It's okay for me to bully my wife for the sake of the young master's dignity, right?

Chapter 110 [039] Kuchi Kuchi ~ The train starts moving
The mining tunnels under Ringstone City are as dense as a spider web, so they are also called "spider web tunnels".

After stepping over the corpse of the Minotaur, Ding Ling and Vale were still the vanguards, the fire tongs holding flashlights were the defenders, and Qin Jiandan walked in the middle, ready to provide support in the front and back at any time.

There were many more forks in the road ahead, and thanks to Vale's keen sense of smell, he was able to track the smell of oysters on the suitcase.

"Uh-huh... this way!"

When Vale concentrates on using his sense of smell, he will temporarily close his eyes. At this time, he has to rely on Ding Ling's night vision ability to detect the enemy ahead.

Rabbits have sharp eyes and become extremely afraid of death after the drugs that suppress their high fever wear off. Overall, they are very suitable for this job.

There was accumulated water flowing down the wall of the cave. The echo of the water drops mixed with the sound of everyone's footsteps, making the spider web tunnel seem even quieter.

Qin Jiandan noticed some fluorescent mushrooms appearing in front of the left side of his sight. They grew on the top of the cave wall and seemed to be trembling slightly with the frequency of dripping water.

"I'm a little hungry." Qin Jiandan's stomach growled. "Before I had time to have a proper dinner, there was a huge explosion at the oyster restaurant. I should have eaten a few more skewers of grilled meatballs."

Vale laughed and scolded: "Then why don't you let me eat the oysters that fell from the sky!"

Ding Ling suddenly had an extreme desire to show off. She felt that if she didn't tell everyone what she knew right away, she would die:

"These, these mushrooms are called 'underground fluorescent mushrooms', you must not eat them! I read in the literature that if you eat them, you will laugh non-stop and have hallucinations!"

To give himself courage, a member of the fire tongs team whispered:
"Brother Fluorescent Mushroom? What a stupid name! Will my brother glow after I eat it?"

Qin Jiandan snorted at Ding Ling:
"Do you think that if you provide me with a little encyclopedia knowledge, I will be so kind as to let you go? Don't dream! The underground tunnel is so dangerous, can you survive if I let you go?"

Ding Ling probably understood the current situation. She bent down to 90 degrees towards Qin Jiandan, and the two rabbit ears on her head drooped down:

"I'm sorry! Please forgive me! I've been giving you mushrooms these past two days!"

I was too nervous and accidentally said "add mushrooms" instead of "add trouble", but the meaning did not change.

Qin Jiandan pointed to the top of the cave wall, where at least 20 fluorescent mushrooms of different sizes were trembling constantly:

"I'll forgive you if you eat all these mushrooms!"

Ding Ling shook his head vigorously and walked silently under the mushrooms. Vale stared at the mushrooms with interest. If she was not on a mission, she might have picked a few to taste.

After tracking for another 5 minutes, the thing Qin Jiandan was most worried about finally happened.

"The smell is weaker." Valei wrinkled his nose and sniffed for a long time, but couldn't decide which way to go:
"The enemy was moving away at a speed several times faster than walking. The smell on the suitcase was very thin. I could only roughly estimate the direction."

"What about you?" Qin Jiandan kicked the rock wall beside Ding Ling, causing debris to fall from the rock wall, scaring Ding Ling so much that his face turned pale.

"How are you? I heard that rabbits have a sense of smell as good as that of police dogs. Can you smell it?"

Ding Ling trembled and said, "There is no other way to move quickly in the tunnel. The enemy must have left in a mine cart!"

In fact, Ding Ling didn’t think that Qin Jiandan’s enemies were his enemies, but if he didn’t agree with what the other party said, he would be beaten.

Qin Jiandan's eyes lit up, as if he had discovered a new world:

"Rabbit, you are worthy of being a member of the Ding family. You are quite familiar with the spider web tunnel! Then you lead the way! When you came to interview me, didn't you say that the routes above and below the ground in Ringstone City were all in your mind!"

Ding Ling regretted it deeply:

"That was just to show my professionalism as a reporter! Although crystal mining is the main business of the Ding family, it has little to do with a bastard like me! I have seen the main map of the spider web tunnel in the crystal processing factory, but this place is already close to the edge of the tunnel!"

Qin Jiandan touched his chin and nodded:

"So you've even seen the tunnel map, that's great. I remember that there's a crystal processing factory downstairs from your magazine office, right? Help us find the mine cart quickly! Otherwise, don't blame Yelong for raping and killing you!"

Qin Jiandan snapped his fingers, and the five younger brothers cooperated very well by grinning at Ding Ling. Vale in the front laughed the most actively, worthy of being a female bronze medalist.

Ding Ling wiped her tears and said, "I'll give it a try."

A rabbit's night vision and sense of smell are not worse than a dog's. It's just that rabbits' fighting ability is too weak, so they are regarded as harmless waste.

Qin Jiandan ordered two of his younger brothers to follow Ding Ling to find the mine cart, one holding a flashlight and the other holding a submachine gun.

With the fluorescent mushrooms appearing from time to time at the top of the tunnel, visibility in the vicinity was slightly improved. Qin Jiandan and three other brothers and Valei defended the rear.

The three major families in the inner city have their own divisions of power. The Ding family is mainly responsible for the energy business, the most important of which is the phlogiston crystal minerals in the spider web tunnel.

The main part of the spider web tunnel is directly managed by the Ding family, where the phlogiston crystals are the most dense and the purest. If people outside the Ding family want to organize people to mine, they need to pay the Ding family to contract a certain area according to the time. After the contract period is over, 1/3 of the mining income must be handed over to the company.

