Chapter 006 The Terrible Warden

J72 had never met the warden, but when he mentioned him, he couldn't hide the fear in his eyes. "The warden is a super perverted guy. Remember to memorize the training manual thoroughly, otherwise you will be fed to the warden's mutant beast."

Earning points is the most important thing for Jiang He right now.

After all, her bracelet showed -800.

The numbers are eye-catching.

Fortunately, today is Monday and there is still some time until Sunday. If she works hard at mining, there is a little hope that the negative profit will turn into positive profit, provided that there is a kind person who can help her pay for the meal.

J72 felt Jiang He's fierce gaze, and he was a little confused, but his body instinctively sensed danger. "You, what are you looking at me for?"

Jiang He's gaze passed over him and swept over the people who were eating in the cafeteria.

Under the illumination of incandescent lamps, the entire cafeteria was filled with shining bald heads, and they were quite neat.

Jiang He turned back silently and picked at the rice on the plate with a heavy heart. She hadn't eaten for a long time, so she didn't dare to eat too fast.

After dinner, J72 washed the dishes and put them back. "If you don't wash them clean, you'll be deducted points. One hundred points will be deducted each time."

This is the 7am meal. There are only two meals in the cafeteria, 7am and 9pm.

The work to earn points is from 8 am to 8 pm, with no meals in between.

The task was to be received in the square outside the canteen's back door. J72 chose the mine filling job, which could earn him 50 points a day.

It was only enough to buy food, no wonder he didn’t even have enough points to take a shower.

But as an ordinary person with a frail figure, he is suitable for this type.

Jiang He glanced at the types of work on the big screen. Mining had the highest points, followed by ore sorting and ore refining, each with 80 points, while filling mines and planting crops each had 50 points.

Although the mining points are high, the mining task cards are the most left.

It can be seen that mining is not an easy job.

Jiang He walked up and received the mining task card.

J72 knew she was short of points and that she had no choice but to mine to survive. He looked at Jiang He's emaciated appearance and sighed in comfort, "You shouldn't get poisoned after mining for a week. It's only when you mine frequently that you're more likely to get poisoned. Once you earn enough points, you won't have to go anymore. Also, be careful when you go down into the mines; fights are most likely to break out there."

There were not many people at the place where the tasks were received. Everyone rushed there and after receiving the task cards, they quickly rushed towards the buses parked on the side.

The buses have different routes, and Jiang He got on the bus to the mine.

The bus was no different from the one she had taken when she arrived. The windows were all sealed, so she couldn't see what was outside.

After getting in the car, Jiang He found himself a little out of place with the people in the car.

There were more than a hundred people in this car, all of them were robots and deformed people, with strange shapes. Some were half-machine and half-human, and some had a mechanical body with only a human head. However, their eyes emitting a faint green light showed that they had been modified.

These green eyes all fell on Jiang He.

Jiang He was locked up in a small dark room for ten days. She was so thin that her bones were visible. Although she had just had a full meal, she looked listless, like a paper figure that could be blown away by the wind. She was fragile, young and easy to bully.

Can this be used for mining?

Everyone glanced at her hair.

He is a silly newbie who only knows that mining can earn high points, but doesn't know that mining is a physical job.

The deformed person closest to Jiang He pushed her shoulder and asked, "Are you going to sell it at the mine?"

His body was covered with ugly bumps, like the sebaceous glands on a toad. His face and neck were all covered with them, densely packed and extremely ugly. These sebaceous glands squeezed his eyes into a slit, making his mouth look very big.

Jiang He glanced at his hand on his shoulder. The back of his hand was also covered with dense sebaceous glands.

The number on his bracelet is: 13449.

Selling this kind of thing does not distinguish between men and women. Jiang He's current appearance makes it impossible to tell her gender. She looks like a ghost that is neither male nor female. Maybe even ghosts are prettier than her.

Her voice was cold, "Same as you."

She wasn't frightened by the big, sebaceous-gland-like bumps on his body, nor was she offended or angry.

This calmness was the most puzzling thing. 13449 withdrew his hand, his voice furious, "Then you'd be courting death if you went there."

Someone nearby echoed, "Hahaha, I haven't seen such a delicate little fellow in a long time."

There are so few women in the training camp that Jiang He has never met another woman of the same sex.

Although there are many men, there are not many as young as Jiang He. She is considered to be good-looking among the deformed people and robots in this car.

Of all human races, mutants and robots are the most prone to violent crime, and are ranked at the bottom of society. Most of them are aggressive, licentious, promiscuous, and devoid of any humanity.

In the eyes of aliens, these two types are not even considered human. Most aliens think that deformed humans are beasts and robots are a pile of scrap metal that will sooner or later be controlled by code.

If humans have a discrimination chain, aliens are at the top of the pyramid, and deformed people and robots are at the bottom.

No noise or fighting was allowed in the car, and those who were talking immediately fell silent when the machine guns on the iron wall appeared.

The vehicle was fast and smooth, and we arrived at the mining area in less than twenty minutes.

Everyone rushed out of the car, took their task cards and ran to the time clock machine to quickly punch in.

