"In other words, none of you have ever spent money in the city?" Tao Qi finally understood the reason why Cheng Biao and the others had no idea how the merit was consumed.

"Yes, have you ever stayed in the capital city?" Brother Cheng, the man in the green shirt, was finally moved, his brows furrowed, "You ......"

"Don't listen to his bragging, if he can stay, it means that his merit is right, and he won't use this hell at all!" The man in the green shirt was about to ask Tao Qi, but the little man Biao interrupted him, and said without believing Tao Qi's words at all.

The man in the green shirt was also a little incomprehensible, and asked in surprise, "Yes!" Could it be that you were not evil in the first place, but overspent in the capital city, and led to the success of merit, so you were degraded? ”

"......" Tao Qi saw that the two of them had a deep prejudice in their hearts, thinking that as long as they came to the first layer of hell, they could only be riddled with sins, and it was probably futile to explain to them, but he secretly said in his heart: "I'm afraid Lao Tzu's diǎn number is still ten!" ”

Seeing the expression on Tao Qi's face, Brother Cheng, a man in a green shirt who was old and heavy, immediately noticed that there might be something hidden at this time, but Tao Qi didn't say much, and he didn't ask anymore, but just changed the topic and said: "After chatting for so long, we haven't introduced each other yet, my name is Cheng Muran, everyone raises me, and praises me as the liaison officer of this mine temporarily, and the one who says it sounds good is called the liaison officer, and if it doesn't sound good, it's just the head of the prisoner, you can call me Brother Cheng." This is my adjutant, named Liu Biao, and if you call him Brother Biao, he will be very happy. ”

Tao Qi hurriedly shouted in a low voice: "Brother Cheng, Brother Biao." "In this unfamiliar place, there is nothing wrong with lowering your profile, and Tao Qi knows that in the case of insufficient strength. Only pretending - to die. There are few low-key deaths.

"Huh. No matter what your situation was in the capital city before, now that you are here, you can only stay here for the time being. Now that we know each other, you call me a brother, when my brother's ugly words can be said in front, in this first layer of hell can not raise idlers, if you want to live, if you want to eat and drink well, you have to mine like others, only earn merit coupons for yourself. can be exchanged for eating and drinking, otherwise you can only keep playing white strips, but our supply is limited, and my authority to give you white strips can support up to two days, and then I'm afraid it will be ......" Cheng Ran's soft and hard words made Tao Qi's heart sink, this person has been smiling, so that Tao Qi even has some (3) dǐng (3) diǎn (3) small (3) said, .2 ≮ 3.∧os_ (); Letting his guard down, it now seems that this person is able to say nothing here. It seems that this is not an idle person.

"Well, that's all there is to it. How could I make it difficult for Brother Cheng to do it? So how can I go to Shura City to meet the Warden as soon as possible? Of course, Tauchi will not forget the main purpose of coming here, and only by meeting the warden can he leave this hellish place as soon as possible.

"Then it depends on how brave you are, do you know how the two of us became liaison officers and led this mine?" Cheng Muran looked at Tao Qi, and the pride on his face was overflowing.

"Is it still dangerous to see the warden?" Tao Qi couldn't help but wonder.

"It's naturally not dangerous to see adults, but the road to Shura City here is not smooth. The jade mines we produce here, after preliminary screening, are transported to Shura City every month by camel caravans, and this desert is not only hotter than our little oasis, but also blows strong winds every day, and even the great sandstorms of the same strong just now often occur; Not to mention the harsh natural conditions, there are often powerful desert creatures on this road, some of them are powerful, some are more cunning than sandstorms, such as our most common sand scorpions, spinysnakes, etc., are extremely lethal.

