Lin Caogen and his group arrived at the entrance of Yanhuang Barbecue Restaurant!
The waiter, with a tablecloth slung over his shoulder, greeted them warmly, "Oh! You gentlemen are leaving get off work early today! You must be tired! Please come in!"
Lin Caogen chuckled inwardly!
Does this mean everyone who comes here to spend money is a miner?
Stepping inside the Yanhuang Barbecue Restaurant, one is struck by its enormous size! After all, land near Flame Valley is cheap, so houses can be built anywhere!
The barbecue restaurant has fifty large tables! There are also private booths and private rooms upstairs!
Just by looking at the store's layout, you can tell that it's usually packed with customers!
The waiter said, "Gentlemen! Unfortunately, all the private rooms are booked today! Would you please go to the main hall?"
Zero-charge said, "Just the main hall! Your private rooms have a minimum charge! I don't have any money!"
The waiter chuckled, "This gentleman is indeed a regular! Please, please, please!"
Shuoba led Lin Caogen and his group to the large square table in the center of the hall!
Without even looking at the menu, he ordered, "Fifty skewers of lamb kidneys! Fifty skewers of lamb tripe! Fifty skewers of lamb stuffed in a sandwich! One platter of green peppers, potatoes, mushrooms, and flatbread! Five barrels of goat milk wine! One pot of lamb noodles! One serving of stir-fried bamboo shoots! One serving of cucumber salad with onions, wood ear mushrooms, and onions! One serving of cod and bitter chrysanthemum! Half a pound of pig ears! Hurry up and bring them on!"
The waiter thought to himself, "A true connoisseur of food has arrived!"
He immediately said, "Alright! Kitchen staff, get ready to cook!"
Lin Caogen glanced around and said, "Brother, it's already 5:30 pm, why is there still no one in the shop!"
Zero-charge laughed, "They're almost here! The miners get off work at 5:30! Just wait and see!"
Five minutes later, miners wearing veils began to squeeze into the Yanhuang Barbecue Restaurant!
These miners sat around the roots of the grass and trees, removed their veils, stood up and shook themselves, their whole bodies covered in dirt!
Gu Xun'er couldn't help but use her immortal energy to raise a transparent barrier around the round table to prevent dust from flying in front of her!
A burly man at the first level of the Nascent Soul stage laughed and said, "What a woman! You think you can just come to work in the mine and eat dirt?"
Gu Xun'er gritted her teeth in anger! These brutes were nothing like Nascent Soul stage cultivators; they didn't have a trace of immortal aura about them. They were like groundhogs or pangolins that had crawled out of the ground! They weren't even human!
Lin Caogen sighed, "That's how it is for workers. They do the hardest work, get the lowest wages, and have the shortest lifespan! I never thought that even after cultivating to the Nascent Soul stage, these people still have to work!"
Ling Chong said, "People with Nascent Soul cultivation are considered cadres in the mine! The people who actually go down to the mine are all Core Formation and Meridian Condensation cultivation! Even Body Refinement cultivators can't do the work!"
Then another group of people entered the Yanhuang Barbecue Restaurant!
The waiter kept calling this group "Military Lords"!
Ling Chong explained, "They are troops sent from the Imperial Palace! They are all at the Nascent Soul stage! Their combat power is very strong! The 500 men that Xuan Yuan Chu Hai brought that we killed before were basically a ragtag army! But the regular army is different! They have undergone formal training, and not only are their overall attributes 20% to 30% stronger than the ragtag army, but they can also form formations to meet the enemy. Once they form a battle formation, their power increases dramatically!"
Lin Caogen glanced at a table of soldiers in the distance and thought, "They're really different! Even if there are only 500 of them, I'm afraid I'd have a hard time winning against such an armored army! When I killed Xuan Yuan Chu Hai's ragtag army, I only managed to win by using soul skills. But this elite force is well-equipped, and their armor has damage reduction properties against soul attacks. Moreover, it can reduce the damage from pure physical attacks by several times! Regular troops are indeed different!!"
Lin Caogen, with his sharp ears and keen eyes, drank goat milk wine and ate roasted meat skewers while secretly observing and listening carefully to their conversation!
"Chief! Brother, let me vent a little, but don't take offense! What are we doing all this time? The wages are so low! We're digging all day long! And it gets hotter and hotter! We're the Imperial Army, why should we work with those miners? Besides, the temperature a thousand meters underground is a whopping 200 degrees Celsius! Do you think we can even keep digging?"
The leader, holding a small knife and slicing through a piece of braised mutton head, said, "What can we do? The most important thing for us soldiers is to obey orders! If you can't dig it up, how can you expect ordinary miners to? The Xuanhuang Giant Rock isn't so easy to break. Let me tell you, our 568 grid area is the most likely place to dig out the Yanhuang Flame! Just dig down another 300 meters! I'm sure the Yanhuang Flame is right below!"
Hearing their leader's unwavering confidence, all the soldiers perked up!
The soldier exclaimed excitedly, "Boss, if that's true, it's a fantastic thing! But if we dig another 300 meters down, the temperature will probably triple! Even if we're all at the Nascent Soul stage, it'll be hard for us to withstand temperatures of four or five hundred degrees for long!"
The leader took a sip of wine and said, "Stop complaining! As long as we dig out the Yanhuang Flame next month, I heard that Emperor Xuanyuan will personally come to retrieve this wondrous fire! At that time, the Emperor will surely reward the entire army! The Yanhuang Flame was dug out from here, so the benefits will naturally be several times greater than in other areas! What are you complaining about!"
The soldier laughed and said, "Good, good, good! Victory is in sight! But after years of mining, several of our brothers have fallen ill, and we're short-handed! Boss, look at me, I can't do the work of three people by myself!"
The leader said thoughtfully, "Starting tomorrow, we'll allocate a portion of the military funds and post notices widely, inviting Nascent Soul stage cultivators to serve as militia members and participate in mining! When the time comes, the weaker cultivators will be miners hauling the slag, while the militia will rush to the front, and we'll follow behind with whips. Other districts won't dare to do this, but I'm going to do it this way! Victory is in sight for District 568, and it's time to let the brothers rest!"
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