At noon, as soon as the bell rang, the miners, who had worked overtime until midnight, suddenly woke up. Thousands of people crowded and washed the grass, went to the canteen to receive food, and went straight to Pingba outside the mine with plates.

Kong experienced leading people to take care of it all morning, and arranged Pingba into a beast theater performance venue. Although it is a little simple, the Meng Wu Beast Opera Troupe performs in the wild all year round, and the venue is open and level.

The miners sat next to the marker pole and sat on the station, and the hole experience also adapted to local conditions, using the mine carts and ore piles as stands, so that the miners were scattered and distributed. Five or six thousand people spread out outside the mine with the performance field as the center, and it was actually orderly, and everyone had a show to watch.

Luo Xiaosi sat on the edge of a minecart, he was extremely nervous after the girl Jinyiwei left last night, and he didn't even sleep well. When the woman in costume walked out of the tent with two tigers, others were amazed, but he was whispering and being ridiculed by the surrounding workers.

He was not afraid of the tiger, but the beast was halfway through the show, when a team of brocade guards suddenly rushed in and read out the guilt of the principal, and took him out as a witness. Repeatedly recalling what he said last night, he felt that he was indeed telling the truth, but whether the brocade guard listened to it, or whether he was willing to listen to it, he was completely unsure.

However, as tigers, lions and other fierce beasts continued to appear, rolling, dancing, pushing carts, drilling fire rings and other flower work continuously, exclamations and cheers came one after another, Luo Xiaosi also put his worries behind him, and applauded and shouted with everyone.

The wonderful thing is not only that the beasts are trained to be extremely humane, but also the male and female animal trainers who guide the beast performances, especially the young and coolly dressed women, catch the attention of the miners. Every interaction they had with the beasts made the miners' heartstrings tense, and the graceful posture displayed in the tumbling and leaping made the rough shouts of thousands of strong men converge into a roaring tide.

Unfazed, they all have a lot of experience in shows, and the signals given to them by their trainers are enough to allow them to overcome environmental disturbances. None of the miners rushed past the marker poles, even if they were just poles, and the years of toil had accustomed them to obedience.

When a team of girls appeared on the stage riding a beast with black arms and white bellies and a round belly, the atmosphere reached a climax. Some knowledgeable people recognize this beast as a "flower bear"? But everyone was fascinated by the strange combination. The cute flower bear carries the young and beautiful girl? Dress up as a cavalryman from an ancient era. The flower bear chirped and screamed and divided into two teams to hedge, and the girl hi yo crisply waved the embroidered flagpole? It can be seen that the miners are enthusiastic. Do you want the show to be a real battlefield? You can follow them into battle and kill.

"I think that in the future, our beast troupe will simply change its name to the Women's Pixiu Troupe. ”

After the girls finished their performances, they thanked each other twice, and there were still applause and cheers in the valley? Meng Wu said this to Zixuan with a wry smile.

Zi Xuan is also one of the performers, and her fair cheeks are flushed with rouge? She squinted and smiled, "It's not impossible?" But don't you want the Meng Beast Troupe?"

"The beast opera troupe is a cover for walking the rivers and lakes," Meng Wu confessed to Gao De before setting off about his real business, that is, trafficking in high-value furs and live animals. "If it's gone, it's gone, can you be a green leaf for such a popular flower? It's a blessing too. ”

"Don't forget we still have business?" Zixuan reminded him, "It's just on the road now, don't think too far." ”

"Yes, yes, I'm thinking too much. Meng Wu pulled back his thoughts and couldn't help but sigh: "This Tonggushan mine is really special? Not only are you willing to spend a lot of money to find a beast troupe to arrange for the miners, but you are also very polite to us? The chief here, must be a great good man. ”

Zi Xuan's body shook slightly, and she spat out a cloudy breath, and her tone became calm? "There are some things next, and the class master should not talk much about it. ”

The beast show lasted for a while? At the end of the day, the miners were still reluctant. A few people were named by Kong to stay and help the beast troupe disassemble and assemble the tent? It also provoked jealous glances from others.

Luo Xiaosi is one of them? He was called to a small tent behind the big tent, and saw a girl dressed as a "Pixiu Female Knight". The heart is like a deer bumping into each other, the other party spoke, and the deer suddenly grabbed the ground with his head and broke his neck.

"Have you ever thought about leaving the mine and living a life you never thought of before?" the girl was the Jinyi Wei who asked last night, and she said in a low voice, "You are still young, the world is very big, and you have never thought of going out to see what the world is like?"

