In the years before the unscrupulous merchants came to Graymist Town, when this town was still inhabited only by simple indigenous people, people made a living by fishing at sea, and were self-sufficient and lived and worked in peace and contentment.
The gray crystals in the mine have not been discovered by the outside world. It is a sparsely populated area with towering mountains shrouded in thick fog all year round. Sunlight cannot penetrate the heavy obstruction of the towering ancient trees.
The bandits' stronghold was hidden in it.
They had committed crimes outside and had fled here. Especially the bandit leader, who was said to be the leader of the rebel army. After being defeated, he could not survive outside and hid in the mountains.
He had a ferocious face and the smell of blood from years of killing lingered around him.
In the past, residents of the town would go up the mountain to pick up some beautiful stones and sell them nearby, but since the bandits came, anyone who dared to go up the mountain would be killed.
The bandit leader made the townspeople's heads into wine glasses for drinking, strung them into necklaces and hung them around his neck, and he also went down the mountain to rob beautiful girls... The townspeople were unable to sleep or eat and decided to deal with the bandits.
Although the bandit leader committed all kinds of evil, such as burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of atrocities, he was very loyal to his brothers who shared life and death with him.
In autumn, all the trees withered and the mountains were full of dead trees. Several residents of the town who had been robbed by bandits bought some oil and explosives from a chemical factory and set the entire mountain on fire.
Fire burns from the bottom up.
The bandit ran to the top of the mountain with his brothers.
Until the end, his brothers surrounded him and trapped him in the middle. All his brothers were burned to death in the fire that night, and only he walked out alive from the ruins on sparks.
He wants revenge.
He rushed down the mountain, captured the arsonists, peeled off their skins and made drums out of them, and beat the drums to comfort the souls of his brothers in heaven.
His bloody and cruel actions brought about stronger revenge from the residents of the town.
The residents of the town issued a reward.
The outside rangers who came for money caught the bandits and tied them up and handed them over to the townspeople.
The residents hated the bandits with a vengeance.
Young and middle-aged people did not dare to go up the mountain to pick up stones. Their children would be scared and stop crying at night when they heard the names of bandits. The beautiful girls in the town did not dare to grow long hair for fear of being abducted by bandits and taken to the mountains.
The townspeople wanted to smash the bandits' heads in with rocks.
Stompush his drum to pieces.
They shouted that they would hang him from the bell tower.
The stone with a strange luster rolled to the feet of the foreign merchant. The foreign merchant saw this scene with great interest and spent a large sum of money to redeem the bandit.
Although the residents of the small town hated the bandits, most of them were more greedy for money. After all, the damage caused by the bandits was limited, and only a few families had a deep blood feud with them.
The anger has been vented, and most of the bandits have been burned to death. It would be wise to take some practical benefits.
The merchant took the bandit away, asked him to recuperate and help him bury his dead brothers.
After the mine was burned by fire, it turned into a barren mountain. It seemed to be cursed and no grass grew there. After a rain, the ashes covering it were washed away, revealing sparkling gray crystal ore.
Merchants bought the mountains at low prices and then hired the residents of the town to mine the ore.
But those ores seemed to be cursed.
In the past, people who picked up stones would not get sick.
But since the fire, miners who went into the mountains began to contract strange diseases.
Vaping lung disease is spreading like a plague and cannot be controlled.
Some people said that the bandits who were burned to death came back to take revenge.
Some say this is the result of greedy demands like the mountains.
Merchants from other places don't believe this statement.
He made a fortune from these gray crystal ores.
The recovered bandit had lost his stronghold, and in order to repay the merchant's kindness, he helped the merchant look after the mine.
In order to get rid of the large number of sick miners, the businessman asked the bandits to blow up the mine after the mountain was hollowed out.
Not only did he bury the sick miners, he also deceived the bandits and buried all of them in the mine.
As the huge rock fell, the merchant left with a large sum of money, and all his blood and tears were buried under the rubble, never to see the light of day.
In order to prevent the miners who had been sick but not treated from causing trouble, these scandals were spread out, affecting the price of gray crystal ore.
Dealing with the dead is always easier and faster than dealing with the living.
The businessman cooperated with the local chemical plant and placed the previous batch of miners whose conditions were getting worse at the chemical plant on the pretext of arranging subsequent work for them.
This was followed by the subsequent chemical plant explosion.
Squeezing the miners dry.
The miners also gave birth to calves and horses.
Those children who lost their parents became a headache for the town.
The library director who left the chemical plant saw the huge benefits of these children. He pretended to be kind to the outside world, adopted these children, and then took out a huge amount of insurance on them.
To show my love for my children.
He gave each adopted child a sparkling gray crystal gem.
When one dies, we take back the gem and give it to the next one.
These children died in various accidents in the library.
He declared to the public that the ghosts of the children's parents would not let the children go and wanted to take them to paradise.
But in fact, the death of the child was not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster.
The library director who had done so many bad things also received retribution for this.
He also contracted vaping lung disease.
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These were the beginnings of the pollution in this town.
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