Chapter 56: The Sinkhole
Suddenly, this series of scenes was staged tragically, which made the three of Lingwa even more shocked! The two people next to them trembled with fright, buried their heads in the flail around their necks, and did not dare to look at those soldiers who were showing off their might. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Lingwa now feels that what the mountain god said in his dream that night, and that is indeed the case! I think I should be honest, save myself the pain of eating skin and flesh, and wait for a long time, and become familiar with the environment, so I will look for another opportunity! So he also glanced at the two soldiers with a frightened look, and then quickly looked at other places, for fear of causing trouble!
After waiting for a long time, I saw that the three tolerances of the work inside came out, and the middle-aged man who was black and linen before also came out, with the same indifferent face, and he didn't see the scene just now!
The tolerance only then opened the flail for the three people, and then put away all the packages of the three people, and handed them to the black pockmark, and the tolerance brought paper and red seals, and the three people wore shackles and pressed the seals on them, only to listen to the leader of the tolerance said,
"My lord, that's how it is - now that the three prisoners are handed over to you!
The black pockmark waved his hand to the tolerances, and the tolerances were like defeated roosters, and they turned around listlessly and left. Seeing that the men were gone, Hei Mazi carried the packages of three people in his hands, turned his head to the two soldiers who had just beaten people, and said,
"Take it down, arrange it!" said that, he went into the cave again.
Lingwa was anxious! I want to go on like this, where is my bag? There is money in the bag, there are clothes, and more importantly, there is a letter written by the county lord to me? I haven't handed it over to any 'General Wang'?
He couldn't help it, and said to the two soldiers,
"Master Jun, I have important things in my bag, and I want to hand them over to General Wang!
When the two soldiers heard this, they were red-eyed, they didn't say a word, they raised the stick and beat Lingwa, Lingwa only held his hands to protect his head, and the raindrop-like villain hit him, which was also not very painful?
But in order not to let others discover his special function, he deliberately pretended to scream twice, thinking, you help the guy, it's like not eating, there is no strength at all, it is not as good as the family in the courtyard of ten thousand families!
When the fight was over, one of the soldiers scolded,
"Animal, you still want to pack, your life is not yours anymore - you still want to pack, get out-"
There was no way, Lingwa had to follow the two in front of her, step by step down the mountain! The two in front saw that Lingwa had eaten a violent beating, and they didn't dare to squeak.
The further down you go, the more incredible everything becomes?
Surrounded by a knife-like cliff, looking down below, it is more than two hundred meters high, the human elephant is swimming in mid-air, every step affects the nerves of the body, Lingwa saw this height, and thought to herself that the two people who were pushed down just now are almost impossible to survive?
The following is open and wide, there are nearly 10,000 square meters, this side can not see that side clearly, the middle is bare everywhere, the stones are piled up, there is no grass, there are stone caves after mining everywhere, stone pits, the pits are full of water, ant-like laborers, come and go between the stone pit and the stone cave, the clanging sound is one, transmitted to the air, endlessly!
There is a white ribbon hanging upside down on the cliff in the distance, and then go down, you can see clearly that it is a waterfall, and below is a small river that bends and flows, flowing from south to north around the side of the sinkhole, the river is more than ten meters wide, I don't know the depth? There are a few small boats parked along the river, and many people are squatting on the shore, I don't know what they are doing?
After the small river circles around the sinkhole for a small half circle, it flows to a canyon, there is a row of stone houses on the right side of the canyon entrance, across the river, there are various colored flags, you can see a lot of soldiers, fully armed, knives, guns and sticks patrolling around, the canyon is about 20 meters wide, there is a wooden bridge on it, connecting the holes of the cliffs on both sides, the hole is wide and black and it is so black that you can't see it clearly, there are bows and crossbows on the bridge, there are soldiers hanging bows and arrows, and the big knives are walking back and forth.
Lingwa estimates that it may be the only outlet for the river to flow to the outside world, but where it is going? I don't know? I don't think it will be the Daling River that flows to Wanshan County, right?
Further down, what you see is even more novel! It is all sand and gravel, there is no soil, and the sand and gravel are yellow, and you can see things shining everywhere, and there seems to be a layer of oil paint floating in the puddle?
