Chapter Two: Schemes

he seventy lashes, but Zhou Kui and Geng Xiaoling reached out to me from either side, lifted my arms, and with a slight effort, tossed me onto the scaffolding.“Look, the big shots you’ve brought in ar...Lu Ye felt a powerful force grab him, dragging him forward involuntarily. Gritting his teeth against the pain in his chest, he asked, "Yang Guan, where are we going"

"Cut the crap!" Yang Guan shouted angrily, walked a few steps, then looked at the mining basket behind Lu Ye: "Throw it away."

Lu Ye didn't dare to disobey. He untied the miner's cage and threw it on the ground, but he didn't throw down his pickaxe. Yang Guan just glanced at him and didn't say anything more.

Go deep into the unknown, the light behind you fading away.

So here, mining, if you don't follow the trail of torches, it's easy to get lost.

Once a commoner, reduced to the status of a mine slave, loses their way in this place, the consequences are easily imaginable.

In the mouths of those who were enslaved in the mines, lit passageways were known as bright roads, while those shrouded in perpetual darkness were called dark roads.

Often there are cases where torches run out, the bright path turns dark, and slave miners lose their way and starve to death.

As Yang Guanxi walked, Lu Ye noticed something strange. Yang Guanxi kept looking back over his shoulder, his expression tense. Lu Ye had gained something good from it. Now that Lu Ye was mentioning it again, she knew it wasn't false."Changing the subject, she said, “However, your thoughtfulness truly amazes me, junior brothe...