Chapter 846 The Miners (1/2)
The longer Barnes the Holy stayed inside the pot, the more he began to boil with rage.
The men who caught him were martial artists at the advanced stage of the Wonder Realm, but they didn't seem to have fiendish nature. Thus, Barnes couldn't use his own fiendish nature to suppress his captors.
The shame of being stewed inside a pot was unbearable, and it made him all the more livid. If people found out about this, he would die of embarrassment.
The men looked up when Darren suddenly stepped out of the forest. They greeted him warmly.
”Oh, young man, it's such a pleasure to see you here. Let's have some soup together.”
Darren smiled and walked over them.
Upon seeing him, Barnes could no longer hold himself back. ”Darren, you are here! Kill these people right now! How dare they put me in the pot and boil me!”
But the men simply laughed at him. ”Oh, don't mind him. This black monkey has been talking nonsense for a while now. He keeps calling himself 'the Holy.' Ha-ha. What does that even mean?”
”One thing's right, though. You are an unlucky monkey and we are all starving.”
”Ah, I haven't been home for ten years now. When will we finish mining anyway? I hope we'll still be alive to get home at this point.”
”We'll definitely get back to our homes, alive. So let's have a big meal first.”
”Come here, buddy. Sit down and wait for the soup to boil.”
Darren took the empty seat beside the men. The iron pot was just across him.
”Darren, are you blind? Can't you see how upset I am?” Barnes kept hollering.
The men turned to look at Darren, looking sheepish and embarrassed.
”Buddy, is this black monkey your pet?”
Darren spared a glance at the black monkey, who was looking more and more annoyed by the second. ”No, I haven't seen this monkey before. He probably had just made up that name.”
”I knew it. The monkey is so cunning.
Bro, go and shut him up or he'll talk our ears off. Oh, don't forget. Let's put a lid on the pot.”
”Got it.”
Stripping a piece of cloth, one of the men stood up and gagged the black monkey's mouth shut. Then, he cut a piece of the towering tree and turned it into a lid for the pot.
Casually, Darren asked, ”Hey buddies, why do you boil this monkey anyway?”