Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

He said that a pickaxe hit the mine vein, but no sparks splashed out. Wolf Reibert didn't know what metal the mine pick was made of.

Listening to the old miner's words, Alu felt a strong discomfort all over his body, because he found out in panic that he had almost adapted to the current life just like the old miner.

The fear in Aru's heart made him want to take cigarettes uncontrollably. He wanted to use cigarettes to calm himself down, but his reason told him that he must never light an open fire in the coal mining area.

Instinct and rationality clashed violently, making him tremble like epilepsy.

until a hand was placed on his shoulder.

He gradually calmed down in just two seconds, and when he turned his head in a daze, he saw the red hair under the miner's cap so dazzling under the diffuse light of the dim searchlight...

Alu came back to his senses, looked at Messiah gratefully, clasped his hands together, and gently clasped his chest inward.

The next moment, in Messiah's vision, the [Patio] and the real world overlapped. In the world on the side of the [Patio], a light cluster appeared at the position where Aru was in the real world. At the same time, a voice Clearly emerged from the light cluster in front of the Messiah.

'Spring god bless...'

The girl was at a loss.

No one, including Alu, noticed the change in her mood.

Wolf Reibert looked at the old miner and said stumblingly:
"The work here is very hard... I've lost my life... This is inhumane..."

He looked at the camel bag protruding from the old miner's back. Although he knew that the situation might be different from what he imagined, he still asked the original question:

"If you need, I can...help you leave."

He originally wanted to say "Get you out", but what the old miner said exceeded his imagination, and he unconsciously used more conservative language.

"What are you doing out?"

The old miner looked at him suspiciously:
"I know nothing when I'm out, except work in the mines."

The old miner said in a proud tone:
"When I first entered the industry, my master told me that the industrial age would last for hundreds of years, and the empire would always be short of coal. As long as I worked hard, I would never be unemployed. Now it seems that he really didn't lie to me. !"

The old miner put the pickaxe aside, counted with his fingers like Wolff:
"Let's talk about the treatment on the island:
Eat, three meals a day on the island, although the food is not very good, but you can buy meat with your own money. Although the quick-frozen meat on the island is more expensive than outside, it is not much more expensive.

Wearing, wearing miners' uniforms all day long is a lot of money, although you have to spend your own money to buy them, but a miners' uniform is a lifetime!Look at this outfit on me, I've worn it for eight years, it's just fading!

Although clothes are not expensive outside, it is definitely impossible to wear them for eight years, and the work outside is not stable, and most of them need to change clothes when they change jobs.

Living, this can save a lot of money, what is the price of renting a house outside?I heard that the current rental price on Days Island is worth half of the salary!

But you live in the mining area of ​​Gaki Island for free!

Although the place where I live is a bit dilapidated and cold, I can sleep comfortably at night as long as I spend a little money and add a quilt.

As for other expenses... women will come to the island tavern on those two days of each month, and money for cigarettes and meat... Even if you count all these things, how much money can you spend?
Save more than outside! "

Was the Kaki Island mine so wonderful to him?
Wolf is not reconciled:

"What's the use of saving so much money? The work pressure is so great, and you can't do it to your death for your health!"

The old miner sighed:
"Young student, how old do you think I am?"

Looking at the face covered with gullies, Wolf guessed in an uncertain tone:

"You...you are fifty..."

The old miner stretched out his hand and compared a number:
"I'm 35 years old."

Wolf looked at the white hair on his temples, not knowing what to say.

The old miner said with a smile:

"But I don't feel tired, people like us are worthless.

My brain is not good, and I can't learn too advanced skills, so I can only mine here. After a long time, I get used to it, and it's just like that, not too tired.

What's more, I can send the money back home after saving the money. The kid in my family is 16 years old and is studying, which is the age to spend money. I just added a girl two years ago, and the family is under a lot of pressure. I have to let the family eat, right?
My family is in the countryside, and my daughter-in-law doesn't work. If I don't make money to support her, what will happen if my wife steals people behind my back? "

If you give her money, she won't steal...

Wolf wanted to laugh, but couldn't.

The people he wants to save don't need him to save, his so-called "rescue" is in the old miner...

In front of this "brother miner", it's just a self-indulgent sentimentality out of self-impression!

Wolf was at a loss, and said nonsense:
"Now there is the Internet outside, a well-developed new media newspaper industry, and automated mining equipment. We can try to communicate with the outside world and purchase equipment for the mining area..."

The big miner's face darkened:
"You kid, what are you talking about! If the machine comes in, wouldn't all of us old miners be unemployed!"

His face became serious, and a ferocious temperament of a desperate poor man immediately rushed to his face:

"Boy! Don't think of bad ideas!"

Wolfe paled.

The elder miner looked at Wolfe's expression, and laughed out loud, his tone softened:

"Just kidding, even if you have a bad idea, the mining area will not be affected. Since Gaki Island can have a mining area, it is allowed and approved by the above. As long as Gaki Island still provides minerals to the island chain, whoever goes outside It's hard to speak!"

The miner brother looked at Wolf's strange face, patted him on the shoulder, and the bad breath in his mouth almost made him faint:
"Since you've already arrived, don't think too much about it. Work hard. After this year, you can change the contract... Oh, no, I heard that the agency contract for new employees starts from three years. As long as you survive After these three years, you will be able to sign a contract directly with the mining area, and the wages at that time will be very high! It’s a full 2 ​​pounds a month!"

Wolfe subconsciously thought, if the monthly salary is really 2 pounds, if most of the 2 pounds can be saved, it will be a lot...

In a daze, Wolfe saw the right hand of the big miner.

His right hand also only has three fingers.

Looking at his calm and peaceful expression, Wolfe felt more and more frightened, turned his head and ran.

