Unexpected clues
Not finding the wound on my forehead, the man grabbed my neck, turned me back and forth, and then pulled my hair and tried to lift me up in the air.
The people waiting nearby were getting a little impatient, and from the sound they made, it was the one who kicked us to vent his anger at the beginning:
"Wang Yongfu, you are fucking mentally ill. Your hands are already a mess, but you insist on finding a hole to get out. If you like holes so much, go back to your mother." Before he could finish his words, his tone changed with fear, "What are you going to do - let go, let go..."
I kept my eyes closed and didn't react.
But he also heard the man scream suddenly, and the rest of the sound seemed to be blocked by something, leaving only a gurgling sound like air leaking. He immediately smelled a fresh smell of blood, and his heart immediately felt cold.
The man called Wang Yongfu still had one hand firmly on my hair, and he seemed to spit a mouthful of thick phlegm to the side, and said coldly: "Try to say one more word to me."
He turned his attention back and said suspiciously, "The intestines are still empty... he must be dead. Weird." But he did not relax his hands at all, instead he tightened his grip.
My scalp hurt from being strangled, and my heart sank. Somehow I had a feeling that this moody desperado would be difficult to get rid of.
I don't know how long he looked at me. He didn't seem to have any intention of leaving in a hurry. His eyes were like knives piercing my face. They were very close and chilling.
After looking me around without any result, Wang Yongfu sneered and suddenly slapped me in the face.
This was a heavy blow, and I was caught off guard and was stunned. My ears were buzzing, and this child's body was almost blacking out. The strong feeling of nausea almost made me convulse.
But this strange body was indeed too weak. No matter how hard I tried, it remained stagnant on the surface, no different from a corpse.
Wang Yongfu stared at me for a long time, and seeing that I didn't have any obvious physiological reaction, he was skeptical and finally let go of me and threw me to the ground.
"Go, put it away."
I didn't know who he was talking to, but perhaps the fact that he could easily turn hostile and hurt others had shocked the others. After a while, someone came over timidly with trembling hands and put his hands under my armpits.
It is not a difficult task to lift up a malnourished child of eleven or twelve years old.
After a dozen bumps and clangs, I was quickly rolled up and stuffed into a mine cart. The small area had a strong smell of cold rust. Someone threw some broken tools and some things like plastic film into the mine cart, and piled them on me without paying any attention, burying most of me.
The headache came only half a beat later. I maintained the curled-up posture after being thrown in, and finally took a small breath, and quietly opened my eyes a little with the help of the cover. I saw a burly figure walking in front of the mine car with heavy steps.
"Brother Yong... Brother Yongfu?" the person pushing me asked carefully, "What about the goddess?"
"Same old, locked up here and can't get away."
They talked very quickly, and I heard the noise of cleaning up around me gradually stop, and the sound of footsteps gathered around me.
Someone whispered, "It's going to get dark soon."
With just such a simple sentence, the villagers were visibly anxious. Wang Yongfu also became a little uncertain and cursed with a sullen face, "Let's go, stop talking nonsense!"
Without further ado, everyone left.
There is a loud echo in this currently dry and waterless spherical space. Not only is there no stagnant water or blue-black knife edges, but there are also no holes as densely packed as honeycomb coal.
Only the faint light reminded me that there might be an exit here that had been dug out. There was a thick wooden door that was about one meter tall. When the door was opened, a long ray of light shone from the outside to the inside.
I vaguely noticed that these people took more than one cart with them during the evacuation, but I didn't know what was in them. Judging from the noise, they must be very heavy. But in terms of weight, it didn't seem like they were filled with ore.
While I was still thinking, the mountain man who pushed me exclaimed in confusion.
"Why does the cart feel heavier?"
No one paid attention to the muttering, and the mountain man himself did not take it to heart. He shook his head and immediately followed the footsteps of the other mountain men.
He said it unintentionally, but I know he is right.
The minecart is getting heavier.
I was the one who felt it most deeply, because the dripping water on my shoulders and chest continued and the frequency increased.
In the blink of an eye, before we even got close to the wooden door at the exit, a shallow layer of water had already accumulated in the mine cart. At this rate, it probably wouldn't take too long for it to submerge me.
Maybe it was the numbness and distraction caused by excessive pain. At this point, I actually had a very absurd association:
Am I now a mobile natural spring? If they drop me carelessly deeper into the mine, will the dripping water from my body continue to fill up these previously dry spaces?
In ancient times, there was Xiaolongnu who filled the East China Sea. That was a story of deep love and tragic love. Now it's my turn to become the eye of the sea for these scumbags. Isn't it a bit of a disadvantage?
While I was daydreaming, the mountain man who pushed me probably couldn't stand the vaguely depressing atmosphere, and whispered to the person next to him: "Where exactly are we going to throw this child later?"
The person he asked was a little puzzled and said unhappily: "Abandoned mine cave as usual, you just arrived?"