"Think...... I thought about it," Luo Xiaosi's brain turned into a paste, and he didn't understand what the girl meant by this: "That was all my thoughts when I was a child, and now I want to eat enough and save money to marry my daughter-in-law." ”

"The world is so big, just picking wild fruits can eat enough, and there are many more promising things than being a miner. The girl said as if a demon was seducing mortals: "Not to mention marrying a daughter-in-law, it is not impossible to make a fortune and live like a mine master." ”

"But, but......" Even if he was persuaded by a young and beautiful girl who had never seen him in his life, the string in Luo Xiaosi's mind still did not break, he knew what he wanted. "But that must be dangerous, since mining can go on, I, I'm better dig, mine. ”

"It's a virtue for someone like me to be content with the status quo," the girl shook her head slightly, and said something vaguely inconsistent with hers, "For someone like you, that's inferior." It is your contentment with the status quo that makes others more unscrupulous. ”

"Well, I shouldn't have asked you," the girl smiled faintly, "after all, you don't have the power to control your own destiny. ”

Luo Xiaosi was still confused, but he didn't feel good. Before he could ask at first, someone entered the tent again, and it turned out to be Qiu Zhengren, the head of the mine.

Seeing Zi Xuan dressed like this, Qiu Zhengren was also stunned, but he reacted quickly and turned his head to look at the young miner who seemed very abrupt here, "You are ......"

"This man has been transferred to me," Zixuan said, "I am useful." ”

Qiu Zhengren's reaction was not as big as the Empress Spring Palace magic painting sent last night, and he nodded: "It's his blessing that the upper chaplain can afford him." ”

Luo Xiaosi was driven out of the tent and stood still, only to feel that he was still in a dream.

In the tent, Qiu Zhengren asked the thin young scholar under him to open a box, which contained several thick stacks of golden dragon tickets, each of which was a hundred golden dragons.

"The villain's surplus in the mine is only the 300,000 gold dragons, and the rest are stored in the Huanzhou ticket store. Qiu Zhengren said respectfully: "According to the explanation of the superior, there are still tens of thousands of golden dragons left, and the superiority will have to wait until tomorrow." ”

"No, that's it. ”

Zi Xuan looked very calm, thanks to Gao De now controlling her, otherwise she would really be frightened by the golden dragons in front of her. As for Gao De, if it had been a few days ago, he would have had to work hard to suppress his excitement. In the past few days, he has been rolling out the preliminary preparations for the excavation work, and this amount of golden dragon tickets is only a drop in the bucket compared to the number of gold dragon tickets he has handled.

"It looks like you're determined," Gao De promised yesterday that Zi Xuan would come back to see their performances, and at the same time deal with the aftermath here.

He saw that Qiu Zhengren was a little different, and his body exuded a determined aura of going all the way to the end.

"Dealt with some of the beginnings and tails around him," Qiu Zhengren sighed very much: "A lot of things have been confirmed, and the villain naturally has a determination." ”

"There is no need to call yourself a villain," said Gaude, "and since you are determined to become a full-fledged lantern bearer in the near future, you and I will ...... Let's be commensurate with the same people. ”

Qiu Zhengren said again and again, how could he be so rude, but he didn't call himself a villain anymore.

"The business of the mine has to be stopped," Qiu Zhengren continued to report, "In the past, I used to organize and contact customers and magicians to come to me for processing. Now that the organization has been subverted and reborn, the previous relationship has been broken, and the customers and magicians must have moved to the side of the Blood Tower. ”

"Although I have cleaned up the whole of my side, the Blood Tower Society, the Sea Tower Society, and the magic towers that have risen in the local area after some organizations have dispersed, will inevitably continue to stare at my side, and I am afraid that this matter will have to be taken by the organization. ”

"Don't worry too much about the Blood Tower Society and the Sea Tower Society," since it is clear that the Tonggu Mountain Mine is actually a "high-end demon breeding garden" of the Secret Blood Tower, if it is to be taken by the Soul Valley, it is necessary to block the claws of the Blood Tower Society and the Sea Tower Society.

"If someone persecuts you in front of the official, you will say that the mine has been targeted by the new military department. If the level of the demon walker forces persecuts you, ask the other party to find the Imperial Horse Supervisor. ”

The purple silk manipulated by Gao De curled the corners of her mouth, revealing a sneer that was quite incommensurate with the girl's beauty, "If you want to come hard, the Tonggushan Mine is originally an imperial court industry, Huanzhou will transfer a state Wei Qianhu to the mine, and the Jinyi Wei Huanzhou Branch will also turn around to see who dares to move." ”

Qiu Zhengren was dumbfounded, he didn't expect that after a night, the Tonggushan Mine had nominally held a few thighs.

