Chapter 248: My Goodness! A Large Piece of Lantian Jade!
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Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
If it appeared on the surface of the land, it would mean that the quantity must be incredibly large. However, when he looked around, there were no other treasure markers in sight. So, was this the only piece of jade?
After a few seconds of contemplation, Luo Feng’s excitement turned into calmness.
“Luo Feng, did you find anything?” Li Shishi was the first to approach.
Su Meiji also came over, curious to see what he had found.
“Damn! Is this just a rock?” “Why is the host constantly digging up rocks today?”
“Did he hit a rock nest?”
“First there’s Sun Wukong, and now there’s his descendantsO! There’s just so many goddamn rocks!”
“Hahaha! Who knows, these rocks might be his uncles!”
Luo Feng weighed the rock in his hand; it was not very heavy, and indeed it was a non-metallic mineral. He turned it over and saw a faint greenish hue covering an area about the size of a fingernail. The color was not very distinct, very faint.
He took out the knife he wore at his waist and gently tapped it a few times, producing a crisp, resounding sound. “Hehe, everyone, look. This is not an ordinary rock; it’s jade,” Luo Feng said with a smile.
“What? Jade?”
“Host, I have not read many books, so do not deceive me. Where does this look like jade?”
“Jade? So, is this like the raw jadeite from the novels?”
Luo Feng pointed at the greenish area on the rock’s surface, “Look carefully here; it has turned green. How could it not be jade? And if you want to know how much jade there is, it’s simple – just cut it open!” With that, Luo Feng raised his knife and struck.
With a clang, the stone was split in two. It was an excellent knife.
“Is it really jade?” Su Meiji immediately became excited. As a new member, her excitement was entirely understandable. Although she had seen Luo Feng dig up even more impressive treasures in the livestream, that was only as a viewer behind a screen. Right now, she was an actual participating member, and as such, it was normal to experience different emotions over it.
“There’s jade? It’s so green! Greener than Bao Qiang!”
“Hahaha! Warning from a lawyer’s letter!”
“What kind of jade is this? Imperial green?”
“You fool, where do you think there are so many imperial greens? Have you read too many novels?”
Of course, Luo Feng did not know what kind of jade it was, but the system valued it at 3,000 yuan, so it probably was not a very high-quality jade. “It’s not worth much, maybe just a few thousand yuan at most. Don’t get too excited!”
Luo Feng said before turning to look at Li Shishi and Su Meiji. “Who wants it?”
“Give it to Miss Su. Let it be a small gift for the new member!” Li Shishi thought for a moment and made this decision. The reason was simple — because this was a girl Luo Feng cared about. If she were to compete with her and make Luo Feng angry, she would have no chance of winning him over.
“New member, accept this little gift!” Luo Feng handed it over, and Su Meiji graciously accepted it without any pretense. For such small items worth a few thousand yuan, Luo Feng usually gave them away on the spot.
“Scan again!”
“Use a Level 1 scan!” After leaving the area of the previous scan, Luo Feng activated his cheat again. Disappointingly, only about a dozen treasure markers appeared in this area.
“It’s almost time to end the stream today!” Since the broadcast was about to end, Luo Feng did not want to waste a high-level scan.
As such, he decided to just explore a smaller area before calling it a day. “Is the broadcast ending already? We haven’t found anything!”
“Exactly, it seems like Old Luo never finds anything good on the first day of his streams!”
“That’s why, as an old fan, I only start paying attention from the second day onwards!”
“Hahaha, have you figured out the trick?”
“Old Luo, wouldn’t it be a slap in his face if you suddenly found a treasure worth billions? Smack him dead!”
“Don’t provoke Luo. Treasures are a matter of chance, and the host may not find them even if he wants to!”
Ding.
An energy drink. Ding.
Insect repellent!
[ Ding! You’ve dug up an Encyclopedia of Gemstones! ]
[ Click to learn, and you’ll be well-versed in all gemstones, without exception! ]
Haha. What a coincidence. He had just thought about obtaining such an item, and here it was. Luo Feng quickly clicked on “learn,” and soon, all the experience of identifying gemstones appeared in his mind. It was as if he had read thousands of books.
Moreover, in his mind’s recollection, he had identified tens of thousands of gemstones. Reflecting on the jade he had just found, it was a very ordinary piece of jade. Finding it on the surface of the land was quite normal.
Often, such mineral deposits were the result of a chance event. If jade could be found on the surface, it could mean that there were large deposits of jade underneath. However, this was not absolute; it could only be said that there was a high probability of it occurring.
“There are too many rocks in the mountains!”
“No more Sun Wukongs, please! I can’t take it anymore!”
“Let’s go deeper into the mountains and see! The treasures in the Qinling
Mountains are really much rarer than those in the southern mountains!”
With a clang, Luo Feng dug for a while at a treasure marker and found something.
“Ding! Jade! Its value is 4,500 yuan!”
Seeing this, Luo Feng’s expression remained indifferent. Now that he was familiar with various gemstone identification methods, he knew that this was another individual piece of jade on the surface.
There were a few possibilities for such jade to appear. First, there could be a nearby river that had washed some jade deposits to this location. Another possibility was the movement of the Earth’s crust, which had brought the jade to the surface. As for its larger family? It could have gone deeper underground and disappeared…
The third possibility was that someone had left it there.
However…
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