At dawn the next day, the shrill sound of the horn pulled us back from our deep slumber. ┏┛

This was followed by the sound of commands in Roman, Persian, and Semitic languages, which spread to every corner of the island through the expansion of brass trumpets.

The slaves, scattered on the beach by the sea, rushed to the reef platform under the longhouse.

It can be seen that the horn and the sound of the horn are both instructions for the morning assembly.

According to Ed's usual style these days, latecomers will be severely punished.

Qin Chong and Liu Zhen'er and I didn't have time to retrieve the grain bags hidden under the stone cliff, so we ran to the meeting place in a panic with the flow of people.

In order to prevent the slaves from rebelling, Ed's log longhouse was located at the top of a rocky hill, with only a drawbridge connecting to the outside.

With the strength of the three of us climbing up with our bare hands, facing the Roman overseers with more than twenty strong armor and long knives, there was no chance of winning at all.

Even if you fight hard to kill all these people, where can you flee to the island?

It will take three days and three nights to get to the nearest coast, and we may not even have a wooden raft ready, and we will be chopped into meat by Roman reinforcements from other places.

If you want to survive, you can only endure humiliation and seek the best opportunity.

Because of Ed's overnight "cave room", he didn't even have the strength to stand, and he held on to the railing of the sundeck with both hands, and hissed to teach us the kung fu of a cup of tea.

Then the drawbridge was lowered, and more than a dozen on-site supervisors with soft whips and scimitars and short swords at their waists came to us with fierce looks.

Like a shepherd counting lambs, he divided all the slaves into five columns and brought them to a backing ?? Lake, on the edge of gray-white hills.

The stone trough on the cliff wall that has just been mined for a short time is clearly visible, and hundreds of stone hammers left by the previous group of quarrymen are discarded in the reef around the hill.

Upon arrival at the site, in addition to the mechanics in charge of instructing, the other overseers and thugs had silently dispersed, occupying all the best positions around the quarry that were easy to defend and difficult to attack.

If any slave in the field is in trouble and does not listen to the command, they can besiege it as quickly as possible.

All of this was done with ease, and it seemed that the sale of slaves to dig mountains and build forts was not once or twice for the soldiers of these knights' forts.

The two mechanics named Paul and Hulk were much kinder than the thugs, and they ordered a cut stone to be placed on a high platform, and a wooden stick was held to explain to us the process of quarrying.

It's a pity that we can't understand Roman, otherwise we would have suffered a lot less in the future.

The whole process of quarrying, that is, the five parts of mining point, tangential, chiseling, hammering, and stone extraction, but it is not a one-day effort to master the know-how of each node.

For a skilled masonry, three stone bars a day is not too much work.

But for me, Qin Chong, and Liu Zhen'er, the three businessmen who have never touched a long chisel or a stone hammer, it is difficult to earn 10,000 gold.

The Roman and Persian countries have a tradition of building stone castles, temples, mausoleums, theaters, and aqueducts.

Therefore, every adult man in the country is a skilled masonry.

After the task was issued, the scene soon sounded the sound of ping-pong chisel falling hammer, and for a while the dust was filled, and the sound of falling hammers sounded in all directions.

Quarrying is a technical job, and if you don't get the hang of it, even if you do it, it will only backfire.

The morning sun slowly rises from the east side of the sea, and the fog on the island slowly dissipates.

On the side of the Persians and Semites, the first stone has entered the final stage of the groove.

And Qin Chong and Liu Zhen'er and I got almost nothing except for smashing the original notch.

When Overseer Paul saw us making such progress, he roared in a rage, and the soft leather whip in his hand rained down on us.

Qin Chong and Liu Zhen'er's eyes had clearly told me that it was time to start.

But after glancing around, reason reminded me that while I could take the opportunity to kidnap Paul, there was no chance of escape.

The Romans were all masters of bidding, and the long bids in the hands of more than a dozen Roman overseers flew at the same time, which could tie the three of us into hedgehogs.

I had to argue with Paul with gestures, telling him that we didn't understand his language and hadn't done masonry.

It took a long time for Paul to understand what I meant.

He waved his hand and summoned two overseers, completely dismantling the quarrying combination of the three of us, Liu Zhen'er and I were incorporated into the Persian group, and Qin Chong also had two completely unfamiliar partners.

Happiness in this world is often not because of what you have or how much you get, but how many of your own kind around you are worse than you, which is the great evil of human nature.

Confucius said that the way to govern the country is not to suffer from poverty but from inequality.

The meaning is that governing the world is not afraid of the poverty of all living beings, and the most taboo is the inequality between the rich and the poor and the injustice of rewards and punishments, which is also a thorough understanding of this kind of human nature.

My two Persian companions were shriveled and obscene, and even if they were not slaves, they would be like a wast in this world.

