Late at night, the three people in Ziyang slept soundly, not waking up from the cold because the fire went out.
At this moment, the snoring in the ruined temple suddenly stopped. The sloppy man suddenly opened his eyes, yawned and leaned against the wall, staring at Ziyang for a long time.
Bang!
The door of the ruined temple room was kicked open by someone, and the loud noise woke up the three people in their sleep. The four people, including the sloppy man, all turned their attention to the door of the room.
I saw a man wearing an ermine robe and carrying a machete on his shoulder standing at the door. He glanced at everyone in the temple and said, "Bah! It's really unlucky. After waiting for a long time, four poor ghosts came. It's really disappointing."
After hearing the words of the man in mink robe, the mystery in Zhufeng's heart was finally solved.
The people who poisoned him must be these bandits in front of him, and the firewood in the temple must have been manipulated by them in advance, otherwise he would not be poisoned and they would not come here.
Jia Juesheng said with an ugly face: "It's over, it's over. I told you not to let you enter the ruined temple, but you just didn't listen. Now it's good, we're finished!"
Zi Yang looked normal and replied with a smile: "We have no money and no power, so they won't do anything to us."
Jia Juesheng's face turned pale, and he immediately turned his head and ignored him.
The man in the mink robe turned to the men in front of him and said impatiently: "Take them away, take them away."
After that, several people dressed as bandits rushed in from outside the door. They tied the limbs of Ziyang and others with thick iron chains and took them out of the ruined temple one by one.
"Take these four people to Mine No. 10. Tell Pei Yuan to speed up mining the veins, otherwise he, the owner of Mine No. 10, should be replaced." After saying that, the man in mink robe dropped a few coins in the snow. After picking up the spiritual source stone, he left alone.
The remaining bandits escorted the four people out of the ruined temple. The formation in the snow was already activated, and red and blue lights reflected each other.
"What is this?" Ziyang stared at the formation and asked curiously.
Jia Juesheng said calmly: "A formation, to be precise, it is a teleportation formation."
"Hey. This kid is quite knowledgeable." A bandit was very surprised. Before this, they had escorted many people to various mines, but no one knew that the formation in the snow was a teleportation formation.
Another bandit urged: "Whether he understands the formation or not, our mission is to take these four people to Mine No. 10, and the rest is not our responsibility."
The red and blue light gradually dimmed, and a bandit said hurriedly: "The energy of the Spiritual Source Stone is running out, let's get on the road quickly."
Several people nodded heavily, pushed the four Ziyang people into the formation, and in the blink of an eye, they had disappeared.
With the ground shaking under their feet, several people stayed in the invisible void for a few breaths, and appeared in another teleportation array in front of a hidden mountain gate.
Jia Juesheng looked up at the cliffs on both sides, "Use several spiritual source stones to activate the formation, and the transmission time is so short, I guess this place should not be far from the ruined temple."
"What an interesting teleportation array. Can I try it again?" Zi Yang looked at the bandit with excitement.
Jia Juesheng and Zhu Feng looked at him expressionlessly. The sloppy man's mouth moved slightly, but there was no obvious change in his face.
The bandits laughed loudly after hearing this. One bandit laughed loudly and said: "Try again? What is he talking about? He actually wants to try again."
"You can only mine here for the rest of your life. I'm afraid you won't have the chance to try again." A bandit couldn't help but laugh.
Facing the ridicule of the bandits, Ziyang walked to Jia Juesheng's side calmly and whispered: "I will try it again if I have a chance. The feeling of standing on top of the teleportation array."
Jia Juesheng said with a sad face: "You have no chance."
"Why?" Ziyang asked in surprise.
Zhufeng explained helplessly: "The chains tied to our hands and feet are not ordinary iron chains. They can not only restrain our hands and feet, but also block the watershed."
Zi Yang was very confused and said: "Sealing the watershed?"
"To put it simply, once you are locked by this iron chain, you will not be able to use your fluid power for the rest of your life. Unless..." Zhufeng glanced at Ziyang with a wry smile.
"Unless what?!" The sloppy man suddenly came over.
A bandit sneered and said: "Unless you are a strong person above the reincarnation realm, no one will break free from the shackles of this iron chain."
"Stop talking nonsense to them. Take them in, take them in." A bandit coughed and said urgently.
Mine No. 10
There are ten floors above and below, like a deep well, and it is a large open-pit mine.
On each of the first nine floors, there were people holding shovels and pickaxes to mine veins, and there were people pushing wheelbarrows to transport them back and forth.
Only the tenth floor at the bottom is empty, which is why bandits have been catching people frequently recently.
Mine No. 10 had just been excavated and was short of manpower. Apart from the mine owner, there were only five people with advanced cultivation levels in the entire mining area.
They hold blood-stained whips in their hands and are each responsible for two levels of mining areas. Once they find anyone who is lazy, they will be beaten to death.
