Chapter 116 The Mine Maze - Part 1 According to the plan, Tang...
As planned, Tang Bufan had to leave on his own. He nodded to the two orcs in the darkness and then took out the small stun spray from his pocket.
The sound of an orc snoring came from the tattered tent next to them. Tang Bufan tiptoed through the mud toward the triangular tent and heard a suppressed groan when he was about three meters away.
Tang Bufan was stunned. He listened carefully again, and then his face turned slightly red. Sure enough, there were two people in the tattered tent, and they were doing *that* kind of thing.
What's going on? Logically speaking, it's very difficult for these scavenging beastmen to find partners, and Xiao Yang and the others didn't tell Tang Bufan that the man had a partner.
Tang Bufan hesitated, but the thought that retreating would take another whole day, and that Lu Yi might find his way here, made him grit his teeth, stride forward, and suddenly pull open the dirty tent flap.
The two orcs inside were taken aback. Tang Bufan, who was watching them in the darkness, was also surprised. But his mind worked quickly, and before the orc on top could react, he rushed over and sprayed the spray in his face.
The two orcs were still connected, so their movements to dodge were slow and clumsy. The orc was sprayed in the face by Tang Bufan, stared at Tang Bufan with wide eyes for two seconds, and then rolled his eyes and fainted.
He collapsed limply onto another orc. Tang Bufan then pulled out his pistol and aimed it at the orc beneath him; the orc Pei Zhishu had shown him as a target.
He reached out and forcefully pushed the person off him, then slowly sat up naked.
This person is very thin. Tang Bufan has experienced long-term hunger. You can tell from his skinny frame that he has lived a life of hunger and thirst.
"Take me to see Zero." Tang Bufan went straight to the point, pointing his pistol at him.
“Okay.” The orc responded calmly. Except for a brief moment of surprise when Tang Bufan barged in, he immediately regained his composure.
He clearly knew who Tang Bufan was and what his purpose was. He pulled a rusty knife from under the dirty mattress. Tang Bufan immediately took a step back, holding his gun warily. He then saw the orc grab the knife with his thin hand and plunge it into the body of the orc lying on the ground.
The orc fell unconscious. He had only twitched slightly after being stabbed in the stomach, and before he could even open his eyes, he was stabbed a second and a third time...
Tang Bufan was stunned. Just a minute ago, the two of them were doing the most intimate things, but now one of them had disemboweled the other.
After killing the orc, the man slowly took some clothes from the side, ignoring the blood all over his body, and put them on.
"Let's go." He slowly stood up and said to Tang Bufan.
The two left the tent, and the man led Tang Bufan around to the back of the tent, where they saw a dilapidated two-wheeled handcart piled with all sorts of things.
The man pulled out a large sack and, still holding a pistol, said to Tang Bufan, "Go inside."
Tang Bufan frowned, staring straight at him.
The man had very dark eyes and thick dark circles under his eyes. Coupled with the fact that he had just killed his lover with a blank expression, Tang Bufan felt that he had a kind of quiet frightening quality about him.
He was hesitant to enter the man's sack, but the man's words the next second dispelled his hesitation.
"Do you still want to see Zero?"
"..." Tang Bufan gritted his teeth, grabbed the sack, and put it over his head.
The sack was tied shut with a thick rope, and Tang Bufan was lifted onto the handcart. He then felt the man pile a bunch of things on him and hide him underneath.
Seeing that he did not harm him, Tang Bufan, curled up in the sack, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then felt the handcart start to move.
The night was quiet, and the sound of the wooden wheels rolling on the muddy ground was quite loud, but no one came out of the tent to check. Occasionally, people from other places would arrive in Taicheng late at night, and this was not uncommon.
Tang Bufan sensed that the man was struggling to push the sack. He could hear the man panting heavily through the sack. He felt an inappropriate urge to help, even though the man was someone who could potentially harm him.
His own ridiculous sympathy. Tang Bufan swayed slightly in the sack with the handcart. He was able to stay awake at first, but after about four hours, or even longer, he couldn't resist the drowsiness of the night and finally closed his eyes and fell asleep.
I woke up to find myself bumped; the handcart had left the muddy ground and entered the gravel area, the wooden wheels rattling and creaking from the jolting.
Tang Bufan lay on his side for an unknown amount of time, his body aching from the pressure. Feeling that it was quiet around him and there was probably no one else there, he struggled to turn over in the sack.
Noticing that he was awake, the wooden cart stopped, the sack was opened, and Tang Bufan felt the light; it was already morning.
He sat up on the wooden cart and found that they were at the foot of a rather barren mountain, with many loose stones on the ground. It seemed that they were almost at the mine.
Tang Bufan turned his head again and met a pair of lifeless eyes. The very thin orc was quietly watching him.
"..." Tang Bufan had to admit that this person was quite terrifying, like a silent murderer... no, he really was.
Having not slept all night, the man looked very tired. He stretched out his hand to Tang Bufan: "Give me the gun and the spray."
Tang Bufan hesitated for a moment, then obediently sat in the sack and handed over both items to him. Since this person hadn't killed him all night, he probably didn't intend to harm him.
