Later, accompanied by several people, Xu Ye arrived at the back mountain of Beiming Stronghold. This mountain covers an area of several thousand meters. It is not that huge, and it is impossible to have endless gold minerals.
At the entrance of the mine, a bloated middle-aged man sat behind a desk.
There was a long queue in front of the desk, and in the queue were mostly miners with dirty clothes, carrying bamboo baskets and holding iron pickaxes. There were both men and women, some were in their teens and some were in their fifties.
old man.
If you want to survive in the apocalypse, you have to work hard and work. What you fear most is not suffering and tiredness, but the lack of opportunities for suffering and tiredness.
These people are ordinary people. They can still get enough food by working as miners here. They are much happier than the survivors who are struggling to survive in the abandoned cities.
In their backpacks are pieces of ore of different colors. These ores are a mixture of iron and rock and must be refined to produce gold.
The miners handed the ores to the middle-aged man one by one, and the staff at the Beiming stronghold on one side put the ores on a weighing instrument.
"It weighs five kilograms and can be exchanged for five food stamps." The middle-aged man glanced at the number displayed on the instrument and took out a paper stamp from the drawer.
These are the official food stamps of Beiming Stronghold. With five food stamps, you can withdraw five taels of rice or other food of equal value in the city.
The miner's eyes widened: "Impossible. I dug this from the second level of the mine. How can it be worth only such a small amount of food stamps?"
The middle-aged man rolled his eyes: "Do you want love or not? This is what is displayed on the machine. The machine cannot make mistakes. If you don't want it, just forget it and get out of the way immediately so as not to delay the people behind you!"
The middle-aged man's eyes narrowed, and a chill enveloped the miner, "You have to pay a price for slandering me!"
The miner gritted his teeth, knowing that he could not do anything to this middle-aged man, who was an awakened person, so he could only grab the food stamps on the table and left without saying a word, carrying the bamboo basket on his back.
Ordinary people like them work hard every day just for the food that can't even fill their stomachs. They are like walking zombies every day. Even so, they are still much safer than the soldiers who have to fight monsters. How can this be in the apocalypse?
It’s not a kind of happiness.
"Hurry up later, I have to rest after I finish my work!" the middle-aged man shouted loudly. Although he is an awakened person, he holds such an insignificant position. Although he has little power,
But here, too, there is a turkish emperor-like existence.
"You bastard are exploiting them again!" At this time, someone came over from a distance. This was a rather tall young man with anger on his face. He was Wang Beixing.
"It's your boy..." The middle-aged man's face darkened when he saw Wang Beixing, and he shouted angrily: "Where were you yesterday? Why didn't you work in the mine? I have to teach you a lesson..."
The middle-aged man could not continue talking because he saw several other people next to Wang Beixing. Among them, he did not recognize the young man in black, but he did know the other two.
"General Yu, General Fei, you...why are you here?" The middle-aged man felt a sudden shock in his heart. He never expected that such a big shot would come to such a place.
Ferrero looked at Wang Beixing curiously: "Do you know him?"
Wang Bei
After Wang Beiming became the leader, he immediately wanted to execute his younger brother, but Ferrero and others did not do so because of the old leader's reasons, and instead let him temporarily hide in the hollow.
Wang Beixing worked in the mine every day. In order to avoid being discovered by Wang Beiming, he did not dare to reveal his identity, so he was often bullied by this middle-aged man.
After hearing Wang Beixing's story, Yu Tiansheng looked directly at the middle-aged man with cold eyes: "I will go to the Criminal Law Department later to explain my crime and then receive the punishment."
"I... am a general." The middle-aged man's expression dropped. He couldn't understand why such a big shot would come to such a place to take care of such a trivial matter. He could only admit that he was unlucky.
The others were very happy to see that the middle-aged man seemed to be finished playing.
"Sir...this Wang Papi always exploits us, you must make the decision for us!" Someone shouted from the side.
Yu Tiansheng waved his hand and said calmly: "You can respond to the managers here yourself, there is no need to tell us.
"How can Yu Tian not care about these ordinary people, because they have no way of affecting the Beiming stronghold. Now that he has so many things to deal with, how can he be in the mood to care about such a small matter.
"General Yu, General Fei, why are you two here?" After a while, another man ran over and said with a smile.
Yu Tiansheng pointed at Xu Ye and said: "This is Mr. Xu. You must meet all his requirements. You must give him as much gold as he wants unconditionally."
The man was the person in charge of the mine. He was surprised when he heard this. His eyes when he looked at Xu Ye changed completely. He knew that he was not an ordinary person. He nodded repeatedly: "Okay, I understand."
Ferrero glanced at Xu Ye again and said: "Beixing, please stay with Mr. Xu first. We still have things to deal with. If anything happens, we will send someone to pick you up later."
"Okay, Uncle Fei." Wang Beixing nodded. He understood that what they had to deal with was to establish him as the new city lord.
"Please come with me." The man took Xu Ye and Wang Beixing into a warehouse.
The warehouse was opened, and there were all kinds of ores inside, most of which were iron ores.
Xu Ye glanced around. There were countless iron ores in this place, but Xu Ye was still not satisfied. What he wanted was gold, and these iron ores were not of much use to him.
Xu Ye looked at the man and asked, "Is there no gold ore here?"
The man was quite hesitant, but remembering Ferrero's previous instructions, he gritted his teeth and said, "Please come with me here."
The man took Xu Ye to a corner. There were two large boxes in the corner. The man stepped forward and opened the box, and dazzling light radiated from it, illuminating the corner.
When he saw the pieces of gold in the box, Xu Ye's eyes were filled with surprise. Isn't this exactly what he wanted?
Stepping forward and observing for a moment, the surprise in Xu Ye's eyes calmed down again. It was a bit lacking.
"That's it?" Xu Ye looked at the man and asked.
"Not enough?" The man smacked his tongue when he heard the words, "These two boxes were dug from the deepest place. Ordinary people can't get into that place at all. They must be dug by the awakened ones."