Compared with sandstorms and desert creatures, there is an even more terrifying existence zài, that is, in this first layer of hell, there are still some demon beasts with cultivation. If we encounter desert creatures, we still have the power to protect ourselves, but if we encounter demon beasts, then we basically have no power to survive. Cheng Muran sat there calmly and explained to Tao Qi one by one, while he explained, he also observed Tao Qi's expression from time to time, seeing Tao Qi's face becoming more and more ugly, his heart gradually calmed down, and continued to preach for Tao Qi, "I think you also know that although we dead souls have a body in the underworld, this body is also a part of the six reincarnations, once we die in the underworld, we will be scattered, never reborn, and can not re-enter reincarnation." Because there were so many deadly dangers on this road to transport ore, no one was willing to risk their lives to lead a caravan to transport minerals, so the warden personally ordered that all prisoners who were willing to be in charge of transportation could serve as liaison officers in a place, not only not only were they exempt from mining and other productive labor, but also had the right to govern other people who were only engaged in productive labor in order to save their lives and refused to participate in transportation. ”

Hearing this, Brother Biao couldn't help but show an arrogant and domineering expression again, and interjected at the right time: "Brother Cheng and I are the only two people in our mine who dare to transport minerals, so the personnel and financial rights here are naturally in the hands of the two of us." ”

Cheng Muran glanced at Liu Biao, took over the conversation and continued: "As a liaison officer, I have the power to set the proportion of the production and labor in the territory under my jurisdiction, such as our mine, we will set the tap at 30%, and the interest rate of the white strip is 1 cent per day. I am talking so much to let you understand that you are currently facing two choices: one is to stay here to mine and turn in the tap on time, although it is considered to be exploited by the two of us, but there is no danger at all; One is to engage in the work of transporting minerals with the two of us, and if you choose so, you will not have to hand in the draw, but you will have to face all kinds of dangers on the desert road with the two of us, and you will be worried about your life at any time. You can receive fifty merit vouchers for participating in a single transport, and if you keep transporting with me in the future, you will directly become my adjutant and no longer need to participate in the gathering labor. The choice is yours, but if you choose to ship, since the last delivery happened seven days ago, so for more than half a month, you still have to participate in mining labor, otherwise if you want to eat for so long, you need to pay up to one cent of daily interest, and the profit is not a small amount. You think clearly and then decide, after a while, you will follow Ah Biao to get today's food! You can play white slips today, we don't charge you interest, whether to continue to play white slips tomorrow, wait until you think clearly, and then sue me. ”

After speaking. Cheng Muran glanced at Liu Biao. Liu Biao understood. Get up and leave the hut with Tauchi and go to another, slightly larger sand hut to pick up today's food.

On the way, Liu Biao reminded Tao Qi and said: "Every day you bear the heat here, you can get a merit diǎn number of atonements, remove the thirty percent of the tap between me and Brother Cheng, and you can get seven tenths of merit yourself, but the daily food costs one merit, and you also need to hit seven tenths of the merit white slip, which doesn't seem to be much." But we're pretty good, and if you don't get it then, hehe......" he said as his black hand touched the handle of the whip wrapped around his waist, and said, "My whip isn't vegetarian!" ”

Tao Qi just glanced at him and didn't answer, his virtue is really annoying!

In the sand hut known as the Mine, Tao Qi received his first meal in the first layer of Hell, and to Tao Qi's surprise, the quality of the food here was not as bad as he imagined, at least the minimum standard of "one yuan meal" was actually three meals a day. One loaf of bread per meal, one ham sausage. A bottle of mineral water, it seems that these foods should also be transported back from Shura City, and it is reasonable that they cannot be produced locally.

Tao Qi thought to himself, no wonder Brother Cheng and Brother Biao would collect taxes, if the road was really as dangerous as they said, and they were transporting minerals and supplies back and forth, the taxes were completely drawn with blood and lives. They are living a bloodthirsty life, and they do not have to take any risks when they are engaged in local production, although they are nominally exploited, but after all, they are only engaged in gathering, and there is no need to worry about safety, and these taxes are equivalent to paying a security deposit.

Sitting in the sand house that had just been assigned to him, Tao Qi looked at the white strip in his hand, and muttered in his heart: It seems that Cheng Muran is not lying, this person should have been in a high position during his lifetime, otherwise he would not have formulated the provisions on this white strip so leaky.

The sand house is not for nothing, and the daily rent is as high as one merit diǎn coupon, which makes Tao Qi really feel a sense of responsibility in this first layer of hell. This white strip is a real usury, and one cent of daily interest means that the white strip of merit will increase by 10% as interest every day, so that playing the white strip is equivalent to signing a deed of sale, and all the future labor will be done for nothing by Cheng Biao and the others.

