Chapter 8: Concealment
"Slap ......" With the crisp sound of the leather whip on Xiuwen's body, Xiuwen, who was struggling to carry the stone, let out a miserable scream, and a bloody mark suddenly appeared on his back that was covered by shabby clothes.
The stone that Xiu Wen was carrying in his hand almost fell, and Zhang Tie, who was standing next to him, hurriedly stretched out a hand to help him stabilize.
"You untouchables, don't try to be lazy with me, hurry up, clear this area for me, and see if there is any ...... left" The slave warden standing on a rock shouted loudly, "If you don't find the runaway untouchables, you will exhaust me to death here......"
Zhang Tie turned his head to look at the slave prisoner, and the slave prisoner whipped over without hesitation, hitting Zhang Tie, glaring at Zhang Tie fiercely, "Boy, if you look at me again, I'll gouge out your eyes......"
Zhang Tie's body trembled, but that whip was nothing to Zhang Tie, in the past month or so, under the "beating" of the Fool airship crew, Zhang Tie ate three more iron fetal fruits, after eating these three iron fetal fruits, Zhang Tie felt that his body's ability to withstand blows had increased a lot.
In the past, when Zhang Tie was whipped in Tianhan City, he could endure it, not to mention that at this time, the punishment that was unbearable for ordinary people was like being swatted by a fly to Zhang Tie.
At this time, it was not the time to be angry with these scum, Zhang Tie did not speak, but lowered his head, re-carried the stone weighing more than fifty kilograms in his hand, and pretended to walk with the others. Move the stone from your hand to the slope over there and throw it down......
"Ah, thank you......" Xiuwen inhaled the cold air and said to Zhang Tie gratefully.
The two men walked up the slope. Throwing the stone down, Xiu Wen glanced at the slave prison in the distance, and now the guy didn't notice the situation here, so he quietly handed Zhang Tie a kettle that he hid in his clothes, "Drink a little, it's been more than ten hours, I see you haven't drunk a sip of water......"
"Thank you. I don't have to ......."
"Ah, your body is so good...... Xiu Wen glanced at Zhang Tie with some envy, and then quickly opened the kettle and took a sip. After seeing a few people with teeth hanging on their necks coming over carrying stones, he hurriedly hid the kettle in his hand and continued to walk with Zhang Tie towards the pile of rocks in the distance.
The captives, with teeth hanging around their necks, came carrying a few smaller stones, though they were also doing coolies. However, these people can receive appropriate preferential treatment. Sometimes they could even take a break, and the whip of the slave prison was rarely drawn on them.
"Be careful of these people......" After the few guys with teeth on their necks walked away, Xiu Wen whispered to Zhang Tie, "Those people have begun to eat human flesh, they have become beasts, as long as they can live, they will not hesitate to do whatever they are asked to do, once these people become slaves." They will be even more ruthless to us than demons......"
Zhang Tie nodded, once some people succumb to evil. will become an accomplice and thug of evil.,It will show the dark side of human nature even more intensely.,How to make a bunch of people divide and start infighting.,Let humans consume their own strength.,The demons and those miscellaneous people of the Three-Eyed Society are already familiar with this.。
Under the high pressure of the slave prisoners, the Terran captives have been working for more than ten hours in a row, but they still haven't found anything hidden underground secret passages or cracks in the ground.
Zhang Tie knew that they would never be able to find those people, and no one would be able to think about where those people were hiding. And thinking that those people had escaped somewhere in the underground space and hidden, this was good news for Zhang Tie, which meant that there was still no one who could see the intrusion of a stranger like him.
With the departure of the demonized puppets of the brigade, the camp of the demonized puppets became relatively empty, and before leaving here, Zhang Tie had already made up his mind to give those miscellaneous people of the Senel family a "surprise".
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The mushroom is a similar thing to the mushroom on the ground, the whole body of the mushroom is red, like a bright red umbrella, in this underground space, in those warm, humid and relatively backlit places, such as those crevices of the rocks, as long as the conditions are right, they will emerge from the ground in just a day or two.
In the past, there were a lot of fire mushrooms underground, but now there are fewer and fewer fire mushrooms, and the most important reason is that all the Terran captives, when they see the fire mushrooms, no matter how big or small the fire mushrooms, will not wait until the fire mushrooms are completely ripe, and with the ability to release the seeds left by the robes, they have already pulled up the fire mushrooms, so that the fire mushrooms have lost the ability to continue to reproduce.
An hour later, when he was moving a stone away, Zhang Tie saw a red umbrella cover in the soil beneath the stone.
Zhang Tie hadn't moved yet, Xiuwen and a few captives next to him saw it, and immediately pounced, grabbed the fire mushroom and stuffed it into their mouths, in a panic, Xiuwen himself stuffed a chew into his mouth, and then grabbed one and handed it to Zhang Tie.
