking about should be in this area! I don't know how powerful that turtle beast is? But since the mine village on the mountain can be safely defended, it shouldn't be so powerful that it can't be compared to the gods. !"
Ye Fan was thinking in his heart.
The strength of Lu Guang and other Martial Lords is mediocre, and they are only in the early stage of Martial Lords. If the three of them can guard the mine, then this Turtle Lord will not be too powerful, otherwise the three Martial Lords alone will not be able to stay on the mountain.
Ye Fan once killed four Continental Beast Lords: Mountain Boar, Mountain Ape, Blood Bat, and Green Wolf Beast Lord. He is still confident in dealing with ordinary beast Lords.
"It's just a good time to borrow the blood of this Turtle Lord to try out the effects of blood-based combat skills and the "Blood Saint Technique"!"
Ye Fan patiently sat down near the beach, closed his eyes and listened carefully to the movements on the seabed around him, looking for traces of the turtle beast.
He has never used blood-based combat skills before, and he is looking forward to it.