On the rocking chair at the top of the mine, there was a man wearing a fur coat and holding a cattail leaf fan in his hand. This man was the owner of Mine No. 10, named Pei Yuan.
At this moment, he was lying on his back, head tilted, sleeping soundly on the rocking chair.
At this time, a servant with no realm of cultivation hurried over and said a few words in his ear. Pei Yuan sat up suddenly and wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand.
"How many people are there?" Pei Yuan asked with a grin.
The servant replied: "Five people?"
Pei Yuan cursed loudly: "Damn it! What the hell! Just ask me to step up the mining of the ore veins. It's been so long and I haven't even gathered the people for me."
"Mining! Mining! Mining is bullshit!"
"Sir, please lower your voice. If someone hears this, you will be in trouble." The servant whispered.
Pei Yuan's face turned pale and he said angrily: "What's so great about Guisan? Isn't he just relying on his brother-in-law's power to offend me, so I just gave up. Damn it!"
"Those adults are still waiting in the house. Do you think it is..." The servant understood Pei Yuan's temper and did not dare to directly tell him to go see him.
Pei Yuan lay on the rocking chair and said with a comfortable look on his face: "Just go and send them away for me. Just say that I am busy with official duties and have no time to pay attention to them."
The servant stood there with a look of embarrassment on his face and said: "This... this is not good."
boom!
Pei Yuan slapped the armrest of the rocking chair with his big hand and said in a cold voice: "What's wrong! How can someone who takes advantage of others' power deserve to see me? Even if their master Gui San comes, I won't see him."
"What are you still waiting for?! Go quickly!"
Not long after the servant left, two attendants came over carrying a deeply scarred old man.
Pei Yuan waved his hand, and the two followers nodded and left.
"Pay attention! How many times is this today? Ah! You guys have beaten this man to death, who will mine the veins for me?" Pei Yuan stood at the top and shouted loudly.
"Mine owner Pei is so majestic." A sarcastic voice came from behind.
Pei Yuan sat back on the rocking chair again and said with a sad face: "You have also seen that these are all old, weak, sick and disabled, and a few have to be carried out every day."
"To be honest, after you brought them in, there are still many people who haven't been carried out yet."
A bandit said: "Master Pei, what do you think of these five people?"
In addition to Ziyang, Jia Juesheng, Zhufeng, and the sloppy man, there is also a petite fish-man.
A blue body, a bald head, four big rabbit-like ears hanging on the back of the head, all blue, big green eyes shining like gems, the palms and soles of the hands and feet are exactly the same as those of a frog, and the height is exactly the same as that of a frog. Ziyang's waist level.
Ziyang would touch his big ears with his hands from time to time. They were slippery and very fun.
But the little fish-man always avoided him, his emerald-like pupils full of vigilance.
Pei Yuan said calmly: "These four people are okay. But the fish man is so skinny, can he mine the veins?"
The bandit smiled and said: "Mine Master Pei, one more person is better than none. Don't worry about whether he can mine the veins. If you don't accept it, I can take him away."
"Don't come here! I brought back five people from dozens of ruined temples, including a fishman. I don't have anyone in the tenth-level mining area. How much can these five people mine in a day?" Pei Yuan said with a cold face. road.
"Mine Master Pei, don't worry. These ten mines all need manpower right now. We can't bring them all to you." The bandit said with a smile.
Pei Yuan raised his head and was about to speak when the bandit hurriedly added: "Besides, this No. 10 mine is the smallest. Even if there are people, they must be sent to the previous mines first."
Pei Yuan was minding his own business, swinging the cattail leaf fan, and said: "You can leave if the people stay. Take them to the warehouse to get the spiritual source stone."
The servant nodded and led the way, and the bandits left together.
Not long after the bandit left, Pei Yuan cursed: "Bah! You bastard! You deal with me every day. Someone! Take me down here!"
After speaking, Pei Yuan turned and left.
A man holding a long whip took the five people away. The little fish man followed closely behind the man, turning his head and looking behind him from time to time, for fear of being touched by this strange human again.
When the man led them to the tenth floor of the mining area, he said coldly: "One hundred kilograms of mineral veins must be dug out every day, otherwise they will not be allowed to eat."
After the man left, the little fishman picked up the shovel on the ground and walked aside, working hard to dig out the veins.
Jia Juesheng and Zhufeng looked at each other and reluctantly picked up the iron tools on the ground. The sloppy man did not dare to hesitate and hurriedly started mining.
"Hey! Don't run away, come here and let me touch your ears." Ziyang walked over with a pickaxe in his hand and smiled.
The little fish man raised his shovel high and swung it at Ziyang. He turned aside and the shovel fell to the ground.
Zi Yang smiled slightly and said, "Don't be angry. I don't mean any harm, and I won't hurt you."
"That's right! Can you understand me?"
"You have such a big mouth."
"Are you mute? Why are you ignoring me?"
No matter what Zi Yang said, the little fish man remained silent from beginning to end, not even looking at him.
