As mentioned before, Guhan had accepted five other missions from the sword-bearers' mission center in addition to the collection mission. One of them was called "Luoting Mine Guard Mission: Ancient Sword Level."
The mission required Guhan to guard the Luoting Mine for a whole day. As a reward, Guhan would receive five Hero Coins.
This was a relatively simple mission. He only needed to stay in the Luoting Mine for a day. It was simple and safe. It would be great if the reward for this mission was better. Unfortunately, the officials of Yuzhang were no fools. They would not set such a high reward for such a mission. Otherwise, the sword-bearers would have accepted this mission instead of fighting with Yuan Kou.
Originally, when Gu Han accepted this quest, he did not intend to complete it. He could earn dozens of Hero Coins in a day, so who would care about five Hero Coins? But now, Gu Han had to complete this quest because the location of this quest was the Luoting Mineral Vein, one of the three most abundant crimson mineral veins in the Mei Ling Mountain Range. It was also the origin of the name Luoting Encampment.
The Luoting Mine was directly controlled by the officials of Yuzhang. It was a super rich mine that was not open to the public. At the same time, there were five thousand ordinary people mining in the mine.
To make it easier to manage, these ordinary people simply lived in the mine.
With so many ordinary people, they would inevitably become the targets of Yuan Kou. Therefore, a considerable number of sword-bearers were needed to protect the entire mine.
Although there were many sword-bearers directly under the officials of Yuzhang City, they were needed for many things. Therefore, the sword-bearers who were assigned to protect the mine were mostly recruited through the mission center. For example, Guhan, or the person in front of Guhan.
"Student Guhan, what a coincidence. Isn't Ao Lin with you?"
Rena Takasaka and Guhan chatted casually as they walked between the mines of the Luoting Mine. That's right. The person who had accepted the same mission as Guhan was Guhan's classmate, Rena Takasaka.
"Ao Lin has her own things to do."
Guhan gave a very simple answer. As for how sincere his answer was, one could tell just by looking at Reina Takasaka's awkward expression.
"Guhan -san, may I ask if you and Ao Rin-san are … are …" Reina Takasaka stuttered, suddenly at a loss for words.
"Are you going to ask me if Ao Lin and I are a couple?" Guhan took the initiative to ask before Reina Takasaka could ask.
"Yes … yes … yes."
Hearing Guhan's words, Reina Kosaka shyly lowered her head, obviously agreeing to this point.
"Yes, we are indeed in a relationship."
Guhan answered straightforwardly. Hearing Guhan's answer, Reina Takasaka's face instantly turned pale, as if someone in her family had died.
"Do you have any other questions?" Guhan did not even look at Reina Takasaka. His rejection was quite obvious.
"No … No more …" What else could Reina Takasaka do? She could only reply softly like a little bird that was hurt.
"In that case, let's go our separate ways."
Guhan pointed at the two forks in front of him. Here, the mine was divided into two paths. According to the requirements of the mission, the two of them had to patrol separately and could no longer walk the same path together.
"Yes, I got it."
Reina Takasaka nodded and then madly ran towards one of the tunnels. Guhan shook his head and walked towards the other tunnel. The feelings of first love were always bitter, and a certain author had never had the chance to experience the taste of first love.
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Guhan did not mean to hurt this innocent, cute, and lucky classmate of his when he sent Reina Takasaka away. He knew that Wuzhang Shifang could find him at any time. There was no way he could hide his miraculous feat of breaking stones more than 20 times in a row at the Heng Mountain Sword Sect.
As long as Wuzhang Shifang asked around, he would be able to find out.
Moreover, Guhan did not think that Wuzhang Shifang would not borrow the power of the local tyrant.
Guhan might have to face Wuzhang Shifang at any time, and he did not want Reina Takasaka to get involved. This was not something a small ancient sword wielder like Reina Takasaka could participate in … But when Guhan thought that way, he seemed to have forgotten the fact that he was also just an ancient sword wielder.
"Poor Qing, do you feel that there are any good-looking ores in this mine?"
Guhan patted Qingpin's little head in the Infant Pouch. This was another reason why he separated from Reina Takasaka. With Reina Takasaka around, how could Guhan go around randomly mining?
"50 kilograms of frog meat."
