The word pit gave Renard a sense of foreboding, and Lieutenant Beecher and Ensign Simon were shocked when they heard the name Ssalon's pit.

Lei Ye noticed the expressions of the two of them, and couldn't help but ask, "What's the matter?"

Lieutenant Beecher nodded with difficulty and said, "That's right, Lord Renard, the mine we just left is actually the Ssalon Pit, or part of it. ”

When Lei Ye heard this, his hairs stood on end, didn't he say that the group of homeless people had installed their homes at the door of the demon's house?

He immediately turned his head to look at the man, and asked in a serious tone, "Where are those homeless people now?"

Seeing that his face was full of solemnity, the man didn't dare to hide it, and said hesitantly: "It's less than two kilometers northeast." ”

Renard took a deep breath and commanded in an unquestioning tone, "Take us there." ”

The man didn't agree immediately this time, his face turned red, and finally he shook his head and refused: "No, I don't want to go back to that place." ”

Lei Ye was stunned when he heard this, and then reacted, there is a story in this.

His eyes rolled in a sinister manner, and then he ordered, "Give these people dry food and water, so that they can eat and rest for a while." ”

As he spoke, Renard took out the flatbread from the spatial ring and handed it to the man in front of him: "Tell me about what happened after entering the forest." ”

The man hesitated for a moment, but finally took the flatbread and ate it with water.

Then Lei Ye easily pried open the other party's mouth with two pieces of jerky: "There is copper in the Ssalon mine. ”

"Bronze?" Reynard's expression was a little surprised, he didn't think anything before, but after coming to this world, he had adapted to the lifestyle of using gold, silver and copper as currency, so he was only slightly surprised when he heard copper.

The man nodded, swallowed the bread in his mouth, and said, "That's right, there is copper in the Sharon Mine, and that is the main reason why they are reluctant to leave. ”

Renard sighed, sure enough, the wealth was moving.

These outcasts dare to make their home in the dangerous Forest of Ten Thousand Beasts for a little copper ore, and I don't know whether to call them greedy or think they are bold.

Then a question arose in his heart: "Then why don't you stay in the Salon, but choose to leave?"

The man's chewing movements slowed down significantly, and then he smiled bitterly: "I don't think that's the life I want." ”

He took a deep breath: "Working in the mines with fear, and dealing with natives and beasts who often come to find trouble, people are injured almost every day. ”

Renard immediately noticed the loophole in the other man's words: "How long have you been there?"

The man thought for a while and replied, "It's been more than half a year." ”

Renard asked again, "Have you ever encountered a demon?"

Perhaps fearing that he would be too general, he added, "Have you ever encountered any strange things or creatures in the mines?"

"Strange things?" the man's eyes changed, and then he put away the cake and said solemnly: "You reminded me so much that I remembered that I did often hear strange cries from the well, but the village chief told us that it was the wind. ”

Yes, maybe the whole of the Salonite Mine is the gateway to the underworld!

However, Renard was not too scared and anxious, after all, judging from the demon's performance, he should not rush to the ground in the near future.

He continued to ask: "What are you digging copper for, there is no shop in front of the village or behind it, and there is no expense, copper is no different from scrap metal." ”

The man shook his head: "Naturally, digging copper is for food, and every month mercenaries will come to take the copper dug up and leave us rations." ”

The more Renard listened, the more wrong it became, why did these villagers look like free coolies?

The man seemed to see his thoughts, and pouted: "Actually, I have long felt that something is wrong, as if the village chief had intentionally brought us to the mine in the first place, and then I inquired with the village elders that the village chief was a miner. ”

Renard understood a little, and he secretly guessed that maybe the village chief was a miner from the former Salonn Pit, and the other party had already known that there was copper here, so he brought the villagers here to work as coolies under the pretext of fleeing.

This is no different from the labor traffickers in the previous life, taking you to a place where there is no village in front of you and no shop in the back, and you can't run, you can only follow a road to the dark.

The man took a sip of water: "At the beginning, everyone still trusted the village chief, and he was also very practical, and he could often get good wine and meat. ”

He was silent for a moment, and then sighed: "But two months later, the village chief said that the quality of the copper dug up is getting worse and worse, and the quantity is too small, so you don't need to think about wine and meat." ”

Immediately afterwards, the man's expression became a little indignant: "However, half a month ago, the village chief said that the quality and quantity were poor, and he could only change brown rice to fill his stomach, and since then I have been mindful." ”

When he said this, his expression changed from indignation to anger: "We were divided into four shifts to dig copper, at first I thought that the village chief was kind enough to be afraid that we were tired, but then I realized that it was because we knew how much hard-earned money he had embezzled. ”

The man grabbed the flatbread vigorously: "If the copper we dig out every day is converted into copper plates, there are at least 30,000 pieces, not to mention brown rice, even if it is a big fish and meat every day, it can't be spent." ”

Indeed, if you do not pursue luxury, but only seek appetite, twenty copper plates per person per day are enough, and hundreds of people are converted into less than 20,000 copper plates.

It sounds scary, not enough to convert into gold coins, but only two.

Renard sighed, "So you took someone away?"

The man nodded, and then shook his head again: "It's not to leave, but to escape, that terrible vampire has hired dozens of mercenaries, ostensibly to protect us, but in fact he is afraid that we will escape, he is even more terrible than Baron Grant." ”

Renard suddenly remembered the saying: greed is the greatest original sin.

Immediately after, he asked, "Then why don't you want to take me over, don't you want to save your friends out?"

The man quietly glanced at Lei Ye twice, but did not speak.

Then Renard understood: "Are you afraid that I will take possession of that copper mine and continue to enslave you?"

Copper mines with a daily output of four or five gold coins are indeed very attractive, but that is only for ordinary nobles.

What kind of person is Lei Ye, a character who is around a few hundred gold coins per minute, will he care about the money in the copper mine, if it is steel, he may still be tempted.

Renard patted the man on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I don't have time to waste on this broken copper mine, if you want to save your friends, take me over, if you don't want to, forget it, let's leave." ”

As he spoke, he waved his hand and motioned for the Black Cavalry and the sergeant at the Nolan outpost to assemble and leave.

Seeing this, the man hurriedly stood up and said, "Wait! I'll take you!"

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