Chapter Seventy-Three: Mine Slaves
The Corpse Worm Pill is a black pill the size of a dragon's eye, smelling of a fishy smell, and there is a sleeping corpse worm in each pill.
The corpse insect is scarlet, resembling a young silkworm, it is a Gu worm cultivated from the flesh and blood of the corpse, crazy and ferocious, specializing in feeding flesh and bone marrow, and is an extremely vicious Gu worm.
Usually because of the wrapped layer of medicine, the corpse insect has been in a state of sleep, if in the human flesh and blood, after the outer layer of the drug is ablated, it will wake up under the stimulation of the smell of flesh and blood, bloodthirsty meat, crazy devouring flesh and blood in the body, first eat the heart and liver, and eat the bone marrow in the bones, which will torture people to death.
When the young man named Da Niu from the White Dragon Gang Mountain Character Hall held the Corpse Insect Pill in front of him, the fishy smell stimulated his nose, making Liu Lu extremely protest, not to mention eating this thing, just looking at it made him feel like he was going to be poisoned.
"Why, do you want us to feed you for you?" The hairy monkey had a cold face.
Liu Lu said: "If you want to kill me, just do it directly, why use this kind of subterfuge to torture people." ”
"Don't worry, although this corpse insect pill is an extreme Gu poison, it can indeed torture people to the point that they can't survive, can't die, and finally die of pain. But now, it's just to control you, to prevent you from being dishonest, to prevent you from escaping, and to kill you. ”
The hairy monkey continued: "By now, I think you should know very well what you need to do in the future, you have not abolished your martial arts, you just have to keep your strength to do things, and this corpse insect pill is the only thing to control you, otherwise, you will only rebel one by one." ”
"The corpse worms in this corpse worm pill, because of the medicine, will have a three-day dormant period in the body, and these three days are the time for you to enter the mine to mine jade, as long as you come out within the specified three days, you will be guaranteed to have no worries. In the future, I will give you a pill every three days to suppress the corpse worms in your body from continuing to lie dormant, and if you miss this time, then kill yourself as soon as possible, so as not to suffer and be tortured to death. ”
Hearing this explanation, Liu Lu's face was gloomy, and his heart sank, this method was really vicious.
The hairy monkey said coldly: "Okay, enough nonsense, do you eat or not?" ”
It seemed that it couldn't be avoided, Liu Lu took the corpse insect pill, frowned and swallowed it in one gulp.
"Isn't that right?" He was quite satisfied with Liu Lu's acquaintance.
"Today, you will first familiarize yourself with the rules, and tomorrow you will start to follow others to the mine."
The hairy monkey instructed the other person beside him, "Lai San, you take it down and settle down, and by the way, tell him the rules here." ”
Of the two remaining people beside the hairy monkey, a young man with a light and blurred face and no characteristics nodded in agreement.
The wooden houses I saw before were all arranged for the so-called miners, Liu Lu's was arranged to a room on the corner, dilapidated and old, it was almost to the edge of the big platform, and a few zhang away behind the house was a steep hillside, Liu Lu had no opinion on this, anyway, he listened to the meaning of the monkey, and stayed in the mine almost every day, just a place to stay, and the secluded point could be more leisurely.
When passing by the other wooden houses, they were very quiet, and no one was seen entering or leaving, so it seemed that either no one lived in them, or they should all be in the mine.
After Lai San led Liu Lu to the wooden house, he pointed to the place to eat, a rather large dilapidated wooden shed, and the environment was extremely poor.
Lai San told Liu Lu that everyone's food was rationed, two meals a day, and when he went down to the mine, he received three days' worth of dry food at the wooden shed in advance.
He also told Liu Lu some rules on the big platform, there is only one, when you don't go down to the mine, you can't leave the area where the wooden house is located, if you dare to walk around casually, enter and exit the area where the stone house is located for no reason, you will be severely punished, and warn Liu Lu to talk less, don't make trouble, and honestly obey the order to do your own thing.
Then Lai San didn't bother to take care of Liu Lu, and after asking Liu Lu to stay and not move, he left directly.
Liu Lu, who was indifferent and didn't say a word throughout the whole process, took a serious look at the surrounding environment after Lai San left, and Liu Lu had no emotions about the dilapidated and old wooden house that he was going to live in for a while, and what else could he ask for a prisoner, the wooden house furnishings were so simple that it could be said that there was nothing, only a small wooden bed, and a dirty and worn quilt on the bed, and nothing else.
Liu Lu didn't make any changes in the next half day, and stayed in his wooden house, sitting cross-legged on the dirty wooden bed to practice qi luck, trying to recover his strength.
The middle-aged man in the Xuanming Hall didn't think about completely abolishing Liu Lu's martial arts, otherwise he wouldn't have taken a lot of trouble to bring it back to Fengling Mountain, so Liu Lu knew that there should be a time limit for the blocking of his meridians.
Sure enough, in the afternoon, the meridian blockage dissipated on its own, and there was no longer a feeling of stagnation in the qi, Liu Lu believed that as long as he breathed again at night, his strength would be restored to the same as before.
