Chapter 4 Caught in the Mine

A language is easier to grasp only when it is often used in ordinary life, just like a foreign language I learned in the previous world, although I studied it for several years, but it cannot be used in normal times, I have been learning and forgetting, and finally I have not mastered the essence of that foreign language. After only half a month of being with the little boy, I was able to understand the meaning of a few words, and I also said them myself, and I finally knew the name of the little boy, and he told me that people called him Bao'er, and when I asked him his surname with a suffocating language and gesture, he shook his head at me. I still don't know a few of their words, mainly because no one taught me to recognize their words, although Bao'er is a native of this time and space, and his proficiency in language is understandable, but he doesn't know a few words, only his name and a very small number of words.

For the rest of the month, Bao'er and I stayed in the cave, and in the evening we went out to find some food and water. In this half month, I would sneak out every few days to observe the movements of the group, and for the first few days they would return to the village at night, but then they never appeared again, which made me relax my vigilance, if there was still no trace of them after a while, I planned to leave the village and go to the rest of the world to see if there was a way to return to the previous world, as a human being of the modern civilization of the previous world, after all, they still could not adapt to the environment here, and the world here was full of dangers.

I told Boa that I was leaving, but he was going to go with me. Bao'er is an orphan, he lives by eating thousands of family meals, some time ago a group of armed men suddenly came to the village, they began to search for villagers in the village, the village was in a mess, and some escaped, but most of them were still caught, but I don't know where the villagers were caught, what is the situation, Bao'er hid under the kiln and was not searched by them, and escaped a catastrophe. In saying this, I suddenly understood why the big men still came to the village, they were looking for the fish that had slipped through the net, or the villagers who had escaped suddenly returned, and they waited here like rabbits. After thinking about this, I didn't dare to go out with Bao'er, in case I went out and was really caught by them, when I had a case, I could only really accept my fate, but if I lost Bao'er on this trip, I couldn't forgive myself in my heart, and Bao'er's short relationship, I already liked the little boy in front of me very much, this trip to find home can't even affect others, let alone Bao'er!

I thought that those big men might come back, so I didn't leave immediately, and I stayed in the kiln with Bao'er for more than a month. After a month, I didn't think they would show up again, so I thought about it and finally took Bao'er with me, firstly, I didn't think they would come to this place again, and secondly, I felt that it would be really inappropriate to leave Bao'er here alone, although Bao'er would face unknown dangers if she followed me out, but there was no one in this village now, and if those people came here once in a while after I left, it would be more dangerous for Bao'er to stay here. After Bao'er and I had enough food, we walked cautiously to the outside of the village, taking the route as remote as possible; But I still miscalculated, we just walked out of the village, the group of big men seemed to know our whereabouts, but they had already ambushed behind the haystack, Bao'er and I were blocked by them, the leader walked into us with a big knife, and then said a few words, although I didn't understand what he said, but I probably guessed what he meant, he probably meant that he finally caught you. I hurriedly protected Bao'er behind me, the leading man pressed forward step by step, Bao'er and I were surrounded by them, we had no way out, but I was surprisingly calm, they didn't get rid of us as soon as they came up, and they tried hard to catch us, and they didn't hesitate to wait for a month, it can be seen that Bao'er and I must be of some use to them, not necessarily a road to death. I didn't dare to make too many moves, and if I annoyed them, the consequences would be unimaginable, and I clearly judged from their conversations and looks, as well as the few words I knew, that I had become their surprise, and that their goal might just be to catch Bao'er, but I happened to come here and became their gift.

The leader of the big man pulled Bao'er past me, and several other big men put the big knife on my neck, and then the leading big man sent a few people to take Bao'er away from me, tears rolled in my eyes, I was already very self-blaming, I could only watch them take Bao'er away, I don't know where they will take Bao'er? After a few words of conversation, the two men took me in the other direction.

I was escorted by them for about an hour before I reached a nameless canyon. When I arrived at the canyon, I met a lot of armed men like them, and the two of them handed me over to another big man who seemed to be in charge. The big man who seemed to be in charge snatched the backpack I was carrying on my back and threw it to a man standing guard here; Then he himself escorted me around a few detours, and before my eyes came an unknown vein, a group of men digging hard into the stone wall, some carts, and a few who seemed to be overseers, who stood on a high place with leather whips and watched everything here; At this time, I also instantly understood, the villagers in the village may have been escorted here to mine this unknown vein, but immediately I couldn't figure it out, since the adults have come here to mine the veins, where did those children go, there must be no shortage of children of the same grade as Bao'er in the village, maybe younger than Bao'er, so where did these children go, I can't help but worry about Bao'er. I myself can't protect myself now, these people who mine the veins are definitely not voluntary, they may all be forced to come here to mine the veins like me, and I myself am now thrown into this dark furnace, and there is no way out.

The man in charge pushed me into the middle of the mining workers, said a few words and left, one of the supervisors saw me standing in the crowd and did not work, ran to me with a fierce expression, the language spit out of his mouth seemed to be curses, although I could not understand, but the eyes were enough to express everything, he beckoned the whip to me fiercely, I only then came to my senses, my life was in the hands of others, I did not dare to think about anything else, even crawled to the ground and picked up the sledgehammer on the stone wall and began to axe and chise.