"Damn slave, what are you doing lying on the ground!"

A whip slammed into Shu Han's body, causing his thin body to fall straight to the ground, the gravel on the ground rubbed against Shu Han's body with a hard surface, the pain made him only feel that everything was so real, a moment ago, he was still a modern high school junior, and at this moment, he became a slave in an iron ore factory.

Shu Han was originally an ordinary high school student in the 21st century, living the same life as most high school students in the country, and was sprinting for the college entrance examination next year.

Shu Han was not a rich man, the scoundrel took the knife and saw that Shu Han only had two or three pocket money in his pocket, and he didn't know if he was angry or what, so he pushed Shu Han's shoulder with his hand, and then Shu Han's eyes went dark, and when he woke up again, Shu Han became a slave at this moment, Shu Han.

Shu Han walked on the ground, didn't want to move, came to this world for two days, he didn't know how many beatings he had received, he got up in the morning a quarter of an hour late, it was beaten, the amount of iron ore was not up to standard, and it was another beating, two days, Shu Han's body was already full of wounds, and he couldn't bear to look at it directly.

The intense sunlight shone on his body, and he could even hear the sizzling sound coming from the surface of his skin, which made him want to lie down like this until he died, maybe he would be able to travel back after he died? Shu Han thought so, he didn't want to struggle anymore, Mom, Dad, where are you, I want to go home.

The man with the horsewhip behind him saw Shu Han lying on the ground, the strength in his hand was even more fierce, and he hit Shu Han's body one after another, Shu Han's back skin was open, and the slaves around him saw this, without the slightest pity on their faces, and continued their work, with only two words of numbness written on their faces.

'How many more times will I be able to go back?' Shu Han thought in his heart, his consciousness was a little blurred, and at this moment, a figure suddenly walked to Shu Han's side, knelt down in front of the overseer, kowtowed, and said in a vague voice: "Master overseer, this is a good laborer, he can still work, and he can still work." ”

Saying that, taking advantage of the time when the overseer was resting, he reached out to help Shu Han and forced him to stand up, but Shu Han was too tired, where is this kind of life, but looking at the old man in front of him who was full of vicissitudes and was very worried, Shu Han still used all his body's strength to get up from the ground, staggered, and seemed to fall down at any time.

He wanted to live, even as a slave.

The overseer, who was wielding the whip, saw him get up from the ground, and finally stopped dropping the whip on him, and as a steward, his task was to make the slaves fulfill the targets that should be met every day, and if one slave was killed, a part of his wages would be deducted accordingly.

For the sake of the bloodlust in his heart, which led to the reduction of his salary, he would not do such a loss-making business, and when he saw Shu Han standing up and pushing the wheelbarrow again, the man with the horsewhip scolded and walked away, and beat the other slaves who were watching the excitement unceremoniously.

The person who was swept by the whip let out a scream, and looked at Shu Han with vicious eyes, as if to say, "You hurt us."

Shu Han couldn't care about so many people's thoughts, endured the pain in his back, and said to the old man in front of him, "Thank you." ”

This old man is the first person he knew after he came to this world, he was lying next to him at the beginning, his name was Li You, he looked like he was forty or fifty years old, but in fact, he was only in his early thirties, and in modern times, he may not even have children, he was at the age of high spirits, but here, he was already the oldest person Shu Han knew.

"Shu Han, survival is more important than anything else, hurry up and transport the ore up." Li You said in the tone of a person who came over, he was sent to work in this mining area at the age of fifteen, and he has worked for nearly 20 years, witnessing the death of countless people.

But when he saw Shu Han lying on the ground, his face was covered with dirt, his eyes had lost their luster, but his hands were clutching the ground, Li You couldn't help but think of his former self, who he once didn't want to suffer this sin again, and chose not to listen to the overseer's words, thinking that it was better to be beaten to death than to suffer here forever.

At that time, it was a person who stood up to intercede that he was able to survive, until now, the person who saved him at the beginning has already returned to the soul for nine days, but this memory is one of the few passages in Li You's life that can be taken out to talk to others, and now seeing Shu Han is like seeing himself in the past.

This is a child who is unwilling to give up his life, but has to desperately want to give up his life, Li You chose to come to the rescue, and Shu Han did not continue to lie on the ground, living up to his kindness, looking at the child in front of him who stood up again, Li You sighed in his heart.

