Next, six people stayed here to chisel the stone, while the others continued into the mountains to see if they could find any metal ore.
By noon, they encountered another rock cliff with stones that contained a small amount of iron.
By rights, iron is not a rare metal and is relatively easy to discover.
To find a rich iron ore, they began chiseling stone here again.
The number of stone picks was insufficient, so they needed to cast a few more quickly.
Fortunately, this place wasn't far from their previous location and could be reached on foot in half an hour.
"Big Tree" said, "I strongly suspect there's the kind of rich iron ore Ma Lin mentioned in this mountain—we're just a step away from finding it."
Ma Lin had the same suspicion.
He led four or five people to continue searching in this mountain, and in the afternoon, they found two more places where stones contained a small amount of iron.
His feelings were extremely complicated.
Maybe there truly was an iron ore here.