Tao Qi secretly decided to start mining obediently from tomorrow, and it only took more than ten days and half a month to mine, and he could follow Cheng Biao and the others to Shura City to meet the warden. As the saying goes, there are many dreams at night, Tao Qi is not afraid of 10,000, just in case, in case he can't leave in a short time, these white loan sharks will take his life, he doesn't want to live like those card slaves, house slaves, and loan slaves in the Yang world, and he doesn't want to live like those old miners he saw before, living like a walking corpse.

This sand house is really good, the outside is like the ghost weather like a fire, and it feels much better inside the house, and there will be no feeling of being roasted. However, although it is much better, it is still hot, and I drink a lot more water than usual, and three bottles of mineral water a day seem to be the only minimum guarantee.

With mineral water and ham sausages, it only took a while for Tao Qi to solve the round bread, so that Tao Qi was already hungry to eat, although these foods are not very delicious, but when he is hungry, he can be satisfied with this.

Looking at the hourglass in the house, the time is not early, and you can rest early, and you can still have a good body to mine tomorrow. To say that this oasis mine is really poor, there is not even a quartz clock, and mining is still using the most primitive shovels, pickaxes and other tools, why not use those modern and even advanced technology things in the capital city?

Perhaps he was really tired, so he lay down and fell asleep, sleeping comfortably on the cactus bed, which he had only figured out the material of the cactus after many days, until the next day.

Although there is no sunrise or sunset in the Oasis Mine, it is indispensable to ensure that the miners have the necessary rest every day, so Cheng Biao and the others will order the miners to rest on time, and naturally they will go to Diǎn to urge them to get up. Just when Tao Qi was about to wake up, Liu Biao's broken gong voice suddenly sounded: "All up, all up, work, if you don't get up again, I will whip it." ”

Tao Qi reluctantly got up, walked out of the hut, and saw Liu Biao holding his long black whip, which never left his body, standing in a slightly larger open space surrounded by sand and dirt houses, shouting continuously. In front of him was a long table with staple food, drinking water, and dishes, which had already been picked up by the miners, who would eat and drink by the door of their huts, and some of whom had already taken their shovels and pickaxes and headed for the pits.

When he came to Liu Biao and said hello, Tao Qi told him that he planned to stop playing white strips today and start to go down to the mine to collect ore like other miners.

Liu Biao glanced at Tao Qi and showed a greedy smile, but his smile was even uglier than not smiling, and he said to Tao Qi: "Boy, that's right." You want to play white stripes, but Lao Tzu still doesn't want to fight! In case you don't get there, who am I looking for? ”

Tao Qi rolled his eyes secretly and asked him, "So, where do I go to get the tools?" I went down to the mine after eating. ”

"Oh, then you should make a blank slip first!" Liu Biao said with a seemingly harmless smile, "Tools also need to be bought, and you don't have any merit coupons, so you can only make another white slip to buy tools, oh yes, and now this meal expenses." ”

Tao Qi almost wanted to smoke him, but the form was stronger than a human, and he still needed patience. After playing the white strip, he found Cheng Muran and received the tools, and then followed a group of elderly miners down to the mine to collect.

Following the people, Tao Qi quietly walked down the not very wide alleyway, and the sand left by yesterday's sandstorm was already missing from the alleyway, and it seemed that it had been cleaned. Tao Qi walked without saying a word, he didn't try to communicate with the miners, after all, he and these people will be colleagues in the future. But these people didn't seem to be willing to say a word more, and even Tao Qi wouldn't answer a word if he asked ten questions, just took care of his own mining and left Tao Qi aside. Once again, Tauchi experienced the apathy of the miners here, who may have lost all their passion for decades, mining here day after day, year after year, without even participating in transportation.

But this is a bitter newcomer, Tao Qi is just an ordinary high school student before his death, how can he know how to mine? I don't know what kind of ore can be used to produce jade. According to Cheng Biao and the others, if the jade is not produced, then the ore is worthless. He took the pickaxe and ploughed it to the east, and saw the other miners gradually walking towards the depths of the mine, without glancing at the ore here, Tao Qi thought for a moment, threw away all the ore that had just been put into the basket, and walked deeper with the others.

(To be continued.) )