Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 551: Scared and sweating

The moment he held the 81-bar with both hands, Wang An suddenly had the illusion that "with a gun in hand, the world is mine".

At the same time, Wang An felt that his whole body was instantly tightly wrapped in an omnipresent sense of security.

After thinking for a while, Wang An touched the grenade hanging on his waist.
I have to say, the grenade is just an iron ball filled with explosives.

But at this moment, Wang An's feeling of holding the grenade was no less than the feeling of holding a big snowball when he was doing things with a woman on the kang.

To be honest, the sense of security, satisfaction, fulfillment, and most importantly, the sense of firm control is truly addictive and intoxicating.

After touching the grenade, Wang An's last bit of fear and uneasiness in his heart completely disappeared without a trace.

All this made Wang An suddenly realize that when facing danger, all fear and panic actually came from insufficient firepower. As long as the firepower was invincible, any fear and panic would be just a joke.

Wang An held the gun in both hands, jumped off his horse, and then ran towards the hill as quietly as possible.

When Wang An's head just passed the highest point of the hill, he stopped.

The reason why Wang An stopped running was that he could already see the scene in the distance.

And in Wang An's ears, he could vaguely hear the "boom" and "boom" sounds of the stone crushing machine.

Just less than two miles away from the hill where Wang An was, there was a large valley.

It may be a bit inaccurate to call it a valley, because a valley is a low and narrow place between two mountains, which is actually a col where water flows.

So the place in front of Wang An should be described as a large depression, or a small round valley.

This depression is surrounded by mountains on all sides, with a small lake in the middle. However, the lake does not look deep and is still a running water lake.

A living water lake is one where water flows down from upstream and then overflows when the lake is full.

Obviously, the water overflowing from this lake just flowed through the place where Wang An and others were panning for gold.

Right next to this small lake, there were thirty or forty people working around two machines. There were four men with guns watching over them.

Further away from these people, on the hillside surrounding the pit, there were several tents.

There were people with guns walking back and forth at the doors of some tents, but their eyes were all looking at the people who were working.

It is not difficult to tell from the non-uniform attire of these gunmen that they are a group of ruthless people who specialize in stealing mines, especially gold mines.

Of course, this kind of mineral theft is a very common phenomenon no matter when, where, or what kind of mine it is.

This phenomenon is simply called "black mining".

Those who are working under the gun are a group of laborers who are forced to work here for various reasons.

In fact, workers like this who work in the open air are considered to be relatively good.

The truly miserable ones are the laborers who are forced to dig coal.

It is true that once you enter a coal mine, you will never be able to get out.

They dig coal in deep wells in the dark all day long, eat, drink, defecate, urinate and sleep underground, and have to worry about landslides, gas, and groundwater upwelling.
You can imagine what a miserable situation this is. To be honest, Wang An is familiar with this scene, because he did this kind of work when he was squatting on the fence in his previous life.

Of course, in terms of treatment, Wang An at that time was better off than the group of laborers in front of him.

After all, the management personnel are different. The group of gunmen in front of them are pure bandits and bullies. It is normal for the working workers to die.

When Wang An was in power, the Libazi people did not dare to allow casualties to occur easily.

Just as Wang An was observing carefully, he saw one of the four gunmen swung the butt of his gun and smashed it at a laborer who was carrying ore.

After a few shots, the laborer was knocked to the ground and lay motionless.

At this moment, another man with a gun walked to the machine, slung the gun over his shoulder, picked up a bucket of water and poured it on the worker.

The worker was suddenly stimulated by the cold water and stood up again. He put the scattered ore back into the basket, picked up the basket and walked towards the machine.

Wang An knew why the laborer was beaten. It was simply because he was a little slow in carrying the ore.

In fact, it is impossible for anyone to keep going fast when doing such heavy physical labor as loading ore into the machine.

Physical strength is one thing, but the most important thing is that these laborers don’t have enough to eat every meal.

The reason why the workers do not have enough food to eat is not that the miners are stingy and want to save food, but that these people cannot feed the workers enough.

Some people may ask, if they are not stingy and save food, and they are working for them, why don't they let the workers eat enough? Isn't it true that only when they are full can they do more work?

In fact, the reason is very simple, that is, human beings cannot be hungry, because when they are too hungry, they will go crazy and eat anyone they want.

But human beings cannot eat too much. If they eat too much, some trouble will occur.

For example, escaping in the deep mountains and forests, beating the guard to death when he is not paying attention, or joining forces with a few people to cause some trouble. And so on.
Therefore, if you want to keep these laborers firmly under control, you must keep them in a semi-starved state.

They can’t eat enough, but they’re not starving to death either, and they still have to work all day to burn off the resentment in their bodies. After a long time, these laborers will have no focus at all!
I have to say, these ruthless people who steal minerals have studied human nature quite thoroughly!

Just as Wang An was observing everything in front of him, the broken-tailed fox patted Wang An's thigh with its front paws, warning Wang An again.

Wang An looked at the broken-tail fox, only to see that the broken-tail fox was looking towards a dense forest.

Wang An immediately looked in the direction the Broken-Tailed Fox was looking, but saw nothing.

However, Wang An believed that the broken-tailed fox would not act without a purpose, so he turned around quickly and led the horse towards a bush.

After waiting in the bushes for a long time, just when Wang An couldn't help but want to go out to take a look, he actually heard a not very clear voice coming from outside the bushes.

So Wang An began to listen attentively with bated breath.

I have to say that the Oroqen horse is really powerful. At such a critical moment, it didn't even snort.

But when Wang An heard what they said, he was instantly frightened and broke out in a cold sweat.

(End of this chapter)