Pretend To Be a Boss

  Chapter 165 Song Que's Last Seven Days

(This part of the plot can be regarded as the foreshadowing. For the reading experience of the next chapter, I suggest that you do not pass this chapter~ Then, the protagonist will appear in the next chapter. It is also a very interesting chapter for this volume, but I really I can’t finish it, I can only post it tomorrow)

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Separation line~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

   Dark, damp, and cold.

   Even with scattered torches, it is difficult to see the bottom of the tiankeng clearly.

   How deep is the sinkhole, even the old people who live here and have been mining for 30 years don't know.

  They only know that in the past 30 years, there have been countless batches of people who led them to climb out of here.

  Some people drowned, some people were eaten because of their rebellious speech.

  Now leading them is a sixteen-year-old girl named Suzuki.

  Even if you are not from the country, you know that this surname does not exist.

   But no one asked much.

  Many people here, most of them have no surname.

  Because they are all outcasts in the family.

  There is no day and night in the sinkhole.

  Different from the fortress in memory, at the bottom of the tiankeng, known as the country of the abyss, there is no light difference between day and night like the fortress.

   This is an absolutely dark place where the sun cannot shine.

  People can only know the time through the messenger crows that bring food.

  According to the earliest people who came here, the messenger crow would bring food at noon every day. The messenger crow is also responsible for transporting minerals.

   Every once in a while, creatures like dragons will be seen hovering in the air, examining the prisoners like the warden of a prison.

   This is their fate, they must keep digging in the mine.

  This is deep underground, with the highest quality mineral resources, and a group of people who dig pits day and night, except for sleeping and eating.

   At the bottom of the deep pit, there is a huge pool of water.

  The water in the pool could not be drained, and the people who lived on the wall of the deep pit threw all the filth into the pool.

   Therefore, the water in the pool is extremely dirty.

  The entire bottom of the deep pit is also full of stench.

  Life is fragile. In a dirty environment, many people start to get sick. All kinds of weird diseases, some even contagious.

  People here have been afflicted by diseases on a large scale several times.

  But life is tenacious, and the people at the top of the tiankeng don’t want all these miners to die, so they will use messenger crows to send some medicine regularly. As time went by, the group of people who survived became more and more adapted to this dirty environment.

  It's just a pool of water, but it's more than that.

  The Holy Land seems to be raining all the time, and people have no way of knowing why so much rain falls.

  The water level of the pool is constantly rising.

   Most of the people who came here thirty years ago have drowned, starved to death or died of illness.

   They were drowned because the water level of the pool rose faster than their mining speed.

  Since there was a water pool at the bottom, people had to start moving their living place from the huge flat land at the bottom of the deep pit to the cliff.

  The first group of people who arrived probably knew their own destiny, and they also knew that perhaps in the next few decades, or even hundreds of years, those of the same race without talent would be exiled to this place.

  So they dug a stone road along the spiral distribution of the cliff on the cliff.

   This stone path is not wide, and the width is more than four feet. The two standing side by side seemed a bit crowded.

  People standing on the stone road have a very small range of activities.

  But in the past 30 years, nearly 10,000 days, these people have lived on this narrow stone road for basic necessities of life.

  They had to keep digging stone roads, digging up along the cliff.

  Because the deep pool full of stench is constantly rising.

  The previous stone path was gradually submerged, and when the heavy rain came, people had to crowd on the stone path in the early four feet.

   But even so, the people in the lowest stone path will still be swallowed by the water level.

   Over time, the people who live here have a cruel but reasonable rule by default.

  People will start to arrange according to the amount of mining.

   Those who dig the most, that is, those who are physically strong, are mostly on the top stone road and are responsible for opening up.

  The least mining, that is, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, are mostly at the bottom of the stone road. Responsible for trimming.

  No one objected to this cruel survival rule.

  Although every time heavy rain falls and the water level soars, everyone has tears on their faces when they hear the cry of the people at the bottom of the stone path when they are drowned by the foul-smelling water.

  But in order to live like reptiles in such a ghostly place, they must constantly mine stone roads.

   Those who are physically strong also have the consciousness of pioneers.

