Can I become the Yu-Gi-Oh by summoning the Flame Swordsman?

Although the Snow Girl had already escaped with Bai Chu, the blizzard in the basement was still raging. After a few more minutes, the Snow Girl's influence dissipated and the basement finally became quiet.

In the pile of headless corpses, a fist suddenly punched out, knocking a corpse that was frozen into an ice sculpture away, smashing it to the ground and breaking it into pieces.

Gu Ke continued to push away the headless corpses that were pressing on him to protect him, stood up unharmed, and stared at the completely frozen pool of blood under his feet with a frown.

“Did those two guys escape?” Gu Ke’s eyes were filled with murderous intent as he looked towards the only exit of the basement. “Although that little girl is not human, at the last moment, she should not have had the extra strength to destroy my restriction…

No, I feel it, it's that disgusting filth, he's not dead yet."

……

The Snow Girl fled as fast as she could along the way she came. Fortunately, it was late at night and Dengmi's gang of bandits had no idea what was happening underground in the mountain stronghold. They were not blocked and rushed out of the tunnel and returned to the room where they had been attacked by the headless corpse.

The Snow Girl was trying to open the door and escape, but a disembodied male voice came from behind her: "Don't open the door. There are two people watching you not far from the door. If you alert everyone, you won't be able to fly out even if you have wings, not to mention that you are already exhausted."

The Snow Girl suddenly turned around and looked behind her, and found that an illusory figure had appeared behind her at some point. In the moonlight, his face was covered with rotten flesh and had no facial features like Deng Mi, and his head looked particularly hideous as if there was a tumor on his neck.

"What kind of wandering ghost are you? Why do you dare to come here and act like a ghost instead of reincarnating?" The Snow Girl knew at a glance that the other party was not human, and shouted immediately.

"If I were reincarnated, you would have died at the hands of that evil man today." The ghost suddenly flashed and came to the only bed in the room: "If you want to live, don't say unnecessary nonsense, move the bed quickly, there is a secret passage under the bed, if I lead you, you can get out of the village."

"Are you familiar with this place?" Xue Nu questioned, "Why should I believe you? You can tell from the first glance that you are in cahoots with Deng Mi's gang."

"What can I do if you don't believe me? The evil guy will soon realize his mistake and catch up with me. If you don't listen to me, you will die."

A hand was placed on the snow girl's shoulder. She turned around and saw Bai Chu, who had just woken up and was trying to stand up tremblingly. "Anyway, we are already in a desperate situation. It can't get any worse, right?"

Fire burst out behind Bai Chu, and the figure of the Fire Swordsman flashed. He walked towards the ghost who looked like Deng Mi and slashed with a sword, cutting the bed in half and cutting the floor. Another tunnel appeared in front of everyone.

"So many tunnels?" The Snow Girl exclaimed, "Is the underground of this mountain village empty?"

The ghost said, "When this mountain stronghold was first built, it was designed to be able to fight guerrilla warfare with the officers and soldiers to the greatest extent possible. There are many secret passages that even the evil people who occupied the stronghold don't know about."

"You mean..." Bai Chu heard something else: "You are the original owner of this mountain village?"

"Let's talk while we walk," the Snow Girl took Bai Chu's hand and went into the tunnel. It was dark in the tunnel and they couldn't see the road ahead clearly. Suddenly, a gust of cold wind blew by, and the ghost figure was in front of the two of them again. Wherever it passed, the torches on the wall lit up blue ghost fire one after another.

"Since you are not surprised to see my appearance, I guess you have seen the impostor before," the ghost figure said to himself as it moved on the road ahead, "Let me introduce myself. My name is Deng Mi, and my courtesy name is Mao Qi."

"Fake?" Bai Chu asked in confusion, "What happened in Wentang County before we arrived here?"

“I don’t know what happened in Wentang County, because at the beginning, I was just a woodcutter living in the deep mountains and valleys. But I can tell you what I saw.

About five months ago, one afternoon, I returned home after selling firewood. As usual, I was weeding in my own vegetable garden when I saw from afar a group of soldiers coming down the mountain, escorting the villain and the magistrate Liu Milai up the mountain.

They were talking about something in the forest and soon came into the orchard I planted. I would usually pick some fruits to sell. At that time, I didn't dare to stop them from picking them, but I also wanted to go up and say hello. So I heard that they were talking about the rich mineral resources in this mountain and they wanted to transform it to build a mine.

I naturally didn't agree to this. I am a woodcutter who lives on the mountain. My ancestors' graves are all on this mountain. This is both destroying my job and slapping me in the face. Of course, I have no right to object. I didn't even meet the villain and the county magistrate. I was arrested by the soldiers on the charge of causing trouble and the word "prisoner" was tattooed on my face. "

"You got a tattoo on your face just for causing trouble?"

"Maybe my presence dampened their mood. Magistrate Liu didn't refer to the law when deciding the sentence, but rather based it entirely on his mood.

