Monster Hunter: Farm Story Begins with Pokémon

Chapter 376 S-level Gem! (4.6k, supplemented on 5.16th)
Carry the space ball in front of you.

Bai Zhen took Shaymi and Taile Bagos out of the moon base.

Arriving at the surface of the moon, the sun is shining directly and the surrounding temperature can reach over 100 degrees. Normal plants cannot survive in this environment, of course, with the exception of some volcanoes with plants.

Bai Zhen looked at the environment and realized that it was impossible to grow vegetables at this temperature. If he really wanted to grow vegetables, he would have to build a glass roof similar to a dome to reflect and disperse the sunlight, and he would also have to control the temperature.

Coming to an open space, Bai Zhen used the universal tool to transform it into a hoe.

He first squatted down and grabbed a handful of lunar soil. The dust-like lunar soil was as fine as flour.

When Bai Zhen let go of his hands, the lunar soil fell straight to the ground without floating up at all.

There is no medium on the moon. Without any other external force, the lunar soil will just fall on the lunar surface due to gravity.

“You can’t grow vegetables here.”

There are no inorganic substances in the lunar soil, so it is naturally impossible to grow vegetables. If you really want to grow vegetables, you must transform the lunar soil.

Bai Zhen stood up, poured some water into the lunar soil, then took a hoe and dug into the lunar soil. When he pulled it back, the lunar soil changed immediately. Part of the dusty lunar soil actually took on some soil texture.

Bai Zhen poured some water and hoeed again, and the soil properties became more and more.

After five or six hoeings, the dusty lunar soil completely turned into soil.

Bai Zhen squatted down, grabbed a handful of soil and rubbed it in his palm. He was very happy: "Success! It seems that the universal tool is also useful for lunar soil!"

What Bai Zhen feared most was that the universal tool would be useless on the lunar soil that had turned to ash. Now that it has been successfully transformed, it can be said that a major problem has been solved.

If you really want to plant crops next, you have to test whether there are radioactive elements in the soil. After all, the universal tool only turns it into land suitable for planting, and there is no way to change the elements in the soil.

There was no way to start planting for the time being, so Bai Zhen thought of his own heavy steel draft horse.

The heavy steel draft horse eats mud. I wonder if bringing the lunar soil back to him can unlock some good abilities?
Thinking of this, Bai Zhen selected a good place, took a shovel and dug five full buckets of lunar soil weighing 100 kg, preparing to take it back for Chonggang Draft Horse to taste. If he liked it, he could come to the moon to get it later.

During the excavation process, Bai Zhen discovered that underneath the lunar soil was hard lunar rock.

Before coming here, Bai Zhen studied some basic knowledge about the moon in detail.

月球的结构分为，月壳（0~60km），上月幔（60~300km），中月幔（300~800km），月震带（800~1000km），下月幔（1000~1600km），以及月核（1600~1738km）。

Today, humans on Earth have only dug 100 meters below the lunar crust.

No one knows what is below 100 meters of the lunar crust and in the upper lunar mantle.

"I have nothing to do anyway, and now with the power of Arceus, I might as well try digging deeper. I'll dig to the Upper Moon Mantle and see if I can bring some local specialties back to Huoya and Shuiyun."

There is still a long time before departure. Instead of playing games with Shaymi in the base, it is better to explore the moon.

Bai Zhen used the multi-tool to transform into a hand-cranked drill. With the blessing of 100% labor saving, even the hardest moon rock became as soft as butter. He turned on the water jet and then used the hand-cranked drill.

With a hum, Bai Zhen drilled down 100 meters in just a few seconds, turning into a ruthless drilling machine. Bai Zhen temporarily stuffed the excess drilled materials into Xie Mi's small spiritual world, and dumped them together after he got out.

The moon in this world is different from the moon in the previous life. There are many substances and minerals that did not exist in the previous life.

This is not surprising, as Pokémon exist in this world, and these strange creatures did not exist in previous lives.

Moreover, the meteorites that fell from the sky can allow Mega Rayquaza to mega evolve. It is normal that there are some unique things here that are not available on the planet.

After drilling 10 kilometers underground, Bai Zhen entered an underground cave on the moon.

These caves were formed by volcanic lava eruptions.

After walking around the cave, Bai Zhen placed his hand on the rock wall and brushed it. A lot of information appeared in Bai Zhen's mind.

Suddenly, a name that Bai Zhen was familiar with flashed by: [Moon Stone].

Moonstone is an evolution item that can allow many Pokémon to evolve.

Bai Zhen carefully examined it and found that it was a very pure [Moon Stone]!
This level of moonstone's purity is extremely difficult to find on Earth!
Patch once gave him 100 high-purity evolution stones, each of which could be sold for 5000 Alliance coins.

The purity of the Moonstone obtained at that time could not be compared with the Moonstone here.

It's about the difference between 80% purity and 90% purity.

