Chapter 472: The Abyss Under the Mine
Early the next morning, sure enough, someone came from the south gate of Fengzhou City, saying that it was sent by Zhao Gong, hoping to meet with the two lords in the city. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Han Feng and the others did not rush to receive him, but sent someone to place him in the post house, and the group went to the gold mine in the west of the city to find out.
Luo Xing was in charge of the front station, arrived at the gold mine an hour earlier, and sent people with torches and oil lamps to light up the mine road. The gold mine is completely different from the iron ore in Lidu. It is mainly made of sand and gravel, and the structure is not as strong as iron ore, so the mine is full of wooden shelves, but it still makes people feel crumbling overhead.
Worried about the danger of the mine, Han Feng and Liu Quan waited at the entrance of the mine for the first person to come back and report the news. I don't know how many years this gold mine has been mined, Han Feng and the others have already prepared to wait for a morning or even a whole day, but they have responded less than half an hour after they came down the mine.
The people who came back were not afraid, only panicked: "Report! The debris under this well has collapsed, and it seems that it has been blown up by fire and thunder." The road ahead is blocked, and I am afraid that it will take a while to clear before I can enter. ”
"Oh?" Han Feng and Liu Quan were originally sitting on the bench prepared for the overseer at the entrance of the mine, and when they heard this, they stood up in unison. The two glanced at each other, knowing that this must have been done by Zhang Boyuan and the others when they left Fengzhou, Han Feng glanced at Liu Quan, and without waiting for Luo Xing to stop him, he had already taken the torch from the hands of a soldier and went down the well alone.
"Holy Lord, Holy Lord, you wait!" Luo Xing was anxious, and just about to catch up, he was stopped by Liu Quan.
Liu Quan said with a smile: "Don't you know what kind of skills your family has on the saint, what kind of heart is this?" General Luo, let's take the soldiers out first, and fence off this mining area to prevent others from coming in, and we will take care of the rest." ”
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Han Feng's feet were so fast, and in less than a moment, he had already arrived at the collapse place. He looked around, and saw that the cracks on the wall were really new, and the gravel in front of him was blocked, and it was inconvenient to open the way with fire and thunder, so he could only let people shoulder to resist and carry these gravel out with a load.
If it's just blocking the tunnel, is that all?
Han Feng suddenly remembered what Bai Mufeng said yesterday, he said that Zhang Boyuan had gathered the remaining people of Fengzhou to mine in the mining area before...... After all, the people are no better than the workers in the mines, they are more talkative, if the matter of this gold mine is revealed, what will be the consequences?
No wonder the city is empty! Han Feng's heart sank, he pressed his hand against the wall, closed his eyes and broke the barrier, and used this earth as his hand to feel the world in the mine. Since he was dragged into the ground by the strange man and then broke through the ground, although he has not made more progress in breaking the obstacles, he obviously feels that he is much deeper and more detailed than before, and he can distinguish even the slightest difference in the earth.
The insects, ants, rhizomes, stones, and clods of soil are all different and have their own characteristics. Therefore, when he stretched out his hand, he immediately felt that something was wrong—on the other side of the rubble, there were not only stones on the ground, but also other things.
The "things" were moving slowly, some were hammering the ground, some were digging into the earth, and many were lying on the ground, exhaling slowly.
That's a living thing! That's a man!
Sure enough, Han Feng felt a chill in his heart, this was probably the only people left in this city. But the gravel was more than a hundred feet away, and the mine was so narrow that it was difficult for the Pegasus to enter, so even if all the soldiers at hand were to come and dig day and night, by the time they did, the people in the mine would have died of thirst and starvation...... No, it has long been suffocated.
He could feel the will to survive of those people, most of whom were dead, perhaps stoned to death when the mine collapsed, or suffocated because of the different breaths...... And those who were left were already lacking in strength, and they cursed in their mouths, but their movements gradually slowed down, and one by one they could not lower their heads, and slowly exhaled, and became sleepy, and fell asleep like this—they could not sleep.
How many people were in this mine, Han Feng couldn't count them. Although he knew that the situation over there was beyond his control, he still didn't pull his hand and turn around. He sat down slowly, his hands pressed on the gravel, and felt the people on the other side fall one by one, as if he were dying with them one by one.
The torch in his hand was already burning for the most part, and after a while it burned to only sporadic fire, and the oil lamp above his head was dim, so that he seemed to be immersed in blackness—just as he was in the depths of the earth at that time, and the "dirt face" in front of him was changing all kinds of faces, all kinds of deaths, telling him that life was going by, and life was helpless.
Although they were strangers in the mine, their deaths still made him sad. These people died so lonely and desperate that they didn't even know that someone was with them, that they were here—but even if they did, what could they do?
It was dark all around, and he seemed to have fallen into a bottomless abyss, and at this moment, a thousand familiar faces appeared in front of him, revealing the nightmare he feared most. Those who have gone and those who have not yet left have all left him, and he is left alone in this world, reaching out and catching nothing.
Unconsciously, Han Feng burst into tears, and at this time, in the depths of the mine, the last ray of life had also been eclipsed.
"It's easy for me to find. Why didn't you come out? Those two girls forced me to come in and look for you, thinking that something had happened to you. Liu Quan's voice sounded at the corner of the mine, and Han Feng came back to his senses, as if he had just woken up from a big dream. He wiped tears from his face. The fire flickered around the corner, it was the torch of Willow Spring, and in the depths of the mine, even the oil lamp had been extinguished.
Han Feng calmed down and said: "The mine needs to find a reliable person to reopen, the bottom of the mine is full of corpses of Fengzhou people, and after the mine is opened, the corpses must be collected alive to prevent the spread of epidemics." ”
Liu Quan sighed: "I also guessed that this would be the end, alas, Zhang Boyuan should be really ruthless and leave no way back." At this moment, we have no source of gold on hand for a while, so we can only respond to them first. ”
Han Feng was silent for a while, and suddenly asked, "If you grab it hard, what are the odds of winning?"
Liu Quan was stunned and laughed violently, if he wasn't afraid that the laughter would shake the already crumbling mine, he was afraid that he would laugh even louder: "Have you started this idea since last night? Grab it is okay to rob, but isn't our purpose to show favor to the Tan clan first, and then wait for an opportunity to seize power?"
When Han Feng heard this, he felt that the top of his head was angry, and he wanted to smash his fist on the wall of the mine, but after all, he raised his hand and forced himself to put it down: "Yes, you have to endure it." Liu Quan, if it weren't for knowing you, I would really think that you were a lobbyist for those bastards. ”
Liu Quan said: "The gentleman's revenge, ten years is not too late, now we are in the dark, they are in the light, or listen to Zhao Gong and Zhang Boyuan's meaning before talking about anything else." ”