Chapter 3218: Connected by the same fate

When all the Brave Cavalry Guards started to mine and produce overtime immediately, Ye Chen took Song Ruyu and, under the leadership of Yin Xiaoyang, came to the underground mine where thousands of dead soldiers and their families were imprisoned.

This underground mine opened a total of three mouths. The original design was two for mining and transporting phosphate ore to the ground, and the other specifically for ventilating the entire underground mine.

Now, the ventilation opening of the mine had been completely blocked by iron railings as thick as arms, ensuring that it could only ventilate, and it was impossible for anyone to escape from here.

In addition, the two mine exits originally designed for transporting phosphate ore were all firmly blocked by heavy iron doors. Brave Cavalry Guards of the third battalion had people guarding here, and the control of the elevator was also in the hands of the Brave Cavalry Guards. With the gates closed and the elevator shut down, the dead soldiers below could not escape at all.

Moreover, although dead soldiers were equivalent to prisoners and Brave Cavalry Guards were equivalent to prison guards, the fate of the two was actually no different. Dead soldiers could not leave the mine without authorization, and Brave Cavalry Guards only had a few kilometers more activity radius than them. With the mining area of Duke Mining as the boundary, no one could leave this shackle at will.

Precisely because of this, dead soldiers would not try to escape at all, because escaping was useless. Once the time limit of the antidote arrived, they would definitely die.

When the three arrived at the entrance, Yin Xiaoyang said directly to the Brave Cavalry Guards guarding here, "Open the elevator, we are going down."

The Brave Cavalry Guards obeyed him, naturally not daring to neglect, and immediately opened the gate and then turned on the power to the elevator.

The lights inside the elevator turned on. Yin Xiaoyang immediately said to Ye Chen and Song Ruyu: "Mr. Ye, Miss Song, please!"

Ye Chen nodded and entered the elevator first. Song Ruyu followed closely behind. Yin Xiaoyang entered last, then pressed the signal machine. The Brave Cavalry Guards who received the signal immediately started the elevator and descended rapidly towards the bottom of the mine.

During the rapid descent of the elevator, Yin Xiaoyang asked Ye Chen, "Mr. Ye, do you need me to gather all the dead soldiers and their families later?"

Ye Chen said, "You gather the leaders of all levels of the dead soldiers first. I will explain the situation to them clearly, and then let them gather everyone, let them explain to their fellow brothers and families in person, so that it will be more convincing. Moreover, I don't have time to detoxify everyone today. I can only detoxify the leaders of all levels first, let them trust me, and then let them organize everyone to evacuate first. After evacuating to a safe place, I will detoxify the others."

After speaking, he asked him, "When did everyone take the medicine last time?"

Yin Xiaoyang immediately said, "Reporting to Mr. Ye, everyone took the antidote the day before yesterday, and the time is still quite abundant."

Ye Chen nodded, "Good, time is enough."

The elevator traveled for about a minute. After arriving at the bottom of the mine, a man immediately greeted him. Seeing that it was Yin Xiaoyang, he immediately said respectfully, "Commander Yin, why did you come down in person?"

Yin Xiaoyang said, "There are some important matters to communicate with you. Please trouble yourself to gather your Commander and all Thousand-Household Officers and Banner Chiefs to the front hall for discussion."

The dead soldier immediately said, "Commander Yin, please move to the front hall and wait. Subordinates will go and notify the Commander!"

Passing through the alley of the mine, the three came to the front hall of the dead soldier station. This was originally a working face of the phosphate mine. After the Anti-Qing Society took over, they transformed this place into the only way to enter the interior of the station, and carried out support and reinforcement for this working face.

Now, this place had become a venue for dead soldiers to hold meetings, and also a place for Brave Cavalry Guards to deploy tasks to dead soldiers.

The front hall was brightly lit at this time, and the large space was designed like an ancient government office, with a flat and empty space in the middle, and three grandmaster chairs placed in front.

At this time, there were also two dead soldiers guarding the front hall. Seeing Yin Xiaoyang coming, they immediately stepped forward and said respectfully, "Subordinates have seen Commander Yin!"

Yin Xiaoyang nodded and said to the two, "I have gathered your Commander and leaders of all levels for a meeting. You can retreat first."

The two immediately said in unison, "Subordinates obey!"

After speaking, they immediately turned and retreated.

Seeing that these dead soldiers respected Yin Xiaoyang from the bottom of their hearts, and their eyes were full of respect rather than fear, Ye Chen asked curiously, "You have a good relationship with these dead soldiers?"

Yin Xiaoyang introduced to Ye Chen, "Reporting to Mr. Ye, the relationship between us Brave Cavalry Guards and the dead soldiers is indeed very good. Although we are ordered to guard them here, I have repeatedly emphasized to all the brothers of the Brave Cavalry Guards that no one is allowed to exploit, bully, or make things difficult for the dead soldiers and their families. After all, everyone is connected by the same fate and should sympathize with each other. These dead soldiers can also understand our situation, and we are also doing our best to provide them with some help and convenience, so everyone gets along very well."

Ye Chen nodded and sighed, "In the outside world, the food chain has long been formed between classes and classes, and exploitation and oppression are also passed down layer by layer. Many people have suffered grievances from above, so they have to vent them doubly on the people below. You can realize here that dead soldiers and Brave Cavalry Guards are connected by the same fate and help each other, which is truly not easy."

Song Ruyu, who was on the side, heard Ye Chen's words, and her face couldn't help but feel a little hot.

She found that she was one of the "many people" Ye Chen mentioned. The Song family had been controlled by the Anti-Qing Society for hundreds of years and oppressed by the Anti-Qing Society. But after she came to Duke Mining, she did not sympathize with or care for these Brave Cavalry Guards of Duke Mining. On the contrary, she was more harsh to them, and even had acts of killing innocent people. Now that she thinks about it, she is truly ashamed.

Soon, a neat and uniform running sound came from the alley behind the front hall.

A middle-aged strong man with a beard led more than twenty people and ran over quickly.

Most of these people had Asian faces, but there were also a few other races. These other races were also kidnapped by the Anti-Qing Society many years ago and forced to become dead soldiers, so their descendants also became dead soldiers and received unified Sinicization education.

A group of people ran quickly to the three of them. The leader looked at Ye Chen with some surprise, and then said loudly, "Subordinate Qian Qi Wu has seen Inspector Lord, seen Commander Lord!"

Ye Chen looked at Song Ruyu and asked her, "Have you been down?"

Song Ruyu nodded and said truthfully, "Reporting to Mr. Ye, I came down the day before yesterday to distribute antidotes to them."

After speaking, she explained, "Originally, this matter should be done by the Special Envoy. I came here to supervise the blood replacement this time, so I didn't let the Special Envoy come."

Ye Chen nodded lightly. At this time, Yin Xiaoyang on the side looked at Ye Chen and asked, "Mr. Ye, do you want me to introduce it to the brothers?"

Ye Chen said, "Okay, you introduce it."

Seeing that Song Ruyu and Yin Xiaoyang were both respectful to the young man beside them, the dead soldiers were a little nervous for a while.

Originally, the biggest officer they could see here was the Special Envoy. Being able to see the Inspector two days ago already made them feel that something was wrong. They didn't expect that two days later, another person who could make the Inspector respectful would come. Everyone was even a little curious, wondering if Ye Chen would be a General, or even the Great Governor of the Anti-Qing Society.

At this time, Yin Xiaoyang said, "Everyone, this Mr. Ye beside me has brought you an opportunity to completely get rid of the Anti-Qing Society with your families. I don't know if you are willing to accept it?"