Chapter 134: New Arrivals and Labor
Yun Tianxiao came to the lower level of the tunnel and saw Liu Liang laying rails along the ramp, which made him a little embarrassed. Because he feels that the immortal master is not the kind of person who frantically oppresses others for some purpose, it is great to rely on the railroad track that he is now doing this project himself. Because the one who really oppresses people does not work himself.
He walked up to Liu Liang and asked, "Shangxian, I have a question for you, I don't know if you can solve my doubts." ”
Liu Liang glanced at him and replied, "You ask." ”
"Why do you want to hand over the prisoners to the two of them to manage, Heisha and Hua Qianhe, can you still not know the temperament of the two of them, they have always been ruthless, and the prisoners will die soon if they are placed in their hands."
Liu Liang pretended to be ignorant and asked, "Is this really the case?" I feel like the two of them have changed in a few trials and won't do this kind of thing. ”
"But as far as I know, this is not the case, the two of them got the prize you gave them in order to win the competition, and frantically pressed the other prisoners, forcing them to work until the second half of the night, and only had two hours of rest every day, how could the prisoners stand it?"
Liu Liang thought about it carefully and felt that he couldn't return to the real world for a while anyway, so it was useless to be in a hurry, he couldn't let Hei Sha and Hua Qianhe force those prisoners too badly, and he couldn't ignore Yun Tianxiao's opinion, after all, he was the only one who was sincerely willing to stay in the game and fight with him for a long time.
Liu Liang needs a team with centripetal force, and a person like Yun Tianxiao is a qualified deputy.
"Okay, I'll remove the two of them and replace them with Su Mei and Dong Cheng to supervise the tunneling."
The entire continuous zigzag inclined shaft tunnel was completed for 40 consecutive days, but its efficiency is also super high, it only takes two hours for a car to reach the workshop under the tunnel, which is equivalent to two days of game time, as long as the boiler is filled with coal and transported back and forth, the value created is absolutely irreplaceable.
When he was dozing, someone sent a pillow, and Di Ze of Tianmen came to the secret realm again, although Elder Di Ze still had that elegant and deep appearance, but his face no longer had the confidence and calmness he once had, and it could be seen from the deep wrinkles on his forehead that he was exhausted.
There are a total of eighty prisoners in the three levels brought by Di Ze this time, these eighty people are divided into three levels, the highest level is the top master, there are only three people, and the rest of the second-level prisoners are relatively low-level in skill, probably literally first-rate realm and second-rate realm, and the third level is third-rate and ordinary people.
Liu Liang looked at him and asked, "What's wrong again?" ”
Di Ze knew that there were many things that could not be hidden from Liu Liang, so he replied honestly: "Your Majesty led the army of Tianmen and the army of the Central Plains to suffer a great defeat in Liaodong. The reason is that Liaodong Yijianmen and Goryeo Heavenly Master Dao have united, and they even hooked up with the monarch of Dongying, and the three families work together to deal with us. ”
This is not the real reason for the defeat of Tianmen at all, and I don't know if Di Ze didn't want to say it, or if he deliberately caused Liu Liang's reasoning and estimation.
"Di Hao made the same mistake as Yun Tianxiao at the beginning, gathered dozens of troops, but few of them were of the same heart as him, the army was okay everywhere, but once he was defeated and defeated, these people would become a rabble and abandon him. The tens of thousands of Xuantie armor that this immortal created for your army have all been captured by others. ”
Di Ze nodded bitterly: "Your Majesty relied on the advantage of the army to light the enemy's rash advance, and disliked the gangs of the other sects in the rivers and lakes and refused to contribute, resulting in him leading 60,000 dragon armor troops to fall into the encirclement of the enemy. After being encircled, none of the troops of these martial arts sects refused to come to the rescue, and even some of them took advantage of the darkness of the night to disguise themselves as Goryeo troops to attack the dragon armor army, these people deserved the most cruel punishment! ”
One of the biggest problems with the Tianmen Dragon Armor Army with the strongest equipment was that it was too strong, so strong that everyone was afraid, so after they were defeated, those sects that were jealous of their powerful armament treated them as a very fat piece of pork, and they wanted everyone to scrape a lot of meat off it.