"Eat it......"
Looking at the way others gobbled up, Zhang Tie only hesitated slightly, and put the fire mushroom in his mouth, the taste of the fire mushroom was like some green bagasse, slightly bitter and cold.
"You untouchables, don't hurry up and get to work...... Seeing the chaos here, a slave warden rushed over with a whip and whipped it indiscriminately, dispersing the crowd of mushroom snatchers and letting everyone get back to work.
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After another seven or eight hours, when more than eighty percent of the Terran captives were no longer able to walk, no matter how beaten by the slaves, they did not have the strength to walk, and the hard labor that lasted for a whole day was over. All talents regained the opportunity to rest and sleep again.
Although many of the captives "escaped", and the people of the Senel family were angry, in order not to completely exhaust the remaining Terran captives. After squeezing everyone's bodies clean and finding nothing in a row, the Senel family had to let all the Terran captives start to rest.
Zhang Tie returned to a cave with Xiuwen and more than forty captives, all of whom were left with the strength to lie on the ground and gasp.
There was one more person in the cave, and the others didn't seem to care, and it seemed that the number of people here was constantly changing.
The cave where these Terran captives rested gave Zhang Tie the feeling of being an underground black prison in Black Flame City, the air in the cave was filthy, and there was a strange smell. The red light of the river of magma in the distance reflected some of it from the cave opening, shining on the top of the cave, giving the cave a little light. You won't be completely blind.
After coming here to rest for a while, some of the people who had recovered a little bit of their body struggled to find their way out of the cave in search of food, and some of them took out some strange things from their clothes. Dry stuff to eat.
I saw a person next to me holding something like a rat's tail and chewing hard. Zhang Tie almost retched.
Xiuwen, who had rested for a while, also left the cave and went to the water source outside to fill a bottle of water and came back.
Xiu Wen originally wanted to find something to eat, but looking at his face when he came back, Zhang Tie knew that he must have gained nothing, fortunately, he had eaten some fire mushrooms a few hours ago, and he still didn't feel too hungry.
Zhang Tiexian, the bagasse-like mushrooms begin to ferment and swell up when they are eaten in people's stomachs, making you feel "full". In fact, the body does not get so much nutrients and supplements.
"Peter. You say, is there really a secret passage or a crack in the ground hidden in this underground? Xiuwen asked Zhang Tie.
"Perhaps!" Zhang Tie said vaguely, "Anyway, those people have already left here!" ”
"If we have any clues, don't say it, just treat it as if nothing has been ......," Xiu Wen said in a low voice.
Zhang Tie looked at him and nodded.
"There are fewer and fewer fire mushrooms and those things that can be found underground, so if there are a few people who can survive, how many people can live!" Xiu Wen said pessimistically.
"Don't you believe you can live?"
"No one can leave here unless they become lackeys of the demons and beasts that eat human flesh." Xiu Wen said, and quietly took out a small piece of black and brown from his body and gave it to Zhang Tie, "This is what I prepared for myself, mine is enough, this piece is for you!" ”
"What is this?"
"A kind of curart mushroom that grows underground, I occasionally appeared a few days ago, it contains very high levels of highly toxic muscarinic substances and a hemolytic toxin, as long as this small piece is eaten, it can make you die in a few minutes, and after you die, your corpse also contains highly toxic substances, those beasts will not use your corpse as food, so that you can leave a whole corpse after death, and when you have to, this thing will make you suffer less."
"How do you know that?" Zhang Tie asked Xiuwen with some curiosity.
"I used to be a botanist...... Xiuwen smiled wryly.
Zhang Tie took the piece that had been killed in his hand, and in front of Xiu Wen, he crushed it to pieces, and then blew it off......
"You ......" Xiu Wen glared at Zhang Tie, as if he was a little angry.
"I promise you, you won't use this stuff, and I won't either!"
"It's all this time, what guarantee do you get?" Xiuwen looked at Zhang Tie with an alien eye.
"Do you believe in miracles?"
"From the day we were brought here, the miracle died!"
"Maybe when you fall asleep, open your eyes again, and a miracle will be born, people, don't lose your dreams and hopes!"
"Go to sleep, save up a little body for the bright point...... Xiuwen sighed, curled up, and lay on the ground.
Zhang Tie also lay on the ground, and after swallowing a few mouthfuls of the all-effect potion and water "carried" from the Black Iron Castle, he silently closed his eyes, recovering his body and energy, and at the same time refilling the few divine runes in the sea of consciousness, putting himself in the best condition, while waiting for most people to fall asleep...... (To be continued!)
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