Over the past few days, Poor Han had become addicted to eating frog meat. He had continuously eaten more than two million RMB worth of frog meat. If an ordinary sword bearer were to face such a foodie Supreme Sword Lady, they would have vomited blood and died long ago. Even for a sword bearer, two million RMB was a considerable amount of wealth. In less than three days, all of it had been fed into Poor Han's mouth. Only Gu Han could be considered wealthy at the moment. Otherwise, who would be able to endure it?
"Tonight, I will treat you to 50 kilograms of frog meat. Then, I will buy another 50 kilograms so you can eat frog meat at home. How about that?"
Gu Han said lovingly. In the face of such a considerate master, what else could he say? He immediately poked his head out of the nursery bag, and then his eyes were like a radar, scanning the surrounding mine.
"There's a pretty one over there … and there's a pretty one over here … This piece of ore is ugly … and it's still ugly here."
Qingpin commented as he walked. Qingpin said the good-looking ones were the Marquises, and the ugly ones were the Dukes. Even the day before, Guhan would have swept away all the Marquises and Dukes.
But today was different. Guhan was not going to touch the crystals of these levels.
The mines controlled by the government were not like the mines controlled by the Yuzhang Sword Sect. The government's rules were stricter than the Yuzhang Sword Sect's. The sword bearers could only patrol the mine and could not touch any of the dimensional crystals. This was to prevent the sword bearers from stealing the ore in the mine.
Every part of the mine was equipped with video surveillance equipment. Guhan might be able to disguise himself once or twice, but if he did it too many times, it would be easy for him to give himself away. It would not be good if he attracted attention. So, Guhan could only pick the more valuable and precious dimensional ores. For example, right now, Qingpin had secretly told Guhan about a very good-looking dimensional ore. It was a dimensional ore that Guhan thought was most likely a King grade. At that moment, this ore was in the mining basket of a miner next to Guhan. It was an ore that had already been mined.
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In the monitoring room of the mine's management center, a staff member in charge of monitoring suddenly saw a miner slip while he was mining. The miner fell backward and hit his mining basket. The ore in the basket was scattered all over the ground.
The miner frantically started to pick up the ore on the ground. Suddenly, the back of the miner's head blocked the surveillance camera. But quickly, the back of the head moved away from the camera.
The staff member adjusted the camera's angle and found that a sword bearer was passing by. He was kind enough to help the unlucky miner pick up all the ore on the ground and put it back into his mining basket.
"Oh, this sword bearer is a good person who likes to help people."
The staff member was an ordinary person. He was used to seeing swordsmen bullying ordinary people. Occasionally, he would see a helpful swordsman helping ordinary people, so he sincerely praised him. He completely forgot about the rule that forbade swordsmen from touching ores.
Guhan, who had used a small trick, easily got the target. He only secretly used a sword aura to cut off a rock under the miner's feet. Then, just like what the surveillance camera saw, Guhan used the back of his head to block the surveillance camera to directly put the good-looking ore into his dimensional pocket.
However, what Guhan did not know was that he did not have to go through so much trouble to cover it up. At that moment, the monitoring center was in a mess. No one cared if Guhan had stolen an ore or not.
Just as the staff member was lamenting that Guhan was a good sword bearer, he suddenly saw a white figure flash across the screen of another surveillance camera.
What's going on? Are my eyes playing tricks on me?
The responsible staff member immediately pulled up the surveillance video and played it ten times slower. Sure enough, there was a white figure flashing by.
The staff member was shocked. Could it be that Yuan Kou had barged in?
He immediately slowed down the video by twenty times, wanting to see what the white figure was. However, something terrible happened. Even though the video was slowed down by twenty times, the white figure still flashed by. It did not seem to have slowed down much.
The frightened staff member slowed down the video by a hundred times … five hundred times … a thousand times … ten thousand times … a hundred thousand times … a million times … Even when the video was slowed down to five million times, the white figure in the video still flashed by. He could not see its shape and appearance clearly.
The staff member began to feel a suffocating fear. However, the reason for his fear was not because the white figure was moving too fast, but because the white figure's speed did not change. Regardless of whether it was played at normal speed or five million times slower, the white figure always flashed across the screen at the same speed and time. This could not be explained by physics at all. However, one thing was certain. The mine had been invaded, and the intruder was most likely a very powerful Yuan Kou.
The staff member left and reported the news to the leader. After watching the video, the leader made a decision on the spot and contacted all the sword bearers who were patrolling the mine.
"All sword bearers, please take note. It is suspected that an extremely fast white humanoid Yuan Kou has barged into the mine. All sword bearers, please search the mine immediately. Report immediately if you find any clues … Report immediately."