Zif used a stone-hewn axe to crack a tiny crack in the mountain wall. Following the rift, Zif continued to dig forward until the crack pierced an entire stone wall.

When Ziff had completed the first process, the rope slowly lowered the Wiemos from the top of the stone wall. Although it had been more than ten days, Vimos was still weak, and after a few dry coughs, he sat down on the hanging board again, and only then began to work with Zifu to knock vertically down the stone wall along the tiny crack.

The stone wall was carved out into a neat rectangle. At this time, two of Ziff and Vimos's cellmates, the tall Bakubali and the short Oumunelli, were also lowered from the top of the mountain wall by the other slaves with hanging ropes. They drove the iron wedge into the rift that Ziv and Vimos had hammered into it.

The solid rock resisted the entry of the iron wedge, and even as Ziff and Vimos tried their best to pull the iron wedge after digging the fissure, the four of them toiled all day without shaking the huge stone from the rock face.

After dark, the exhausted four were each whipped several times by the quarryman's Athore overseers to show their dissatisfaction with their work for the day.

Back in his cell, Vimos fell to the ground, complaining about his fate in a voice similar to a moan. After a while, he sat up again and began to pray to heaven. At such moments, Ziff is full of thoughts about Sammy.

Bakubali and Ebonelli were young and strong, and the whips of the Inspector of Athol didn't seem to leave much pain on them. Ebonelli had nothing to do, and on a whim, he learned to look like Movis in the dark cell and began to pray.

"We were born sinful, and I will atone for them in the world, which will lead to God's redemption." Movis saw that Oumunelli was learning from himself, so he preached to him earnestly.

Apparently Umenelli didn't understand what Movis was saying, but found it amusing, so the scholar Movis also chirped.

"Hey, do you know what he's talking about?" Koulibaly asked to Ebonali.

"How would I know." Oumunelli said.

"Then why do you want to learn from him?"

"I think it's funny that he's doing this, maybe he's praying to the witch pillar for rain tomorrow, and I want to do that, so that no one can continue to work."

"We've been here for a year, and it's only rained once." "I'm a little nostalgic for my hometown, when the rainy season comes, the drops of water fall hard, and I'll be hiding in the grass at that time to be lazy." ”

"Oh! Brothers... Listening to you say that makes me miss my hometown. It's been a long time since I've seen that kind of rain. I... I miss my mom and my sister too... With that, Ugunelli began to hug Koulibaly and began to cry.

"What's wrong with them?" Ziff asked Vimos as he looked at the two who suddenly hugged each other and cried.

"God must be moving them."

"I think they're probably upset because they don't understand what you're saying."

"It's humorous, Brother Zif, but it's hard for me to laugh." Vermos said.

"It's not much humor." Ziff sighed, "Don't you think that sometimes the four of us live in this little cage, but we can't talk to each other and encourage each other, isn't it very sad? ”

"The language is the same.." "That's just two more people to talk to." ”

"No, if we can understand their words, then we can really know what they are crying about. We will comfort them and make them strong. At the same time, you can truly spread God's will to him, and you don't have to let him guess what you say. Ziff said as he looked at Vimos.

Vemos was silent for a moment, then nodded earnestly to Ziff and said, "I think we can try to teach them our language." ”

"In the same way, we have to learn from theirs."

Bakubali and Ebonelli are clever learners who learn very quickly, and when the weather starts to get a little cold, they already speak some simple Huron. Of course, while teaching them, Ziff and Wiemos naturally learned some of their words from the Far South.

When night falls, the four of them sit in a cell in the middle of the rock wall, and some jerky words, strange pronunciations, and clumsy body language always make them feel that there is still a glimmer of fun and hope in life.

On a slightly warm afternoon, Zif and Vimos were hewn a boulder into shape. Suddenly, Vimos turned his head to see a team of about a dozen people, escorted by soldiers, into the quarrying area.

Movis saw that the leader of the quarry area greeted the group in a panic, and also knelt down to the young man with a thin body, a torch-like eye, and an extraordinary appearance in the middle of the crowd.

"Who are those people?" Vimos asked Ziff in a whisper.

"I don't know, but the man behind him—" Ziff stole a glance at the Athore soldier not far away, making sure he hadn't noticed him before he said, "It's the Huron, we've met." ”

"Oh! It's that traitor, oh my God. That's him. He changed his clothes. Vimos cursed in a low voice, "This demon, he will fall into endless hell." ”

Led by the leader of the quarry, the team made a few laps among the huge stones that had been mined, and then suddenly turned to the side of Ziv and Vimos, and slowly walked towards them.

