The Book of Heaven

Chapter 178

The scale of Zeng’s coal mine was quite large in this era, with a total of 300 cave dwellings, and each cave dwelling required at least [-] miners. According to Ma Zheng’s preliminary understanding, there were more than [-] slave miners in the entire mining area. .

More than 300 young men of different races are used by the Zeng family as miners who do not need to pay wages. Even if there are any casualties, the Zeng family will not bear the slightest burden. They are directly thrown into the mountains to feed wild animals or thrown into the nearby river to feed them. Fish, both are good solutions.

Because of those heavily armed thugs, and the slaves were wearing shackles that restricted their movements, even if their lives were worse than death, the slaves in the mining area did not dare to think about escaping.

Unless the shackles on the feet are removed, it is impossible to escape the pursuit of those thugs. Death is not terrible. What is terrible is the endless torture methods these thugs used on escaped slaves.

After late at night, the entire mining area finally quieted down, only the patrol thugs, leading one or two ferocious big dogs, were patrolling or stationed at their posts.

Ma Zheng chose the northwest side of the mining area, which is the closest to Jiading City, but the place where the patrol force is weakest. After all, the slaves are all from the mountains in the south of Jiading City. If these simple-minded people can escape , the first choice is of course the direction of home, not the terrifying Han towns.

There are yellow and white lanterns on the wooden fence. Although they can illuminate the surrounding area, but because of the size of the lantern itself, it becomes a standard dark under the lamp.

Two strong thugs were in the shadow of the lantern, leaning on the solid wooden fence, chatting every sentence.

The one on the left yawned, patted his chest, and made a series of meaningless sounds, which attracted the contempt of the thug on the right, "Can you still be more mature? You have to play even if you yawn."

"What else? It's so boring. When I think of staying in the city for a month before I can go back to the city to relax, I want to kill someone!"

"There are so many slaves in the mining area, you can kill them if you want."

"Forget it, those are not slaves. Didn't you notice that last time the boss came? In the eyes of the boss, those are silver coins that can walk."

"Pfft!"

The yawning guy made his companion amused by saying a word, but thinking about it, it seems that this is really the case. Aren't those slaves just dedicated to making money for the master.

"According to what you say, don't we become the bankers? If this is the case, I feel that I have become important all of a sudden."

"It will be much more dangerous!"

The face was tense, and the yawning guy held the handle of the knife at his waist with his backhand, "But don't worry, I'm here"

"What, huh?"

The sudden pause of the voice made the other thug feel that something was wrong. He instinctively took a step, wanting to see why his companion suddenly lost his voice, but saw a stick flying out of the darkness!
Maybe he couldn't even see the stick clearly, all he saw was a string of shadows, stick shadows!

There was a pain in the forehead, black eyes, and then the thug fell crookedly, like a deflated doll.

Ma Zheng's figure appeared under the light of the lantern, holding an iron bamboo stick in his hand, facing the two fainted guys, a sneer appeared on his face.

As a martial artist who is about to break through the second-rate realm and become a first-rate master, it should be a shameful thing to secretly attack these low-rate thugs.

But Ma Zheng doesn't care about these details, as long as the goal can be achieved, so what if it's embarrassing?
Besides, who can tell what happened here?
Although Ma Zheng didn't kill these two private warriors, and he didn't even intend to kill many people here, but in the end, would these thugs dare to return to Zeng's house?With the character of the Zeng family, these thugs will definitely end up in an even worse situation!
"It's time for the patrol to come."

The real trouble is not the patrolling men, but the dogs!
Unless one has cultivated to the innate state and is able to circulate the inner breath to close all the pores of the whole body, it will be difficult to escape the sensitive sense of smell of the patrol dog.

So Ma Zheng must kill the two fixed sentries first, so that when the patrol comes to this position, the distance from the two fixed sentries before and after him is far enough for Ma Zheng to launch a surprise attack, even if the dog can warn , but only God knows how much of the sound will be left when the sound reaches the fixed whistle in the distance.

What's more, even if he heard it, the time needed from the fixed post to make a decision to come over is enough for Ma Zheng to prepare for the next battle.

It is said to be a sneak attack, but it is not considered at all. How can a sneak attack start killing people from the guard post?
"Wang!"

Sure enough, in the dark night, no matter the smell or the sound of action, the sensitive dogs could not be fooled. When the dogs in the patrol team howled for the first time, Ma Zheng was still fifteen feet away from the patrol team.

"Who, come out!"

The dog-leading thug roared in Ma Zheng's direction, while his companion drew out a steel knife vigilantly.

I thought this would at least increase the threat, but when the big dog barked a second time, a figure rushed out of the darkness and swept over the barking big dog.

With a scream, the big dog convulsed and fell to the ground. Ma Zheng almost smashed his skull into a shattered fracture with a stick, and through the hard skull, the violent force directly turned the big dog's brains into pieces. A mess.

Therefore, although the big dog is still not discouraged for the time being, there is only a nervous reaction of twitching.

It's a pity that no one has time to care about the big dog that fell on the ground. Ma Zheng's stick brought out a violent breaking wind in the darkness, and surrounded the two thugs at the same time.

Most of these thugs are young and strong who have learned one or two tricks of the peasants. Speaking of it, their hearts and fists are harder than ordinary people. Even third-rate warriors can clean up this kind of thugs in a blink of an eye, let alone their hands. Ma Zheng with a long stick.

After one or two rounds, Ma Zheng slowly retracted his stick, and the two thugs who originally "surrounded" him were already lying on the ground.

The place where he got hit was either the back of the head or the neck. Anyway, Ma Zheng took care of the weakest part of the human body. As for whether these two people can wake up, it depends on their own luck.

After solving a checkpoint and a patrol, Ma Zheng knew that there was not much time left for him.

"Go to that third-rate guy first, the keys seem to be in his hands."

The buildings in the mining area were dilapidated, and only the third-rate warrior and the two little girls beside him could live in the only log cabin in the mining area.

The cabins built in the style of stilted buildings can not only protect against cold and heat, but also keep away from the damp on the ground and terrible insects. In the wild, these things are even more deadly than wild animals.

Even a third-rate martial artist needs to rest, besides, there are two good-looking girls beside him. It seems that the Zeng family has indeed shed a lot of blood in order to win over this third-rate martial artist.

"If I am a quasi-first-class expert, how much money are you willing to pay to win me over like the black businessmen of the Zeng family?"

Ma Zheng, who was approaching the cabin in the dark, was thinking about this question silently in his heart.

(End of this chapter)