Chapter 953 184. Capture the Mine
Jeremy told yesterday’s story again.
Then there was Rabbit. His tragic experience made many miners laugh out loud. There was no malice, but they just thought how could there be such a stupid person.
The stories between them aroused everyone's desire to talk. They briefly escaped from the non-stop digging day and night, and recalled the life that was not good before, but a hundred times better than the current bad situation.
Most of the miners are from Izewan. Some of them were sold, some were caught, and some were lying, but everyone participated loudly and excitedly, without even a snore. Pass.
Finally, they asked Small, the only one who didn't.
"What about you?"
Little Small, who had been prepared for a long time, began to talk about the Blade of Freedom, Liberty City, and the Kingdom of Rekaner, but these miners in the mine Too far away, Little Small would tell stories about Liberty City.
The miners laughed along, joking that the people in Liberty City were so kind and stupid that if they were placed here, they would definitely fill up the mines. They laughed at character as the most useless thing in the world, and then one of them secretly wiped his tears.
"I'm here to help you." Little Small said.
A voice sounded in the darkness: "Weren't you also arrested?"
"Because I came for you."
Without the light, no one could see the thinness of Little Small. His words were more convincing than before: "I have a way to take you away. Join the Free Blade and return to the sun."
"Take me one!"
"And Me!”
These are the voices of Rabbit and Jeremy.
A few more sparse echoes sounded in the darkness.
Of the fifty miners, only nine made a decision.
Little Small is not surprised. Just like in "Betal's Redemption", people who escape from prison find it difficult to continue living, and it was the same for him at the beginning.
Habit is the most terrifying thing in the world.
That night, the three Little Smalls lived in the same cave with the nine miners who had joined the Freedom Blade, and stayed warm with each other.
After a night's rest, the miners dragged their tired bodies up amidst the sound of hammering and went to the cave entrance to queue up to receive pickaxes and oil lamps.
The weather outside seems to be very bad, and the coldness pouring into the mine...
The miners wrapped up their ragged clothes and numbed their active hearts with such thoughts. It was Xiaosi's turn Mo took it. As soon as he stretched out his hand, the guard suddenly took away the oil lamp.
“What did you do last night?”
Little Small was startled, lowered his head and said: "My father used to be a miner, and I discussed with them how to mine faster, sir."
"I don't dare to have bad intentions despite you..." The guard snorted and let go of his hand.
It was hard for the miners to eat enough, and they had no weapons. They could not defeat the guards who were strong and strong and wore skin armor peeled off the dead.
Holding an oil lamp and dragging a pickaxe, Little Small got into the warm mine.
……
Dang——Dang——Dang——
The iron pickaxe hit the rocks and sparks flew out.
Nov was so tired that he was delirious. He was trying to distinguish whether it was the pickaxe or himself that was chiseling into the stone.
The basket beside him contained only a few pieces of coal. Apart from the echoing sound of knocking, the story Little Small told last night was firmly entrenched in his mind.
“Your relatives are still waiting outside. Do you want to die quietly in the dark mine, or burn yourself to your heart’s content?”
The words sounded like thunder in Nov's mind. He stood there blankly, suddenly dropped the pickaxe and ran towards Little Smoke's cave.
When he arrived, he found that he was not the first person to come.
“I want to join the Freedom Fist!” Nov shouted and squeezed past.
"It's the Blade of Freedom." Little Small said with a smile. At night, the miners gathered in Little Smoke's cave again and continued to listen to stories.
In front of all the miners, Little Small demonstrated the mutual help of the Free Blades: Jeremy volunteered to pour the extra paste in his bowl to the rabbit, and Little Small also gave the food in his bowl to the least people.
After tonight's story, the number of members of the Free Blade has reached twenty, nearly half of the miners.
These people work together as a team and no longer have to worry about the coal they have worked so hard to dig being taken away. Everyone no longer hides their secrets and contributes the coal mines they know.
Little Smoke secretly poured out the oil for the oil lamp and the torch so that the miners could enjoy the light even during their rest time.
And because a lot more coal was mined, the guards turned a blind eye and allowed this group of people to form gangs. They see coal and give them food, it's that simple.
When the number of miners who joined the Freedom Blade approached forty, it seemed that a certain balance had been broken. The remaining miners were afraid of being left behind and rushed to join the Freedom Blade.
When all the miners joined the Freedom Blade, Small announced his plan to lead them out within ten days.
Because there were so many people, they divided them into two caves to rest, so that they would not be crowded and the cave would not be cold.
In the dead of night, there was a faint rustling sound in the darkness, which was covered up by snoring. A figure quietly slipped out of the cave and groped towards the entrance——
“Where are you going?”
The sudden sound startled the figure, and then the torch lit up, revealing a group of figures and a panicked face.
“Catch him.”
The miners behind Little Small swarmed up.
The man was very strong, but so were the others, who were quickly pushed to the ground. He rolled his eyes in panic and said: "I have to go to the toilet, what are you doing!"
Their movement woke up the sleeping people, who looked up.
Little Small looked at him calmly: "You were the one who snitched to the guard for the first time, right?"
"I...I don't know what you are talking about..."
"You Now you plan to report us for the second time and sell us to the guards, right?”
The miners got up as the rustling sound sounded.
The man finally showed panic and pleaded: "I...I don't want to, but if I don't tell them they will beat me to death..."
"Traitor!"
The rabbit spat in the man's face.
Little Small continued: "Then you should know, you tell them, we are the ones who will die..."
"I...I don't know...I don't want to..." The man spoke incoherently.
Looking down at the pleading man, Little Small's previous gentleness turned into coldness: "Betraitors should die. Who has any objections?"
The miners remained silent, and Little Small picked up a stone that could be seen everywhere, walked up to the man, and smashed it down hard.
“Ah——!”
The man let out a miserable howl, his forehead bleeding profusely. Little Small handed the blood-stained stone to Jeremy expressionlessly.
"You're second."
"Me? I...I don't..." Jeremy stepped back.
"You don't even have the blood to kill a traitor, how can I believe that you can escape from the mine and rescue more people!" Little Small's shout echoed in the cave.
"I'll do it!"
The rabbit grabbed the stone and threw it at the man. Then the third and fourth miners stepped forward...
The cave with the torches echoed with dull sounds that were different from the knocking sounds of mining.
(End of this chapter)