Chapter 460: Discovery of Deep Pit Iron Mine
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It was late at night. Tang Yue was standing in an open space in Shanhe County. She had been planning to go to Xiangxi County to look for her father, the battalion commander and others, but she suddenly felt a palpitation in her heart, as if an invisible hand had suddenly grabbed her heart.
Her face turned pale instantly, her body swayed slightly, and anxiety flashed in her eyes.
"What's going on?" She had never felt this way before. She was sure that the root of her original body's illness had been cured. If it wasn't a physical problem, then it was...
Tang Yue lowered her eyes, quickly forming seals with her hands and muttering something. A faint glow enveloped her, shimmering against the starry night sky. As she moved, the air around her seemed to grow thicker, a mysterious aura permeating the air.
She looked up at the starry sky. The bright stars twinkled in the night sky, as if telling her some secret.
Tang Yue stared intently at the stars, trying to decipher the code of fate from their arrangement and flickering. Her mind raced, various hexagrams and clues constantly emerging, which she analyzed one by one.
After a moment, Tang Yue's furrowed brow relaxed slightly, her mind already grasping the answer. "It's Dad. Something must have happened to him," she murmured, a hint of worry in her voice, but more of a sense of certainty. "But fortunately, he's not in danger."
Tang Yue smiled faintly. She had said that her father would definitely not die. That was right. Although he might be seriously injured, at the most critical moment, his father would definitely use his spiritual power to heal his body.
If all else fails, there's still the battalion commander. He won't ignore her father.
"Captain, are you okay?" Sun Jinan and Zhang Dabing had just noticed something was wrong with the captain. However, the captain seemed to be thinking about something, so they didn't dare to disturb him.
"Yeah, it's okay. Didn't the American military camp get back a few cars? Let's drive to Xiangxi County. It'll be faster that way."
"Okay, Captain, the cars are parked outside the county town. We can drive directly there." Sun Jinan said as he walked out.
When the person on duty saw that it was the goddess and two guardians coming out, he didn't dare to ask anything and opened the door obediently.
As soon as he got in the car, Zhang Dabing asked Tang Yue, "Company Commander, what are your plans for Captain Yang and the others? It's been three days, and I see Captain Yang is very impatient. He really wants to contact his superiors."
Tang Yue smiled and said, "Let's contact Wei Tuan first and briefly tell him the situation here. Then tell him that no one can drive the tanks here, and ask Captain Yang and the others to stay here to help us."
Zhang Dabing chuckled, and Sun Jinan nodded, "Okay, I'll do it when I get back tonight."
In the past few days, Tang Yue, with the young and strong men of Shanhe County and Captain Yang and others, with ten tanks leading the way, has swept the area within 50 miles around Shanhe County, and there are more than 900 American prisoners of war.
The goddess's reputation had spread throughout the area. It seemed that where the goddess was, evil would not thrive.
However, they did not go to other counties. When they arrived at the territory over there, they only dealt with the American troops outside the county and did not go in to disturb the lives of the people of Bian Yue.
A few people drove a bumpy jeep towards Xiangxi County. The fog was very thick tonight, and they didn't know whether Zhang Dabing was unfamiliar with the route or what, but they had lost their way.
Xiangxi County is about 60 miles away from Shanhe County, but they have been driving for an hour and there is still no sign of Xiangxi County.
"Soldier, are you going in the wrong direction?"
Zhang Dabing continued driving forward, answering uncertainly, "Probably, no. I've always had a good sense of direction."
Sun Jinan was now a little skeptical. "We should have been walking for an hour now, right? Didn't they say 60 miles? Why haven't we arrived in an hour yet?"
Zhang Dabing was unsure, so he stopped the car. The two men turned to look at Tang Yue. She looked bewildered. She hadn't noticed the exact time when they left, and she had been so lost in thought in the car that she hadn't noticed which direction they were going.
There is no spiritual support here, and her mental power generally does not extend to places more than 20 miles away.
