'Ouch!' A wolf howl broke through the silence of the night, and several beasts walked quickly through the mountains and forests, making a rustling sound. The thick fog completely covered the mountains and forests, even with night vision wolf eyes
, I can’t see very far in this fog.
This is deep in the mountains, in an ancient deep forest like the vast ocean. The rolling hills seem to be endless, one after another. A silver plate hangs in the dark night. This is a full moon night. It will
The black sky and the earth are separated, allowing people to see clearly where the horizon is. However, the surging fog blocks the continuous mountains and forests. It is difficult to see the true face of the mountains, and it is not clear what is hidden in the fog.
This is the gold mining area of a small country called Guiniz. It is shrouded in mountain fog all year round. On full moon nights, the fog is particularly thick.
"Hurry up, hurry up." A soldier wearing the army's standard armor was waving the black snake-like whip in his hand, hitting the prisoner carrying the bamboo basket hard: "This damn weather,
It's foggy again. Hurry up, you despicable prisoners, don't you want to rest?"
A mined mountain is covered with many mines. Prisoners with bare upper bodies and bare feet walked down the stone road on the mountainside carrying baskets of ore dug out of the mines.
On the desolate road full of gravel, their feet have been worn out countless times. The scabs have been broken and knotted, and they can no longer tell which is the wound and which is the dirt. Their shoulders
, a deep groove has been cut out by the rope on the bamboo basket, which was left by carrying a heavy bamboo basket full of ore for many years.
A prisoner was tired from walking and wanted to stop for a while. A long leather whip was immediately slapped on his face, and his face and skin were pulled away.
"What are you doing, do you want to be lazy?" An officer standing on a high place glared with terrifying eyes, looking down at the prisoners passing by. An ugly and terrifying horned devil was chained to his side: "Why don't you?
If you don't hurry up, if you don't finish the work today, no one will be able to rest." Then he hit the prisoner in the face with another heavy whip.
"Ah!!" the prisoner screamed. His right eye was broken by the officer's whip, and blood immediately flowed out. The severe pain caused his feet to slip, and he fell halfway down the mountainside, hitting his head on the ground.
He fell onto a boulder at the foot of the mountain, causing his brain to burst and he died on the spot.
However, no one paid attention to all this. The other prisoners did not even look at the dead man. They still walked forward expressionlessly, as if they had already been used to all this and had become numb.
.
Suddenly, there was a commotion among the prisoners at the bottom of the mountain. A prisoner picked up a big stone and killed a soldier who was beating him. He shouted: "Brothers, let's rebel. Staying here is worse than death. There is only one way to die."
.We will fight them and get out!"
His shout was immediately responded to by many newly arrived prisoners, who threw down the bamboo baskets on their shoulders. But before they could take any action, a tragic scene began.
The officers standing on the mountain blew their iron whistles one after another, and the long-horned devils who loosened their chains one after another quickly jumped down from the mountain and pounced on the group of rebellious prisoners.
Biting and pulling, each prisoner was torn into pieces, with heads, arms, and stumps flying around. Those horned demons with red skin, strong bodies, and powerful limbs were like bloody butchers, and they soon killed more than thirty people.
All the rebel prisoners were killed. They smelled the pungent smell of blood, stepped on the prisoners' corpses and howled wildly. The joy of killing made their hot blood boil even more.
The officers blew the iron whistle again, and the horned demons returned to their masters, waiting for the next round of massacre.
The commotion subsided, and other prisoners who had stayed away for fear of being implicated returned to their original positions and continued to work. But at this time, these prisoners were different from before. They looked at the piles of corpses from time to time, and what was revealed in their eyes was
Not sadness, grief and pity, but hunger, thirst and greed, because these corpses will become their rare food.
"Sir, sir." A soldier hurriedly ran out of a mine, ran to an officer and reported: "Sir, something strange was dug in Mine No. 7."
"Something strange?" The officer held his horned devil and said, "Come on, take me to see it."
We walked downhill along Mine No. 7, several hundred meters deep, before we reached the bottom of the mine. The officer saw a pile of bones piled on the ground and asked, "What's going on?"
The soldier said: "This is the strange thing I told you. Originally, I was asking the prisoner to dig deeper veins in the direction indicated by Goblin Grom, but unexpectedly I found these bones. Look."
The officer looked at the cave wall by the light of the crystal in the mine, and saw a small pit one meter in size and more than half a meter deep dug in the wall. The walls of the pit were all covered with bones.
The officer was startled and looked at his soldiers blankly.
"Sir, look carefully." The soldier pulled off a few pieces of gravel on the cave wall, revealing a large piece of bone. He knocked on it and said, "I found this is a bone wall. I checked it. All of these are
Human bones.”
"Human bones!" The officer took two steps back and asked the prisoner miners next to him to remove all the soil from the cave wall. As expected, a dense wall of bones blocked the crowd. The officer looked at these countless white bones, even though he
Having been killing people for many years, he couldn't help but shudder: "This tunnel is three or four meters wide, but you can't see the edge of this bone wall. It's strange that so many people's bones are buried here." He thought for a while and said:
"Could it be that this place used to be a battlefield, and many people were killed and buried here?"
The soldier shook his head and said, "It's not like that." He took out a map of the mining area and said, "It should be 620 meters deep from here to the ground. It's impossible for the dead bodies on the battlefield to be buried so deep? And we are here in a gold mine.
Ah, who would bury the body here?"
"That's right, what's going on?" the officer asked.
The soldier also shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.
The officer said: "Let's do this. Let the prisoners continue digging to see if they can dig through it. You go to the village with me and report this matter to the Governor."
"yes."
The village the officer mentioned was on a mountain not far from the mining area. The village got its name from the gold mine and was called Gold Mine Village. The Gold Mine Village was established by the female prisoners assigned here. To put it nicely,
It's a village, but it's actually a free military prostitute for the army stationed here.
This village is not very big, with a total of 176 female prisoners living there. In the middle of the village there is a small palace made entirely of gold. The name of the palace is the 'Golden Palace'. This is where the governor who guards the mining area lives.
The place……
(Note: 1. Grom: In folklore, little goblins who live underground and guard the mines. They are hardworking and active, holding mining hoes, and when they gather together, they look like a colony of glowing ants.)