Alien world

Chapter 953 Chapter 184. Seizing the Mine
Jeremy told yesterday's story again.

Then came the rabbit. His tragic experience made many miners laugh out loud. There was no malice in their hearts. They just wondered how there could be such a stupid person.

Their story aroused everyone's desire to talk, and they took a brief break from the day and night excavation to recall their past lives, which were not good, but a hundred times better than their current bad situation.

Most of the miners were from Izewan. Some of them were sold here, 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 have one, Little Small.

"What about you?"

Little Smoo, who had been prepared, began to talk about Free Blade, Free City, and the Kingdom of Rekanel, but these were too far away from the miners in the mine, so Little Smoo started to talk about the stories of Free City.

The miners laughed along, joking about how the people of Liberty City were so kind-hearted that they were stupid. If they were put here, they would definitely fill up the mine. They mocked that morality was the most useless thing in the world, and then one person secretly wiped away his tears.

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

A voice sounded in the darkness: "You were also captured!"

"Because I'm here for you."

Without light, no one could see how thin Little Smokey was. His words were more convincing than ever before: "I have a way to take you away. Join the Freeblade and return to the sunlight."

"Take me one!"

"And I!"

This is the voice of Rabbit and Jeremy.

A few sporadic responses were heard in the darkness.

Out of more than fifty miners, only nine made the decision.

Little Small was not surprised. Just like in "Bettar's Redemption", people who escaped from prison found it difficult to continue their lives, and he was the same at the beginning.

Habit is the most terrible thing in the world.

That night, Little Smokey and the other two stayed in the same cave with the nine miners who joined the Free Blade to keep each other warm.

After a night's rest, the miners dragged their tired bodies to the sound of hammering and went to the cave entrance to line up for pickaxes and oil lamps.

The weather outside seems to be very bad, and the wind blowing into the mine is particularly cold...

The miners wrapped themselves tightly in ragged clothes, using such thoughts to numb their active hearts. When it was Little Smo's turn to receive the food, he had just stretched out his hand when the guard suddenly took away the oil lamp.

"What did you do last night?"

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

"You wouldn't dare to have any bad intentions..." The guard snorted coldly and let go of his hands.

The miners were barely fed and had no weapons, so they were no match for the strong guards who were wearing leather armor stripped from the dead.

Carrying an oil lamp and dragging an iron pickaxe, little Smokey went into the warm mine.

……

Dang——dang——dang——

The pickaxe hit the stone, sending sparks flying.

Nof was so tired that he was almost unconscious. He was trying to tell whether it was the pickaxe or himself that was chiseling the stone.

The basket beside him contained only a few pieces of coal, and apart from the echoing knocking sounds, the story that Little Small had told him last night was firmly entrenched in his mind.

"Your loved ones 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 Nov's mind like thunder. He stood there in a daze. Suddenly he dropped the pickaxe and ran towards Little Smo's cave.

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

"I want to join the Free Fists!" Nof shouted and squeezed forward.

"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 Free Blade's spirit of mutual help: Jeremy volunteered to pour the extra porridge in his bowl to the rabbit, and Little Small also shared the food in his bowl with the person with the least food.

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

These people worked together and no longer had to worry about the coal they dug with great effort being taken away. Everyone stopped keeping their own coal and contributed the coal mines they knew.

Little Smalls stole the oil from the oil lamps and torches so that the miners could enjoy the light even during their breaks.

Because a lot more coal was mined, the guards turned a blind eye and allowed these people to form gangs. They saw coal and gave them food, it was that simple.

When the number of miners joining Free Blade approached forty, some kind of balance seemed to be broken. The remaining miners were afraid of being left behind and rushed to join Free Blade.

When all the miners join the Freeblade, Small announces his plan to lead them to escape within ten days.

Because there were too many people, they split into two caves to rest, so that there would be no crowding 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 sound startled the figure, and then the torch lit up, revealing a figure and a frightened face.

"Catch him."

The miners behind Little Smalls 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 bathroom, what are you doing!"

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

Little Small looked at him calmly: "You were the first one to tell the guards about this, right?"

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

"You are going to go and tell on us a second time now, and sell us out to the guards, aren't you?"

There was a rustling sound and the miners climbed up.

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

"traitor!"

The rabbit spat a mouthful of thick phlegm in the man's face.

Little Smoo continued: "Then you should know that if you tell them, we will be the ones to die..."

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

Looking down at the begging man, Little Smoker's previous gentleness turned into cruelty: "The betrayer should die. Anyone have any objection?"

The miners remained silent. Little Small picked up a piece of stone that was lying around, walked up to the man, and smashed it down with force.

"what--!"

The man howled miserably, blood gushing from his forehead. Little Smokey handed the bloody stone to Jeremy expressionlessly.

"You're second."

"Me? I...I don't..." Jeremy backed away.

"You don't even have the courage to kill a traitor. How can I believe that you can escape from the mine and rescue more people!" Little Smo's shouting echoed in the cave.

"I come!"

The rabbit grabbed the stone and threw it at the man. Then the third and fourth miners came forward...

The torchlit cave was filled with dull knocking sounds, different from those of mining.

(End of this chapter)