Lin Jie silently carried Red back. It was not until the next morning that she slowly woke up. Once she thought of her grandmother, she would still burst into tears.
Lin Jie was speechless. He made a small stool for himself and sat outside to flip through a book. There was no sunlight in the lower city. The street lights made of luminous marrow stones only shone for two hours every day to guide the way for the managers.
Due to being underground for a long time, night vision was one of the main reasons why the people in the lower city had mutated.
It was close to five o 'clock the next day when Red came out of the shed with swollen eyes. She looked at Lin Jie in surprise.
"Why are you still here?"
Lin Jie put away his thick book with a bang and said with a smile, "I'm your hostage."
He needed a guide. He wanted to see the lower city that was formed due to pollution as a human, not as a god that caused everything.
"I want to mine." Red sobbed, "I haven't eaten for days."
"I'll accompany you."
Red frowned and looked at Lin Jie. Although this person was much thinner than the residents in the lower city, he was at least a man. He could help no matter what.
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Death often accompanied the entire lower city.
Other than the smell of rocks, the air here was filled with the endless stench of corpses. Even if it was the place where Red lived, there was almost a mass grave behind it. She did not know where her grandmother was buried. She was probably thrown to an unknown place by the managers.
"Mine with me and find my grandmother." Red found a shovel in the house and pointed at Lin Jie.
Lin Jie nodded. He adjusted his cloak and followed behind Red.
In the lower city, people over the age of eight were called adults. The average age was only twenty-five. Most people were crushed by pollution, hunger, and repetitive overwork.
An eight-year-old child like Red had to submit three pieces of precious ores every day. It was a devastating blow for her age.
After reaching adulthood at the age of nine, girls had to submit four pieces and boys had to submit six pieces. After the age of fifteen, the number would double.
Lin Jie walked in the tunnel with her. She casually used her Mind Rewriting ability to make Lin Jie easily assimilate with the people around him.
Red squeezed her way to more ore sources, but she was forcefully pushed out.
She puffed up her cheeks like a little frog, and her chubby tentacles danced wildly in the air. She once again squeezed her way in, and was lifted up by Lin Jie.
"If you want to die the same way as your grandmother, then don't do such a stupid thing," Lin Jie said with a smile.
Speaking of her grandmother, Red began to purse her lips again, choking back her tears.
"Why are you so cold? You're so mean," Red said unhappily.
When Lin Jie heard this, he raised his eyebrows and let go of his hand. Red fell to the ground like a stupid cat. Lin Jie looked at Red silently and said, "That's true. I'm much colder than before."
"Maybe it's because I can resurrect your grandmother, and I know what kind of world people go to after death," Lin Jie said as if he was talking to himself, "So that's how it is …"
"You can resurrect my grandmother? … If you make fun of my grandmother again, I'll kill you. "Red knew that the dead could not be resurrected, so she raised her shovel and said with tears in her eyes.
Lin Jie raised his hand, habitually showing that he was harmless, and said, "I heard someone say today that there are many ores underground. We can go there and dig."
Red's expression changed slightly when she heard this. Her reaction was not the reaction of an eight-year-old child in the upper city. She said, "We're on the sixth floor now, and there are indeed more ores underground."
"But my grandmother said that the closer we are to the underground, the worse the pollution. There are monsters lurking underground."
"But I think the managers will still give the so-called 'monsters' food, and they will also give the managers ores." Lin Jie touched his chin and said in Red's ear, "So they can communicate. If they eat people, the managers will be the first to be eaten."
"The reason they don't eat people is because of the witches!" Red corrected him loudly, "If they kill the sacred managers, the Tree Witches will punish them."
Lin Jie thought for a moment. The Tree Witches, who had been sleeping for a long time and didn't care about anything and couldn't do anything, had been ruling the entire underground with silent majesty.
They were using their so-called religion to control everyone.
Lin Jie glanced at the adults mining around, and his eyes fell on a few people who were whispering to each other.
Even so, there were still a lot of people who resisted, and the Plague Church was probably born from this.
"Then if you also believe in the Tree Witches, those monsters won't kill you." Lin Jie continued, "Or, do you not believe in the Tree Witches?"
"Nonsense!" Red quickly retorted.
Lin Jie's simple provocation was too easy for a nine-year-old kid like Red.
He followed Red through countless tunnels and continued to go down. The rock layer gradually became soft, and there was a danger of collapse at any time. However, the managers wouldn't care about this, and the members of the lower city would only be sinners.
As for where the sinners were, they were mostly things from the mythology books. It seemed that their ancestors had once been in cahoots with evil gods, and even secretly ate the fruit from the Tree Witches' Tree of Origin.
These statements were too weak, but in Nuo Jin, a place full of extraordinary people, these things were very credible.
Lin Jie knew better than anyone where these people came from, and why they became like this.
Long before Nuo Jin was built, there were already signs of class distribution. Under the influence of You Xing, who came from the infinite universe to A Zier, the Elf Kingdom was immediately destroyed, and You Xing's sleeping place was rich in resources and treasures.
In order to prevent You Xing from destroying his family, Silver sealed the high-magic world in the Dream World.
The Life Witches were weak, but they thought they could protect humans, so they built human camps.
That was the original state of Nuo Jin. After the fall of the Life Witches, humans were no longer safe, and they needed more resources. The underground where the evil gods slept was the foundation of their survival.
To put it bluntly, humans were really too weak.
At that time, the so-called class distribution was also beginning to take shape. The poor people with no power and status were driven out of the surface and began to excavate minerals.
The Life Witches desperately tried to prevent humans from getting close to the evil gods, but the humans did not hesitate to pounce on the evil gods.
The mutation came very quickly, and the poor people who excavated minerals in the lower city began to show signs of being beasts. Now, they had green skin like a crocodile, tentacles with jaws and claws, forked tongues, and strong limbs.
However, the voices of opposition were suppressed, and the people in the upper city drew a clear line with the mutated people in the lower city. They did not see them as humans, but as cattle and horses. They even blocked the unimpeded passage between the upper and lower city, and demanded to exchange minerals for resources.
Humans were always very good at this … Lin Jie sneered in his heart, but when he looked down and saw Red's small back, he suddenly recalled her reprimanding.
Lin Jie had indeed become very cold … He clenched his fist and told himself not to be like this.
The upper city's method of blocking the passage to the lower city by force did not work.
Such days could not last long, and lies became the best means. In the name of the Tree Witches, the will of the "sinners" who ruled the lower city ran rampant in the world.
That was also the so-called only time the power of the Tree Witches was used.
It was used to suppress the residents in the lower city.
It was also because of this suppression that the judgment of the "sinners" was thoroughly rooted in the hearts of the residents in the lower city, and at the same time, it also castrated their thoughts.
Lin Jie silently followed Red and came to a large well where there were few people.
"From here, we can go to the fifth, fourth, and third level …" Red said, and her voice echoed in the well. There was no response from the well, perhaps because it was too deep.
However, there was an exaggerated rancid smell coming from the well like silk threads, as if it was the mouth of an evil beast.
Red looked at the huge well with a complicated expression. Lin Jie felt that he could not see through this child if he did not activate his omniscient and omnipotent ability.
"The deeper we go, the more minerals there are, but the more serious the pollution is …" Red said with a frown.
But … the closer it is to me … Lin Jie thought silently in his heart.
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PS: This is a sensitive word. I am speechless. I can't even separate these two words. I can't do anything about it.
I can't change it. I insist on submitting it. If it is blocked, I will deal with it tomorrow.
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