Chapter 36: Mining Area: Discovered

There were people below, and it was impossible for a few people to sit down the ladder openly.

Fu Jingmo’s bag contained a small bundle of safety rope. He tied the rope to the crossbeam at the top of the ladder. With their current physical strength, it was not difficult to go down along the safety rope and the ladder frame.

Without hesitation, Fu Jingmo grabbed the rope and went into the mine first. He pulled the safety rope with one hand, stepped on the frame of the ladder, and bent down. After a while, there was nothing unusual.

He waved to let Lin Mu and the others come down. Lin Mu followed closely and also stepped on a frame of the ladder.

He Ze swallowed, put his hands together in prayer, and silently prayed for safety, smooth journey, and good luck in his heart, and climbed down tremblingly.

The sound of excavation just covered them, groping down a distance of five or six meters, the entire space gradually appeared in front of them.

This place was more open than they thought, probably seven or eight meters high, and there were two places as big as basketball courts below.

On the right side of an open space, there were some simple tents made of rags, wooden boards, and stones. It seemed that people were living, but it was too dark to see clearly.

A track traverses this open space, the same as above, it is the track of the mine car.

Looking at the direction of the track, the mine tunnels extend out on both sides, but there are no lights at both ends. Obviously, the living people in this mining area are concentrated in this area.

Some light came out from the wall on the left.

Fu Jingmo signaled the two to look. They saw that there were four arched mine tunnels on the wall. Looking at the outline from the light, they were probably more than two meters high.

Several doors were made by splicing wooden boards together, and the light came out from the cracks in the wooden doors.

There is also a mine tunnel being excavated on the side. Five or six people are hunched over, mechanically hitting the rock wall with numb movements. They have already chiseled out a small arch. They seem to have no life at all, repeating the injured movements, and there is no sound of talking.

Lin Mu spoke softly, “The leader here must live in the mine.”

Maybe it’s Mr. Kang that the two people at the door said. In the end times, ability represents everything, and human hierarchy will be more serious than civilized society.

How can a strong person with abilities tolerate living in a shabby tent with ordinary people.

Fu Jingmo nodded, and a few people tightened the safety rope, carefully stepped on the frame, and continued to descend.

The area below was very dim, and they planned to stick to the left and approach those few mine tunnels to see if they could hear anything useful, and then make plans.

However, the moment they landed, a mine tunnel door was quickly pulled open, and several flashlights shone straight at them.

“Damn… what’s going on…” He Ze was the last one to come down, and he was suddenly startled, blurting out two words.

Lin Mu quietly clenched his hand, ready to release the vine whip at any time.

Fu Jingmo’s face was calm, his lips curled, and his eyes were cold as he looked at the few men with flashlights. The hand behind him condensed a wisp of black mist.

Then a few more doors were opened, and four or five men came out.

The one leading was wearing a shirt and trousers, which was out of place with this dim mine tunnel. He was wearing gold-rimmed glasses and smiled at Lin Mu and the others.

“Friends are here, why didn’t the people at the door know to send them, they really don’t understand.”

His tone was flat, as if it was really just a simple complaint.

The man waved his hand, and a person walked out from behind him, pressed a switch on the wall, and two large lamps hanging on the rock wall buzzed and turned on, instantly illuminating the entire area.

The man took a few steps forward, approached them, and directly judged that Fu Jingmo was the backbone of the few people. He reached out to him, “Hello, my name is Kang Tianming, and I am temporarily taking care of the people in this mine.”

Don’t hit a smiling face with a stretched out hand, this person seems to have no plans to trouble them for a while. Fu Jingmo raised his eyebrows and nodded, but did not reach out to shake hands, and coldly threw out three words.

“Fu Jingmo”

Lin Mu didn’t expect Fu Jingmo to do any socializing. He took a step forward, “Mr. Kang, hello, my name is Lin Mu, we came uninvited, I hope you don’t mind.”

Kang Tianming retracted his hand without a trace, his mouth still had that business smile, his gaze moved from Fu Jingmo to Lin Mu, and his eyes flickered slightly when he saw him.

“No, why don’t you join me in the room for a chat, we have been in the mine for too long, and we don’t know the situation outside.”

He was polite in his words, but his gaze unabashedly looked at Lin Mu who came forward. His tongue licked the corner of his lips where no one could see, and thought that this young man looked delicious.

In the end times for a few days, they have been displaced. Ordinary people have long been hiding everywhere, with gray heads and faces. But Lin Mu and the others were born good-looking. In these days, with He Ze’s water-based skills, they did not lack water for washing, and their faces were still clean.

If Fu Jingmo always exudes an arrogant and proud air, then Lin Mu is a contradiction of being cold yet gentle.

Lin Mu always maintains a polite distance from people, but for some reason, he has a comforting feeling about him that makes people want to get close.

Kang Tianming’s gaze was undisguised. Fu Jingmo frowned, because that gaze carried an annoying aggressiveness, sticking to Lin Mu, sticky and disgusting. He took a step forward, blocking Lin Mu.

“Lead the way.”

Kang Tianming glanced at him, turned around, and leisurely walked towards the mine tunnel in the middle. A strange young man followed him, his whole body wrapped in a robe cut from black cloth, revealing only half of his face.

The three of them stepped up to follow. Lin Mu observed this person without changing his expression. This person’s skin was exceptionally pale, and the two dark circles under his eyes were particularly noticeable on his face.

In fact, miners who work in the mine all year round, because they don’t get sunlight for a long time, their skin color is not dark, but pale without blood color, just like the person in front of them.

They now only know that Kang Tianming is a mutant, but in this place, there must be more than him. This man in the black robe is very likely to be a mutant as well.