Chapter Eighty-Three: Mine Cave III
The child was stunned by her, but lowered his head uneasily. After thinking about it, he asked in a low voice, "May I ask you...... Are you Aunt Liang Chu who is a doctor? ”
Liang Chu was shocked, why does this child know himself? Could it be that it has been treated before? But she thinks she has always had a good memory, and she shouldn't have seen him!
Seeing that she didn't speak, the child raised his head and asked in a low voice, "Auntie, you, do you remember Mark?" ”
Ah, Mark! That mixed-race chef, who didn't know each other in the city that never sleeps, later became friends, and asked her Mark like a lonely!
Liang Chu looked at the child suspiciously, "You...... Is it his son? ”
The child nodded, "yes, he's my dad." ”
"And he...... How about now? Liang Chu asked, in the past three years, she often asked someone to bring him C-type physique medicine, but I remember that when she finally left the city of the night, he had not come to the clinic to deliver food for a long time, and I don't know how it was doing.
"Thank you. Because of the medicine you gave him, his last days were not too painful...... He often showed me pictures of you, and he said that you were the kindest and smartest human being he had ever met! The child looked at her with bright eyes.
It turns out that Mark is no longer alive...... Liang Chu lowered his head gloomily.
She thought guiltily that she hadn't fulfilled her promise, and that Mark didn't know when he died, so she hadn't gone to see his poor child. Creation made people, but I didn't expect to meet her here, and I saved her!
Looking at the dirty, thin and thin child in front of him, Liang Chu couldn't help but lower his head and put his forehead against him. "I'm sorry, it's my aunt who is not good, in the future, my aunt will definitely compensate you......"
The child was depressed for only a moment, then raised his head and comforted her, "It's okay, you see, I'm fine now!" My dad had a couple of friends who got jobs here and they brought me here. Usually when they go to the mines, I find some chores to do and eat a full stomach! And I've saved a little bit of money! The boy said happily, not caring at all how embarrassing the environment was.
Being comforted by him like this, she felt even more guilty, and swore seriously: "If I can get out of here, I will definitely protect you well and never let you be wronged again!" ”
The boy smiled cheerfully, revealing his slightly yellowed teeth, "I believe in you! Dad keeps saying you're a good person! But we have to get out now, I just said nonsense, Uncle Maori is sleeping in the house! When he goes out, he will know that he has been deceived by us, we have to hurry! ”
Liang Chu hurriedly followed him, and one person carried a lamp out of this pit room.
The mine was very dark, and the little boy was fine, especially since she had to crawl out with her waist bent, walked a long passage, and followed the boy up a few steep slopes before she saw a few forked roads. By the faint light of the miner's lamp, Liang Chu followed him into an inconspicuous path. I finally believe that if this child hadn't led the way, she would have been trapped here!
The top of the head drips from time to time, the foot is an unusually rugged mine road, the narrow place can only be used to climb forward with hands and feet, the two of them are silent, especially Liang Chu, the first time to walk this kind of place, it is very difficult to walk, but in a hurry, I don't care about the clothes being worn out by the craggy ore, and I don't care about checking the wounds on the shoulders of my knees and palms, so I can only fight with all my strength and follow closely behind the nimble boy in front. At this moment, she is extremely grateful for the good physical fitness that she was trained by various "abuses" by instructors when she was in college.
After a short drive, I faintly heard the roar of the machine in front of me, far away.
Liang Chu stopped uneasily, and the boy's keen sense of hearing made him immediately realize that she hadn't followed, and turned back to greet her, "It's okay Aunt Liang Chu, we're finally almost at the entrance of the cave." This is the sound of a machine carrying ore upwards! ”
Liang Chu understood a little, "Isn't there a machine mining here, why didn't you see the machine all the way over?" ”
"Where, here are all us people going down to mine! It's the second half of the night, and the workers on the evening shift have just gone up, and the workers who will go to the morning shift will come down later! ”
It's still manual mining! Liang Chu was surprised, mining is not only labor-intensive, especially very dangerous, the Federation and Dongyuan have already realized fully robotic mining in the mining areas of several surrounding planets, and humans only need to control it remotely on the earth. It is both efficient and safe, completely disrupting the traditional mining industry and banning absenteeism with machines.
"Why isn't it machine mining, isn't that better?" She asked as she walked, and her hands and feet didn't dare to slow down for a moment.
"I heard that many years ago, Dongyuan was going to replace all this place with machines," the boy introduced as he walked in front, "but everyone disagreed, and after a long time, they finally agreed to provide ore according to quality and quantity, and moreover, the wages of absenteeism were reduced again and again, and the miners were not left to care about their lives and deaths, so Dongyuan Mineral Company agreed to let us mine here." But in the past few years, the mines here have dried up, and many potholes have been suspended, and I am afraid that it will not be long before everyone loses their jobs again. ”
"Are all hybrids here?"
"That's right!" The boy looked as a matter of course, "How can any human want to stay on such a small island?" There were two humans who were in charge before, and they thought it was too desolate and had a hard time, so they both went back. But now it's all Dongyuan Mining that is managed by robots, and there is no need to send humans! ”
Liang Chu was silent, if it weren't for the sake of supporting his family and earning this kind of money, which hybrid was willing to risk his life to come to such a deserted island where there was nothing but ore to make a living, human beings couldn't stand it, but they rushed to do it.
After chatting, I arrived at the entrance of the mine after a while, which is managed by intelligent robots, and there is no worker in the shift time, only a crane that transports the excavated ore to the top of the pit runs slowly. There was one last crane left on the ground, and under the control of the intelligent robot, several huge shovels shoveled the ore that had just been transported by the surrounding minecarts into the body. Liang Chu looked up, the mine was hundreds of meters deep, and the darkness could not be seen, only the roar of the machine in the distance proved that they were deep underground.
"Let's go, Aunt Liang, the next wave of people is coming soon, and the eldest brother will definitely take that elevator down!" The little boy urged her.
"Okay, how do I get there?" She asked the boy after him.
"Are you waiting for them to come down and pick you up?" The boy laughed, "Quick, come in!" ”
After saying that, he ran towards the last minecart not far away, climbed the gears of the minecart with his small body, climbed a few steps, and flipped into it with a move, and then grabbed the big shovel and fell into the big crane with the ore. The little man fell into the deep round bucket of the crane and disappeared.
Liang Chu didn't dare to delay, followed the boy and ran to the crane, and followed his example, trying to climb the shovel, turning over and falling into the car body.
The ore is very hard, and when it falls, it is dizzy, and there are ores above her head that are constantly shoveled in, she curls up into a small ball, hugging the boy, carefully avoiding the ore that falls from the sky and is the size of a child's head, but so many ores are smashed down, it is inevitable that the whole back is in tatters, and it hurts to drill the heart. However, she would rather be stoned than be found than lose this little life.
Eventually, she and the boy's bodies were slowly buried by rocks of all sizes, and from the outside, it was impossible to detect the two people hiding in the body.
The last crane was finally full, and a loud noise began to be heard in my ears - it was another group of workers who had come down the shaft in the elevator! I don't know if Maori and the yellow hybrid were involved, but she curled herself up under the ore and couldn't be spotted by them!
The crane creaked and creaked, and it was time to send ore to it! Liang Chu and the boy held their breath and waited for the moment to leave the ground.