"...Brother Yongfu, he is my great-uncle's distant cousin." The cart pusher shrank his neck, "I just followed him here to make a fortune. I have only been here for a few days."
He was startled by his question and quickly said "oh". His attitude became much better. It was obvious that he was still frightened by Wang Yongfu's cruelty:
"Just follow us later. This kid's intestines have been ripped out by something. We need to get rid of him quickly."
The man pushing the cart was still a little timid: "How can you tell that this child was... hollowed out by something?"
The two men were talking in low voices here. Wang Yongfu probably heard it. His face turned bad and he kicked the mine cart.
Just with this one move, the mine cart shook slightly, and the shallowly accumulated water began to shake and make a slight sound.
The three people originally had different expressions, and now they were all stunned.
Wang Yongfu quickly peeled off the plastic film covering me, and he was also bold enough to turn me over again to see what was going on.
As soon as his hand reached out, the cold accumulated water silently wet his palm.
Wang Yongfu's hand trembled and his expression suddenly froze.
"...Where did all this water come from? What the hell are you doing, Wang Ping?"
Wang Ping, who was pushing the cart, was startled and almost stuttered, "No, it's not me, why did I..." Wang Yongfu angrily slapped him on the back of the head, and he fell headfirst, almost burying his face in my nose.
This unexpected movement happened too fast. I didn't even have time to close my slightly opened eyes. I saw a big face rushing in front of me. I was extremely speechless and stared at him.
When their eyes met, Wang Ping froze. He let out a loud scream and fell to his knees with weak legs.
I had already closed my eyes tightly, feeling so embarrassed that I wanted to let out a long sigh.
Wang Yongfu and the man next to him were both frightened by Wang Ping and were furious: "What are you howling for!"
Wang Ping shuddered again, and began to cry: “He…he…” He hesitated for a long time but did not dare to utter a single word.
Even through the mine car, I could feel him shaking like a sieve. It seemed as if he was staring at me with my eyes closed, trying to make sure whether I was dazzled.
After a long while, Wang Ping said in despair: "Brother Yongfu, how did this kid die? He, he won't come back to settle the score with us, right?"
Strangely, Wang Yongfu was silent for a moment.
This sudden silence made me stunned. A very subtle sense of strangeness rose in my heart. I felt that there was an answer, and it was emerging from an angle that I had not expected.
"...Let's go, the time is almost up, let's go out immediately."
Wang Yongfu said, with a lingering sense of panic: "Pingzi, don't ask where these children's bodies came from, we don't know either."
The cart started moving again immediately, and this time the footsteps of the three people became very messy.
Wang Ping was almost frightened and fainted. He followed closely and stammered as he asked:
"Didn't we buy these kids from the kidnappers? What on earth could have attacked them? Aren't we here to mine and make a fortune?"
Wang Yongfu was furious when he heard this and cursed:
"I don't know! I told you I don't know!"
Wang Ping was confused: "W-what?"
The mine cart came to a sudden stop.
I felt a hand gripping the mine cart's handrail tightly, with such force that it seemed as if it was trying to twist the metal handrail off.
“——I don’t know.” Wang Yongfu spoke word by word, as if he was squeezing it out from his teeth. He was breathing heavily and his eyes were probably red.
"Let me be clear: I don't know where these children came from, and I don't know where the bodies of these children came from."
"For example, the thing in the car, we only saw it appear there, but its stomach was empty. We can only assume that it was hiding somewhere, and was attacked by something at night, hollowed out, and then dumped out during the day."
"So, stop asking the fucking questions! Get out first and dispose of the body!"
Obviously, not everyone knew this statement. For a moment, Wang Ping and the guy next to him held their breath, as if they could not understand it at all.
I was also in a trance for a while, and then I slowly accepted the facts he stated. At this moment, my mind jumped, and suddenly the scene when I just woke up here emerged.
No, that's not right. This was the first time I had serious doubts about the "injuries" of this body.
Because from the time I woke up until now, I have had many new experiences of pain, but from beginning to end I have never felt uncomfortable because of an empty intestine.
In fact, if they hadn't mentioned it intermittently, I wouldn't have known it existed and would have thought my organs were still normal and intact.
Rather than their assumption, as a person involved, I feel more like I don't have these organs, so I won't suffer fatal injuries from losing them.
...It seems like I have seen this situation somewhere today.
After coming here, their so-called immortality of the goddess and my "resurrection from the dead" may not be what they understood, but something completely opposite.
At this point, Wang Yongfu's conversation with the other two had already moved on to another topic.
"Remember this, don't fucking touch the goddess. Anyone who finds me will be like that idiot on the ground just now."
I heard a strong sense of greed and fear in Wang Yongfu's voice:
"Among the corpses that appeared these days, she is the only one who actually survived. And it seems that she will never die. No matter how weak she was or even stopped breathing the day before, she would be seen alive the next day. She can still communicate with people normally, and she doesn't behave like a child at all."
"She said they all came from the mines. Do you understand what that means?"
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