The first thigh is the court upstart Gao De, this person was born in Jinyiwei, after the empress ascended the throne, she jumped up, and in a few months, she jumped from a small elephant training house to a hundred households in Jinyiwei Tongzhi, the military department, and the admiral fell into the sea of stars to seize smuggling, and it is said that he is also the pacification envoy of Yulinwei Zhenfu Division.

The second one is even more amazing, it turns out to be Shao Hao, the confidant of Ai Tosaka, who is in charge of the content manager, who not only assists Ai Tosaka in taking charge of Ouchi, but also holds the Imperial Horse Supervisor who deals with magical personnel. The destruction of the organization is actually the handiwork of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, but I didn't expect that now the organization is lurking in the Imperial Horse Prison!

As for the third one, it seems to be a routine operation based on the imperial court system, but from the perspective of the magic level, it is more equivalent to holding the empress's thigh. The empress cleared the demon forces in the four cities of Zhongjing and replaced them with cronies and attendants and people from the Holy Mountain, and now she is starting to stretch out her hand to the place?

In the blink of an eye, Qiu Zhengren came back to his senses, these three thighs were only nominal, borrowed by the organization. I really didn't expect that the organization would have such a lot of energy after breaking through the cocoon and being reborn.

He didn't dare to ask the second or third in detail, so he asked the first. This is also what he is most curious about, how did the organization borrow the power of Gaode?

"The organization told him that the miners in the Tonggushan mine were suitable for the job he had taken over," Zixuan said, "The mine director basically didn't do anything, he just dealt with the military department's mission, and he didn't have to worry about manpower if he transferred two or three thousand miners." ”

Qiu Zhengren's eyes widened, that's all?

"Gao De has taken over a task from the Empress, and he needs not only manpower, but also many things that can be assisted by the mine in the future. Gao De stuffed himself into it, "This person is an upstart in the imperial court, and the organization uses him as a cover to act conveniently, and everyone gets what they get, so they don't have to worry about being exposed by him." ”

Qiu Zhengren was amazed, no wonder the organization was able to break out of the shell and regenerate the golden cicada.

"It's dangerous to be alone here," Zi Xuan said, "The organization will send three lantern bearers, and they will only take care of your safety and the development of members in the miners." You're still in charge of the mine, and we'll let you know the details when the organization agrees. ”

"The fragments in the miner's hat ......" Qiu Zhengren asked cautiously, "still in the same state?"

Gao De nodded, "Keep it as it is." ”

Last night, he learned that the miner's helmet was not a single Chaos Scale, just a fragment. The DarkHand Blood Tower once had several gray realms, and this is one of them. However, the Gray Realm has been seriously damaged, and all the scales of chaos have been smashed, which is estimated to have been collected from the place during the Ming Taizu era. These fragments should have been completely destroyed, but the executors hid many of them, and they ended up in the hands of the Hidden Hand Blood Tower.

The Tonggushan Mine originally also impregnated the Majin with the intact Gray Realm, but for those who were only slightly impregnated, the impact of the intact Grey Realm was too great and unsafe. Not only is the yield low, but it is too wasteful for people to be used as monsters to sell. In the end, he chose to use these fragments to create a dream-like shattered ash realm, and soaked the miners with the demonic power contaminated in the underground through sleep.

It stands to reason that this kind of behavior of actively turning mortals into demons should be banned immediately, but at the moment, these miners have been impregnated with demonic power, but the depth is different. Rashly stopping the use of the Shattered Ash Realm to soothe the demonic power, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no accidents.

Gao De even felt that this kind of "technique" that actively impregnated mortals into demons was actually not evil, after all, Aurora and even the entire world were already impregnated with chaos at all times. The point is what is the purpose of turning mortals into demons. If you use the flesh and blood of demons to make monster materials or even make brains into living weapons, of course it is evil. But if it's for them to take the path of rebellion against Chaos, it shouldn't be evil.

These calculations have not yet been sorted out, and now he is still busy dealing with the errands at hand, and the Tonggushan Mine is very suitable for the "Lantern Man Academy", but he has to think about it before promoting it. Qiu Zhengren, the intended dean, can only wait a while to know his mission.

This is also the reason why he decided to send Old Man Xiahou and Pang Yang and his wife over, the real value of this mine is neither the iron ore in the mine nor the current miners, but the underground environment that constantly diffuses the power of the plague demon, and the mortal demonization technology that has been proven effective by the masters of the past generations.

