Chapter 556: Successfully Entered the Mine!

A large group of Mao Mao gathered around the carcass of the massive Forest Deer, chattering in their own language while dragging the entire deer into the Mine.

The ten Defeated Soldiers guarding the entrance of the Mine tried to stop them, but the nearly one hundred Mao Mao were simply too numerous, crowding them so much that they couldn't even get close to the Forest Deer.

Consequently, they had no choice but to shout loudly at these alien Beast-men: "You are not allowed to build big bonfires in the Mine! Otherwise, people will suffocate in the cave!"

They knew that among these alien Beast-men, there were a few leaders who could understand Human Common Language, so they just kept yelling, not caring at all whether these aliens could understand what they were saying.

Sure enough, a Mao Mao with majestic markings on its head waved its tail at these Defeated Soldiers and responded with a smile: "Guarantee, will not, build fire. Mao Mao, eat, big deer, meat, will not, build fire. Meat, has blood, delicious!"

Upon hearing this, some Defeated Soldiers sneered in low voices: "As expected of a backward alien race, truly primitive, eating raw meat."

"Who's to say otherwise? Aliens are just aliens."

"When I was little, my mother told me that food must be put in water and cooked until done before it can be eaten. Even fruit is best eaten cooked."

"Heh, then your family was quite wealthy, being able to eat hot food at every meal!"

"It's a pity, there were many people in the family; after my brothers and I split the household, things weren't the same."

Several soldiers watched the alien Beast-men swarm into the Mine, chatting about their hometowns, with expressions of melancholy appearing on their faces one by one. It had been over a year since they left home, and many of them were now desperately wanting to return home to see their families. Many of the companions who had set out from their hometowns together had already turned into ashes; most had been scattered to the winds, while a small portion were carried in the personal luggage of the surviving fellow soldiers.

Meanwhile, some Villagers from the nearby Changmai Village, facing the large number of alien Beast-men surging in and out, could only obediently make way, letting these lawless little creatures pass first.

They hated these light-fingered little things to death; not only did they occupy some of the good mining spots in the Mine, but because of their stature, they couldn't dig out much ore, and they also liked to take advantage of the dim conditions inside the Mine to sneak into mining tunnels controlled by other Villagers and steal the ore the Villagers had worked so hard to dig.

And they would shamelessly claim it as their own harvest, handing it over to the soldiers guarding the Mine when leaving.

These alien Beast-men were short in stature and had soft pads on their hands and feet, making their movements silent and extremely difficult to detect. If one was not careful, they would sneak up to the dug-out Mineral Ore, grab a large piece, and run.

And the Villagers who wanted to chase them would often quickly lose sight of them, because every time they stole ore, these Mao Mao acted as a group; some were responsible for stealing, while others were specifically responsible for covering them from the outside, or intimidating the human Villagers who caught up, forcing the Villagers to give up the stolen ore.

This caused great suffering for some Villager families living on the poverty line. If they fought, they couldn't beat the more numerous alien Beast-men; if they reasoned, these aliens, who clearly could understand human language, liked to pretend they didn't understand, giggling and scattering in all directions, making them impossible to catch.

Moreover, once you dared to catch one or two alien Beast-men, the large group of Mao Mao would unite and act together to rescue their captured companions.

Even though there were more humans in the Mine, it was precisely because they were not united that no one in the Mine could deal with these alien Beast-men. Villager families with many young people always had enough manpower to guard their own ore, but they simply turned a blind eye to the surrounding fellow villagers being bullied.

These people also had their reasons; the situation was so bad now that they naturally had to prioritize their own family's interests and circumstances. If they were in the village, everyone might have helped families in bad situations under the persuasion of Bata'er Jiaoshi, but now, everyone was struggling to survive in this dark, sunless Mine, and no one could care about much sentiment.

Being able to take care of one's own family members was already good enough.

The Mao Mao huddled together, excitedly dragging the massive Forest Deer carcass toward the mining tunnel they controlled.

To prevent the hard and sharp floor of the Mine from wearing away too much deer meat, they even flipped the Forest Deer over halfway, using the sturdy deer hide to make even contact with the ground.

While flipping the massive Forest Deer, the Forest Deer even let out an "ouch" sound, which made some Mao Mao look at the already dead Forest Deer in surprise. At this time, a Mao Mao leading the team with majestic markings on its head would rub its own arm and loudly tell the surrounding Mao Mao to stay calm and ignore the anomaly of the Forest Deer.

This Mine was a mine dug obliquely downward like the veins of a leaf. The main mining tunnels all extended along the main mineral vein, and the few mining tunnels occupied by the Mao Mao were originally the few main tunnels with the highest output.

