Chapter 19 My lord, let's rebel!
More than 100 overseers were wiped out in the Tara mining area. The captain of the guard escaped in a mech, and 11 team members escaped in mech escape pods.
Only the wreckage of 22 machine frames and the 11 team members who died frozen in ice remained at the scene.
The battle was incredibly fierce!
More than a thousand slave miners gathered in front of Xiaobai and his group. Among them, the oldest miner, who had worked in the mine for fifteen years, was pushed to the front by the slaves.
"Ahem! Sir, my name is Fu Chengxiang, I am 41 years old, and I am one of the earliest slaves here. Everyone trusts me, so I will take advantage of my seniority and say a few words to you."
Our earliest batch were actually local laborers from Silverwing Star. The Hua Jing family posted a recruitment advertisement, promising very generous conditions.
One of the conditions was that we would receive three years' worth of salary upfront, and that's what attracted most of us to this job.
The job posting at the time also stated that there were sometimes attacks by strange beasts around the mining area, and mining would be risky, but the mining area guard would do its best to ensure our safety.
But when we were sent to the Tara mining area, we were immediately forced to wear suppression rings and became their slaves, losing contact with our families from then on.
Later, I learned from the overseers that the excuse they used to deceive my family was that the ship transporting the laborers had encountered a severe storm, resulting in the ship's destruction and the loss of life.
Some family members, dissatisfied and demanding an explanation, were secretly killed by them, and their three years' advance salary was revoked. The remaining family members then dared not cause any more trouble.
Some of my companions died from the poisonous fog, while others died from resistance and escape. I survived because I was timid and cautious by nature.
Later, as more slaves arrived, I learned that they were in an even worse situation. They had all come from other planets seeking refuge, but were deceived by the authorities under the guise of quarantine and forcibly fitted with suppression rings.
Not only did they not receive a single penny, but their personal belongings, including their personal spatial key, were also confiscated by the authorities.
After that, I gave up on the idea of escaping, because I originally thought that after escaping, I could go to the authorities to report the Hua Jing family's evil deeds of abducting innocent people into slavery.
But if the government itself is involved in the slave trade, how can it possibly stand up for us ordinary people?
This time, you sir, used swift and decisive measures to wipe out the entire mine's guards and overseers, but some people still managed to escape. Even if those who escaped dare not return to their master's house to report the news, they will find out sooner or later.
Not to discourage you, but the Hua Jing family will definitely send more high-level ability users to come and annihilate them.
Therefore, the most urgent task is for everyone to scatter and escape, so that they cannot concentrate their efforts to track them down, in order to ensure that they are not completely wiped out.
However, our security pass number is recorded by both the official authorities and the Flower Garden family.
After we left the mining area, there were surveillance cameras at the entrances to all the towns. Once we were detected, they could locate us immediately.
If we're picked off one by one, we definitely won't survive.
Fu Chengxiang had been mining for many years. Although he was only in his early forties, his back was hunched and his face looked very old, like a sixty-year-old man.
This shows the inhuman lives the slaves in this mining area led.
"So, what exactly are you trying to say?" Matt asked impatiently. This person had been rambling on and on, but the result was that whether he fled or not, he would still die.
"What I mean is, since the adults are all capable, and most of us miners are C-level ability users, why don't you lead us in a rebellion!"
As soon as Fu Chengxiang spoke, many of the miners echoed, "Revolt! Revolt! Overthrow the Silverwing Star government!"
Apart from the earliest group of slaves like Fu Chengxiang who came from the local area, the later ones were all aliens who were sold to the Huajing family through official deception.
In recent years, for their own benefit, the Silverwing Star government has deliberately used its spies to spread information to other planets around them.
It is said that the Silverwing Star authorities have cordoned off the walkers in the eastern sea area and built an iron wall to surround them. Superhumans can go there from time to time to hunt walkers and mine crystal cores to improve their superhuman abilities.
Even lower-level ability users can settle down here like ordinary residents, form teams to hunt alien beasts, and earn contribution points to survive.
That's why those low-level superhumans who couldn't survive would voluntarily bring their families and flee here.
They thought they could finally live a peaceful life, but instead they were like lambs to the slaughter, having all their supplies stolen and becoming slaves without freedom or human rights.
The miners' hatred for the Silverwing Star authorities had reached its peak; they had destroyed their last hope.
"Rebel? With just over a thousand old, weak, sick, and disabled people, and without money or proper equipment, how can we possibly stand up to the authorities?" Matt retorted.
"We're going to die anyway, so rather than be slaughtered like pigs and cattle, we should at least kill a few more to take with us before we die, so it won't be a loss, right?" the miners shouted in unison.
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