Moreover, Tang Bufan was risking his life to find Zero.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the spray was handed over, Tang Bufan's face was sprayed with it. The smell was very pungent, and Tang Bufan instantly felt dizzy. Before he could think of anything else, his eyes rolled back and he passed out.
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When Tang Bufan woke up again, he was thirsty and hungry, and his head was throbbing, probably because he had inhaled the drug.
The sack was open, and he was still lying on the handcart with his head sticking out of the sack.
Tang Bufan got up and found that they had arrived at the mine. The mine was very large and spacious. There was a high opening above them, letting in a little light. The surrounding area looked like an ant nest, with several passages.
The orc sat not far away, using a knife to eat the raw flesh of some unknown animal. The sharp knife sliced the bloody flesh into thin pieces, which he then used as a fork to put into his mouth.
Tang Bufan felt the knife looked familiar, so he reached into his pocket... and sure enough, it was empty.
The orc had already taken all his belongings.
Tang Bufan raised his hand and touched the back of his neck. His fingers went through his hair and found that the signal transmitter that Dr. Jiang had implanted under his skin with minimally invasive surgery was still there, protruding in a small pimple-like spot.
Tang Bufan secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He saw water dripping from the stone wall not far away, which must have been rainwater that had seeped in recently. So he got out of the sack and walked towards the dripping stone wall.
The orc glanced at him indifferently, without stopping him. Tang Bufan didn't care about getting dirty. He washed his hands with a dozen drops of water and then patiently caught the rainwater in his palms.
Perhaps because it had been filtered by the soil and rock layers, the water was quite clear. Tang Bufan had to scoop it up with his hands several times before he was finally able to quench his thirst.
A piece of dark red raw meat was thrown over and landed with a thud at Tang Bufan's feet. Tang Bufan picked up the limp piece of raw meat and said "thank you" to the orc sitting not far away.
He seemed somewhat surprised, as if he hadn't expected to hear the word "thank you." But seeing Tang Bufan casually wash the dust off the raw meat with water droplets and then eat it in large bites, his expression became increasingly strange.
Tang Bufan appeared to be a pampered person, and he had indeed been living a life similar to that of a noblewoman for the past few months. The orc felt he should show disgust.
But Tang Bufan didn't. He ate every last bit of the fist-sized piece of raw meat.
Thanks to his mutated physique, Tang Bufan has adapted well to raw meat. He used to wonder why Lu Yi would occasionally eat raw meat even though he could start a fire. Now he understands that the sticky texture of raw meat is actually not bad, like the sashimi sushi that others have treated him to.
After finishing the meat, Tang Bufan asked the orc, "What's your name?"
The information Pei Zhishu showed him did not include the orc's name. No one knew his name; they only knew that he had been wandering around Taicheng for years, without a fixed abode or any friends.
The orc ignored him, so Tang Bufan thought for a moment and gave him a nickname: "Then I'll call you Little Black."
Because his eyes are very dark, and he also has dark circles under his eyes.
The orc frowned slightly, but did not object, and continued to cut meat with his military knife.
Tang Bufan wanted to ask him how he would take him to see Zero, but after thinking about it, he felt that he wouldn't tell him, so he asked a question that bothered him a lot: "That orc yesterday... why did you kill him?"
Xiao Hei paused in his cutting motion, then slowly spoke: "He bullied me."
Tang Bufan noticed it yesterday. For a beastman, he was particularly thin and small, only about ten centimeters taller than Tang Bufan and about the same height as Pei Zhishu. This height made him look like a sub-beastman.
Tang Bufan immediately understood. He looked at Xiao Hei, whose face showed no sadness, and it was clear that this person had become accustomed to such "humiliation".
"...You despise orcs." Tang Bufan spoke with certainty, scrutinizing him. "So you work for Zero?"
“He wanted to kill all the orcs, but actually…” Xiao Hei’s lifeless eyes looked at Tang Bufan: “I wanted everyone in the world to die.”
Tang Bufan met his gaze and was secretly alarmed.
Xiao Hei then lowered his head and began cutting meat with his military knife: "This world is disgusting."
"..." Tang Bufan couldn't respond to his words, only knowing that this person must have suffered a lot in the first half of his life.
He saw no salvation, so he had no expectations of this world.
The mine gradually fell into darkness as the sun set, and Xiao Hei finally finished his meal, casually tossing the skeleton of the creature aside against the cave wall.
Instead of pushing his cart back onto the cart, he turned on the small flashlight he had taken from Tang Bufan and led Tang Bufan into a passage.
The mine tunnels here are very winding. Tang Bufan initially tried to memorize the route, but later found that he couldn't remember it at all, so he gave up and focused on following Xiao Hei.
There were more than just the two of them in the mine. Occasionally, one or two rats would dart past them. Tang Bufan heard hissing sounds coming from an unknown direction and realized that there were also poisonous people here.
Xiao Hei was clearly familiar with the place. Tang Bufan thought he was going to take him to see the mutated poison people, but after walking for more than an hour, Tang Bufan didn't see a single poison person.
"Where are you taking me?" Tang Bufan couldn't help but ask.
"An aircraft," Xiao Hei said casually, holding a flashlight. "There's an aircraft here."
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