(102) Laborer life

Abaddon is in a very good mood now, because he has just taken a great fortune, and his acolytes triggered a special summon when Udor Finger summoned the Necropolis as the core building, and the more than 100 Acolytes and believers of the Cult of the Cursed God present all died, leaving behind a super giant necropolis that was five times the size of a normal necropolis, a huge flying city!

This kind of special summoning is an unattainable thing for the undead scourge, Abaddon himself is a special summoned death knight, each special summon will bring some unexpected surprises to the undead scourge, there are several specially summoned purple ghost towers in the headquarters of the Cult of the Damned, these towers are more than three times more powerful than ordinary ghost towers, and the rate of fire is faster.

Overjoyed, Abaddon immediately put most of his resources into the upgrading of this giant necropolis, and when the giant necropolis turned into a huge and magnificent black castle, Abaddon even felt for a moment that he should become the king of the world!

The Lord of Hell named the giant black castle the Eye of Dread Fortress and made it his residence, and every day he would stand on the balcony of the fortress and look out over his territory, vast expanses of land corrupted by undead power, and the undead armies roaming the ground.

As if in order to make the only two leaders of the Death Knight group better serve the Cult, the Grand Elder sent an emissary shortly after Abaddon left to confer on him the title of 'Great War Division' of unknown significance, and asked him to lead the holy war against the human alliance.

At this point, Abaddon's strength has skyrocketed to 110,000, and most of the middle-level commanders of this unit are death knights who know how to fight.

All Abaddon had to do now was to win a beautiful battle, completely wipe out this human army of only 20,000 men, step on the corpses of these people and climb higher, he was now carefully looking at the map of the war zone, and then pointed to a place called Kadian.

"Stupid humans think they can be safe by huddling together, I'm going to tell them it's just a sad delusion, they're building a supply point in this place called Kadian, it's very close to Udolfinger City, these humans are going to use this supply point as a springboard to attack here, now all we have to do is crush this stupid humans with our army!"

"But Your Excellency the Great War Division...... We've spent a lot of resources to upgrade this Dreadeye Fortress, which has left us with not enough ghouls and abominations in our troops, and our wizards are all newbies, and they don't even know how to augment! ”

One of the lichs in the tent objected to the recently self-inflated Lord of Abaddon, and when the army of the Scourge was in full swing, the skeleton warriors and skeleton mages would become the main force, and the bone enhancement that could greatly extend the duration of the summoned skeleton would become significant, and the necromancer's lack of bone enhancement would be like forgetting to bring a gun to the battlefield.

"Don't worry! Our enemy is only 20,000 ...... No! Their real core strength is only 17,000, and the rest are just some defeated armies that have been co-opted, while we have 110,000 troops, 110,000 fearless undead warriors! Natural disasters will prevail! ”

Abaddon's army began to move immediately after the end of the military meeting, but the Scourge march did not see the dense skeletons on the battlefield, the skeleton warriors and skeleton mages were only summoned when the undead Scourge army was deployed, and there were thousands of hideous strange vehicles behind the team, they were meat grinders, and their biggest purpose was to collect and store the corpses used by the Scourge army to fight.

The Meat Grinder Legion is the result of the Cult of the Cursed God after being suppressed by the opponent with siege firepower, and this kind of ranged troops should have joined the sequence of the Scourge Army a long time ago, but due to the lack of resources in the early stage, the Cult of the Cursed God only mass-produced the Abomination.

Each meat grinder is operated by three fanatical cultists of the Damned God and an acolyte, and moves as slowly as a normal siege vehicle.

It is foreseeable that the Alliance forces will soon face a brutal war, but this war will not affect the human slaves in the quarries for the time being, who are clinking stones every day, and their lives are only tired, miserable, and numb.

However, Dongdong felt that this environment was countless times better than the environment she was struggling with before, this place did not have the big bad guy who would drag her to all kinds of monsters every day and get beaten, nor the skeleton bad guy who would tie her to the table and stab her with a knife, and she could even drink sweet water every day without anyone forcing her with plasma or even some other unknown diet that Dong Dong was disgusted with.

Many people complain about how hard life is on earth, but in the eyes of those who have experienced hell, this world is heaven.

For this reason, Dong Dong is very eye-catching in this noisy place with dirty air, because this little guy can maintain a sincere and pleasant smile every day, she will smile and greet every numb face, and her steps are full of vitality and briskness, and she can even hum happily when she drinks water, all of which make Dong Dong very dazzling.