The other three chased after him, but the big miner just sighed, and his sigh didn't contain too much emotion, just a touch of "regret"—I'm afraid someone will lose two fingers again tonight.

……

Under the guidance of Alu, a group of four people left the mine and climbed up the hill.

Wolf Reibert stepped on the snow, breathed in the cold air in the cold night, and hadn't recovered from the miner's narration.

'Why am I so surprised?The situation in Yanan City should be similar to here, right?So...then, this is normal!

Since it is normal, why can't I accept it? ! '

Everything he does is denied, and the loss of control builds up quickly from the emotional turmoil.

'Because what the miner brother said is wrong... Although it is his way of survival, it is essentially wrong!People can't just be changed by the anti-human environment!Everything in the mine is a trampling on life itself! '

'But how else could he live?That's all he can do. What else can he do when he leaves the mine?Apart from working hard, what other value can he show? '

Wolf Reibert was surprised to find that the current situation in the mine turned out to be the best solution for the big miner to survive in this world!

'But this is wrong!He... He didn't stay here because of his own will - he only had three fingers, and he resisted back then!He was forced to stay here because of the helplessness of life, because he was broken and adapted to such a life because of poverty and helplessness! '

'But if he doesn't live like this, what about his family?Who will raise the child? !He can't do anything else! '

'But he is human!He is the same life as me!He was just distorted into this by everything that happened around him! '

Wolf Ribert was almost insane.

'What the hell...what the hell is going on here? !why? ! '

He only felt a sharp pain in his brain, as if the center of his brow was about to split.

It would be comfortable if it really cracked, but the pain has not yet reached the point of tearing the bones, so he held his breath, causing his cranial pressure to soar, losing his ability to think, and his whole mind was filled with countless words from countless miner brothers fill up!
until a hand rested lightly on his shoulder.

The pain faded away like a tide.

Wolf Reibert turned his head blankly in a blank mind, only to see Messiah looking at him with concern.

He was at a loss and subconsciously said to her:

"Thank you……"

She took her hand back.

Aru asked anxiously from the side:

"Can it be done? If not, I will find someone for you! It was just bad luck that I met that old pervert, but there are still many people in the mining area who are not like that! Most of the resentment towards the mining area is deeper than that old pervert too much!"

Feeling the cold wind close to his face, Wolf Reibert exhaled a breath of hot air, his voice a little low:

"The material is enough. If it can be published in the newspaper, it will definitely have an impact on the mining area..."

Alu showed an uncontrollable smile when he heard the news. This was the most beautiful news he had heard this month.

Wolf Reibert looked at him:
"We are going back now, will you come with us?"

Alu hesitated for a moment, his face gradually became ugly, and he stumbled and panicked:
"I... I'm afraid I won't be able to leave. They know all my information. I signed a contract with them. If I run away now, I will pay a lot of money... If I show up on the island chain, I'm afraid I will be arrested." The intermediary will take it back..."

At this moment, Wolf Raibert seemed to see the shadow of the old miner in Aru.

He was terrified, and subconsciously said to Alu in a fairly firm tone:

"Then change your name and surname, even if you go back to the mainland of the empire, it's better than continuing to suffer this meaningless suffering here."

The firmness in his tone seemed to have infected Aru. Aru hesitated for a moment, as if he had made a major decision, he mustered up his courage and said:

"Okay... I'll go back with you!"

The four of them came all the way to the pier of Kaki Island.

After waiting all night, until a twilight appeared in the sky, the passenger ship that carried three people to Kaki Island during the day yesterday finally came to the pier of Kaki Island again on the way back.

The boss of the ship has rich experience, and he knew what was going on when he saw Alu, so he refused Alu to board the ship at that time.

Fortunately, the boss of the boat was just trying to cheat, not really wanting to make money, so after paying three times the amount of the boat ticket, Alu finally left this nightmarish island.

At about five o'clock in the morning, when the light on the sea level was bright enough, the passenger ship arrived at Days Island-the current on the return journey made the ship much faster than when it came.

On the pier of Days Island, Aru bid farewell to the three of them. He did not seek refuge, but just stepped into the rising light of dawn with renewed expectations for the future in his heart.

Messiah looked at Alu's back. In the overlapping two worlds, a part of the light on the side of the [patio] overlapped with Alu's figure, and the halo at the edge of the light spread out, bringing Unspeakable warmth.

"Praise the God of Spring, I am finally...saved...do you hear my call..."

She was at a loss, and she didn't know the meaning of such calling and gratitude. His suffering had nothing to do with her, and the salvation was not given by her. She just... stole his faith and made him mistakenly think that she saved him. .

This is cheating.

Deception is wrong.

For the first time she felt humiliated.

……

Back on the boat, Wolf Reibert found Chen Yan who had just woken up and was staring in a daze, and told him what he had experienced on Jaki Island.

"I don't understand if my persistence makes sense."

When he asked this question, his eyes became confused, and the out-of-control that he forcibly endured with the help of the Messiah in Gaki Island broke out again.

"I want to know, is the justice that I uphold... the justice that my father upholds, just moved by an unacceptable self?"

The reason why he asked Chen Yan was because he had seen the video posted by Chen Yan in the strike simulator forum, and he knew that Chen Yan was the one who uploaded those articles and knowledge to the forum.

He thought that since Chen Yan knew that knowledge, he could solve his doubts.

Chen Yan woke up frightened by the chaotic emotions in the air. He looked at little Wolfe, and immediately knew that little Wolfe had lost control to a certain extent because of hanging around with extraordinary people for a long time.

Those out-of-control have accumulated to a certain extent, and it is only one step away from opening the eye in the skull.

Although Chen Yan successfully opened the intracranial eye, he didn't know the consequences of failing to open the intracranial eye.

So when facing Wolf Reibert, he carefully considered his words and was cautious.