This is Tonggu Mountain......

The mountain is not high, but it is wide, and at first glance it does look like a huge copper drum. However, the origin of the name Tonggu Mountain has nothing to do with what this mountain looks like, but it was originally famous for making copper drums.

Gao De "manipulated" Zixuan to walk to the foot of the mountain, recalling the information he got from the Ministry of War in the afternoon.

On the second day of his appearance, the holy decree came down, and the group of people from the elephant training institute immediately changed his name to "Lord Shizhong", and he was reprimanded before he called him "Lord Admiral" according to his request. I buried my head at home and made a plan for a few days, and I considered all aspects of the digging of the Black Shark and planned it properly, so I went to the military department today to report on the seal of Guan in the service.

Before he went, he took the time to contact Zixuan, heard the name of Tonggu Mountain in Huanzhou, and checked it when the staff of the Ministry of War checked the information on the islands and reefs of the Falling Star Sea, only to learn that the Tonggu Mountain Mine is a direct industry of the Ministry of War, and although the output is not large, the high-grade ore produced is exclusively used for building ships.

What kind of spirit is the spirit of a government-run mine, where the director will invite a beast troupe to comfort the miners?

Gao De told Zixuan yesterday that he would come to see it, but it was only out of curiosity that he wanted to see the customs of the place. Meng Wu's beast troupe took the national highway all the way, and the places they passed through were either big cities or national highway post stations, and they had almost no contact with the Aurora countryside. Although the mine is not rural, the life of the miners is obviously different from that of the city. For Gao De, who has never left the Dazhongjing area since he was a child, he really has no idea what the living conditions of inland miners are.

The bigger the official becomes, the more Gao De is worried about the future of this Ming Dynasty. He is eager to understand the situation of the entire Ming Dynasty, so as to assess whether his dream of pension can be realized.

Today, with a preliminary understanding of the Tonggushan mine, his curiosity turned to doubt. The mine director registered in the file of the Ministry of War is called Qiu Zhengren, is this person from the sixth grade is a good official who cares for the miners, or has a special preference for beast plays, or is it a group of girls who covet Zixuan?

When he came to Zixuan's summons and tried to withdraw his perception and observe, he unexpectedly found that there was a large amount of magic light left around the station.

The Tonggu Mountain Mine turned out to be a demon lair!

The magic light is mainly based on blood demons, supplemented by plague demons, and although the specific motive of the main person to find the beast troupe is not clear, it is obviously not a good thing.

Gao De decided to track down the magic light to see the situation and feel the bottom of the mine.

After leaving the station, I followed the railway that carried the ore to the foot of the mountain. Gao De saw the building on the mountainside from afar? It should be the quarters of the principals. But even if he himself came? I can't see anything from such a distance. What's more, through Zixuan's body, the transcendent vision has been weakened a lot.

Of course, the magic light that is close in front of you can still be seen clearly? Dense as the threads of a sweater? And the direction is the same as the railway, so you can see that the number of demons is very large? Gao De is even wondering if all the miners here are not demons? It's also a supernatural one.

Half an hour? Finally, you can see the end of the railway road and sink into the hole at the foot of the mountain. During this time, I met several people, and I didn't know if they were miners, guards, or handymen, but in short, they were all covered in turquoise light. Gao De saw it from a distance, and easily avoided it by the light and dark light and shadow created by the street lamp.

Coming to a place not far from the entrance of the cave? There's a loading dock here. Transporting ore from a trolley from a mine to a large car? Dozens or hundreds of stevedores are busy.

By the light of the loading station, Gao De saw rows of simple shacks standing at the foot of the hill, faintly smelling of feces, urine and all kinds of household garbage, which should be the workers' residences.

As AutoNavi expected, the mine was really three shifts day and night. Counted the number of shacks? It is estimated that there are at least two or three thousand workers of all categories combined.

"Damn the beast troupe, they won't be so hard tonight if they don't come. ”

"Can you rest more tomorrow? It's better than going to work today as usual and talking about making up for the hours tomorrow. ”

"Watching lions and tigers juggling with leather whips has a meaning!"

"I heard from the foreman that there are a lot of little girls in the beast troupe. Waving the leather whip white and tender, that is the real eye blessing. ”

"How nice it would be if the foreman could be replaced by a little girl? That's what you're thinking, right? Just like you. ”

Workers chatting while they work? Except for some differences in accents, there is no difference from the busy workers at the Zhongjing Tongtianhe Wharf.

It sounds like the chief here's really brought in the beast troupe to comfort them, and it's not even three shifts. Although there are still overseers wielding leather whips, they have not yet reached the point where the place of conscience is empty and even becomes an abyss.

The problem is that these workers have the power of the plague!

