Both of them were disappointed at first sight. The bandit didn't dig out the original stone at all, and her Black Death Demon only dug up a strange thing.

"What is this?" Chu Jun looked at the things in the pit, his eyes full of doubts.

Li Xiu was also looking at the thing, but he didn't see what it was.

The Black Death Devil had just dug a hole that was more than three meters deep. Inside, there was a red spherical object about the same size as a large yoga ball used by women to practice yoga.

The spherical object was not an artificial material, and its surface was covered with something like scales, but those scales looked more like metal.

It could be said that it was a demon spirit. None of the people sensed the aura of the demon spirit on it. Chu Jun had inspiration skills. If it really was a demon spirit, he should have discovered it early on.

If it's not a demon, then what is this? A new species undiscovered on earth? Or is it something created by humans?

The bandit directed the Black Death Demon to move the things out. The three of them looked at it carefully for a while, but they couldn't figure out the reason.

There are no gaps on the ball, which first rules out the possibility that something has shrunk into a ball.

They have never heard of any creature that can grow scales on its eggs, and to lay such a big egg, how big of a creature would it be possible? Even if the dinosaurs were resurrected, it was hard to say whether they could lay such a big egg.

"Is it an artificial thing? Who would make such a thing? What's the use of burying it here?" Chu Jun touched the scales of the thing and felt nothing at all. The texture was almost the same as normal metal.

"Do you think this could be a fruit?" the bandit said thoughtfully.

"Fruit? What kind of fruit can grow so deep underground?" Chu Jun felt that the bandit was just having a whim.

"Maybe my expression is wrong. What I mean is, could this be a plant, like a lotus root buried in the mud, a potato or a sweet potato or something like that?" A bandit explained.

"Then you have to cut it open and take a look." Chu Jun thought it was impossible. Someone's fruit had a metal shell on the outside, and it also had scales.

After studying it for a long time, I still couldn't figure out what it was, so I finally decided to cut it open and take a look.

The three people ran far away and hid behind a big stone. Chu Jun controlled the dark blue knight and struck the metal ball on the ground with a sword.

There was just a clang sound, and the metal ball was thrown away by the Dark Blue Knight's sword, but it was not damaged.

"It's so hard, it seems like it's not a fruit." Chu Jun was talking when he suddenly saw the thing moving on its own.

The scales on the outside of the metal ball folded and shrank piece by piece, quickly revealing what was inside.

There are still the same scales inside. When the outermost scales fold and shrink to the bottom of the sphere, the second layer of scales also begins to fold and shrink downwards.

Layer after layer, this thing is like an onion. The scales are peeled off layer by layer, but the same scale structure is still inside.

"It has more than ten layers, right? Why does this thing have more layers than an onion? What on earth is it?" Chu Jun stared at the metal ball, which was already about the same size as a blue ball, and said with a strange expression.

"If I knew what it was, I wouldn't hide here." Li Xiu said, staring at the thing.

The metal scales peeled off several more layers, and the scales folded and accumulated layer by layer below formed a column, which looked like a pineapple. The sphere on top continued to peel off scales.

Finally, after the last layer of scales folded down, the three people were surprised to find that inside the layers of scales was a translucent white sphere the size of a fist, like jelly.

The bandit suddenly seemed to have thought of something, pointed at the thing and said: "I remembered, I thought this thing looked like fruit just now. Do you think this thing looks like a large lychee, but the outer skin is thicker?

What’s inside is its pulp.”

When the bandit said this, Li Xiu and Chu Jun really felt a bit similar, except that this guy had thicker skin and less flesh. After peeling off such a big thing layer by layer, only fist-sized pulp was left.

"This thing can't really be a fruit, can it?" Chu Jun swallowed.

"You'll know if you try it," Li Xiu said with a smile.

"How to taste it? Who knows if that thing is a fruit? Even if it is a fruit, what if it is poisonous?" Chu Jun is not stupid, how can he taste it?

Between the three of us, you look at me and I look at you. No one dares to be the first to eat crabs.

After waiting for a while, no danger was found. The three people walked out from behind the big rock and came to look around the thing.

"Here, there's the sweet smell of fruit here. Could it really be a fruit?" Chu Jun came closer and smelled it, and immediately shouted.

Li Xiu also smelled it, nodded and said: "It really has a sweet taste like lychee, and it seems to be mixed with the taste of pears and bananas. Maybe it is really an undiscovered fruit species. Do you want to try it?"

"Forget it, it's too risky. Let's continue mining. Is the demon spirit reliable? If we dig like this, if there is a ruby ​​mine in this valley, we should have dug it long ago." Chu Jundu said.

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No one dared to taste the thing. Li Xiu controlled the demon spirit and moved the thing to the corner next to him. Together with Bandit and the others, they continued to dig holes to find rubies.

Who knew that the ruby ​​​​did not be found, but soon the red ball was found again.

No rubies were found, but seven or eight red balls were found, which made the three of them a little depressed.

The shells of these red balls are indeed very hard, and Li Xiu plans to take them back to Ximen Official to see if they can be used as materials for magic equipment.

"It seems that we were most likely deceived by that unparalleled king. There is no ruby ​​mine in this poor place." Chu Jun was so tired just looking at the excavated stones that he slumped on the ground and said.

"That's not right. If the Unparalleled King is really that scheming, it must have had its own purpose in deceiving me to come here, and it should be good for it. What good can we do to it by digging a hole here? It can't be the case.

