Chapter 181: Purgatory
The mine is surrounded by iron fences, and mysterious people wearing masks, either holding magic scepters or weapons, shouting and swearing.
In the morning light, a group of shirtless sturdy men, with iron chains on their bodies and purple-gold ore weighing dozens of catties, walked in front of Yun Sheng and the others.
Iron chains and heavy ore pressed their backs into a bloody blur.
But none of them dared to stop, but walked back and forth like a machine.
"According to the gender of men and women, the villagers are divided into two groups, the old and the young and those who are unable to work are all driven to the livestock shed, and the rest are taken to the cave," the mysterious person who brought Yun Sheng and the others back spoke.
They separated the captured villagers, and those who were able to work were imprisoned in caves, and given a certain amount of water and food to replace the miners who were working at high loads.
The rest of the people who were unable to work were driven directly into the barn and locked up with the plundered animals, which would be used as rations for the beasts in the future.
However, during the time he was imprisoned in batches, Yun Sheng witnessed several truckloads of dead bodies being sent out in carts.
There are men and women among them, and some of them are young and only ** years old.
Some of them had their hands broken by the ore, and some were beaten to death for resisting and fleeing, and this piece of mine that looks like a leafy mine is actually a purgatory on earth.
When the sixth son saw this scene, his lips were tightly bitten, and he didn't know if his father and mother were still alive.
Whether they are locked in a cave or sent to a barn, they can't escape a dead word in the end.
Yun Sheng believed that even if some villagers were lucky enough to survive in such a harsh environment, once the vein was excavated, in order to conceal their evil deeds, these mysterious people would definitely kill all the surviving villagers.
Damn, these people are simply dehumanized.
Seeing the tragic scenes, the dark magic soul in Yun Sheng's body became active as if he had smelled blood.
For the first time, Yun Sheng's heart surged with such a strong killing intent.
She wanted to kill the beasts in front of her.
Realizing this, Yun Sheng couldn't help but be taken aback, she had always had excellent self-control, but she found that as she studied dark magic deeply, her killing heart seemed to be much heavier.
There was also a red light in her eyes.
Yun Sheng and the three of them, although they were not very old and tall, their bodies were still very strong, so they were quickly selected and rushed to the group of people in the cave.
"You three, look around, immediately change your clothes, put on shackles, and follow the queue!" Hearing the command of the mysterious person beside her, Yun Sheng lowered her eyes, hiding the killing intent in her eyes.
She slowly carried the Essence Jade Gong in her body, and as the power of the Essence Jade Gong was running in her body, Yun Sheng felt that her killing intent was gradually calmed down, and her eyes also regained clarity.
"Impulsiveness is the devil, no matter what the circumstances, you can't let the killing intent control your own heart," Yun Sheng secretly warned himself.
The three of them changed into mining uniforms made of coarse linen, and their feet were also hung with ten-pound shackles, and the three of them were pushed into a narrow cave by the vicious mysteries.
At the entrance of the cave, there are five or six mysterious people, as well as more than ten sixth-order salamanders, and they are very heavily guarded. The cave was dim, damp, and covered with moss.
On the mountain wall, there are only a few magic lights, dimly illuminating the road ahead.
The mysterious group came suddenly, and they dug these caves in a hurry, and the conditions here are rudimentary, and the caves are very deep.
Yun Sheng walked in all the way and smelled rot and musty.
"Liuzi, after staying inside, you can find out first, and if there are any people from Jingkou Village, ask about the specific situation here," Yun Sheng glanced at a corner of the cave, where a few bats lived.
Liuzi nodded, his heart was heavier than his handcuffed feet at this moment, he was afraid that after he entered the cave, he would find out the bad news of his father.
"Sixth son, be strong," Huang Que, who was also from a poor family, whispered to comfort the sixth son.
He nodded.
Liuzi already knew that Yunsheng and Huangque were both girls, and he was still the eldest of the three.
Before leaving, Yun Canglang had encouraged him that as the only boy among the three, he was bound to protect Yun Sheng and Huang Que.
The cave was very long, and as he walked all the way, Yun Sheng's brows became tighter and tighter.
The living conditions of the miners are too poor.
There is hardly any ventilation here, and if all the surviving villagers were to be imprisoned in the cave, it would be quite congested.
When the air is muddy and the population density is high, in the event of illness or death, the airborne germs are enough to bring down healthy villagers.
Finally, there was a human voice ahead.
The front of the cave gradually opened up.
At the bottom is a space about 100 square meters in size, where three or four hundred people are being held.
Among them, men and women, who do not have to enter the mine during the day, can temporarily remove their shackles, and when they leave the cave, they must be handcuffed to prevent them from escaping.
"You newcomers, hear it clearly one by one, don't try to escape, otherwise these people will be your fate!" The mysterious people who drove them in, wielding thorny whips in their hands, shook them the ground.
The hard ground was immediately shattered by the rocks, and the stone chips that stirred up hit the people's bodies, and the pain was hot.
Their whips were pointed at the cave walls, and when they looked up, several of the more timid ones were scared and cried on the spot.
On the mountain wall, there are several dead bodies.
These people have a trace of intact bones in their bodies, and they are unrecognizable.
The men were stripped naked, and the women were naked, and the blood on their bodies had dried up, leaving only crumpled skin, barely recognizable in human form.
These people are all people who tried to escape in the past days, when the guards were not paying attention, while mining.
None of them managed to escape, and when they were captured alive, they ended up like this.
But even so, there are still many people who try to escape every day.
After a few words of warning, the mysteries left the cave.
Liuziqiang held back the nausea in his throat, and he hurriedly searched for his father and mother in the crowd.
Although the chances are small, Liuzi still hopes that he can find his father and mother.
Most of the villagers who were imprisoned in the caves had yellow faces and thin skin, chapped lips.
Their eyes were hollow, and when they saw a new person coming in, they didn't make any sound.
For them, escape has become a luxury, and the death of their relatives one by one has completely destroyed their hopes.
They're just like the walking dead.
Liuzi searched around the crowd, and he found several people from Jingkou Village, but no matter how he asked, those people didn't speak.
He was worried that his father and mother had already suffered misfortune.
"Sixth son, don't ask again." Yun Sheng saw that Liuzi was about to collapse, so he dragged him aside and poured him a few sips of water before Liuzi quieted down.
At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside.
Yun Sheng and the others looked up, and thirty or forty bare-chested miners walked in.
One by one, they looked tired, these were the miners who had completed their mining tasks today, and when they returned to the cave, another group of people were driven out.
"Daddy," the sixth son recognized one of the men, and he immediately jumped up and rushed over.