But the Mao Mao were too small, and the tools for digging ore were all designed and made according to human proportions, so they were very awkward to use. Therefore, they had occupied these few tunnels for over a month, and the tunnels were not much different from when they were abandoned.

Most of the Mao Mao's Mineral Ore was still stolen from other human Villagers.

Therefore, in this nameless Mine, the relationship between humans and alien Beast-men was very poor, and there was basically no communication between the two sides. Every time they met, the Mao Mao would greedily eye the wooden boxes of ore on the humans' backs, while the Villagers would nervously stare at every Mao Mao, fearing that these cunning little things had come up with some new scheme to steal things.

After arriving at the mining tunnel, the massive Forest Deer was thrown in the middle, and then, without waiting for some Mao Mao who wanted to eat meat to go up and use small metal pieces to carve the meat, several Mao Mao leaders stood out and said something loudly to the surrounding Mao Mao.

Everyone was more and more stunned as they listened; some Mao Mao even dropped the small knives in their hands to the ground.

They looked at the fat belly of the Forest Deer with suspicion and surprise, discovering that while it was motionless, the belly of the Forest Deer was indeed moving slightly; there was something inside.

But immediately after, a muffled voice sounded from the belly of the Forest Deer: "Have we arrived? Respond to me if you hear me!"

The Mao Mao with majestic markings on its head walked up quickly and used its tail to knock hard on the fat belly of the Forest Deer in the agreed-upon manner.

Tap, tap-tap.

One long and two short knocks, repeated twice.

Subsequently, a red short blade pierced through the belly skin of the Forest Deer, and with a vertical cut, it sliced open a large piece of the Forest Deer's skin.

"Phew, I was suffocated. But it's so dark around here, are we already in the Mine at the Jiedian?"

Jier's excited voice came out, and then, the Dagger emitting red light was put away, and a Soldier Steel Sword completely sliced open the belly of the Forest Deer, and Jier struggled to climb out from inside.

Jier was covered in the smell of blood, and there were even some suspicious deer Viscera hanging on many parts of his body, but he didn't care at all. After coming out, he stood up directly and prepared for battle.

Because all around were an unknown number of long-haired lynx Beast-men, each of them was eyeing Jier, the person who had emerged from the harvested animal carcass.

"Agreement, complete! Agreement, coins!!"

The Mao Mao with majestic markings on its head first stopped the discussions of the other Mao Mao around it, then seriously shook its palm at Jier, signaling Jier to hand over the agreed-upon gold.

Jier was not stupid; he would not take out the Gold Coin and Silver Coin from his money bag in front of so many greedy Mao Mao. If he did that, he estimated he would have to fight another battle here.

Although he was not afraid of these small aliens, it would be bad if it alerted the enemy soldiers.

He was here to Scout this time, and it was only to Scout; the matter of fighting would have to wait until the scouting was completed.

"It's not convenient here, come over, by the belly of this deer, I will give you the money."

Jier beckoned to this Mao Mao leader, squatted down beside the belly of the Forest Deer, and used the deer's carcass to block the sight of many Mao Mao. He carefully felt around in the money bag at his side; because the sizes of the Gold Coin and Silver Coin were different, he could take out the coins he needed using his hand without looking, just by the size of the coins.

According to the agreement, Jier needed to take out two Gold Coins, or twenty Silver Coins, before these Mao Mao would agree to his strange request to let them cover for Jier and bring the animal Jier was hiding in into the Mine at the Jiedian.

It was not that the Mao Mao with majestic markings on its forehead did not doubt Jier's purpose, but under the temptation of gold, it didn't care at all what Jier's purpose was. Even if Jier paid them to go Hunting the soldiers at the Jiedian, they would be willing to do it. These alien Beast-men were not on the same side as the Defeated Soldiers; it was only because they had previously received a batch of metal tools given to them by others that they were willing to take the risk to send half of the Mao Mao Warriors in the tribe to guide these human soldiers through the dangerous Southern Mountains.

Don't look at the fact that this Mao Mao tribe lived in the Southern Mountains itself; they usually wouldn't risk crossing the territory of so many Monster beasts. As for the powerful Magic Beast, those powerful Magic Beast didn't care about the small Mao Mao at all, so there would be no problems when passing through the territory of the Magic Beast.

During the process of crossing the Southern Mountains this time, the Mao Mao also lost more than ten tribe Warriors, but compared to the rare harvest of a batch of human metal tools for the entire tribe, it was still a profit.

Not to mention, their destination was actually a Mine developed by humans, and this Mine even came with a Furnace capable of smelting metal. The tall Furnace outside the Mine, in the eyes of the Mao Mao, was far more mysterious and powerful than the tribe's Wizard, and they liked it even more.

It was just that the Mao Mao could not make or use this Furnace; even humans had to struggle to start the Furnace, and it took a lot of precise cooperation to barely make this Furnace operate.