The mining areas that the Ding family can contract out to outsiders are basically all on the edge of the spider web tunnel. Not only is the crystal production poor, there are also various potential dangers.

The contracted mining owners are naturally even more inhumane. They desperately exploit the miners who were obtained through various illegal channels, and it is normal for several people to die every day.

In Ringstone City, "selling you to mine" is the most vicious curse second only to "making you into a brain machine".

Ding Ling was looking for the mine cart with the determination to die, while Qin Jiandan was still making sarcastic remarks behind him:

"You, the Ding family, have never come to the marginal mining area, right? Today I will let you see it for yourself!"

Ding Ling wailed: "I've already been a marginalized member of the Ding family!"

A philosopher in the Earth Age once said, "People are forced to do things." Ding Ling also realized his potential under the threat of death, and it didn't take him too long to find a set of mining carts abandoned in a remote cave.

Although the walls of the Spider Web Tunnel are bumpy, the road surface is relatively flat, which is due to the ground being smoothed with an open-circuit angle grinder.

Specialized mine cars can move on flat ground. This four-wheel dump truck adapts to the narrow space in the tunnel. It is compact and one head of the same size can pull five mine cars. Because the head has an automatic path finding function, there is no need to lay additional rails.

"Can it be driven?" Qin Jiandan straightened the entire train of mine cars with the help of his younger brother.

Walei hung a submachine gun around his neck and wanted to help, but Qin Jiandan refused.

A mistress is not suitable for doing rough work.

Ding Ling squatted on the right side of the front of the train to check the energy furnace. The entire train of mine cars was covered with dust, which inevitably stained his cheeks:
"It can be driven, with some crystal residue left inside. If you light the ignition manually, you can still drive it for a while. But if you do that, the ashes of phlogiston will come out. If you don't have an air filter..."

"Why are you being so delicate!" Qin Jiandan pulled Ding Ling up by her rabbit ears, "Hurry up and tell me how to start a fire. If we waste any more time, the enemy will run away!"

Ding Ling's rabbit ears were almost crushed, and she begged for mercy:
"Have mercy! Isn't there a metal crank on the front of the car? Just crank it hard and it will start the engine!"

Qin Jiandan threw Ding Ling aside and started to rotate the front crank of the car. Sure enough, he heard the sound of the energy furnace starting up soon after.

One locomotive pulled five mining cars, like a small train for children in a large shopping mall, only narrower and without even a roof.

Vale swiftly jumped into the first minecart dump truck. She patted the panting truck head in front of her, her tone full of curiosity:
"I haven't played this before! Using the phlogiston crystal as firewood is so crude and wasteful! The front of the car is a sealed iron lump, and there is not even a steering wheel. How are we supposed to control the path?"

Qin Jiandan: "Didn't Ding Ling just explain that the car has an automatic route-finding function and can only drive to the mining area contracted by the mine owner, and then travel back and forth between the exit and the mining area. I guess we can go to the nearest mining area by car."

Every time Qin Jiandan mentioned his name, Ding Ling's rabbit tail would stand on end as if it had received an electric shock, fearing that he would be treated roughly again.

The younger brother who was previously assigned a revolver and was considered mature by Qin Jiandan said:
"Young Master, what you mean is that since Nian can travel by mine cart, they may have a temporary base in the nearby mining area. Even if the route of this mine cart is wrong, we won't suffer much loss if we jump off the cart midway."

This guy is quite thoughtful. Not only does he look mature, but he also has mature thoughts. I hadn't thought of this! So when a leader gives a random order, his subordinates will guess that there must be a deeper meaning behind it?
Qin Jiandan concealed his embarrassment calmly:

"Yes, that's it. After getting in the car, Vale and Ding Ling, make sure at any time that the smell has completely disappeared. If it has, jump out of the car immediately!"

Everyone climbed into the minecart. The only button on the front of the car was the start button, and Vale pressed hard on the rough, old, dark yellow round button.

"Clang, clang, clang—"

Accompanied by the heat emitted by the energy furnace and the dust falling from the car body, a train of mine cars slowly started and gradually accelerated to 10 times the speed of walking.

The cave walls, moss, and fluorescent mushrooms all quickly moved backwards, and even mutant rats with gnashing teeth occasionally appeared.

Qin Jiandan heard that in the Earth era, the subway is a very necessary means of transportation. People listen to music and sing songs on the subway, drink coffee at will when they arrive at the workplace, and take a nap when they are tired from work. It is very romantic.

Some people also say that fried chicken and beer are provided free of charge on the subway 24 hours a day, but I don’t know whether it is true or not.

But just like the current situation, the "subway" around Stone City is not a good thing. The miners will be loaded into the dump truck and transported away like livestock, and then forced to work after arriving at the destination.

The "miners" in the spider web tunnel are actually the abbreviation of "mining slaves". Mining slaves are put on slave collars by their masters, and they will die in the explosion if they run out of the designated area.

Generally speaking, there is only one mining slave in a minecart bucket, but mining slaves have extra mining equipment. If there is not so much equipment, two people can barely squeeze into a bucket.

Five younger brothers occupied the three dump trucks at the back, the fat one occupied one alone, and the thin ones were in groups of two.

Qin Jiandan thought about squeezing into a bucket with Valei and letting Valei sit on him. But in order to facilitate the battle, he resisted the urge and sat in one, letting Valei and Ding Ling squeeze together.

Valei was not averse to being together with girls. When she was choosing a suitable position for the submachine gun, she took advantage of Ding Ling several times. Ding Ling had her grievances but dared not say anything.

Qin Jiandan suddenly felt that Vale, the shadow leader of the Fire Tongs Group, seemed to have a special advantage in interrogating female prisoners?
(End of this chapter)