54: Alder Fortress

"Sister! Sister Light Feather! I beg you, spare my brother! He's still young, he's not sensible! Why are you angry at me, please don't hurt him! Linna hugged Light Feather's legs, and Grandpa Batur was also trembling with fright:

"I said girl, good girl, you have a lot of adults, don't meet the children. Whatever it is, come at me. If you want to kill someone, just take my old life! You let my grandson and granddaughter go, they are still young, even if you are a mercenary, you can't do such a poisonous thing! ”

"Ahem, ahem...... Ahem, ahem, ahem! ”

The agitation made Batur cough violently, vomited several mouthfuls of blood in a row, and fell directly to the ground.

"Grandpa!"

"Grandpa!"

Dirk and Lena panicked. Lina pounced directly on her grandfather, but Dirk was still caught by Light Feather.

"Bastard, you bastard! I'll kill you! Dirk almost screamed and cursed, and the next moment he was slammed to the ground by Light Feather. The face was on the hard stone, and it felt like the skin was going to be worn off.

And this kind of pain and humiliation is far less than Qingyu's words at the moment: "Don't you understand, you are just a brainless waste, you can't do anything." Your unwillingness and self-righteousness can only make your relatives kneel for you and suffer for you. ”

"Dirk, what you have to do is not to be clever, not to grab weapons, but to learn to keep yourself and your loved ones alive first. In such an era, if you can't even live, even if you are born in the family of Tianwang Laozi, you are just a garbage that is not as good as waste! ”

Dirk had tears in his eyes, but those were like beasts. Qing Yu's words were like a knife that stabbed his soul hard, and something had already taken root in the young man's heart. It's just that he doesn't know exactly what it is, but a few years later, when Dirk became the hero of the liberation of the Alder Mine, he told the people that it was the lesson that Light Feather had taught him today that had sustained his faith and given him rebirth.

And the boy now just secretly swears that he never wants to talk to this stinky woman again.

After making such a fuss, even if there was no malice, the group couldn't help but be afraid of Qing Yu, and seemed to finally realize that she was a mercenary who killed people without blinking. After daybreak, when Batur's health was stable, they set off.

Along the way, no one dared to speak loudly, and everyone trembled and followed Qingyu. Light Feather didn't want to explain anything, so he took them to the Alder mine as fast as possible.

Even if they were tired, the big guys didn't dare to squeak, and when they finally saw the gate of the mining area, they were almost paralyzed on the ground from exhaustion.

"You guys take a break. There is a well over there, so remember to fill all your water bags when you go back. Compared to them, Qingyu's face was not red or panting, leaving his big water bag and taking the lead alone.

"This person is simply too much, I thought she was a good person, and sure enough, these mercenaries are not good things."

"It's so beautiful, it's so black-hearted. This world is really ......"

After holding back all the way, the two aunts could finally open their mouths to complain, and they didn't want Batur to talk about them: "You are the ones with bad intentions." The girl clearly saved us with good intentions, how can you say that. ”

"Saved us? Batur, you're not going to be an old fool, are you? She almost killed your grandson last night, and you're dying! ”

The group couldn't understand what Batur meant, but Dirk, who had always been impetuous, had a deep face, and a pair of eyes quietly stared at the back of Qingyu walking away: "Grandpa is right, she wants to save us." At the same pace, we would have to walk for at least a day and a half. With our little water, we won't last that long. ”

Everyone was stunned, and when you think about it, it seems that this is really the case. Now not only did they arrive early, but there was still a lot of water left.

The group looked at the distant back at a loss, and wanted to say thank you, but Qingyu couldn't hear it anymore.

The gate of the mine is in disrepair, and the old plaque is crooked and the handwriting on it is blurred. This large mine is located on the edge of the Alder Mountains, and the rest of the mountain range next to the mining area is almost entirely within the range of the Alder Ruins.

The mountains are high and low, and they are shrouded in a dark brown fog all year round. The ruins of alder are the largest remains of pre-humans ever discovered, and they are also the most mysterious places. Scientists assert that this is likely the base of pre-human experiments of all kinds, large and small, which is why there are so many unknown radiation and energy bodies mixed in.

So in the alder mining area next to it, the government of Guloka did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to build a giant fortress -

The uneven white building stands in the middle of the mountain like half a huge golf ball, and from the sky, it looks like a pearl set in the Alder Mountains. But who would have imagined that beneath such a beautiful exterior was filth and decay uglier than the reclaimed mine; Read good books

All the people of the Alder Mine lived in a huge hemisphere, a slave cage and fortress, and the only entrance and exit was heavily guarded. The broken gate is just a waste here, and its only purpose is to remind the people who come to work:

Welcome to the richest hell on earth!

