Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1641 Pain and happiness
For the following period of time, Zhou Xu was extremely busy with the work allocation and settlement of the large dwarf population.

Of course, to be honest, Zhou Xu's current situation can be considered as a mixture of pain and happiness.

Although this group of dwarves has a population of less than 100,000, their composition is exceptional and they are a definitely high-quality group.

Not to mention that there are many R&D personnel with R&D capabilities, there are also a large number of excellent mineral experts and blacksmiths. At the very least, they are excellent laborers with outstanding mining capabilities.

The dwarves' stature allows them to more easily penetrate into mines that ordinary human miners cannot, and their strong limbs allow them to complete the mining work relatively easily.

In addition, their physical strength and endurance are also stronger, which enables dwarves to adapt to more harsh mining environments.

This ability can be said to have completely blew away human miners.

In this situation, Zhou Xu felt it was a waste to let these dwarf miners just dig some ordinary ore.

He had already thought it through. He would let the dwarves adapt to life in Da Zhou first. After Da Zhou had completely absorbed this part of the population, he would arrange for the dwarf miners to go overseas to mine fire crystal ore and mithril ore!

Special ores like this one, which are difficult to mine and have low yields, are where the dwarf miners need to work hard.

While Zhou Xu was thinking about this, outside Yuancheng, a team of dwarf workers were busy working.

Zhou Xu had fought a great battle with the monster here before, causing the surrounding land to be full of potholes. In addition, Xuan Yu also blasted a big hole here, and all these lands needed to be filled up.

It's definitely hard work and the workload is not small.

When the work was recruiting workers, many dwarves volunteered.

On the one hand, they are indeed good at this kind of work, and on the other hand, they don't want to be too far away from home.

At this stage, in the minds of most dwarves, Copperforge is their home. Compared to being transferred to other farther places, they would definitely prefer to stay near Copperforge. It would even be better for them to return to Copperforge to live and work.

This makes the jobs here extremely popular.

"Come over here quickly!"

It was a new day. At the bottom of the deep pit blasted by Xuan Yu, a dwarf worker carrying a pickaxe pointed at the black rock layer formed by the cooling of the magma at the bottom of the pit and shouted loudly.

"There should be ore underneath!"

Hearing the shouting here, the staff in charge of on-site management quickly rushed over.

"What's your basis?"

As the staff member asked, he looked down into the pit twice but saw nothing.

If anyone comes and says there is ore underneath, they will immediately arrange for a mining team to come and build a mine and start mining. Then the relevant departments will have no time to rest, and their workload will at least increase several times.

At this moment, facing the staff's doubts, the dwarf worker directly said...

"There is a hint of special texture in this black rock layer. This is probably because the ore hidden in the rock layer was melted together with the surrounding rock layers by high temperature, and then melted together again after cooling."

The dwarf worker spoke very seriously, but the staff looked left and right and couldn't figure out anything, leaving the dwarf worker speechless.

"I've been mining for nearly four hundred years. How could I be wrong?!"

"..."

This sounded outrageous to the human race, but when one thought of the other party's identity as a dwarf, it had an inexplicable persuasiveness, and even a bit of authority!
Among the dwarves who have a long natural lifespan and are associated with various minerals all year round, a four-hundred-year-level qualification is not outrageous, but it can definitely be called an old miner and a true professional in the relevant field.

"Wait a moment, I'll go call someone from the Geological Survey Bureau over."

After saying that, the staff member ran away, and the dwarf miner was speechless. "You guys, come down and help!"

He shouted to the tribesmen above, then looked down at the cooled black magma layer and simply picked up a pickaxe and started digging.

The dwarf miner swung his pickaxe with such force and power that the surface of the black rock was soon dug open.

As soon as the people from the Geological Survey Bureau arrived, the dwarf miner threw a fist-sized black stone to them.

"Open your eyes and look carefully at the air holes on the inside!"

The geologist who had just arrived at the scene was still a little confused, but after hearing this, he subconsciously looked closely at the pores in the black stone.

The pores on this black stone are very dense and very small. At first glance, there is nothing wrong with it.

But according to the other party's words, after looking at it carefully for a while, the geologist suddenly frowned.

Don’t say it! Don’t say it! As he looked at it, he found that there seemed to be something inside the stone!

Realizing this, the geologist couldn't help rubbing his eyes, fearing that he was dazzled and had seen it wrong.

"Are there really other ores in here?"

Hearing this, the dwarf miner couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"Can I still lie to you?"

At this moment, the inside of the pores of the black stone actually contained some very scattered crystalline substances that were the size of gravel but had a relatively transparent texture.

Because they are so small and sparse, they can easily be mistaken for impurities in the stone.

After confirming this, the relevant departments of Yuancheng quickly gathered dwarf miners to start mining and then refining it.

And at the fastest speed, the refined special crystals were sent to Black Moon City...

"Your Majesty, this is the report from Yuancheng."

A personal soldier said this as he quickly presented the report to Zhou Xu.

The moment he took the report, Zhou Xu felt that there was something wrong with it, as if there was a stone inside. In fact, he could already feel it through the envelope.

Zhou Xu tore off the sealing wax, took out the letter, and poured it into his palm. A thumb-sized transparent crystal stone immediately fell into his hand.

"Is this a new ore?"

Zhou Xu, who had no idea what had happened in between, quickly unfolded the letter to read its contents.

[So that's how it is. Ore was actually discovered under the huge pit blasted by Xuan Yu.]

As the thought flashed through his mind, Zhou Xu's gaze fell on the thumb-sized transparent crystal again.

[According to the dwarf miners, this crystal is called source crystal. There are also similar source crystal veins in Copperforge...]

As his thoughts raced, out of caution, Zhou Xu fired the mantra directly at the transparent crystal in his hand.

[The Eye of Peeping Secrets! 】

(End of this chapter)