Chapter 442: Searching the Mine
As soon as she entered the mine, an unpleasant smell filled Su Yue's nostrils. She quickly covered her nose and covered it with her mental power.
The mine was extremely dark. There were a few oil lamps hanging on the walls, which were still burning with crackling lights.
Carts, baskets and pickaxes were piled up in a mess on both sides of the passage, leaving only a walkable passage.
Needless to say, these were thrown by the miners.
Su Yue didn't collect them either, and just left all the tools here.
In the future, the emperor will no longer need to purchase these tools if he wants to continue using them.
Then she continued deeper into the mine.
The mine is quite wide, enough for two people to walk side by side while pushing a cart. However, the mine is very rough. Fortunately, the rocks here are hard and not prone to collapse.
“Cough cough cough…”
Suddenly, a series of coughing sounds came from deep within the mine.
Are there really miners in there?
Su Yue quickly took a few steps and went towards the source of the coughing sound.
After walking about fifty meters, Su Yue saw a person lying in the mine tunnel and hurried over.
"Can't you get out?"
Su Yue squatted down and asked, then used her mental power to check the person.
It was impossible to tell the man's age, but it was clear that he was a man. His face was dirty, his clothes were torn, and only half of his pants were left on, with half of his legs exposed. When Su Yue saw the exposed legs, she wanted to kill him.
The man's legs were covered with whip marks and scars. Some of the wounds were so deep that you could see they had been whipped. The new wounds were bleeding, and the old wounds had festered and were oozing pus and blood. It was an extremely horrible sight.
The man raised his head slightly and squinted at Su Yue, but it was unclear whether his cloudy eyes could see clearly.
The man nodded slightly and said weakly, "I'm afraid I'll never be able to leave this mine."
Su Yue was moved when she heard this desperate voice. She pursed her lips and said, "Don't be so discouraged. I'll go out and get two people to carry you out. Drink some water first."
As Su Yue spoke, she took out a kettle from the space, unplugged it, and placed it in the man's hand.
The man said weakly, "Thank you."
Su Yue raised her hand to stop him from talking: "Drink some water first."
The man nodded slightly and immediately drank the water. When the water went into his stomach, the man felt that the water was extremely sweet and couldn't help but drink a few more sips.
In a short while, the man's weak body regained some strength.
The man was not surprised. He just thought that he hadn't eaten for a long time, was hungry, and had an injury on his leg, so drinking the water naturally gave him some strength.
He never thought that the water Su Yue gave him was spiritual spring water. As long as he was still alive, drinking this spiritual spring water would keep him alive temporarily.
"Do you have some strength now?" Su Yueyue asked him.
"Yes, thank you."
"You're welcome. Hold on to this kettle. I'll have someone come in and carry you out."
Su Yue handed him the plug and turned to leave the mine.
At this time, the man vaguely saw Su Yue's back. His eyes were filled with tears. He thought he was going to die in there, but he didn't expect that this woman actually saved him.
After Su Yue came out of the mine, she immediately called two miners in to carry the miner out.
She took a bottle of powder and gave it to a miner, saying, "After you carry him out, sprinkle this powder on his legs first. Wait for me to come out and treat him. I'll go in and see if there's anyone else in the mine."
The miners outside were all skinny and had injuries on their bodies, but they were not fatal and they could still walk.
Su Yue had thought before that it was impossible for all the more than 2,000 miners to have the same physical condition, and there must be people like the man just now in the mine.
I didn't expect it to happen.
I guess there are still quite a few in this mine.
The miner nodded and took it, saying, "Don't worry, Princess. I will definitely do it."
Su Yue nodded at him, then went back into the mine.
The man who was being carried was stunned when he heard what the miner said. He just heard the man call the woman "Princess". Was she the kind of princess he had in mind?
The man didn't have much strength and pursed his lips tightly. He thought to himself that after he got better, no matter whether the woman was a princess or not, she saved his life and he would definitely repay her.
Su Yue didn't know that she had accidentally saved a capable person.
At this moment, she had already gone deep into the mine, searching with her mental power.
Sure enough, she soon found another miner who was dying, but had already fallen into a coma.
The miner was still a teenager, and Su Yue really couldn't bear it, so she immediately fed him spiritual spring water, and then simply took him into the space, and would move him out when she was about to leave the mine.
Su Yue continued searching.
The mine looked like it had several entrances from the outside, but it actually connected in all directions inside. It took her nearly two hours to search the entire mine, and she found more than a dozen miners. One of them had no vital signs, but Su Yue treated him as a last resort and moved him to a space to soak him in spiritual spring water, to see if he had the chance to survive.
Considering that she had been in the mine for so long, many miners outside had probably left.
So they hurried out of the mine, and when they were almost at the mine entrance, they moved out more than a dozen people, leaving only the one with no vital signs in the space.
"Princess, Princess, are you out?"
As soon as I moved the person out, I heard Yueying's shout.
"I'm here." Su Yue responded immediately.
"Phew, Princess, you finally came out! I was so scared! You haven't come out for so long! I've been looking for you several times."
Yueying patted his chest and ran over panting.
"I'll be fine, don't worry. How are the miners out there handling it?"
"More than a thousand people went out, and several hundred had nowhere to go, so they stayed here temporarily. The subordinates asked those more than a thousand people to go out in groups of a hundred."
"Can they find the way?" Su Yue asked.
Yueying nodded. "Don't worry, Princess. Many of the miners are villagers from the surrounding area. Although they haven't been to the central area, they have been to the surrounding areas and can find their way around."
"That's good. Then go out and get someone to carry these dozen people out."
"Yes, I'll go right away."
Yueying ran out quickly and called in forty or fifty people to carry out the dozen or so people here.
Su Yue followed behind, and after coming out, she took out the necessary medicines and gave them to the miners, asking them to bandage the wounds of the dozen or so people and feed them medicine.
In fact, the miners didn't even need to do anything. Among the hundreds of people left behind, there was a traveling doctor, and he took on the task.
"Princess, the miner you rescued first wants to see you."
Yueying spoke to her only after she saw that she had finished her work.
"Did you say anything about seeing me?"
"That person said he wanted to thank the princess in person and repay her, so he asked to see her."
Su Yue nodded: "Then go and meet him."
Yueying immediately took her to the miners' house, which was originally the residence of the managers.
(End of this chapter)
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