And the Mao Mao couldn't even understand it, let alone operate it to smelt metal.

So they had to obediently hand over the Mineral Ore they had obtained, handing over a large amount of Mineral Ore in exchange for only a fraction of Metal Ingot.

And what the Mao Mao didn't know was that when the Defeated Soldiers gave the Mao Mao metal, they played a trick, counting quite a bit of metal slag for the Mao Mao as well. Anyway, to the Mao Mao, this hard metal slag was also metal and had the value they perceived.

But they completely didn't understand that this slag, mixed with unknown materials, could not be used to forge tools at all. Even if they worked hard to transport it to other human villages, the blacksmiths in those villages wouldn't accept it, and would only ridicule these stupid little things for being cheated.

Secretly handing the two Gold Coins to this Mao Mao leader, Jier then strode out.

But immediately, some light-fingered Mao Mao wanted to squeeze up and reach their little hands toward Jier's money bag. Jier's action of taking coins from the money bag just now was still seen by some curious Mao Mao.

But Jier wiped his left hand on his body, got a handful of bloodstains, and then took the opportunity to wipe it on the faces and heads of the approaching Mao Mao.

Stimulated by this bloody scent, these little things with sensitive noses immediately sneezed, and Jier took the opportunity to walk away.

But more and more Mao Mao gathered around; Jier gave a huff, jumped in place, and directly sat cross-legged in mid-air over two meters high, flying away while sitting on nothing but air!

This stunned all the Mao Mao present; they watched in shock as Jier, this Human, just floated away, and even if they jumped, they couldn't reach Jier's legs, so they could only watch helplessly as this Human left the place.

The Mao Mao holding the two Gold Coins shouted loudly, which finally drew the attention of the surrounding Mao Mao back over. It stood on the carcass of the massive Forest Deer, proudly showing off its harvest this time to the other Mao Mao, and stomped its feet, recounting in a tone of having taken great advantage how they didn't have to exert any effort at all to let that Human help them hunt such a large Forest Deer.

Jier was in a hurry to leave this place, so he simply abandoned this Forest Deer he had obtained himself.

To tell the truth, Jier was covered in the blood and Viscera of the deer at this moment, and he didn't even plan to eat meat today.

Cheers from the Mao Mao came from the mine tunnel behind him; Jier turned his head to look, but the light in the Mine was dim. Once he left the tunnel that had been illuminated by a Torch and arrived in the outer tunnel, it was pitch black and almost impossible to see anything, with only the sound of Humans whispering in the distance, the sound of stumbling footsteps, and the sound of pickaxes striking the tunnel walls echoing far through the mine.

"Is there anyone around?"

Jier seemed to be talking to himself, but he was actually asking Big Nose, whom he was sitting on at the moment.

Composed entirely of Divine Power, Big Nose seemed able to see everything around it even if the light was insufficient, and it also possessed useful ears and a nose; in terms of senses, it was far stronger than Jier.

Woof, woof.

"No one? Then I'll quickly clean myself up; it's quite smelly."

After saying this, Jier disappeared directly from Big Nose's back.

And Big Nose also stopped moving, obediently crouching in place, waiting for its master to reappear.

It was just that its form began to blur; it seemed that without Jier's supply of Divine Power, it would disappear before long.

But the loyal dog didn't care at all whether it disappeared or not; it naturally and unconditionally believed that its master would return before it vanished.

Jier did not disappoint it; silently, Jier reappeared exactly where he had vanished.

But this time, Jier was only wearing a set of worn-out clothes and was not carrying his weapons or equipment, only a Steel Dagger tucked into his waist, appearing in mid-air empty-handed.

As soon as Jier appeared, he began to fall from the air, but Big Nose nimbly lunged forward and accurately caught the falling Jier.

"Good dog! Ha, good dog!"

Jier jumped off Big Nose's body, vigorously rubbing its massive dog head, then pointed toward the tunnel ahead where human voices were coming from, and Big Nose immediately ran out toward that direction.

Tidying himself up and covering the traces of his blessing ability on his chest and flanks with his worn-out clothes, Jier also walked forward wearing a pair of broken shoes.

On this trip, his first priority was to contact and organize the Villagers within the Mine; firstly, to preserve the lives of the injured or starving Villagers, and secondly, to organize the Villagers to prepare for the subsequent attack.

When Jier launched his attack, the Villagers must all retreat back into the Mine and guard the entrance and exit of the Mine, prioritizing the assurance of their own survival.

Of course, Jier had previously observed the situation of the Villagers and seen that some people had a decent relationship with those Defeated Soldiers; he had to be on guard against any guys among the Villagers who had been subdued by the Defeated Soldiers and were colluding with them.

These people had to be controlled in advance; they could not be allowed to take any action in the situation that followed.

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