Yudu Hotel is the only foreign-related hotel in Hpakant, but Tang Jingcheng went to the door to find that it was just a small three-story concrete building, the building was lit up, and a few gray off-road vehicles were parked on the flat ground poured with cement at the door.

However, compared to the surrounding cluttered wooden houses and shacks, the condition of this three-storey building is significantly better.

Ladumin took Tang Jingcheng's luggage and took Tang Jingcheng into the hotel lobby.

"Miss Tang, you are waiting for me here. I'll go get the keys for you. ”

Tang Jingcheng immediately took out his passport from the small bag he was carrying and handed it to him, but he waved his hand again and again: "No need for this." ”

"Shouldn't you register with your passport?"

"It's not that much trouble." Radumin walked to the front desk with his suitcase, and the front desk was in charge of receiving a skinny Burmese girl.

Radumin leaned over and said a few words to the girl in Burmese, and the girl immediately took out a bunch of keys from the drawer at hand, and looked at Tang Jingcheng twice.

Tang Jingcheng nodded at her slightly, and the girl immediately buried her head a little shyly.

Radumin quickly took the key and came back: "Let's go, Miss Tang, I'll send you up." ”

The room is on the third floor, by the east, the area is not large, there is a separate toilet, the furnishings and conditions are equivalent to the level of a single room in a domestic guest house, but the bed is a mat.

"Miss Tang, our conditions are relatively poor, so you will live here first."

"No, that's good." Tang Jingcheng pointed to the TV on the cabinet and the air conditioner on the wall. "There are still these appliances."

"Hehe......" Radumin scratched his head a little unnaturally, "these appliances can only be used as decorations, and you can't use them." ”

"Why?"

"Because of the lack of electricity, the electricity used in the entire mining area basically depends on generators, and the voltage can't keep up, so the lights can be lit."

“……”

Sure enough, after Ladumin left, Tang Jingcheng found that the TV couldn't be turned on, the network had no signal, and even the only electric fan in the room that could cool down was interrupted from time to time.

The environment here was really much worse than she had imagined.

Tang Jingcheng could only open all the windows in the room, but fortunately, it was late at night. The dew in the mountains is also heavy, and some cool breeze can blow in.

She stood at the window and looked out at the mountains not far away, overlapping and hidden in the night, with the occasional sparkling light, and the roar of the excavator was still clear in her ears, including the bodies that had been dragged away from her......

She didn't know where the bodies would be dragged, but this wasn't what she had imagined the Hpakant mining area to be.

Tang Jingcheng glanced up at the sky, deep mountains, but the sky seemed to be covered with a layer of gravel, gray, and there was not a single star in sight.

The fan in the night was always good, Tang Jingcheng was woken up by the heat several times, and when it was close to dawn, she fell asleep, and she didn't know how long she slept, and finally was woken up by the increasingly noisy sound of the excavator outside the window.

When I woke up, it was already seven o'clock the next morning, and the miners in the mountains had already started work.

Tang Jingcheng couldn't sleep anymore. I went to the bathroom and took a shower, changed my clothes and stood at the window, and the sky was bright in front of me, and everything I saw was completely different from last night.

Built on the mountain, Hpakant is halfway up the hill with all kinds of wooden buildings and shacks, and the roofs are all blue or black, mixed with the trees to form a special scene.

Tang Jingcheng glanced at his watch, took out his mobile phone and wanted to call Su Jue.

They had already changed their local Myanmar phone cards in Mandalay, but they couldn't get through after a few calls.

The signal in the mountains was so bad that she had no choice but to give up.

Just as he was about to go downstairs, Radumin came, still driving the army-green Toyota SUV.

"Miss Tang, it's early."

"Early."

"Have you had breakfast?"

"Not yet. I was about to eat. ”

"Then I'll take you to the restaurant, the hotel will provide breakfast."

The breakfast was nothing more than some local pastries and a few side dishes, but luckily there was milk. Although it doesn't taste good, it can finally be drunk.

Tang Jingcheng sat in the restaurant and forced himself to eat some, and accidentally found that Ladumin, who was sitting opposite, was still wearing the blue shirt from yesterday, but the shirt was already very dirty, and the shoes on his feet were also covered with mud.

"You didn't go back to sleep at night?"

"How can I sleep, when such a big event happens, Mr. Su is still staying up in the mining area."

"You said he didn't sleep either?"

"Yes, I can't sleep, I've been on the mine, and there are a few miners who go to make trouble in the morning." Radumin seemed to speak more straightforwardly, and he was not too wary of Tang Jingcheng.

Tang Jingcheng took the opportunity to ask him: "Is the situation very serious this time?" ”

"yes, after all, so many people died." Radumin's tone was not too unusual when he said this, and Tang Jingcheng thought of the corpses he saw last night.

"How many dead and wounded have you been counted so far?"

"Statistics?" Radumin smiled, "I don't know who was injured, some of them have been taken to the hospital in the town, but there are currently more than 100 bodies taken out of the mound, and this does not include the missing people." ”

Tang Jingcheng felt that his heart trembled obviously.

More than 100 bodies, this is not just a statistic, this was more than 100 living human lives.

"Why is there such a big accident?"

"We can't be blamed for mismanagement." Radumin was a little aggrieved, "The piece where the landslide occurred is our abandoned earthwork, the so-called abandoned earthwork is the sand and gravel mud dug out of the mine, a car is transported to a specially designated location, and a earthwork is formed over time, and on weekdays, there are often some quarrymen to dig things in the abandoned earthwork, and if you are lucky, you can also dig out the jade that was missed by the miners, but this kind of thing is very dangerous, you can hit the landslide if you are not right, and there are many miners' shacks around the earthwork, and the incident happened suddenly at night, and there was no chance to escape if you wanted to escape... …”

So most of them were buried alive under the rubble.

