“Since it was a gold mine, why was it abandoned completely?”
Xu Xiake didn't understand what was going on.
Song Siyuan chewed her teeth and explained to the two of them: "It's not that it's abandoned, but that the gold mine is exhausted. If the output cannot make up for the input, it will definitely be abandoned, especially when mining gold mines for the royal family. They don't skimp on manpower and material resources. To produce more gold, if you spend a lot of material resources but cannot collect more gold and stones, the gain will outweigh the gain."
"Look at this gold mine. Such a big mountain has been completely hollowed out. There is no way that there is still a gold mine. There may only be some scraps left. It is not worth spending a lot of money to search for and smelt. It is better to find more abundant reserves. gold mine.”
"It is also because of this that this place has been abandoned for two to three hundred years. It is possible that Kong Deshun accidentally discovered this place when he was escaping, and then used greedy people to dig out the remaining gold mines. Such a guess is not impossible."
Before Song Siyuan finished speaking, the miserable and plaintive meowing continued. The three of them came to find out what was going on, so they simply headed deeper into the cave.
When we reached the end of the river bank, we could see a row of pavilions half embedded in the grotto. The windows and doors of the two-story pavilions were closed, as if something was whimpering and wailing inside, or even crashing against the door.
"This should be the dormitory of those craftsmen. There must be something locked inside." Song Siyuan walked up the stairs to the second floor. They were shocked by the things locked in the house.
Tsk tsk tsk~
These houses are full of imprisoned wild cats. Most of them have chains around their necks and are locked to the beams and pillars of doors and windows. They are the ones who make that miserable meow.
"Why did Kong Deshun tie up so many wild cats here~"
Yue Guanchao knocked on the door and window and saw that the wild cats had gathered together and looked at the three of them with tears in their eyes.
Song Siyuan picked up the flashlight and shined it indoors. She always felt that the eyes of these cats were different from other wild cats. When she looked at the companions around her, she realized what was wrong. Her heart trembled and she took a few steps back.
"What's the matter, are you even afraid of wild cats?"
Song Siyuan looked at him with fearful eyes and said in a trembling tone: "Yue Guanchao, these are not wild cats, they are made animals. They are probably the wild cats that Kong De successfully used the art of making animals. Look at their eyes, the pupils of felines. Most of them are cocoon-shaped and come in any color, from yellowish brown to turbid and white, but they definitely don’t have round pupils and whites. These are clearly children’s eyes.”
After this reminder, Yue Guanchao and Xu Xiake observed carefully and found that their eyes were indeed what Song Siyuan said. These cats may have also noticed that they had discovered the situation, meowing constantly and crying sadly.
"I feel that the virgins they sacrificed were not killed at all. They should have been made into animals by him. He even stole other people's children to make animals. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain the hundreds of animals with different fur colors. Where cats come from.”
"This old beast has done such a great evil, no wonder he wants us to die."
Yue Guanchao said harshly.
Song Siyuan slapped the window, feeling extremely sad: "We have to rescue all these children. Twenty or thirty years have passed. If these children can exist for such a long time, Kong Deshun must have used some secret medicine. If we don't save them, what will happen to them?" I don’t know how I will be tortured.”
"What if these are also Kong Deshun's tricks? If we let them go, and these cats attack us again, it will be troublesome."
After experiencing the lynx incident, Xu Xiake had to be more cautious.
"You're right. Before I let them go, I have to make sure they still have human consciousness~"
Song Siyuan opened the window and looked at these tearful wild cats: "Do you know who you are? Are you humans or cats?"
As soon as these words came out, these wild cats looked around and nodded towards Song Siyuan, obviously hearing what she said.
"Okay, now that you understand what I'm saying, push yourself up on your legs and don't get down on all fours."
Song Siyuan understood that the oldest of these cats was at least twenty years old. If they had not been human for such a long time, their psychology might have changed a long time ago. She even mistakenly thought that they were beasts. The purpose of telling them to walk upright was to awaken the minds of these cats. Deep memories of people so that they can feel that they are living people again.
Her request was obviously difficult for these cats and animals!
The confusion in their eyes cannot be concealed, but it is clearly revealed through their pupils. For them, the memory of people in their minds may be that they were held in the arms of their parents when they were children, and then were sent as children. They had neither been spoken to nor treated as human beings in the past twenty years. They were suddenly asked to stand on their legs, and they were obviously a little overwhelmed. They raised their hooves several times and quickly lowered them.
"Don't give up. As long as you are rescued, you may return to your parents. If you give up, you will really become a cat."
After Song Siyuan finished speaking, these children could clearly feel the emotion in her words. After whimpering and meowing, they gradually returned to the voices of human children.
They were like babies toddling for the first time, raising their hooves and slowly raising their bodies. As more and more wild cats stood upright, they gradually returned to normal.
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