Qi Ning thought that this minion might be the young men missing in the village before, but the minion said, "The little man originally lived by the Huai River and lived with a group of brothers to sell some private salt!"
Qi Ning was stunned and thought to himself that this guy used to be a salt dealer.
"When the Qinhuai War broke out, refugees were everywhere, and business was not easy to do." The minion said: "We kept getting salt from the Dongqi people. Later, the private salt merchant told us that there was a good deal and he would make sure to make a profit and asked us if we were to do it."
“What business?”
"He said he helped us find a job for us, five taels of silver a month, and we don't have to worry about food and accommodation. We can save sixty taels of silver a year." The minion said: "But the construction period is five years. After five years, we will pay another one hundred taels of silver. In five years, we will only buy four hundred taels of silver. Even in the capital, we can buy a house. We can't continue to do private salt work. If we have such a good thing, we naturally accept it happily. So we have a group of about ten people, under the arrangement of the private salt merchant, got on a boat. After we went up, there were already sixty or seventy people there, and then we went all the way to this island."
Qi Ning was even more alert and asked, "You mean, many people on this island were recruited by Dongqi's private salt merchants?"
"My boat of 60 or 70 must have been hired by private salt merchants." said the minion: "After I went to the island, I was separated. Then the people on the island warned us that there were no many questions or words on this island, and I would do whatever I wanted. The five-year construction period had not arrived, so no one would think of leaving." A trace of fear appeared between my eyebrows: "If anyone wants to escape without permission, he would be severely punished. Two months later, two people could not stand the life on the island, wanted to escape, but were caught, and then in front of us, the two were chopped hands and feet, and they waited until the blood was dry before they died. Only then did everyone realize that they were powerful and no longer dared to think about it."
However, Qi Ning was shocked. It was not that the punishment methods on this island were so cruel, but that the island was actually related to the people of Dongqi.
He thought the minions were robbed villagers, but now it seems that they were deceived into the island. If the island was controlled by the Jiang family, and the minions on the island were provided by the Dongqi people, that is to say, the Donghai Jiang family had a private connection with the Dongqi people.
If this is true, the situation will be very serious.
Among the minions, Qi Ning pondered and urged her courage to whisper: "Uncle, the villain who should say everything has said, and I also ask you to give me the antidote!"
Qi Ning snorted coldly, took back the Han Blade, pointed to the corpse lying on the ground, and said lightly: "Take off his clothes outside."
The minion was stunned, not knowing Qi Ning's intention, Qi Ning's face darkened. The minion did not dare to disobey, so he could only go over and quickly remove his companion's clothes. Then he turned around and looked at Qi Ning, but found that Qi Ning was standing behind him like a ghost.
"As long as you are obedient, I promise you can live a long life." Qi Ning whispered: "Carrying this body and throwing him into the canyon, aren't you very good at doing such things?"
The minion felt a chill, but he still honestly carried his companion's body and went straight to the edge of the canyon. At the edge of the cliff, he pushed his companion's body into the canyon. The canyon was extremely deep, and the corpse fell without any sound.
When he came back, he found that Qi Ning had already changed into the clothes of his companion. He was a little surprised. He looked at Qi Ning's face and found that it was a face of about 40 years old. He was secretly surprised. He just heard Qi Ning's voice, but he was only in his early twenties, but he didn't expect that he was so old. Naturally, he didn't know that in this moment, Qi Ning not only changed into clothes, but also put on a mask. The mask given by Zhong Ya was extremely practical and extremely simple to use, and it won Qi Ning's heart.
"You lead the way, I'll go in and take a look." Qi Ning smiled slightly: "If everything goes well, I will naturally give you an antidote within four hours. If you feel that you don't want to live, I can't do anything."
The minion said in surprise: "You are going in?" and said in a hurry: "Master, I advise you to leave earlier. The island is full of their people. Once you are discovered, you can't run away even if you want to."
"You are nothing more than worrying that I will be caught by them, and you will be implicated." Qi Ning sneered: "So you'd better pray that I can come out smoothly and not be discovered by them."
The minion had no choice but to think that this man was so brave and didn't know where he came from. Seeing Qi Ning's mouth at him, he could only go over and lift the stretcher in front. Qi Ning lifted it up from behind and said in a deep voice: "Let's go!"
The two carried the stretcher and walked along the trail. The minion was uneasy, but Qi Ning was extremely calm.
