At 4:30 p.m. Witch Time, the weather in Greenfield Oasis was impossible to predict. One second, the sky was blue with white clouds and blazing sunshine; the next, golden sand and gravel blanketed the heavens, milky-white fine sand forming enormous waves in the air as countless flowers were swept into the sky. Yet, strangely, plants and grass continued to sprout from the piles of sand.
Jiang Han and the witch group, who had come to watch the witches pan for gold, had no choice but to borrow a camp vehicle from the witches and park it nearby. They then used the equipment provided in the vehicle to assemble a simple power generator and set up a sandproof barrier before they could continue working.
The witches' gold-panning methods were rather old-fashioned. First, they dug holes in the ground until they reached the bottom layer of sand—the green, dry grassland beneath.
Then they connected a water flow and fitted fine mesh screens and strainers over the water inlet.
That way, a gold-digging pit that filtered out sand and water was complete. The witches then picked up their tools and dredged up the silt and muddy sand settled on the riverbed, loading it into the pit to let the water and sand seep through.
Under normal gold-panning procedures, they would still have needed to rub and wash it.
But as a species capable of spellcasting, the witches used filters that could even strain stones and mud down into the pit, leaving only gold behind in the mesh.
After watching for a few seconds, Jiang Han walked over to Cui Yiqi, who had already dug a hole and was pulling out several clumps of earth, and asked:
"Can you really pan for gold like this?"
Miss Cui reacted swiftly, turning her head left and