Chapter 62: Batu Caves

Batu Caves, as they are called, are very different from the usual caves. First of all, it is too big, its width (or diameter) is more than five kilometers, the center of the position is the strongest wind, but also the coldest, on both sides of the place near the rock wall, the wind is relatively small, then built nearly 1,000 ice houses of all sizes, nearly 10,000 people live and mine here, and at the end of more than 20 kilometers from the mouth of the Black Wind Cave, there is a bottomless abyss, and the strong yin wind is blowing out of the abyss.

No one knows how deep the abyss is, and no one dares to go down, even if it is a well-prepared person, once they go down, they have never seen it come up, so some people say that this abyss is connected to hell, and the yin wind runs out of hell, but whether this is the case, no one can confirm whether this is the case.

Lingiron concentrate is distributed on both sides of the Batu Cave and underground, so people have dug countless pits of different sizes on both sides of the Batu Cave and underground, but unfortunately the ore on the ground is too hard and scarce, coupled with the influence of extremely cold winds, it is very difficult for people to have a harvest, if a person can dig more than five pieces of ore in a month, even if it is a master of excellent luck, most people work hard a month often only have one or two pieces of fist-sized harvest, and it is common to not be able to dig for a month or two.

But the most dangerous thing about mining is the ubiquitous wind, even if you dig a deep pit under the Batu Caves, sometimes a strong wind will suddenly emerge and blow people away. In addition, there is the miserable whimper, even those who have lived and mined here for a long time will be affected by this sometimes loud and sometimes small whimper, and from time to time someone will go insane, either blown away by the wind or fall into the abyss and disappear without a trace.

"General Baizao, this is the 'piglet' that the leader takes special care of, you must take care of him!" the little leader who escorted Zhao Chun over said with a smile to the commander of the Batu Cave station.

The commander wearing a special protective suit said with a smile: "Please rest assured, I will definitely take good care of him, and I also ask General Wucun to say a few more kind words for his brother in front of the leader, so that my brother can adjust his defense as soon as possible." There is nothing good to entertain General Wucun in this bitterly cold little place, this is a little careful, and I hope the general will accept it with a smile. After speaking, he put a few pieces of black minerals in a small bag and handed them to Wu Village.

Wu Cun was overjoyed in his heart, he had been very uncomfortable with the standard long sword that had been assigned to him in the army, and he had long wanted to ask the refining master of the clan to refine a satisfactory weapon, but he had never found the right material. Lingtie concentrate belongs to the official ownership of the tribe, it is forbidden to buy and sell privately, even if some of it flows into the underground black market, the price is frighteningly high, he is just a small leader of the guards next to the leader, and he wants to rely on Yulu to buy this thing, I don't know if it will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey.

"General Baizao, rest assured, this matter is on me. Wu Cun patted his chest and said, this matter is really not difficult for him, as long as he "speaks" a few words in front of the leader.

Bai Zao breathed a sigh of relief, in fact, he also felt very aggrieved in his heart, in terms of official position, he was three levels higher than this Wu Village, and he once commanded tens of thousands of soldiers, but because he offended one of the twelve elders of the military department, he was relegated to this bitter cold place.

After Wu Cun and the others left, Bai Zao called a few soldiers and instructed them: "Send this alien to District A, and if he doesn't dig mines, don't give him food." ”

"This ...... General, isn't this very good? District A is a place where people have been accustomed for more than half a year, and if he is allowed to stay there, I am afraid that he will not survive for more than a month. The pro-soldier said with some hesitation.

"This is the leader's name to take good care of, do you want me to disobey the leader's orders?"

The soldiers didn't dare to say anything, and hurriedly took Zhao Chun down.

Zone A is located in the innermost part of the Batu Caves, and it is also the closest to the abyss, where the yin wind is a little stronger than outside, and the temperature is much lower.

There are only ten barracks in Area A, and except for one where the guards and overseers live, the rest are occupied by more than 30 miners.

The soldiers threw Zhao Chun into a barracks, explained a few words to the overseer and left.

In addition to Zhao Chun, there were two other miners living in the barracks, these two people had brownish-gray skin, and their stature was much taller than those dwarves, obviously they were not from the Black Ice Tribe, but they had lived in this Black Wind Cave all year round, so that their thin faces did not have a trace of blood, and their gray and empty eyes were numb like a zombie. At this moment, they were wrapped in shabby quilts, leaning on each other and huddled in the corner, if it weren't for the occasional twitching of their hands and feet, Zhao Chun would have thought they were two corpses.

For Zhao Chun, the new uninvited guest, they just rolled their godless eyes and glanced at it, and then there was no other movement, because dead people are too common, and the workers who were still leaning together to protect themselves from the cold yesterday are very likely to never be seen again today, and at this time, there are often newcomers outside who are thrown in. No one knows if it will be themselves who will die tomorrow, they are just living numbly, struggling to live one day at a time.