"This kid... This Dong Dong, her happiness index is too high, right? Could it be Stockholm syndrome? Not like it? ”

The little one's abnormal behavior made the two boys who lived with her temporarily very uncomfortable, because they could be sure that Dongdong was really happy, not reckless or pretending, this child slept very peacefully, and seemed to be completely unaware that he had been locked up in a precarious human purgatory, and Yin Wensu even felt that Dongdong was the real monster.

After a day's work, the coolies in the quarry returned to their places under the watchful eye of the guards, and because there was always not enough food to eat, almost all of them chose to go to bed early, and if they fell asleep, at least they did not feel hungry.

Most of the members of the Scourge do not need to eat, and they will exchange their captured food for gold to expand their army, but due to the presence of this group of human slaves, they have to set aside a small amount of low-quality food as a ration supply for the slaves.

Moldy bread, dusty jerky, sprouted potatoes, beans with a lot of sand and even some disgusting kitchen waste, there is a group of living people in the Cult of the Damned, these guys are now enjoying the treatment of great nobles, and the chef slaves who have been captured to cook for them, the ingredients come from specially reserved farms and ranches, and the scraps and leftovers are thrown here.

For those who have been tormented by the status quo to the point of loss of dignity, the leftovers of the roast and pie eaten by the oppressors are a rare delicacy, and every time the overseer brings food here, the leftovers are always the fastest to be snatched up, but there are still some coolies who refuse such food, many of them are defeated Frankish soldiers, but there are also some strong nobles and commoners.

Yin Wensu and Youshi are also one of the refusers of leftovers, they are obviously still children, but their performance in many aspects is enough to make adults feel ashamed, but just refusing will only make them starve in vain, you must know that even if it is normal food, there will always be a situation where someone can't grab it in the end, so Yin Wensu and Youshi have another food source to ensure that they don't starve.

When the laborers in the pit were asleep, a small figure quietly ran past their door, reminiscent of a wild cat that went out to forage for food at night, but his purpose was the same as that of a wild cat, to find food.

Unnoticed, Yosh returned to the trio's abode, and threw a small bag on the ground, from which a crab crawled out.

This is a blind burrowing crab, and its shell has completely faded to adapt to cave life, but it still tastes good.

"It's a good harvest this time, the traps are full of crabs, and I don't want to eat that nasty salamander like I did the other day."

Yin Wensu whispered, and then began to skillfully handle the precious snacks, which were actually Bei Ye's gutting dishes.

If they can, they will cook the crab in the pot before eating, and they have a half-broken crockpot and wood chips.

The Scourge of the Dead would not take long to throw a pile of garbage from the ruins of the village and town in the open space in the quarry settlement, which was the main source of subsistence for the coolies, and the destroyed wooden furniture could also be used as fuel.

"It's the fifth day of this year, right? She lives such a hard day every day, but she can still live so happily, I really envy her heartlessness. Such a solid guy who can sleep hungry...... I'm a little envious of her. ”

If it weren't for Yin Wensu and Youshi's help in the past few days, Dongdong would have been hungry and would have no strength to stand up by now.

The little guy can't adapt to this cruel environment where he can eat enough when he grabs food, starves if he can't grab it, and finally starves to death and no one cares, the people who live here are all guys who can't protect themselves, and she is very lucky to have the help of Yin Wensu and Youshi.

"Don't be envious, this child, she's very special."

Yoush is a man who cherishes words like gold, and his evil ways can be seen from the movement of passing through the tunnel without making a sound.

"I knew she was special, and I could tell at first glance that she was special. She seems to have a hard time holding out here for long, though. ”

Yin Wensu could see the danger hidden under the energetic appearance of Dong Dong these days, hunger and the injuries on her body made her weak all the time, but she was as ignorant of her own situation as a wooden man, and she didn't even look like she was patient.

"Speaking of which...... When we picked her up, she was holding the wooden figure all the time. She does resemble a puppet. ”

Yin Wensu looked at the knight puppet placed in the corner and said in a joking tone, but his face was a little worried.

"It's not a puppet, the puppet is stronger than her, she is porcelain, a porcelain doll, it seems to be strong, and it will break when you touch it."

"Hey, hey, hey! That's hurtful, isn't it? This kid is stronger than a lot of people here. Those mud men......"

Because of certain experiences, Yin Wensu admires people with lion-like personalities, and he is very disgusted with the guys in the coolie camp who have given up on themselves, and the porcelain dolls that break at the touch can at least stick to their appearance, but the mud people have long forgotten their appearance.

"Alright. Hurry up and go to sleep! Tomorrow is a day off for this tunnel, and we still have important things to do...... Right? ”

In the beginning, there was no rest time in the quarry, and the laborers had to work eighteen hours a day, which made the mortality rate of the laborers very high, but when the laborers became more and more difficult to grasp, the undead disaster generously gave them time to rest.