I was hungry in prison for about a month, and when I came out again, I became a miner in the mine. It is said that the evil man offered a monthly wage of one or two taels of silver, but could not find any miners, so County Magistrate Liu released the criminals in prison and promised that not only would we be paid as usual, but that as long as we worked in the mine for one month, our sentence could be reduced by two months.

I actually don’t know how long I was sentenced to, but I had no choice, because all criminals had to report there.”

"One tael of silver a month..." The Snow Girl interrupted, "To be honest, this salary is pretty good. It's not an exaggeration to say it's a good job. Why do you sound like you can't recruit people? Are you forcing all the criminals to gather together to mine?"

"First of all, the villain is a stranger, and we are not familiar with his character. We, the common people, are only familiar with the character of County Magistrate Liu. We all know that it is a dream to get this salary without some skills. Besides, mining is a dangerous and unfree job. It is not comparable to farming. You can decide how much to work and you can have a wife and children.

During that period, County Magistrate Liu did a lot of strange things. He prohibited farmers from burning straw, saying that it polluted the environment. Farmers knew that this would make the farmland a breeding ground for pests such as the Chilo suppressalis, also known as the borer. If this continued, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the farmers' harvest would be halved every year.

During that period, the prices of agricultural products also fell rapidly under the forced regulation of County Magistrate Liu. Farmers sold the excess grain they grew, but the money from the sales was often not enough to buy seeds and fertilizers for the next year's farming.

Some farmers had no choice but to cut the immature wheat seedlings and sell them to landlords to feed cattle and horses. This was extremely wasteful and would lead to less and less grain on the market, but when the wheat matured, the farmers would only suffer greater losses.

Of course, everyone accepted all this, that's how people are, they live as long as they can, trying to survive in the cracks. However, during that period, County Magistrate Liu suddenly increased the severity of the criminal law. Some people who failed to report the mine for environmental pollution were directly arrested and brought to the mine on the charge of defamation and slander. Even if they exchanged a few words on the road, they might be accused of plotting rebellion. There were new faces in the mine every day.

But this mine has many people coming and going. It's not that it's easy to quit here. There's no quitting here, only dismissal. There are many brothers who are about to serve their sentences. Either their sentences are extended due to old crimes, or they are dismissed early because they disobey the mine management, are lazy at work, etc. Once you are dismissed, you won't get a penny of salary."

Bai Chu took a deep breath and thought that the water in Wentang County was extremely deep.

"And I injured my hand while working and needed to rest for a few days. But when I recovered and was ready to return to work, I found that I was no longer a miner here. I was fired. I was of course happy to leave this place where I worked 30 days a month from 6 am to 10 pm, but I couldn't refuse my salary, but they certainly didn't want to give it to me. They beat me up and threw me out.

After I came out, it felt like a lifetime ago. My orchard and my home no longer existed. Almost half of the young people in Wentang County were gone, and the remaining ones had more or less labor disputes with the mines, or had developed health problems and were no longer suitable for mining.

As time went by, everyone realized that the high salary promised by the evil man was just a bubble in the water. When joining the mine, their identity documents would often be taken away, and it would be even more difficult to leave by force. The mine was like a furnace, burning the bodies of the people and calcining nature to obtain the essence, which was then divided up by those who sat around and got something for nothing.

As it became increasingly difficult to recruit people for the mines, more and more people were driven out of the mines with unresolved labor disputes. They gathered together to put pressure on the government and ask for an explanation. At first, it was useless. However, as the voices grew louder, the county magistrate Liu Milai could no longer sit still and established an organization called the Miners' Help Association.

"Miners' Assistance Association?" Bai Chu nodded. "Although this was done reluctantly, if he really did something practical, then County Magistrate Liu would still have some merits."

"You may have misunderstood." Deng Mi's ghost suddenly became more illusory, as if he was emotionally unstable. "Although it is called the Miners' Assistance Association, this organization is not there to help miners. It is more appropriate to say that it helps mines manage miners.

For cases where the rights of miners are violated, the association insists on being blind and deaf. Even if a lawsuit is brought to the door, the association's style of handling things is to delay as much as possible, and delay again and again. However, if the rights of a mine are damaged, the association will announce it vigorously and actively cooperate with the mine to severely crack down on the minority of troublemakers who damage the image of the miners. Of course, most people are a minority of troublemakers.

In addition, the Miners' Assistance Association has a golden sentence: The association resists all acts of exploiting miners in mining farms. The overtime hours for mining in mining farms shall not exceed 8 hours per day, and the working hours per week shall not exceed 100 hours.

Later, we became more and more aware that we miners should be more united and unite to have a real miners' help association that is not just a shell. We did this to defend our rights and to protect our fellow miners from being bullied. But soon, the government defined the real miners' help association as a () organization.

The tunnel seemed to have come to an end. Deng Mi's ghost stopped and made way. Bai Chu rubbed his shoulders and walked forward. He held his breath and mobilized all his strength to push away the huge rock that blocked everyone's way.

The sunlight shone into the tunnel. After a brief moment of blindness, Bai Chu, who had been blinking continuously, finally regained his vision. Not far from the exit, a man moved his neck impatiently and walked towards this side. It seemed that he had been waiting for a long time.