Chapter 3023: Are You Sure?

Leaving the White Town and passing through a desolate land, Su Xiao arrived at the Lost Withered Forest. It was still the old method of manufacturing talisman stones to open the path.

Walking in the Lost Withered Forest, Su Xiao was shirtless, wearing a white and gold mask, holding 【Sin Fall Heaven Legacy】. He was dressed like this the last time he went to find the Heaven Squad, and of course, he wouldn't change this time.

According to the direction of the tracking mark, Su Xiao quickly left the Lost Withered Forest and headed straight for the area where the Prince Squad was located. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang on the side merged into the environment, and Baha entered the different space.

What surprised Su Xiao was that Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang searched for more than an hour but didn't find the Heaven Squad's mine. That side had become smart.

"Xiang Bubu."

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang barked, meaning it exerted its 'bloodline ability' and began to dig a hole on the ground. There was indeed no mine on the ground, but Su Xiao didn't believe there was none underground.

At the same time, 3195 meters underground.

It was still a nearly thousand-square-meter underground space, still with stone-blue 'liquid flow' clinging to the surrounding rock layers, still with small machines flying at low altitude, detecting air pressure, air quality, etc.

Except for the sound of machine operation and the crisp sound of excavation, no one spoke in the underground space.

Prince stood the alloy ore shovel in his hand on the ground, his gaze turning to the man dozens of meters away. This was the combat-type contractor he had newly hired, named Hajini. They talked very well before meeting, 300 Soul Coins per day. But after meeting, the other party suddenly increased the price, without reason, and disdained to make up a reason.

400 Soul Coins per day. Either Prince paid the money, or Hajini signed a confidentiality contract and left. Choose one of two.

This kind of sudden price increase behavior made Prince feel dissatisfied, but there was no way. Bodyguards weren't easy to find, and after being robbed once, Prince and the other three could only grit their teeth and accept it.

After Hajini arrived, Prince began to transfer, arriving at the location of the No. 2 ore vein. He had been eyeing this place for a long time, just waiting to finish mining the No. 1 ore vein before coming. At the moment, the No. 1 ore vein was too dangerous, so he could only come to the No. 2 ore vein.

Having had the experience of being robbed last time, Prince was extra careful, but he soon discovered another problem, which was that Hajini actually took out an ore shovel.

What made Prince even more stunned was that the other party actually wanted to join? Hearing the other party say this, Prince almost spat out a mouthful of old blood. They paid 400 Soul Coins per day, and then the mineral output had to be divided by one-fifth for Hajini? The mining efficiency of miners and combat-type contractors wasn't a concept at all.

Using Hajini's words, this was called bundled hiring, not only protecting their safety but also helping them increase output. Thinking of these, Prince sighed secretly in his heart.

"Brother, why don't you take a break first?"

Prince asked tentatively. The gas clone waving the ore shovel one by one didn't pay attention to him. Prince was even more speechless. Hajini himself was a magic-type and didn't do the mining himself, but let the gas clone do it instead.

Tap, tap, tap~

Footsteps came. It was someone walking on the 'liquid flow' that had hardened on the ground. Hearing these footsteps, Prince suddenly shivered.

"Could it be..."

Prince turned his head to look and saw a man who was shirtless and wearing a white metal mask.

"You, still came."

Prince raised his hand, combing his wet blonde hair backward, doing a hair gel hand. This time, the bodyguard he hired was a magic-type, not comparable to Red Gold at all. Although this magic-type was greedy, his strength was unquestionable.

A man wearing gold-blue magic robes with long hair all over his head stood up from the alloy box. He was Hajini.

"Prince, is he the one who took your ore?"

While Hajini spoke, gas clones appeared around him.

"It's him, take action!"

Prince shouted in a low voice. Unfortunately, Hajini didn't take action immediately, just continued to construct more gas clones.

"Repelling him is free, killing him, 3000 Soul Coins."

The corners of Hajini's mouth curled into an arc, preparing to knock a big sum from Prince. At this moment, space fluctuations appeared, and Su Xiao was already a few meters in front of Hajini.

With a slap, Hajini snapped his fingers, and all the gas clones around him exploded. Prince and the other four only felt the impact strike from the front. They all hit the ore vein behind them, their internal organs churning, and then there was numbness.

Water mist spread in the underground space. Prince felt that powerful water-characteristic magic energy was gathering in front. Roars came from the front, and the surroundings were shaking.

"This bodyguard wasn't hired in vain."

Prince felt very happy in his heart. He experienced again how strong the magic-type was. In the water mist ahead, there were only water-characteristic magic energy fluctuations. The enemy was clearly being suppressed and beaten. Prince wasn't a combat-type, but he could still judge who was strong and who was weak.

