Unlimited employment

Chapter 1 001 [Unlimited Employment]

Daxia, the northern border of Youzhou, Black Mountain Gold Mine.

In the deepest part of the winding mine, in a tunnel that is barely wide enough for a person to squat, a dim fluorescent light is flickering.

In the dim light, a young man was squatting in a low alley, breaking mixed flour buns and feeding them to rats.

The boy looked dusty and dirty.

His dirty face, his hair matted into wisps by grease, the faint trace of mining dust in his nostrils, and the surrounding environment all revealed his identity as a miner.

It seems that only miners like mice, animals that can sense collapse, water seepage and poisonous gas, and will choose to feed them when they encounter them.

But the feeding in front of me seemed a little different.

The mouse that the boy fed did not leave immediately after eating. Instead, it stood up and squeaked at him.

The boy was not surprised to see this scene. He just turned his head, pointed his ear towards the mouse, and began to listen carefully.

He listened and nodded to the mouse.

"Oh, I see. There's a small amount of water seeping into the southeast of the mine today, so it's not advisable to go there..."

“You said that many of our tribesmen have mysteriously disappeared in the West Mining Area recently.

Could it be caused by poisonous gas seeping from underground, or could it be that the miners were eating rats because they were extremely hungry?

Okay, I'll help you find out."

"The Doghead Gang discovered a new gold vein in the North District?
It seems that the gold mine is going to be in chaos again. I have to be careful recently."

……

As usual, I listened to today's intelligence summary.

The young man waved to the sleek black mouse, and it disappeared into the depths of the dark alley, looking back every few steps.

In the darkness beyond the reach of the boy's sight, a continuous squeaking sound soon rang out, then gradually became farther and farther away, and finally became silent...

When the boy was feeding the mouse the steamed bun, he broke it into pieces with his hands, and the mouse's body was not touched, so he stuffed the remaining half of the bun into his own mouth.

After chewing a few times and swallowing it, the boy rubbed his shriveled stomach, a look of disappointment appearing on his face.

"I finally made it through this journey, but I can't even get a full meal. Life in prison is so tough."

Yes, the boy is a time traveler.

He had a good skill in reincarnation, and in this life he was born into a low-level military officer's family.

But after he unravelled the mystery of his womb at the age of ten, before he could fully enjoy the life of a second-generation official in the evil feudal society, his entire family was implicated in the case of the deposed crown prince and was thrown into jail!

As a child of a fellow criminal, he was sent to this mine to mine gold... and he dug for five years.

During these five years, the boy managed to survive the endless mine collapses, the hard labor without enough food, and the torture of pneumoconiosis and old illness. He neither died nor became disabled.

Apart from the factor of good luck, it was entirely because of cheating.

Thinking of this, the boy couldn't help but glance at a panel floating in his field of vision.

Name: Chen Sheng
【Age】：15/94
[Profession 1]: Yambu Insect
Level: Lv1 (1/100)

Talent: Concealment

[Profession 2]: Warrior
Level: Lv2 (137/200)

Talents: Healing body, digestion and energy

skill:
Hand-to-Hand Combat Martial Arts Level 4 (396/400)

Gale Blade Record Lv4 (345/400)

[Occupation 3]: Bookboy
Level: Lv4 (189/400)

Talent: Quick thinking

skill:
Three Religions Collection Lv2 (153/200)

Calligraphy Lv2 (187/200)

[Profession 4]: Miner
Level: Lv8 (743/800)

Talent: Rat Shepherd

skill:
Dust Filter Lung Health Level 5 (495/500)

Identify Mineral Veins Lv3 (242/300)

Vision of the Dark and the Bright Lv5 (325/500)

Dark Walking Lv2 (137/200)

……

Chen Sheng's cheat is called [Unlimited Employment]

As the name suggests, it can derive some specific [abilities] from the abstract concept of [profession].

The talents awakened and skills learned in the [Occupation] list are manifestations of this [Ability].

After years of exploration, he found that as long as he worked in a certain profession for a period of time and gained widespread recognition from the outside world, he could unlock the corresponding career list and awaken some professional talents.

As for any skills included in the panel, as long as you are willing to invest time and energy and practice them in the correct way, your skill experience will increase accordingly.

God rewards hard work. As long as you are willing to put in time and sweat, you will definitely reap rewards.

In addition, in the process of using professional talents and skills, the experience of professional level will also be increased accordingly.

