Chapter 379 Two-Front Operation
At the same time, Chaoyang, Zhouzhi and Kokomochi also came to the beach cave.
After 9 o'clock in the evening, the excavation work will come to an end. It's not that Barif doesn't want to work in three shifts, but the gangsters guarding this place need to rest. According to the assistant's memory, all guards will exit the cave at this time, and then close the door of the cave entrance, allowing the workers to rest in the stuffy and humid cave. After high-intensity physical labor, sleeping directly on the slippery ground without a bed, people with slightly worse physical fitness will lose temperature unknowingly, or even fall asleep. And the first thing the guards do when they enter the cave after dawn every day is to transport the bodies and fill in new diggers.
The company is not unaware of the consequences of doing this, but because it is easier to manage all the workers in the cave, they do this.
"Is this distance okay?" Chaoyang asked in a low voice.
"Well... invisibility doesn't consume much energy, leave it to me." Kokomochi stretched out his hand and patted the chests of the two. Soon, they found that their bodies became transparent, like flowing water.
"Amazing... This magic is great!" Zhou Zhi exclaimed in amazement.
"Of course, magic is a miracle." The goddess of magic nodded with satisfaction, as if she was quite pleased with the praise of the chosen one. "Then we'll meet at the door."
"Let's go." Chaoyang connected Zhou Zhi's vision, "Follow my footsteps."
Even for Barif, it would be quite strange to visit the cave at this time. In addition, he had to pass through the blockade camp of the gangsters, which would undoubtedly alarm quite a lot of people. Therefore, the identity of the project leader was not very useful at this moment. While Chaoyang was still thinking about how to sneak into the cave without anyone noticing, Kokomochi provided him with his own plan.
It turned out that invisibility really saved him a lot of trouble.
He and Zhou Zhi passed through the iron fence of the camp as if no one was around, passing by one dozing night guard after another, until they arrived at the gate of the cave, and no one responded. There were guards here, of course, but none of them were guarding the door, but they were all crowded on the grass next to the cave and slept soundly. In the eyes of these people, the door was locked from the outside, and the coolies in the cave could not run out at all. As long as the brothers in the outer circle did not call the police, the people in the inner circle could rest assured.
Kokomochi fell from the sky and landed at the gate - for her, flying consumes less energy than invisibility.
"I'll open the door." Chaoyang took out Barif's key, easily opened the door lock, put the magic goddess and Zhou Zhi in, and then carefully closed the door, "The invisibility spell can be canceled."
Zhou Zhi took out the torch prepared in advance and lit it to illuminate the ground under his feet, "So they were all sent here to work? The air is really dirty."
"Because the fan used for ventilation will only start during the day." Chaoyang also lit his torch and walked in front - after all, he had been here once and was familiar with it. "If you see Zhang Zhiyuan again, can you recognize him?"
"No problem, I remember his face. But... what if he is not Brother Zhang?" At this critical moment, Zhou Zhi became a little unconfident.
"The worst result is just a wasted trip." Chaoyang was quite optimistic. He found Kokomochi through the location pattern, which proved that this "theory" was feasible.
In this era where people are unfamiliar with the place, one more person is equal to one more strength.
The three walked less than a hundred meters, and Chaoyang whispered "Huh".
"Someone is following us."
"Who?" Zhou Zhi restrained his urge to turn his head and looked back, and replied with consciousness.
"I don't know. There are two people, hiding in the side road."
As the willpower grew, Chaoyang's spiritual eye's perception range recovered a little. He could capture the breath of people moving in the deep and dark side roads behind, but this feeling was fleeting, and he couldn't track them continuously like an angel.
His judgment was that the two people left their original location immediately after discovering them, and it was not easy to find each other now.
"Then shall we continue to move forward?"
"Of course, we should remain unchanged in the face of changes." After Chaoyang finished speaking, he waved to Kokomochi and leaned over to whisper a few words in her ear. The latter nodded and then disappeared from their sight.
"She will support us in the dark."
To be honest, Chaoyang was also very curious about who was following him. The gang guards had long since withdrawn from this place, and the excavators who had been tired for a day must have just wanted to fall asleep at this moment. Could there be a third party hiding in the cave?
A quarter of an hour later, they finally reached the bottom of the cave.
The air here was even more polluted, and the air was filled with the stench of excrement. Only two or three of the oil lamps hanging on the wall were still burning, making this place look extremely dim. There were more than a dozen people lying on the ground, they put their clothes under them and leaned against each other to resist the cold and dampness of the night. The cave was terribly quiet, and only one or two painful groans could be heard occasionally.
"Why are there only a dozen? Didn't you say there were hundreds of workers here?" Zhou Zhi walked up quietly and began to check their appearance.
"They should have dispersed to the branch roads of the cave. This is not a good way to find them. I'd better call all the workers here." Chaoyang thought about it and decided to ring the assembly bell. Although Barif's face might cause panic among them, it was not realistic to search for people one by one. In addition, the identity of the previous stalker was unknown, and rushing in rashly might bring additional danger.
The assembly bell was right next to the metal wall. Barif had stipulated that the bell would be rung three times in the morning. Those who did not show up to report after three times would be punished with ten lashes. For the workers in the cave, it was almost like a death warrant.
However, before Chaoyang could walk to the bell, there was a sudden sound of dense footsteps in the exit cave!
Almost at the same time, the people sleeping on the ground also jumped up. One of them rushed to Zhou Zhi, hugged her tightly, and quickly distanced himself from Chaoyang. More than ten other people actually took out shovels and hammers from under their clothes and aimed at Chaoyang!
"Oh my God... It's Barif!"
"That murderer!?"
With the help of the light of the torch, these people finally saw Chaoyang's appearance. Fear and panic flashed across their faces for a while, and the hands holding the "weapons" also trembled.
"Don't be afraid! If you don't resist, you will be no different from lambs to be slaughtered, and you will die in the end! But dying in the cause of struggle can at least make the company taste the fear!" Someone shouted at this time.
With his loud shout, the morale of the crowd was temporarily stabilized.
"Do you want to take action? I have prepared a range attack magic." Kokomochi's whisper came from behind.
"No, they are not our enemies." Chaoyang looked in the direction of the voice and saw that the person who called out was a young man. He and seven or eight other people walked out of the exit passage and blocked Chaoyang's way back.
"He... He is the person next to Anthony!" Although Zhou Zhi was covered with his mouth, he could still communicate with Chaoyang through consciousness.
"If you all dare not take action, then I will be the first one!" The young man picked up a shovel and approached steadily, "I wanted to win over more people and prepare for a few more days, but since a big fish has come, it's not a loss for us to take action in advance!"
Chaoyang remained calm, summoned a contract and handed it to him, and said in a tone full of compassion and mercy, "It's time to return to paradise, child."