The Trapped One

Some people also asked for his name, hoping to provide help after knowing the name, because if they knew his name, they could determine whether he was a smuggler. The Customs Certification Center of Dais Island Mechanical Hive has the names of everyone on the island.

Even if the information is not actively registered, it will be scanned by the machine after entering the mechanical hive to generate identity information.

Aru did not dare to say his name in any case, because the supervisors of the Gaki Island mining area and the agents in each area are all online. Once they find out that he is asking for help online, he will be greeted with a thorough response.

The ultimate despair.

Aru refused to give his name, so no one on the network trusted him.

Aru was devastated and panicked because his phone's battery was about to run out, and he had no access to a charging place on Nengaki Island.

He could only spend more than ten minutes every night to connect to the Internet and ask for help from the outside world in chat rooms and forums.

As time passes day by day, the battery of the mobile phone is used less and less. Aru's hair is falling out one after another with anxiety and fear. He also has mental problems. He can't even speak normally. The distance between the friends around him is far away from him.

further and further.

It wasn't until a week later, when the phone's battery was almost completely exhausted, that an ID named "wolf" reached out to him——

"I am a reporter from a church school, and I firmly believe that I can help you."

When Aru saw this news, he believed in the existence of the Holy Light for the first time in his life.

After receiving Wolf's message, the phone immediately shut down automatically due to lack of battery.

But Aru's mood was completely different from before. He still remembered how he looked that night - he was lying on the big bunk in the dormitory, listening to the snoring of his roommates. The smell had long been used to it, but it was still irritating.

He could smell the smell of feet in his nose, and his eyes were so bright that he could clearly see the cobwebs in the corners of the ceiling in the dark.

The next day, he exchanged three meals for the help of a miner who knew something about electricity. The miner helped him and made a simple mobile phone charger using a searchlight battery. There was no guarantee that it would work.

The kind that charges up your cell phone to the max.

Aru's luck came for the second time - although the homemade charger was seriously overheated, it was actually able to charge the phone!

He was finally able to contact "wolf"!

After the two got in touch, they had many exchanges. Although Aru's physical condition was still in poor condition, his mental state was much better than before - at least he no longer thought about suicide every day.

Although Aru was tired from working every day, he had the strength in his heart and was even able to go back to the mining area from the dormitory area after get off work and use his mobile phone to take photos of the miners being killed by agents in the mining area.

In addition to students like Aru who were tricked into coming here, there are also some "perennial workers" in the mine. Aru has almost no contact with those people, so he doesn't know why they stay here.

"The miners in each mining area have different origins... A wave of miners will be divided into several groups, scattered and distributed in different mining areas, which reduces the possibility of collective resistance... Collective resistance is not impossible... but they have guns.

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"My guys and I were lucky enough to be assigned to an area...otherwise, there wouldn't even be anyone to talk to."

He lowered his head, unable to recover from such an environment.

He threw away the cigarette butt and lit a second cigarette with skillful movements. His addiction to cigarettes was obviously very high:

"The only good thing about the island is that you can buy cigarettes, Fake. If I couldn't smoke, I don't know how I would survive..."

His voice was low and his articulation was not clear.

In his subsequent narration, Wolf Rebot learned that someone had once successfully escaped and even went to Dais Island, but when that person told the matter to the first island chain of Dais Island,

When asked by a manager, the other person just laughed at him for joking and warned him not to interfere with official duties.

"I don't have much time." Aru said while frequently looking at the other side of the model house: "We only have ten minutes of free time a day... I have to go back quickly, otherwise they will arrange to go to the island.

Pick up customers at the tavern.”

He looked at Wolf Ribot with firm eyes:

"Wait until night! I'll take you to the miners you want to interview! You can ask whatever you want!"

The two of them had obviously agreed on something in advance.

Aru limped and disappeared on the other side of the model house. The trio returned to the felled boreal deciduous forest on the hills and waited quietly.

Messiah looked at the direction where Aru's figure disappeared, and there was another inexplicable sound of prayer there.

In her eyes, the [Patio] flashed past her eyes. At this moment, the entire Gaki Island was shrouded in the dim halo of the [Patio], and an inexplicable sound of prayer appeared not far in front of her.

In the darkness of a deep pit in a certain [patio].

Someone was calling her there, but it wasn't her name.

She heard those calls and felt compassion.

But she clearly understood that these pities did not belong to her.

What a hateful feeling.

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Time passed quickly in silent waiting, and it was night in a blink of an eye.

The sun sets on Kaki Island at three o'clock in the afternoon, so when the sunset glow on the sea level completely disappears, darkness has completely filled the air and blocked all vision.