The laborers were divided into ten groups of rotational rests according to their residential areas, of course, only one day of rest, and the rest of the time still required fourteen hours of intense labor, but to the anger of the superintendent of the undead Scourge was that they were already so 'generous', but the mortality rate of coolies remained high, and they blamed this on the fragility of mortals rather than the growing number of old and weak women and children among the slaves.

It is not easy to find useful supplies in the garbage discarded by the undead scourge, because many of these things that have been brought back from the ruins of towns can only be burned as firewood, and some are not even qualified as firewood, just pure garbage.

Because she ate the crab specially left by Yin Wensu and Youshi in the morning, Dongdong felt a little more strength in her body, and she was now wandering around this place full of debris with the two 'big brothers', looking for useful things.

"There's a lot of broken wood, so we can bring some back with us, and what we need now is metal and fabric, and it would be great if we could find a good tool."

At the time of departure, Yin Wensu specially told Dongdong about these aspects.

The traps they used to catch crabs were made of canvas and rope found here, and some metal castings could also be easily processed into tools, but the tools were of course normal and easy to use.

Not far away, someone was very happy to find a leather glove, the undead had no labor insurance, many people's hands had been worn out of thick calluses, gloves could make them suffer less when working, but his discovery was quickly snatched away by a physically strong laborer next to him.

"So that guy should have just arrived, otherwise how could he be so unguarded...... Isn't it a clear invitation to rob people when they are so elated when they find something good? There are no laws in this place. ”

Yin Wensu, who was used to seeing this situation, sighed, and then he heard an excited shout.

"Big brother Yin Wensu! I found this thing, do you see what this can do? ”

Dong Dong pulled out a sharp kitchen knife from the garbage, and then held it in front of the boy like a treasure.

Yin Wensu suddenly felt several burning eyes staring at him, the value of a tool that could be used was very high in this place.

"Knock knock, this ...... There's really no use for this thing. Throw it away. ”

In order to prevent trouble, Yin Wensu decided to give up this unexpected gain, and Youshi next to him showed a very regretful expression.

"Huh? Is that so? ”

Dongdong, who thought he could help, threw the kitchen knife aside in disappointment, and then continued to follow the two of them.

Not long after they left, more than a dozen coolies who came to scavenge for the kitchen knife broke their heads.

'Really, what a shame that kitchen knife just now. If I had a kitchen knife, I could make the ingredients easier to eat......

Although it is a wise choice, Yin Wensu really wants to get a kitchen knife, life in this place is too hard.

"Big brother Yin Wensu! I've found one more thing! This should be useful, right? ”

Before the boy could finish complaining in his heart, the little one found another action that seemed to be worthwhile.

'You...... Are you still coming? ’

Yin Wensu looked at the firewood knife that Dongdong happily took over, and suddenly groaned in his heart, while Youshi threw a surprised look at Dongdong.

A firewood knife can not only chop wood but also split people, and in this chaotic place, a firewood knife can block a lot of greedy malice.

But this makes no sense to the three children at all, and the adults will not be afraid of the children having a knife in their hands, and the young age will make the weapon lose its deterrent effect, and even lead to death.

"Knock knock, this is useless, you better throw it away."

The big brother's words suddenly made Xiao Maoyu fall into disappointment again, Yin Wensu and Youshi took care of her for several days, and the little guy really wanted to do something to make them happy.

The ownership of the firewood knife once again caused a scuffle, and most of the people who would fight for this weapon were violent guys, and Yin Wensu felt that this group of violent elements was likely to cause death.

"Big brother Yin Wensu! I'm ...... again."

"You're ...... Yes? ”

The boy wanted to say a few words about this stupid little thing, but was frightened by what she had found this time.

After the first two failures, she searched more carefully where the three of them had passed, and then she found a golden and beautiful thing, so she went over and pulled it out to offer the treasure.

It was a crown that belonged to the king of the Frankish kingdom, but was thrown away like garbage by the Death Knights, and then collected by brainless undead and thrown into the quarry as garbage.

Fortunately, the surrounding scavengers were fighting because of the firewood knife and kitchen knife, and no one noticed the three imps.

Yin Wensu decisively took the crown from Dongdong's hand and stuffed it into his arms, then hugged the sluggish little guy and ran away, while Youshi looked around for a while, and after making sure that there were no stalkers around, he immediately chased after him like a silent shadow.

"Knock knock, maybe you don't understand what this broken hat means, anyway...... You've made a meritorious service! ”

Yin Wensu said to Dong Dong who didn't know why while running.

“…… Ay? ”

I don't understand this at all!