  They know that only if they continue to mine, and the mining speed is faster, the people at the bottom of the stone path can have more ascent distance.

  …

  …

  A few years ago, when Suzuki first came here, she was one of the old, weak, sick and disabled.

  Going from the fort to such a ghostly place, she soon fell seriously ill.

   It was just a grandma in her fifties who saved her.

  Grandma was originally the doctor of the Holy Land Fortress.

   Every time the grandma relied on her strength, she survived when the water level soared.

  When a large-scale disease broke out, she also treated many people.

  People know how precious doctors are in this place, so they later gave grandma special powers. She doesn't need to mine, and she can stay on the upper stone path when the heavy rain falls.

  Her body can no longer swing the mining pick.

  Grandma also thought that she should find someone to inherit her medical skills.

   That day she watched Suzuki's neck being submerged by the dirty and smelly water in the pool.

  The water has soaked many rotting corpses, and the pool itself is also a container for all kinds of garbage. It is not surprising that people will get sick after being soaked in such water for a long time.

  Under the faint light of the fire, Grandma looked at the girl's stubborn face, and suddenly her heart softened, as if thinking of herself many years ago.

  People seldom save people, because the water level keeps rising, and the effort to save people is not as good as digging more stone roads.

   Otherwise, the rescuer and the rescued may all die in this dirty and smelly water.

   Suzuki survived after all.

  The serious illness was cured by the grandmother, and the grandmother also began to teach Lingyi medical skills.

  She originally wanted to find the youngest girl to be the heir.

  Because men can rely on strong physical strength to survive, but girls like Suzuki will face the fate of being assigned to the lowest stone path for a long time in the future.

  Suzui was a quick learner, and after overcoming her illness, she didn't stop digging just because she was the only doctor here in the future.

  Occasionally, there would be resentment on her face, and she would start waving the mining **** non-stop, and she acted ruthlessly like a boy.

  Some children who are as old as her all call Ling Yi the eldest sister.

   These people between the ages of fourteen and twenty are the people with the most right to speak in Shidao.

  In just four years, Ling Yi became the leader of these people.

  Grandma's health became worse and worse, and finally one day, in an unprecedented rainstorm, Lingyi was on the upper floor of Grandma's stone road, watching Grandma being submerged by the water level.

  Grandma's expression didn't show much pain, just regret and unwillingness.

  She had had enough of her life, and the stench was eating away at her old body before the water level was about to submerge her.

  Grandma raised her head, looked at Ling Yi above the stone road and said:

   "Thirty years, why can't you see the sun every time you look up?"

   This is Grandma's last sentence.

  With such regret, there is another unwilling soul at the bottom of the deep pool.

   That day, Suzuki cried to death, even the moment she was abandoned by her father, she never cried like that.

   It was also on that day that she finally became a person in the abyss and began to adapt to the rhythm here.

  The strong live and the weak die.

   This does not come from the confrontation between the strong and the weak, but from outside the sky. From the **** rain.

  Life and death are hard to let go.

   But if you are used to seeing too much life and death, you will eventually become numb.

   Every once in a while, whether it is the messenger crow or the dragon, they will bring newcomers and place them at the bottom of the stone path.

  The survival rate of newcomers is the lowest, because starting from a certain year, almost all newcomers are twelve-year-old children like Suzuki.

   When Suzuki is not mining, she will replace Grandma and check up some sick people.

  There were about 3,000 people on the stone road.

  Originally there were tens of thousands. But most of them were buried in deep pools.

   Suzuki couldn't walk along the stone path on the cliff to inspect everyone in one day, and it usually took nearly three months for 3,000 people to complete the inspection.

  Adults and old people are amazed at the vitality of this girl. Because of the four seasons of the year, Suzuki never stopped diagnosing.

  It is also because no matter how many responsibilities the doctor has, Suzuki digs a lot of mines every day.

  She seems to be the hardest working person here, and she often says to other children:

   "We are reptiles above the filth, but as long as we keep climbing, one day we will be able to climb to the place where the sun shines, right?"

   This is an unrealistic wish.

  Some people who have survived here for decades no longer believe that they will one day go out.