Zhao Chun slowly walked in front of them, trying to communicate with them, wanting to learn about the situation here through them. Although he was sealed in the acupoint meridians, it did not affect his operation of the exercises, the mysterious heat flow was still slowly flowing in his body, and the people of the Black Ice Tribe also put on a set of thick cotton clothes for each miner in order to prevent these miners from freezing instantly.

Zhao Chun also felt that he was indeed a little reckless, at that time, he should have pretended to agree to refine the medicine for them first, and then think of other ways, who would have expected that the guy Zhusong would be so strong and not play cards according to common sense? Now it is good, Laura has fallen into the tiger's mouth, and his current situation is so embarrassing and passive.

"Big brothers, how long have you been here?I'm new, can you tell me about the situation here?" Zhao Chun asked after covering the corner with the heat flow.

It seemed that they felt Zhao Chun's hot current, and the two of them recovered a little bit of energy, but they still didn't speak, just looked at Zhao Chun with surprised eyes, this guy seems to be different from ordinary miners, what is the origin? It's just such a place, as long as you can't escape, what's the use of being big? In the end, it's either a cold corpse, or you can't even find a corpse.

"If you tell me, maybe I can help you get out. Zhao Chun was a little helpless, so he had to continue to tempt them.

"Don't dream, no one can get out here except for the guards. One of them finally said.

"If you don't think about it, how do you know it's impossible?"

The man didn't seem to want to argue with Zhao Chun about this issue, and was quite grateful to him for releasing a mysterious heat stream to warm his body, so he said, "Since you are so hearted, I will tell you some life-saving secrets." We've been here for almost a year, and the reason why we've survived until now is because we found that the Yin Wind in this Batu Cave is regular, and if we dig in a place where the Yin Wind is relatively strong when mining in the pit, the probability of being blown away by the Yin Wind Raid is smaller. In addition, mining here is a task, and you have to hand in at least a fist-sized piece a month in exchange for enough food and daily necessities, otherwise you can only endure hunger. So even if we dig up two pieces, we will hide one of them first and take them out again next month, so that we don't die of starvation for a month. ”

"What if I'm unlucky and can't dig up a piece for a month?" Zhao Chun asked.

"If the luck is really so bad, we can only starve, because the guards will only give us the worst and minimum amount of food every day, and only when we dig can we exchange good things to improve our diet and fill our stomachs. ”

Now that they have opened the chatterbox, Zhao Chun has kept them out of the cold, so they have more and more conversations. From their mouths, Zhao Chun learned that these two guys were from the Keling tribe, a few years ago, the Black Ice Tribe had a war with the Keling tribe, with advanced weapons, the Black Ice Tribe won, and captured a lot of people from the Keling tribe, and later under the strong intervention of the Five Alliances, the Black Ice Tribe returned some of the captives, but still secretly seized the next part, some of these people became slaves of the Black Ice Tribe, and some were sent here to mine.

From their mouths, Zhao Chun also knew that this small world was called the Holy Domain, and the Holy Domain was composed of more than thirty tribes, but except for the Black Ice Tribe, which was extremely cold, the rest of the places were relatively warm. In the Holy Domain, the most powerful is the Five Tribes Alliance, the leader of the Five Tribes Alliance is served by the patriarchs of the five tribes in turn, and its wizards, alchemists, refiners, formation pattern masters and other capable people have come out in large numbers, in addition to a large number of high-level cultivators, no one in the alliance can shake their status. In addition to the Five-Part Alliance, there are five or six tribes that are slightly weaker than the Five-Part Alliance. The Black Ice Tribe and the Koling Tribe are two of them, and the rest are weak subordinate tribes that depend on the powerful tribes to survive.

After listening to the introductions of these two people, Zhao Chun finally had a general understanding of the situation in this small world, and he also knew that the leader of the Black Ice Tribe, Zhu Song, was an ambitious person, he was obviously unwilling to be the leader of a medium-strength tribe, with the support of the tribal wizard and others, he not only attacked the Keling tribe, which was also a medium-sized tribe, but also extended his black hand to the outside world, once he succeeded, the strength of the Black Ice tribe would be greatly enhanced, and it was not impossible to challenge the Five Divisions Alliance in the future.

After thinking about this layer clearly, Zhao Chun couldn't help but secretly worry about the people in the outside world, the Black Ice Tribe has this icy cold wind as a weapon, the outside world has been snowing non-stop, and the food is in arrears, how many people will suffer, once the outside world is in chaos, and with the help of Bhatti, a traitor, it is not difficult for Zhu Song to control the outside, but it is only for those innocent people to suffer.

I was originally going to come here to stop this disaster, but now I am trapped here, how can this be good? Zhao Chun was so anxious that he couldn't sleep......