"I look forward to it," Qiu Zhengren arched his hand, his words sincere, "I look forward to using the mine as a pen to help the organization draw a new picture." ”

Speaking of this, Gao De has to explain one more sentence, "Don't paint that kind of painting in the future, I mean painting women." ”

Although the empress painted by this guy is all imaginary, it is not very stylish, not to mention the magic painting painted with demon paint.

At this point, the situation has been explained clearly, packed up, and the beast troupe is about to embark on a journey.

"The envoy should still be able to see some industries similar to the mine all the way south," Qiu Zhengren persuaded at the time of parting: "The lowly job here is a high-end business, and it pays attention to patience and cultivation of materials, which is quite clean." Those underground industries are different, treating people like pigs and dogs, which is extremely bloody and filthy. If the messenger wants to continue to explore, he should try not to touch those places. ”

Qiu Zhengren thought that Zixuan's job was to gather the local industries of the Secret Hand Blood Tower, and at the same time gather the places where the demons were cultivated. But wherever a large number of people are needed, such as coal mines, brick kilns, etc., this kind of industry is hidden. As Qiu Zhengren said, those places are doing "low-end business", which doesn't care about human life at all.

"That's really the ...... Isn't it? I mean, a place like this that turns mortals into demons?"

At this time, Gao De had already left, and although he knew some general information from Gao De and Mao Doudou, Zi Xuan still didn't quite understand what Qiu Zhengren said.

In the car, she whispered to Edamame, and Edamame said, "I don't know if those places are making mortals into demons like here, but I know that the mortals who stay in those places still want to become demons." That way, at least because they have more value, the owner will not treat them as cheaper than pigs and dogs. And if you become a demon, you can have more energy, you won't die if you get sick, and you can't die if you eat a few fewer meals. ”

Then Edamame asked, "By the way, what did you bring that miner for?"

"Which miner?" Zixuan asked stunned, and immediately remembered Gao De's explanation, and stroked his forehead in annoyance: "I, I don't know, you should know that sometimes I ......"

"I know," Edamame looked at her with a strange look, "sometimes you become like another person and handle things beautifully, and you say it's your demon lord." ”

"Yes," Zixuan didn't hide it from her, "I said that our sisters believe in the Demon Lord, you should believe it." ”

Edamame looked at her with a strange gaze, lifted his mouth but didn't speak.

What is the Demon Lord, in fact...... Tall man, right?

Your demon lord will remember the name of my gray bean sprouts, and affectionately call me "Doudou"?

As for the style of doing things, it is even more of a tall person. Always go straight to the point and convince people.

Edamame didn't say her conjecture, in her opinion, there must be a reason why Master Gao hid Zixuan and her eldest sister from her.

But......

Thinking that the tall man would burrow thousands of miles into Zixuan's soul and turn his body into his own use, Edamame felt creepy. She subconsciously hugged herself tightly with her arms, feeling that when she returned to Zhongjing, she would still find an opportunity to talk to the eldest sister and them, and resolutely resist the tall adults doing such terrible things to them.

Zi Xuan and Edamame Bean have their own thoughts, sitting in the carriage, and Luo Xiaosi, a miner who is accompanied by a bunch of equipment full of beast breath, is looking at the sky speechlessly, crying blood in his heart.

The young lady named Zixuan was right, how could a person like him have the power to control his own destiny. said that he was going to do something, and he had no room to resist at all. Zi Xuan said that he wanted him, and he even brought the work contract with the mine to Zi Xuan.

If it weren't for the flower bear, it would be very cute, and the handyman in the beast theater class would sound no different from the miners, or even superior, Luo Xiaosi really wanted to jump out of the car and escape.

But Miss Zixuan, and the other young ladies, are really beautiful......

Luo Xiaosi is in the thousand-household office of the Jinyiwei Elephant Taming Institute in the West City of Zhongjing, thousands of miles away, Gao De is also bittersweet and bittersweet.

"The day after tomorrow?"

Ai Tosaka called again and conveyed the empress's instructions: "Take care of your image and do your homework in advance, you are the first time to go to court, don't embarrass Your Majesty." ”

Gao De complained: "Of course, I don't have to say anything about cleaning up my image, how do I know what to do with my homework or something?

"I'm so busy that I don't have the time to take care of you," Ai Tosaka's tone was a little fluttering: "Why don't you go to Li, she also understands this, look for her to talk to you." ”

Gao De wanted to slap the phone on the table: "Where can I find her?"

"Tomorrow is the Frost Festival," Ai Tosaka's tone was obviously very unhappy, "She is expected to catch you and ask you to accompany her to see the ice and snow peony." ”

"Oh......" Gao De's heart was pounding, this means that there is a date again?