"What?! D City has a diamond mine?!" Shen Jin shouted.
Zhu Dan covered his ears in pain. "Why're you yelling so loud?! There's a diamond mine in Wafangdian, D City. Who doesn't know that? What's so surprising?"
Shen Jin realized he had lost his composure. To other people, diamonds might just be pretty gemstones.
Even before the apocalypse, their value had been endlessly debated. Some believed diamonds were a scam, their prices inflated by hype. They lost half their value the moment you bought them and were nowhere near as good as gold.
Others, mostly women, flocked to diamonds, believing they were the most beautiful things in the world and a symbol of love. Take that brand's hugely popular pre-apocalypse slogan:
A diamond ring a man could buy only once in his lifetime.
Truly the marketing campaign of the year!
Shen Jin had never had much of an opinion on the matter, because he hadn't even had a girlfriend before the apocalypse.
But now! Shen Jin desperately needed diamonds in bulk. They could be used to craft tools, weapons, armor, and energy crystals!
With his Minecraft system, Shen Jin didn't care whether diamonds looked pretty. All he knew was that they were the hardest naturally occurring substance!
"Well, uh! I'm not a D City local, and I never paid attention to that sort of news. Could you tell me more?"
Zhu Dan had already shot out a strand of webbing, but now he reeled it back in.
"All right. Wafangdian has China's largest primary diamond deposit, and it's also the largest known diamond mine in Asia. Its total reserves account for half the country's, with an estimated two hundred thousand carats or more, enough for thirty years of mining. It's been about ten years by now, right? There should still