If you live in the city, such a strong child should achieve very good things.

"Well, thank you, Uncle Li."

Shu Han held the pole of the wheelbarrow with both hands, staggered forward, he was wearing only a pair of shorts and a pair of shabby straw sandals, according to the owner's memory, he should be about fifteen years old this year, but because of the lack of nutrition, he now looks like a twelve-year-old, thin and small, with yellow hair, and a large number of black spots on his body formed after being exposed to intense ultraviolet rays.

This dark spot was startled when Shu Han first saw it, it was like a plague, or a precursor to the Black Death, he spread all over his body, and the patches clung to his skin like blood pods, and from time to time there would be bursts of stinging pain, and in this iron mining area, this skin disease was almost everywhere.

This is a particularly cruel world, after Shu Han came here, he found that everything in this world is so hot, the temperature outside during the day is kept above 50 degrees Celsius all year round, and at night it will be above 30 degrees, almost everyone here is very dark, and there are wounds all over the body, some are whip wounds, some are injuries caused by fighting with each other.

What makes Shu Han feel strange is that the people here speak Chinese, and it is Mandarin, maybe with some dialects, but most of them are Mandarin!

Why did these slaves speak Chinese? And there is almost no big difference from Mandarin, he really can't understand it, is it possible that this world has nothing to do with the modern world?

But it's impossible, how can there be a purely manual mining area in modern China?

What's more, this slavery system has long been extinct in modern China, and even if it exists, it is in a deserted place, so how can there be a connection between the two sides?

But Shu Han was not allowed to think so much, someone at the back of the team of the cart began to urge Shu Han, he could only endure the pain in his body and move forward, maybe the people who could work in the mine had a cheap life, Shu Han only felt that the pain in his body was disappearing quickly, coupled with the help of Li You on the side from time to time, this made Shu Han not fall out of the narrow walkway.

The iron ore field here is a semi-open-pit mine, and from the sky, it looks like an upside-down spinning top, with huge pits going down and under the top, there are tunnels, where thousands of people are in charge of mining ore every day, all of them slaves, in addition to more than 500 overseers, who are responsible for managing these slaves.

Their method of management is to use the whip in their hands to teach those slaves who are disobedient and do not complete their tasks on time, which is very simple and rude.

Shu Han is one of the insignificant slaves, responsible for transporting the ore collected by the miners below to the top, and a child like Shu Han has to transport at least five times a day before he can return to the dormitory to eat, otherwise what awaits Shu Han is only starvation.

And here, as long as you are hungry, it basically represents death, such a high-intensity work, as long as you don't eat for a day, it is impossible to complete the tasks assigned by the mining area the next day, so even if there is a tingling pain behind him, Shu Han doesn't dare to stop and rest, not to mention that there is Uncle Li You beside him.

If he was starved to death, it would matter, Uncle Li You would help him, if it affected him, Shu Han's heart would not be able to get over, so he still followed the team and kept going up.

The bottom of the pit is about eighty meters high from the ground to the ground, and there is a winding road connecting the underground and the ground, the road is only about three meters wide, and one will decline if you are not careful, becoming a corpse.

However, new slaves are transported here every day, they are like machines, day after day here to collect the resources in the pit, as for where to be transported, Shu Han does not know, most of the slaves here are also silent, the overseers do not even give them a chance to speak, as long as they see someone whispering, they will come over and scold, and even use whips.

At that time, a large number of slaves would kneel on the ground and ask for forgiveness from the overseer, in Shu Han's opinion, this is really a spineless performance, but as long as you are whipped like that, you will not think so, here, it is already so difficult to live, and the dignity of being a human being has long been thrown out of the clouds.

Looking at those people who knelt down in front of the overseers, even if they were whipped, they still showed a flattering smile, Shu Han couldn't bear to look at them anymore, his heart was not despising them, but he was afraid, afraid that one day he would be like these people, kneeling down in front of these overseers, and being shameless in order to survive.

Pushing the wheelbarrow in his hand, he went down, looking at the horizon in front of him, Shu Han finally breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately felt a hot pain in his back, the wound had not healed at this time, and it was stained with iron ore chips, Shu Han endured the pain and wanted to find a little water to clean it, but the overseers didn't give him time at all, and under the push and shove, he mixed with a few miners and was sent to the bottom of the mine.

