Chapter 124: Mining Alliance Plan
Nanyoulu walked quickly in front with a torch, and turned around from time to time to greet Han Ming: "Go quickly, it's not safe here. If there is another landslide, none of us will run away."
Han Ming didn't say anything when he heard this, but just followed Nan Youlu step by step, with a gentle expression and a very obedient one.
Not long after, Han Ming and Nan Youlu found a small mine vein that was remote enough, and then got in.
Han Ming was still the same, leaning against the stone wall, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked like he was not sleeping. Nan Youlu seemed a little bored. In the past, when he was not full, he always hoped to have a good sleep and take a break. Now that he is full and has enough time to rest, he doesn't know what to do.
Nan Youlu held her cheek with both hands, blinked her big eyes and swept around the mine, but nothing interesting was revealed. Finally, she finally turned her eyes on Han Ming.
"Are you asleep?" Nan Youlu muttered in a low voice, as if he was talking to himself, as if he was talking to Han Ming.
"It seems not!" Han Ming's eyes opened a little.
Nan Youlu became interested when she heard Han Ming's answer. He moved to Han Ming's side in a few strokes and asked, "What are you doing? As long as you have time, you can close your eyes against the wall. Can you teach me? I feel that it's really uncomfortable to do it now!"
A hint of helplessness appeared on Han Ming's face. He closed his eyes and pretended to sleep and was just resting. He hoped that the meridians could recover earlier, so how could they be taught to others!
Just as he was about to make up a reason to explain, Han Ming saw Nan Youlu’s big eyes full of desire. He suddenly felt a little reluctant. He sighed in his heart and said, “It’s boring, I know some entertainment things. I will use that hook to carve it for you!”
As soon as he finished speaking, Han Ming took out the hook from his leg, then picked up a useless ore and started carving it.
Not long after, a rough model of a chess piece appeared in Han Ming's hand, but before Han Ming could carefully modify it, the chess piece was snatched by Nan Youlu.
"What kind of chess is this? Why do I look familiar but a little unfamiliar?" Nan Youlu adjusted the chess piece in her hand and looked at it.
"It seems like I'm called the Eighty-six-Road Player. I accidentally learned how to play it, and I happened to use it for fun." Han Ming smiled slightly, then took another piece of ore and started to introduce the way to play this kind of chess.
Han Ming traveled hundreds of thousands of miles eastward, traveled through more than ten countries, and experienced various customs and humanities. Although he did not deliberately record it, he learned a lot, and these eighty-six-way playmakers are one of them.
"It sounds very fun. You have to play with me after the carving is finished." Nan Youlu grabbed another half-finished chess piece.
"You still want me to play together? This one can be played by myself, and I still want to sleep." Han Ming showed a trace of bitterness on his face, and he secretly regretted that he could play this chess for two people.
"Oh, you won't play, okay." Nan Youlu was very disappointed in her tone, and the joy on her face instantly disappeared.
When Han Ming saw Nan Youlu's disappointed expression, he couldn't help but sigh heavily, and then said leisurely: "Forget it, I'll play with you."
"Hao Le, I know that Brother Ming is the best." Nan Youlu's face was filled with joy again, and there was no such disappointment as before.
Han Ming smiled gently, but couldn't help but sigh again in his heart.
While Han Ming was carving chess pieces for Nanyoulu, in a mine cave about hundreds of feet away from Han Ming and Nanyoulu, more than thirty muscle-filled men were working hard to carry gravels of different sizes on the ground.
"Left leader, right leader arrives." A sound full of energy came into this ore vein.
At this time, the more than 30 men who were carrying stones were stunned when they heard the sound, but they immediately reacted and retreated to the side with respect.
After a few breaths, two middle-aged people with great momentum walked into the mine vein, and there were more than a dozen subordinates following the two middle-aged people.
These two middle-aged men were wearing bodyguard uniforms, but this bodyguard uniform was different from other bodyguards because there were golden laces on the edge of the bodyguard uniforms and two unicorns were embroidered on the front.
The clothes on another middle-aged man with a beard were not so conspicuous. The clothes he wore looked gray, as if he had been wearing them for a long time, but his aura was not inferior to those of the gold-edged bodyguard.
After the thirty people in the mine vein saw two middle-aged people coming in, they immediately bent over to them and stood up and said, "Greetings to the left leader, and to the right leader."
"How could such a thing happen? Why did the good mine collapse?" asked the Phnom Penh bodyguard in a deep voice.
"Qi Bianyou, when the mine tunnel collapsed, I happened to be here. According to my guess, another mine vein collapsed first, and a strong tremor came here, which caused the collapse of this newly opened vein." An old man who looked quite smooth bowed to the two middle-aged people, then lowered his head and explained.
"It turns out it's Brother Bai. You've been following you here these days, and it's a pain for you." The Golden Edge Bodyguard looked at the old man beside him with a smile.
"There are no things like hard work or not. If I weren't here, they wouldn't even be sure of the way toward the other side. Maybe they would dig directly under the underground river. At that time, our plans would be ruined!" The old man raised his head and revealed his face.
If Han Ming were here, he would immediately recognize that the old man was the cunning white old man who walked with him before. He had a very ordinary hearing and was very unique in using hearing skills.
"That's right, there's no missing brother here! Without my brother's hearing, I don't have the chance to dig it out at all, and I'll always touch the groundwater! Brother Bai has to work harder for those who can do it. Brother Bai is worried. As long as I can dig it out, the gold material stored in my mining alliance will definitely be divided into you." The bodyguard laughed loudly.
