Treehouse.
"Jiang Jiang, people from Hope Base have already infiltrated the Hundred Thousand Mountains. We've been deliberately overlooking them, allowing them to move freely through the mountains.
But lately, those guys have been lingering around Longshan.
They're carrying some kind of huge instrument and have been using it to detect something. I estimate they're close to finding the exact location..."
A crow with a red streamer tied to its leg landed on the windowsill. Lord Yan Chi removed the message tube from its ankle.
Red was the color of Black Moon Village's crows. In Tingfeng City, every village had its own color, while Tingfeng City's color was black.
"Black Moon Village sent word that they rescued two seriously injured, unconscious people in the mountains this morning. Those people claimed to be survivors who had come in from outside.
"But the shaman doctor from Black Moon Village found traces of black ore powder on them. They suspect the two must have been to Spirit Snake Peak."
Not long after arriving from Chen Family Village, they had begun using queen man-eating ants to breed man-eating ants on a massive scale.
That was when Jiang You learned why Chen Nan had previously said that Chen Family Village had not appeared after the black ore. Rather, wherever Chen Family Village was, black ore would be there.
Chen Family Village used an extremely complicated method to process the feces of mutated man-eating ants. When the excrement accumulated in one place, it produced a miraculous reaction that gradually mineralized the surrounding soil and stones, eventually forming black ore.
So-called black ore was actually transformed from the excrement of man-eating ants.
Now, halfway up Spirit Snake Peak, there was a black ore vein that had only recently begun to take shape.
Normally, specially assigned people mined black