[Understanding this World. A New Life Begins!]
What are we going to do here anyway?
We walked towards the outskirt of the town and heading straight ahead to the mountain area where a few caves could be seen from far away. Then, this friend of mine starts to talk as he sees my confused looking face. Well, this is my first time to walk out from the town after I had been reincarnated into this world anyway.
"Listen here, My name is Han Li, we are friends since we are young until now. Both of us are orphans, we have no parents nor inheritance behind our back, so after we left the Plum Village, we both travel quite far until we reached this town known as the Ling Hun Town (Spirit Town)."
"The place we are heading now is known as the Ling Hun Crystal Cave. There is a small Crystal Vein deep within this cave, so a good amount of Spirit Crystal could be mined and sold to the people in Ling Hun Town for some money. What is with your blank expression? You don't even remember how the money looks like in our world? My god!"
"Look, this is the money I still have in my pocket." Han Li opened one of the compartment on his waist belt and withdraw three pieces of small Black Crystal to let me have a look. The Black Crystal possesses a special kind of energy that causes it to not staying still on Han Li's palm, and these small crystals are being treated as the currency in use between cities and its population.
Brother Han Li, what could we get from mining in this cave? If the Black Crystal is so easily mined, then why not everyone come to mine instead of looking for a job?
"You are really having a brain damage this time huh? No wonder you could speak out of sudden after being friends for more than twenty years! Listen here! The crystals we are mining here is not those black crystals, but the Red Power Crystal and Green Physical Crystal. This is a Red and Green Veins, so only this two kind of crystals are produced."
"Come, we should quickly go in and starts to mine now, or else we are really going to be hungry for tonight again." unexpectedly, from that small compartment within Han Li's waist, two Pickaxe in their low quality and effectiveness is withdrawn, as Han Li throw one to me and urge me to start mining. Firstly, I take a few minutes of looking at him in how to notice and find the crystals.
It seems like with each tap on the rock, a colour will appears if there is any Crystal behind that surface. After learning this trick from Han Li, I begin to start mining for the crystals. I tapped and tapped for quite a long time, but regrettably, I only managed to obtained two Red Power Crystals after tapping and clawing the rocks for about half an hour.
I looked at Han Li's current condition. Although he is much more skilful, from the look of the cloth pouch on his shoulder, it seems that Han Li managed to get around seven crystals so far. Since I am a reincarnated beings, I should have some superpower, am I correct?
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Brother Han Li, what is this Crystal is used for? Could we use it ourselves?
"You are asking me this stuff in the middle of working? You are really giving me a headache. Like its name, the Red Power Crystal increase the strength of our body when we absorb it into our body. The Green Physical Crystal increase your body capability, and so forth. There are many kinds of crystals could be found in the world, that's what I heard from those shopkeepers, but since our life is more difficult, why would we use it on ourselves and suffer a day or two of hunger for it?"
"Five pieces of Red Power Crystals or Green Physical Crystals could be exchanged into a single Black Spirit Crystals. A Black Spirit Crystal could be used to purchase five Buns from the shop, or two Black Spirit Crystals could be used to purchase a Lower Grade 10 Pickaxe from the Blacksmith. More Black Spirit Crystals will be required if we wished to buy a small hut, like five hundred of them." Han Li explains as he continues to taps on the rock.
I hesitate for a moment, before I put what he said into consideration. If what Han Li says is true, that means selling the crystals directly would be better instead of using it ourselves. But is that the truth? Brother Han Li seems like someone simple and straightforward, If this information is twisted in order for the higher ups to obtains the most benefits, that means we are being treated like a mining slave instead, and having to suffer poverty from the moment we are born!
Since this is how the life is arranged, for now, I will go ahead and see where could I find a chance to get out from this situation. I put in more effort into my mining and by the end of the day, I leave the Ling Hun Crystal Cave with a total of eleven Red Power Crystals and six Green Physical Crystals in my waist belt. This waist belt is so magical. The four compartments could be used to store a good amount of items until it is full, but in return of the magical qualities, I received a good mobility in my movement.
We went back to the Ling Hun Town, and I exchanged ten Red and five Green Crystals for a total of three Black Spirit Coins. We turned around and walked over to a shop that sells quite a delicious bun as recommended by Han Li, and for the cost of two Black Spirit Crystals, I purchased a total of ten buns to be eaten in the period of three days.
"You want to return to the Ling Hun Crystal Cave?" Han Li is slightly shocked with my words, but since he has no comment on what I wanted to do at night, he could only say "Be very careful, rest more if you could because at night, sometimes there would be some Wild Beast that will attack the traveller or miner when they are less cautious on their surrounding."
After I listened to his advice, I walked out from the alleyway we used to sleep, and quickly make my way to the Cave without delay. Like in the morning time, we took about an hour to reach the cave from the Ling Hun Town, but since this time I am travelling by myself, I reached the cave in forty minutes. I entered the cave and return to the spot where I stopped mining earlier and continue to mine once again.
It's felt like I am addicted to this kind of life because, at the very least, I have a motive to continue living within this world for now. But this time, in additionally, I want to try to excel in it, so I took out the two remaining crystals within my waist belt and tried to absorb it into my body. By putting the crystal on my forehead, the small hint of Strength came into my body without any obstruction, and although it is a minuscule amount, I could felt some strength grows within my body.
the same felt when I put the Green Physical Crystal on my forehead as well, with the only difference is instead of feeling stronger, I felt more energetic instead, like the body gain a small point of stamina for me to work harder. It seems like if I used the crystals in a large amount, it would help in strengthening myself. I wonder will there be anything else outside of this small town that could really make my life become more adventurous as I imagined.
"Taking Action is better than thinking!" I make up my mind as I begin to tap the pickaxe on the rock continuously, with a wish to obtains more crystals before I return to the town in the morning. without even noticing the time, the sun rises and a large number of Miners slowly came into the cave and starts to mine, as the cave starts to become even livelier because of all the chattering and murmuring of the miners in each of their tunnels.
Seems like I already continuously mine the crystals for around eight to ten hours already, I should stop by now and return to the town with this results. I happily walk away from the cave, with a total of 57 Red Power Crystals and 43 Green Physical Crystals. On the way back to the town, I absorbed two of the Red Power Crystals, and three of the Green Physical Crystals, and exchange the remaining crystals for a total of 18 Black Spirit Crystals, and currently holding 19 Black Spirit Crystals in hand.