Human Shackles

　　 After a while, all the prisoners were branded with numbers. The jailers raised their whips to drive the prisoners back into a long line, and some unconscious people were directly awakened with cold water.

The team passed through the huge iron gate of the prison, and the outside environment was reflected in the field of vision. A barren hill was in front of it. There was a black head on the hill. It turned out to be countless absenteeism mining ore. The car shuttled on the winding trail at the top of the mountain, and the ants moved the ore back down the mountain.

　　 There is a large campsite below the top of the mountain. The towering chimney is emitting black smoke, and white water vapor lingers above the campsite. There is also a small stream next to the campsite, and the dark stream flows quietly.

The jailer hurried the prisoners to the camp with a loud voice. Luo Kai looked at the open-pit mine in shock. He was a little sluggish for a while, and a black leather whip was drawn straight towards him. The fiery pain made him unable to help. With a scream, his body staggered and fell to the ground.

　　 gritted his teeth and stood up again to keep up with the team. His back had many welt marks this day, but compared to the pain when the water was forging a bone, this whip thorn was nothing.

　　 The entire mine is surrounded by a four-to-five-meter high iron mesh fence. A stone guard tower stands at intervals on the fence. Several guards with guns and live ammunition stare indifferently below the guard tower.

The prisoners were rushed into the camp in one file, and a strong stench puffed their noses. A row of crosses stood on a square in the camp. Several withered-faced prisoners were tied to the crosses. The hot sun had already covered their skins. The sun is dry and cracked, and maggots crawling on the dry and cracked wound...

　　 A wooden sign stands in front of the cross with a few big blood-red letters: "The escaper will end here."

　　 The new prisoner stood up for a while, silently accepted the jailer’s assignment, and was placed in a dilapidated dormitory.

Luo Kai and four other condemned prisoners were also pushed into a dormitory made of gravel and wood. The dormitory is actually a simple shack. The glare of the sun shines from the gap on the ceiling, and ten people lie in the shed. Several prisoners of different skin colors, including whites, blacks, and more yellow-skinned races, all have yellow and thin faces, bare clothes, tangy foot odor mixed with body odor, forming a breath that makes people want to vomit.

　　 There was a conversation between the Scarfaced Jailer and another person outside the shack.

　　 "Brother, don't you worry if someone gave me this? Here is the tiger lying down for me, and the dragon holding it for me!"

　　 "These guys are not simple. If something goes wrong, it will be troublesome. After finishing the work, they should be sent back to the cell for insurance."

　　 Another person's voice was a little disdainful: "Brother, when have you been so timid? Our brothers have never seen anyone, even the big people in the county have killed a lot of people!"

　　 Scarfaced jailer immediately became annoyed: "Damn, I do it for your own good. I'm looking for someone to pick them up every day. At other times, please pay attention!"

　　 "Okay, I will find someone to take good care of them, Brother 3, you haven't come to me for a long time, come, I just got a few barrels of good sugar cane wine...

As the voice faded away, the shack began to lively. A white man led a few skinny prisoners over and looked at the five newcomers unscrupulously. It was obvious when he glanced over the four-armed giant man. There was a flash of panic, and the black man among the remaining four was obviously not easy to provoke, and the two thin boys were not easy to talk about. It seemed that only the white-haired old man was good to bully, so he asked loudly: "Old man, what's his name, you have committed a crime. What's the matter?"

　　 The old man squinted his eyes and said with a light smile: "The old man's surname is Li, with a single name. It is enough for my brothers to call me old Litou. As for what I have committed, I don't want to talk about it!"

　　 "Hey, you are not dead, look for it!" A prisoner next to him was about to lift his palm.

The white prisoner stretched out his hand to stop him, and said in a deep voice, "Laosan Han said just now, you guys. I don't care how good you were before. I am the boss in this dormitory. Do you have any comments?" Looked at the four-armed giant.

　　 "Of course the old man has no objection. As for the others, I don't know." Li Gui said with a smile.

The white prisoner looked at the other four people, but the others were in a daze, sleeping while sleeping, obviously ignoring his interest. He wanted to say something cruel, but he had some scruples in his heart. The other prisoners were also human spirits, and the scene was quiet for a while. Down.

　　 The white-haired old man Li Gui broke the silence: "Well, big brother, haven't you listened to the old third Han? We don't live here, and we will be sent to the cell after we finish our work."

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This is an open-pit iron mine. Thousands of prisoners work here. They use hammers and iron drills to strip the ore from the mountain, then smash the huge ore into small pieces, and use a basket to carry it back to the mountain trail. , Use a trolley to transport the ore down the mountain,

There are four or five strange and bloated large trucks parked on the square under the mountain where the ore is stored. A boiler stands on the side of the front of the truck. The volume of the whole boiler accounts for more than half of the front of the truck. , The roar of the engine was deafening, and it was a steam-powered truck.

Luo Kai received the tools for today’s work at the foot of the mountain. A huge hammer, the heavy hammer bent his waist. During this time, although there was more food, it was also Far from being able to make up for the lack of body, he felt that he was advancing with a mountain on his back. Gradually, his consciousness was a little fuzzy, but he was slowly advancing with his tenacious willpower.

　　 I don’t know how long it took and finally arrived at the work site. There were already piles of huge black ore on the ground. His job was to break the stones. The prisoner on the side picked up an iron drill and signaled him to start work.

It may be that the physical exercises of cultivation did have an effect, or that the body's resilience was too strong. Luo Kai gasped for a while, and he actually had the strength to raise the hammer again, accompanied by a crisp clang, The hammer slammed heavily on the iron drill, and the overseer on the side slowly lowered the whip that had been raised.

Under the scorching sun, Luo Kai was sweating for a while, and after the wound on his back was stained with sweat, there was a burst of hot tingling, which made his figure more embarrassed, and I don’t know how he persisted until the end, numb. After eating the unknown food, he was driven back to the cell by the jailer.

Luo Kai dreamed again. In the dream was a charming face with a little playfulness. It was his wife, as if they had returned to their first love. The two were strolling on the campus, passing notes in the classroom, and on the beach. Play on...

Luo Kai opened his eyes blankly in the dark, the faint moonlight shed outside the iron windows, and the tingling pain from various parts of his body made him distinguish reality from dreams. He recalled the face of his wife in the dream, but he did not know why. The harder the memory, the more blurred the figure, heart-scorching regret filled my heart.

　　 slammed the 9527 wound on his chest, and the scabbed wound ruptured again, and the physical pain eased the pain of the soul a little.