138 Traps
After the old slave head of Wanchang Kingdom saw Ye Chen kill the three-headed demon spider, he was already convinced. The immortals of Tianxumen can treat these mining slaves like this and discuss things with them, which has never happened in the mining area.
Don't talk to them about things, even if they ask them to do it.
Ye Chen stayed in the mine for three days, and secretly discussed and arranged with the three slave heads before leaving the mine with a few large baskets of rare ores. After subduing the thousands of miners in the mine, the next step is to clean up the prison heads, foremen, and guards outside.
Ye Chen arranged in the mine for three days.
In the camp of the Nanhu mining area outside the mine, several high-level executives of the mining area, such as the director, chief foreman, and chief guard captain, became ants on a hot pot in a hurry.
"The transmission note from the Xianmen Miscellaneous Servant Hall said that the new chief manager will arrive in a day or two, why is it that it has been almost three or four days now, and he has not yet taken office?"
Director You was anxious.
"Director You, it can't be that something happened on the road, right?"
Chief Foreman Wang wondered.
"Impossible, this is the territory of the Heavenly Void Immortal Gate, what can happen! It is only a thousand miles from the Immortal Gate to here, and you can get there in one day. If something really happened, the news would have come a long time ago. If you can't rush, just wait!"
Chief Guard Captain Qin shook his head.
Several of their high-level officials in the mining area have prepared a large amount of money and property to bribe the new general manager these days to welcome the arrival of the chief manager of the Nanhu mining area. As long as the new governor dares to accept these benefits, they will be completely down-to-earth.
They can send these benefits to Uncle Feng. As for how Uncle Feng handles it, he doesn't care about their affairs.
It's just that the new manager has not heard from him, which makes them anxious.
this day.
Ye Chen carried a shovel out of the mine cave and put a basket of rare ore on the pergola in front of the mine. His face was covered with dark iron ore dust and dust, and he smiled at the prison heads, "This is the mine I have dug in the past few days, help me calculate the salary!"
Director You, Chief Foreman Wang, and Captain Qin were enjoying the cool in the pergola, discussing the matter of welcoming the chief manager. There were also more than a dozen prison chiefs and foremen around, weighing the ore dug up by the miners.
Director You glanced at the ore in Ye Chen's back basket, and was stunned for a moment, a spirit jumped up and rushed over quickly, grabbing a large amount of raw ore, and there was a burst of ecstasy.
Director You has been in this mining area for more than ten years, how can he not distinguish between low-grade and high-grade ores. The price difference between the first-order black iron ore and the fourth order of the black iron ore is big, one on the ground and one in the sky.
He also forgot about the head for a while, a look of greed flashed in his eyes, and he said excitedly to Ye Chen, "Where did you dig these ores, why are there so many high-grade dark iron ores?"
Ye Chen was stunned for a moment, and said, "I dug it out in a small mine! This ore is very hard and difficult to dig, and it took a lot of effort to dig it out." However, I was the only one digging the ore in that tunnel, and I didn't see the miners digging the ore. ”
Director You jumped to his feet angrily, "Damn it! Those lazy miners only pick the most inferior first-order iron ore to dig, and they have never dug up so many good ores, and they still shout every day that they don't have enough to eat! They don't dig such high-grade ores, they dig up rotten ores! Lao Tzu has to clean them up!"
He turned around and wanted to shout at the prison heads.
"Hey, prison chief, you can settle my wages first! I have at least a thousand catties of fourth-order iron ore here, how much salary can you give me. ”
Ye Chen hurriedly grabbed him and said.
"Give him a spirit stone!"
Director You didn't think about it, and waved his hand to one of the overseers next to him and said, it was more neat than sending Hanako.
"What I dug up here is a high-grade ore, why do you only give one spirit stone?"
Ye Chen was suddenly annoyed, and his stomach was full of anger.
Director You didn't bother to pay attention to it, and directly glanced at Chief Foreman Wang.
Chief Foreman Wang comprehended, immediately glared angrily, and shouted at Ye Chen, "Why, didn't I tell you before! Dig a thousand catties of raw ore and give you a piece of spirit stone's wages! Do you think these are your family's ores, you can pay whatever price you want? Tell you, these are the ores of the Tianxu Immortal Gate, no matter what rank you dig, a thousand catties of raw ore will only give you a spirit stone! Get out! If you don't get out, Lao Tzu will teach you a lesson." You dare to shout here even if you are a sixth-level Qi cultivator!"
Chief Foreman Wang himself only has five layers in the gas refining period. However, You and Qin were both at the sixth level of the Qi Refining Period. Coupled with a group of early stage Qi refining cultivators in the mining area, it was enough for Ye Chen to walk around without eating.
Ye Chen was silent for a moment, stepped back, and looked at them coldly. Just this is the salary called Hua, and only a thousand catties of fourth-order ore will be given to a spirit stone, no wonder he didn't see any third-generation disciples of the Xianmen to mine.
The profits in this ore are too rich. I don't know how much benefit Director You and his gang have deducted from it.
"Assemble! Quick, gather for Lao Tzu! Lao Tzu wants to go to the mine to see what these mining slaves are doing! If you don't dig such a good mine, Lao Tzu must kill them!"
Director You, who had thin cheeks, shouted at the supervisors and foremen in the camp.