In the manager's office, Light Feather's saber and gun were confiscated. As if it was a pity to have such a lovely face, the personnel manager looked at her a few more times: "You have thought clearly, once you sign the deed of sale, you will be a person from the Alder Mining Area for the rest of your life." If you can't work until you die, your children will have to come to work here in the future to pay you the liquidated damages. ”

"yes, I figured it out." Qing Yu did not hesitate, and quickly signed the deed of sale:

Levi.

The manager picked up the signature and looked at it carefully, playing with the nameplate in his hand: "You can't be a fake identity, right?" ”

"No, no, how can this be fake? I am indeed desperate, my family has been robbed, my parents are dead, you should have pity on me! "Qing Yu looked honest and pitiful, and looked miserable.

But in the manager's opinion, it is even worse to come to be a miner: "You are so good-looking, you can go elsewhere to make a living." I have connections to introduce you if you want. With your posture, it is not a dream to make money every day. ”

"Manager!" Qing Yu Putong knelt down and kowtowed, "I beg you, sir, don't!" If that's the case, I'd rather die headfirst on a mountain right now! ”

The personnel manager raised his eyebrows, and what he said just now was just a casual question, after all, the remuneration brought by one more person under his command is far more lucrative than selling a girl. There are twelve personnel managers like them in the mine, and to put it bluntly, they are foremen. However, the foreman's salary is linked to the output of his miners, and the more ore they mine, the more their commission.

"Okay, I'll take you, but life here isn't so easy, you can do it yourself in the future." The personnel manager stamped the deed of sale, and then issued a badge to Qingyu, which was to give the assistant a look and put the pistol and saber in the warehouse.

Qingyu looked in the direction where the assistant left, and the manager patted her on the shoulder: "Don't worry about those things, sign the deed of sale, and the things will belong to us." Besides, you picked it up in the first place, God knows how many people have been killed, it's not clean. ”

"Yes, yes, you're right!" Qingyu nodded humbly, and then went to receive his own supplies: a set of work clothes, a pair of gloves, a hard hat and a towel.

The huge hemisphere, like a clock dial, is divided into twelve sections with Roman numerals, each of which is filled with small rooms filled with a human resources manager. From the inside, it is a huge prison, and even the curved dome is built, so that no space is wasted.

In the middle of the hemisphere, there is a huge pit - when the alder mining area was first developed, the owner bought a large amount of gunpowder from the government, and blew it up, and then reinforced and repaired it with concrete, and built a transportation plank road and elevator along the edge of the big pit;

All the caverns in the mine are opened in the walls of the large pit and then extended inward. Over the years, there have been hundreds of large and small mines, and the big pits have been dug deeper and deeper.

The roar of the elevators, the sound of the excavation of the mines, and the wheezing of the laborersβ€”they are like worker ants running around the pit underground, and they never expect to see the sun or hope; When they looked up, all they saw was a small room densely packed, no different from the sesame seeds sprinkled on the pancakes.

The semicircle on the ground and the large pit underground, here it is like an artificial beehive, and the scalp of people watching those dense small rooms is numb. The miners would return there every day except for sleeping, and they would have to stay in the dark mines.

When I came to this hellish place, I guess I can only do this in my life.

"Manager, someone is coming to sign the deed of sale, and he's still a stranger!"

Not long after receiving a "Levi", the assistant hurriedly came to report again, and saw the manager's eyes light up: "What's going on today, aren't the other managers at work?" Why did all the good things happen to me? ”

"How lazy they are, they all went back to take a nap, and only the one in District 8 was there. But Batur's men are here, and he's busy taking care of those imps! The assistant laughed, "Manager, I just saw it, the things in that girl's hand are all good things, and after that, you will be able to make a lot of money by going to a batch of black!" ”

"Do you still have to say that? My fiery eyes can count it at a glance. In the lounge, the manager stood up in a proud suit, "Let's go, go to the office and have a look, maybe this stranger also has good goods!" ”

The two returned to the office again, but this time they were disappointed. Except for a string of numbers and a black hooded cloak, the Adeptus had nothing.

"Who are you, what is your name, why do you want to sell yourself?" Without oil and water, the manager naturally has no good face, and this guy is dressed in black and wearing a hat, which makes people uncomfortable to look at, and his words are even more cold and weird:

"There's not so much why, I'm just coming. And you must take me. The man was full of danger and madness, and the moment he pulled down his hood, the manager and assistant turned pale with shock.