It wants to eat fruit, and you tricked me into coming here to dig out these fruits and bring them back to it?" Li Xiu felt that this shouldn't be the case.

"Then what do you think we should do? Keep digging?" Chu Jun said.

"Let's do this, get all the demon spirits here, and let's dig a big hole deep into it. If we don't get any results, then go back." Li Xiu also felt that the chance of digging out the ruby ​​​​was probably low.

Several people put the demons into a pit and dug down. Some dug, some transported the excavated earth and rocks, some picked up rocks, and some took out the garbage. These demons worked non-stop, sweating more than blood.

Factory employees still have to work hard.

Peng!

When the big pit was dug more than twenty meters deep, a black death demon's feet sank, as if he had stepped on empty space, and suddenly disappeared, only a hole appeared on the other side.

"No way, is there a cave demon here?" Li Xiu was shocked. After making sure that there was no problem with the nearby ground, he quickly came to the edge of the cave.

Looking down, I found that there was a tunnel-like passage extending to both sides at a depth of about two meters.

Li Xiu jumped down and looked at both ends of the passage, and was immediately startled.

I saw a huge creature writhing at one end of the passage. It looked like a giant earthworm, but it was covered in red scales and was constantly drilling holes.

"What's going on down there?" Chu Jun asked at the breach above.

Li Xiu quickly made a silent gesture, and then motioned for him and Bandit to come down together.

After Chu Jun and Bandit came down lightly, their expressions changed slightly when they saw the giant earthworm that was swallowing earth and rocks and drilling holes.

That thing is like a burrowing machine. Its lotus-like mouthparts continuously swallow earth and rocks, and then the earth and rocks are discharged from the hole at the rear end of the body, drilling holes very quickly.

That thing didn't seem to notice Li Xiu and the others, and kept drilling holes there.

Chu Jun quickly used his inspiration skills, and then lowered his voice and said to Li Xiu: "This thing is a demon spirit, its name is Stone Breaker, an A-level demon spirit. I guess there may be a gem mine here, but the

I’m afraid all the rubies have been filtered and swallowed by this thing, so we can’t dig out the rubies.”

Li Xiu thought so too, and was about to summon the Jedi Knights to kill it, but saw the stone crusher suddenly stopped.

The three of them thought that the stone crusher had discovered them, but who knew that after the stone crusher's body shook for a while, a red sphere squeezed out from another smaller hole at the back, and then continued to drill holes.

Li Xiu and the other three looked at each other, feeling sick for a while.

No matter how you look at it, the red ball looks like the excrement of the stone crusher after eating too much. Thinking that the three of them were so close and smelled it just now, and said that there was such a scent, I felt a little sick and wanted to vomit.

Li Xiu directly summoned a Jedi Knight and rushed forward. The Jedi Knight chased after the Stonebreaker's body and slashed out with a bloody slash, directly making a big hole in the Stonebreaker's body and almost breaking it into two.

Duan's body was still moving, and he was struggling to escape.

This demon spirit was very strange. Although its body was quite big, it was not good at fighting. The Jedi chased it and cut its body into sections. After a few cuts, this guy became completely motionless.

When the Stone Breaker struggled to escape, some of the tunnels it dug collapsed. The three people dug out all the collapsed earth and rocks, and then found a magic core inside its broken corpse.

That magic core is nothing, it's just an ordinary A-level magic core, it doesn't even have any quality.

But in addition to the magic core, they also found a ruby ​​inside the stonebreaker's body.

"Is this a ruby?" Chu Jun's eyes widened, looking at the crystal ball in front of him in disbelief that could be described as huge.

In fact, this crystal clear, seemingly devoid of any impurities, the ruby-like ball is only as big as a basketball.

But if it is really a ruby, it would not be an exaggeration to describe it as huge. Such a ruby ​​must weigh dozens of kilograms. Compared with rubies weighed in carats, it is a giant.

"It looks a bit like it, but I have never seen or heard of such a big ruby ​​and such a pure one." Li Xiu looked at the ruby ​​ball from a close distance and could not see any inclusions inside.

It's so pure that you can't believe it's a ruby.

"Let's get it back first. I don't know if there are any other stone crushers down here. If there are a few more of these, it is estimated that this ruby ​​mine will be almost finished, and it will be impossible to dig out rubies." Li Xiu was helpless.

said.

I thought I would finally make money, but unexpectedly it was all in vain.

Now he can only hope that there are no other stone crushers down there, and that the gem mine here has not been eaten up.

Li Xiu himself didn't plan to dig anymore, so he asked Sha Chu to find some professional prospectors or gem hunters to come over and take a look.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Xiu took those red balls back and asked Officer Ximen to test them to see what they were.

Although it is highly doubtful that these red balls are the excrement of Stonebreakers, the scale-like shell is more like metal, so it might be useful.

When Li Xiu held a ruby ​​ball that was slightly larger than a basketball and placed it in front of Ximen Guan, Ximen Guan took one look at it, frowned and said, "Why did you bring a glass ball over here?"

"What glass ball? This is a ruby." Li Xiu said.

"Ruby, are you sure?" Ximen Guan looked at the ruby ​​ball in disbelief. Even if it is a synthetic ruby, it is not easy to get such a large and clear one.

"You'll know if you test it." Li Xiuxin actually had no idea whether the ball on the stone crusher's body was actually a ruby.
To be continued...