Radumin spoke plainly.

Tang Jingcheng swallowed: "How often does this kind of thing happen? ”

"Of course, there are at least dozens of large and small landslides and mining disasters in the mining area every year."

"The local government doesn't care?"

"How? More than 40% of Myanmar's national income comes from jade, not to mention that every miner has signed a life and death certificate when signing a labor contract, and in the event of a mining disaster, the jade mine owner only needs to pay a small part of the cost, so I really can't answer the question of how many dead and injured people I have just counted, because the corpses can be counted, and the missing people buried under may also be picked up, but the wounded who were sent to the hospital cannot be controlled. ”

"Can't control it? Why? ”

"Because ......," Ladumin sighed, "because the mine owners are not responsible for their treatment, and because we have poor medical conditions, the more seriously injured ones are fending for themselves." ”

Die...... How can this be!

"Su Fan doesn't care?"

"Of course it doesn't matter, every mine owner does it."

"But how can you let them fend for themselves, they are all living lives, what right do you have to ignore them?" Tang Jingcheng's tone suddenly became excited.

It's not a world she can imagine.

"I'm going to find Su Jue."

Even if the other mine owners don't care, he can't ignore it.

Tang Jingcheng immediately got up from the chair, and La Dumin hurriedly went over to stop her: "Miss Tang, are you going to the mining area?" ”

"Yes, I'm going to find you Mr. Su."

"Ouch, don't go, Mr. Su is very busy now and has no time to take care of you, he asked me to come just to bring you a message not to run around, and when things calm down tomorrow, he will send a car to send you back to Bagan."

"I'm not going!" How can she go now, "Take me to Su Jue, I have something to say to him." ”

In the end, Ladumin couldn't resist her, so he could only drive Tang to the mining area again.

It was dark last night, and everything was not clear to see, and now the scene of passing all the way to the mining area was reflected in Tang Jingcheng's eyes little by little.

There are improvised tents and shacks built everywhere along the roadside, flying sand, deep pits dug by excavators, and almost hollowed out hills on both sides of the road.

Tang Jingcheng was very depressed in his heart, and kept pinching the jade key on his wrist with his fingers.

The car drove on the road for about twenty minutes, and finally stopped at the door of a simple bungalow, with two signs hanging on the door, Burmese, and Tang Jingcheng couldn't see any fame.

It's just that as soon as she got out of the car, she smelled a strange sour and rotten smell in the air, not like the smell of sand and loess.

When I turned around and looked around, I noticed that black smoke was billowing up the mountain about a kilometer away, and the smell must have come from there.

Tang Jingcheng was a little surprised, pointed to the black smoke mountain and asked, "Is there a fire over there?" ”

Radumin frowned and covered his nose with his hands: "It's not a fire, it's burning things." After it was over, he seemed unwilling to continue the topic, and opened the door of the bungalow for Tang Jingcheng. Brother Hiroshi of the sausage.

"Miss Tang, why don't you go into the house and wait, there is an electric fan in the house, which is cooler than outside."

Tang Jingcheng was indeed about to faint, so he entered the house, the inside of the house was indeed much more comfortable than the outside, there was a ceiling fan above his head, and he roughly swept around and found that this bungalow should be a simple office in the mining area, four tables were put together, and two desktop computers were pressed on the table, and there were printers and fax machines next to them.

There's even a Xiaoice box in the corner.

"Miss Tang, sit down for a while, I'll go and find Mr. Su for you now."

Tang Jingcheng let out a "hmm".

Radumin opened the door and went out, but the landline on the table that had just walked to the door rang, and he ran back to pick it up.

"Hey, Manager Chao, you say... Yes, Mr. Su is still in the mine. What the? The old chairman and the young master have gone to Myitkyina? Okay, okay... Then I'll send someone to drive over to pick up ...... in a moment."

After hanging up the phone, Ladumin ran out with a roar.

Tang Jingcheng was also stunned for a moment.

Su Hongzhi and Su Zhan both came to Myanmar?

It seems that this time the matter has really gotten bigger.

About five minutes later, Su Jue came over, opened the door and entered the house, and was almost out of breath when he saw Tang Jingcheng sitting there.

"Why don't you stay in the hotel?"

"I can't stay!"

"Then take a stroll around the hotel, this is not the place for you to be!" Su Jue seemed to be really angry, and as he spoke, he took out a mask from his pocket, a disposable one, which is the kind of medical mask commonly used in hospitals.

"Put it on!"

"What for?"

"Put on the !!" Su Jue's voice was vicious, as if he was really annoyed by Tang Jingcheng's appearance.

Tang Jingcheng felt inexplicable, what did she do with the mask, but seeing Su Jue's expression so serious, she could only take the mask over, pull open the straps on both sides and was about to hang it on her ears, but for a moment, just for a moment... It was as if something had penetrated her heart at once.

She suddenly pushed Su Jue away and walked to the door, opened the door, and the position opposite the bungalow happened to be the top of the vein mountain, and the smoke above seemed to be even thicker.

"What's burning over there?"

"......" Su Jue did not answer.

Tang Jingcheng turned his head and stared at him: "Tell me, what's burning over there?" ”

"The bodies of the victims!"