Chapter 2: The Great South
"What do you want to express?" Kong Qing put down the steamed bun in his hand and asked with a calm eyelid.
The old man smiled at the corner of his mouth, "Do you really believe their words? Do you really think that the world is the same as our mine? Let me tell you, those regulations are so that you can mine well."
"Say whatever you want to say quickly, grind and chirp," Kong Qing said in disgust.
"Ahem!" The old man saw that Kong Qing was already interested, and his palm was bent.
Kong Qing couldn't understand what the old man meant, so he pulled the bottom half of the steamed bun and handed it to the old man, "Give you half first, and I'll give you the other half after speaking."
"Half?" the old man was stunned.
"Don't forget it" Kong Qing saw that the old man was hungry like that, and he disliked half of the steamed bun in his hand, and was ready to take back the steamed bun with a light snort.
"Hey, hey, yes, you want it" The old man hurriedly grabbed half of the steamed bun in Kong Qing's hand.
"I didn't expect you to be quite smart at a young age" The old man took a bite of the steamed bun, looked at Kong Qing and smiled meaningfully.
Kong Qing also understood the old man's words, in this mine, most of the people are like walking corpses, like shells that have lost their souls, mining according to the rules every day, without ideas or thinking.
Completely turned into a living dead, a real slave.
And some of the remaining people are people like Kong Qing and the old man, who have ideas and thoughts, can think, and are not too affected by the environment here.
"If my guess is correct, you shouldn't be the aborigines of the old source area," the old man said, taking a bite of the steamed bun.
The old source area, which is the mine where Kong Qing is located.
"That's right, I was caught," Kong Qing nodded.
"That's not right," the old man was stunned, "If you were caught outside, you should know the outside world."
Kong Qing shook his head, lowered his head and thought for a while, before he said slowly, "I used to live in a village, and I was alone in the village, and I was inexplicably arrested by them three years ago."
Hearing Kong Qing's answer, the old man was relieved, there are indeed many villages living in isolation, and people like Kong Qing are just one of the unlucky ones in the old man's opinion.
"Okay, since I've eaten your steamed buns, I'll tell you about the outside world" The old man took a bite of the remaining steamed buns and wiped his hands casually on the sloppy cloth clothes.
"You should know the country we are in," the old man asked.
Kong Qing hurriedly shook his head and stared at the old man with wide eyes.
"Ahem, a child is a child" The old man hooked his palm again, and Kong Qing hurriedly handed the half of the steamed bun in his hand to the old man.
The world where Kong Qing is located is called the source realm, the source realm is not very large, a total of only more than 20 million square kilometers, of which the land area accounts for three-fifths of it, and the remaining two-fifths of the area is mostly some sea areas and some undeveloped special areas.
And three-fifths of the area is divided by six or seven national regions, although it is six or seven national regions, in fact, the real overlord of the source realm is only two national regions, that is, the Great South Kingdom and the Upper North Kingdom.
The remaining countries are very small in size, and due to the influence of the two great powers, the terrain of the country is also very poor.
The country where Kong Qing is located is one of the two great powers, and the country is divided into three counties, namely Xingyang County, Luoyang County, and Kaiyang County.
However, the old source area does not belong to any of these three counties, but is separated from the last part of the Great Southern Kingdom.
Although the Old Source District was a slave-type mining area, the Old Source Area was larger than any of the three major counties.
"Great Southern Kingdom" Kong Qing muttered to himself, "By the way, they said that the source stones we dig every day are for the legendary martial artists to cultivate, and there are martial artists outside every mining area, can it really be cultivated in this world?"
Looking at Kong Qingjiong's blazing gaze, the old man straightened his old waist slightly, and stroked his dirty white beard proudly, "Half more!"
Kong Qing immediately ripped off half of his remaining other steamed buns.
Seeing this, another big man next to him hurriedly shouted at Kong Qing, "Little brother, don't listen to this old man's nonsense, he is a cheater."
When Kong Qing heard this, he immediately withdrew the hand he had just stretched out, and looked at the old man suspiciously, "Eat and drink?"
