Chapter 58: Chapter Fifty-Seven: Helpless

Get up, all of you get up for me.

You bunch of trash, if you don't get up and work today, you won't get any food.

Smack!

Ah, stop hitting, stop hitting...

Shouts and bitter cries rang in my ears.

As soon as I opened my eyes.

Su Qing saw an overseer swinging a whip at the doorway.

Without a word, he quickly got up and followed the other workers out of the house, arriving at the central square high platform of the camp and lining up.

At that moment, the sun on the horizon had not yet risen, and the morning cold enveloped everything.

He exhaled and rubbed his hands, Su Qing turned his head to look at the foreigners around him holding firearms and wearing cowboy attire, falling into thought.

He is not a person of this world.

No, to be precise, he is not a person of this time period.

Half a month ago, he was still a worker in the twenty-first century; after discovering he had an incurable illness, and following a great sorrow and awakening, he resolutely quit his job and began the final journey of his life.

He originally wanted to leave behind some beautiful memories before death.

Unfortunately, things went awry; while climbing Mount Hua, he accidentally stepped on dog feces, slipped, and fell off the cliff.

Then he fainted.

By the time he woke up again, he was already in this mine camp.

After a brief initial confusion, he learned from the fragmentary words of those around him that he was still on Earth, but the time and place were wrong.

Because the current time is May 1911, and the location is a mine in the outskirts of London, Dayingguo.

After learning this, Su Qing was initially very excited and thrilled, thinking that with his foreknowledge of history, he wouldn't need long to become like the protagonists of web novels—appoint CEO, marry a rich beautiful woman, and reach the pinnacle of life.

Unfortunately, he got happy too soon.

A sudden intense bloating pain in his abdomen struck, pulling him back from his pleasant fantasy.

Hiss!

Su Qing rolled over on the spot, curling his waist and hugging his abdomen like a cooked shrimp, his forehead covered in cold sweat, his body trembling slightly from the stomach pain.

Only then did he realize he was stark naked, his clothes and phone gone, yet the cancer inside him remained.

But, this was not the worst.

The worst part was.

After finally enduring the illness, Su Qing, from the accounts of fellow Chinese laborers, realized he had been sold.

Because after falling off the cliff and losing consciousness in the wilderness, a human trafficker who was escorting laborers to the mine found him on the way, and naturally he became one of those sold to the mine.

After learning these things, Su Qing had not yet snapped out of his daze when his bitter days began.

The Chinese overseers at the mine did not regard these compatriots as humans; dozens of people were crammed into a tiny shabby house, working from six in the morning to seven at night without rest, not eating enough or staying warm, and even worse, when someone fell ill there was no doctor— they were left to live or die on their own.

In such an environment, Su Qing lived in great pain, both mentally and physically.

Sometimes he even thought of committing suicide to end it all.

But when the moment came, he was unwilling to die so miserably.

Just like that.

In the midst of suffering and contradiction, Su Qing gritted his teeth and persisted; just when he could barely hold on, a turning point appeared.

Heaven Base.

As soon as Su Qing thought of it, a simple light screen visible only to him appeared.

Linked device: Wang Zhiqiu

Download task: *** (&&) 3% (&&&), English (proficient) 95% (downloading)

Completed task: none

Installation log: none

95%.

In another hour, it should finish downloading.

Frowning, he skipped past the preceding garbled code, Su Qing watched the English download progress, silently calculating in his mind.

Last night, after finishing his meal and just lying down to rest, this light screen suddenly appeared before his eyes.

At first he was a bit dazed, then he immediately realized this was his golden finger arriving.

After a brief excitement, he carefully studied the light screen; the more he looked, the more familiar it became, and finally he suddenly realized, isn't this just the downloader he usually uses?

Before discovering his stomach cancer, Su Qing, in his spare time from work, liked to stay home watching movies and playing games; for convenience, he had picked up from the internet a downloader called 'Heaven Base'.

This downloader, because it could download videos and software, and its interface was clean with few ads, he had been using it all along.

He never expected that this time, slipping and falling off the cliff would also bring it along across… although it arrived half a month late, having it is better than not having it.

Speaking of this, I don't know why.

After Heaven Base crossed over, it actually underwent a tremendous change, enabling the download of others' skills.

As long as Su Qing focuses his spirit on a person, he can see that person's skills and their proficiency, and can choose whether to download them.

At first glance, it seems very simple.

But it is not so.

Through Su Qing's exploration, the download function of Heaven Base requires energy to run, just like a car needs gasoline to run.

As for the source of this energy, he personally experienced it; it mainly comes from his bodily energy.

To download his coworker Wang Zhiqiu's English (proficient), just one night left him thinner all around.

While Su Qing was staring at the light screen, letting his thoughts wander, a fierce voice came from the high platform.

"Everyone's here, hurry up and go work, hurry up……"

Upon hearing that.

The surrounding workers quickly scattered to the miscellaneous room to pick up tools and rushed toward the mine.

Su Qing blended into the crowd, his gaze obscurely sweeping over the man on the high platform of the square, his expression unfathomable.

This man was named Zhang Lei, the Chinese mine supervisor head of this mine.

Zhang Lei was of medium height, wearing a small hat, a coat, and leather shoes, looking respectable.

At this moment, he was bowing and scraping to a foreigner in a proper Western suit, saying something, extremely obsequious.

"Just wait."

He silently withdrew his gaze, Su Qing recalled the previous ordeal, thinking viciously.

As a person from the twenty-first century, Su Qing was fair-skinned and good-looking; thus, on the second day after his transmigration, the lecherous mine supervisor Zhang Lei took a liking to him, wanting to take him as a concubine.

As a man with normal sexual orientation, Su Qing would never agree; he refused outright without even thinking.

Thus he offended Zhang Lei.

Afterward, Zhang Lei constantly gave him trouble, trying to force Su Qing to submit.

Even just this morning.

Zhang Lei, having lost his patience, issued an ultimatum: if his demands weren't met in three days, he would use force.

Facing the threat, Su Qing, who had suffered greatly, knew he had no room to resist, thinking that since he didn't have much time left, he planned to commit suicide to preserve his innocence.

Of course, if he could drag Zhang Lei down as a backup, that would be even better.

But just as he made up his mind, that night the "Golden Finger" arrived.

Once Su Qing understood the change in the Heavenly Base, he abandoned the idea of suicide and instead chose to use the Heavenly Base to select and download the English skill.

Just because.

The day before yesterday, he heard a piece of news: the mine steward wanted to find a Chinese translator……