Quenched long order

Chapter 20 Dead Deer
"What the hell..." Garland wanted to continue asking, but when he saw Saul's determined eyes, he pressed the question back to the bottom of his heart, "...Do you leave him alone? Then this rope?" He pointed to the hemp rope that dragged Saul up just now. Since Saul had already climbed a certain distance, part of the rope was still hanging on the rock wall.

Saul looked at the hemp ropes piled up and was stunned for a second. Then, he immediately crawled over and pulled the hemp rope upwards. After pulling for two seconds, the speed slowed down. He was carefully feeling the touch from the hemp ropes. He was worried that the two miners below might be hanging on the hemp ropes in some way that he did not know.

The other end of the hemp rope seemed to have a heavy object hanging on it, but when it was pulled up, it was extremely easy.

This feeling of uncertainty made Sauer more careful, and he finally let go of his hanging heart when he pulled up the end of the hemp rope completely.

The whole process was watched by Garland. He still didn't ask any questions, but looked at the darkness below with his melancholy blue eyes.

"I saw Sean down there." Saul said, the details of what happened down there can be discussed after leaving the mine, but what happened down there can be briefly described, "But I don't think he's alive like that..." At this point, he glanced down and muttered, "...that mystic is not very reliable either."

"Sean is dead?" Garland looked serious, but there was no surprise on his face, "So, where is Andrew?"

"Dead." Saul immediately replied, and then, he blinked, stretched out his right hand and waved gently to Garland, "I have another discovery..."

Garland frowned slightly and leaned his head back.

"I saw a gold mine down there." Saul said with a smile.

"Gold mine? Haven't we encountered it once before? We have no way to process it. Those gold-bearing ores can only be sold to the army stationed on the island. Although the price is not bad, it is also more complicated." Garland looked calm and was not excited by hearing the news. Instead, his tone was slightly disgusted. "At that time, the other miners kept staring at us like... vultures surrounding a dead body."

Sauer didn't know about these pasts, but he knew that the reason why Garland remained calm was because he didn't express clearly.

"Garland, it's not the kind of ore with only a little bit of gold, it's..." Saul paused to calm down his excitement, "...it's pure gold, Garland, pure gold, the whole wall, the whole surface!" He said excitedly, opening his hands as he spoke.

"Pure...pure gold?" Garland had an expression of disbelief on his face, "The whole wall?" His voice unconsciously became louder, even a little deafening in this quiet space.

"Shh." Sauer put his right index finger in front of his lips, making a silent gesture.

Garland covered his mouth with his left hand and nodded slightly. At this moment, his eyes became slightly blurred, as if everything he heard just now seemed to be in a dream.

"Only we know here, Garland." Sauer coughed dryly, and continued: "We got rich."

"We got rich..." Garland repeated.

"We're rich!" Sauer clenched his fists. Suddenly, he shuddered. The coldness in the mine gradually became entangled at some point. However, the radiance of the psychic lamps around him remained, and his expression gradually changed from surprise to fear. "Let's leave here first, leave here first..." After speaking, his voice became softer and softer.

Holding the spirit lamp tightly with his left hand, he crawled back bit by bit.

Garland followed suit.

Suddenly, the little girl's hearty laughter reached Saul's ears, from far to near, with some echoes. In this laughter, it seemed to be mixed with endless resentment. He turned his head in horror and saw Garland's puzzled face. Then, he looked to the left and right. It seemed that at the end of the light of the psychic lamp, there was something lurking in the darkness, maybe... more than one.

"What's wrong?" Garland asked concerned.

However, this greeting seemed to be stretched and distorted continuously, and the calm voice became sharp and harsh. When it reached Sauer's ears, it had completely lost its original meaning.

Sauer's pupils contracted suddenly, he raised his head, arched his body, and pressed his back against the rock wall above, like a frightened kitten, ready to run away like a wild beast at any time. Then, he turned his head slowly and asked cautiously, "You...you know everything?"

"Know what?" Garland frowned.

Saul didn't answer, but showed a painful look on his face. Then, he stretched his right hand to the neck, grabbed the Nacharu amulet, and tore it off forcefully.Saul, whose eyes were clear again, looked down at the pattern in the center of the diamond-shaped talisman. The elk, which was supposed to be in high spirits, collapsed to the ground at this moment, and there were even traces of bones on its generous body.

"Are you okay?" Garland stretched out his right hand and gently pushed Saul.

"Leave first." Saul quickly put away the amulet, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and continued to crawl forward.

Although his expression was calm at this time, what happened just now stirred up a storm in his heart. He was obviously far away from the gold mine area, and he still had the double protection of the psychic lamp and the Nacharu amulet on his body. He still felt that he had fallen into a state of panic and could not control himself. In this state, everything around him seemed to be distorted and dismembered, and even the whole world became different.

Garland's simple concern just now was another sentence in his ears.

"You are not Saul."

Even thinking about it now, this sentence still appears in his mind.

Leaving from the narrow passage, and then returning from the hidden road at the corner, Sauer did not stop, and continued to walk out of the cave. Every time he passed a corner, he would stay for a while, using the ability of air perception to confirm that there was no one ambushing or strange things at the corner, and then he passed with confidence.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief when he finally stood at the entrance of the mine and let the sunlight cover his body. Whether it was yesterday or today, the moment he left the mine, he had the illusion that he would survive the disaster.

"Go and sit over there." Garland pointed to the hillside beside him.

Saul nodded and followed Garland to the resting place.

It is not yet time to return the lingering lamps. Miners can leave the mine to rest, or even return home early to rest. Of course, the lingering lights cannot pass through the guards unless they find a way to hide them. In any case, they must return the borrowed lingering lights in the evening, otherwise, Bill, who is in charge of managing the lingering lights, will report the situation.

The two ate the dry food they brought in the morning to fill their stomachs. For a moment, Sauer felt that the horror and madness he felt just now were very far away from him. Then, he thought of Andrew who might stay in the mine forever. Suddenly, the taste of the pancakes in his mouth became unpalatable.

He looked at the mine carts that were pushed out of the mine from time to time not far away, and was a little distracted. No matter from any angle, the efficiency was extremely low, even, it seemed to be so on purpose.

Generally speaking, the mining of mineral veins is for economic benefits. However, on Stewart Island, although the miners cannot leave the island, the managers' management of the miners is too loose, even to the point of going against common sense.According to his understanding, when the rights and interests cannot be guaranteed, the miners at the bottom will be squeezed more and more. They sleep up to 5 hours a day and have to be grateful to Dade. Obviously, the miners on this island are not like this.

He sighed, thinking of the situation he had encountered in the cave, and thinking of the requirements of the secret surgeon. He had a conjecture in his heart. Perhaps, the mineral never important was that the miner's mining itself, but he didn't want to ask Galan for the time being. He had known each other with Kalan. Samal must have discussed with Galan, and he asked only to increase doubts. Even most miners have discussed, but they do not know the answer.

(End of this chapter)