The old man was not happy when he heard Dahan's words, and turned his head to the side and pointed angrily at Dahan, "What do you kid know, you have lived in the old source area all your life, and there is a frog at the bottom of the well."
The big man didn't refute the old man, and continued to swallow the steamed buns in his hand with a pouted mouth, "Little brother, that thing is too mysterious for the martial artist, we can't even go out of the old source area, don't think about that, work hard and eat two more steamed buns."
Kong Qing hurriedly nodded and smiled at the big man with gratitude, and then handed half of the steamed bun to the old man.
"You believe me?" the old man was stunned.
Kong Qing nodded, "It's been three years since I came here, and I can also feel that the source stone we excavated is not an ordinary stone."
"Okay!" the old man unceremoniously took Kong Qing's steamed bun and took a bite, "Although I don't have a chance to become a martial artist, I have witnessed the battle of a martial artist with my own eyes!"
"At that time, I was still young, living in a village dozens of kilometers away from the old source area, one night, suddenly there was a loud noise in the village, and there was a strange feeling that oppressed everyone's hearts, and everyone else thought that the gods had come down to punish mortals, and they didn't dare to open the door."
"At that time, I was young and vigorous, and I quietly opened the window a crack in the pain in my heart, and I saw everything that was happening outside!"
"What do you see?warrior?" asked Kong Qing excitedly.
The old man nodded slowly.
"That's right! It's the legendary warrior! And it's two!"
"I only saw the two of them gesturing with their hands constantly, and then there was a strange light, which was extremely bizarre"
"After that, I closed the window because I couldn't bear the pain in my heart anymore, and it is not clear what happened next."
"Listen to him blow it to you"
When Kong Qing was still immersed in the old man's narration, the big man broke the picture in Kong Qing's mind.
The old man didn't speak, and seeing Kong Qing's shocked face, the old man shook his head lightly and stood up.
"Boy, what about the warriors, since you have come here, you can't get out at all, it's better to die than to live, work hard"
When the old man had finished speaking, he looked for another plank in the cave and lay down to sleep.
"I said, boy, you don't really believe it," the big man asked with a smile.
Kong Qing turned his head for a while before he turned his head to look at Dahan and nodded.
"Alas" Dahan let out a long sigh, "What he said is right, martial artists do exist, and in the outside world, the number of martial artists exceeds that of ordinary people, but ......"
Before the Han words were finished, he sighed again.
Kong Qing frowned, and asked in a deep voice, "Uncle, do we know that there is no way to escape?"
"Escape?" Dahan's expression changed, and he hurriedly looked at the people around him, and only after seeing that there was no movement did he lean towards Kong Qing's side.
"Boy, you must not be like that old man, he can't keep his mouth shut, he says everything, I don't know how many times he has been beaten by the supervision" The big man replied softly.
Seeing that Kong Qing was still indifferent, Dahan continued, "You better dispel this kind of thought, I am a native of the old source area, and I was brought here by them to mine at the age of eight, and I can't remember how many riots I have seen over the years."
"Don't the realm know the situation here?" asked Kong Qing.
"Hahaha, the ...... of the country" Dahan laughed at himself, then slowly put away his smile and looked at Kong Qing, and said lightly, "It is said that a few decades ago, we were not called Jiuyuan District, but the fourth county of the Great Southern Kingdom, Chaoyang County!"
"Our Chaoyang County is the only county in this Great Southern Kingdom and even the entire Source Realm that does not have any force, and everyone lives a very ordinary life, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, and the country has also ordered that all warriors are prohibited from entering Chaoyang County......"
Seeing that Dahan stopped talking, Kong Qingcai asked in a low voice, "Then why are you ...... now?"
"Now I'm mining for them like a slave, right?" said the big man with a sarcastic laugh.
"Isn't it possible for such a huge country to contain these thugs?" Kong Qing hurriedly asked.
Dahan stretched out his index finger, pointed to the brand of the pickaxe pattern on his face, and replied fiercely, "This is the way the country does it! This is what the country has given us!"
"The word slave was coined for the people of our old source area!"