Chapter 59: Chapter Fifty-Seven: Learning Idioms

Get up, all of you get up for me.

You lot of trash, if you don't get up and work, you won't eat today.

Smack!

Ah, stop hitting, stop hitting……

Shouts and cries rang out in my ears.

Upon opening 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 platform of the camp and lining up.

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

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

He is not a person of this world.

No, more precisely, 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 great sorrow and enlightenment, 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 badly; 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, it wouldn't be long before he could, like in web novels, become a CEO, marry a rich beautiful woman, and reach the pinnacle of life.

Unfortunately, he got happy too soon.

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

Hiss!

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

At this point he realized he was naked, his clothes and phone gone, but the cancer inside him remained.

And, this was not the worst of it.

The worst part was:

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

Because after losing consciousness in the wilderness following the cliff fall, a human trafficker who was escorting laborers to the mine found him halfway and naturally 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, cramming dozens into a tiny shack, working from six in the morning to seven at night with no rest, not eating enough or staying warm, and furthermore, when someone fell ill there was no doctor, they were just left to live or die on their own.

In such an environment, Su Qing led a very painful life, 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 in such a miserable way.

Just like that.

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

Heaven Base.

As Su Qing's thoughts moved, a simple light screen visible only to him appeared.

Linked device: Wang Zhiqiu

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

Completed task: none

Installation record: none

95%.

In another hour, it should finish downloading.

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

Last night, after finishing dinner 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 cheat ability arriving.

After a brief excitement, he carefully studied the light screen, finding it increasingly familiar, and finally 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 bought from the internet a downloader called 'Heaven Base'.

This downloader, because it could download videos and software, and had a clean interface with few ads, he kept using it.

He never expected that this time, slipping and falling off the cliff, it would also cross over with him……although it was 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, allowing 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, isn't that 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 own bodily energy.

To download his coworker Wang Zhiqiu's English (proficient), just one night made his whole body become thinner.

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

People are all here, hurry up and go work, hurry up……

Upon hearing that.

The surrounding laborers quickly dispersed to the miscellaneous room to collect tools and rushed toward the mine.

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

This man is named Zhang Lei, the Chinese foreman of this mine.

Zhang Lei is of medium height, wearing a small bowler hat, an overcoat, and leather shoes, looking rather respectable.

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

Just wait.

Silently withdrawing his gaze, Su Qing recalled the previous ordeal, thinking viciously.

As a person from the twenty-first century, Su Qing has fair features and decent looks, so on the second day after his transmigration, the foreman Zhang Lei, who had peculiar tastes, took a liking to him and wanted to take him as a male concubine.

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

Thus he offended Zhang Lei.

Afterwards, Zhang Lei constantly gave him trouble, trying to force Su Qing to bow his head.

Even just this morning yesterday.

Zhang Lei, having exhausted his patience, even issued an ultimatum: if his demands weren't met in three days, he would resort to force.

Faced with 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 anyway, he planned to commit suicide to preserve his integrity.

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 figured out the change in the celestial base, he abandoned the idea of suicide and instead chose to use the celestial base to download the English skill.

Just because.

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