The last 2000 yuan

Tie Buping woke up from the nightmare again.

But the strange thing is that every time he wakes up, he can't remember what happened in the dream.

Only his violently beating heart told him how frightened he was in the dream.

"Get to work! Don't be lazy!" There was a stern voice coming from outside, and the wicked and smoking slave also liked to beat a gong vigorously, making it so loud that everyone couldn't sleep anymore.

The slaves came out of the sheds and moved forward slowly in a file.

"Hurry up! Why are you procrastinating! You can't finish this morning's work, don't even want to eat anything!" The slave urged loudly, waving his whip.

Tie Buping covered his hungry stomach, and the slaves ate only one meal a day, at noon, and could only drink water when they were hungry at other times.

He was so hungry that he could have swallowed two cows.

A large number of slaves, like ants, climbed up the stone mountain with the stone picks distributed by the slaves, and carved stones hard at their respective positions.

The stones had to be hewed to the prescribed size, and after they were hewn, they had to be transported down the mountain with ropes and logs.

At the foot of the mountain, another group of slaves will transport these stones to the big city about 100 miles away.

The above requires a new city to be grand, beautiful, and strong. Now that the city has been half built, it can be vaguely seen that it will be magnificent after completion.

And up to now, half of the Vegetables who have been forcibly recruited have died.

Tie Buping can't remember where his hometown is. It seems to be a very closed place. He was found to be a vegetable tribe while walking on the road, and he was forcibly brought here by the slave arresting team.At that time, he seemed to have just come out of a desert, thirsty and hungry, half-dead, unable to lift his fingers, the slave hunting team said it was arresting, rather than picking.

The slave hunting team didn't know if they saw that he had a certain force, and put on him a valuable slave ring that only magicians or warriors would wear.

After that, he was sold to this quarry.

Not only can he not remember his hometown, he can't even remember what he was doing half a year ago.

He only remembered that his name was Tie Buping, and he seemed to have a very close family member or lover?

But he can't remember the name of the other party, only sometimes in his dreams, and he can't remember the plot of the dream when he wakes up, but the warmth and joy and deep sense of happiness can remain a little bit.

"Iron is not flat! The higher-ups let you go up to the top of the mountain!" The slave head shouted at him, but he didn't dare to approach him.

Tie Buping glanced at him coldly. When he first came, these slave heads swung the whips with great vigor. I don't know how many peasants did not die from hunger, heavy labor, and disease, but died under the whips of these slave heads.

Tie Buping was not a patient character. On the first day he came, he severely injured the slave who managed their team and several caretakers.

The slave ring can control his ability to use fighters, and also reduces his own strength and speed to a certain extent, but only the remaining part is enough for him to resist, not to mention that he would rather be killed than bite others.

He is not afraid of death or injury, and his fists and feet are extremely hard. The slaves tried to kill him secretly several times, but they were all killed by him in turn. From then on, the slaves regarded him as not existing, and dared not go in front of him again. Slaves whipped.

Because of this, the superiors knew that there was a ruthless character among the vegetable slaves. Some people wanted to kill Tie Buping to avoid further troubles, but some people thought that he was strong, and one person could be worth more than three or five people, so it was more cost-effective to keep him. , Besides, there is still a slave ring controlling him.

But no one likes a slave who cannot be controlled. Just when the slave owners decided to kill this unruly slave, the master of the slave owner came. When he learned about the iron injustice, he only said that it would be useful to keep him. Nothing else was said.

No matter how dare the slave owner disobeyed his master's order, he finally gave Tie Buping a moderate punishment with the slave ring, warned him to work hard, and let him go.

When Tie Buping was punished by the slave ring, he discovered a secret. The slave ring around his neck seemed useless to him. Injured too badly.

But Tie Buping didn't move the slave ring, because he found that the mountain was strange, the longer he stayed here, the less the slave ring would control him, and his physical fitness was also improving, although it was very small every day , but he did feel improved.

And Tie Buping wanted to rescue all the vegetable slaves working here.

Anyway, he can't remember anything now, so let's wait, at least until he grasps the secret of this mountain.

Tie Buping stopped causing trouble, and those servants didn't dare to trouble him anymore, and the two sides lived peacefully for the time being.Because of this, many slaves admired Tie Buping very much, and secretly moved closer to him.

Tie Buping didn't explicitly accept it, nor did he explicitly reject it.Those slave heads keep a close eye on the slaves. If he gets closer to a slave, that slave will be transferred away soon.If he said something to the slaves, the content of what he said would soon be known to the slave heads.

The closer the slaves were to him, the more they were required to work. The slaves gradually realized this. They did not dare to get close to Tie Buping, so they could only contact him secretly.

Tie Buping wanted to see the top of the mountain a long time ago, but he never found the opportunity.He guessed that the slave owner may have kept him until now to let him do something that other ordinary slaves could not do.

Hearing that the slave head told him to go up to the top of the mountain, Tie Buping passed the other slaves and walked up to the top of the mountain.

When a slave heard that the slave was asking Tie Buping to go to the top of the mountain, his eyes were full of worry, and he wanted to step forward to stop him, but he didn't dare.

The road gets steeper towards the top of the mountain.