Inside the water mist, Hajini's magic robe moved without wind, and the magic staff in his hand pointed forward.

'Flow Rush · Extreme Pressure.'

With a splash, water flow surged from around Hajini, heading straight for Su Xiao. The powerful water pressure acted on his whole body. Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy surged on his body surface. Relying on the magic-type devouring characteristic of Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying and his own powerful physique, he resisted the water pressure and strode forward to surprise attack.

Absolute Magic Constitution + Crystal Layer Defense + Su Xiao's own powerful survivability, he resisted Hajini's attack head-on. His life value dropped by 1.62%. It had to be said that the power of Tier 8 magic-type abilities was still quite good.

Finding Su Xiao rushing over without dodging or evading, Hajini turned into a magic-type turret.

'Water Life Domain.'

'Drowning · Suffocation.'

'Gas Dragon Roar.'

'Sea God's Anger!'

Hajini's expression was almost distorted. Although he wasn't a magic master, he could still temporarily turn into a magic-type turret.

Various water-characteristic attacks struck from Su Xiao's front, water splashing everywhere, but he didn't stop for a step. After entering the space penetration state, he surprise attacked to the front of Hajini and smashed a stick toward the other party's skull.

Compared to Hajini's various imposing attacks, this stick of Su Xiao's appeared exceptionally simple and brutal.

Just as Prince was waiting for Hajini to walk out of the water mist, he suddenly heard a scream of 'Oh,' followed by the sound of thumping and beating.

This sound, like a nightmare sound, made Prince recall the scene where Su Xiao smashed Red Gold into pieces with stick after stick.

Slap!

It was as if glass had shattered. After the last scream came, the water mist in the underground space gradually faded.

Prince, Belle, Old Fish, and Black-Faced Man, the four of them leaned against the ore vein, staring closely at the front. They had already guessed the general result.

The water mist dissipated, and blue water droplets dripped along the long stick. The ground and walls were splattered with this blue water liquid. Hajini used an Immortal-level life-saving prop to escape. As a price, his skull was almost smashed, both arms were broken, and his ribs were not complete. Of course, this was under the condition that Su Xiao didn't use a blade; otherwise, it would be enough for Hajini to die several times over.

"Wait, I have something to say."

Prince raised his hand and shouted. Hearing this shout, Su Xiao stopped his footsteps.

"Brother, I know what you want to do. The ore will be taken out immediately. The process from last time, there's no need to do it again, right? We're all acquaintances..."

Before Prince finished speaking, the white long stick smashed over.

A moment later, Prince, Belle, Old Fish, and Black-Faced Man were all squatting on the ground, bruised and swollen.

The four took out an alloy box and put the ore pieces into it. They were already somewhat skilled. 【302

"Big Brother, you really have patience. I sealed off the mine tunnel hundreds of meters below the surface, and you still managed to dig your way in."

Wangzi wasn't particularly nervous; he could accept just having the ore taken. If he could avoid getting beaten up, that would be even better.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. He put away the alloy box containing the light silver ore and turned to leave. Taking the ore was enough; there was no need to continue wasting time. Before competing for the power of space-time, killing miners wasn't a wise choice.

"Wait."

Wangzi suddenly spoke up.

"..."

"It's like this, Big Brother. There are two light silver ore veins here. Although quite a bit has already been mined, there's still a lot left. Why don't we cooperate?"

Hearing Wangzi's words, Old Fish, who was standing to the side, broke out in a cold sweat. He suspected Wangzi had been knocked silly.

"I don't have time to protect you."

"You don't need to protect us. From the time we came here to mine until now, only you have... come to patronize us. How about we each take 50% afterward?"

"Fine."

"Then let's sign a contract?"

Wangzi's tone was somewhat excited. He had discovered that this area was very secluded. Apart from Su Xiao coming to rob them, absolutely no one else came. As for the runaway Haijini, with a contract in place, the other party wouldn't dare to act recklessly.

"Sign a contract?"

"Yes, sign a contract."

Wangzi's attitude was unusually firm.

"Are you... sure?"

"Of course I'm sure. It's just signing a contract; what's the big deal about that?"

Under Wangzi's insistence, Su Xiao drafted a physical contract.

Wangzi and his three companions were very cautious. Perhaps having heard some kind of rumor, they began to carefully inspect the parchment contract Su Xiao handed over, even using a magnifying glass.

In reality, this magnifying glass was useless. Tampering with the font size or the patterns of a contract was a trick from before the Sixth Tier.

Currently, the parchment contract Wangzi was signing could be peeled back into many layers. The 1st through 4th layers were all completely identical, normal contracts, and this sheet of parchment had a total of 5 layers.

PS: (My neck is stinging. Two updates today, sorry.)