From the afternoon, other people slowly appeared in the area where the wooden house was located, although Liu Lu, who was staying in his own house, also felt something, but did not go out to check, but stayed in the house to recuperate, anyway, sooner or later he had to deal with these people, so there was no need to rush at this time.
In the evening, a small broken bronze bell rang at the wooden shed, and Liu Lu heard the sound and walked out, and Lai San told him that it was time to receive food.
On the way to the wooden shed, there were indeed a lot more people, but they were all unkempt, skinny, dirty and smelly, old and small, or numb, or indifferent and guarded, everyone was silent and did not speak, when they saw Liu Lu, a relatively clean and unfamiliar face, they raised their eyelids with interest and glanced at them a few times, and those who were not interested turned a blind eye throughout the whole process.
Liu Lu naturally didn't have a problem with his brain, and went to greet everyone warmly, but he was expressionless the whole time, but his heart was overturned, quite calm, from the bodies of these people in front of him, he saw his own fate, this kind of person is not a ghost, the appearance of the walking dead, he can't accept it no matter what, Liu Lu secretly swears that as long as he doesn't die, he must find a chance to escape.
I don't know if it was deducted by the hairy monkey and others, or the White Dragon Gang itself is so stingy, and the food provided to everyone can be said to be cold and small, and the one Liu Lu received for himself only had two nests and a small clay pot of gray and white soup, so I don't know what it was made of.
Liu Lu returned to the hut with something to eat, sat on the edge of the bed, looked at the world outside Fengling Mountain from the cracks in the broken walls of the wooden house, and ate the nest head one bite at a time with the faint soup, he even ate the corpse insect pill, naturally he was not afraid of anything strange in the food.
I didn't sleep all night, early the next morning, before dawn, and there was the broken copper bell, which was not a bell for everyone to eat, but a message urging everyone to get food and corresponding tools to go to the mine.
Still in the wooden shed, Liu Lu received his own materials, the so-called three-day rations, only six black dry nests and a bag of water, followed the footsteps of everyone, and came to the entrance of the mine.
The hairy monkey is really not ambiguous, the early morning has been waiting there, the others have been familiar with the rules, next to the wooden shed where the hairy monkey is, after taking a set of tools piled up on the ground at will, they each choose the entrance of the cave to enter it, so that Liu Lu is more strange that the choice of everyone to enter the mine, the hairy monkey and others did not intervene, as if it was all up to themselves.
The tools were the same for everyone, a small hoe, six torches, an old leather bag; The small hoe is used to dig in the mine, and the six torches are used for lighting and timekeeping, and the six torches are burned out, which is exactly two days, so it is not easy to get out within the specified three days in the cave.
As for the old leather bag, it was naturally used to collect the jade that was collected.
When it was Liu Lu's turn, the hairy monkey deliberately said more, "The rule is that everyone goes down to the mine and brings out at least a piece of spiritual jade, and if they can't complete the task, they won't have anything to eat on the day they come back." If you can't finish it twice in a row, you don't need to rest, you don't have food, and you continue to go into the cave to look for it. If it can't be completed three times in a row, the antidote to the corpse insect pill will be delayed overnight. If you can't finish it four times in a row, you don't have to get out of the hole, and there is no antidote to coming out. ”
Then, the hairy monkey smiled and said, "Of course, there is a reward if there is a punishment." Each time you bring out an extra piece of spirit jade, you can receive double the food; Bring three pieces of spiritual jade out and enjoy the meat to eat; Bring more than three pieces, except for a day off, double the food. If a considerable amount of spirit jade mines are discovered, you can be relieved of the status of a mining slave, restore your freedom, and go to the White Dragon Gang to serve. ”
The hairy monkey said emotionally, but Liu Lu was unmoved, although he had never seen the so-called spirit jade, but if it was really so easy to collect, the mining slaves here would not be like this.
Bringing his own tools, Liu Lu hesitated for a moment, and finally asked: "What is the so-called spirit jade, I don't know anything about the way of jade." ”
"Yes, you have this attitude, and you won't let me down."
The affirmation of the hairy monkey made Liu Lu spit in his heart, you sharp-beaked monkey cheeks, you are also worthy of saying this kind of thing to me, I really want to make you a cow and a horse!
The hairy monkey naturally didn't know what Liu Lu was thinking, but took out a stone the size of a red date, blue and crystal clear from his arms, and showed it to Liu Lu: "This is Lingyu, as long as you find the same as this, just bring it out." ”
Liu Lu nodded indifferently, but in his head was the clamor of Xianyi.
"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it! Boy, you're going to get rich, what a blessing in disguise! ”
Liu Lu couldn't speak, but he was slandering Xianyi in his heart, what bullshit stuff, he had fallen into such a miserable situation, he didn't know how to help, and what did he say about a blessing in disguise, his life was gone, what was the use of making more money!
After that, the hairy monkey specially arranged a middle-aged mine slave with a languid expression and gray hair, called Chen Ji, to bring Liu Lu to familiarize himself with the whole process.