Chapter 468: A gold mine shrouded in the haze of death
October 19th.
Rain, heavy rain, heavy rain poured down from the sky. The washing of rain revealed the true face of the mountains and fields shrouded in fog for many years.
There was silence in the gold mining village, and the garrison camp stationed one kilometer away to guard the gold mine was also filled with a tense and depressive atmosphere.
In the camp, the soldiers supervising the prisoner miners sat in their rooms one by one. Usually when it rained and work stopped, these people would talk and laugh, play cards, drink, smoke and play with the women invited by the gold mining village, but today
The camp was lifeless. There was no laughter, no singing, dancing and drinking. Even the soldiers who stayed in the same room stopped talking to each other.
Finally, a soldier in a dormitory spoke: "Have you heard? Five more died yesterday."
The mood of the other three soldiers in the same dormitory became even lower, and the shadow of death hanging over their hearts became heavier.
Since a large number of dead human skeletons were found under Mine No. 7 more than a month ago, people have been dying mysteriously in this gold mining area. All of these people are people who have entered the mine, and some of them are among their companions.
Some died suddenly in front of them, some seemed to have been deceived, and died from cruel self-abuse to their bodies, and many more died in bizarre ways.
Although five days ago, Warlord Shank agreed that all soldiers and prisoners would not enter the mines for the time being, the pace of death did not stop. Soldiers and prisoners were still dying suddenly in the camp every day, which made everyone feel sad.
They were all uneasy.
"If this continues, when will it end?"
"Perhaps only by leaving here can we stop dying."
"Get out of here, stop joking. The military governor has given orders that anyone who still tries to escape from here will be shot to death once caught."
The four of them sighed and lowered their heads again.
"Is it true that we just have to stay here and wait to die?"
"Of course we can't wait to die." A soldier said: "We have worked here for so long and earned so many gold coins. We can't just die here before we spend them. If you leave, you will die, and if you stay, you will die. It is better to stay here and wait.
Instead of slowly waiting for death to come, we might as well escape, maybe we still have a chance..."
The other three people looked at him with joy, because he said what all the soldiers here were saying. They were expecting someone to take the lead and lead everyone out of here. But at this moment, the three people found that the soldier who was speaking was suddenly stunned.
He didn't move there, and he didn't even finish his sentence in the middle of it.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?"
The soldier still stood there blankly without speaking, his eyes widened.
The three of them looked at each other and hid on their beds. They suddenly had a bad feeling in their hearts.
Sure enough, within a few seconds, the soldier who spoke suddenly fell to his knees trembling all over: "Ugh..." A large mouthful of extremely disgusting yellow viscous liquid was spat out from his mouth, and from time to time there were a few more
A pink soft worm accompanies it.
The three of them looked at the disgusting filth and soft worms, and felt sick in their hearts. Immediately they smelled an extremely bad sour and rotten smell. This sour smell was worse than rotten corpses, and it was like rotten corpses.
The body was soaked in gastric juice and suffocated for more than ten days.
The three of them hurriedly ran out of their dormitory. As soon as they went out, they couldn't hold it in any longer. They vomited out everything from today to yesterday.
When they came back to find their superior, they found that the soldier had fallen dead in a large pool of soft worm yellow liquid.
Outside the mine, Warlord Shank and several of his guards stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the place where waste rocks were piled in the mine below. At this time, a mountain of human bones more than ten meters high had been piled up here. From a distance, it looked white.
A piece of flowers.
Warlord Shank is a very burly man with big eyes, a big brown beard, a gold tooth crown on his head, and a very gorgeous golden battle armor on his body. A streak on his face starts from the corner of his left eye.
The long jagged scar that stretches below his right ear makes people feel fear and awe when they see him, especially the seven-meter-long golden whip in his hand. Countless people died under his whip.
As a sixth-level true knight, although his strength is not outstanding, he is a person of great status in the political circles of the Kingdom of Guiniz. He is not a native of the Kingdom of Guiniz, but a mainlander.
The leader of a tribe in the south. After the demise of the tribe, he wandered here as a mercenary and joined the regular army of the Kingdom of Guiniz. The reason why he is where he is today is because the current king relied on his help
He only ascended the throne after his death, so he was appointed to be responsible for controlling the economic lifeline of the Kingdom of Guiniz.
Brocken had already returned to the camp with dozens of his soldiers escorting the prisoners. He was also here at this time, accompanying the warlord Shank in the rain. He looked at the countless bones on the mountain: "I left ten
In just a few days, so many human bones were dug out unexpectedly, haven’t they finished digging yet?”
"Finished digging?" Warlord Shank said mockingly: "When the work stopped five days ago, I went down to see it myself. Compared with the bones piled up here in the mine, they are just the tip of the iceberg."
"I really can't believe how there are so many bones buried here, and they are all human bones." Brocken imagined it for a moment, and just imagining it made him break into a sweat: "Overseer, could this be
A huge cemetery?”
Warlord Shank said: "I don't know. It's just that the way these bones are stacked seems to have been deliberately piled up by someone. I feel like this is effective." He suddenly crushed the stones under his feet angrily and said: "You are the same.
, as my general, I actually lost the prisoner. I originally thought that with new manpower, I could let the soldiers and prisoners work in the mine again. Now I'm afraid it won't work. Do you know that if the miners stop working for one day, we will
How much is the loss?”
"I'm sorry, Lord Warlord. But this is not my fault. I don't know why there are giant dragons in our country of Guiniz." Brocken said: "But isn't there the team brought by Saxon?"
Warlord Shank said: "He only brought fifty soldiers and two hundred prisoners, and this month we have 173 soldiers and miners who died for no reason, plus the miners who committed suicide and were tortured to death.
The total number has exceeded 300, not including the Horned Demon and Grom we lost."
Brocken said: "This can't go on like this. If we continue to stop work, not only will we not be able to explain to the king, but other people who are jealous of us will definitely take the opportunity to criticize us. Warlord, why don't we stop digging that new vein and dig out the mine?"
If all the mines are filled up, maybe everything will be fine."
"It's useless." Warlord Shank said: "Those mines have been filled by our magicians with earth magic, but people are still dying every day."
Brocken said: "It seems that if this matter is not clarified and resolved, it will not end."
Warlord Shank suddenly made up his mind and said: "You are right. This gold mine has always been under our control and is our wealth. How can we let other people get involved in our interests? Go and call Saxon and let us discuss it. No matter what
How about it? This mining area must return to normal tomorrow. Even if more miners die and more soldiers die, I still want it to continue to operate!" He looked at the empty mines on the opposite mountain: "Isn't it just tens of thousands?
Hundreds of thousands of dead bones? I have killed so many people, why am I still afraid of you rotten bones that have been dead for countless years? I will dig up all of you and see what the hell these human bones are!"