Chapter 455 Introduction
‘Ouch——! ’ A wolf howl broke through the silence of the night, and several wild beasts moved quickly through the mountains and forests, making a rustling sound. Thick fog completely covered the mountain forest, and even the wolf eyes with night vision could not see very far in this fog.
This is deep in the mountains, in an ancient deep forest that is like the vast sea. The undulating mountains seem to be endless, one after another. A silver plate hangs in the dark night. This is a full moon night. It separates the blackness of the sky and the earth, allowing people to see clearly where the horizon is. However, the surging fog obscured the continuous mountain forest, making it difficult to see the true face of the mountain and what was hidden in the fog.
This is the gold mining area of a small country called Guiniz. It is shrouded in deep mountain fog all year round. The fog is particularly thick on full moon nights.
"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 is getting 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. Stepping on the gravel-strewn road, their feet had been worn out countless times. The scabs were broken and knotted, and they could no longer tell which was the wound and which was the dirt. Their shoulders had deep grooves cut out by the ropes on the bamboo baskets, which were left behind after years of carrying heavy bamboo baskets filled with ore.
A prisoner was tired from walking and wanted to stop and rest for a while. Immediately, a long leather whip was slapped on his face, and his face and flesh were pulled away.
“What are you doing, do you want to be lazy?” An officer standing on a high place stared with terrifying eyes, looking down at the prisoners passing by. There was also an ugly and terrifying animal chained to his side. The horned devil said, "Hurry up. If we don't finish our work today, no one will be able to rest." As he spoke, 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. He hit his head on a big rock at the bottom of the mountain. His brain exploded 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 one by one, as if they had already done all this. Habits have long since become numb.
Suddenly, there was a commotion among the prisoners at the bottom of the mountain. One prisoner picked up a big stone and smashed a soldier who was beating him to death. He shouted: "Brothers, let's rebel. Staying here is worse than death. There is only one way to die." . We fight with them, get out!"
His shout was immediately responded to by many new prisoners who dropped the bamboo baskets on their shoulders. But before they could take action, the 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, like bloody butchers, quickly killed all the more than 30 rebellious prisoners. Smelling the pungent smell of blood, they stepped on the prisoner's corpse and howled crazily. 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 the 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. From time to time, they looked at the piles of corpses, and what was revealed in their eyes was not sadness, grief, and pity, but hunger, thirst, and greed, because these corpses would 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."< br>
“Strange thing?” The officer held his horned devil and said, “Let’s go, take me to see it.” Walking down the No. 7 mine, several hundred meters deep, Just arrived at the bottom of the mine. The officer looked at the pile of bones on the ground and asked: "What's going on?"
The soldier said: "This is the strange thing I told you. Originally, I We were asking the prisoner to dig for deeper veins in the direction indicated by Goblin Grom, but unexpectedly we found these bones, you see.”
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. Passed, these are all human bones."
"Human bones!" The officer took two steps back and asked the prisoner miner next to him to remove all the soil from the cave wall. Sure enough, a dense wall of bones blocked everyone. the front. The officer looked at the countless white bones. Even though he had been killing people for many years, he couldn't help but shudder: "This tunnel is also three or four meters wide, and you can't even see the edge of the bone wall. So many human bones are buried here. "It's very strange." He thought for a while and said, "Could it be that this place was a battlefield before, and many people were killed, so they were buried here. Here?"
The soldier shook his head and said: "It doesn't look like it." He took out the map of the mining area and said: "It should be 620 meters deep from the ground. The dead bodies on the battlefield cannot be buried so deep. A place? And this is a gold mine, 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 did not know.
The officer said: "Let's 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 is on a mountain not far from the mining area. The village is named after the gold mine, and it is called Gold Mine Village. The gold mining village was built by the female prisoners assigned here. It sounds like a village, but in fact it is 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 mineral deposits. They are industrious and active, holding mining hoes, and when they gather together, they look like a glowing ant colony.)
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