  But there are also some people who look at the bottomless pool and think that everyone has worked hard for decades, and maybe they have dug the stone road to a very high place.

  As long as everyone works hard, maybe they can build a road to the top in this deep pit.

  People believe so, maybe in five, ten, or twenty years, they will leave here one day.

  …

  …

  When the mine **** was wielding, Suzui liked to sing a song, she couldn't remember the lyrics.

   is humming. Some children of the same age hummed along.

   These songs are like horns, allowing their already sore arms to continue to swing the mining pick.

   "Sister, it seems that someone was thrown down today. I think he is still in a coma, and he is no longer the usual twelve-year-old child."

   "Really? This is very strange. Don't be lazy, I'll go and have a look."

  Listening to the words of a child at the bottom of the stone path, Suzui put down the mining **** in his hand.

  She just finished checking the health status of everyone on the entire stone path a few days ago, and recently she was able to spare some time to dig the stone path.

  Although the survival rate of newcomers is extremely low, Suzuki will still take care of it.

  Many people will feel very uncomfortable when they are exiled to the Abyss Kingdom.

  Visual discomfort, because it is too dark here, and it is difficult to see sunlight all year round.

   There is also discomfort in the sense of smell, because under people's feet is a pool where tens of thousands of rotting lives are buried.

  The more people there are, the faster the digging speed will be. Based on this idea, Suzuki will also give some explanations to the newcomers, which can be regarded as survival education.

  From many years ago, the newcomers who came to the bottom of the abyss were all twelve-year-old children.

  Lingyi looked at it, and found that this comatose man should be about the same as the person at the top of the stone path, in his early twenties.

   "I'm not sick, and I've never seen a person with such a healthy pulse." Ling Yi took the pulse and looked at this person curiously.

   This man has a very handsome face.

  Although the details cannot be seen clearly in the dark, the outline is enough to tell the general appearance of the person.

  Although the memory of the fortress stopped before the age of twelve, Suzuki still had some knowledge, and she was sure that this person should be someone of noble status.

  Clothing can be confirmed.

   Suzuki frowned, because at this time, it suddenly rained.

  People on the stone road immediately began to exclaim, and everyone began to stick to the cliff, preparing to take shelter from the rain.

   Suzuki was going to support the newcomer and walk up the stone path, but when he did so, he felt how heavy this person was.

   "Wake up quickly! Newcomer! The rain here is heavy, and it only takes a few hours to flood a layer of stone road!"

   Slapping the man's face, Suzuki's tone was a little anxious.

   Fortunately, at this time, the man woke up.

   This man is naturally Song Que.

  When consciousness recovered, Song Que first felt an unimaginable stench.

  The dim environment doesn't matter, as the eyes of the team, Song Que's eyesight is surprisingly good.

   "Are you awake? Come with me quickly, this place will be submerged in a while."

   Suzuki said loudly.

  The rain in the deep pit is very strange. But in just a few seconds, it started to become violent.

  Song Que finally woke up.

"where is this place?"

   "Holy Land. You have been exiled, if you want to survive, follow me!"

   Lingyi pulled Song Que, who was still a little dazed, and started to walk up the stone path on the upper floor.

  Every time heavy rain falls, people will crowd at the top of the stone path. Looking down from the upper floor of the entire stone path, there are densely packed people.

  The person at the bottom can only do one thing.

  It is to pray that the rain will stop soon, before the water in the pool overflows my nose.

  This is why people don't recommend saving people.

  Because to save someone, the position above the stone path will be vacated, and the people below will occupy this position in order to survive.

   This is also understandable.

   Fortunately, everyone was lucky this time.

  The rain is very strong, but it has been a long time since the last rain, and people have dug out a two-story stone road.

  The safety line is higher than ever. If the rain can stop within a few hours, it will soon be

  Ling Yi took Song Que along and hid in the lowest stone path.

  Song Que saw the water in the huge pool rising up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

  He was an extremely smart person, and soon understood what was going on.

  People continue to dig stone roads when the rain stops.

  When heavy rain falls, if the rain is light, the stone path will not be submerged, and people under the stone path will be able to survive.

