As a slave, Lao Pang's life became even more miserable. He had an iron collar around his neck with an iron chain attached to the collar, and was locked in the yard like a dog.
His daily task was to work non-stop, from chopping wood and fetching water, cleaning the house, to feeding livestock, cleaning up manure, and doing farm work in the fields.
Because of the language barrier, he was like a mute old cow. He could only sleep five hours a day and had to work non-stop once he opened his eyes. If he was slow or did something wrong, he would be beaten.
After persisting in this way for three months, Lao Pang's body was covered with scars. The long-term slavery caused his spirit to completely collapse. He would rather die than live this life worse than pigs and dogs.
So he gave up and, without fear of death, stopped working and lay on the ground, remaining indifferent to how the farmers whipped him.
The farmer beat him for a whole day, and the whip, which was as thick as a thumb, was broken into two pieces. Lao Pang was covered in blood, and the skin and flesh in the serious areas were already bloody.
It wasn't that he didn't react to the pain, but he had been beaten to the point of being on the verge of death, and he didn't even have the strength to scream.
The farmer also noticed his dying state and knew that this slave was no longer of much use, so he contacted the outside world and tried to resell him.
In this way, the dying old Pang was resold at a very low price, and the second buyer was Phyllis in Chinatown!
Lao Pang left the village and was taken to Chinatown. At first, when he saw some Chinese-style buildings outside through the car window, he was surprised to think that he had returned to China. However, it was not until he got off the car that he realized that everything was just an illusion.
This time, as he expected, he came to a large fraud base after entering the park. Because he was seriously injured, he was treated to good food and drinks for three days. After he recovered, he and other newcomers participated in the so-called "on-the-job training". There would be someone to tell them what kind of fraudulent tactics they should use when facing different groups of people, and how to divert and deal with the money after defrauding it.
Old Pang was covered in injuries and had a slight fever due to the infection. He listened in a daze and only understood half of what was said.
Once I officially start working, although life here won’t be easy, compared to being a slave in a farmer’s house, it is simply a paradise on earth.
He was afraid that he would be sold into slavery again, so he worked very hard, making calls every day as required, repeating the same words over and over again.
But deceiving people is a skill, and not everyone is cut out for telecom fraud. Although Lao Pang worked hard to learn and make calls, he barely made any calls for three whole months. The only time he succeeded was to get an elderly man's bank card and password, but when he logged in to the backend, he found that the balance was less than three digits...
Normally, if they didn't close an order for half a month, they'd be punished, beaten, or even transferred to another job. But the managers saw Lao Pang's efforts and knew that others weren't doing well because they weren't working hard enough. But he really wasn't doing well!
It took three months for Lao Pang's injured body to fully recover. Seeing that his physical condition was still good, several managers discussed with each other and decided to resell the property for the third time.
The third time, we came to the mine!
This place is different from the previous two places. If the slaves can't do the work, the farmers will definitely find a way to replace them. Even if the fraud fails to deceive people, it will also waste an income job.
But inside the mines, it's a matter of casting a wide net to catch more fish. Once you're bought in, you're obligated to work in the mines as long as you're still breathing. If you lose your ability to work, you lose your value, so there's no need to resell you; you can simply dispose of it on the spot.
With hundreds of miners dying every day, it was commonplace. Over time, not only the warlords but also the other miners became accustomed to it.
Straightening up his back and taking a breath, Lao Pang's face was full of vicissitudes of life: "I have been working here for three years. On the surface, I still look like a normal person, but in fact, I have injuries all over my body and I have aged twenty years.
I told them I was only 42, but few people believed me..."
Over the past three years, Lao Pang has thought about escaping countless times, and even participated twice at the instigation of other miners. But each time, he was caught without any surprise, had a toe chopped off, and was thrown back into the wooden house...
You Tianfu never thought that Lao Pang's life would be so miserable. It was really one wrong step, and then there were all the wrong steps. He stepped into the abyss because of a wrong thought, and there has been no chance of recovery since then...
Having heard that he had stayed in Phyllis's campus for three months, I started asking around. "Phyllis's campus is heavily guarded. From the outside, you can only see a tall tower inside. I previously suspected he was engaging in telecom fraud. Now that I think about it, that tower should be some kind of signal base station, right?"
Lao Pang nodded, but his expression turned even uglier. Even though he had left the park, the fear in his heart still lingered when he recalled it: "In that park, telecom fraud was just one of the projects. There were many other projects that ordinary people could not even imagine!
Next to our workspace is another department, separated only by a large floor-to-ceiling glass. They deal with the extraction and trafficking of human organs. Those who disobey are sent directly to the operating table. Some have their organs removed and placed in refrigerators, while others bring in buyers for transplants.
The reason they used floor-to-ceiling glass to separate the house is to allow us to see more directly what is happening next door, and to tell everyone that if anyone disobeys, the next person lying opposite will be him!
These are just a drop in the ocean in the entire park. There are many more workshops like this in deeper places, and there may be more secrets hidden in them!
The industrial park has a direct connection with the warlords, and there are armed forces behind it to provide support. Just like in this mine, there are soldiers with guns everywhere. If you disobey, you will be whipped at best, and shot at worst.
It’s actually quite ridiculous to be in this state. I want to die but I don’t dare to, and I want to live but I can’t live well. Every day is no different from the walking corpse. I just take it one day at a time…”
Lin Lidong wiped the sweat from his face and looked up at the busy crowd around him. "Although the mine is huge, with so many people digging day and night, it should be empty soon. Will they let us go then? Thousands of lives are at stake!"
"Release? You're too naive. This is already the fourth mountain I've dug, and there are countless more waiting for us. Let alone more than a thousand people, even if more than a thousand people came, we would never reach the end...
Lao Pang smiled bitterly and shook his head, picking up a clod of earth and holding it in his hand: "In the eyes of these beasts, we are not human beings, but machines. Our lives are no different from this clod of earth..."
After saying this, he exerted force with his palm, and the clod of earth was instantly crushed into dust, which was blown away by the wind...
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