Chapter 182 Humiliation

Seventy miles southwest of Yanbo Prefecture, in the Tianhuoshan Yuanjing Mine.

This is a large mine jointly managed by Xuanyuan Cave and Lishan Sect, and each of them divides half.

At this time, on the entire hillside, countless bare-chested miners were mining Yuanjing buried deep in the mountain under the heat wave. Every time they swung the pickaxe, they seemed to use all their strength, and sweat poured down their bodies.

The mining of Yuanjing Mine is extremely difficult.

First of all, Yuanjing itself has attributes, some are inclined to fire, and some are inclined to water, so Yuanjing Mine is usually affected by the power of Yuanjing. Although the spiritual energy is abundant, it is very bad for people.

The Yuanjing Mine of Tianhuoshan is of fire attribute, so the rolling heat wave hits you in the face, just like roasting people on fire.

In addition, Yuanjing itself contains extremely abundant spiritual energy, so it will affect the surrounding rocks and become extremely solid. Miners must swing the pickaxe with all their strength to chisel the stone open.

Even the iron picks used by the miners are made of refined steel, which can be used as materials for Xuanbing if placed outside.

It is precisely because the mining of Yuanjing Mine is so bad that ordinary people cannot mine it at all, and only acquired warriors who have cultivated internal skills can be miners.

In the case of Tianhuoshan, ordinary people will die of dehydration after entering for half an hour, and even warriors need to use their internal strength all the time to resist this heat wave.

Moreover, ordinary people are too weak to chisel down a stone in half an hour.

In such a bad situation, a small shack is built on the top of Tianhuoshan Mountain, surrounded by a circle of simple array plates built with ice-attributed Yuanjing, which can set up arrays at any time and emit cool breezes.

A fat man in his early forties, dressed in gorgeous clothes and brocade, with a fat figure, is blowing the cool breeze while drinking a little wine, holding a red whip in his hand, monitoring the actions of the miners below.

If anyone was a little slower, the fat man would whip him in the air, and a stream of red Qi would hit the miners.

This whip seemed to increase the distance of Qi, and even if they were hundreds of feet apart, the Qi would not dissipate.

He was Hu Dehai, the person in charge of the Yuanjing mine of Lishan Sect, and the brother-in-law of Fei Qingfeng, the head of Lishan Sect.

Although the mine was hard, it was profitable. Every day, as long as a small portion of Yuanjing was intercepted, it would be enough for Hu Dehai to eat a lot of oil.

He had begged his sister for a long time to get this position.

He now regarded the Yuanjing mine as his own private property. Except for the share he gave to Lishan Sect every month, he intercepted the rest.

So he couldn't stand seeing the miners below being lazy. These people were lazy, and the missing Yuanjing were all his Yuanjing!

"Damn it! Fatty Hu is getting more and more ruthless. He digs for eight hours every day. Except for eating and going to the toilet, there is not enough time to sleep!"

A miner in his thirties complained unhappily while swinging a pickaxe.

A miner in his fifties beside him, with a simple face, shook his head and said, "Okay, Xiao Sun, stop complaining. We came here because the mine makes more money than the dock.

There are more and more people in our Black Water Gang, and the dock is so small. Although the gang leader has tried his best to help us arrange our livelihood, there are too many brothers in the gang and no one can make money.

Although the mine is hard, it still makes a lot of money. After working for a few more years, I will buy a small boat to fish, and then I won't have to work so hard."

Most of the members of the Black Water Gang say they are warriors, but in fact their cultivation is frighteningly low.

Just like the two people in front of him, at most they have opened up two or three acupoints, they are just stronger than ordinary people, with more abundant blood and qi, but almost no fighting power. Strictly speaking, they can't even be considered warriors. They are also the lowest level gang members in the Black Water Gang, so they come to the mine to make a living.

Xiao Sun shook his head and said, "Uncle Li, I'm not complaining about the gang leader, but this fat man Hu is too unreasonable.

It was agreed that we would work six hours a day, but now it's eight hours, which is going to tire us to death.

And not counting eight hours of work, the wages haven't increased at all, which is a bit too much."

