[Mission Triggered: The Poor Widow of a Mining Accident!]
[Identity Loading: Miner "Little Stone"]
[Mission Description: Rescue the father and son from a mining accident ten years ago! Escape before the mine owner, Wang Ba, seals off the mine entrance; Countdown: 23:59:00; Items Provided: Gas Mask x1; Flashlight x1; Pickaxe x1]
[Task Reward: 10 drought-resistant seeds (unit: jin)]
[Mission Failed: Death by Suffocation]
...
Jiang Chan instinctively reached out to touch her neck and face.
His skin was rough and covered in sticky coal sludge.
The hands were small, with prominent knuckles, covered with chilblain cracks and thick calluses.
This is the body of a twelve or thirteen-year-old mine laborer named "Little Stone"!
She became a small stone.
Trapped deep inside this man-eating black mine.
"Waaah... I don't want to die..." Not far away, a man's hoarse, suppressed sobs came out intermittently, like a broken bellows, "My family... my family just had a grandson... not even a month old yet..."
"Save your energy, old man," another, older, more weary voice rang out, tinged with a resigned numbness, "The King of Hell has called your names... No one can escape... Accept your fate, close your eyes sooner and suffer less..."
"Bullshit!" a volatile young voice roared, the sound echoing in the narrow space, filled with a furious rage on the verge of collapse. "I'm only seventeen! Why should I die!" This was followed by the dull thud of a fist slamming into the damp coal wall, and a suppressed groan of pain.
Despair spread like a plague in this absolute darkness and icy sewage.
The air grew thinner and thinner, carrying a heavy smell of dust and... the suffocating stench of a corpse before it rots.
Jiang Chan gritted her teeth and took a deep breath. The cold air, carrying the smell of rust and death, stung her lungs painfully.
For those 10 jin of superior seeds!
Her fingers dug deep into the cold, damp coal dust beneath her, her fingernails immediately filling with black mud.
A faint glimmer of light, an extremely dim and weak spark of memory, flickered in her chaotic mind.
The Rat's Path... an abandoned, mostly collapsed old alleyway... very small... hard to find... Little Stone once slipped into it by chance when he was hiding from the whip... it seems... it seems to lead to a place a little higher up, but where is the exit?
I can't remember!
Little Stone's memories are shattered into pieces!
But this might be the only way out!
calm!
Jiang Chan, calm down!
She bit down hard on the tip of her tongue, the salty, metallic taste instantly filling her mouth, and the sharp pain jolted her confused mind clear.
She took several deep breaths of the polluted, cold air, forcing herself to calm down.
Little Stone's memory fragments were frantically mobilized and filtered.
This is the only small, elevated platform that wasn't completely submerged after the water seepage.
The air... is getting thinner and thinner, and it feels difficult to breathe. Every time I inhale, it feels like a rusty saw is stuck in my lungs and pulling.
The water... the dirty water that seeps down, it won't kill you with thirst for now, but drinking too much of it will definitely kill you.
She listened intently to the suppressed sobs and gasps, combining them with Little Stone's hazy memories—
There were about thirty people in the mine, mostly adult miners. We don't know how many were killed or injured!
But the father and son who need to be saved in the system mission are definitely still alive.
In the darkness, a sudden, soft "click" sound rang out.
The sound wasn't loud, but in the deathly silence, it was like a needle piercing solidified ink; everyone instinctively stopped sobbing and held their breath.
Immediately afterwards, a bright, concentrated beam of light, like an extremely sharp knife, suddenly tore through the impenetrable darkness!
Light!
It is light!
It's blinding!
overbearing!
With an almost sacred majesty, it forcefully cleaved through this pitch-black mine, a place that represented death, and shone a light that could illuminate people's hearts!
In an instant, everyone was blinded by the sudden burst of light and immediately forced their eyes open.
Dozens of eyes, bloodshot and sunken, frozen with fear, numbness and despair on the verge of collapse, were pierced by this sudden beam of intense light!
The beam of light wasn't thick, but in absolute darkness, it shone as brightly as a fragment of the sun.
The beam of light pierced through the coal dust swirling in the air, forming a clear path that shot straight ahead to the damp, slag- and gravel-covered pit walls.
At the center of the beam of light, a small human figure was steadily enveloped.
The little figure stood on a slightly protruding coal rock, thin and bony, his clothes tattered like mop rags, his small face covered in black coal mud, making it almost impossible to see his nose and eyes.
Only beneath his hair, which was covered in coal dust, did his eyes shine with an astonishing brightness, like two eerie flames burning within them.
It's a "small stone"!
That little mute who usually cowers in the corner and doesn't dare to utter a sound!
The beam of light was coming from the tip of that strange black stick in his hand, which was thick at both ends and thin in the middle, and was emitting a strong light!
A deathly silence.
Even the suppressed sobs disappeared.
Dozens of eyes were fixed on the small figure holding the light, each pair of eyes filled with an unbelievable and turbulent emotion.
Even the young man who had just been furiously smashing the wall stood there with his mouth agape, as if struck by lightning.
Standing in the center of that concentrated beam of light, Jiang Chan felt as if she were being roasted over a fire, her heart pounding like a drum in her chest.
She forced her voice out, its hoarseness and childlike tone unique to Xiaoshitou, clearly striking everyone's ears:
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