I am farming in the real world.

Chapter 312 The Heart of Green Chalcedony

Looking at the group of iron golems who came to claim credit, Chen Jue's face showed a long-lost joy.

Besides eyeing the copper mine development, what he was most interested in after making this long trip to Africa to open a branch base was the newly discovered chrysoprase ore in Tanzania, which could serve as a substitute for emeralds.

After all, in order to gather enough Emeralds to trade with the villagers of MC, he had specially opened an underground tunnel from Rui County to Myanmar in search of Imperial Green Jade.

But that thing is, after all, a world-class top-tier jewel, and even if you searched all over the underground of Myanmar, the amount of it in existence would be extremely low.

The discovery of these green chalcedony mines in Tanzania gave Chen Jue new hope.

Leaving aside other Minecraft items and materials for now, the Nether Heart, which is used to craft the Minecraft Beacon, is one of the essential emerald items he must redeem.

Based on the previous 404 error messages from attempts to 'open the door,' the beacon, which is usually just a decorative item in the Minecraft game, is now a necessary prerequisite for opening the portal to Hell on Earth.

Although he didn't know which modder had come up with this crazy idea, Chen Jue had no choice but to bite the bullet and go for it in order to get to the Nether.

Fortunately, the abundance of underground green chalcedony in Tanzania gave Chen Jue a very pleasant surprise!

The first batch of green chalcedony ore alone amounted to as many as 2000 sets x 64.

To this end, Chen Jue specially excavated an entire floor in the newly established underground branch base in the Democratic Republic of Congo to house a large number of [furnaces] for refining ore.

Then, by right-clicking to enter the [Furnace] interface, the [Green Chalcedony Ore] was placed in batches on the Infinite Magma Barrel for purification and refining.

Looking at the orange-red pixel flames burning on the [Furnace], Chen Jue's eyes showed a mixture of anxiety and expectation.

However, the refining process of this batch of [green chalcedony ore] still made Chen Jue gasp.

In order to extract the emerald component, he replaced the lava bucket in the furnace one after another.

It wasn't until all 100 sets of [Green Chalcedony Ore] raw materials were consumed that the first pixelated green gem that felt somewhat familiar to him was finally extracted from the [Furnace] interface!
"This yield is outrageous! It takes 100 batches to extract just one complete green chalcedony heart?"

"Wouldn't it require digging up hundreds of thousands of sets to gather enough currency for villagers to trade?"

Chen Jue took out the freshly refined green chalcedony, and related prompts and information automatically appeared in his vision.

[Heart of Green Chalcedony: An item, a green gem refined from a large quantity of raw ore, which can be used to replace MC emeralds and trade with villagers and wandering merchants for rare items.]

Of course, with the appearance of this first product that could replace the Emerald, that idiot Shang somehow caught wind of it and started to show his true colors.

"Boss! Can I take a look?" the big-nosed old merchant asked timidly.

Upon seeing this, Chen Jue immediately tossed the [Heart of Green Chalcedony] to the other party with disdain.

As a result, after this idiot took the green gemstone, his eyes started to glow with a green light, and he rubbed the gemstone back and forth with both hands, which made Chen Jue feel a chill.

"Alright! Stop getting all worked up over a single gem! Get those idiots moving on to large-scale mining; we're just waiting to trade for some good stuff." Chen Jue couldn't help but kick the other man.

"Received, boss!" The old merchant reluctantly handed over the [Heart of Green Chalcedony], and then eagerly organized his men to take the newly built minecart route to Tanzania for mining.

According to the other party's estimate, it would take at least ten days to half a month to extract an array of "Emerald Cubes" that could replace the nine-in-one combination from this low-content green chalcedony.

So Chen Jue took advantage of his free time to both supervise the mining operations at the branch base and visit the hometown that Batum had mentioned. ...

In northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on the edge of a tropical rainforest near Uganda.

A primitive village called Tratum has been visited by a group of uninvited guests today.

Several military jeeps painted in camouflage led the way, followed by more than a dozen sleek container trucks that rolled over the muddy dirt road.

The arrival of the convoy caused a stir in the primitive village.

A dozen or so elderly and middle-aged Black men, armed with various old-fashioned hunting rifles and dressed in all sorts of clothes, ran out of the village, looking warily at the advanced convoy with machine guns mounted, exuding an air of "I'm not to be messed with."

The atmosphere between the two sides became tense for a time.

However, when the elderly village chief, dressed in military uniform, got out of the lead jeep and led his men to communicate with the villagers guarding the village in the local dialect, the chief immediately smiled in surprise. He put away his hunting rifle, blew a whistle, and called out all the villagers, women, and children who had been hiding.

“Boss! Everything’s been taken care of. Village Chief Ritter is my uncle. He’s the one who calls the shots for miles around here,” Batum said in French, with Old Shang providing real-time translation.

Chen Jue, who got off the truck behind, took a close look at the primitive village with only 200 people.

Seeing that these villagers were all emaciated, even the women and children looked frail, it was clear that they had suffered from long-term malnutrition.

So Chen Jue waved his hand and had the employees of the Magic Cube Group who came with him unload bags of cassava starch from the first truck.

Cassava is one of the most important staple foods in the Democratic Republic of Congo and even throughout Africa, with most African tribes relying on it as their primary food source.

Because cassava is a short-day tropical crop that thrives in sunny and hot conditions, it originated in South America and was introduced to Africa during the Age of Exploration in the Middle Ages, where it was adapted and domesticated, making it very suitable for the local climate.

If you go to some of the poorer parts of Africa, you might even find a food culture where people wrap cassava flour in mud to make 'mud cakes'.

Of course, Chen Jue's tactic of using grain to win people's hearts drew cheers from the entire village of Tratum.

In particular, Batum, who was in charge of communication, ignited the atmosphere of the entire room after explaining the purpose of the Rubik's Cube Group's visit.

The villagers sang and danced with the employees of the Magic Cube Group, and even Chen Jue himself joined in, experiencing the hula dance of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Once the party ended, the dozen or so container trucks and hundreds of employees from the Magic Cube Group that had accompanied them began to split up and take action.

Some were responsible for drilling new wells for the village, some for setting up solar power grids, and others were driving construction vehicles to compact and harden the roads inside and outside the village.

A small team of mining professionals were also following Battum to sample the medium-grade copper ore he had mentioned.

In short, the arrival of the Cube Group brought a touch of modern civilization to Trattum.

However, this harmonious scene did not last long.

Four days later, a heavily armed group of insurgents followed the tracks left by the convoy and reached the outskirts of Trattum.

A potential battle for resources is inevitable!

(End of this chapter)