The Sabbath

The pale light, the muffled roar hidden under the ground, the blunt sound of machinery rubbing against each other... Ronggui felt all these quietly.

Xiaomei is the shortest.

Therefore, someone deliberately lined up and got in front of him.The man was already standing in front of him, and after a while he turned around arrogantly, lowered his head, and said contemptuously to Xiaomei: "Sorry, I didn't see you! You... are too, short, It's-"

Ronggui's first reaction was to grab Xiaomei, and he reflexively worried that Xiaomei would resist because of this. After all, now he only had one head left, so he didn't have the capital to help Xiaomei.

But he quickly realized that now he has no hands to hold Xiaomei.

however--

Xiaomei did not respond to this.

He didn't even look up at the other party, just stood there blankly, without any reaction.

It was as if the man in front of him didn't exist.

To some extent, no response is more effective than any response. The man saw that Xiaomei did not respond. At first, he may have wanted to push forward and provoke further, but soon, he remembered that this is the place where he is waiting for work. There was no good fruit for him to make troubles, so he clenched his fists, and the man turned around again.

On the other hand, the people standing behind Xiaomei, after realizing that Xiaomei was so "swallowing her breath", snickered one by one, and all stepped in front of Xiaomei.

So after queuing for a long time, they managed to get a little closer to the front of the line, and they fell back to the end of the line again.

Xiaomei's expression was as calm as ever, but Ronggui suddenly felt that Xiaomei in front of him became scary.

Obviously it is just a tattered and short robot, it is obviously a partner who lives with him every day, and he is obviously hanging on his chest, but at this moment, Ronggui suddenly feels that the distance between Xiaomei and himself is very far away.

Xiaomei's body is short, but his soul is in the clouds, a place higher than the mountains and farther than the clouds, a place he can't look up to at all, with neither sadness nor joy in his eyes, and a place that is higher than the mountains and farther away than the clouds. Indifferent, everything in the world has nothing to do with him, just like... like a god in the sky!

Ronggui finally thought of the most appropriate word.

Obviously standing in the crowd, obviously there are so many voices around, but the figure left by Xiaomei is extremely lonely, as if he has experienced a hundred or even a thousand years of loneliness.

Such Xiaomei makes Ronggui feel strange and scary.

but……

Xiaomei is Xiaomei!He even saw Xiaomei without underwear~

Ronggui soon became "not afraid".

He decided to chat with Xiaomei.

The reason why he didn't speak before was because he was afraid of attracting attention: a robot holding a head looks weird, doesn't it?It would be bad if he was bullied because of being weird, but now it seems that he can't escape the fate of being "bullied" whether he speaks or not, so what is he still holding back?

"Xiaomei, you are more patient than me...Although I should praise you for being patient, after all, we can't beat each other now, but...I'm still a little angry..." Ronggui first praised Xiaomei's handling method, but he After all, he is a straight person, and he began to express his emotions without saying a word of praise.

"Why are you angry?" Xiaomei's voice sounded from above.

"They are too bullying. They have been bullied since yesterday. This place is not good, it is not good..." He obviously wanted to comfort Xiaomei, but Ronggui let out some dark little things in his heart. Ideas revealed.

Probably because Xiaomei's performance was too calm, so that Ronggui couldn't help but indulge a little.

After listening to Ronggui's nagging, Xiaomei was silent for a moment, and then suddenly read out a long sentence.

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Ronggui didn't understand at all!

Didn't understand a single word!

But who is Ronggui?He often can't understand~ so he is an open-minded person.

Then he humbly asked Xiaomei for advice: "Xiaomei, what did you just say? I don't understand."

"It is the language of the Laiza tribe in the west. The Laiza language is known as the most beautiful language in the world. They are proud of their own language. That race has produced many poets and world-famous poems. I just It's just a line from one of the poems." Xiaomei rarely spoke a long paragraph.

"Oh... I can't see that Xiaomei is still a cultural person." After feeling a sigh of relief, Ronggui continued to ask: "It's really nice, then... what does that poem say?"

In fact, Ronggui is not interested in poetry at all, he just wants to hook up with Xiaomei and talk more, after all, the talking Xiaomei looks much more normal~

"..." Xiaomei paused for a moment, and then slowly said: "Everyone's fate is already arranged by the gods."

"Don't care about someone rushing ahead of you, because the position behind him is yours."

"There are ravines ahead, holes in the ground, and death ahead, but you are the only one who is in the safest place."

Xiaomei tried her best to explain it in terms that Ronggui could understand, but——

"?" Ronggui still had a question mark on his face.

"..." Xiaomei was silent, and then said: "To put it simply, don't care about gains and losses, don't care about the immediate success, everyone's fate is predetermined, there may be disasters ahead, terrible disasters may appear ahead, And the person who took your place will take your place because death is his predetermined destiny."

Ronggui was dumbfounded.

"This... this poem is so vicious! It's a curse! I thought poems were all very high-level and very educational!" Ronggui's memory of poems still stays in elementary school textbooks, and those carefully selected On the ancient poems for the flowers of the motherland to study carefully.

"Poetry is originally a way of directly expressing one's feelings, originally an expression of emotion..." Xiaomei said lightly, but——

So far, their conversation has also been listened to by the person who stepped in front of them before. That person was just idle and listening to the two "weak chickens" chatting. He didn't care too much when he heard Xiaomei's "cursing poem", but It was probably boring, and he wanted to publicize it to let others know.