"There is no need for gold materials. I just want to go out alive and find a place to support Tiannian. I don't need any wealth. I'll leave that gold material to the mining alliance!" Old man Bai waved his hands repeatedly, as if the promised gold material was a hot potato.
Seeing that the old man white was so sensible, a trace of surprise flashed across the face of the golden-edged bodyguard. He glanced at another middle-aged man beside him and stopped talking, just smiled silently without saying a word.
"By the way, Brother Bai, how long will it take for the collapse of the ore vein to recover as before?" The middle-aged man with a beard shut up the bodyguard and stopped talking, then frowned and asked Old Man Bai.
"Your report to the leader of the Zuo Alliance, it will take about half a month to clean it up. After cleaning it up, I will have to reposition it. If I want to dig it out completely, it will take about four or five months." Old Man Bai replied.
"It will take more than half a month to clean it up! Can you change the road? I am afraid that some unpredictable changes will occur after procrastination. If it is discovered, those horse thieves will definitely clean up our blood!" The middle-aged man with bearded frowned tightly, as if very troubled.
At this time, a hint of embarrassment appeared on Old Man Bai's face. He frowned and said, "Those horse thieves can indulge us so much because it is almost impossible to dig out the underground except for the way they come from. The road I found before was very rare. It would probably take more than a month to solve it if I wanted to find another road!"
"What should I do? If I delay for an extra month, I will add a little danger out of thin air. If I am seen by those horse thieves, I am afraid that all of us will die!" The middle-aged man with bearded face looked a little ugly.
"The best way now is to strictly control all those who know about this, gather them together, and then send more people to block the nearby mines and prevent idle people from waiting to get close." The bodyguard from the Phnom Penh blinked and looked at the bearded middle-aged man.
"But if we send someone to block the nearby mines, it will inevitably cause those traitors who are trapped in the miners! It is hard for us to not be revealed!" The middle-aged man with bearded shook his head and expressed his disapproval of the Phnom Penh bodyguard's proposal.
The proposal was denied, but the Phnom Penh bodyguard was not angry, but smiled and said, "We blocked the mine channel because there were many poisonous golden snakes nearby, and many miners were killed. Our mining alliance blocked the mine veins to avoid those miners being bitten to death by snakes."
"I heard that someone used the corpse of the poisonous golden snake to exchange for food for half a year in the mining alliance book. This is a reason, but it is probably not enough to believe it just by two poisonous golden snakes!" The bearded raised his eyebrows, obviously he was a little moved by the proposal of the Golden Edge Bodyguard.
"Haha, there are more than two poisonous golden snakes, and more than twenty poisoned miners. Someone reported to me not long ago that with these poisoned miners, our poisonous golden snake is easier to convince, not to mention that the poisonous golden snake is just an excuse on the surface." The bodyguard from the Phnom Penh said slowly.
"What does it mean, what is the excuse on the surface? And the excuse on the secret?" asked the middle-aged man with bearded in confusion.
"If the horse thief shows an abnormality, we will release a message through the "eyes" placed inside us by the horse thief, and it will say that the poisonous golden snake is just a cover released by our mining alliance. The actual situation is that our mining alliance has a larger gold vein. In order not to distribute this rich mine to other miners, our mining alliance will use the poisonous golden snake to deceive them!" The bodyguard from the gold border smiled a few times.
"Yes, what a good idea. The horse thieves never imagined that the "truth" they got was just something we want them to know!" After hearing the words of the Golden Edge Bodyguard, the bearded couldn't help but praise it. However, he immediately seemed to remember something, and his brows immediately frowned and said, "But if the second news is released, the amount of gold we need to pay will increase, so we can only use the stored gold. This will cause a lot of losses!"
"It is a first-class thing to go out alive. Those external things can be better, but if you can't get them, don't you have to fight for your life?" said the bodyguard slowly.
"That's true! Life is the most important thing, just follow what you said!" The middle-aged man with beard nodded vigorously, expressing his approval of the proposal of the Phnom Penh bodyguard.
"Okay, let's start the first step below to block this mine vein. No one is allowed to enter and exit without the warrants of you and me. Those who enter and exit without authorization will be directly judged as spies regardless of the reason. All the subordinates we brought this time are here. We must ensure that outside this mine vein, only you and I know everything! Let's go out and prepare now, and try to block the entire mine in about two hours so that even a mosquito cannot fly in." After saying that, the bodyguard walked outside, and at the same time, he waved his hand to signal all his subordinates to stay.
When the bearded middle-aged man saw the phthalm master walking outside, his feet moved and quickly followed. At the same time, he waved his hand and signaled his subordinates to stay in place.
However, in just a few breaths, the two leaders of the mine alliance came out of the mine vein, leaving only a group of subordinates with big eyes.
After the two leaders of the mine alliance, the Phnom Penh bodyguard and the bearded middle-aged man, left, the mine was quiet. However, under the organization of Old Man Bai, most of them began to clear the mineral veins, leaving only some of the confidants of the two leaders.
About an hour later, a gray-headed old man took advantage of everyone's inattention and sneaked into a mineral vein behind him, and then tiptoed to touch outside.
When he was about to leave the blocked mine vein, two people walked out of him, and happened to be blocking him. However, the two leaders of the mine alliance should have left, the Phnom Penh bodyguard and the bearded middle-aged man.
"I want to report the news! I really didn't expect that you are also a spy. This time, you caught two spies planted by horse thieves. You shouldn't know that each other is also a spy, otherwise you two wouldn't want to sneak out to report the news together!" The middle-aged man with a beard threw out a round thing with one hand, and the thing happened to fall in front of the gray-headed old man.
Chapter completed!