"Alright, the time is almost up, and then you will go into the mine by yourselves, and you will come out at night when you hear the bell ring, and according to the results of your work, you will decide whether you will have enough for dinner. ”

Hearing Nalantai's words, everyone immediately put on their backs the bamboo basket and grabbed the iron pickaxe and went into the mine.

The outline of the mine is semicircular, and there is an inverted arch at the bottom, which can make the force of the mine more uniform. Because Balding Mountain is a natural magnetic mountain, the hardness of the magnet itself is relatively high, and the integrity is relatively good, so the magnet itself around the mine can withstand a large pressure of the surrounding rock, and the mine will not collapse as long as some simple support is added.

But it is precisely because the hardness and integrity of the magnet are relatively high, which also causes the difficulty of excavation, according to Zhang Han's conjecture, most of them will not be able to dig the ore this afternoon.

Through the mine, Zhang Han and the others came to the interior of the mountain. Suddenly, they were stunned by the sight in front of them, inside the mountain was a huge cone-shaped space, and in the middle of the cone-shaped space was a huge black stone pillar standing upright, connecting the top. At the edge of the cone-shaped space is a plank road that spirals upward, and thick chains connect the key parts of the plank path with the black stone pillar in the center.

On the stone wall on the inside of the boardwalk, there are caves at intervals. There are three large bells in the middle of the black stone pillar in the center, and the three large bells surround the stone pillar in a triangular array. There were thousands of miners busy as far as the eye could see, hauling the rubble out of the caves. Most of the miners looked tired, covered in black dust, their eyes wooden, and mentally numb.

"You're all new miners, right? ”

Zhang Han and the others looked towards the source of the sound, and saw a bald man in a sackcloth coat walking towards them.

"Yes, we are from Fengnan City. Zhang Han stepped forward to talk to the bald man.

The bald man grinned, because he had a scar on the right side of his face that went straight from his eyebrows to the corners of his mouth, so his smile was really scary to look at, "My name is Meng Lang, I am the leader of the absenteeism here, and I am responsible for managing all the miners here, you are the captain of this group of newcomers." ”

"Yes, my name is Zhang Han, please advise. ”

"You're new here, so you probably don't know the rules here. In this, you must all listen to my arrangement, and you must not act on your own. You also saw that there are nearly 10,000 people here, and everything here is orderly, you are all obedient, the work will not be chaotic, and everyone will have food. We are all ordinary people, no one wants to embarrass anyone, if you respect me and listen to me, then I will respect you as well, I'm right. ”

Zhang Han looked at the cruel gaze in Meng Lang's eyes, he knew that this guy was just talking nicely, but in fact he should be a ruthless character.

"Brother Meng, don't worry, we will definitely obey your arrangement and will never cause you trouble. ”

"That's best, here you have to listen to the bell, and when the bell rings, you can stop what you are doing and come out to eat. In the morning, we ate outside the mine, and each person could get two taels of rice. And the lunch is eaten in the mine, and someone will bring it in, and everyone can get four taels of rice. Dinner at night is also eaten outside the mine, and how much rice you can eat depends on the fruits of your day's labor. ”

"You are divided into two groups, one group goes to the No. 79 mine road, and the other group goes to the No. 86 mine road, you go up along the plank road, and each hole is marked with a number. ”

Zhang Han divided the crowd into two groups, he led the group of people who went to the No. 79 mine road, and the group of people who went to the No. 86 mine road was led by a big man with a big mouth and beard named Bao Da.

After an afternoon of hard work, his previous conjecture was also proven, and in the whole afternoon, more than two hundred of them dug up more than a dozen ores, and those black magnets were extremely hard and very difficult to chisel.

With the sound of the bell, everyone stopped what they were doing and walked out of the mine. Zhang Han and his party in Fengnan City were all concentrated in a clearing, and those people around them and people from other places were also concentrated in one area in batches.

It's just that Zhang Han and his group are the most numerous, and there are only about 150 people in other regions, and only about 30 people.

"When will I be able to eat, after digging stones all afternoon, I will faint from hunger. The bearded man named Bao Da stood beside Zhang Han and complained dissatisfied.

As soon as the words fell, I saw one small cart after another be rolled out of the kitchen, each with a bucket full of rice. Several of the small carts came to Zhang Han's area, and the people who pushed the carts inspected the fruits of Zhang Han's labor, looking slightly dissatisfied.

"It's only so many of you to dig this bit of ore, so you'll have to work harder tomorrow. Come on, two taels of rice per person. ”

Bao Daben is a hot-tempered person, and when he heard that each person had two taels of rice, he was immediately unhappy, and said angrily: "We dug stones all afternoon, and each person only had two taels of rice, and we didn't let people live?"

"You don't have anything to eat tonight, and if anyone else has an opinion, they will also have no food, and those who have no opinion will come up and get your food. If you think that so many of you can beat me, you can also try, I don't mind teaching you a lesson. ”

As soon as Bao Da was about to step forward to make a move, Zhang Han stopped him and smiled at the person pushing the cart: "This big brother, we just came here at noon today, we don't know the rules, please bear with me if you offend, we will definitely try to dig out more ore tomorrow." ”

The man who pushed the cart snorted, "You kid is still quite acquainted, you hurry up and get the food, and I will go back to practice after distributing the food to you." ”

Everyone stepped forward to receive the meal. The so-called rice collar is to use a spoon to put hot rice in the dirty hands of absenteeism, and there are no chopsticks for them to use.

Zhang Han saw that the person with the cart was gone, so he handed his two taels of rice to Bao Da, "Brother Bao, I'm not very hungry, let's give you these two taels of rice." ”

"Zhang Orion, how can that work, you have also worked all afternoon, how can you not be hungry, you should eat this rice yourself." Bao Da saw Zhang Han handing him the rice and hurriedly pushed it back.

"You take it and eat it, since I am everyone's captain, I will be responsible for you. You remember, we must not have a conflict with them in this place, we are just ordinary people, we can't beat those monks, and to fight against them is only to ask for trouble. ”

Bao Da couldn't shirk Zhang Han, and he was really hungry, so he had to accept Zhang Han's rice, but he secretly swore in his heart that he would repay Zhang Han's kindness when he had the opportunity in the future.

It is precisely because of the experience of changing from a monk to an ordinary person that Zhang Han understands more clearly how big the gap between the two is, and it is definitely not a gap that the number of people can make up.

Although he could probably guess that the person who pushed the cart should be an external descendant of the Nalan family, his talent and cultivation would not be too high, otherwise he would not have been sent to such a place to do chores. But even the children of the foreign lineage who are not highly cultivated are not something that ordinary people like them can deal with.

Although he has only been here for half a day, Zhang Han has a lot of feelings, and he feels more and more that in this world, people who have no strength can only endure if they want to live. If you have enough strength, you don't have to swallow your anger so much, and you can protect the people around you. If he had been strong enough, his spiritual root would not have been taken away.

From this moment on, Zhang Han strengthened his determination to re-cultivate. Since the mysterious woman in white said that there is not only one way to cultivate the truth in this heaven and earth, then there must be other cultivation methods.