7 Badu Island Secret - part 3 (2/2)
He was slowly forming an idea of what this place is like and had already began planning his escape. Only, there was one aspect of his plan that didn't depend on him and Wuxing needed to use someone else.
”To be honest—” the veteran began but stopped when he noticed people was coming towards them.
”Good morning, General.”
The veteran responded with a nod at them. The guards saluted respectfully before continuing to lead a group of prisoners towards one of the caves. The prisoners looked at Wuxing curiously, wondering who was this young man in prisoner clothes talking freely with the General.
When they left, the veteran called General continued, ”I was sent here by the Chief Warden to propose you something. He said that if you don't create any trouble during your stay, you will be granted another privilege. For each kilogram of Ethernum you collect, your sentence will be cut by two days, instead of one. The Chief Warden has such right, so I advise you to take this deal. It should only take you a few years and you will be once again free.”
Wuxing thought for a moment. He suddenly remembered something. ”I agree, but on one condition.”
”Let's hear it,” the veteran replied with raised eyebrows.
”You know that I am innocent. It shouldn't be hard for me to meet a lawyer who can represent me. The court session was staged, the accusations against me are false and the evidence was fabricated. Tell me, am I supposed to just stay silent and do nothing?” Wuxing asked as he presented his point of view.
”Sure, but I have no say in this as it is not under my jurisdiction. I can only pass your message to the Chief Warden. I hope you can avoid creating problems until you have a reply,” the military veteran said as he nodded.
”As long as no one provokes me, I will not kill them.”
Wuxing smiled and the veteran couldn't find a counter to that. He knew that this young man had the skills to do so.
Finishing their talk, they walked towards the main mining area. Basically, the whole process of mining was not as chaotic as Wuxing expected. The Ethernum crystals were too precious to be left only to newbies and inexperienced prisoners to mine, so there were also a whole bunch of professional miners acting as guides and helpers. They coordinated the whole work while the guards provided supervision support with their firearms.
The miners couldn't use automatic machines or vehicles to mine the crystals as the crystals were too fragile. They would be easily crushed if you hit them with a hammer. This was why everything had to be done manually using small tools with great care. The lucky thing was that the earth here under Badu Island wasn't too hard so the mining had been rather smooth so far.
The miners just needed to make sure that they didn't go too deep or else they would risk collapsing the tunnels. There were already tens of levels so it would be rather easy to cause a collapse if someone was careless or negligent enough. Fortunately, with the current technology, there were a few countermeasures available to prevent that or at least minimise the hazard.
The mine was 300 meters deep even though the works only started a few months ago and every work was done manually. People had to use an elevator to get down to the deeper parts of the mine.
”Okay, I'm leaving you with this man. He is responsible for teaching the newbies,” the veteran finally said after they arrived at the basic level.
One professional miner looked up from the papers on the table and called out in happiness seeing Wuxing, ”Oh, great! I need someone to take over one bastard who didn't show up as someone beat him up. From now on, you will take his work on the basic level.”