In the huge camp, all the prison leaders and foremen ran over from everywhere, looking excited. Supervise the miners to mine, their enthusiasm is very high.
There were more than 20 prison chiefs and more than 20 foremen, a total of about forty or fifty people.
Among them, there were twenty cultivators in the early stage of Qi refining, and the remaining twenty or so were martial artists above the seventh level in the body refining stage. They are all disciples of Tianxumen, and they have relatives in Tianxumen who are assigned to this mining area as overseers and foremen.
"Entering the Mine !!"
Chief Foreman Wang roared, and with more than 50 people in all directions, he rushed into the mine with great momentum.
They usually don't dare to enter the mine alone, and only in groups do they dare to enter.
"Director You, I won't go in, and I have to guard the village!"
Captain Qin said cautiously.
"Okay, Lao Qin, look at the mining camp!"
Director You nodded, and eagerly followed a group of supervisors and foremen into the mine.
Chief Qin, the captain of the guard, and more than a hundred mine guards, did not enter the mine. More than 100 guards in the mining area are still on the watchtowers everywhere, more than 20 early stage Qi refining monks, and more than 80 late stage martial artists, they have to guard the camp to prevent demon beasts from attacking the camp.
Ye Chen glanced at the guards outside, dodged, and followed into the mine tunnel.
In this Nanhu mining area, the cultivation has reached the fifth and sixth layers of the gas refining period, and there are only three high-level monks in the mining area: You, Wang, and Qin. The rest of the monks were not worried. The biggest scourge is that You, Wang, Qin and the other three have close collusion with Feng Zhongjie, the deacon of the Miscellaneous Service Palace, and may attack him at any time.
There are these three people who are always thinking about plotting against him, and he is unstable as the head of the mining area. In the two years of cultivation here, I could get into trouble at any time.
Of course, Ye Chen couldn't personally deal with the three of them, otherwise he couldn't afford to bear the charge of persecuting his fellow disciples.
"However, it was not uncommon for a riot to break out in the mines, with angry miners killing several prison heads. ”
Ye Chen snorted coldly in his heart.
During his three days in the mines, he negotiated three deals with the slaves.
The first is to help them eradicate the demon beasts, the second is to provide them with more food, and the third is to take revenge on them with the angry prison boss.
The three miners wanted the most desperately.
Ye Chen was just able to satisfy them.
In return, they worked hard for him.
Ye Chen took out these fourth-order ores as bait and laid out this game, originally to lure the prison head into the mine.
Unexpectedly, in order to get more fourth-order iron ore, Director You personally rushed into the mine in groups, confidently wanting to urge the miners to dig up the more valuable fourth-order iron ore.
Chief Foreman Wang, who was cultivating at the fifth level of the Qi Refining Period, rushed to the front with a team of forty or fifty supervisors and foremen, while Chief You was at the rear. With the strength of their group of Qi Refining Cultivators and Martial Artists, if nothing else, it would be easy to suppress thousands of mine slaves - if Ye Chen hadn't appeared here, there was no doubt about it.
The long and narrow mine road made this team of more than 50 people very long.
Chief Foreman Wang walked at the front of the team with a spirit knife, scolding and scolding in his mouth, extremely excited.
If the miners could dig up a large amount of Dark Iron Ore above the fourth order, he would definitely be able to make a lot of money from it.
But he soon realized that something was wrong. The group of them rushed in all the way, but they didn't encounter any miners, as if the miners in the cave had suddenly disappeared.
These overseers rarely enter the mines, and they are not familiar with the roads inside the mines. In particular, the old and new mine tunnels are mixed, and it is impossible to distinguish the direction at all.
"Where are you hiding!!"
Chief Foreman Wang led a large group of teams to drill around, but he couldn't find a single mining slave.
Director You, who was pressing the formation in the back, noticed that something was wrong and came to the front of the team.
"Director You, why don't you scatter the team and search?"
Chief Foreman Wang hurriedly said.
"No, once dispersed, forty or fifty of us will be in danger. Thousands of miners, they launched a ruthless attack, and the consequences were serious. Keep looking deeper!"
Director You's head and eyes rolled rapidly, he had been fighting with the miners here for more than ten years, how could he make such a low-level mistake.
Suddenly, at the bend in front of the mine, several miners appeared in a panic.
"Chase them, catch them!"
Chief Foreman Wang was overjoyed and rushed over with a spirit knife.
Director You did not go over, and personally led the team to supervise the work.
"Keep up!"
Several foremen followed Chief Foreman Wang.
They just rushed through the tunnel.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, there was a loud bang in the mine. A huge piece of 10,000 catties of ore fell from above the cave wall without warning, suddenly cutting off Chief Foreman Wang and Director You behind a large group of supervisors.
With such a huge amount of ore, it is impossible to fall off automatically.
It can only be a trap set by the miners!
Director You's face changed, and he roared, "It's not good, it's a well-designed trap!" Quick, move this piece of dark iron stone away and rescue Chief Foreman Wang." He was anxious. However, with the fifth-layer strength of Chief Foreman Wang's Qi Refining Period, he should be able to support their rescue.
The overseers stepped forward.
However, tens of thousands of catties of Xuaniron ore boulders, even a mid-stage Qi refining cultivator could not easily move away.
(To be continued)