"This dwarf is cursing us! He said that there will be a terrible disaster ahead, and the person who takes his position will be damned--" He deliberately took out of context for fear that what he said would not be eye-catching enough.

"Huh? That's not the case—" Ronggui hurriedly tried to interrupt the other party's words, but before he could finish speaking, even the man just now, there was a terrible vibration from the ground under their feet!

Many people reflexively squatted on the ground, covered their heads, and squatted down. This is the instinctive reaction of people when they discover unknown changes.

Only Xiaomei didn't do anything, he just stretched out a palm, and then gently placed it on Ronggui's face, covering Ronggui's "eyes".

"What's the matter? What's the matter?" Rong Gui, who couldn't see anything, cried anxiously.

Time seemed to have passed for a long time, and Xiaomei finally removed her hand from his face.

Hastily asked Xiaomei to adjust her position, and Ronggui finally saw everything around her clearly.

All the tall people in front of them were gone.

No, they didn't leave or disappear, but...

Ronggui looked curiously at those disgraced people squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands, and after a long time, he connected those people with those high-ranking and arrogant guys before.

There was a lot of dust on their heads. Looking carefully, there was also dust on Xiaomei's face. Only then did he understand why Xiaomei put her hand on her face just now: Hmm~ Can you help yourself to block the dust?Xiaomei is so considerate!

However, this was the thought that flashed through his mind instantly when he saw those people around him. After a while, when he saw the faces of all the people who raised their heads on the ground, with gas masks, behind the thick Ronggui can feel the strong emotions of the other party.

Scared?

nervous?

panic?

fear?

Yes, it is fear!

Those people squatted on the ground, holding their heads, and were looking at him with fear!

etc--

They don't see him, but...

Xiaomei?

Confused, Ronggui first looked up at Xiaomei, and then...

"The No. [-] pit has collapsed!!! Someone just entered inside!" A scream suddenly broke the silence, following the direction of the sound, Ronggui looked in the direction ahead.

This time, there was no one in front of him, and his sight passed through the crowd without hindrance, and he had a panoramic view of the scenery ahead.

This is also the first time that Ronggui saw clearly the place where he had a long queue.

In front is a piece of funnel-shaped land, the black land is very deep, at least Ronggui can't see the deepest part at a glance, and there are layers of lines on the wall of the "funnel", which look like lines from a distance , which is actually the road, the way for miners and mining vehicles to come and go.

All kinds of dull sounds underground come from the deepest part of the "funnel".

There is the mine where he and Xiaomei will work.

At this very moment, a siren sounded from the bottom of the mine pit. It was the siren on the emergency rescue vehicle that would only appear in an accident.

The sudden hole just now is because there, there... collapsed.

"Heavenly Father! The mine that the person who just jumped in line and snatched his place just passed is mine No. [-]!"

"Oh my God!!! His words came true!!!"

The man closest to them, that is, the man who jumped up and said that Xiaomei cursed other people, suddenly let out his big feet in horror.This time, no matter what, he didn't dare to use the title "dwarf" again.

Under the guidance of his voice, everyone remembered what happened before the earthquake. Although what the man said was taken out of context, not a few people heard a few words. After all, the conversation between Xiaomei and Ronggui was not hidden. cover up.

It is not known who was the first to jump up and run away.With the first person, there was the second soon, and not long after, all the people who were inserted in front of them disappeared.

The only sound left in the air was the dull knocking and the sound of sirens.

All the miners who applied for the job ran away, and there were only two of them left.

Hmm... one and a half?

The episode on the applicant's side also attracted the attention of the original staff of the mine.

The vehicle transporting the wounded passed by them, and not long after, a short man with a hunched back walked over from the front with his hands behind his back.

The gas mask on his face looked particularly thick, Ronggui couldn't see the other person's face clearly at all.

"It's more like a prophecy than a curse. Could it be that you had a premonition of this disaster?" Standing still beside Xiaomei, the man spoke.

The voice is very vicissitudes, it should be a middle-aged man who is not young.

He is really not tall, standing in front of Xiaomei is only a head taller than Xiaomei.

Lifting her head slightly, Xiaomei looked up at him: "How is it possible?"

"Hehe..." A deep voice came from under the mask worn by the other party, and without answering Xiaomei's words, the man continued to ask: "Then guess what, those young people who just went in, are they dead?"

"..." Xiaomei quietly supported Ronggui, and said for a long while, "I'm not dead."

"Hehe, your prediction was right again. They didn't die. It was the big man who went in first and took the position of others and was hit by a stone. He suffered the most serious injuries, but it was nothing more than two broken bones. .”

The word that the man used is very interesting, he used the word "again".

Xiaomei didn't answer the phone again.

The man walked to a small metal table next to him: "Do you still want to work here? Everyone else has left, and you are now at the front of the line."

Seeing that Xiaomei didn't move, the man said again: "Don't worry, you won't be assigned to the No. [-] pit where the accident happened just now. After this incident, although the people who went in are fine, the miners will definitely be afraid. The number of people will definitely decrease, and we will raise wages! Come or not?"

Xiaomei finally walked over slowly.

After filling out the form in his hand and handing it to the other party, he received a small card from the other party. He was assigned to the No. [-] mine pit, and Xiaomei became a miner with a salary three times the usual points.