From time to time, Vimos turned his head to look at them, and he saw that they were all dressed in almost uniform gray linen clothing, and each wore a gold badge with a special pattern on their chests. The soldiers who guarded them were all dressed in ornate scale armor, armed with sharp short spears, and delicate scimitars embedded in their waists.

"Hey! They're coming. Vimos said vigilantly.

Zif wanted to reply to Vimos, but a few of the Yasol soldiers who had been standing not far from them suddenly walked quickly towards them. The soldiers who came not only stopped Ziv and Vimos's work, but also quickly snatched the tools from their hands.

Ziff and Vimos watched in horror as the soldiers had snatched their tools, but they did not see any further movement until the group approached.

"The giant master asked me to ask you, did you two build this rock?" The Huron "traitors" stepped forward and asked the confused Vimos and Zif.

Before Ziff and Vimos could answer, the soldiers behind them threw them down in front of the "traitor" and knelt on the ground. Veymus felt resentful at the moment, and he did not answer the words of the "traitor". After kneeling, Zifu said in a slightly trembling voice, "Yes, my lord. It was the two of us who built it. ”

"How long did it take you to get to where you are now?" The traitor continued to ask Zif.

"It took five days." Zifu didn't dare to lie, "My lord, we promise that we will finish the chisel soon, please give us some more time." ”

The "traitor" ignored Zif, turned to the imposing man behind him, and instead translated Zif's words to him in Asor.

After a conversation between "Jushi" and "traitor" that Zifu did not understand, the young man known as Jushi walked up to the stone that was about to be hewn into shape, carefully checked the smoothness of the stone, took a ruler from one of his attendants, and made a simple measurement.

After the "Great Master" and his entourage commented on the stones hewn by Ziv and Vimos in the Athorid language, he left with the group. It wasn't until they were far away that the soldiers behind the two slowly let go of the hands that were tightly pressing Ziv and Vimos.

"Who is that person? The one who is called the Giant. As night fell, Vimos leaned against the colder rock wall of his cell, coughed a few times, and then asked Zif.

"I don't know, maybe it's the leader of the traitorous team, or maybe it's the big leader of the entire quarry." Zifu thought for a moment and said, "Seeing the way the traitors are respectful to him, and they are all guarded by elite guards, I think he should be a person of honorable status." ”

"It's nice to be guarded by soldiers. But I don't think they dress like people of any honorable status, don't you think their clothes are a little too plain? "It's the coarsest kind of gray linen," said Movis. ”

"Is it Grey Hemp? The kind that doesn't even dye the color? "I was a little nervous and didn't pay much attention to the details. ”

"It's gray."

"If it's gray, it's very simple indeed. However, I remember the first time we met the traitor, he was dressed in our own clothes. Speaking of this, Ziff couldn't help but think of the scene when he was separated from Sammy at that time, and he couldn't help but feel a little sad.

"That's good. He was an insult to the traditional dress of our Hurons. After speaking, Veemos spat hard.

"Brother Vimos, I don't know whether to ask or not." Ziff said.

"Just say it, there's nothing we can't say between us." Vermos said.

"I wonder why you raised your hand when the traitors recruited stonemasons," said Zif. ”

"Because I'm a stonemason." Vimos said solemnly, "Didn't you raise your hand because of this?" ”

"I... Sort of. Ziff paused and then said, "Actually, my son Sammy is also a stonemason, and I have been teaching him to be a stonemason since he was a child. ”

"Then why didn't he raise his hand with you? If you refuse to accept it together, then you can be together, at least, in this quarry. Vimos said.

"Perhaps, he is tired of being a stonemason." Ziff said with some gloom.

After a moment of silence, Vimos slowly spoke, "Brother Zif, in fact, I can think that your son probably doesn't want to contribute to the enemy and traitors. I can see that I don't want to either. But then again, since Huron has fallen completely, and since they have captured us, even if I am not a stonemason, I think they will still pull us to do other work for them. From the time of the fall of Huron, our fate was not ours. ”

Ziff nodded silently, and after a long while, he said, "Sammy is still a child, he is very young. He doesn't know as much as you think. Ziff sighed, "I just want to live strong no matter what he's doing now." Perhaps, there will be a day when we will see hope. ”