Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Sinking Hook Mine (Feed 120 Ma Jia More for Book Friends)
Caitlin follows Jeno to the Sinking Hook Mine, which is both a pit and a prison.
The owner of the pit was the Countess of Vos, who made an agreement with the other alchemy barons that the entire slave prisoners of Zaun would be sent here to wait for death in harsh conditions and intense work.
Occasionally, the Countess of Voss accepted the prisoner's painful confessions and confessions under torture, and the reward was to be freed—with her blade.
But the source of this pain has been blown up, and the Countess of Voss does not know what the stimulus has been, from an executioner to a deranged madman.
Standing in front of the pit, Jeno stopped.
I don't know when it was blown up again, and large and small rubble piled up at the mouth of the tunnel, clearing only a passage two or three meters wide.
There were no miner's lamps in the tunnel, and the darkness was thick and bottomless.
There are no lights, which means that someone blew up this place not to mine rich crystals, but for another purpose.
Caitlin studied the gravel powder on the pavement at the mouth of the tunnel, and found that there were frequent people coming in and out, and ...... Not long ago, people entered one after another, and judging from the shape of the footprints, there were not only people, but also beasts, robots, and so on, but there were very few footprints that came out...... This suggests that they may still be inside.
"This big footprint is Mondo's."
Caitlyn gestured to a string of footprints that looked like Bigfoot had stepped on.
"The footprints are still fresh, and the heels are relatively deep, indicating that he ran in, and according to Mondo's character analysis, he should be chasing something."
The rest, a bit cluttered, and that's all Caitlyn could see.
"Go inside, but be careful not to attract the attention of the people inside." Jano blocked the Hex core on his chest, ready to wait for his eyes to adjust to the darkness, and then move forward in the dark.
He hadn't walked in long before he heard Caitlyn fall down with a pop from behind.
Jeno turned to pick up Catelyn, "What's wrong?" ”
"I seem to have stepped on something strange."
She had just stepped on something unusual, and the strange touch made her sensitive feet soften, and she had fallen to the ground when she came back to her senses.
Fortunately, she was dressed tightly and was not injured.
After being helped up, Caitlyn leaned down to inspect the obstacle she had fallen on, and was shocked to find that it was actually a charred and rotten arm!
Immediately afterward, Jeno also found a charred corpse on both sides of the road, partially buried by rubble, looming.
Then, more bodies were found, hundreds or thousands, and they were no different from the rubble blocking the road, which was cleared to both sides and left unattended.
"These bodies were all blown up! Look at the shackles on their feet, they used to be miners in the mines! ”
Caitlyn cried out, uncool, as if she could smell the disgusting smell of rot through her breathing mask.
"These miner slaves were killed by the explosion that swept through the trench, and that explosion even collapsed the alchemy lab, causing the horrific poison gas leak two months ago."
Jeno touched his trembling device, remembering that he had come from a gas leak that had occurred after the explosion.
Jeno also knew who caused the accident, and knew from the beginning that he was the former executioner of Noxus and the murderer of the current serial slaughter of the Alchemy Baron, Ergarth.
He already knew that it was Ergarth that Camille wanted him to investigate, and the reason why he came to Zaun was just to show Camille, who was secretly observing.
Unexpectedly, the screaming crash was in front and Mondo was missing, and now he has been completely involved in this accident and can't get out.
Catelyn was also involved.
He shook his head suddenly, shaking out the thoughts that had come out of his head, leaving only one thought, which was to bring Mondo to Britz, and then wait for Scream to be repaired and take Caitlin back to Piltover safely.
"Let's move on, be careful."
Jeno told Caitlin to follow him and continued to make her way deeper into the tunnel.
It didn't take long for the two of them to notice a dim light in front of them, as well as the sounds of conversation.
After the handover, the two lowered their bodies again and quietly touched in.
Behind a half-human-high rock, the two men lay down and pressed close together.
In front of the stone where the two were hiding, there was an open field, and the mine above it had collapsed like a skylight, casting a little cold moonlight after the haze had been cleared.
There were several alchemy villains patrolling the grounds, alert for the appearance of suspicious characters, but Jeno and the others hid well, avoiding waves of eye glances.
"Mondo is there too."
Jeno could see Mondo at a glance, his skin was very conspicuous, but he was not in good condition.
Mondo's arms were bound by several chains, like mummies, and the two exposed were also scarred and riddled with bullet holes.
A huge mechanical leg like an elephant's leg stepped on him, this leg came from a huge monster wearing an iron frame, more than three meters tall, the lower half of the body was completely mechanized, and six crab arthropod-like mechanical legs were loaded with many muzzles, roughly welded to the flesh.
The iron armor was also loaded with many alchemical devices, his mask was connected to many hoses, the liquid in the hoses was gurgling, glowing with a strange green light, and the only part of his body that could see the human form was his sleek fat head.
He is Ergart......
More than ten meters away, Jeno could clearly hear Ergat's violent wheezing, like the wail of bellows.
Caitlin was almost vomited by the monster's ugliness, the alchemy device makes people stronger, and it also makes ugly people uglier, and Urgart's bald head has a terrifying face that can scare children to death, and has undergone such a crude mechanical transformation, in short, it is scary ugly.
Just a glance at it from afar, the imprint of fear would be firmly on her body, but Caitlyn forced herself to look at it.
There was also a bald head standing opposite Urgat, but the other party looked much thinner than him, with a hooked nose, a white coat, deep eye sockets, and cloudy eyes.
Because of the height difference, he had to raise his head to see Urgat's face, so the forehead had layers of forehead lines on his forehead.
"Sinjid, take your test subject away."
Urgart took a sharp breath and stirred up a cyclone, he lowered his leg from Mondo and kicked forward, and Mondo rolled in front of Sinjid.
Mondo let out a senseless howl, not knowing whether it was because of pain or pleasure.
"This long-tongued monster with a low IQ can only shout...... Sick of it! You go back and remember to cut out his tongue. ”
Ergart shot Mondo in the leg a few more times, I don't know if he was really impatient or warning Sinjid, but Mondo, the bullet was quickly squeezed out of the wound by his strong muscles, and he didn't bleed much, and he actually let out a comfortable snort.