Blue, Red and White Dark Abyss Cauldron

Winter goes and spring comes, spring goes and summer comes, and suddenly it is the midsummer of the second year.

The whip wounds on Chu Xiaomu's back had long since healed, but when he took off his clothes, the scars that were left behind looked like a dozen twisted strange insects, which was shocking.

Fortunately, Jin Li'er would send one or two sets of new clothes to Shengnu every time the season changed, so he was no longer naked and felt less embarrassed.

Although the clothes delivered were all new, the fabrics and workmanship were of very poor quality, so none of the warriors or overseers wanted to take them. Each slave could get one.

What made all the slaves even happier was that, since Jin Li'er's last visit, the slaves had a meal of dry food every five days, which even included one or two pounds of mutton. The slaves, who had not seen meat for a long time, were very happy and seemed to have more energy to work.

One day the weather was gloomy, and in the afternoon it suddenly started to rain heavily, all over the sky and the ground. At the same time, there were lightning, thunder, and crackling earthquakes that made people tremble with fear.

Lu Quangao said: "In such horrible weather, I'm afraid there are evil spirits causing trouble."

Luo Daxi said: "Over the years, evil spirits have appeared more and more. Fortunately, we slaves have no money in our pockets and no flesh on our bodies, so the evil spirits will not come to us. In the past few years, I had a lot of money on me, but I was often worried."

Gao Yijue said, "I heard that Jinyang City Lord Jin Huapeng hired slaves to mine and smelt black iron in order to supply it to Baijun City, Bi City, Yan City, and Yutuo City to forge swords and weapons to deal with the evil spirits coming from the two countries of Chisha in the south and Baixue in the north."

Yu Aqi also said he had heard such rumors.

Gao Yijue added: "In my opinion, what's so scary about just a few evil spirits? If my brothers from Yancheng were here, they would have defeated any evil spirits!"

Luo Daxi said: "Some spirits are the most greedy for money. If nothing unexpected happens to my business, it would be interesting to hire a dozen or twenty of them with great abilities."

Liu Zang said, "Let's make a bet. With your few bags of silver, you can't even afford to hire half a spirit. How can you hire more than ten or twenty people? You're dreaming."

Luo Daxi's face turned red and he started arguing loudly with him.

Hai Wuqing sighed and muttered, "When I went to Xihai City, I brought several boxes of pearls, corals, and giant clams, but an evil spirit robbed them all along the way, which led to my current situation."

Everyone hurriedly asked him what the evil spirit looked like. Hai Wuqing shook his head and said, "I didn't see it clearly, it seemed to be a woman. She spewed out a very bright white light from her mouth, and it knocked us all out."

Chu Xiaomu was surprised when he heard this, but others did not find it strange.

Everyone was soaked to the skin. On the way back to the slave shed from the mine, they picked up half a bundle of dry firewood, built a small fire at one end of the slave shed, and hung the clothes on it to dry.

In the middle of the night, the lightning and thunder were like a string of cannonballs, and it did not stop for a long time, making it difficult for everyone to fall asleep.

It was just daybreak and the rain had stopped. I heard a burst of rapid gong beating in my dream. Some supervisors outside the slave house were shouting, running and calling. It sounded like something big was happening.

Chu Xiaomu and the others were just wondering what happened when the wooden door of the slave house was opened. The supervisor surnamed Meng shouted breathlessly, "Everyone, get up, stand at the head of the bed, no one is allowed to leave!"

Everyone was puzzled and didn't know what was going on, so they stood at the head of their beds as they were told.

One person asked, "Superintendent Meng, what happened?"

After the supervisor surnamed Meng counted the number of slaves, he said calmly, "Ma Baocheng is dead. We need to check if there are any slaves who have escaped."

Ma Baocheng was the supervisor named Ma. He often gave orders to the supervisors named Meng and Wu. Supervisor Meng had long been dissatisfied with him, so he was extremely indifferent to his death.

Soon, more than thirty warriors with swords and spears came out of the house along with several supervisors.

One person asked loudly, "Is Ma Baocheng in charge of this sacrificial slave?!" It turned out to be the martial leader Pang Shisan who beat Chu Xiaomu on the way to Jinyang City! Chu Xiaomu heard that man's voice again, and he couldn't help but feel angry.

A man outside the room said in a gruff voice, "I'm asking you two, is Ma Baocheng the one in charge of this slave sacrifice?" It was the strange-looking supervisor Tong Hun, who was pointing at the two supervisors Meng and Wu while speaking.

"Reporting to the supervisor and Wu Tou, the two of us and Ma Baocheng are in charge together." The supervisor named Meng replied.

"When you came to open the door, was there a slave missing from this house?" Pang Shisan asked.

"One less, that's twenty-eight."

"Are you sure you didn't count wrong?"

"Returning to Wutou, I counted twice and there are 28 people, not one more, not one less."

Pang Shisan was still worried, so he walked into the slave house and counted again. When he counted Chu Xiaomu, he sneered and said, "You are still alive. You are really lucky."

Chu Xiaomu couldn't cause trouble at this time, so he lowered his head and looked at the ground without saying a word.

After Pang Shisan counted and confirmed that there were 28 people, he was a little frustrated. He walked outside and said to the supervisor named Meng: "There are several slaves here who are not honest people. They can only be released after the murderer is found out."

The supervisor surnamed Meng said anxiously: "This...this...what should we do if the amount of stone ore we mined is not enough? The young master has issued a strict order..."

Tong Hun said, "Yes, yes. What if the number is not enough? It will not be good if we anger the people in Xihai City."

"That's your business, figure it out yourself. But someone died in the mine and it's my business if the murderer isn't caught. Your business is one thing, but my business is even more of a problem!" Pang Shisan said coldly.

"Did you hear that? Pang Wutou said, you guys figure it out yourself!" Tong Hun said again.

The head supervisor surnamed Meng was unhappy, but he didn't dare to refute the two of them. He had already cursed their ancestors seventeen or eighteen times in his heart.

Chu Xiaomu thought: "This Tong guy is a idiot. How can he be the supervisor of these people? I can rely on him to do something."

Not long after, people came to report. Most of them said that they had not found any missing slaves. Only two people said that there were missing slaves in the slave house. One person said that a slave was missing from the second slave house of Digging Slave A, but after verification, it was found that the slave died of overwork and vomiting blood. Another person said that two slaves were missing from the first slave house of Moving Slave Wu, and their whereabouts were unknown.

Pang Shisan was very excited and shouted, "Let's go and take a look at the dog house!" He led more than thirty soldiers and left.

Tong Hun also said in a rough voice: "Come on, let's go and take a look together."

Pang Shisan suddenly turned around and said fiercely to Chu Xiaomu and the others: "Until we have thoroughly investigated, no one in this slave house can be released!"

The two supervisors, Meng and Wu, agreed immediately but cursed in their hearts, "You didn't let them go without saying a word. They didn't dig enough ore, but you came to deduct my money. Bah!"