Chapter 410 - 406: Questions

Chapter 410: Chapter 406: Questions

Luo Hongyi couldn’t laugh for long under Gu Nuan Nuan’s displeased gaze. He stopped, stroking her hair as he spoke in a low voice, "It’s alright. When I pass by there again, I’ll figure out a way to clean up the little loose ends you left behind. And while I’m at it, I’ll find out the real safe routes in and out of those mines." ’Looks like I’ll also have to get Nuannuan a detailed map of Nan’an Country’s terrain,’ he thought to himself.

Gu Nuan Nuan blinked. Not thinking too much about it, she just assumed Luo Hongyi’s goal was the route map and said nonchalantly, "Whether you get that route map or not doesn’t really matter anymore."

Then she started to smile. "If it weren’t for this twist of fate, if I had taken their existing safe route, I never would have found a gold mine, let alone run into you all. You know, the gold mine I found has some pretty massive Gold reserves. Here, it’s right nearby. Let’s head over in a bit and put all the refined Gold into your storage ring first."

"A gold mine?" Luo Hongyi was astounded. "Your luck is something else. But how could you find it without any detection equipment?" ’The gold mine couldn’t possibly have been exposed on the surface,’ he thought.

"I can pick out winning stones every single time when I’m stone gambling, so what’s so hard about finding one little gold mine? But as for my method... that’s a secret. I’m not telling you." Gu Nuan Nuan turned her head away willfully.

"Alright, alright. If you don’t want to tell me, then you don’t have to." Luo Hongyi sounded helpless, his tone like he was coaxing a child. If Nuannuan wanted to talk, he would listen. If she didn’t, he felt she should be allowed her own secrets and had no desire to force her. So he said good-naturedly, "Let’s go. Time to collect the Gold. I’ll take a tour of your gold mine while we’re at it. You’re a real gold baroness now. If I don’t stick closer to you, the loss would be too great."

Luo Hongyi saw nothing wrong with letting Gu Nuan Nuan claim ownership of the gold mine she had discovered.

It was a gold mine, yes, and it was in Nan’an Country’s territory. But who else but his Nuannuan had been skilled enough to find it? Since she discovered it, it was naturally hers. Besides, it wasn’t as if she lacked the ability to quietly excavate it, right? As for Nan’an Country, that "petty villain" that was always scheming against their Alliance from the shadows, he felt there was nothing wrong with Nuannuan coming over to dig up their resources.

On the contrary, he thought it was great that she was excavating Nan’an Country’s gold mine. The very thought was incredibly satisfying.

He gave Gu Nuan Nuan a meaningful look. ’Based on my understanding of her,’ he mused, ’since Nuannuan has this ability to detect veins with her naked eye, the fact that she came all this way to Nan’an Country probably means she couldn’t bear to excavate the resources within our own Alliance, right?’

This thought made him smile even more cheerfully.

’First Jade, now Gold... It seems Nuannuan is destined to be much wealthier than me in this life. My own little bit of money is nothing in comparison. From now on, I don’t need to bother myself with making money anymore. I’d be better off spending that time and effort recalling as many advanced Weapons from the future as I can and handing them over to specialized researchers to study...’

’Isn’t any one of those things far more important than money? I can’t have been reborn for nothing, can I? There are still so, so many things I can do in this life—’

"The gold mine I found is mine, of course," Gu Nuan Nuan huffed. Luo Hongyi couldn’t help but laugh again, replying, "Yes, yes, yes. It’s all yours."

"Good, you know your place. You didn’t make a fuss." Gu Nuan Nuan was satisfied with Luo Hongyi’s attitude. "To be honest with you, my dream right now is to use the time before we get married to travel the world and hunt for treasure. Of course, I’m not that ambitious. For any mines I discover in the future, unless it’s something I need, I won’t take everything. Even if I could, I can’t really do that, right? But this mine is an exception. Who can blame me when it’s so close and happens to be a gold mine? Gold is hard currency. It’s never wrong to leave a little more of something so practical for our future children. So, if we need some in the future, we can come back here and grab some from time to time."

She thought about the satisfaction she’d felt these past few days, mining and watching piles of gold bricks stack up. Then she considered what Luo Hongyi had just said about buying shares and investing in other people’s future profitable companies. Gu Nuan Nuan suddenly realized that the ideas she had discussed with Cao Cao—about running one company herself, then creating a puppet to run another—were just... too much trouble. ’People are incredibly difficult to control,’ she thought. ’Even having been reborn once, I’ve never been cut out for that kind of thing.’

’She and Cao Cao had been overthinking things, getting too bogged down in the details. Besides, if she really had that kind of High-Level puppet, she could just have the puppet do whatever needed to be done. And if not, should something really happen, didn’t she still have her uncle and Luo Hongyi? Which one of them didn’t have people at their command? The chances that she would actually need to train a whole new group of people herself were slim. It was completely unnecessary.’

At this thought, her entire body relaxed.

"Does this mean you won’t be going back anytime soon?" Luo Hongyi asked, taken aback. "Then how will I contact you? And can you tell me what kind of ores you need? Maybe I’ll come across some when I’m on a mission and can keep an eye out for you."

"Spirit Stones." Gu Nuan Nuan straightforwardly took out top quality, High Level, mid-level, and low-level Spirit Stones to show Luo Hongyi. Luo Hongyi stared intently, mesmerized by the incomparably beautiful stones that seemed otherworldly. "I’ve never seen this kind of gem before. Its beauty is unreal. If it were made into jewelry, it would look amazing on you."

"These are Spirit Stones! Spirit Stones! They’re not some kind of gem for making jewelry." Gu Nuan Nuan put the stones away and explained, "Spirit Stones are actually a type of energy stone. In the Cultivation World, they can be used not only as currency but also for Cultivation to improve one’s cultivation level, and even for Array Formation. They have many uses. In short, they are extremely precious."

"The Cultivation World?" Luo Hongyi was dumbfounded, completely clueless as to what Gu Nuan Nuan was talking about. But before he could ask for details, the two of them arrived at the entrance to the gold mine. Not noticing his confusion, Gu Nuan Nuan led him directly through the Array and straight into the mine shaft. "See? This Array, like the one by the creek, was also set up by me using an Array Plate. But to activate an Array Plate, you need to embed Spirit Stones inside. Once the energy in the Spirit Stones is depleted, the Array will fail."

Luo Hongyi could only suppress his doubts for the moment and follow Gu Nuan Nuan down. The further he went, the more shocked he became. He saw a mine shaft dug extremely deep into the ground, alongside haphazard piles of perfectly square, refined gold bricks. At the same time, his confusion grew even stronger.

He finally couldn’t hold back his questions. "Nuannuan, did you dig all this? But how did you excavate such hard rock? The refining... I can understand you must have used that domineering fire of yours, but how did you also manage to mold the Gold directly into the shape of bricks? Also, why did you dig the mine shaft straight down? And most importantly, what do you mean by ’the Cultivation World’?"