Three hundred miles away from the rock city, next to the post road, there is a small mountain village built on the mountain, and the name of the village is Qingyuan Village. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is a very small novice village, with only about 100 households living in the entire village, and all of them are NPCs.

Although the village is small, there are many shops in the village, such as blacksmiths, pharmacies, grocery stores, taverns, and other common shops, and all kinds of daily necessities are sold in the village.

It is located at the easternmost end of Qingyuan Village, near the end of the village.

There is a small shop of fifty or sixty square meters, faintly revealing the slightest firelight, which is the only blacksmith shop in Qingyuan Village.

In the lobby of the blacksmith shop, northeast near the counter.

Lin Jian sat upright on a wooden chair, holding a bowl-sized teacup in his hand, and snorted unhurriedly.

Seven or eight steps ahead.

Uncle Zhong, the owner of the blacksmith shop, was shirtless, half-squatting in front of a pile of iron ore, counting the ore very seriously.

He counted the ore and muttered to himself.

"1 piece of primary iron ore..."

"1 piece of intermediate bore ore..."

"1 piece of primary iron ore..."

......

Every time he whispered, he would squeeze the charcoal pen in his hand and gently pull it on the notebook, recording the amount of iron ore.

Lin Jian has long been accustomed to this.

It's been more than three years since Souls entered the game world.

Every time he goes back to the village to sell iron ore, Uncle Zhong is like this, and he has not changed for more than three years.

Ten minutes later.

Uncle Zhong finally counted the amount of ore.

He exhaled lightly, straightened up with his waist in his arms, and then put the notebook in his hand into the space bag around his waist with both hands.

Lin Jian's expression moved, and he quickly got up from the wooden chair and stood up, eagerly speaking first.

"Uncle Zhong give me the silver coins quickly, it won't be too late to return to the mine......"

Uncle Zhong also knows.

Lin Jian's time is very tight, and if he delays a little, it will be difficult to rush back to the mine in time.

He quickly pulled out a handful of silver coins, counted them a little, and handed them over.

"Lin boy, 105 pieces of primary ore, 50 pieces of intermediate ore, this is 305 silver coins, look at the number is right......"

Lin Jian nodded and took the silver coin.

"The number is right......"

After taking the silver coin.

As soon as Lin Jian moved, he walked directly to the outside of the blacksmith shop, waving his hand to greet Uncle Zhong as he walked along.

"Uncle Zhong, I'll go back to the mine first......"

Stepping out of the blacksmith shop, Lin Jian casually walked around the village, and after completing the daily necessities, his body turned around directly, heading straight for the mine in the mountains to the north.

The mine is a private ore spawn point exclusively owned by Lin Jian, located in an extremely secluded abandoned mine in the mountains.

The ore refresh point is a huge underground space, covering an area of more than two acres, in a semicircle, about 20 meters high.

In the northwest corner of this underground space is a natural platform more than eight meters high, and there are many raised water chestnut horns on the surface of the platform, which is very easy to climb.

At the top of the platform is an oval plane with a diameter of three meters.

More than five hours later.

Lin Jian returned to this ore spawn point.

After calming down a little, he silently walked to the edge of the top of the platform, and looked for the figure of the gold-eating beast by the dim light of the torch.

The Gold-Eating Beast is a Jintong-level monster that is half a meter tall and three meters long, with a rat head and a tiger body.

It feeds on metallic minerals and treats them as its own private property, not allowing anyone to take them from it.

Therefore, killing the gold-eating beast before mining is a work that every miner must do.

Ore spawn points are not large.

The Goldeater was also large enough to find it.

A minute later.

Lin Jian found the location of the gold-eating beast.

It was crouching in a corner on the north side of the mine, unhurriedly picking at the iron ore on the mine wall with its glowing claws.

While picking at the ore, it squinted its eyes and chewed gently, looking very comfortable and enjoyable.

After a slight glance.

Lin Jian retracted his gaze, took out the magic crossbow from the space bag and held it in the palm of his hand.

One eye narrowed slightly, and slowly turned the crossbow.

After a little effort.

The crosshairs of the magic crossbow fell on the gold-eating beast.

But the board machine has not been buckled.

A hint of surprise flashed in Lin Jian's eyes.

"Strange ......"

Take a closer look.

The three-meter-long body of the gold-eating beast was originally a dark cyan scale armor, but for some reason, a layer of looming silver rays was attached.

Lin Jian stopped his hand movements, frowning thoughtfully.

The Gold Eater is just an ordinary level monster, and it basically doesn't change in any way under normal circumstances, but now it has a layer of silver attached to its scale armor.

I thought about it for a while.

Lin Jian thought of a possibility and exclaimed.

"Is it a mutated ......?"

In the game world, only mutations occur on the bodies of normal-level monsters.