Uncle Li was about to tell him to stop talking nonsense, otherwise it would be bad if Fatty Hu heard it.

But a voice suddenly sounded from behind him.

"Tired you to death? Are you tired now? You still have the energy to gossip here after working eight hours a day. I don't think you are tired!"

The two turned around suddenly, and Fatty Hu and several supervisors appeared behind them at some point, looking at them with a sneer on their faces.

The two shuddered violently, and Uncle Li hurriedly said: "Manager Hu calm down, Xiao Sun didn't mean that!"

"Not that? What did he mean?"

Manager Hu showed a grim smile on his face: "You guys are just a bunch of slaves who need a lesson. If you don't beat them, they won't move. I think you are still too idle!"

As he said that, Manager Hu whipped Xiao Sun directly, and his skin was torn and he howled miserably.

"I am not a slave!"

Xiao Sun stood up and roared.

"You dare to talk back! Beat him to death!"

Manager Hu's face suddenly sank, and he ordered the supervisor behind him to beat Xiao Sun to death.

Uncle Li hurriedly begged for mercy: "Manager Hu, please spare him. We are all members of the Black Water Gang. How about giving my Black Water Gang a face?"

"Using the Black Water Gang to pressure me? Even if Chen Jiuzhen stood in front of me, I don't intend to give this face! I think you are looking for death, old thing!"

Hu Dehua didn't take Chen Jiuzhen and the Blackwater Gang seriously at all, and even showed a little disdain.

What is the Blackwater Gang?

A gang of mud-legged gangsters, all smelling like fish.

It’s not like he hasn’t killed anyone from the Blackwater Gang before, so isn’t he just as good a steward here now?

"Kill this old guy to death too, and let the Black Water Gang come and collect the body!"

Hu Dehai didn't even look, turned around and left.

The screams of the two people became smaller and smaller, and no sound could be heard in the entire Tianhuoshan Mine except for the hammering of mining.

All the miners were frightened and banging the stones crazily.

Hu Dehai nodded with satisfaction.

He was violent by nature, and any miner who offended him would be beaten to death.

But later he discovered that killing a miner from time to time would make other miners mine faster. Sometimes, even if he didn't want to kill anyone, he would just find a reason to kill one or two.

Today someone from the Blackwater Gang happened to fall into his hands. It's strange that they are still alive.

At night, the bodies of Lao Li and Xiao Sun were sent to the Blackwater Gang.

Chen Jiuzhen looked at the corpse in silence. One of his close men whispered: "The people from the Lishan faction sent the corpse and two hundred taels of silver. I paid another two hundred taels from the gang and gave it to the two." The family sent it.”

"Is my brother from the Blackwater Gang only worth this little money?"

Chen Jiuzhen suddenly spoke, his voice extremely cold.

This is not the first time that this kind of thing has happened. His subordinates advised him in a low voice: "Gang Leader, please calm down and don't let your anger break your body.

The manager of the volcano mine that day was the brother-in-law of Fei Qingfeng, the leader of Lishan Sect. Fei Qingfeng also knew what he was doing, but this hundred taels might be the limit.

After all, the lives of my Blackwater Gang brothers... aren't that valuable. "

Chen Jiuzhen suddenly laughed twice, which made his subordinates feel creepy.

"The lives of my brothers from the Blackwater Gang are not worth anything, so it seems that my gang leader is not worth anything in their eyes either."

Before the subordinate could react, Chen Jiuzhen said in a deep voice: "I'll go to Xuanyuan Cave and bury the two brothers."

Originally, Chen Jiuzhen planned to find Xuanyuan Cave based on the previous deaths of the Blackwater Gang members.

Unexpectedly, two brothers were beaten to death today.

Chen Jiuzhen could tolerate this kind of thing before.

But since being exposed by Han Zheng today, Chen Jiuzhen felt extremely humiliated when encountering something like this again, and his anger could no longer be suppressed.

Now he only hopes that someone from Xuanyuandong and other forces will stand up and say something fair.

Otherwise, he would have no choice but to follow Han Zheng all the way to the end.