"Let's get off the car and see where we are." Sun Jinan took out a map from his arms, and Zhang Dabing and he checked the surrounding terrain together.
Tang Yue, Sun Jinan, and Zhang Dabing got out of the car. Silence reigned, save for the rustling of grass and trees in the breeze. Sun Jinan unfolded the map, carefully examining it in the dim moonlight. Zhang Dabing, observing the surrounding terrain, frowned in defiance.
Zhang Dabing couldn't believe he could do such a stupid thing. How could he get lost? The direction couldn't be wrong.
Tang Yue stood there, closing her eyes, her consciousness slowly extending outward like a tide. However, before she had extended far, a series of "ding-dong-dong" knocking sounds broke the silence of the night.
This sound seemed particularly abrupt in the dead of night. Her brows furrowed instantly, and she was filled with confusion: "What on earth are you doing in the middle of the night?"
Tang Yue's consciousness followed the direction of the sound, and the scene before her made her pupils shrink suddenly.
A huge deep pit with a radius of about 3 miles appeared in front of Tang Yue. The pit walls were steep, like the bloody mouth of a giant beast.
Inside the pit, countless ragged, skinny people from the Bianyue Kingdom were hunched over, hammering away at the pit walls with crude tools. Their faces were etched with fatigue and despair, their eyes hollow, as if they had lost all hope of life.
What is even more infuriating is that there were ferocious-looking American soldiers standing by the pit, holding whips and beating the people who worked a little slower from time to time.
"Snap!" With a crisp sound, the whip hit a white-haired old man's back hard. The old man staggered and almost fell on the wall of the pit. Blood instantly seeped out of his body.
The old man gritted his teeth, endured the pain, and picked up his tools tremblingly to continue working.
"Hurry up! You're dawdling, do you want to die?" An American soldier with a face full of flesh roared viciously, his eyes full of disdain and cruelty.
Another soldier grinned and threw a stone at a woman casually. The woman couldn't dodge in time and was hit on the head. Blood flowed down her cheek, but she didn't even dare to cry out loud. She just wiped the blood off her face silently and continued to work.
Some of the people in the pit had deep blisters on their hands, but they didn't dare to stop; some of them wore worn-out shoes and struggled to walk on the sharp gravel, bleeding with every step;
There were also children, only seven or eight years old, who were forced to work in this deep pit, their small bodies shivering in the cold wind in the middle of the night.
Tang Yue watched these tragic scenes, her anger instantly ignited, and a chill rushed from her feet to her head. However, she didn't go over immediately. She wanted to see what this place was and why these American soldiers were doing this.
Tang Yue narrowed her eyes and carefully identified the broken stones knocked down by the people in the pit in the dim moonlight. The mottled stone surface shone with a dark red metallic luster in the dim light. She thought to herself, "It's iron ore. The United States is really secretly plundering resources!"
She turned and told Sun Jinan and Zhang Dabing what had happened. They listened, not doubting the company commander's words, but with anger burning in their eyes. The US military was simply going too far.
"This mine will probably be mined for quite some time. We can't let the US continue to succeed! Let's go over and wipe them out." Tang Yue spoke as if he was chopping some cabbages, not caring at all.
Sun Jinan and Zhang Dabing were eager to try. As long as the company commander said they could do it, they would definitely be able to do it. They didn't worry about the possibility of not completing the task at all.
They were still more than ten miles away from the pit, so they got in the car and drove another eight or nine miles. After Tang Yue asked them to stop, they ran towards the pit.
Arriving at the location, several people glanced around the deep pit. The thick fog rolled in the night, like a natural shield. "This fog is a good opportunity. Captain, these American soldiers are really ruthless. They are catching up with the slave owners in the old society."
Let's get rid of these American soldiers first, then investigate where the iron ore is being transported. But this pit must be about 26 or 27 meters below the surface, right? We need to find a safe way to get down."
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