The shape of this stone mountain is also quite strange, like a cluster of crystals growing from the ground, the top is scattered, and the bottom is connected together.

At present, the slaves are picking up rocks while digging, and no one has touched the highest peak in the middle.

Tie Buping walked all the way to the top of the highest peak in the middle, where he saw four people wearing black linen robes.

"Come here." A man with slender cheeks like a horse's face waved to him.

Tie bluntly walked over.

The horse-faced man didn't talk nonsense, he pointed directly at a dark cave beside them and said, "Did you see this cave? We'll hang you down with a rope, and you can help us get something. If you get it, you will be free. "

Tie Buping looked down at the hole, "What to take?"

The horse-faced man said: "It may be a kind of beads, or it may be a few stones. In short, bring everything you see."

Tie Buping frowned slightly, raised his head, and asked with certainty: "I got the things, will you really set me free?"

"Of course, we can swear in the name of God."

A sentence suddenly flashed in Tie Buping's mind: All superhumans who swear in the name of God are liars.

Who said this?

But Tie Buping didn't ask these four people to re-swear, as if he really believed the horse-faced man's promise, he took the hemp rope and tied it around his waist.

"Ready? We'll let you go down now." The horse-faced man winked at his companion, and the two fixed the other section of the hemp rope, and each stretched out his hand to push the iron uneven.

Tiebu, who was standing at the entrance of the cave, fell straight into the deep cave.

Suddenly, his falling body seemed to have encountered a layer of water waves on the way, broke through, and the falling speed slowed down.

When he fell to the ground, he could vaguely see a lot of fragmented bones and incomplete corpses scattered around.

Before he could see clearly what was in this dark cave, several strange voices rang in his ears.

call!Something jumped at him.

Tie Buping didn't turn his side slightly until the opponent was about to pounce on him.

The opponent flew into the air, and before the opponent could turn around and counterattack, Tie Buping had already kicked out, and the kick broke the opponent's spine.

No need to hide, no need to hold back, his strength can easily kill a strong man.

Another thing rushed over, this time two together.

Tie Buping smelled a familiar smell... He didn't know why he felt familiar, he just subconsciously ordered in his mind: Stop!

Swish!The two figures stopped together.

Tie Buping's eyes are more adapted to the dark space, he can see in no matter how dark the place is, he seems to know this instinctively.

Sure enough, in less than ten seconds, the vague vision turned into clear vision, and everything around him fell into his eyes like daylight.

The monsters he stopped were people, dead people, dead people in motion.

Corpse man.This word popped up in Tie Buping's mind.

He must have seen it, and he can manipulate this kind of corpse.

Looking at the superficial features of these corpses and the fact that there were not a few strands of rags on them, Tie Buping speculated that these people should all be slaves from the quarry, and he was not the first person who was asked to enter this cave to extract things.

The previous ones obviously didn't succeed.

Tie Buping saw that the two corpses were more obedient, and the one whose spine was broken by him also lay obediently on the ground, leaving them alone.

He began to look at the cave in the belly of the mountain.

There is a small platform in the cave, and on the platform is a stone the size of a head.

The color of the stone is black and white, there are no impurities, and the shape is irregular, as if a stone was dug out randomly and placed on the stone platform.

The stone platform is not exquisite either, it should be a short stone pillar protruding from the ground, which was used as a stone platform.

As if being tempted, Tie Buping approached the stone platform and reached out to touch the stone.

When he was almost about to touch it, Tie Buping's hand stopped abruptly.

mother stone...

What is a mother stone?

How could he think of the mother stone?

Has he come into contact with similar stones before?

Is this stone of great benefit to him?

But Tie Buping's character is really too tenacious. With no memory of the past, he is wary of this stone that attracts him so much. Even if he clamors in his heart to absorb this stone quickly, he can resist not touching it.

Tie Buping started wandering around the cave to see if there were any other holes.

Have!There are murals in this cave.

It's a pity that the murals have been corroded by the years, and many parts have been corroded.

The remaining murals seem to be depicting the ocean, and there is also a mountain like a crystal flower emerging from the sea, and some people come to worship... Maybe they are digging the mountain?

Tie Buping guessed from the shape of the mountain whether the mountain in the sea might be the stone mountain they are digging now.

After reading all the remaining murals, Tie Buping didn't see why. There were too many incomplete murals, and all important clues were lost.

Tie Buping knocked on the wall again, and climbed up to the top of the cave to see it. He didn't even forget to step on the ground, but apart from the big head-sized stone and the incomplete murals, there really seemed to be nothing else in the cave.

Tie Buping finally walked in front of the stone again.

"Do you want me to have you?" Tie Buping asked as if talking to a human being.

Stone remained silent.

"But why do I feel that it would be dangerous to absorb you now?" Tie Buping asked again.

Stone remained silent.

"But I feel that you are the biggest opportunity for me to become stronger as soon as possible. I want to get back my memory, I want...to remember him. And you can do this, right?"

The young man smiled lightly, his eyes were full of longing for his lover who couldn't see his face clearly, he was more and more sure that that person was his lover, the only one he valued very much.

Tie Buping stretched out his hand, covering the stone surface with his palm: "Come on, let's see what you can do."