Lingwa recalled the name of the stone cave in the middle of the mountain again, and it seemed that it was indeed a mining area for gold panning.
At last I laboriously descended to the bottom of the sinkhole, and the whole mining area was presented in front of me, glowing with yellow light everywhere, as if I had entered a cornucopia! What was so incompatible with this golden treasure was that there were ragged laborers everywhere.
The laborers are also all yellow, like a squatting sculpture, knocking and smashing, picking up, picking up, Tao, nearly a thousand people, three or three are all over the bottom of the pit, in the middle there are soldiers wearing armor, hanging big knives, and holding leather whips, groups of people walking around, like countless sharks, swimming everywhere, cold mouth, bite you-
The whole big pit makes people feel mysterious and indifferent!
The creatures who worked silently, unclothed and unrecognizable, like ghosts in the underworld and hell, and the smell of corpses seemed to waft in the air, which made people a little breathless.
The two soldiers escorted the three of them to the north side of the sinkhole, on a platform high above the surface, where dozens of holes were dug under the rock wall, and they were divided into two layers, and some tattered clothes were cold on the rocks outside.
Look at the inside of the cave, it is also wide and covered with weeds. The grass was scattered all the way to the door, and almost every hole was the same, dirty, messy, poor, and confused.
As you can imagine, this is where the laborers live!
The three people were separated, the spirit baby was divided into a hole in the middle of the lower floor, and the other two were taken to the upper floor.
Thinking that this is the station, the bottom of the sinkhole that is truly isolated from the world, Lingwa's heart is extremely lost. Sitting in the wide hole, I felt a rush of despair, thinking how hard I had to work to get out of this pit, when will I be able to jump out, will it be ten years, or will I die here forever?
When he was distressed, suddenly a person jumped out of the grass behind him, all black, and when he looked closely, he was naked, naked, and the frightened spirit baby instinctively jumped out of the hole!
Look at the man again, the cloak covers most of his face, and only two eyes are flashing on his dark face, and he is smiling, jumping, singing, and screaming, and running out of the hole, and when he sees Lingwa, he pounces and screams,
"Lady, lady, I'm coming-hahaha! lady-"
Lingwa saw that he was a madman, so he quickly hid to the side, and when the madman saw that he couldn't catch him, he picked up a stone on the ground and smashed it, and Lingwa circled around the stone pile with him, causing the madman to become more and more crazy, roaring, and screaming!
After the soldiers on the upper floor of the stone cave saw it, one ran down with a stick, and according to the body of the madman ****, he was beaten again, and he covered his body, with a painful face, and ran away in horror, and he didn't run far and heard him cheering and shouting,
"Oh, pick up gold, pick up gold, oh-"
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On the first day, because it was getting late, it was considered a night's rest and no work.
Dinner was called by soldiers, as in a county cell, and there were laborers delivering food, and I don't know where they came from? potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, porridge --
Lingwa also ate a full meal, thinking that no matter what, it is important to keep her body, and there is hope for life!
The next day, I was woken up very early by the overseer, and each of them took a piece of sweet potato, which was led by the overseer. Lingwa and a few young laborers are responsible for quarrying together, because gold panning, mineral processing, you need to be familiar, and newcomers generally do heavy manual work.
Lingwa didn't say a word, she did whatever she was told, she was not lazy, she was not afraid of danger, she took a big shovel and a big hammer, climbed the cliff, took out all the sets she had in her hometown, and just buried her head in hard work. Because of the hard work, I slowly became familiar with a few laborers.
It didn't take long for the long-term laborers to slowly learn that this was really a living hell.
The sinkhole may have been a big pit that was smashed out in ancient times, when things from outside the sky came to visit, and later I don't know who discovered that it contained gold in it? So it was forcibly occupied by a group of people and became today's labor farm! There is also a sinkhole not far from the canyon, which is almost large, and it is surrounded by the same overhanging rock cliffs, and it is impossible to go out when you come in, and the pit outside is a vast farm, and the laborers run outside to sow seeds and harvest when they are busy with farming, and now after autumn, they turn to the back to pan for gold.