You must clock in before 8 o'clock. If you are one second late, double points will be deducted.

After clocking in, you will be led into the mine from the hanging basket wearing a safety helmet with a searchlight.

The mine was very deep, and Jiang He discovered that everything here was manually controlled, with almost no mechanical equipment.

The foreman guarding the mine entrance used a loudspeaker to repeatedly educate everyone about safety precautions for entering the mine. "The mission cards you were given have insect repellent properties. Keep them with you and don't throw them away. The last gondola out of the mine is at 8:30 p.m. After 8:30 p.m., you must stay in the mine on your own. Your life and death are at your own risk."

The hanging basket can only hold ten people at a time. Seeing that there was a frail newcomer in the basket this time, everyone's eyes fell on Jiang He, who was out of place.

Their eyes were scrutinizing, but mostly malicious.

Jiang He lowered her head and ignored the gazes. She noticed that these people were hanging their task cards around their necks. Jiang He followed suit and passed a rope through the hole on the task card. The rope was too short to be hung around her neck, so she wrapped the rope around her wrists.

The mine was deep, a good twenty or thirty meters, and so cramped that only a gondola could go up and down. As the gondola slowly descended, the people around it kept a distance from each other, no one was close to each other, and no one spoke. The air was filled with a tense atmosphere.

Only when the basket finally landed on the platform did the people breathe a sigh of relief.

There were shovels and baskets on one side of the platform. Jiang He followed their example and took a shovel and a basket.

The platform wasn't big, but it was packed with people. Some knew each other, and they were whispering and discussing, "Yesterday, a full-grown nail-eating green python got out and bit more than a dozen people, including my roommate. I don't know if those guys killed the nail-eating green python."

"Of course not. Even bullets can't penetrate a full-grown spike-eating green python. It can even escape through walls. Those guys don't care about our lives at all, so they won't spend a lot of effort to catch a spike-eating green python."

"If I come across one, I'll tear it into pieces. I've hated this kind of software since I was a kid."

"Hey, someone dug up a nest of green ant eggs the day before yesterday and sold them for over 5,000 credits. I wish I had that kind of luck."

"Green ant eggs are nothing. I heard someone even dug up a nest of colorful scale fish."

"The warden specifically requested the colorful fish. Digging up just one would give you 100,000 points, right? A whole nest is just crap luck."

"Even if you're able to dig, you might not be able to take it. The colorful scale fish is extremely poisonous and can turn a person into water. If you die, there will be no trace of your body left."

"People like us are afraid that we won't be able to dig up the colorful scale fish, and nothing will be left of us."

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After leaving the platform, you have to carry your basket and shovel and walk deeper into the mine. It is a downhill road all the time and the road is not flat. In many places, only one person can bend over and crawl over. As the downhill road becomes steeper and steeper, the oxygen becomes thinner and thinner, and there is always a pungent strange smell in the air. It is said that this is the smell of the mineral Jun.

The ore is poisonous, but the deformed people and robots don't care about the poison. Everyone on the way is talking about it and dreaming of getting rich quickly.

Jiang He followed the team silently, absorbing the principles of survival here. The mine contained not only the official ore Jun, but also many "rare and exotic animals." With this came the risk of being eaten by these deformed and exotic animals.

The risks and benefits are proportional.

The deformed people and robots who had some self-awareness would not go deep into the mine. They dragged their baskets and shovels and left the main group at the first few forks in the road.

There will be more ore deep in the mine, but it will also be easier to encounter mutant beasts.

It was Jiang He's first day in the mine. She knew very little about the place and had no intention of going deeper. Seeing many people heading towards the fork in the road, she also found a fork in the road and crawled in, dragging her basket and shovel.

The holes at the forks in the road were very narrow. Jiang He walked for a while and turned to look behind her. Following her was a deformed man with horns on his head.

The horns look like sheep's horns. Apart from that, there are no other deformed features on his face. Only his face is pointed, like an inverted triangle. But compared with other deformed people, he already has a regular appearance.

Seeing Jiang He looking over, he smiled shyly, "I used to dig in this mine. My name is Yang Li."

Jiang He nodded and continued walking forward without responding.

The other party seemed very enthusiastic and friendly, but her mind was full of 800 points. She just wanted to mine well and didn't want to waste energy chatting.

The deeper you go, the larger the mine becomes, gradually allowing two people to walk side by side.

But Yang Li did not catch up, he and Jiang He always kept a distance of one meter.

After reaching the end, Jiang He used a shovel to scrape the ore off the wall.

Jun is a very hard mineral. The surrounding soil may be affected by Jun and is also extremely hard.

It took her half a day to knock off a piece of jun the size of a palm.

Jiang He, who was sweating all over, felt a little happy and reached out to catch the piece of Jun, as if he was afraid that it would fall to the ground and melt.

Just as she held Jun in her hands, a black, slender insect crawled out from Jun.

Jiang He originally wanted to look at Jun in her hand, but she got too close, and the black, slender insect magnified in her eyes, like a snake swimming in the air, twisting its body and opening its mouth, revealing black, sharp teeth, biting towards her fingers.