Chapter 553

The moment he held the 81-bar with both hands, Wang An suddenly had the illusion of "with a gun in hand, the world is mine."

At the same time, Wang An felt that his whole body was instantly tightly wrapped by an omnipresent sense of security.

Thinking about it, Wang An touched the grenade hanging on his back. It must be said that a grenade, although it is just an iron ball wrapped in explosives.

But at this time, Wang An's feeling of holding the grenade was no less than the feeling of holding a big snow-child when doing things with a woman on the kang.

To be honest, that kind of sense of security, satisfaction, fulfillment, and most importantly, the sense of firm control, is truly fascinating and intoxicating.

After touching the grenade, Wang An, even the last bit of panic and anxiety in the depths of his heart, had completely disappeared without a trace.

All of this made Wang An suddenly realize that when facing danger, all fear and panic are actually derived from insufficient firepower. As long as the firepower is invincible, then any fear and panic are just a joke, damn it.

Wang An held the gun with both hands, directly flipped off the horse, and then ran toward the hill as quietly as possible.

When Wang An's head just passed the highest point of the hill, Wang An stood still.

And the reason why Wang An didn't run anymore was because in Wang An's line of sight, he could already see the scene in the distance.

And in Wang An's ears, he could also vaguely hear the "boom" and "boom" sounds made by the gravel machine.

Just less than two miles away from the hill where Wang An was, there was a very large valley.

Saying valley might be a bit inaccurate, because a valley is a low and narrow place between two mountains; in reality, it is a mountain col where water flows through.

So the place in front of Wang An should be said to be a proper large pit, or a small circular valley.

This pit is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and in the middle is a small lake, but this lake doesn't look deep and is still a living water lake.

A living water lake is where water flows down from upstream and injects into this lake, and then the lake is full and overflows outward.

Obviously, the water overflowing from this lake flows exactly through the place where Wang An and the others pan for gold.

And right beside this small lake, thirty or forty people are working around two machines. Around these thirty or forty people, there are also four people holding guns watching them.

Further away from these people, that is, on the half-mountain slope around this pit, there are also several tents set up separately.

Some tent entrances also have people holding guns wandering back and forth, but the eyes of these people holding guns are all looking at this group of people working.

From the non-uniform clothing of these gun-holders, it is not difficult to see that this is a group of ruthless people, doing the business of specifically stealing mines, and stealing gold mines at that.

Of course, this kind of situation of stealing mines is a very common phenomenon at any time, in any place, and no matter what kind of mine it is.

This phenomenon is simply called "opening a black mine."

And those people working under the muzzle of the gun are a group of laborers forced to come here to work for various reasons.

Actually, laborers working in the open air like this can still be considered relatively good.

The truly miserable ones are the laborers forced to dig coal.

Once you enter a black coal kiln, you can't come out in this life; that is really not lying at all.

Digging coal in a deep well without seeing the sun all day, eating, drinking, shitting, pissing, and sleeping all in the well, and also having to worry about collapse, gas, underground water rising, etc. You can imagine what kind of miserable situation this is. To be honest, Wang An is familiar with the scene in front of him, because when Wang An was at the fence in his past life, he had done this kind of business.

Of course, in terms of treatment, Wang An was a bit better than the laborers in front of him at that time.

After all, the management personnel are different; the group of gun-holders in front of him are purely bandit and bully behavior, and the death of working laborers is a very normal thing.

And when Wang An was there initially, the fence side didn't dare to easily let personnel suffer casualties.

Just when Wang An was observing carefully, he saw one of the four people holding guns raise the gun handle and smash it down on a laborer who was carrying ore.

After a few gun handles, the laborer was smashed and lay on the ground without moving.

Just at this time, another person holding a gun walked to the machine, slung the gun on his shoulder, picked up a bucket of water, and splashed it on this laborer.

The laborer was suddenly stimulated by the cold water, stood up again, put the scattered ore back into the basket, picked up the basket, and walked toward the machine.

Wang An knew why this laborer was beaten; it was just because the speed of this laborer carrying ore was a bit slow.

Actually, this kind of heavy physical labor of carrying ore into the machine is something no one can keep fast forever.

Physical strength is one aspect, and the most important thing is that these laborers are not full for every meal.

The reason why laborers are not full is not to say that these people stealing mines are stingy and want to save food, but that these people cannot let laborers be full.

Maybe some people will ask, it's not stingy to save food, and they are working for them, so why don't they let the laborers be full? Isn't it that only when you are full can you do more work?

Actually, the reason is very simple, that is, people cannot be hungry, because people who are hungry will go crazy and will choose people to eat.

But people cannot be too full either; if people are too full, they will make some things happen.

For example, running away in these deep mountains and old forests, for example, taking advantage of the people watching not paying attention, beating the people watching to death, and for example, uniting a few people to make some movement... etc., etc. Therefore, if you want to firmly control these laborers, you must keep them in a state of semi-starvation.

Not full, and not starving to death, and having to work all day to consume the resentment in their bodies. After a long time, these laborers will have no thoughts at all, damn it! It must be said that these ruthless people stealing mines have studied human nature quite thoroughly!

Just when Wang An was observing everything in front of him, the tail-less fox patted Wang An's thigh with its front paw and warned Wang An again.

Wang An looked at the tail-less fox, only to see the tail-less fox looking toward the direction of a dense forest.

Wang An immediately looked in the direction of the tail-less fox's gaze, but saw nothing.

However, Wang An believed that the tail-less fox would not shoot without a target, so he turned around quickly, led the horse, and walked toward a bush.

After waiting in the bush for a long time, just when Wang An couldn't help but want to go out and see, Wang An actually heard not very clear speaking sounds coming from outside the bush.

And so, Wang An held his breath and began to listen.

It must be said that the Oroqen horse is really powerful; at such a critical moment, it didn't even snort.

Only when Wang An finished listening to what they said, he was instantly scared into a cold sweat.

(End of chapter)