While moving forward, Qi Ning observed the movements around him. After walking for a short while, he turned to another weedy path. There was a stone wall next to it. After walking less than twenty steps, he reached a big rock. The minion stopped and looked back at Qi Ning. Seeing Qi Ning's eyes staring at him coldly, he did not dare to hesitate anymore, he picked up a stone from the ground and knocked it three times.
After three sounds, a creaking sound was heard, and the rock actually started to move, moving away to the side like a sliding door, and soon a black hole appeared.
Qi Ning saw it, but was quite surprised. He knew that this must be a mechanism.
The art of mechanism is definitely an extremely exquisite and complex technology. It is not easy to form a channel within the mountain and lay down the mechanism. It not only requires sufficient financial and human support, but also requires extremely high-end technology that is hard to come by.
The manpower and material resources invested in being able to build such a huge fortification on Haifeng Island is of course an extremely large number of words, and the evil intentions contained therein are even more shocking.
The East Sea Navy was stationed in the East Sea for many years and often sent warships to patrol the sea, but she knew nothing about the movements on the island. Qi Ning really didn't know whether it was the incompetence of the East Sea Navy or the master behind the island was too capable.
The two of them carried the stretcher and entered the entrance of the cave. The corridor inside was quite wide, and each of them had a fuel lamp several feet.
The oil lamp was in a daze, and the shadow reflected was also erratic. There was a little cold air in the corridor. After a while, three forks appeared. The minion didn't look at the other two corridors. He turned straight and walked along the corridor for a while. However, Qi Ning saw other corridors appearing from left to right from left to right from time to time. He was even more surprised. The passages inside the mountain looked like spider webs, crisscrossing. If someone who was not familiar with the path would easily lose his direction in it.
After walking forward for a while, he suddenly heard the sound of footsteps and several figures came towards him. Qi Ning used the dim lights to find that the people who came were all wearing short shirts and shorts, but they were covered with black cloth scarves on their faces. He lowered his head slightly. The people approached. The man in front of him said to the minion in front: "Hurry up, the ghost bell rings, hurry up and go to the Ghost King Hall to gather." Without saying much, the few people hurried over.
The minion was stunned. Qi Ning was about to ask, but several people came out of the corridor not far ahead, all covered in masks, and their steps were in a hurry. At this moment, a "ding-ding-ding" ringtone rang, but came from above. Qi Ning looked up and found that there was an exquisite bell hanging above not far ahead. At this time, the bell was shaking gently, but the sound was very crisp.
The people passed by again in a hurry, and they didn't even look at Qi Ning, and they seemed very hurried.
The minion in front accelerated his speed, walked forward for a while, turned into a corridor, and then turned into a narrow stone house. Qi Ning saw two stone beds in the house, which were very simple, with bedding on it, and an oil lamp was lit in the corner, and a smell of mold was emitted from the house. The minion put down the stretcher, then turned around and said with a bitter face: "Uncle, we are going to the Ghost King Hall. If it doesn't take a long time, then that's not a joke."
"Ghost King Hall?" Qi Ning frowned and said, "What happened just now?"
"The villain doesn't know. When the Coco ghost bell rings, something big happened." The minion lowered his voice: "I'm afraid someone will die again!"
"dead?"
But the minion took two masked towels from the box in the corner and handed them to Qi Ning: "Uncle put them on first, let's go there quickly. There are many people there, only no one to count them. You pretend to be Huanggang, and you are the dead guy, no one will recognize him."
Qi Ning said "Oh", took the masked scarf, covered her mouth and nose, and asked in a low voice: "Does everyone have to mask?"
"The villain said before that there are seven or eight teams here, each performing their own duties. No one can ask each other or talk together on weekdays." The minion explained: "When the gathering, they are covered with it, and people from other teams are not allowed to see their faces. Since the Ghost King has given this order, we can just listen to him."
"Who is the Ghost King?"
The minion said, "It's the owner of this island, but he rarely sees him on weekdays, unless it's a major matter, he doesn't often appear." He said, "At this time, I don't know what happened." He dared not delay, quickly left the stone chamber, turned around and saw that Qi Ning was thinking, and greeted him, and then Qi Ning followed.
When passing through the corridor, there were stone chambers on both sides from time to time. Qi Ning knew that this place should be where the group of people lived. There were six or seven stone chambers on the left and right of the corridor, one room and two people lived, and more than ten people lived.
The smell here is turbid. Although there are oil lamps hanging on it every other section of the way, it still looks dim and unclear. After five or six steps, the other person's face will be blurred.
Chapter completed!