Bai Zhen was not in a hurry to collect the stones. He noted the location and prepared to continue digging to see if he could dig up a moonstone of perfect purity.

If you can find such valuable things just by digging, there must be something even more amazing underneath.

As Bai Zhen expected, he dug up even purer moonstone 30km underground, with a purity of up to 92%.

The deeper you go, the higher the purity. This should be related to being closer to the core. The moon itself has enormous energy.

“I think I discovered something incredible.”

At this stage, the experts at the Center of the Universe have never found any moonstones on the moon, only fragments at most.

Those experts speculate that these moon rocks were thrown onto the moon during the impact when the moon was formed.

After all, fragments of other evolutionary rocks have also been found on the surface of the moon.

His discovery was truly subversive.

Bai Zhen was not sure whether his guess was true, but he stopped digging blindly. He collected a palm-sized moonstone. Bai Zhen used telepathy to respond to Taile Bagos: "Please use your crystallization ability to help me seal it."

"Bawu~!" Tailebagos used his power to seal the Moon Stone with a colorful crystal. Bai Zhen used the torrent to carve the number 30 on the surface of the crystal, indicating that he dug it out 30km underground.

When we return to Earth, we will pack these things together and sell them to the center of the universe.

I think these things are worth at least tens of billions of Alliance coins.

Bai Zhen not only sealed the Moon Stone, but also some of the surrounding soil.

He continued to dig downwards, sealing off a portion of the sample every kilometer. It took him three hours to dig to a point 60 kilometers below the lunar crust.
He also sealed up 30 sets of samples, among which the purest moonstone was found at a depth of 57km, with a purity of up to 95%.

During the excavation process, Bai Zhen also discovered a lot of minerals, which Bai Zhen packed up and planned to sell to the Universe Center or Daigo later.

If we continue digging, we will soon enter the upper mantle.

The rock structure here allows for the mining of olivine, a very common mineral found abundantly on Earth.

At first, he only dug up ordinary peridot, but as he dug deeper, he soon discovered a peridot vein.

After digging horizontally, Bai Zhen discovered gem-grade peridot in the vein.

After carefully knocking off the piece of peridot and rinsing it with clean water, Bai Zhen asked Xie Mi to use the flash. He compared it and found that the peridot was dark green, and there seemed to be a little light flickering in the center of the gem.

I carefully reviewed the introduction in my mind.

I found out that the name was [Moonlight Peridot] and read the introduction carefully.

[Moonlight Peridot Lv.3 (C+ grade gem): Gem-grade peridot excavated from the moon mantle. Due to the influence of the moon's energy, some changes have occurred. There is no special effect, but it looks very beautiful.]

The description in my mind clearly confirmed that it was a type of gemstone, and the grade was pretty good.

When Bai Zhen was strolling around jewelry stores before, he carefully looked at the gems in those jewelry stores. Generally, the highest grade of jewelry in the stores is C+.

The Rock Dragon's Tear that he sold to Daigo for 100 million before was only a D+ grade gem, so the grade difference was quite large. "Since we have dug up here, there should be higher quality Moonlight Peridot, right?"

Bai Zhen put the raw stone, which was about 10 centimeters in diameter, into the small spiritual world.

He continued digging horizontally. After an unknown amount of time, he dug out at least 1 ton of moonlight peridot raw stones.

The best one is Lv.5 moonlight peridot, which is grade B and weighs only about 400 grams.

After searching for a while and failing to find anything better, Bai Zhen gave up temporarily and prepared to continue digging.

If he was determined to look for it, there must be better quality moonlight peridot on the moon, but that would be a waste of time.

Under the mask, Bai Zhen let out a long breath. He suddenly began to understand why Daigo liked to go down to the mine to dig for gems so much. The feeling of opening a blind box was really good!
Bai Zhen continued to dig downwards, and soon he reached a depth of 200 km underground, where he found a moonstone with a purity of 97%.

He was still not satisfied and continued searching downwards. Finally, about 300 km underground, near the middle mantle, he found moonstone with a purity of 98%.

There is also a moonstone vein here. After digging for half a day, we only dug less than 1% of the vein.

白真按照一般大小的月之石估算，他得到了124块纯净度98%上下浮动0.5%的月之石，以及3块99%以上纯净度的月之石。

The purest piece has a purity of 99.23%, which seems to be a small distance from 100%, but the gap is huge.

Bai Zhen estimated that he could only find the most perfect moonstone by going to the core of the moon.

The more perfect the Moon Stone is, the higher the ability of the Pokémon to evolve after using it.

Just like the Red Lotus Armor Knight's previous evolution using armor, the level of its moves was increased.

The perfect moonstone still has a great appeal to him.

But it is not possible to go deeper now. Although he seems to have not stayed underground for a long time, he has actually been underground for 30 hours. Shaimi and Tailebagos have both woken up after a nap.

It’s better to go up and reorganize now and prepare for the battle later.

