Chapter 009 The Warden and the Three Thousand Punished Men
After taking a few breaths, Yang Li lowered his eyes and stared at the ground. The mining lamp above his head illuminated the bumpy ground. The woman's dark shadow was reflected on the ground, slender and graceful. His heart beat uncontrollably again.
He suppressed the anger brought by the pain, and his voice was filled with regret and apology. "The smell is too strong. It affected my mind. I'm sorry."
After a moment, he asked again, "Why are you not affected?"
The alien's special physique should have made him the most affected one, but in this cave, even he was eager and unable to control himself, but this woman just stood there fine, without blushing or panting, and was not affected at all.
Jiang He didn't understand why she hadn't reacted. Perhaps it was because the men in this cave were too ugly, which made her feel no desire at all. Or perhaps there was another reason, but she herself didn't know. She replied calmly, "My special physique doesn't affect me."
Ever since the human mutation began, everyone has their own unique physique, and special physical characteristics are no longer an excuse, but a fact. Yang Li believed this. He bent over and slowly stood up, saying weakly, "Keep digging. There's not much time left."
When Jiang He turned around and chiseled the wall, a hint of gloom flashed in his eyes.
This scent not only lingers on the surface of her skin but also enters her body through her breath, gradually eroding her body over time. Even iron-eating ants can gnaw at Jun, and even a human's physique, no matter how special it is after a mutation, cannot compare to Jun. Even if she isn't affected now, as long as she's in this cave, she'll be affected sooner or later.
He just didn't believe that she could stay sober for a while.
It was past six in the afternoon when Jiang He filled a basket with fish, and those people were still stacking them up.
Their faces were red and their bodies were covered in sweat. The cave was already stuffy and the oxygen was extremely thin. If they continued to exercise vigorously like this, would they become dehydrated or lack oxygen?
During this period, she knocked several people unconscious several times because they were annoyed by the noise, but after a while, they woke up and continued their previous behavior.
A normal person would be unconscious for at least a few hours if knocked unconscious like this, but they woke up in just a few minutes. Even though their heads were covered with bruises, their faces were still flushed and they were impatient to move.
It seems that this smell not only makes them excited, but also automatically blocks the damage they suffer from it.
But, if we cut off that thing from them, will they still continue?
Yang Li thought she was asking this to save these people, and sighed, "It's useless. The smell emitted by the female iron-eating ants is particularly overbearing. Unless they die or the female iron-eating ants leave, they will continue to do this."
For the deformed people, such a revelry until death is a matter of pride.
So there was no regret in Yang Li's tone, he just felt that this woman was doing something unnecessary.
Of course, he was more curious about what she had experienced before and why she could remain calm in such a sobbing environment while the men were doing all kinds of things to her.
Jiang He did not explain Yang Li's misunderstanding. She was always on guard against the iron-eating ants escaping from Junzhong again. Fortunately, everything went well later.
The system in her mind stopped making any sound. The five iron-eating ants entered her body through her fingertips and disappeared without a trace.
In Jiang He's opinion, it was like having five time bombs installed in her body, which made her extremely uneasy. If the iron-eating ants appeared again, she wanted to catch one alive and observe it. Unfortunately, she did not encounter any more iron-eating ants until the basket was full.
When the basket was full, she dragged her basket out of the cave.
As soon as they walked out of the cave, Yang Li followed, dragging his basket.
Jiang He remembered clearly that when she left, Yang Li's basket was only filled with one-third of Jun.
He couldn't possibly fill the basket in such a short time, unless...
Jiang He turned his head and glanced at the baskets of those people. Their baskets were empty, with nothing in them.
Noticing her gaze, Yang Li smiled and said, "They can't go out today. They won't be used anyway."
He must have planned this from the beginning, so he didn't put any effort into digging.
As for why he didn't act earlier, he must have been waiting for her.
Jiang He suspected that those people were not only unable to leave today, but would likely never leave again. Their current state was unstoppable, and they would only die of exhaustion.
Because they could not leave and the only outcome would be death, Yang Li dared to be so arrogant and take away all the Jun in their baskets.
The life and death of these people had nothing to do with her, so naturally she didn't care about what Yang Li did.
She turned her head and struggled to drag her big basket forward.
Yang Li had been courting her all along, and not in the rough, rude way that a deformed person would do when asking for a beating.
He saved her at the critical moment, gave her appropriate care, enthusiastically educated her on science, and apologized to her after she stopped him from losing control.
No matter how you look at it, he looks like a gentleman who knows when to advance and when to retreat.
But the training camp is a prison, how could there be gentlemen?
Jiang He did not deliberately keep a distance from Yang Li, but he also did not take the initiative to talk to him or walk with him.
At this point in time, people were already walking towards the hanging basket platform, dragging baskets.
Jiang He was worried that people would smell the scent of female iron-eating ants on her body, so after leaving the cave, she rubbed her clothes and face with the mud on the ground. She even rubbed her helmet and mining lamp with mud.