Gao De dodged Zi Xuan to hide behind the minecart in the distance, carefully observing the workers. These people range from the same age as Gao De to the semi-old men in their forties and fifties. He wears a wear-resistant gray overalls, big scalp boots on his feet, and a hard hat on his head. Although they were all in tatters, they were neatly dressed, and they were not the kind of slave coolies that Gao De expected.

Listening to them is not a numb walking corpse, lean but muscular, not to the point of malnutrition. These signs alone are enough to show that the mine owner is not a black-hearted boss.

The problem is that the power of the plague in each worker is about the same, there is no particularly strong one, and there is no obvious weak one. For Gao De, who has been focusing on the cultivation of demons during this time, this is simply a standardized demon training camp.

Gauder listened for a long time, and the workers were always talking in a normal tone, and they could not hear anything at all that did not correspond to their identity, which made his doubts shine in two veins.

What special means is the master of this place using to imprenuate the workers into demons without them being conscious?

The principal didn't know, what monsters in the mine had soaked the workers?

If it's the former, the subject of the investigation has to be turned to the principal, and in the case of the latter, you'll have to go into the mine to see.

Gao De didn't make a rash decision, he hid farther away, and told Zi Xuan not to move, temporarily withdraw from Zi Silk, and make arrangements on the other side.

Soon returned to Zi Xuan's body, and was about to decide which route to choose, but heard the sound of understanding the trouser belt.

"He walked over this way just now," Zi Xuan sent an eager thought, "The demon lord told me not to move, so I didn't move." ”

Therefore, fanatical believers who only know that they worship gods and demons have no way to rely on it, and they have no subjective initiative at all!

Zixuan hid under the minecart, and the guy stood on the minecart and took out the guy to prepare water, and it was impossible to dodge without being discovered.

Gao De helplessly opened his body sideways, and at the same time waved a mental concussion.

The source of Zixuan's power is the evil demon Nazas, and she and Nazath constitute the most special figure that Gao De has, and even a demon of the level of Shen Ze, the old man He, can deal with it when she is fully exerted, so Gao De can rest assured that she will be able to manipulate her to explore alone.

Now it's just to deter a low-level demon, maybe even a demon who can't even be considered a demon, so it's naturally extremely easy.

However, what to do after the shock is a bit nerve-wracking, neither he nor Zixuan can use mind control tricks.

The guy's eyes were out of focus, and he stood like a sculpture on the minecart, and Gao De thought quickly.

"Have you been holding back a well and haven't finished peeing yet?"

The worker in the distance beckoned: "Don't mess around, no more dreamers will eat your soul again!"

After no response for a while, the worker shouted, "Little four, are you deaf!?"

The young miner standing on the minecart came to life and stammered, "A snake just jumped over just now, and it scared me!"

"Look at your appearance," the worker sneered, "Are you afraid that the snake will bite your egg?"

"I—I've got to go back," the miner called Xiao Si panicked, "his pants got wet." ”

"If you don't have the strength, if you don't have the guts, you shouldn't have come here in the first place. The worker spat out, "I think you can go back to the countryside and farm more than here." ”

"Go back and bring us something to eat," said another worker, "and we'll do some of the work for you, but don't wait too long." ”

Xiao Si jumped out of the minecart to clean up, and behind the minecart, where other workers couldn't see, the skinny cloaked man chuckled: "It's really wet." ”

"Lord Messenger," Xiao Si was so nervous that he was dead, "Did I make any mistakes?"

"It has nothing to do with you," Gao De tried to make Zixuan's voice deeper, so that it didn't sound like a little girl: "This official is just passing by here, just take a look." ”

Pointing to the shack, "Let's go, when you meet someone, they will say that I am a relative who has come to find you." ”

He walked in front, Xiao Si blocked behind, blocking the view of those behind him, and walked towards the shack area.

Just now, Gao De was eager to take out the name of Jinyiwei, compared to Yu Linwei and even Xingtian, Jinyiwei is more well-known outside of Zhongjing, and it is also more deterrent. For a miner from a village like Xiao Si, this name is enough to erase any doubts about Zixuan's identity, after all, the ability to make himself stiff like a puppet with a wave of his hand is only worthy of Jinyiwei.

"The villain's name is Luo Xiaosi, from Beitun Sanli, Xingwu County, Huanzhou, his father died early, and he has two sisters and a pair of younger siblings......"

On the way, Gao De asked Xiao Si to report to his house, but he came as soon as he opened his mouth.

"The villain came to the mine this spring, and the steward said that there are three golden dragons for food and lodging every month after doing homework, and the excess is twenty silver horns per car. Yes, the master's surname is Qiu, but we rarely see it, and it's the foremen who are in charge of us. ”

"Strange things? When the villain first came, everything was very strange, haha......"