"What about Di Hao?" Liu Liang asked: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, you should all get used to accepting it, if Di Hao still wants to borrow equipment from me, I can also lend it to him for war, as long as you use resources to repay the debt at that time." ”
Di Ze replied with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, since the defeat and return to the south, the whole person's temperament has suddenly changed greatly, and he no longer cares about government affairs, and only knows how to drink with beauties every day. ”
Liu Liang nodded suddenly: "It turned out that the jar was broken." ”
He ordered Wu Chenzi to move all the eighty people who had been escorted in from outside into the martial arts camp, and so many people needed a large supply of food alone. However, Liu Liang has such a strange output as the spider farm, and there is no problem at all to feed and drink his eighty people, and it can also make them eat meat every day.
He also ordered Yun Tianxiao to take special care of these three new top masters, but he didn't expect that two of these three people were high-level leaders of Tianmen, and they were inexplicably pushed to the end by Di Hao, and it was not enough to be locked in the prison of Tianmen, but they also had to be escorted to the secret realm to suffer.
One of them is the longest-lived of the three elders, Elder Diyu, this elder has a higher seniority, although he has no outstanding talents, but he is a good hand at managing internal affairs, and he stayed in Chaoge City during the rebellion of the four sects and five factions in the past, although he failed to hold the city, but he saved Di Hao's concubine and family.
It stands to reason that he has such credit and can enjoy life in peace, but only because he died before Di Hao went on the expedition, he expected that the battle would be lost, which caused Di Hao to lose face, and later he really guessed the ending.
Di Hao is a person who is wide on the outside and jealous on the inside, because Emperor Yu expected the outcome of this war, and was ashamed to see him after he went back, but he couldn't bear to kill the Tianmen Elder, so he ordered Di Ze to imprison him and send him to the secret realm, I am afraid that he will never come back in this life.
Another Tianmen disciple was Emperor Tuo, who had made great contributions to the counterinsurgency war, and since then he has become the de facto leader of the Dragon Armor Army.
Di Tuo served as the vanguard in the expedition to Liaodong, and controlled each other with another general, Di Tao, and the contradictions between the two continued to escalate, and even had the tendency of water and fire to be incompatible.
Di Tao is deceitful and good at flattery, and Di Tuo's personality is more upright and unwilling to bend down and bow his head, so Di Tao repeatedly offered slander in front of the martial arts supreme Di Hao, making Di Hao blame the reason for the failure of the Northern Expedition on Di Tuo's head.
Di Hao absolved Emperor Tuo of the crime of beheading, and was also ready to keep him in prison for the rest of his life, Elder Di Ze took the initiative to speak: "Now Your Majesty has owed endless debts to the immortals in the secret realm, and the supply of Xuantian iron ore in Kyushu is endless, and it is still unable to cope with this high debt. Now that the immortals have openly demanded that a prisoner with strong martial arts skills be used to pay off his debts, why doesn't His Majesty escort him to the secret realm with other master prisoners in the prison to offset a certain amount of debt. ”
Di Hao didn't want to kill Di Tuo, but he felt that this person was an eyesore in front of him, and he also knew the personal hatred between Di Tao and Di Tuo, Di Tao wanted Di Tuo to die very much, but Di Hao didn't think so, and on the other hand, sending him to the secret realm was also to contain Di Tao.
Liu Liang stood in front of these eighteen prisoners, nodded with his hands behind his back and said: "Kyushu martial arts is really a gathering of talents, Tianmen Elder Emperor Yu, and the great general Emperor Tuo, I don't know what another master is called?" ”
Di Ze replied from the side: "This is Wan Yanye, the chief disciple of the Liaodong Yi Sword Sect, who was captured by His Majesty the Supreme Commanding the Heavenly Gate Sword Formation, and is also a master with a sword. ”
This Yijianmen disciple has a disheveled hair and a scruffy beard, looking like a savage caught from the mountains, he once thought that only a place with prosperous culture can appear martial arts masters, and he didn't expect that there would be masters in a barbarian land like Liaodong.
According to the old rules, let these people know about the secret realm first, let them appreciate the magical power of the immortals, so that they will have a sense of awe and dare not escape in vain.
It just so happened that the zigzag tunnel leading to the underground was also completed, Liu Liang decided to let these prisoners work underground, and let them see this great project by the way, such a project would never be completed in the Kyushu martial arts, Liu Liang just had such determination and ability, which was enough to make these martial arts people breathe and be afraid.
They climbed into the eight-car body that was towed behind the locomotive and saw black smoke rising from the locomotive in front of them, and steaming white gas whining, carrying them on an unknown journey.
These people, including Emperor Yu, were all nervous in their hearts, not because their martial arts were not strong enough, but because of the underlying fear of unknown forces in the unknown world, in their eyes this was the strange demon world.