Chen Sheng's current profession of "Warrior" is the result of his initial profession of "Warrior Apprentice" being upgraded to the maximum level of Lv10.

Compared to the initial profession, the profession after the first transfer will have two talents.

Among them, [Healing Body] can make him fearless of pain. No matter it is a minor hidden injury caused by martial arts training, or strain on joints and bones caused by mining, it can be healed by eating and resting.

The talent [Digestion and Transformation of Qi] enhanced Chen Sheng's digestive ability, and with the meager food of one meal a day in the mine prison, he developed an extremely strong physique.

His abnormal digestive efficiency means that there is very little metabolic waste in his intestines, and he only poops once a month.

Coupled with the auxiliary talents and skills of other professions, it was together that he was able to survive in the mine prison for five years.

In addition, although the martial arts levels of "Hand Combat Martial Arts Classics" and "Kuangfeng Sword Record" Lv4 do not seem to be high.

But after Chen Sheng secretly compared his skills, he was sure that his skills were far superior to those of the jailers guarding outside the Black Mountain Gold Mine.

If there were only jailers patrolling outside the mine, he would be fully confident that he could suddenly kill the guards in the middle of the night and escape from prison before the main group could gather.

Unfortunately... this is a world where magic exists.

In the year he was imprisoned, Chen Sheng witnessed with his own eyes a martial arts master who escaped from prison under the cover of night, but was struck into charcoal by a bolt of lightning that fell from the sky.

Later, after much inquiry, it was discovered that the person who cast the spell that day was the eunuch guarding the Black Mountain Gold Mine.

This early experience has made him as steady as an old dog for the past five years, hiding in the gold mine and developing steadily until now...

Chen Sheng habitually read the data on the panel several times before he decided to close it.

It was almost time for dinner, so he stopped working.

He simply picked up the pickaxe at hand, put on a half-full backpack, turned around in the tunnel, and squatted down to move towards the mine behind him.

During the whole process, the stone hanging on his chest continued to emit a hazy fluorescence, illuminating the surrounding space.

That is the lighting equipment issued by the gold mine - Mingguang Stone.

Chen Sheng suspected that this thing had radiation, so he would put it farther away when sleeping, but he had to wear it like this when mining on weekdays.

The fluorescent light moved slowly in the narrow mine. In such a desolate and dark environment, most people would inevitably have their thoughts wander, have wild thoughts, and feel fear.

However, his claustrophobia had long been cured by his five years as a miner, and now he no longer felt this kind of mental torture.

Chen Sheng walked forward with ease for nearly an incense stick of time before he crawled out of the mining area where he had connected with the spirit rat and came to a tunnel where he could barely stand up straight.

Here, he finally met other miners.

Without exception, they were all short and thin teenagers wearing tattered clothes and covered in mining dust.

There are no adults in the Black Mountain Gold Mine.

Because the deepest tunnels in the gold mine are too narrow, adults and livestock cannot pass through the mine at all.

Only children were big enough to tie ropes and harnesses around their bodies and crawl on all fours like cart dogs to drag the gold ore out of the narrow and winding underground.

As for where the children who grew up in the mines went?

If someone could work in this hellhole for a few years, not die from a mining accident or pneumoconiosis, and successfully live to adulthood, he would never be able to work in the mines again due to his body size.

There is an open-pit coal mine dozens of miles away from the Black Mountain Gold Mine, where the work can keep people working until death.

This is a hopeless prison.

The miners had long accepted their future fate and were now walking in the tunnels with their backs bent. No one talked to them and they all looked numb, like the walking dead.

In this silent atmosphere, Chen Sheng joined the crowd and walked for an incense stick of time before turning into a slanted alley where he could stand up straight.

Climb up this inclined alley for a full five hundred steps, then turn and enter another inclined alley. Repeat this three times and you will finally return to the ground.

He imitated the miners around him, hunched over and walked out of the mine in a long line. He squinted his eyes for a while to adjust to the glaring light from the surface.

Then, we saw the continuous high mountains outside the mine and the large valley in the mountains.

A two-meter-high blue brick wall encloses an open square of fifty to sixty acres in the valley.

There are more than a dozen gates on the wall, each with iron railings. At this time, the miners spontaneously lined up in long queues behind the gates to exchange for today's food.

Chen Sheng chose the queue closest to him and waited in the scorching sun for a long time before finally reaching the railing.

He handed the backpack on his back through the small hole in the railing.

