Chapter 22: The Hellwalkers

Teleportation is a kind of ionization transmission ability of the body, and it is also a technology that has been struggling in the field of human science and technology.

But as early as 50 years ago, by the chance of DNA mutations stimulated by the dust of the gods, the first demigod with the ability to teleport in human history was born.

Aaron, in that era, was like an emperor-like existence, and the well-deserved throne of the heaven-level demigod clan "One" allowed him to reach the pinnacle of power, and for a while, he felt that he could do anything, until he saw those ......

Before Zhang Lan could react, the picture in front of him changed instantly, and he appeared on the edge of a mountain cliff. He almost lost his footing and was blown by the wind, but it was Aaron who pulled him back and saved his life.

Sitting on the ground, he gasped violently, and his heartbeat could not be calmed down for a long time.

"Don't get excited, take a deep breath, it's normal to have a stress response when you move your body tissues for the first time, just move a few more times in the future." Aaron comforted as an old driver.

"You...... It's the real monster, and this ability is too rebellious. Zhang Lan's face turned pale, you have to know how awesome the skill of teleportation is, which shows that he can kill anyone invisibly.

"You have just become a demigod, and you may not understand that the greater your ability, the greater the price you pay." Aaron didn't think it was awesome, "The ability is a curse, Ye Wuchang has given the lobes of his lungs that can breathe normally, and I have never felt the feeling of standing up with my feet, since I was born, my lower body has been paralyzed." ”

"And my abilities also have many limitations, such as I can only teleport to a special place that I can remember, and then use it once will shorten my life by 1 day. So, today, I don't have to use my abilities anymore. Aaron turned over all his hole cards without reservation.

"Why is such a precious life wasted on me?" Zhang Lan looked at Aaron suspiciously.

"Because I want to show you what made me give up my life as a king." Following Aaron's gaze, Zhang Lan looked down the mountain.

It's not a city, it's supposed to be pitch black, but below it is a huge spiral-shaped crater, with hundreds of holes dug longitudinally in a kilometer-diameter shaft. Large suspended minecarts continue to transport the muck away, and the management is rigorous.

"Low-level laborers? Are you just showing me this? I'm sorry, I don't have sympathy, their job is just to survive, serve people's bowls, serve people, and have no distinction between high and low, when I was the worst, I grabbed food with dogs, and I didn't see a great bodhisattva like you to pity me? Zhang Lan said disdainfully.

"Mr. Zhang Lan, your observation should be more than that." Aaron was a little regretful, "Didn't you find anything wrong?" ”

Zhang Lan looked back and looked closely, and a large amount of information came into his mind, "No reason? Now that the level of science and technology can reach fully automated mining, why are there so many people here? ”

Judging from the structure of the barracks and the flow of people entering and exiting, this mining area with a diameter of 1 kilometer can accommodate at least 20,000 low-level laborers working.

Moreover, they had little protection, wearing only the simplest tight-fitting shorts for both men and women, dirty like coal diggers, without even a pair of shoes, walking barefoot on the gravel pavement. Looking at the LOGO of the black-hearted mining area, belonging to the Overlord Group?

"These are prisoners? Or a rebel? Zhang Lan asked.

"No, before coming here, they were all low-level laborers who were recruited voluntarily, but they didn't know that they would become Divine Stone Dust Collectors, what those in power call 'Hellwalkers'......" Aron said a new term.

Divine Stone Dust, which is a special energy body that spread to all parts of the world during the explosion of the Divine Stone in the last era, has been scientifically verified that it can completely replace oil, electricity, and natural gas, and become an important energy resource to support the continued extension of human civilization.

But it also has the property that humans simply can't tell where the dust is hiding in the mines by technical means. For example, diamonds, gold, and precious metals, you are at least digging to a certain extent, and you can find them out through the filtration system, but the mining units of the divine stone dust are all micro-particle level, so small that they cannot be identified by the naked eye, and if you want to screen out 1 particle of dust from a ton of raw ore, it takes a large machine at least 12 hours to do it, and the probability of missing it is more than 5%.

As a result, someone came up with a simpler way to detect, that is, to use people......

Just as Aaron was explaining, there was a sudden hoarse scream from the mining area below the mountain, and a walking miner suddenly fell to the ground, and the soles of his feet quickly festered as if they had been bitten by a poisonous snake.

"Help me! Help me! The miner choked and begged, but the other workers just stood numbly and watched him die quickly.

In just 30 seconds, when the staff in full protective suits arrived, the miner was already bruised and swollen into a ball of flesh and died.

The staff was not interested in his corpse at all, but just searched the place he had just stepped on with a special detection instrument, sucked out a grain of divine stone dust from a pile of rubble, sealed it in a glass tube and took it away.

"Look at what? Keep up the work! The mine owner roared, and the other miners hung their heads and went on with what they had to do, having no hope for the future, because they knew that one day, they would die like that man.

"The dust is highly toxic to the human body, even if it is only 10 centimeters away from the dust of the stone, it will be infected immediately, and the human cells will die from the inside, causing malformed esophageal obstruction and heart disease, but the way to die is because the trachea is swollen and unable to breathe, as if drowning on land.

By mining at the cost of the lives of the laborers, the efficiency of the various groups in collecting the dust of the sacred stones has been greatly improved. In the past 30 years, it can be said that it is the harvest season for the collection of divine stone dust, but ...... However, more than 200 million low-level laborers died.

They walked through the hellish mines, not knowing what day or second they would die, and anyone who tried to escape would be assigned to the ore sorting area, where they would be tied to poles like pigs, and the tracks that carried the ore would slide over their bodies, and many died not from the dust of the gods, but from wound infections or excessive blood loss.

"Before I came here, I had been receiving an elite education provided by the group, and I knew that there are two kinds of people in the world, one is rich and the other is poor, as long as you work hard enough, the poor also have the opportunity to become rich."

"But when I got here, I realized that there is actually only one kind of person in the world, and that is the people in power, and the part other than them is just pigs and dogs, who can lose their lives at any time. Even if you try to cling to the powerful, you are just a pig and dog who has changed the way of living. ”

"It's not the group I'm rebelling against, it's not the justice of God, it's just that people who can talk live like a person." Aaron sighed.