But ever since I joined their quarrying group, these two guys have been babbling at me, and their faces are full of radiance like aphrodisiacs.

You don't have to guess to know that they are using the most vicious, pickled? The language ridiculed and cursed me, the quarrying "stupid bird", and the "dumb" who could not understand Persian, as a sign of superiority.

They also wanted me to do the errand of helping the chisel, and because I didn't know the skill, they hammered the guy down with a stone, and shook my internal organs apart.

Many times, if it weren't for my quick reflexes, my hands would have been reduced to meatloaf under their sledgehammers.

Without the slightest hint of repentance, they could still laugh proudly.

As a slave without dignity and freedom, he treats me like this, and he is not a wicked person or a villain!

I'm so angry, if they were such stupid people in the past, ten or twenty wouldn't be able to get into my eyes, it's really a tiger falling in Pingyang and being bullied by dogs!

Qin Chong, who couldn't stand the shame of being bullied, broke out in an instant, and beat his two Persian partners into the ground and ascended to heaven with three punches and two kicks.

If it weren't for the timely arrival of those Roman overseers who blocked Qin Chong's arms with sharp Changge, the heads of these two Persians would have already moved.

The result can be imagined, and the five fierce overseers surrounded Qin Chong in the middle and beat him in turn.

The knife is on the neck, and the hero is bullied by the vicious dog, and he is very sad!

As punishment, the Roman overseer finally hung Qin Chong from a palm tree in front of the mountain, where he was left to the scorching sun.

When Liu Zhen'er and I put him down in the evening, this good brother was already angry.

In addition to the pain of corporal punishment, it is more because the resentment that cannot be vented, and it is stuffed in the chest and accumulates into injuries.

It was not okay to be bullied by the Romans, and even the equally humble Persian slaves dared to trample on us at will.

Oh, my God! Our brothers have been on the rivers and lakes for many years, how did they get into such a field now!

The two Persians in the same group as Qin Chong were no better, the original task of three people and nine stone bars, even if they had completed seven pieces before the sun set for a while.

There is also a penalty for failing to complete the day's ration, but this punishment is a bit ingenious.

The two poor fellows were carried into two long rattan baskets by the Romans like eagles and chickens, and their necks were fastened to the baskets with iron locks.

Then dip the pig cage and put the two of them into the shore?? In the deep waters of the lake, it was soaked all night.

Fortunately, it was still Meng Xia at the end of August, otherwise these two guys would have frozen to death.

But it was an inhuman torture to stand so upright in the sea without rest, and when the Persian companions carried them up the next morning, the two men were only breathing out and not breathing.

A few sips of fresh water, a few handfuls of wheat, and a long day in the sun before he came to his senses.

These two punishments of the Roman overseers gave us two most direct warnings to all the slaves on the island.

One is honest quarrying and transporting stones, and those who cause trouble without permission can't eat and walk around.

The second is to have the spirit of teamwork, each group of three people division of labor, nine stones of the daily workload, can not complete the task, do not ask the lazy and familiar three people at the same time to be punished.

This is a gift from heaven for me, Qin Chong, and Liu Zhen'er.

The Persian masons in the same group no longer dare to make things difficult for us at will, otherwise they will be doomed by us and other foreign millers.

Moreover, those of us who have been practicing martial arts for a long time will be beaten more than these ordinary slave laborers, and the skin wounds left by the soft whips, fists and feet of the Roman overseers will only need to rest for one night and will be restored.

Qin Chong, who had been hung for a day, joked to me and Liu Zhen'er afterwards that he slept on it for a day.

The scorching sun on the Mediterranean Sea is like a sunny day in March of fireworks compared to the scorching hell in the Huanglong Sand Sea in the Western Regions.

can say that Qi Ruosi is a day of sleep, Qin Chong's kid's strength in suffering makes me sincerely admire.

And the three of us Eastern slaves and those Persians and Semites were married.

During the quarrying process every day, two people in the same group opened, mined, chiseled, and hammered according to the rhythm of their skilled masonry, which made me and other novices tired and had no time to spare.

Unpreventable scheming injuries ensued, and these internal strife Roman overseers disdained to manage, and reporting to them would only be self-inflicted.

The long strips of dark stones, which are about a foot long and thick and weigh thousands of catties, are mined down, dragged out of the notches, and then lifted to the designated position, and the danger is everywhere.

Or fake a fall on the way and put all the weight on my back.

Or they hide danger and don't remind me to touch it.

Fortunately, I have the strength and the ability to be exquisite, otherwise my life would have been planted in the hands of these two Persians.

Their intentions are obvious, to let the three of us Orientals die unexpectedly, or to maim us.

Once you become a ruined person on this Alcatraz Island, there is only one way to die.