Soon.

Lin Jian became excited.

Mutant monsters are synonymous with rarity in the game world, and they are known as "fortune boys".

Its value is unimaginable.

Once the monster is mutated, then its level will automatically increase by one order, don't look at it as just a mere one-order increase, but this is a qualitative improvement.

In the game world, you can only get experience points by killing ordinary monsters, but in addition to experience points, killing elite-level monsters can also burst out the existence of various game equipment and props.

This is the difference between "nothing" and "being".

What's more, there is another setting in the game world, as long as a monster above the elite level is killed for the first time, its explosion rate will increase significantly, to thirty times that of normal circumstances.

Such a high explosion rate means that it will probably burst out some extremely rare special props, such as skill books, gems, and other items that cannot be exploded.

Instantaneous effort.

Lin Jian's face was flushed with excitement.

After entering the game world for three years, Lin Jian mines like a machine every day, in order to accumulate gold coins to buy equipment and become a combat player.

Now, as long as you kill this mutant gold-eating beast, then you can complete the dream of three years in one fell swoop, get rid of this dark life as a miner, and become a real combat player.

The three-year wish is about to come true.

Lin Jian couldn't control himself anymore, and his body trembled slightly.

This state lasted for nearly a minute.

Lin Jian struggled to suppress the excitement in his heart, and this was the only way he could barely control his body.

Stabilize your mind a little.

Lin Jian quickly held the magic crossbow again, and with a slight bend of his index finger, he decisively pulled the plate machine.

"Hum..."

An inaudible muffled sound came from the magic crossbow.

In an instant, an arrow the size of a three-inch-long thumb and made entirely of magical elements flashed out of the magic crossbow and struck towards the mutated gold-eating beast like a meteor.

At this time, the mutant gold-eater beast was half-lying on the ground, enjoying the ore comfortably, and there would be distractions to take care of other things, so naturally it did not have any awareness of the incoming arrows.

No surprises.

The arrow landed exactly on the door of its head, and succeeded in bringing out the blood-red word reduced blood.

“－1”

Immediately afterwards, the system prompt also came out.

"Magic arrow, hit the brain of the mutant gold-eating beast."

"Defensive Comparison ......"

"Unable to break the target ......"

"Mandatory deduction of Mutant Gold Eater HP -1"

"The current mutant gold-eating beast has 49999/50000 HP"

.......

The mutant gold-eater is aware of it.

It wasn't until the system chime ended that it reacted dumbfoundedly and understood what was going on.

After understanding.

It sprang to its feet on all fours, leaping to its feet, and then looked around with red eyes.

When you see it clearly, it was Lin Jian who attacked her.

Its limited intelligence didn't think much of it at all, and with the instinct of a beast, it immediately roared fiercely at the head of the beast.

"Roaring ......"

The roar continued.

The mutant gold-eater was already on all fours, and quickly ran towards the platform.

It's a pity.

When it ran to the bottom of the platform, it found that it couldn't climb the eight-meter-high platform at all, and it could only keep roaring helplessly to show its dissatisfaction and anger.

"Roar, Roar, Roar, ......Roar, Roar, Roar, Roar, T

The roar of the mutant gold-eating beast kept coming from the bottom of the platform, shaking the entire underground space to buzz.

on this.

Lin Jian ignored it.

At the same time as the system prompt sounded, the whole person froze in place, and muttered in a low voice like a distraction.

"I can't break the defense......"

"The gold-eating beast is actually mutated by physical strength attributes......"

......

Lin Jian never expected that the mutation of the gold-eating beast was actually the physical strength attribute.

Generally speaking, if a normal-level monster mutates, it will only increase one basic attribute to the elite level, while the other three basic attributes will remain at the ordinary level.

One of the four basic attributes is randomly mutated, but this gold-eating beast mutates the physical strength attribute.

This is the most unfortunate situation.

You must know that the physical strength attribute is directly linked to the defense and blood volume, which also means that the blood volume and defense of the mutant gold-eating beast have reached the level of elite-level monsters.

After all, the magic crossbow is only a bronze-level weapon with the weakest attack power, and it is reasonable that it cannot break through the elite-level defense.

Of course, Lin Jian is not a complaining existence.

He quickly recognized the facts, and then frowned and thought about it.

"How can I break the defense ......?"

This is a problem that needs to be solved urgently, and it is also a problem that has to be solved.

If you don't break the beast's defenses, you won't be able to kill it.

If you can't kill this beast, then no matter how high its explosion rate is, it will be useless, and even normal mining will not be able to continue.

Not being able to mine means that there is no fixed source of gold, which is a very fatal thing in the game world.

Time.

Lin Jian's thoughts turned sharply, and he was frantically thinking about countermeasures.