The darkness in the mountains was so deep that being unable to reach out was not enough to describe the intensity of the darkness. Without turning on the light of his mobile phone, Wolf Ribot could not even see clearly the snowflakes falling directly in front of his pupils.

In such deep darkness, a tiny bit of light can become an eye-catching torch.

So the three of them waited silently and did not try to provide lighting in any way.

At about 9:30 p.m., Wolfe's cell phone screen finally lit up - a text message was pushed to his cell phone.

"I'm off work, see you at the same place."

The three of them returned to the place where they met Aru before. At this time, Aru was already waiting there, holding three miners' uniforms in his hands. The miners' uniforms exuded a strong smell of sweat, and they were stolen at first glance.

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The northerners of the Empire were tall. Wolfe and Messiah could barely hold their clothes up after putting on their miner's uniforms, but Nuomiguo had a hard time. She was shorter than the two of them, so she rolled up the edges of her clothes and trousers again and again.

It barely fits.

After completing all this, Aru carefully explained everything that was going to happen next:

"There are too many people in the dormitory, and there are too many gangsters. The interview will definitely not be possible, and they will not cooperate well.

So we went directly to the mining area, where most of them are old miners who have suffered a lot. They must have a lot of grievances accumulated over the years, and they know much more about the mining area than I do, and they must know some dirtier secrets."

This was not Aru's impromptu idea, but the result of a change of strategy based on the actual situation after discussing with Wolf Ribot.

Before the trio came to Gaki Island, Aru originally discussed with Wolff to interview the miners in Aru's dormitory. At that time, they considered that Aru could contact these people in advance to facilitate the preparation of interviews, and Aru was very interested in the dormitory.

Being familiar with the area's terrain, the risk of being discovered by supervisors and regional agents is most likely to be avoided.

But when Aru actually went to test it, he realized that most of his colleagues were extremely stupid and stubborn fools. They disdained things like investigations and were already content with such a life, even if they appeared to be

They behave fiercely, but they are just fierce in appearance. When the supervisor appears, they will immediately smile, like a domesticated dog.

Wolf Ribot promised him that as long as he could photograph the truth in the mine, he would be able to expose the filth on this island.

The four people advanced in the darkness, bypassing the dormitory and entering the construction site outside the mining area. At this time, there was some light around them - the light came from a workshop that was smoking and making the sound of a boiler.

Aru said that it is the mechanical maintenance shop in this area. Because the old mine cars, tracks and tools in the mining area are too old, problems often occur. Maintenance personnel usually have to work late to ensure the normal operation of the entire mining area.

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The topography of the construction site above the mining area is very complex, and abandoned workshops are everywhere. This place obviously used to function as a processing plant, but for some unknown reason, those processing plants were abandoned, leaving only dilapidated factory buildings, which are now buried under heavy snow.

I can't see what it looks like.

The ground of the entire construction site is covered with various rail tracks, and it is impossible to tell whether they are still in use.

Wolf Ribot understood at this time that without someone like Aru who was familiar with the mining area to lead the way, even if they could enter the mining area, they probably would not be able to get out.

They soon entered the open pit mining area.

The vertical depth of the coal mine veins on Gaki Island is very small, so the entire mining area has formed a funnel shape during mining to this day. The edge of the funnel-shaped open-pit mining area is surrounded by dense spiral mine tunnels, and most of these mine tunnels are covered by steam rails.

Under the leadership of Aru, they continued to move downward along the steam railway. After passing several forks, bright light appeared in front of them again.

"This is it... The supervisors don't rest at night. They will take shifts, but they won't patrol all the time. Most of them sit in high places and play with their mobile phones... As long as they make sure that the workers are still working, no matter how fast or slow they work, they won't say anything.

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So as long as we make less noise, we won’t attract attention.”

They move on.

At the corner of a certain mine tunnel, at a mined vein, they met an old miner.

The old miner stooped his waist, and slowly and feebly hit the mineral vein with a pickaxe. The miner's uniform on his body had been washed very white, and his original appearance could not be seen at all. The miner's hat was also very old, but it was not

It's tattered, which may be why he still wears a miner's hat.

When the four people approached, the old miner straightened up and looked at them.

"Hey... little baby, are you planning to work the night shift?"

The old miner's Imperial dialect had a strong accent.

After he straightened up, Wolf Ribot saw that he was already severely hunched over, with a large bulge under his shoulder and neck, which was caused by years of working in the mines.

Wolfe was a little nervous. He thought about the words he had prepared before, and unconsciously adjusted the cell phone that was recording in his chest.
To be continued...