"The mine is very deep, there are a lot of snakes and mice, by the way, I've seen centipedes longer than human legs, is that a strange thing?"

Along the way, Gao De asked, and Xiao Si replied with a cheerful heart. This is an optimistic and positive young man, and he is not bad in this mine, and he does not have the exhaustion and numbness that Gao De expected.

Soon came to the shack area, when the workers were all working, there were few people empty, and there was no supervisor, so I avoided the trouble of being stopped and questioned.

Entering a shack, Xiao Si said with some embarrassment: "Can adults wait outside, let me change my pants first?"

For the sake of Zixuan's physical and mental health, Gao De didn't plan to go in. After a few glances just now, there is no need to go in. The furnishings in the shack were similar to those of a makeshift board house at a construction site in the previous world, with eight high-low iron beds, each with a wardrobe and a suitcase, just a place to sleep.

After changing into overalls and coming out, Xiao Si rubbed his stomach and said, "I'm going to go to the guy room to get some food for the guys, and I want to eat some myself, ...... adults."

Gao De nodded and didn't speak, just looking at the miners' food.

went to the big long house on the edge of the shack area like a canteen, and Xiao Si greeted the people behind the counter: "Four pieces of dry food, one ......"

He looked at Gao De again, saw Gao De nodded and said, "Two servings of wet food." ”

"Take the ......"

The other party took out four square-shaped pieces that looked like compressed biscuits, and scooped out two plates of slimy things from the cauldron.

"Who is this?" finally saw Zixuan, and the man asked, "Which child is it?"

"Relatives at home," Xiao Si responded nervously: "Come to me." ”

"Have you suffered a disaster," said the half-old man, who did not see that he was a cook at all, but was kind: "We are full, and we don't have enough more." ”

Sitting in the corner with a plate, Xiao Si swallowed it in one gulp, and Gao De ate it. The texture is a bit like mashed potatoes, the taste is a little light, but it is suitable as a staple food, but is it really nutritious enough to eat this thing?

"The foreman said that this is made by a machine, and it is much more expensive than the grain grown by our countrymen. ”

Xiao Si subconsciously said with a sense of superiority: "Eating this thing is more satisfying than eating meat, and it is also vigorous, it is light, it is light, it is good to get used to it, it is difficult to get tired of eating." Sometimes I follow the minecart to Huanzhou City, and I feel like vomiting after eating a meal there. ”

When he said the back, he realized that something was wrong: "Ah, I'm too talkative, adults must be tired of eating." ”

Gao De waved his hand to show that he didn't care, and took the dry food to check, and it was indeed made of molds, otherwise there would not be such a regular sealed package.

There are lines of small print on the packaging, and Gao De almost vomited when he saw the text clearly.

"Integrated nutrition supply dry ingredients. ”

This is special feed! It is a feed that is only for cats and dogs in Zhongjing!

Just near the Tongtianhe Wharf in Xicheng, there is a feed workshop. The mold in the workshop is very magical, throw any plant or animal into it, you can make pieces of packaged feed dry food. Although it is not stated that it is for livestock, it can be eaten by cats, dogs, cattle and sheep, as well as chickens and ducks. People can naturally eat it, but for the citizens of Zhongjing, even beggars will not eat this thing easily.

As for the price, for the workshop, the production cost is so low that it almost only needs to calculate the labor, and the raw materials are negligible, so it is naturally very cheap.

I thought that the principal here was quite conscientious, but I didn't expect that in order to save that little money for food, he actually fed the workers.

Gao De's eyes fell on Xiao Si, looking at the thick fabric of this tooling, I am afraid that it is made of packaging materials similar to woven bags.

No, no, whether it is feed or woven bags, after all, it is a means for ordinary bosses to cut costs, but it is just a matter of conscience, and it has nothing to do with the magic light on Xiao Si and all the workers, including the chef just now.

In short, everything is normal at the moment, but it is not normal because it is normal.

Gao De's eyes rose to Xiao Si's head, and when he saw that he was still wearing an iron hard hat, he said casually: "Don't you feel troublesome to wear a hat when you eat?"

"It's a habit," Xiao Si smiled embarrassedly and took off his hat: "The foreman requires us to wear it all the time, even when we eat, which is indeed a bit troublesome." ”

Just took off his hat, Gao De...... No, Zi Xuan's pupils suddenly constricted.

Just above Xiao Si's head, wisps of emerald green magic light diffused out like sweat, and then swirled back with his breath.

"I'll look at ......"

He took his hat and held back the smell of sweat to observe, and in his detached vision, a faint dark green vortex was slowly turning at the bottom of the hat.

Is that......

Scales of Chaos!