Five or six children of about the same age were pushed into an elevator with a wheelbarrow, and as the strong men on both sides turned the bearings, the whole elevator made a little tremble, and they began to descend slowly, this section of the descent is the most comfortable time for the unicycle driver, where you can have a moment of rest, look at the people working around you, and relax your tired body.

What, why do you say that there is only a decline and no rise?

That's because there is nothing in the wheelbarrow when descending, a lifting platform can put five or six children and their wheelbarrows, and when coming up, the wheelbarrow is slow iron ore, then an elevator can only put one car at most, which is the limit, so the rise is carried by people, and the descending is carried by a lifting platform.

In the eyes of the mine owner, there was no essential difference between them slaves and this elevator, and how to get the most ore was what he cared about, and he didn't care how many people were thrown down this narrow mine every year.

"these bedbugs, what's so great about an overseer." One of the boys looked at the overseer in the distance with great contempt and said to himself, several slaves on the side did not speak, obviously afraid that everyone's discussion would be discovered by the overseer, Shu Han couldn't help but glance at the person who spoke.

This is a boy who is slightly taller than himself, his skin is also very dark, his hair has a little yellowishness, not pure black, it should be caused by malnutrition, his stomach is shriveled, but there are a few muscles on his shoulder, and he looks in good physical fitness.

Shu Han looked at his gaze and couldn't help but be a little curious, although there is no overseer here, but the slaves here have already been conquered by the whips of the overseers, even if there is no overseer, they don't dare to do anything to violate the rules, where did this kid get the guts?

Shu Han didn't step forward to deal with him, just watched him silently, hoping to write down his appearance, the little boy seemed to notice Shu Han's eyes, and couldn't help glaring at him viciously, and said in his mouth: "Look at what, coward, look at your head again." “

Bear child, Shu Han scolded in his heart, and couldn't help but get angry, but after looking at the straight eyes of the people around him, after thinking about it, he still decided not to compete with this fool, and turned his head away from him, the bear child regarded Shu Han's compromise as cowardice, and couldn't help laughing, Shu Han only thought that the person in front of him was air, and at the same time hoped that this originally longer and better lifting time could end sooner.

From eighty meters above the ground again, a total of no more than three minutes, but Shu Han felt that it was incomparably long, the people around him always looked at him with malicious eyes, as soon as he reached the ground, he dragged the cart and prepared to leave, and everyone got out of the car one after another.

At this time, the two children in the car walked towards the overseer next to him as soon as they got off the lifting platform, Shu Han smiled in his heart, and the bear child next to him didn't know that he was in trouble, the two children seemed to say something, and the overseer immediately looked in the direction of them, Shu Han thought to himself, you are miserable now.

When he saw these children just now, he knew that the bear children were going to suffer, these people had already been domesticated by the system of the mining area, and in the face of those who dared to challenge the rules, they were even more disgusted than the guardians of order such as the overseers, so as soon as they got off the elevator, they immediately went to the surrounding overseers to make a small report.

Why can't we say a word here, and you speak so unscrupulously, no, you are also a slave, you have to be like us!

Now that the overseer had come over, Shu Han couldn't help but look at him with sympathy and mockery.

"You, Lin Pida, you just spoke on the elevator!"

The overseer walked in front of everyone and glanced at the nameplate on Lin Bida's chest, which was engraved with Lin Bida's name and number, and he said in a very playful tone, at this time the bear child Lin Bida also knew that it was the two people next to him who had snitched, he looked at the two with angry eyes, but before he could say anything, a hot pain came from his back.

"I'm talking to you, you bastard, where can I look?" After speaking, another loud voice came from Lin Bida's skin, blood beads splashed everywhere, this overseer's body was much stronger than the one who hit him just now, and this whip directly made Lin Bida lie on the ground.

The two boys who stood beside Shu Han who did not complain had a trace of unbearability on their faces, but at the same time, there was also a trace of happiness, what were they rejoicing about?

Or maybe they were glad that they didn't participate in the conversation, and the two boys standing next to the overseer were all excited, as if they were no longer slaves at the moment, but God who controlled the lives of others.

"What are you looking at here? Dog, get me to work! The overseer twitched a few more times, and the boy was almost unable to scream, and he was panting for a rest, when he turned to see the boys standing still, and immediately came at them with his whip.