A strange world

Chapter 953 Section 184. Seizing the Mine

Jeremy told the story of yesterday again.

Then it was Rabbit. His tragic experience made many miners laugh. There was no malice, but they just wondered how there could be such a stupid person.

Their stories aroused everyone's desire to talk. They briefly escaped from the digging day and night and recalled the life in the past, which was not good, but a hundred times better than the current bad situation.

Most of the miners were from Ize Bay. Some of them were sold in, some were captured, and some were lying, but everyone participated excitedly and loudly, without even a snore.

Finally, they asked the only one who didn't.

"What about you?"

Little Smo, who had been prepared for a long time, began to talk about the Free Blade, the Free City, and the Kingdom of Rakan, but these were too far away from the miners in the mine, so Little Smo told those Free City stories.

The miners laughed and laughed at the Free City people for being so kind and stupid that they could definitely fill the mine here. They laughed at morality as the most useless thing in the world, and then one person secretly wiped his tears.

"I'm here to help you." Little Small said.

A voice rang out in the darkness: "Aren't you also captured!"

"Because I'm here for you."

Without light, no one could see Little Small's frailty, and his words were more convincing than ever: "I have a way to take you away. Join the Free Blade and return to the sun."

"Take me with you!"

"And me!"

These were the voices of Rabbit and Jeremy.

A few more sparse responses rang out in the darkness.

Only nine of the fifty miners made a decision.

Little Small was not surprised. Just like in "The Redemption of Betar", people who escaped from prison found it difficult to continue living, and he was the same at the beginning.

Habit is the most terrible thing in the world.

That night, Little Small and the other three lived in the same cave with the nine miners who joined the Free Blade to keep warm together.

After a night's rest, the miners dragged their tired bodies to get up amid the knocking sounds and went to the cave entrance to line up for pickaxes and oil lamps.

The weather outside seemed to be very bad, and the wind pouring into the mine was particularly cold...

The miners wrapped themselves tightly in tattered clothes, numbing their active hearts with such thoughts. When it was Little Smo's turn to receive the reward, the guard suddenly took away the oil lamp as soon as he stretched out his hand.

"What did you do last night?"

Little Smo was slightly stunned, lowered his head and said, "My father used to be a miner, and I discussed with them how to mine faster, sir."

"You dare not have any bad thoughts..." The guard snorted coldly and let go of his hand.

The miners were hard to eat, and without weapons, they could not beat the strong guards who were wearing leather armor stripped from the dead.

Carrying the oil lamp and dragging the pickaxe, Little Smo went into the warm mine.

...

Dang-dang-dang-

The pickaxe hit the stone, splashing sparks.

Nove was so tired that he was unconscious. He was trying to distinguish whether it was the pickaxe or himself who was chiseling on the stone.

The basket beside him only contained a few pieces of coal. In addition to the reverberating knocking sound, the story that Little Small told last night was firmly entrenched in his mind.

"Your relatives are still waiting outside. Do you want to die quietly in the dark mine, or burn yourself to your heart's content?"

The words rang in Nof's mind like thunder. He was stunned there, suddenly threw away the iron pick, and ran to Little Small's cave.

When he arrived, he found that he was not the first person to run.

"I want to join the Free Fist!" Nof shouted and squeezed over.

"It's the Free Blade." Little Small said with a smile.

At night, the miners gathered in Little Small's cave again and continued to listen to the story.

In front of all the miners, Little Small demonstrated the mutual help of the Free Blade: Jeremy volunteered to pour the extra paste in his bowl to the rabbit, and Little Small also divided the food in his bowl to the least person.

After tonight's story, the number of members of the Free Blade reached 20, almost half of the miners.

These people worked together, and no longer had to worry about the coal they dug hard being taken away. Everyone no longer kept their own interests and contributed the mines they knew that had coal.

Little Smo secretly poured out the oil and torches from the oil lamps, so that the miners could enjoy the light even during their rest time.

And because a lot more coal was mined, the guards turned a blind eye and allowed this group of people to form gangs. They saw coal and gave food, that's it.

When the number of miners who joined the Free Blade approached 40, it seemed to break a certain balance. The remaining miners were afraid of being left behind and rushed to join the Free Blade.

When all the miners joined the Free Blade, Little Smo announced that he planned to lead them to escape within ten days.

Because there were too many people, they divided into two caves to rest, so that they would not be crowded and the caves would not be cold.

In the dead of night, a faint rustling sound was heard in the darkness, covered by snoring. A figure quietly slipped out of the cave and moved towards the cave entrance——

"Where are you going?"

The sudden voice startled the figure, and then the torch lit up, revealing a group of figures and a panicked face.

"Catch him."

The miners behind Little Small rushed forward.

The man was quite strong, but so were the others, and they were soon pinned to the ground. He rolled his eyes in panic and said, "I'm going to the toilet, what are you doing!"

Their movements woke up the people who were still sleeping, and they all looked up.

Little Small looked at him calmly: "You were the one who snitched to the guard for the first time, right?"

"I...I don't know what you are talking about..."

"You're now going to go snitch a second time and sell us to the guards, aren't you?"

There was a rustling sound and the miners got up.

The man finally showed panic and pleaded: "I...I don't want to, but if I don't tell them, they will beat me to death..."

"traitor!"

The rabbit spat in the man's face.

Little Small continued: "Then you should know that if you tell them, we are the ones who will die..."

"I...I don't know...I don't want to..." the man said incoherently.

Looking down at the pleading man, Little Small's previous gentleness turned into coldness: "Betraitors should die. Who has any objections?"

The miners remained silent, and Little Small picked up a stone that could be seen everywhere, walked up to the man, and smashed it down hard.

"ah--!"

The man let out a miserable howl, and his forehead was bleeding profusely. Little Small handed the blood-stained stone to Jeremy expressionlessly.

"You're second."

"Me? I...I don't..." Jeremy stepped back.

"You don't even have the blood to kill a traitor, how can I believe that you can escape from the mine and rescue more people!" Little Small's shout echoed in the cave.

"I come!"

The rabbit grabbed the stone and threw it at the man. Then the third and fourth miner stepped forward...

The torch-lit cave echoed with waves of dull knocking sounds that were different from those of mining.