Who told him to make the cards!

This shape...

Is it an upward-reaching iron ladder?

"arrive."

Chen Zhi felt a sense of relief and breathed a sigh of relief.

The miner's lamp card lit up again.

To everyone's surprise, the iron ladder was actually located near the refuge cave.

And the sealed rock above was gone, replaced by a narrow ventilation shaft.

The shaft stretched upwards, its walls covered in black oil stains, and a pungent, burnt smell filled the air.

It's very pungent.

But for Chen Zhi and his colleagues, this was fresh air.

This vertical shaft leads directly out of the mine!

"Can you figure out where it is?" Liu Bai asked.

"Waste card incineration area," Chen Zhi replied without hesitation.

He was all too familiar with that smell.

I can smell it every time I come to sell used cards.

Open flames are prohibited in most parts of the Blackstone mining area, so such a strong burning smell could only come from a waste card burning area.

Liu Bai began taking notes again: "So it was the ore washing that caused the spatial displacement, moving the passage on the sixth floor to the abandoned ventilation shaft in the western part of the Blackstone Mine?"

"almost."

Chen Zhi gripped the iron ladder, shook it vigorously, and said, "I'll go up first, you guys wait a bit."

The iron ladder was severely corroded and covered in rust, and Chen Zhi was unsure how much weight it could bear.

Before climbing each step, he would first grip the horizontal bar and pull it down to avoid stepping on it and causing a problem.

This well is very deep.

The inner wall is straight, but the ladder is misaligned due to the influence of the law.

After climbing for a while, Chen Zhi realized that the ladder that was originally connected from top to bottom above seemed to have been twisted halfway around the entire shaft by a giant hand, and was now a meter away. No matter how he reached out, he couldn't reach it, so he had to risk jumping over.

Fortunately, everyone was very energetic.

Although Chen Zhi was not a physically strong combat truck driver, he had worked in the mines for a long time and was stronger than most men who exercised. This distance was no challenge for him.

Needless to say, Shen Qinglian and the others.

Liu Bai was even carrying Luo Xiao in his hand.

Chen Zhidu suspected that this guy could leap and bound without a ladder.

The higher you go, the stronger the burnt smell becomes.

Chen Zhi was the first to climb to the top of the shaft.

The wellhead was covered by an iron plate, leaving only a gap about the width of an arm.

The crackling sound of burning seeped through the cracks.

Chen Zhi frowned.

Something's not right.

Shen Qinglian looked up from below: "Is someone there?"

“Many people,” Chen Zhidao said.

He heard many heavy footsteps.

This shouldn't be at the incineration site.

This is related to the management of the Blackstone mining area.

The Vatican has made it clear that no expired card can be discarded directly.

One reason is that most types of cartridge ink cannot be naturally degraded.

Secondly, even if the card is damaged, a small amount of magic power will still remain inside.

These legal principles can pollute the soil, water, and even the air, and must be dealt with in a specific way.

The Blackstone mining area has five mining villages. Not counting guards and foremen, there are thousands of low-level miners, generating a large number of waste cards every day.

According to regulations, these cards are transported to the incineration plant every evening. Workers first use a special card shredder to cut them up, destroying the core structure and damaging the card's form, effect, and laws. Then, the fragments are placed in a high-temperature furnace filled with "disaster crystal mixture" for incineration. Finally, the ashes are pressed into the ground and isolated with sealing cards.

Centuries later, this ash will seep into the rock strata, accelerating the formation of new mineral veins.

This is a virtuous cycle.

However, in reality, mining areas rarely execute the entire process completely in order to save costs.

Most of the discarded cards were simply shredded and thrown into open-pit mines.

Some don't even cut them; they just burn them directly.

This also includes gray identity cards that should have been reported and then transported to the city.

The remaining legal principles dissipated with the smoke and dust, causing the surrounding stones, plants, and other objects to take on strange shapes.

Some people have seen bushes in the burning area grow trunks and become large trees with gray leaves that turn into a pool of black water when they fall to the ground.

Someone heard the voice of the dead coming from the burned ID card in the thick smoke and asked him where he was.

Therefore, apart from the workers responsible for processing the discarded cards and the miners who sell them, no one usually wants to come here.

Now, however, dozens of people have suddenly appeared.

even more.

Chen Zhi could tell with a snap of his fingers that it was Ding Mao's man.

They're here to deal with them.

We're just waiting for them to show their faces.

But they still have to reveal it.

The misaligned iron ladder indicates that this shaft is also within the mining area. They might end up like this shaft, twisted halfway around and separated from their bodies.

We have to go.

Then the problem is coming.

"Who goes first?" Chen Zhi asked.

Liu Bai adjusted his glasses, smiled, revealing a set of gleaming white teeth: "Of course, it's our Captain Luo."

After saying that, he suddenly pulled Luo Xiao's collar upwards with his right hand.

Luo Xiaodun flew out like a cannonball, smashed open the manhole cover, and soared into the sky.

……

Chapter 14 The Old Servant

The moon had already set in the west and hung low in the sky at dawn.

Luo Xiao, who was thrown out, rose just before the full moon, his body bathed in radiance.

At first glance, it looks quite beautiful.

However, the next second, more than ten thin streams of light shot out from different angles like sharp arrows, instantly piercing through Luo Xiao's body.

A thick cloud of blood mist fell from the sky.

Luo Xiao woke up.

The excruciating pain prompted him to open his eyes.

He was delighted when he first saw the slope filled with people.

But this joy lasted only a moment before he found himself covered in blood. Looking down, he saw that his body was riddled with holes, like a punched-through sandbag, his life force leaking out like sand and dissipating in the wind.

Luo Xiao stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

He wanted to say something, but when he opened his mouth, only thick, bright red blood flowed out.

The head of the guards was taken aback.

He didn't expect that the person who came out would be Luo Xiao.

but……

That's it, then.

Chief Steward Ding has given the order that no one is allowed to come out of Well No. 13 alive.

It wasn't exactly killing the wrong person.

"Captain Luo ventured into dangerous territory and heroically sacrificed his life to protect the students of the academy. Chief Steward Ding will recommend him for commendation and take good care of his family."