The jailer outside took it without weighing it. He just lifted the basket with one hand and shook it, then shouted lazily.

"Twenty-three pounds of crude gold ore, worth eleven copper coins. Do you want to buy food or exchange it for cash?"

Chen Sheng nodded and bowed, and answered respectfully to the jailer in front of him with a flattering smile on his face.

"Excuse me, sir, but I'd like to buy eight steamed buns and a can of water."

In the Black Mountain Gold Mine, only copper coins are the currency recognized by the prison and can be used to purchase food, water, clothing, medicine and various mining tools.

The only thing that can be exchanged for copper coins is the gold ore mined from the ground.

Therefore, in this gold mine without whip supervision, those who do not work hard to mine will starve to death.

Chen Sheng had just finished speaking when another jailer in charge of steamed buns threw in eight steamed buns outside the railings.

"One cent for a steamed bun, three cents for a can of water, payment and goods cleared!"

Chen Sheng hurriedly took the steamed bun and moved to the side of the gate under the hungry gazes of the miners behind him.

The delicious meal was finished in just a few moments, with one bite of the mixed flour steamed bun.

Hundreds of open earthenware jars are also neatly arranged in this area.

He picked out a can of clear water that was not too bad in color, drank it all in one gulp, then turned around and walked back the way he came without looking back.

Walking in the square.

He saw miners happily dragging their corpses towards the iron bars, asking the jailer for the reward for preventing the plague.

Not far away, a new miner wanted to take some steamed buns back to the mine to eat, but was snatched away on the way. He sat down on the ground and cried loudly.

From time to time, you can hear poor people suffering from pneumoconiosis begging passers-by for some ore to exchange for steamed buns, but they end up getting punched.

Chen Sheng walked among the miners.

Looking around, the people here look like gray mice...

……

Chen Sheng had a "home" underground in the mine.

No matter how hard life is, you still need a tattered quilt to sleep peacefully.

Following the habit he had developed over the past five years, he rushed home after dinner to have a good sleep.

After all, the two talents [Healing Body] and [Digestion and Transformation] are all related to eating. Sleeping immediately after a meal can not only repair the strain on joints and bones caused by mining, but also help to thoroughly digest food.

Unexpectedly, today, just as he walked near his home, he saw a fluorescent light at the end of the mine from afar.

The fluorescent light illuminated the figures of three young men.

The cave, which was not very spacious to begin with, seemed extremely crowded and small with three people squatting in it.

The mining area of ​​the Black Mountain Gold Mine was divided according to gangs, and Chen Sheng had never seen these unfamiliar faces nearby before.

He sneered, knocked the rock wall with his pickaxe, made a fierce expression, and stood ten feet away from the cave.

"Where did you come from, you little brat? How dare you seize my territory? Why don't you go out and ask what the relationship is between me and Boss Tiger of the Tiger Gang!"

But Chen Sheng's usual bluffing tricks failed to scare the three young men in front of him.

Instead, they narrowed their eyes, stared at his face for a long time, and laughed in a playful and strange way.

"Although your face is a little dirty, I can still tell that you are quite pretty. No wonder our gang leader likes you."

Hearing this, Chen Sheng's fierce expression faded, but he tightened his grip on the pickaxe in his hand and said calmly, "Gang leader? Which gang are you from?"

"I'm sure you've heard of the name of Boss Gou from the Doghead Gang."

"The three of us are here today to tell you that our brother Gou has taken a fancy to you."

"You are so lucky! You can sit at home and have wealth and prosperity fall from the sky."

"As long as you follow our Brother Gou, you can be like us, not only eating delicious food and drinking spicy drinks, but also living as happy as a god!"

The three young men sang in unison, and there was a hint of ambiguity in their eyes when they looked at Chen Sheng.

And he also knew the other party's intention.

"Oh my god, these three butt-selling bunnies actually want to drag me into selling my butt with them!"

For the convenience of management, there are no women in the Black Mountain Gold Mine.

But teenagers are just beginning to understand the world, and they have been staying in mines without seeing the sun for a long time. Over time, the unexpressed desires will make them become twisted.

Of the tens of thousands of miners in the Montenegro gold mines, at least half have such intimate partners.

Chen Sheng had heard of such things, but he never expected that someone would target him.

He sighed, a hint of hesitation flashed across his face, and he asked again.

"Can I say no?"

"Hehehe, this is not up to you!"

The three young men grinned and pulled out three sharp knives from behind their backs...

(End of this chapter)