Behind him, Yang Li's eyes showed a hint of deep thought. He thought the woman had long forgotten what he had said, but he didn't expect that she not only remembered it clearly, but also found a solution.
This woman looks weak and broken, but she is extremely strong and thoughtful, which is really exciting.
There were many people lined up next to the hanging basket platform, and everyone's basket was full. They had worked in the mine for a whole day, and because of hunger and fatigue, no one spoke. They all curled up and guarded their baskets vigilantly.
Jiang He quietly lined up at the back of the queue, and soon many people lined up behind her.
After a whole day of climbing, rolling, and digging in the mine, everyone was covered in dust and mud. Jiang He, whose clothes were rubbed with mud, did not stand out from the crowd. Even though she was dirty, no one noticed that she was a woman.
Yang Li followed behind her. He was like a bug that could not be driven away, and he kept following Jiang He.
"Have Black Snake and the others come out?"
“I don’t think I’ve seen it.”
"That's a full-grown nail-eating green python. Will they be okay?"
"Of course not. The black snakes are all above level five. Not to mention one nail-eating green python, even two of them are no match for them."
"By the way, have you heard? The woman who was locked in the small dark room is still alive."
"Where is she now?"
"I guess he was circled by some important person. Anyway, we definitely won't be able to see him."
"No, she broke so many people's shin bones in the cafeteria that none of the three major organizations wanted to take her in."
Jiang He was slightly stunned when she heard this. She had no idea how many people's shin bones she had broken in the cafeteria, but among those people there were deformed people, robots and mutants.
Did she offend the three major organizations this time?
"Is that woman a deformed person or an alien?"
"Stranger."
"Fuck, those guys are going to have a great time, right? They're not going to play with that woman all day, are they? I'm so jealous."
"I envy you too."
"My mouth is watering with envy."
"What's there to envy? Those aliens didn't even take three minutes combined. It wouldn't take them all a day. They're probably holding their backs and sweating profusely right now."
"When you put it that way, I feel balanced immediately."
"Hahahaha, those guys only have three minutes? Three seconds is a compliment to them."
"Poor woman, even if all those strange men came, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to satisfy her. What's her room number? I'll go and comfort her tonight."
"have no idea."
"What does that woman look like?"
"Not very good. I took a look at her when she came out of the dark room. She was just skin and bones, no different from a skull covered with skin."
"Hey, none of the women who come here are good-looking."
"If there was going to be something interesting, the warden would have been killed halfway through."
…
You talk and I talk, regardless of whether it is meat or vegetables.
Yang Li was very close to Jiang He, so of course he knew that the woman everyone was talking about was Jiang He.
He glanced at her from the side and from time to time.
She would follow everyone's gossip and make appropriate exclamations and echoes, blending in with the crowd without looking suspicious at all.
Everyone was obviously discussing her, but both her face and her eyes showed the same expression of a bystander as everyone else.
She is really good at disguising herself and even better at managing her emotions.
His heart was itching more and more.
When everyone talked about the warden, there was another sigh.
The warden treated the people in the training camp as non-human beings. She would dump the men after using them. Some men would go into her office standing upright and come out sideways. Anyone she called into her office would be either injured or disabled, or even killed.
"Isn't the warden's term coming to an end?"
"Five years, this is the fourth year, and I don't know what the next warden will be."
Jiang He was not interested in the warden who was far away.
Almost all the gossip revolved around the warden and her men.
It's totally about the overbearing emperor and his harem of three thousand beauties.
There's nothing new about it after hearing it so many times.
At around seven o'clock, Jiang He finally returned to the ground in a hanging basket.
After the staff on the platform checked the Jun in the basket, they were hung on a rope and transported away through another corridor. The corridor was very small and could only accommodate one basket. The moving rope was densely packed with baskets full of Jun.
It must have been transported to the factory.
The air on the ground is extremely fresh. When I return to the ground, I feel like I have crawled out of the mud, and I feel relaxed and comfortable.
Before that, everyone had to go to the nearby bathhouse to rinse and disinfect.
You also need to use the points on your wristband to enter the bathhouse, thirty points at a time.
Showering here is ten points more expensive than in the training camp because there is also a disinfection procedure.
While swiping the bracelet, Jiang He subconsciously glanced at the remaining points on his bracelet and then froze.
No.: 0112
Points: 450
Illegal fighting: -800
She earned 100 points from the mining mission today, and lost 30 points by taking a shower, leaving her with 80 points in the morning. Her total should have been 150 points.
I guess someone outside the planet A62 gave her a tip while watching the live broadcast.
Will mining underground be broadcast live?
But she didn't find any cameras in the mine.
Why would these people give her rewards?
Did Yang Li, who was with her, receive any rewards?
What about other miners?
Jiang He was puzzled, but the reward was a good thing, which alleviated her current difficult life.
If she had been able to reply, she would have definitely bowed and said: Thank you kind-hearted people for giving rewards to save the distressed girl!
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