Chapter 952 183. Slave Miners
There is a coal mine in the mountains east of Yize Bay. The gangsters brought them here and sold them to the owner of the mine - at the price of 5 copper coins per person.
Learning that he was sold to the mine for just five copper coins, Little Small struggled: "You sold us for five copper coins!? Don't touch Uncle Babu! He's too old to do it. Got it!”
“I can’t tell you’re quite energetic, not bad.” The foreman nodded with satisfaction, gave the gangsters an extra copper coin, and drove them away.
Little Small still struggled and was punched by the guard next to the foreman and passed out.
"Drag them both away. Send the younger one to Peter's Cave, and the older one to Bat Cave." The foreman waved his hand.
"Sir, can you allow me to say a few words?" At this time, the lame Babu spoke up.
......
Coldness, hardness, the sound of passing wind...
These elements constitute a deep nightmare, waking up Little Small from his coma.
The dark cave, the sound of chiseling echoing in the distance, and two weak voices not far away.
“I really don’t know when these damn days will end...Shh, that boy woke up.”
“Who are you?” Little Small couldn’t see anything, or he was blind. , or there is no light.
"Just like you, the unlucky guy who got caught." said a young voice.
“Where is the person who came with me?”
"No, you are the only one."
"Impossible, Uncle Babu is with me... He is an old man."
"Old man?" A young voice exclaimed, "Either you are talking in your sleep, or you are talking stupid things. Who would hire an old man -"
"I came with him!" Little Small growled, startling the young man.
"Child, don't be excited." A mature voice sounded, "We are not the only ones in this coal mine. Your relatives should have been sent to other mines..."
"Where?"
"I don't know, the guard threw you in and left."
Knowing that the lame Babu should be fine, Little Small breathed a sigh of relief and asked what they were going to do.
What a miner has to do is very simple: dig, exchange for food, and rest. Now is the break time.
"You guys live here?" Little Small wrapped himself in clothes. Although it wasn't cold in the cave, it definitely had nothing to do with warmth.
"Do you live outside in this damn weather?" the young voice said angrily: "You don't think the foreman is willing to give us firewood, do you?"
Footsteps sounded from a distance, and there was a light emerging.
A few guards carried oil lamps and pushed the dining cart over.
Little Small could clearly see the appearance of the other two people. They were about the same age and voice, but were extremely skinny, with old clothes serving as beds underneath them.
The guard threw a wooden bowl at Little Smoke's feet, and then filled it with a lump of paste.
"This is your bowl. If you lose it, eat it with your hands."
He saw that the guards gave different portions to the young man and the man. The young man only had half, while the man had a full portion. Broken bowl in front.
The guard with the light and the dining car left, and the only sound left in the dark cave was the sound of breathing and swallowing.
Little Small picked up his portion and poured it into his mouth. As for the smell... I can only say it's not that smelly.
“Why do they hit me the most?” Little Small remembered the details he had observed before.
"Because you are new here, they will give the newcomer three days to adapt."
"You two have different weights."
"Because I dig more mines than he does." "More."
Their food is determined by the ores they dig every day. The more ores they dig, the more food they are given. It is said that a lucky miner once dug up a gem. Not only was he rewarded with a large sum of money, but he also regained his freedom.
Little Smoke didn't believe it, he preferred to believe that this was the bait used by the mine to catch them and make them work hard. "Have a good rest. No matter what you do outside, you are just firewood here." The young man's self-destructive words emerged from the darkness.
"Firewood?"
"You will die after burning it."
He didn't even say his name, and soon he heard a snoring sound.
The man was still asleep. He said his name was Jeremy, and he was caught and sold by gangsters like Little Small. The young man's name is Rabbit. Unlike others, he came here on his own.
"Myself?"
The rabbit's snoring disappeared.
"His mother was seriously ill and had no money for medical treatment. Rabbit heard somewhere that coal mines could make a lot of money, so he ran over a few days ago and was caught."
Jeremy soon fell asleep too, and kindly gave Little Small a "bed".
Little Smoke didn't sleep. He sat on his old clothes and realized that the people here were all poor people like him.
The mission given to him by Francois is to find Elder and develop the Blade of Freedom.
I and Babu were caught in the mine when they arrived. They couldn't find Elder, but they could develop the Freedom Blade here...
A new day, or late at night , the guards knocked on iron pieces to wake up the miners. Little Small took advantage of the free food for the first three days after arriving, running around and interacting with slave miners.
When it was time to rest, he divided his food into three portions and gave them to Jeremy and the rabbit.
“What are you doing for me?” Rabbit was stunned.
"Your mother is still waiting for you outside...Don't you want to get out alive?"
After a while, a sniffling sound sounded in the darkness: "Why don't you want to, but how can we get out...You put it You gave it to me, what should you do?”
“I’m not hungry.”
“Let’s lie, you are thinner than me.”
Xiao Si. Mo didn't answer, but instead said: "Do you want to hear my story?"
"Aren't you like us?" Jeremy said.
"Earlier...at that time I was a member of the Salted Fish Gang."
Jeremy and Rabbit listened attentively at first, but as a result, their mouths grew bigger and bigger.
“Is this the story you heard from the bard?”
“No, it’s all true. The old man I asked after I woke up was Lame Babu.”
Rabbit became excited: "Can you really take us out!?"
"Why not? Our Freedom Blade can even occupy a city-state peacefully. But I need your help."
Rabbit quickly asked: "How can I help?"
Little Small imitated Francois's confident tone and said: "There are more than fifty people in this mine, and I want to unite these people."
……
Small's search for someone on the first day worked. When offered to come to their cave tonight to discuss how to mine efficiently, no one refused.
The guards left after delivering the food, not caring what the slave miners were doing in the mines.
Late at night, fifty-three miners came over in the dark, many of them. They may not be interested in what Little Small said, but they never want to be abandoned deep in the mine alone.
So many people gathered together, it actually made the cave feel a little warm.
“We don’t know each other yet, why don’t we introduce how we got in first? Jeremy, you go first.”
(End of this chapter)