The Silverstream Mine is the largest mine in the City of Thorns. About 40% of the source silver ore is produced here every year. Because of this, the largest source silver refinery in the City of Thorns was also built nearby.

Of course, this mine and the refinery are part of the huge industry of the city lord, Duke Simon.

William checked the Cass Durant bounty issued by Duke Simon. Half of the people who died in his hands were miners in the Silverstream Mine, and the rest were more or less related to the origin of the mine.

The silver industry is related.

According to his experience in the game, when you see a soul-eating spider demon in a place, it is estimated that the place has been infiltrated into a sieve.

But he didn't quite understand why it was a mine.

Each King of Nothingness corresponds to an idea or phenomenon. For example, the Hungry Lady symbolizes the pathological cycle of life and death, the wrong and twisted food chain, and the irreversible self-consumption of the whole. Therefore, the dependents of the Hungry Lady are often associated with corruption.

, the concepts of fester, infection and undead are closely related, and at the same time, they only like to appear in places with those elements.

The Whispering Queen symbolizes conspiracy, betrayal, trickery and murder. As a member of the Whispering Queen's family, the most favorite places for soul-eating spiders to hang out should be places full of conspiracy and calculations, such as palaces with complex forces or great nobles with fierce power struggles.

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In any case, there should be no contact with the miners.

William felt it was necessary to find out what they were trying to do by parasitizing so many miners.

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"Brut Cole."

"exist!"

"Sigmons Carter"

"exist!"

The supervisor with an iron whip on his waist took the roster and called people one by one. A row of miners wearing sloppy work clothes and dusty faces lined up neatly on the flat ground in front of the mine. Everyone

At his feet lay a rope, a pickaxe and a miner's lamp.

When their name was called by the supervisor, they all answered loudly with all their strength, and then stood as straight as possible without making any eye contact with the person.

"Colt Brand."

"..."

The silent silence caused everyone to turn their attention to the end of the line. A child who looked to be fifteen or sixteen years old was wearing work clothes that were too large for his body. He stood there sleepily, with his head lowered and looking like...

Almost fell asleep standing up.

The supervisor slowly walked up to the child as if he was very interested, picked up the iron whip hanging on his waist, and gently raised the child's chin with the handle of the iron whip.

The cold touch made the child wake up suddenly. He looked at the smiling supervisor in front of him with a blank expression, and then he seemed to suddenly realize something.

"Ah, here we come!"

He immediately straightened his body and answered loudly, not even daring to breathe after he finished speaking.

The overseer took back the iron whip in his hand and asked softly.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous. I remember you were a miner who just reported for work the day before yesterday, right?"

"Yes, sir! I'm here to take over my dad's place as Hilton Brand!"

The child replied loudly.

The supervisor nodded and said with a smile on his face.

"Oh, Hilton... your dad is an excellent team leader here. Every time the team he leads goes to the mine, the average efficiency is more than 20% higher than other teams. When he is here, I have to save a lot of effort here.

."

When the child heard the overseer's words, he also wanted to smile, but the second half of the overseer's words made his smile freeze before he could even make it.

"But your dad never told you about the punishment for falling asleep during morning assembly?"

The next second, an iron whip struck his left thigh, directly cutting open his work uniform and leaving a blood mark two feet long and half a finger deep on his leg.

"If you fall asleep at work, you will be whipped three times. If you scream while being whipped, you will be whipped two more times."

The supervisor's warm smile before had completely disappeared, and he said with a cold face now.

The child gritted his teeth tightly and remained silent, staring intently at the overseer.

"Do you feel unconvinced?"

"No, sir!"

He gritted his teeth and said.

"If you feel unconvinced, you can go back now and show off to your lame and blind father. Then wait until the day you can no longer pay the city maintenance tax, and then wait to be kicked out of Thorn City to become a serf. If you still want to

If you stay here, turn around immediately and receive two more lashes."

The young man named Colter turned around silently. At this time, a middle-aged man with a thick beard standing next to him spoke.

"Sir, this kid Colter has only been here two days, and he is still not used to the working rhythm of the Silverstream Mine. He will be used to it in another two days. If he gets whipped twice by you today, I'm afraid he will have trouble even working in the mine.

It’s difficult.”

The supervisor glanced at him before and said.

"Do you want to be a good person so much? How about you take these two whips for him?"

When the man heard this, he immediately lowered his head and stopped talking.

The overseer sneered and weighed the iron whip in his hand, and was about to round it up and slap it on the opponent's back, when a tall man standing in the center of the team spoke.

"This kid can't stand two blows, I'll take it for him."

The overseer stopped.

"Good old Sigmons, what, do you want to stand up for someone again this time?"

"It's just that I have inherited his father's affection. Not only me, but everyone here has inherited his father's affection. If his father hadn't held on to the support with all his strength, we would all have died in the No. 7 mine tunnel the last time it collapsed."

The tall man named Sigmons said in a calm tone.

"Yes, if it weren't for his father, we would all be buried in it."

"His father's leg was broken in the same way."

"Sir, let me take this whip for this child."

After hearing his words, other miners began to talk about it, and even a few bold ones stood up and expressed that they wanted to accept the punishment for the child.

"Shut up!"

As the discussion in the team became louder and louder, the supervisor, who was about to lose control of the situation, yelled, drowning out everyone's voices.

There was a faint sound of thunder in his roar, and a few tiny electric lights flashed in the air around him.

The miners' team was as silent as a chill for an instant.

This overseer is actually a magic caster.

He looked at Sigmons with a livid face, and after a while he turned his head and said to the child.

"Colter, in order not to affect today's progress, you will go down to the mine with the mining team today, but when you come back in the evening, you will continue to accept the punishment. Sigmons, please come with us, so that this kind of provoking miners to question the Duke will not happen again in the future.

Regarding authoritative matters, just get out of here."

After saying that, he hung the iron whip back on his waist, then shook off the roster and continued to report the remaining names.

"Um?"

When the supervisor named all the people on the list, he found that there was one more person at the end of the team.

He walked up to the man.

Although that man was wearing the same work clothes as the miners around him, his temperament was completely different from the people next to him. Maybe it was because his figure was not that rugged, or maybe it was because he didn't look shabby.

It may also be because his gray hair and silver eyes are incompatible with those around him.

"Why aren't you on the list?"

"I was transferred here just yesterday."

The supervisor reminded with an unhappy look on his face.

"I was transferred here just yesterday, 'Sir'."

"You don't need to call me sir."
Chapter completed!