When he was about to go out, Bai Zhen suddenly thought of the Roentgen cat perspective mirror that he had just unlocked not long ago.

"Since we are going out anyway, let's take a look at what else is deeper inside."

Wearing the Roentgen Cat perspective glasses, Bai Zhen turned on the maximum power of the glasses. His lightning eyes penetrated the base layer and looked several kilometers deeper.

Further down is the middle lunar mantle. Even if there are mineral veins below, they are similar to the upper lunar mantle.

Just when Bai Zhen was about to leave in disappointment, he suddenly scanned an area that actually interfered with the perspective effect of the perspective mirror.

This was the first time Bai Zhen encountered this. Bai Zhen raised his hand-cranked drill and moved towards that side.

After digging to the area, Bai Zhen discovered that it was a cave in the moon's mantle.

Caves are quite common in the moon mantle, and he has dug up seven or eight caves along the way.

After entering here, Bai Zhen asked Xie Mi to use flash, and he was instantly shocked by the beautiful scenery in front of him.

The walls of this cave seem to be inlaid with a starry sky!
Under the light, the walls are full of bright spots like stars!

"What a nice view."

Xie Mi and Taile Bagos, who were originally exhausted, couldn't help but perk up when they saw this scene.

They were also amazed by this beautiful scene.

Bai Zhen approached the rock wall and looked carefully at the source of the light. The glowing object was a kind of mineral.

Bai Zhen knocked off a small piece and placed it on the palm of his hand.

A relevant introduction appeared in Bai Zhen’s mind.

【? ? Lv.3 (B-grade gem): A gem born on the moon, it has a very high refractive index. When exposed to strong light, it will emit a soft, star-like light, which is extremely beautiful. Because of the harsh conditions of its birth, it is almost impossible to replicate it artificially. Carrying it with you can reflect external electromagnetic fields. 】

Seeing the name, Bai Zhen took a deep breath.

The question mark in the name is not because it cannot be identified, but because this gem has never been discovered before! He is the first person in the world to discover this gem!
Bai Zhen suppressed his excitement. He looked around at the gemstone reserves in the cave. The gemstones were scattered very sparsely, and the reserves were not large, maybe only 300 grams.

Bai Zhen mined carefully, taking the gems one by one.

During the mining process, Bai Zhen discovered that each of these rough gemstones was only about 5 carats (1 gram = 5 carats).

There are a lot of these 5-carat gemstone rough stones, accounting for 70% of the total.

稍大一点的10克拉占16%，15克拉占9%，20克拉占4%，25克拉以上就更少了，只有1%而已。

Rough gemstones weighing more than 25 carats have reached grade 7 and are considered grade A gemstones.

Yet, such a small gem can emit dazzling light like the stars in the night sky.

Together, the stones weigh more than 362 grams (1810 carats).

The colors of the gems also vary, some are light white, some are gray, and some are dark black.

The pale white gem emits a soft glow, the gray one is much dimmer, and the dark black gem does not emit light, but under strong light you can see many stars dotted inside. After exposure, even if you turn off the light source, you can still see the stars for about seven or eight minutes.

After putting away the gems on the wall, Bai Zhen looked at the ceiling of the cave.

On both sides of the ceiling, there are two of the most shining gems, which he deliberately saved for last.

Bai Zhen carefully took out the two rough gemstones.

Holding them in his hands, Bai Zhen was shocked by them again.

Both gems are level 10!
It is a well-deserved S-level gem!
A gemstone is pale white and emits the brightest light. After polishing the surface and then looking carefully at the inside, you will find many tiny luminous particles floating inside.

The other gem is dark black and does not emit any light. But after polishing the surface and then irradiating it with strong light, the galaxy inside is fully activated!

Among the gems mined by Bai Zhen, there is also a 27-carat A+ grade dark black gemstone. The number of stars inside the gem can be roughly counted, perhaps 70 luminous bodies. However, this S-grade black gemstone contains thousands of luminous bodies, if not hundreds.

Bai Zhen weighed the two rough gemstones. The pale white one was 38 carats, and the dark black one was 39 carats.

"The rough stone is already so beautiful. What will happen if it is polished into a gem?"

There will be some loss when polishing a raw stone into a gemstone. Bai Zhen estimates that the loss is around 40%, which is normal.

Looking at the two gems, Bai Zhen gave them nice names.

"Since it was first discovered on the moon, let's call it the Jade Rabbit Stone."

There are obviously differences in Jade Rabbit Stone. The two extremes, which are also the best Jade Rabbit Stone, are light white and dark black.

In order to distinguish them, Bai Zhen named the pale white Jade Rabbit Stone "Polar Day" and the dark black one "Polar Night".

After getting the two gems, Bai Zhen also knew what gifts to give to Huoya and Shuiyun when he returned.

These unique gems from the moon dug from underground are all great gifts.

For example, the moonlight peridot is a great souvenir, and the jade rabbit stone is a unique gem in the world!
(End of this chapter)