The stone in Huwen's hand almost fell down. Zhang Tie, who was standing beside him, hurriedly stretched out his hand to help him stabilize it.
"You untouchables, don't slack off. Hurry up, clean up this area and see if you can find anything …" The slave supervisor standing on a rock scolded loudly, "If you can't find those escaped untouchables, you'll die of exhaustion here …"
Zhang Tie turned around and threw a glance at that slave supervisor. Closely after that, the slave supervisor whipped Zhang Tie as he glared at Zhang Tie, saying, "Brat, if you keep looking at me, I will dig out your eyes …"
Zhang Tie quivered once. However, that whip was nothing serious for Zhang Tie. Over the past one month, Zhang Tie had eaten three more iron-body fruits under the "beating" of the crew members of the Idiots. After taking the three iron-body fruits, Zhang Tie felt that his ability to bear strikes had increased a lot.
Previously, Zhang Tie could bear being whipped in Heavens Cold City, not to mention this time. The punishment which was unbearable for commoners was like being patted by a fly swatter.
It was not the right moment to lose temper with these scums. Zhang Tie just lowered his head and started to move that stone weighing over 50 kg once again as he pretended to walk with the others. After that, he moved the stone to the slope over there and threw it off...
"Ahh, thanks..." Huwen drew in a cold breath as he thanked Zhang Tie gratefully.
The two people then came to the slope. After dropping off the stone, Huwen threw a glance at that slave supervisor in the distance. When he found that guy didn't notice what happened here, he stealthily passed a kettle to Zhang Tie, saying, "Have some. It's been over 10 hours. You've not drunk a mouthful of water..."
"Thanks. I don't need it... "
"Ahh, you really have a good physical strength..." Huwen threw a glance at Zhang Tie with an admiring look. After that, he rapidly opened the kettle and had a sip. At the sight of some people with teeth hanging over their necks moving stones towards them, Huwen hurriedly hid his kettle and continued to walk towards that pile of stones with Zhang Tie in the distance.
Those captives with teeth hanging over their necks moved some smaller stones towards Zhang Tie, although they were also doing hard work. However, these people could receive appropriate preferential treatment. Sometimes, they could even rest for a while, and the slave supervisor's whip rarely landed on them.
"Watch out for these people..." Huwen whispered to Zhang Tie after those guys with teeth left far away, "Those people have already started to eat human fleshes. They have already deteriorated into wild beasts. As long as they could survive, they would do whatever you want them to do. They will be more ruthless to us than the Demon Race … "
Zhang Tie nodded. As long as some people succumbed to evil, they would become the accomplices of evil and hatchet men and reveal the darker side of human nature. Demons and those b * stards of Three-eye Association had been familiar with how to make a group of people split up and start to fight with each other.
Under the high pressure of the slave supervisors, the human captives had been working for over 10 hours; however, they still didn't find any hidden underground tunnel or crack. Zhang Tie found that the other demonized puppets in the camp started to move. They started to rush into those dark caves and look for those missing human captives.
Zhang Tie knew that they could never find those human captives. Nobody could figure out where those human captives were hiding. It was a good news for Zhang Tie to think that those people had escaped to an underground space. It meant that nobody could discover him, a stranger, at all.
After the demonized puppets left, the camp of demonized puppets became relatively empty. Before leaving here, Zhang Tie had determined to give a "surprise" to those b * stards of Senel Clan.
...
Fire mushrooms looked similar to mushrooms on the ground. Fire mushrooms were red all over like scarlet umbrellas. In this underground space, in those warm, damp and relatively dark places, such as the gaps between rocks, as long as the conditions were right, they would emerge from the ground in a short period of one to two days.
Previously, there were a lot of fire mushrooms underground. But now, there were fewer and fewer fire mushrooms. The most important reason was that when human captives saw fire mushrooms, no matter how big or small they were, they would pull them up from the ground before the fire mushrooms were fully ripe. As a result, the fire mushrooms lost their ability to reproduce.
One hour later, when Zhang Tie moved away a rock, he caught sight of a red umbrellas in the soil under the rock.
Before Zhang Tie moved, Huwen and the other human captives had already caught sight of it. They instantly charged at him and grabbed the fire mushrooms before stuffing them into their own mouths. In a flurried way, Huwen put one into his own mouth and started to chew it. After that, he snatched one and gave it to Zhang Tie.
"Hurry, eat it..."
Watching the others gobbling it up, Zhang Tie only hesitated for a second before putting it into his own mouth. The fire mushroom tasted like unripe bagasse, which was a bit bitter and cold.
"You lowly commoners, hurry up and get to work …" Seeing the chaos here, a slave supervisor rushed over randomly with a whip in his hand. He used the whip to disperse the crowd that was snatching the Fire Mushrooms, allowing everyone to get back to work.
...
Another seven to eight hours passed like this. Over eighty percent of human captives didn't even have the strength to walk, no matter how hard they were whipped by slave supervisors. Only then did this one-day hard work come to an end. Therefore, all the human captives gained a chance to rest and sleep once again.
Although many human captives "escaped" and those people of Senel Clan were very angry, they didn't want the rest human captives to die of exhaustion. After exhausting everybody's physical strength in vain, those people of Senel Clan had to let all the human captives take a rest.
Zhang Tie followed Huwen and over 40 human captives back to a mountain cave. All of them could only pant on the ground.
The others didn't care about one more person in the mountain cave. It seemed that the number of human captives here was always changing.
Zhang Tie felt that the mountain cave where these human captives rested was like the underground dungeon of Blackhot City. The air in the mountain cave was filthy and weird. The red light of the magma river in the distance was reflected in the entrance of the mountain cave. Is there really a secret tunnel or a crack underground? "Huwen asked Zhang Tie.
"Maybe!" Zhang Tie replied vaguely, "No matter what, those people have already left here!"
"If we find any clue, don't expose it to others. Just pretend that we've not found anything..." Huwen whispered.
Zhang Tie looked at him as he nodded.
"There are fewer and fewer Fire Mushrooms and other things that can fill our stomachs. Let's just hope that we can survive!" Xiu Wen said in a pessimistic tone.
"Don't you believe that you could survive yourself?"
"Unless you become a lackey of demons or a wild beast that eats human fleshes, nobody could leave out of here." Huwen said as he stealthily took out a small piece of dark brown stuff and gave it to Zhang Tie, "I prepared this for myself. It's enough for me. Take it!"
"What's this?"
"It's a type of Arrow Poison Mushroom that grows underground. I found it by chance a few days ago. It contains a high concentration of highly toxic muscarinic substances and a type of hemolytic toxin. As long as you eat a small piece of it, you'll die in a few minutes. Moreover, after you die, your corpse will also contain highly toxic substances. Those beasts won't treat your corpse as food. This way, you'll be able to keep your corpse intact after you die. If you have no other choice, this thing will make you suffer less."
"How do you know this?" Zhang Tie asked Huwen out of curiosity.
"I was a botanist before..." Huwen revealed a bitter smile.
Zhang Tie took that dried thing and crushed it into pieces in front of Huwen. After that, he blew it off...
"You..." Huwen glared at Zhang Tie as if he was a bit angry.
"I promise you, you won't need this kind of thing, and I won't need it either!"
"What guarantee do you have at this moment?" Huwen watched Zhang Tie as if he was watching an alien.
"Do you believe in miracles?"
"Since we were brought here, miracles have died!"
"Perhaps when you open your eyes after falling asleep, miracles will happen. Humans should never lose their dreams and hopes!"
"Let's go to sleep and save some physical strength for our surging points..." Huwen let out a sigh as he curled up and lay on the ground.
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