The retreat had been blocked, and there were four particularly fierce alien wolf dogs at the door, each of which was two meters high and three meters long, with a blood-red tongue sticking out and staring at the two of them with malicious intentions.
"You have seen the situation. Now we have shortage of people in the mine, so we have to let the villagers who came yesterday go to mine. However, since you are here, we don't have to leave anymore and help us mine. I am a rough person.
, I can only tell the truth. When you come here, you have lost your freedom for the time being. If you don’t complete the mining task, I will not let you go back. If anyone dares to escape, don’t blame me for not explaining it to you in advance.
One beats the other to death!" said the scar man viciously.
"Don't resist."
Lin Xi once again reminded the villagers next to him.
Afterwards, Lin Xi and the villagers were taken to a low bungalow in the pit. After quickly changing into a black coarse cloth dress, they were driven out by Scarface's men.
"Damn it, I'm still slow. Come with me and go to the mine!" Scarface cursed and led the way.
From the dazzling sunlight outside, Lin Xi's eyes suddenly entered the dim mine. After his eyesight returned to normal, Lin Xi sighed in his heart. The actual situation here was worse than he expected.
The mine extends inwardly, and the further it goes, the deeper it gets. Oil lamps are placed every ten meters along the way, but the oil lamps emit lights and dark flames are not as big as a palm.
The top of the hole is simply supported by a few tall wooden pillars. The humid environment has caused Penicillium to grow in the wood, and the ground below is not much better, and the potholes are soaked with water.
The miners who came here before had a dull expression and mined the soil with a steel hoe, in order to find the spirit stones. Behind these poor miners were full of armed ferocious thugs, holding whips in their hands to supervise them.
Perhaps he had been subdued for a long time. No one made a sound in the huge mine cave, and no one made any resistance. There was only the monotonous sound made by the hoe when it came into contact with the ore.
Lin Xi walked and looked at it. From the eyes of the villagers next to him, you can tell that these people were not the twelve villagers who came yesterday.
In other words, these miners were people found by the black-hearted miners from other places. They were all thin and obviously treated inhumanely.
It turns out that this place is actually a black soul stone mine!
Lin Xi was even more determined to destroy the mine.
Finally, when he reached the innermost part of the mine, Lin Xi met twelve villagers.
As expected, they were forcibly arrested and became poor miners. Although they had mined before, they are different now. Here is obviously a strict mine cave with many thugs watching them do it.
live.
Lin Xi understood that after the mine cave changed its owner a week ago, the new mine owner must be a bully. He had driven the miners to work for him for free, but now he has put his ideas on the villagers.
Fortunately, all the miners are now concentrated in this mine. As long as the thugs are controlled first, things will be easier.
Lin Xi was planning a countermeasure.
At this time, Scarface began to scold him and another villager to take a steel hoe and shovel, and then send him a cloth bag, and began to announce the mining rules.
Miners must consciously accept supervision from their guards and not be lazy without authorization. If they find it, they will be beaten with a whip once. Those who have been found three times will be dragged out to feed the dog. Even when they go to the toilet, they must report to the guards and only after approval can they be temporarily put down.
The hoe is solved on the spot.
As for the mining wages, Scarface also explained it. But what made Lin Xi angry was that only one of them could be paid if he digs a hundred low-grade spirit stones! Calculated based on ten spirit stones a day, one month
The miners can get only three low-grade spirit stones! Perhaps it is reasonable to calculate that the three low-grade spirit stones outside can be exchanged for one gold coin, and it is still acceptable to get one gold coin in a month, but this is a mine! Except for no one every day
In addition to the heavy labor, you must also face the danger of the mine collapse and being beaten to death by guards!
"The mine owner is really unscrupulous. I must rescue the miners and destroy the mine again."
At this moment, a burst of cheers suddenly broke out among the crowd of people who were busy digging, and everyone kept saying something around a middle-aged man.
"Sir, I dug up a top-grade spirit stone. You can see it." The man's eyes could not hide his excitement and walked to the scar man.
The scar man held the spirit stone that was still stained with wet soil but still emitted mellow and bright light in his hand and played with it for a long time. This top-grade spirit stone is larger than the ordinary one, with a more transparent and pure color. It is no wonder.
The middle-aged man would be so happy because according to the exchange agreement, a top-grade spirit stone is equivalent to a hundred medium-grade spirit stones, and a middle-grade spirit stone is equivalent to ten low-grade spirit stones, so the person dug up this
A top-grade spirit stone is actually equivalent to a thousand lower-grade spirit stones!
Looking carefully at the scar man's expression, the middle-aged man stuttered with hope: "My sir just said that you can get one of them for every 100 low-grade spirit stones you dig. This is the top-grade spirit stone, which can be exchanged for.
Ten lower-grade spirit stones.”
The scar man looked at the poor miner with a playful expression and said in a mocking tone: "Stinky thing, your ears are not working well. Have I ever said such things?"
"My sir has indeed said it many times, and just now I was in front of everyone..."
"Is that so? Are you crazy about money? Don't talk nonsense, keep digging, this is your reward." The scar man looked relaxed and handed a low-grade spirit stone to the other party.
Everyone was moved. It turned out that everything was fake!
The middle-aged man was furious and knocked off the spirit stone on Scarface's hand and picked up the iron hoe.
"My ** ancestor! Grandpa, I'm fighting with you!"
The middle-aged man burst out with amazing momentum. While cursing loudly with the courage to move forward, he raised the iron hoe in his hand and rushed towards the scar man fiercely.
With a crisp "bang", a black whip suddenly appeared in the air, and then hit the middle-aged man's shin and knocked him to the ground.
"Drag it out to feed the dog!" The scar man looked at the middle-aged man with a sad and angry look, as if he was watching a dead person.
"A bunch of dogs that are worse than beasts!"
Lin Xi was surprisingly angry. Her hands were clenched into fists, and her joints made a sound of plagiarism. Lin Xi's chest was undulating violently, and the flames were burning in her black eyes. These people-eating demons were really not worthy of living in this world.
!
The next moment, Lin Xi, who was standing at the innermost part of the mine, began to move his body rapidly.