sbdcsierra Chapter 493 There's food outside
Chapter 493 There's food outside
Although the foreman didn't know who Lu Yangyang and his group were, their leaders were Boss Ma and Brother Zhang. Now that Brother Zhang was in this state, it was clear that this person was not someone to be trifled with.
People like them are used to reading faces, so they wouldn't dare to hide anything.
The foreman knelt on the ground, not daring to raise his head, and kowtowed, his voice trembling as he replied, "Sir, sir, spare our lives! We had no choice. We have quotas to meet, and if we can't deliver, we'll be the ones punished. We're just following orders. These people are injured and can't work anymore; keeping them around is just a waste of time. What difference does it make whether they live or die..."
But these are human lives!
Lu Yangyang glared at them angrily, wanting to shout, but no sound came out.
She's not blind; what does human life matter in this place?
Human life is not as valuable as this basket of stones.
These people's lives are like weeds, cut down again and again. These people don't care at all. In fact, their own lives are no better than those of the people they slaughter at will. Otherwise, they wouldn't have ended up in the mines to supervise the work. Staying here for too long would also lead to poisoning and death.
Despite the fact that they were all grieving for their own kind, they had long since become numb and indifferent.
At this moment, one of the miners, who was sitting on the ground nearby, suddenly collapsed with convulsions. Seeing this, the foreman, disregarding Lu Yangyang and the others, shouted, "What are you all standing there for? Drag him out! What kind of crazy thing is he doing at a time like this?!"
After finishing speaking, he realized that Lu Yangyang and the others were there, and explained in a trembling voice, "Sir, this person, this person is dying..."
Lu Yangyang ignored him and beckoned two people over: "Carry them all out first."
Then he went to the convulsing miner, quickly gave him an injection to induce vomiting, and after the miner vomited up a pool of black water, the man finally slowly recovered.
He struggled to lie down on the ground, seemingly wanting to thank Lu Yangyang, but he didn't dare to lift his head.
Lu Yangyang then went to the injured miners, quickly took their pulses, assessed their injuries, gave acupuncture to the two with more serious injuries, inserted a life-saving pill, and had them carried on someone's back.
"The Yuzhou government has never privately conscripted laborers. Some people have been using the government's name to forcibly conscript laborers to mine. The newly arrived prefect has already arrested those traitors. I am here to rescue you on the orders of Prefect Ling!" Lu Yangyang said clearly, looking at the miners.
The miners' facial muscles twitched slightly, but their eyes remained numb and lifeless, as if their souls had been ripped away, leaving only their driven shells.
"Hey, you guys..." The people following Lu Yangyang saw that the miners had no reaction and wanted to say something, but Lu Yangyang stopped them.
Lu Yangyang looked at the youngest little boy and asked him, "Are you hungry?"
The little boy nodded.
Lu Yangyang stretched out her hand to him: "Come out with me, there's food outside."
Without a moment's hesitation, the little boy took a step forward, not daring to take Lu Yangyang's hand. He walked slowly and cautiously to her side, tilting his head back and staring wide-eyed at her, his mouth clenched, swallowing unconsciously.
He is very hungry.
I'm extremely hungry.
His mind was completely blank. He was so hungry he wanted to eat dirt, but there wasn't even a single blade of grass in the mine to stave off hunger. These red stones they were chiseling down would kill him if he ate them. He had seen people who were so hungry they secretly ate them, but they soon died from the effects of the hunger.
He'd rather die right now than not get a meal.
Lu Yangyang grabbed his arm. "Let's go!"
As soon as she moved, the others immediately followed suit.
Lu Yangyang, holding the little boy with one hand and the knife in the other, patted Brother Zhang on the shoulder and said, "Get up!"
Zhang struggled to his feet and winked at the two overseers kneeling beside him, but before the overseer could make a move, Lu Yangyang brought down another knife, severing his other arm. Warm blood splattered directly onto the face of the overseer next to him.
The foreman felt a heat rising in his lower body on the spot and was so frightened that he lost control of his bladder.
Amid Zhang Ge's screams, Lu Yangyang slammed the knife onto his head: "You want to team up with others to bury me right here, is that it? I've seen plenty of people like you. I was originally thinking of you overseers who were left in the mine because you were pitiful and perhaps had your reasons, so I was going to give you a chance to redeem yourself by confessing. It seems you don't want that!"
"My lord, my lord, spare my life! I was wrong! I would never dare to do that again!" Brother Zhang cried out in anguish.
Lu Yangyang ignored him and asked the supervisor opposite her, who was already terrified, "Do you two want it?"
Without even thinking, the two nodded hastily: "Yes, yes, yes!"
Without saying a word, Lu Yangyang slashed down with her long sword, slicing Zhang Ge's throat.
“Some people don’t want the opportunity, but others do, don’t you agree?” Lu Yangyang asked the two supervisors.
The two were completely terrified and swore oaths on the spot.
"Sir, we'll tell you everything, we'll tell you everything! We'll take you out right now. We'll tell you whatever you want to know. Please give us your orders, sir!"
When Brother Zhang secretly gave them a wink, they wavered a tiny bit, thinking that she was just a young girl, and no matter how much she pretended, she was still kind-hearted. Otherwise, she wouldn't have sympathized with and rescued a few good-for-nothings. Their mine had many problems, and with a little manipulation, they could easily lose their lives there.
But they never dreamed that this girl would be so ruthless!
At this point, they didn't even dare to think about doing anything underhanded, let alone asking them to. They just wanted to leave as quickly as possible, fearing that they would be the next ones to die here.
The two of them scrambled to their feet in a panic. Without Lu Yangyang needing to say anything, they obediently and attentively led the way, even telling him how many mine shafts they had, how many miners were still there, and where the dead had been disposed of.
Their mine was just a small one; there were larger ones. In total, there were about seven or eight hundred miners, and in recent years, no fewer than ten thousand had died.
I can't remember, because I've long since lost count.
Some miners died within days of arriving, while others survived for several months. Later, as they gradually discovered the problem, they tried many solutions, but to prevent people from escaping, most of them still kept people inside. When there weren't enough dead miners, they would replace them. In addition to these miners, there were also some who worked in furnaces refining mercury, and even more people died there.
Their crimes are numerous and too many to recount.