   He frowned, looked at the pouring rain, and said:

   "This rain is not normal."

   "This is the mining area." Suzuki said.

   "Even in the mining area, there is no such heavy rain." Song Que said.

   Suzuki was stunned and asked:

   "Have you ever been outside?"

"Outside?"

   "It's just outside the tiankeng. We are now in a huge pit, do you understand?"

   Song Que watched the rain pouring down like a river, but when he looked up, he could still see the top of the tiankeng through the gap of the rain curtain.

  His balance eye can't see the details in the extreme distance like Ye Feng's extreme vision.

   But his eyesight is far better than ordinary people.

   "I understand, my vision can't see the end... The depth of this pit is really unimaginable."

  Suzuki said curiously: "As a person who came here for the first time, you have a strong ability to adapt to the dark."

   "I am a gifted person, and my ability itself is related to vision."

  When hearing the words "talented person", Ling Yi trembled and looked at Song Que with complicated eyes.

  Her tone suddenly turned cold:

   "It's so strange that the high-ranking species are also exiled here?"

  Feeling the hostility in Ling Yi's words, Song Que said:

   "I'm not high above you. Judging by your age, you should have been here for a few years, right?"

   "Do you know what's going on here?"

   "I'm not from the place where you stayed, but I just thought there was something wrong with that fortress. After I came to investigate, I discovered the secret of that fortress. I can understand your hatred for talented people."

   Suzuki didn't speak for a long time, and after a long silence, she said:

   "Wait for the rain to stop, anyway, you only have seven days to live."

   Song Kuang nodded.

  After seeing the abyss with no visible top and bottom, he knew that he could not escape from here.

  Suddenly there are only seven days left in his life. In this darkest pit in the world, Song Que is certainly regretful.

  But everyone is born with a destiny, and he was not negative for too long.

  The rain stopped quickly, and the water level rose to three meters below Song Que's feet.

   When the heavy rain stopped, Song Que could hear that in the deep pit, which was as empty as a canyon, many people breathed a sigh of relief, and some even cheered and expressed gratitude.

  Such a scene made Song Que feel the difficulty of this group of people.

  Maybe every heavy rain in the past will make some people stay here forever.

  In the dark pit, suddenly there was a ray of light like a silk thread.

  Suzuki said in surprise:

   "It's Xi Yu!"

  Her voice was loud, and after the people around heard it, their gazes fell on more and more silk-like rays of light.

   "It's Xi Yu!"

   "Sunyu!"

   More and more such voices resounded in the deep pit of Kuangkong.

  Song Que looked at the darkness above, there were rays of light constantly breaking through the darkness, but they were very subtle, like silk threads, or raindrops.

   "What is Xiyu?" Song Que asked.

  Suzuki leaned out happily. On the edge of the stone path, this action seemed very dangerous. She seemed to have completely forgotten about it, and just wanted to get closer to those lights.

"This is the darkest place in the whole world, but even here, the sun hasn't abandoned us. When the sun is facing the sinkhole, there will be about a quarter of an hour when the sun will penetrate the layers of darkness and come To us, even though it was so small when it arrived here, it was like the thinnest rain line. We call this scene the evening rain."

   Lingyi's explanation shocked Song Que. How deep is the hole for the sunlight to weaken to be like a wisp of rain?

   But even so, looking around, everyone on the stone road didn't care about the rain all over the ground. They all leaned out as much as possible, wanting to touch the sun.

  This scene deeply shocked Song Que, and he realized now that among this group of people, there were even people who hadn't seen the sun for thirty years.

  These rays of light, as thin as raindrops, are like the last ray of hope in these people's hearts, small, but they exist.

  It is obviously such a dim scene, and it is obviously just a few remnants of sunshine, but these people are eager to get close to it.

   A ray of light fell on Suzuki's forehead.

   Song Que felt sad for a moment when he saw Ling Yi's happy and contented smile.

  They... What kind of dark and twisted life are they experiencing?

   It is obvious that the person lives in the darkest, dirty and smelly corner, but his soul seems to have been washed by the evening rain.

   Originally, Ling Yi, who still hated the gifted, looked at Song Que with a showy smile, just like a little girl who bought the latest doll and wanted to show it to her best friend.