Lingwa then understood, it turned out that they were all self-sufficient, no wonder so many people eat, where did the things come from?
When asked who is the supreme leader here? Several people looked at the two black holes at the mouth of the canyon in the distance at the same time, and whispered,
"Black Tumor Li - we all call him the Earth Demon King!"
The laborers said that his surname was Li, that he was long and black, and that there was a black tumor the size of an egg behind his ear, so he called him Black Tumor Li!
Speaking of this, a few people couldn't help but wave, and slammed the rock.
It is said that the black tumor Li often secretly monitors the entire sinkhole labor scene, and finds that anyone who is slacking off, lazy, and unprepared for an arrow to fly, is generally hit by the vital point, and it is difficult to survive.
So thousands of laborers, frightened, spend every day in fear!
Speaking of this, Lingwa also pinched a cold sweat in her heart, and couldn't help but regret that when she was in Beishan, she didn't let her master teach archery, thinking that the master would know the kind of magic arrow that can separate plants and trees, and it must be much more powerful than him!
When I thought about it again, this leader is not what Grandpa said about "General Wang"? I am so angry, it seems that I am a good person again, and the county master is not a good person?
He asked curiously, where did all the gold go?
The laborers said that they had been transported down the river and sold, and that they had been sold at sea, and that they had bought back a lot of women and fine grain at sea, for the rejoicing and enjoyment of the bandits.
It was the first time Lingwa had heard of the sea? He didn't know what the sea was, where it was, how far away it was, he just nodded silently, remembered it in his heart, and pretended to know, thinking so!
In the end, the laborers told him that Heitu Li had a special interest, that is, he liked archery! He had already promised the laborers that if anyone could dodge him three arrows within twenty paces, he would immediately release them.
However, in fact, the person who had completed his sentence could not walk, and there was nowhere to go because of the mountains and mountains all around, and he was beaten to death by these people when he went out! No one dared to try his three arrows.
In this way, under the coercion of hundreds of prison guards, people worked hard without darkness or day, resigned themselves to fate, died of exhaustion and illness, and countless victims were killed, and it often happened - hoping that one day an army from outside the sky would come in and perhaps save all sentient beings!
So immersive, hearing and witnessing, Lingwa stood on the rock, looking up at the blue sky and white clouds of the cliff mountain, her heart was full of grief and anger, and she regretted it!
I think I was killed by the gang of people in Wanlai Town, and let those people destroy me, I am still so young, have I been in this kind of ghost place for the rest of my life? I am unwilling, unwilling!
Angry, reckless, the power of the indignation is used all over the body, focusing on the arm, swinging the sledgehammer, looking at a protruding rock on the stone wall, slamming down, this hammer is like a thousand powers, the sound is deafening, sparks splash everywhere, only to see a boulder rumble, smashed down from above, smoke and dust, frightened below the laborers scattered in all directions to dodge -
Look at the spirit baby on the rock, her face full of anger, holding a severed wooden stick, standing on it like gold and steel—the broken hammer has fallen with the boulder.
Lingwa looked straight at the stone wall, those shining gold spots, suddenly had an idea, thinking that the old saying is right, it is gold that always shines! Now that I am in a desperate situation, the tiger has fallen into the sinkhole, and others say that I have aura on my body, which is very unusual? I still don't believe it?
Well, then I'm not going to show you a lot of it.
Isn't it just work, knocking ore? Then come on.
Thinking of this, Lingwa jumped off the rock wall, took a long iron drill from someone else's hand, climbed up again, and then used all her strength with both hands to plunge down on the rock, once, twice、、、、、、
The hard rock under his vigorous iron chisel, just like the pounding garlic and patting the melon, has no hardness, click, three or two times into the stone, and then with a strong spade, four or two pull out a thousand catties, another boom, dust and smoke, another boulder fell-
Then he pressed his strength into another rock—
The originally calm and gloomy pit valley, this day, because of the arrival of the Lingwa, has become a little abnormal, and other places are disorderly, slowly soaring and busy, on the Lingwa area, the dust and smoke are flying, the rolling stones are thundering, and the sonic shock sinkhole -
Attract countless people around, and cast strange eyes from time to time!