"And such a good thing?...... But isn't it against the rules set by the Zhao Sect to mine the spirit stone mine privately?"

Fifteen miners who left with spirit stones?I'm afraid that the so-called spirit stones have now been exchanged for paper money to make some bull heads and horses, Wan Ning said sneering in his heart, but for the sake of acting, he still pretended to be honest.

These people of the Knife and Axe Gang didn't know that Wan Ning had discovered the dead buried in the ground through his divine thoughts, and Hao Jun was still spitting and boasting, as if to make Wan Ning think that it was a blessing to be caught by the Knife and Axe Gang, and his posture and tone were like the head of a pyramid scheme.

"We treat you as a brother, and I won't tell you, Aoki Zongke is too ruthless, everyone is tired and tired, and there is almost no oil and water, and everyone is forced to make this decision for the sake of life. But don't worry, we have already found a backer, even if the East Window incident happens, we can escape safely, but as for how much we can make at that time, it depends on the mining speed of you good brothers. ”

Speaking of this, Hao Jun said to Wan Ning with a bitter gourd on his face, gritting his teeth when he mentioned the Aoki Sect, as if Yang Bailao was accusing Huang Shiren of doing all kinds of evil. When Wan Ning heard this, he was really angry and funny, without the protection of the sect above, these reckless leaders with the strength of the Ning Yuan Realm and a group of mortals tried in vain to eat the spirit stone veins alone, which was tantamount to asking for their own death. Not to mention the other sects that are eyeing it, even the slightly well-known spiritual cultivators in the evil path can easily slaughter all the forces in the rivers and lakes, leaving no one alive, and then snatching the spirit stone and leaving, as the old saying goes, the husband is not guilty, but he is guilty, this is the truth.

"Okay, so what do we do next. ”

Wan Ning scratched his head and asked honestly.

"You follow me, I'll take you to see the vein. ”

Hao Jun patted Wan Ning on the shoulder, smiled kindly at him, and then burrowed into the dark cave behind him.

"There are many small paths that branch off in this vein, but it is generally a straight line, and now the mine has been excavated, and the mining work has been carried out two-thirds of the way, and there are still spirit stones close to the bottom of the mine that have not been collected. ”

There were simple oil lamps lit in the cave, the environment was a little dim, and the pungent smell of oil smoke spread in the small space, Hao Jun coughed, greeted a few guards sitting at the entrance of the cave, and introduced to Wanning.

"What about the others?"

Wan Ning looked left and right, and asked Hao Jun, now his divine mind can only detect the distance within a hundred meters of the surrounding area, and there is no trace of the rest of the people within the range of the divine mind.

"It's still inside, this hole is a bit deep, and the mine is narrow and rugged, they rarely come out, and they usually eat and live at the bottom of the cave. You see the rope on the head, it is directly connected to the bottom of the cave from the outside world, and due to the poor terrain, we can directly send food into it. The road conditions inside are not good, and my eyes are not very good, you can go in by yourself, I won't send you. ”

Hao Jun waved his hand at Wan Ning, and then quickly left the mine. Wan Ning glanced back at the two gatekeepers who were staring at him with uncertain smiles, and then slowly walked to the bottom of the cave.

After walking for a short distance, the dim and dilapidated oil lamp stopped abruptly, no longer extending inward, replaced by the faint light emitted by the unpolished natural spirit stone, Wan Ning looked left and right, and saw that there was indeed no one nearby, so he quietly took out a large fire spirit stone from the wall and put it into the storage ring.

"I suddenly felt like I was in the right place. ”

Wan Ning took a few steps forward, and Shen Nian sensed that a crystal clear xenomorph mineral material was buried underground, and the ground contained cold stones. Wan Ning hurriedly lay on the ground, his hands kept digging the soil, his physique was arrogant, this kind of geology that mortals can only dig with an iron hoe, he seemed to reach into the thin mud, dug a small pit in a few clicks, pulled out the ore that exuded a faint cold air, wiped off the dust with his hands at will, put it in the storage ring, and said to Xiao Meihua with some happiness.

You must know that such an egg-sized Earth Essence Cold Stone is worth more than five hundred in the outside auction house, and Wan Ning relies on the penetrating nature of his divine thoughts, and these hard soil and rocks wrapped in rare ore mines are completely useless to him. Li Wanshu didn't expect that he originally wanted to throw Wanning into the mine and torture him to death, but it turned out that Wanning found a new way to get rich.

In order not to arouse the suspicion of the Sword and Axe Gang because of greed, Wan Ning did not take away those relatively ordinary spirit stones, but also found another blood red copper block of good color, so it also took a lot of time.

Walking and stopping all the way, Wan Ning's divine thoughts finally touched the bottom of the spirit stone vein cave, and at the same time, he also sensed the existence of people, no more, no less, a total of ten people, seeing that there were still people alive, Wan Ning breathed a sigh of relief, and his previous feelings of worrying about the safety of the missing person were also eased.

"New here?"

