Fang Er gazed at the mist rising from the ground, which indeed glowed with a faint golden hue under the sun's rays.
He then tried taking a gold ingot from the warehouse.
A ten-liang gold ingot should feel heavy in one's palm.
However, he only felt its weight at the moment of retrieval. The next moment, the gold in his hand lost its weight.
Then, as if from a special effect in a movie, it turned into powder before his eyes and flew towards the golden egg.
Only gray-white powder remained in his palm, appearing to be impurities removed from the gold.
This is unbelievable!
Recalling the system's words, Fang Er couldn't help but shudder.
Fortunately, this thing's target was only gold. If it had been other elements like calcium, iron, or zinc, he and Wang Xuance would have been in grave danger.
"Squeak~~"
"Ding!"
Fang Er looked up at the giant egg. The square groove at its base was already filled with gold.
As the sound rang out, a gray-white claw extended from the side of the giant egg, grabbed the gold brick, and then retracted.
Everything happened as if it were a pre-programmed sequence.
After completing this, the golden egg did not stop but continued to extract gold elements from the surroundings.
With Fang Er's eyesight, the moment the gold brick was grabbed, he estimated its volume.
Calculating it using the density of gold, he arrived at a very surprising number.
It was actually four thousand five hundred liang!
"My Lord, this thing is too incredible!" Wang Xuance had recovered and said, pointing at the giant egg with great shock.
Fang Er did not respond. Instead, he was thinking about how to get closer to the giant egg.
Card 27 was no longer usable. The gold in the chip had been extracted, rendering it useless.
He sank his consciousness into the system warehouse, searching for anything he could use.
"Huh?"
Fang Er suddenly saw something fun: a trampoline.
He casually took it out and placed it on the open ground in front of him.
The trampoline was composed of an alloy frame and high-strength rubber woven elastic cords, and its legs were retractable.
"My Lord, what are you doing?" Wang Xuance asked, looking at him with some confusion.
Suddenly producing a trampoline, was he preparing to sleep?
Fang Er just smiled, not answering his question.
He tried jumping on the trampoline a few times; the elasticity was excellent.
To prevent any accidents, he took out the mattress he had put away earlier and spread them around the trampoline.
After making preparations, Fang Er jumped in place on the trampoline, and as he fell, he was bounced back up. Wang Xuance finally understood what he was doing and guarded him nervously.
After adjusting his posture a few times, he gradually mastered the technique of bouncing higher.
The height of each bounce brought him closer and closer to the giant egg.
"Thump~"
After countless efforts, Fang Er finally landed on top of the giant egg.
With his more than a hundred pounds of weight suddenly crashing down, the giant egg did not even tremble slightly.
On the top of the giant egg, there was originally only one green object shining, but now there were two more.
The three light sources alternated and flickered, looking like a running light.
At this moment, the claw extended again, grabbed a gold brick from below the giant egg, and retracted.
"Holy cow! So fast?"
Fang Er admitted that he was shocked.
In less than half an hour, this thing had produced two gold bricks, totaling nine thousand liang of gold!
Could it be that there was a gold mine underneath?
Looking at the mountainous terrain below, Fang Er couldn't help but speculate.
"Puff~"
"Puff~~~"
Suddenly, black smoke emanated from the giant egg, and then the thing began to shake.
"My Lord, be careful!"
Wang Xuance below shouted worriedly upon seeing this.
As soon as he spoke, Fang Er felt the giant egg beginning to tilt downwards and quickly jumped onto the mattress placed nearby.
The spring had just bounced him up slightly when Wang Xuance rushed over with a look of panic, hoisted him onto his shoulders, and ran away.
"Bang!"
Just as they had retreated more than ten meters, the giant egg fell.
A while later, Fang Er stood beside the giant egg, examining it.
Falling from a height of ten meters, its shell seemed undamaged. Even the alloy frame of the trampoline was twisted into a mess, but at the point of contact, the giant egg's shell had not a single scratch.
This was truly outrageous!
He took out a set of tools from the system warehouse and said to Wang Xuance.
"Let's get to work and see if we can dismantle this thing!"
Some say destruction is easier than construction, but after working for a long time, Fang Er could only say "Go to hell!"
This thing was like a single piece that had been die-cast. Whether it was wrenches, pliers, or screwdrivers, he couldn't find anywhere to get a grip on the giant egg!
"Clang~"
He casually threw the hammer into the pile of tools and sat on the mattress, pulling out a golden cigarette and lighting it. Fang Er felt his craftsmanship had been insulted~
Yes, insulted to a craftsman!
Not long after, Xue Rengui also caught up. Only Ge Luoyang and his men were left to monitor the pyramid.
After instructing them to set up camp nearby, Fang Er gritted his teeth and walked towards the giant egg again. He felt unwilling to leave this thing un-dismantled.
One day.
Two days.
"Crack!"
A crisp sound came from the giant egg. It had been opened!
Fang Er smiled, a very happy smile.
"Hahahaha~~"
"You son of a bitch, even if you're cast as a whole, I'll still take you apart into eight pieces~"
Before he could finish, his laughter abruptly stopped because the situation inside was completely different from what he had imagined!
According to his expectations, the internal structure should have been very complex, given its efficiency in mining gold.
But reality made him re-evaluate the meaning of "simplifying complexity"!
The interior of the giant egg had no pipes like a car or airplane. Fang Er didn't even see any wires or circuit boards!
It was like a machine from World War I, with only mechanical structures composed of various components, incredibly complex and precise!
So precise that Fang Er didn't dare to hope he could replicate it!
Therefore, during the dismantling, he held his breath with every move, afraid of damaging any part.
Fortunately, when he removed the third component, he understood why this thing had fallen.
Inside the giant egg, for some reason, a small piece of gravel had gotten stuck between the components.
Perhaps this piece of gravel had been elsewhere before. As the giant egg worked, it had slowly fallen into a critical position due to internal rotation or vibration, causing it to malfunction and fall.
It was also possible that for this reason, the Yanhuang people had abandoned it in the secret chamber of the pyramid.
After this dismantling and research, Fang Er had a preliminary guess about this thing.
This guess left him deeply shocked.
The giant egg, or perhaps it should be called a gold mining ship.
It could use sunlight as energy for flight and achieve absolutely zero-pollution gold mining.
Moreover, inside it, there was a space that could temporarily store eight gold bricks, each weighing about 280 jin (680 grams/jin).
Such an efficient, environmentally friendly gold mining ship that required no manual operation would undoubtedly cause a sensation in later times!