The train circled the camp along the tracks, and saw the regular camp that looked like a concentration camp, and also saw the empty island floating in the air, and the visual contrast between the ground and the sky made their hearts surging and terrifying.
The vehicle began to tilt down towards the tunnel leading to the underground, and it became pitch black, with a gas light coming on every few dozen meters.
The train zigzagged as it descended, heading deeper into the ground, and the black overhead was no longer black, but another abyssal hue.
Sitting in the body, he made estimates based on the speed and slope of the train on the tracks, which was the only way for him to solve his mental pain, but as the train continued to descend, his estimate was too far from wrong.
Because the underground smelter leading to it is only more than 2,000 meters deep at most, according to his own estimates, this depth is already close to 10,000 meters, is this the gate of hell to hell?
They have already felt the heat of the underground world, and perhaps behind a one-meter wall, there is a scorching magma lake churning and bubbling, and the real hell will also come to them.
The crunch of the rails rattled and turned back and forth along the ramp until they came to a stop in front of a wide, enclosed platform in the tunnel.
Dituo jumped out of the car in a trance, looking left and right to see that the top of his head was full of masonry stones, which should have been built by hand from the perspective of flatness. Such an empty underground stone hall has nothing to support.
Emperor Yu also led the prisoners to jump out of the carriage, and something outside the stone hall of the platform seemed to sense their presence, wandering and letting out a whining ghostly cry.
People followed the sound to the glass windows of the hall, where the surface of the red-hot lava lake was reflected in the glass, and there were burning people wandering back and forth around the lake, swaying their bodies and swimming back and forth on the shallows of the lava lake, their bodies taller than normal, and tongues of fire erupted from their mouths when they opened their mouths wide.
The men were so frightened by the creatures at the edge of the lava pool that Emperor Tuo whispered beside him, "I suspect that we are dead, and it is our souls that are sitting in the car and have been transported to hell." ”
Emperor Yu closed his eyes and shook his head: "If this is hell, then hell is not so terrifying." ”
Wu Chenzi, who was in charge of driving, jumped out of the cab, clasped his hands to his chest and said with a cold expression: "You don't have to worry, the underground fortress factory built by Shangxian is very safe, as long as you are obedient and work hard in it, nothing will happen." ”
"Don't even look outside, let these monsters see you, they'll swarm and swarm, even if you can't get into the hall. Come with me to find out more about what you do. ”
They followed Wu Chenzi from the platform to the depths of the tunnel, and at the end of the tunnel was a heavy trap door with several gears embedded in the door, linked by crankshafts and chains.
Wu Chenzi walked to the side of the gate, there was a difference machine on the ground, he lowered his head and dialed the four numbers of the difference machine to the designated position, the door suddenly gushed out a few white gases and slowly lifted up, and the wide factory and strange machines appeared in their sight.
These strange machines were blast furnaces, and the chimney on the roof of the furnace protruded from the roof, and when Wu Chenzi opened the lower lid of one of the blast furnaces, there was a scorching red color inside, and I don't know what kind of fuel it was filled with could have such a high temperature.
Wu Chenzi opened the lid on the top again, and the color inside was slightly lighter, presumably the temperature was lower.
He took out the Ice Sword from his back and reached into the furnace, picking out a piece of dark iron that had not yet cooled, the temperature was still dark red, and then the second and third pieces were taken out in turn, and fell to the ground with a clang.
"This is a successful refining of the black iron ingot without impurities, all you have to do is to be like me, put the ore in it, and take out the black iron ingot."
"You can see the box bodies on the two rows of rails on the left and right, the ore is placed in the left side, and the black iron ingots are placed in the right side. This work is not too easy for you, and you can do it until you are old and die. ”
Suppressed in this underground space thousands of meters deep? Is this called relaxation?
If they can live if they work in such a closed and uninterrupted way, what difference is it from dying?
"The most important thing in smelting ore is fuel, which is why we built our factories underground." He beckoned them and led them deeper into the depths of a wellhead that shone red, and looked down at it even a little dazzling, because it was a fiery magma surging inside.
Wu Chenzi began to direct them to work, and divided dozens of people into three groups, led by Emperor Yu, Emperor Tuo, and Wan Yanye.
They first twisted the magma in iron buckets and filled it into the fuel tank of the blast furnace, and the group led by Emperor Yu was responsible for filling the blast furnace with ore, and the team led by Emperor Tuo was responsible for taking out the finished black iron ingots and putting them in the box of the body.
Once they had filled the minecarts, he poured the steam locomotive in and hauled it back to the surface along the inclined shaft tunnel to provide inventory for the huge storehouse in the main camp.