Chapter 467 The gold mine shrouded in the haze of death
October 19th.
Rain, heavy rain, heavy rain pouring down from the sky. The wash of rain reveals the true face of the mountains that have been shrouded in fog for many years.
There was silence in the gold mining village, and the garrison camp stationed one kilometer away to guard the gold mine was also filled with a tense and depressive atmosphere.
In the camp, the soldiers supervising the prisoner miners sat in their rooms one by one. Usually when it rains and work stops, these people will talk and laugh, play cards, drink, smoke and play with the women invited by the gold mining village, but today the camp is lifeless, there is no laughter, no singing, dancing and drinking, and they even stay in the same camp. The soldiers in the room stopped talking to each other.
Finally, a soldier in a dormitory spoke: "Have you heard? Five more died yesterday."
The other three soldiers in the same dormitory were even lower in mood, with the death hanging in their hearts The shadows become heavier and heavier.
Since a large number of dead skeletons were found under Mine No. 7 more than a month ago, mysterious deaths have continued to occur in this gold mining area. These people were all people who had entered the mines. Some of them died suddenly in front of their companions, some seemed to have been deceived and died of cruel self-abuse to their bodies, and many more died unexpectedly. Bizarre and strange.
Although five days ago, Warlord Shank agreed that all soldiers and prisoners would not enter the mines for the time being, the pace of death did not stop. Soldiers and prisoners still died suddenly in the camp every day. This made everyone feel uneasy.
“If this continues, when will it end?”
"Perhaps only by leaving here can we stop death."
"Leave here, stop joking. The military governor has given orders that anyone who still tries to escape from here will be shot to death once caught."
The four of them sighed and lowered their heads again.
“Is it true that we just have to stay here and wait to die?”
“Of course we can’t wait to die.” A soldier said: “We have worked here for so long and earned so many gold coins. We can’t die here before we spend time. Even if we leave, we will die, and if we stay, we will die. Instead of staying here and waiting for death to come, we might as well escape, maybe there will be a chance..."
The other three people looked at him with joy, because he said what all the soldiers here were saying, they were expecting someone to take the lead and lead everyone out of here. But at this moment, the three people discovered that the soldier who was speaking suddenly stopped motionless, and had not finished speaking in the middle of the sentence.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?"
The soldier still stood there blankly without speaking, his eyes widened.
The three of them looked at me and I looked at you, and they all hid aside from their beds. They suddenly had a bad feeling in their hearts.
Sure enough, within a few seconds, the soldier who spoke suddenly fell to his knees trembling all over: "Ugh..." A mouthful of extremely disgusting yellow viscous liquid spit out from his mouth. Coming out, there are a few pink soft worms accompanying it from time to time. The three of them felt sick in their hearts when they looked at the disgusting filth and soft worms, and immediately they smelled an extremely bad sour smell. This sour smell was worse than that of a rotting corpse. It was as if a rotting corpse had been soaked in gastric juice and stifled for more than ten days.
The three of them hurriedly ran out of their dormitory. As soon as they went out, they couldn't bear it anymore. They vomited out everything from today and yesterday.
When they found their superior and came back, they found that the soldier had fallen dead in a large pool of soft worm yellow liquid.
Outside the mine, Warlord Shank and several of his guards stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the place where waste rocks were piled in the mine below. At this time, a mountain of human bones more than ten meters high had been piled up here. , looking at a patch of white flowers from a distance.
Overseer Shank is a very tall man with big eyes, a big brown beard, a jawbone gold tooth crown on his head, and a very gorgeous golden armor on his body. There is a long jagged scar on his face from the corner of his left eye to under his right ear, which makes people feel fear and awe when they see him, especially the seven-meter-long golden whip in his hand. He died under this whip. There are countless people.
As a sixth-level true knight, although his strength is not outstanding, he is a person of great status in the political arena of the Kingdom of Guiniz. He is not a native of the Guiniz Kingdom, but the leader of a tribe in the southern part of the continent. After the demise of the tribe, he wandered here as a mercenary and joined the regular army of the Kingdom of Guiniz. The reason why he is in his current position is because it was with his help that the current king ascended to the throne, so he was appointed to control the economic lifeline of the Kingdom of Guiniz.
Broken has returned to the camp with dozens of his soldiers escorting the prisoners. At this time, he is also here, accompanying the warlord Shank in the rain. He looked at the countless bones on the mountain: "I have been away for more than ten days, and I didn't expect to dig out so many human bones. Isn't it finished?"
"Did it finish?" Warlord Shank laughed as if He said: "When the work stopped five days ago, I went down to see it in person. The accumulated bones are just the tip of the iceberg compared to those in the mine."
"I can't believe how there are so many bones buried here, and they are all human bones." Brocken imagined. Suddenly, just imagining it made him break out in a sweat: "Supervisor Army, could this be a huge cemetery? "
Warlord Shank said: "I don't know, but the way these bones are stacked seems to be deliberately piled up. I feel like this has an effect. "He suddenly crushed the stones under his feet angrily and said, "You Yes, as my general, I actually lost the prisoner. I originally wanted to have new manpower to allow soldiers and prisoners to work in the mine. I'm afraid that won't work now. Did you know that the miners will stop working for one day? How much will we lose?”
"I'm sorry, Lord Warlord. But this is not my fault. I don't know why there are giant dragons in our country of Guiniz." Brocken said: "But isn't there also the team brought by Saxon?"
Warlord Shank said: "He only brought fifty soldiers and two hundred A prisoner, and this month, 173 of our soldiers and miners have died for no reason. Adding in the miners who committed suicide and were tortured to death, the total has exceeded 300, not including the horned devil and Glo that we lost. "Hum."
Brocken said: "That's it." It's impossible to go down. If the work continues, not only will we not be able to explain to the king, but other people who are jealous of us will definitely take the opportunity to criticize us. Warlord, why don't we just stop digging the new mine and fill in all the mines we dug? It’ll be fine.”
“No. "Use." Warlord Shank said: "Those mines have been filled with earth magic by our magicians, but people are still dying every day."
Brocken said: "It doesn't seem to be the case. It won’t end until we figure this thing out.”
Warlord Shank suddenly made up his mind and said: "You are right. This gold mine has always been under our control and is our wealth. How can we let other people get involved in our interests? Go and call Saxon and let us discuss it. No matter How about this, this mining area must return to normal tomorrow, no matter how many miners die or how many soldiers die, I still want it to continue to operate!" He said. Looking at the empty mines on the mountain opposite: "Aren't they just tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dead people's bones? I have killed so many people, why would I be afraid of you rotten bones that have been dead for countless years? I will kill you all." Dig it out and see what the hell these human bones are!”
(End of this chapter)