  In this scene, Suzuki, a ray of sunlight fell on her pale complexioned face. Song Que has seen many girls, but he couldn't describe this kind of beauty that reaches the soul.

   It's just that the evening rain is very short.

The sun slowly changed its position. Song Que watched the ray of sunlight move towards the tip of Ling Yi's nose slowly, and then slowly became thinner and thinner until it was invisible. There were tears in Ling Yi's eyes .

  She stared blankly at the sky and said:

   "One day, I will take them out of here."

  Song Que didn't speak.

   This possibility is too low, even talented people can't climb out of such a deep sinkhole along the cliff.

   It is an illusory goal for those who are not talented to do these things.

   "I will help you, although I only have seven days to live."

  Ling Yi was stunned, and the expression on his face softened a bit:

   "Here, you have to show your talents, otherwise they... probably won't like you very much. By the way, my name is Suzuki."

   Song Que was stunned.

   Those who can be met in the deep pit, and the age and gender are also suitable, and the one who can be called Lingyi can only be Mrs. Wu's daughter.

   "What's wrong? You look like you know me?"

   "No, this name sounds nice. My name is Song Que."

  Song Que did not tell Ling Yi about his experience. After seeing the scene here, he suddenly lost the will to help a broken family reunite.

  Whether Mrs. Wu is in pain or not, she has made a choice.

   And Lu Chao'an didn't feel guilty at all.

  They didn't know what kind of life their daughter was experiencing in this dark place.

   "Song Que? I seem to have heard of it somewhere. He seems to be a very famous person."

   "I don't have much time, I will try my best to help you build more stone roads."

   "You are very smart."

  Ling Yi was surprised that Song Que could find out what they were doing so quickly.

  Song Que said:

   "If you can, can you tell me something about what happened here?"

   "What do you want to hear? Most of the things that happen here are unfortunate things."

   "It doesn't matter, you just treat it as a request from a dying person. In return, I will spare no effort to help everyone survive the next heavy rain."

  …

  …

  Song Que's arrival was exactly as Ling Yi thought. After his identity as a talented person was revealed, everyone was full of hostility towards Song Que.

  On the first day, Song Que originally wanted to go to the top of the stone path and build the stone path as high as possible, but unfortunately the crowd did not cooperate with him.

  But on the first night, when people discovered that there were many more caves on the cliffs of the stone path that could hide from the rain, they all began to marvel at Song Que's ability.

  His physical strength and strength seem to be endless, and the mining **** in his hands is like a large machine that breaks through the rock formation. Song Que actually used his own strength to smash a lot of potholes on the cliff that are big enough for people to rest.

  Under Ling Yi's order, the people finally accepted that Song Que was responsible for leading the strongest young people to dig the stone road.

  On the second night, it usually takes a week to excavate, but with the help of Song Que, it was completed in one day.

   On the third day, most of these people who hated Song Que became friendly to Song Que.

  Because they have dug the stone road upwards for more than ten meters.

   Several layers of stone passages were excavated in two days, which was unimaginable in the past. Among the 3,000 people, there are only a few hundred people who can really play a role in digging.

  Song Que's ability is still higher than these hundreds of people.

  On this day, Song Que also heard a story told by Ling Yi. Except for the messenger crows who brought food, in fact, in the tiankeng, every few days, you can see a dragon-like creature patrolling.

  On the fourth day, Ling Yi and a bunch of children started working with Song Que.

  Song Que will ask them about things in the tiankeng.

   Also ask about some wishes of these children.

   Wishes are a luxury in this place, even if everyone's wish is to get out of here.

  Some people want to see the blue sky, even if they are swallowed by wild beasts in the mining area in the next second.

   Some people want to see the sun, want to see the real blazing sun.

   There are also people who want to wear clean clothes and eat good food.

  When Song Que asked Ling Yi, Ling Yi thought for a long time before laughing:

   "I just want to go out one day, I must fill this place."

   Song Que was stunned.

  He is a ten-talented person, the most qualified among the gifted persons, but in this dark pit, he found that what he can do is to delay the death of this group of people.

