Chapter 165: Three Days

The man was in standard Pastor attire; in weather approaching thirty degrees, his buttons were fastened tight to the base of his neck, and the outline of developed muscle could be seen beneath his form-fitting clothes.

His slightly curly black hair was pressed firmly against his scalp with hair gel, much like his clothing, as if possessing a power ready to erupt at any moment.

"Hello, my name is Mu Liu," Liu Mu said, ignoring the astonished gazes around her, walking over to sit directly opposite the black-haired man, "I want to talk to you about the mining."

"Mining?" Haide Kanpu's expression did not change; he merely raised a hand to stop the guard behind him who was about to draw a gun, "How do you know we are here to mine?"

Perhaps because he looked down on the Chinese Survivors too much, the arrogant foreigner actually did not deny it, even though the workers in the mountains still did not know exactly what they were digging for.

"To be honest, we have a few connections. Where the iron ore on this mountain is located, how deep it is..."

Liu Mu paused deliberately, and sure enough, seeing the change in the other party's expression, she confirmed that they did not have enough understanding of the specific location of the iron ore.

"I think you might be interested in talking to me now, right?"

"How can I be sure what you say is true?" Haide Kanpu was not happy about being assigned to mine; his ideal life was to possess a church in a city where the Chinese elite lived to preach, and when there were enough believers, he could gradually control the spiritual faith of the Chinese people, thereby controlling this great eastern nation for the goddess in his heart, offering everything to the beautiful goddess.

"Practice can help us verify it," Liu Mu did not reveal other information about the iron ore; these were her bargaining chips, only saying that they could excavate on-site.

On the way here, Zheng Tian, who had mining experience, had already tipped her off; these people were digging blindly on the mountain, and there were already many deep pits, but they hadn't found the right place at all.

"Three days. If you can find the mining location and let me see iron ore, I can agree to your demands." Haide Kanpu certainly did not trust this woman he was meeting for the first time, but he liked women with enough self-confidence, just like the one he wanted to dedicate everything to; confidence gave them a radiance that distinguished them from ordinary women.

Liu Mu naturally agreed immediately, with another prerequisite being that all personnel and equipment on-site must be under her command.

Haide Kanpu, who considered himself to have enough guards, did not suspect anything, but he also emphasized that if Liu Mu and her group could not do it within three days, they would have to stay and work for free.

"Deal!" Liu Mu did not reach out her hand, because she was somewhat repulsed by the foreigner before her; how to put it, there was a strange feeling about this person that made one's whole body itch.

But she did not have Heitao A scan him either; a small Foreman was not worth her wasting too much time and energy.

After she left, the workers speculated one after another that these few were going to be in big trouble, especially those who came with Xiaoliuzi, who were even more certain that they were walking into a trap.

Even Ma Dajie found her son, wanting him to help Liu Mu plead for mercy.

"She's a good child; she only arrived for two hours, but she did more work than we do in a day, and she didn't complain. Sigh, she killed that worker to protect your mother, me. Son, can you think of a way? Beg Pastor Kamp to let her leave."

Ma Dajie's son was a clean-looking and serious young man, only his seriousness looked more like he was imitating someone, and he even had Ma Dajie specifically make him a dark gray robe, much rougher and simpler than a Pastor robe. However, he wore it on his body and cherished it very much.

"Mother, you know Pastor Kamp is a rigorous person. Recruiting workers is very difficult now, and she actually dared to kill someone; no one can save her."

"But..."

"Stop talking. Do you want me to be driven away by Pastor? Don't be like those idiots outside, okay? I've already told you, only by following Pastor can we join the church later and live a good life."

Ma Dajie still wanted to say something, but compared to her son's future, her heart was naturally biased.

Just when everyone thought Liu Mu was dead for sure, they saw a pickup Truck drive over, and Liu Mu was sitting in the passenger seat.

Driving the vehicle was Xiaoliu, who should have only had one hand; after getting out of the car, he bowed and scraped to open the door for Liu Mu, and even shouted at the workers for a while, the meaning of which was only one: in the coming days, everyone must listen to Liu Mu's arrangements.

Compared to Liu Mu returning alive and even possessing authority, what shocked them more was that Xiaoliu's severed hand had actually been reattached, and the interface only had a deep red mark.

Strange...

The workers were all recruited, tricked, or snatched by Haide Kanpu on his way here; they had no idea that while they were struggling to survive, Mutated people had appeared in this world.

Liu Mu did not have the ability to heal others, but she carried Xu Xiaofeng's branches with her, which could use root systems to stitch many things, and could also divide roots to sprout.

The specific work arrangements were handed over to Zheng Tian, with the other three cooperating, while Liu Mu finally had time to eat a meal.

The people in the kitchen were all curious about how she managed not only to avoid being held accountable but instead became the head managing the workers, but they dared not ask, especially the two who had stood with the workers before, who were even more afraid of Liu Mu settling scores later, and took the initiative to take on the laundry work and ran off.

Ma Dajie stir-fried a large plate of twice-cooked pork for Liu Mu, covered with freshly steamed rice, and even went to the warehouse to rummage for a while, actually pulling out a can of cola.

"Eat, eat until you're full," Ma Dajie sat opposite the table picking vegetables, still the same kind of leaves from the stewed soup earlier; it turned out they were collected from a tree with curled branches.

"Sigh, my son is useless, and I can't help you either. Girl, thank you so much today; from now on, this bunch of rough men won't dare to bully us."

Liu Mu just ate in large mouthfuls, nodding occasionally, noncommittal.

Ma Dajie asked what exactly happened, and she only replied that she knew some engineering techniques and could be of great help.

"Pastor Kamp is not easy to fool. If you need any help, tell Big Sister; I know quite a lot of people on the construction site."

Only then did Liu Mu remember to ask, "Is that Foreman a Pastor? What is his name?"

"Name..." Ma Dajie looked toward the kitchen, and seeing the other two people weren't looking this way, she lowered her voice and said, "Haide Kanpu, they say he's German. People here don't speak German, so they call him Foreman."

But, clearly, that foreigner could speak Chinese.

Liu Mu did not delve into this question, only saying she would tell Ma Dajie if she needed help later.

After the meal, under the enthusiastic guidance of Xiaoliu, Liu Mu went up the mountain.

The mountain path was only wide enough for two people to pass side-by-side; every fifty meters there was a worker with tools cutting down newly grown plants, showing that this path was not easy to open up.

Listening to Xiaoliu's introduction, Liu Mu learned that they had spent half a month just opening the road, and had only been digging for two weeks.

The forest formed by the Mutated Plant was a full two kilometers long, and only then did they reach the real foot of the mountain; walking further up, the plants gradually became sparse, revealing black soil and boulders washed clean.

During the climb, there were several places where they actually needed to hang from ropes to get up, which was even worse than Liu Mu had expected.

It was an hour later when they got up the mountain and found Zheng Tian and the others.

Of course, if Liu Mu had gone up herself, it would have only taken one-third of the time.

"How is it?"

Liu Mu climbed onto a boulder and looked around, discovering the Mutated Plant forest stopped not far away. Although the forest was dense, its boundary was very clear.