As soon as Wan Ning walked into the bottom of the cave, a lazy voice came.

Due to the dim light, the bottom of the cave that could be said to be bright suddenly shook Wan Ning couldn't open his eyes, he blinked vigorously a few times to see clearly, greeting himself was a young man with a naked upper body and black shorts underneath, and his skin was a little sickly pale due to the lack of sunlight for a long time.

While digging open the ground with a hoe, the young man dug out a natural spirit stone with a lot of impurities, and threw it into the bamboo basket beside him that had already accumulated a lot of spirit stones. There were still many people working hard around him, they were all naked, their skin was pale, most of them just looked up at Wan Ning, and then continued to bow their heads, silently mining, for a while only the sound of metal collision was heard at the bottom of the huge cave.

"Right...... I'm new here, can you give me a briefing on the situation. ”

In Wan Ning's opinion, this scene is a bit weird, the men who were originally caught by the Knife and Axe Gang should have resisted together, or at least slackened off, but these people worked harder than one another, for fear that others would dig a little more than themselves, as if their own dolls were buried in it.

"It's nothing, you just need to know that you keep mining, the people of the Knife and Axe Gang will come to check every morning, whoever digs up more spirit stones, who can take away the more spirit stones in the end, whoever digs up the least spirit stones, as a punishment, he has no lunch to eat that day, but the lazy person deserves to be punished." ”

The young man's hands kept moving, and he continued to say to Wan Ning.

"How stupid it is, I didn't expect anyone to believe in the Knife and Axe Gang. ”

Xiao Meihua didn't seem to like the smell of sweat that the men gathered but didn't disperse, and covered her nose and said.

"If those guys really want to be so nice to you, will they take you here and force you to work? ”

Wan Ning frowned and said, the atmosphere here was indeed not quite right from what he imagined.

"The reason why they brought us here in this way is because the Sword and Axe Gang is afraid that the Aoki Sect above will know about the situation, so they don't dare to recruit people directly. And here is indeed if you want to leave, you can stay, everyone who stays here is voluntary, if you don't like you, you can leave immediately, and I'm glad that no one snatched the spirit stone with me. ”

A tall man with gray temples stood up, rubbed his somewhat sore shoulders, and scolded Wan Ning.

"Leave, how, has anyone ever left? ”

Surprised by the tall man's attitude, Wan Ning asked strangely.

"We were sent here, and after Mr. Hao explained the reason to us, he said that those who didn't want to stay could leave voluntarily, and a few people chose to go home, and the Knife and Axe Gang sent them on the boat again very intimately and let them go, just asking them to keep this matter secret. ”

The tall man replied solemnly.

"Get on board, what did you see?"

Mannings found that his little head was really not enough.

"Just on the western side of the depression, where the wooden boats usually docked, we saw with our own eyes the Axe Gang carrying them aboard. There are also some people who really can't hold on, or who have completed the task and want to go back, so the Sword and Axe Gang tied the spirit stones that should be given into bags, gave them them, and then sent them home. ”

The tall man replied.

"But I was forcibly sent here, and I wanted to leave, but they didn't allow me to go, which is different from what you said. ”

Wan Ning really didn't retreat, he spread his hands and said seriously.

"Why do you always blame the problem on the Knife and Axe Gang, you look like you are looking for fault everywhere, if the Knife and Axe Gang let you go, you will spread the news in a while, and when the time comes, not only will the Knife and Axe Gang finish playing, where will we go to earn spirit stones!"

The tall man seemed to be angry, he put down the hoe in his hand, pointed to Wanning's nose and said.

"But what if the so-called people who left were killed by the Axe Gang?"

Wan Ning's mood also became a little excited, and after he unfolded his mind and confirmed that there were no small minions listening nearby, he whispered to the tall man.

"Okay, young man, think about it, no matter how bold this Sword and Axe Gang is, dare to go against the imperial court, dare to go against the Aoki Sect, he doesn't have the courage to do this, so he doesn't dare to kill people, once he kills someone, the whole Sword and Axe Gang will be imprisoned! Besides, taking a step back, is it necessary to kill people for such a few spirit stones? According to your assumptions, it means that all the dozen or so people who went out before were killed? They are not some murderous maniacs, so I advise you to calm down and don't think too much. ”

Another young man patted Wan Ning on the shoulder and said kindly to him.

Wan Ning suddenly remembered a widely circulated folk legend: there was an old man whose eldest son, daughter-in-law, and wife were eaten by tigers one after another. At this time, his youngest son dreamed that his mother had given him a dream, saying that there was gold hidden under a certain tree on a certain mountain, and that he could not eat it, but in fact his mother had become a ghost after her death and wanted to lure his son to the tiger to eat.

Wan Ning looked at these men with hoes, either angry or angry, elegant and easy-going, or unconcerned about themselves, no matter what their expressions were, but without exception, there was a greedy look in their eyes. The young man's hand on Wan Ning's shoulder was warm and hot because of hard work, but the young man's whole body was like falling into an ice cellar, and he was cold.