  He couldn't fulfill Suzuki's wish, and he couldn't even take Suzuki out of here.

   On the fifth day, it began to rain heavily. The heavy rain raised the water level of the deep pool by more than ten meters. Normally, many people would be submerged.

   But this time, no one suffered such suffering

  Lingyi and the other children finally no longer had to rest and sleep on the stone path to hide from the rain, they all hid in the stone cave dug out by Song Que.

  The days ahead were cloudy, and Song Que regretted not seeing Xi Yu.

   On the sixth day, the weather was still gloomy, and Song Que knew that his time was running out.

  Looking at the still-topless sky, he felt a sense of powerlessness.

  Maybe for a while in the future, these people don’t have to worry about being submerged in the abyss of skyrocketing, but it’s only for a while.

   On this day, Lingyi quietly saved his own food.

  The seventh day finally arrived.

  Song Que had never stayed in the mining area for so long.

  With his help, within seven days, the stone path was raised nearly a hundred meters.

  Song Que, one of the top ten talents, is the real chosen one. Although his ability is an auxiliary ability like the Eye of the Scale, in terms of physical fitness, he is also one of the best among the talents.

  It is powerful enough to face perfection-level creatures alone.

   The non-talented people are here, even if they are all added together, they can't compare to Song Que's efficiency.

  People are delighted because they are one step closer to the top of the tiankeng.

  Only Song Que, frowning.

   Time is too short, but even if they can survive in the mining area for a long time like them, they will definitely not be able to take them away.

  These more than 3,000 people will eventually die of old age here, and pass on this fantasy that seems to be able to dig out the light to the next group of people.

  Song Que really wanted to tell them that it was impossible for them to leave here.

  But I am already dying, so why bother to stifle the hope of others?

   On this day, Song Que sat quietly at the top of the stone path, waiting for death to come.

   is also waiting for something to appear.

  Ling Yi sat beside him, saying goodbye to Song Que for the last time.

   "I heard from the old man that after death, all pain will last forever." Ling Yi gave the food to Song Que.

  Song Que smiled and said, "So I want to be a hungry ghost? At least after death, there will be no pain of hunger?"

"Yes."

   "Thank you." Song Que did not refuse Ling Yi's kindness.

   "Do you still have any wishes? One day in the future, I will take them out, and I will help you realize it." Suzuki's tone was very gentle.

  Her demeanor is also very serious, as if one day, she will be able to take everyone away.

  But before she heard Song Que's answer, a violent dragon chant came.

  The dragon's chant knocked out countless echoes in the empty cliff, like the **** of death ringing a bell.

   "It's Jiaolong, let's go! Hide quickly!"

  After Lingyi's voice fell, many people on the stone path were trembling and crawling.

  Children and old people hid in the cave dug by Song Que.

   Ling Yi wanted to pull Song Que away, but Song Que didn't.

   "Hurry up! That dragon can eat people!" Ling Yi looked at Song Que puzzled.

  Song Que heard Ling Yi talk about this dragon.

  The messenger crow is responsible for delivering food and medicine, and this dragon is more like a guardian here. It will come to patrol the bottom of the tiankeng every once in a while. It also teases weak humans.

  Song Que stood up and stared fixedly at the Jiaolong, which was two circles smaller than the dragon Tang Xian was riding before.

   After staying in the tiankeng for seven days, Song Que believed in one thing after seven days of observation.

  The terrible heavy rain was not a natural phenomenon at all.

   It was like when he saw the rain for the first time, he felt something was wrong.

  Because he smelled the elements inside.

  As the owner of the Eye of the Scale, Song Que was convinced that the heavy rain that killed countless people came from this evil dragon.

  He had been waiting for it.

   Jiaolong watched the crowd crawling with satisfaction, just like a king meeting a slave.

   But soon its eyes fell on Song Que who was at the top of the stone path.

   Jiaolong looked at Song Que contemptuously.

  Song Que also stared at the dragon, and at the same time broke free from Ling Yi's hand, and gently pushed Ling Yi into the stone cave behind him.

  He took a step forward and said softly:

   "Although time is running out, I still have unfinished business."

  (end of this chapter)