Yang Yifei helped Ma Yan and silently looked at the two groups of people on the shore on the left and right.

At this time, Ma Yan was soaked in water from the wound, and he trembled in pain, and he gasped for cool air, but in order not to worry Yang Yifei, he gritted his teeth and said nothing.

What is the specific number of people in the two gangs, Yang Yifei can't see clearly in this dark environment, and there should be no less than 100 people in the shadows.

However, he can roughly see the people standing in the front, and there is a very obvious difference between the people on both sides, and on the left are some tall men with big cows and relatively strong bodies.

On the right are some people who are similar to Ma Yan, either skinny or gray-haired, all old, weak, sick and disabled.

When Yang Yifei saw the characteristics of the two groups of people, a big man on the left bank, who was the most burly and about the same height as Yang Yifei, pointed at Yang Yifei and said, "You, come over here." ”

After speaking, he pointed to Ma Yan and said, "You, go over there." ”

Yang Yifei's face was slightly gloomy, and he said, "What do you mean?" ”

The big man said: "The kid next to you is too weak, and he still has injuries on his body, and he can't live long in this mine, so this burden is taken in by Old Man Zhang, I don't want it." ”

"He's only going to affect the amount of ore you can gather, and I don't want my brothers to be left without food because of him."

"If you want to be fed, come to us, enter this mine, and you'd better abandon that unnecessary compassion."

After listening to the big man's words, Yang Yifei seemed to understand something, glanced at him lightly, and helped Ma Yan to the shore on the right.

An old voice suddenly sounded on the shore on the right, "Young man, Zhao Lao Er is right, in this mine, survival is the only rule of survival." ”

"We are all old and sick who are struggling to survive, if you want to live, go to them!"

Ma Yan listened to the words of the two, struggled to break free from Yang Yifei's hands, and said urgently: "Brother Yang, you go over there, don't worry about me." ”

Yang Yifei shouted lightly: "Don't move, say anything stupid, believe me, we can all survive, one day, I will take you out from here." ”

Ma Yan's eyes instantly turned red, even if he was young and ignorant, he also understood that after entering this mine, it was impossible to get out again.

Zhao Lao Er over there sneered and said self-deprecatingly: "When I just came down, I had the same idea as you, thinking that I could still go out." ”

"But now, I've been here for eight years, and I'm the only one left who came down with me back then."

Yang Yifei looked back at Zhao Lao Er and said lightly: "Because you are the strongest, you can always eat enough?" ”

Zhao Lao Er said with a straight face when he heard this: "You can think so, because I am the strongest, I can do the most work, and naturally I can get more food." ”

"Here, the amount of food we eat is linked to the amount of ore collected, you have just come down now, and you still retain compassion and righteousness, and when you spend a while here, you will know that eating enough is more important than anything else."

Yang Yifei glanced at Zhao Lao Er in surprise, but he thought about it.

He originally thought that this Zhao Lao Er relied on his own strength, so he bullied others and took food from others, so he could eat enough.

In fact, if you think about it, you can understand that the people who are thrown into this pit have no future, and the final result will definitely be to die in it.

If he really oppresses others by force and makes them have no way to live, the only result is to be beaten to death by the desperate people.

Therefore, as the head of this group of people, only by being fair and just can everyone live.

Zhao Lao Er didn't say anything more, turned around and beckoned his brothers to go back to the mine to work, he turned back to Yang Yifei and said the last sentence, "If you feel that you can't hold on to it over there, you are welcome to come over at any time." ”

Yang Yifei looked at him deeply, did not speak, but helped Ma Yan to climb onto the right shore.

A gray-haired, thin old man stepped forward, showed a mouth full of black teeth, and said with a smile: "Young man, from the moment you decide to come here, we are destined to live together, work hard to mine together, exchange them for food to fill our stomachs, and finally one day, if you are lucky, die together again." ”

"By the way, I am the leader of this group of old, weak, sick and disabled, you can call me Old Man Zhang, or you can call me Old Zhang."

"Of course, my leader is not the same as Zhao Laoer, I got it by ability, among the weak, it is the same whether there is a leader or not, I only became the leader because I am older, there is no substantive effect, don't think that you can eat more with me."

Facing Old Man Zhang, Yang Yifei's expression softened a little, and said, "It's okay, I will work hard to ensure that I have enough to eat and have some surplus at the same time." ”

Yang Yifei is not too worried about his fate, because there is a system, he just needs to wait patiently, and when the heavens shuttle opens, the time has come for him to change his fate.

For Yang Yifei's words, whether it was Old Man Zhang or other old, weak, sick and disabled people, they were very happy.

They didn't expect such a strong person to come from their side, which means that their mining volume will increase to a certain extent.

Old man Zhang grinned and said, "Then let's go!" Come with me to get the tools for mining, they will be your only means of survival in the future, but you must take good care of them. ”

Zhao Lao Er's side and Zhang Lao Man's side each have two wooden baskets suspended by slings, and they put the excavated ore into the wooden baskets every day, and the people above will lift the wooden baskets up.

Immediately, according to the amount of ore, the food is put into the wooden basket in proportion, and after getting the food, the two leaders of Zhao Lao Er and Zhang Lao Tou will distribute the food according to the head, and the people who dig more than others can get more food, but this proportion is determined by the leader.

Of course, the boss will try to be fair and impartial, so that others have nothing to say.

In addition, every once in a while, some lighting oil and fire folds will be put down, but the number is very limited.

Those four wooden baskets seemed to be the only way out, but they were actually dead ends, and no one dared to take the wooden basket up.

This has been done before, but those who were hoisted up in wooden baskets, without exception, were all killed by the guards and guards.

The soldiers don't ask for reasons, they won't listen to you, as long as there is a person in the basket, they will be killed directly.

Yang Yifei helped Ma Yan to follow behind Old Man Zhang, those old people all dispersed to work, and all the newcomers followed Old Man Zhang.

I didn't know how many forks in the hole, but I felt that the light was getting darker and darker, and finally I couldn't see anything, so I could only follow Old Man Zhang's deep foot and shallow foot stumbling forward.

As an old man in the mine, Old Man Zhang has been in it for a long time, and he can find the way with his eyes closed, so he naturally doesn't worry about getting lost.

I don't know how long it took, but Old Man Zhang suddenly said, "It's here." ”

He took out a fire from his bosom and blew it up, lighting an oil lamp that illuminated the cave where he was.

The oil lamp is poured with lamp oil in a small pottery dish and a wick, the light is very dim, but you can also see the surrounding environment clearly.

The cave was a storage room for tools, and there were many digging tools such as pickaxes stacked in a mess, all of which were old, rusty, and tattered.