The mountains overlap and crisscross, the terrain is steep, and the mountains are boundless and vast as far as the eye can see.

Qin Erlang and the strong man who went to serve in the military were escorted here.

At first, they resisted and refused to go into the mines.

After being imprisoned in a water cell and starved for two days, many relented and compromised.

Qin Erlang thought about his wife and children at home, and also lowered his head.

They were released from the dungeon and placed in a mine to mine iron ore.

Before them, there were already hundreds of people in the mine, apparently strong men from other villages.

During this time, a mine near them collapsed, burying 70 people alive.

The mine is dark and dreary, lit by oil lamps, and they have been in such an environment for a long time, and people have become more and more lifeless.

Assigned to the same mine as Qin Erlang, there was a Xiucai, who was forcibly added to the list of military service by the head of their village because he was the only son in the family.

Under the dark oil lamp, the man used charcoal to write something on the leaves......

Qin Erlang got up at night and leaned over curiously, "What are you writing?" ”

Xiucai lowered his voice and said: "This is refined iron ore, mining it privately, and it is a capital crime to destroy the family." These people say that they deceived them into mining here, and when we finish mining, they will definitely not let us go. ”

Qin Erlang also thought of this worst-case outcome, and sighed, "I'm afraid that we will be killed in the end." ”

Xiucai raised the leaves in his hand, "I wrote that we were originally for military service, but we were brought here to mine, if the leaves happen to float into the hands of powerful people, follow the vine and touch the melons, as long as you find the recruiters, you can find these people, if we are really exterminated, someone will avenge us." ”

Mining in the dark, they can't even tell the difference between night and day, and the food they eat every day is thin porridge.

Gradually, physical exhaustion, slowly, many people fell ill.

The sick and dead were piled aside, and the corpses were piled up into small hills, and some of the corpses even grew piles of maggots......

One day, Xiucai said to Qin Erlang in a panic: "I think something is wrong, they are ...... It's kind of like the plague......"

"Run, let's get out!" After Qin Erlang was frightened, he proposed a plan to escape.

The two set up a more elaborate plan and escaped in the middle of the night, but in the end, because Xiucai was startled by a snake scurrying out of the grass, made a sound, and was discovered.

Xiucai hurriedly pushed Qin Erlang into the bushes and fled in the other direction, leading away the pursuers.

It's just that he is weak and talented after all, and he can't run fast.

Not far away, he was stopped.

The group of people was angry and beat Xiucai, and Qin Erlang, who was hiding in the shadows, covered his mouth tightly and didn't dare to go out, because he knew that going out was just one more death, and he had failed Xiucai to lead them away.

Late at night, he would always dream of Xiucai's dead eyes......

He became ill and began to cough and slowly weakened his limbs.

He closed his eyes and lay in the cave, waiting for death, knowing that those who were sick would not live more than three days, and he felt that he could be free.

The noise sounded, Qin Erlang didn't have any strength, and it was difficult for him to open his eyes.

Just when he was gradually losing consciousness, an oil lamp lit up in front of him, he looked for the light, and saw a familiar face - his eldest brother, Qin Dalang.

He thought he was hallucinating.

How is that possible?

How did Big Brother end up here?

People say that people hallucinate before they die, and they are about to die, right?