Chapter 977: Battle for the Tower (XI)

After visiting the mine, Schiller and Batman were not thrown back into the dirty and dark prison, but were assigned to a dormitory each. What surprised Batman was that the dormitory was a single room.

The mine they visited was the largest and most central mine in the entire mine, and next to it was a bunker that looked very similar to a medieval garrison castle.

The corridors here were narrow, but the rooms were large. The 4 floors above ground were all where the guards lived, while the 6 floors underground were where the miners working in the central mine lived.

The dormitory Batman was assigned to was located on the 2nd floor underground. The entire room was only 2 to 3 square meters, so only a straw mat could be placed. There was a torch on the wall that burned with magic energy.

However, although the room was small, it was not cold. Batman suspected that there might be a lava layer under the ground of the mine, so the whole building seemed warm and dry.

There is also a basin in the corner of the room. The water in it will never run out no matter how much you use it. It can not only provide some moist water vapor in the dry room, but also can be used for cleaning.

If there is one shortcoming of this dormitory, it is that the sound insulation is not very good. Everyone lives in a small cage with thin walls and very close to each other. Batman just wanted to sit down and rest for a while, and heard a mumbling curse from the next door:

"Damn, my ankle... It hurts so much, that damn lava demon, he did it on purpose, he wanted me to fall into the magma while mining... Oh, it hurts, it hurts so much..."

"What's wrong with you? Are you okay?" Batman knocked on the wall next to him and asked. The creature on the opposite side seemed to be frightened by him. After screaming, it was silent for a long time, and then Batman said:

"I am a new miner today, and I am not familiar with this place. Can you tell me where this is?"

"I know..." The voice on the other side sighed, his voice was a little shrill, but the pronunciation was clear. He said: "Another unlucky guy who was caught here, ha, let's see how long you can survive here, three days or four days?"

"Were you also caught by the sandworm?" Batman asked.

"Don't be silly, that kind of big bug can only deal with small species like you... cough cough..." The other side coughed twice and said: "I am a native here, mining is my job, cough cough cough... my foot..."

"Is your foot injured?" Batman asked with pretended concern: "Do you need help?"

Suddenly, Batman saw a black shadow appear at the crack of the dormitory door, and a black tentacle stretched out.

There was a scarlet eyeball on the top of the tentacle. The eyeball turned and looked at Batman, and then said: "Oh, a poor human, judging from your fighting, you should be a believer of evil gods, what's wrong? Doesn't your boss want you?"

"I don't know what's going on. Can you tell me? Where is this place? What am I going to do tomorrow?" Batman asked a series of questions, but the other side's eyeballs turned and said: "Don't try to lie to me, you cunning human, if you want to get an answer from me, you must pay a price..."

"What do you want?" Batman asked.

"I heard that human souls are very delicious. How about you give me a part of your soul? Let me take a bite of you, and I will answer your question..." the demon said in a low voice.

"I'm afraid this is not fair." Batman replied.

"Fair!? You want to talk about fairness in hell?" The other side seemed to have heard the most ridiculous joke in the world. He laughed dryly with a hoarse voice, and then two more tentacles stretched out and pressed towards Batman.

Batman was not panicked at all. He stood up from the ground. Since he found that demons could be physically hurt, he had no awe of this magical creature.

He turned around, took a torch from the wall next to him, and waved the torch at lightning speed, letting the flame pass through one of the tentacles. Sure enough, a scream came from the other side.

"Take it away! Take it away! Take it away!! You damn human!!! I'm going to swallow you!!!!" The tentacles on the opposite side began to dance constantly, trying to escape back through the crack in the door, but Batman was quick-witted and quick-handed. Before the black tentacles could slip out through the crack in the door, he pressed down the root of the tentacles.

He put the torch aside first, grabbed the tentacle with both hands, and pulled it hard. The demon on the opposite side screamed fiercely.

"Ah! Ah! Let me go! My ankle! My ankle is already injured... Let me go!!! Oh, please, don't do this!!"

Batman finally pulled the tentacle hard, and heard a "bang" from the door of the dormitory next to him, as if the body of the demon was pulled and hit against the door.

Finding that there was no room for pulling, Batman grabbed the base of the tentacle and tied a knot on his arm. Then he took a torch and let the flames continue to erode the base of the black tentacle. Then he said in a cold tone: "Answer my questions, where is this? How did you get here? What are you doing here?"

"Oh oh oh oh!! Let me go!!...Okay, okay, I'll answer your question, but after I answer, you have to let go of my foot... You damn human, you are all a bunch of cunning monsters!"

Batman paused for a moment. He didn't know whether being called a monster by the devil was an insult or a compliment, but then the devil began to speak intermittently:

"You and your master must be country bumpkins, otherwise, when you saw the sign on the gate, you should know that this is the Seven Mountains Mine of the great Majesty Belial, It is also the second largest mine in the underground territory of His Majesty Belial..."

"How did I get here? I have said that I am a native here, a shadow monster living in the mine. His Majesty Belial's army came here and occupied the mine, and I worked for him..."

"Also, what do I do here? What else can I do here? Of course, mining. The Seven Mountains Mine has almost all the mainstream minerals in Hell. The weapons and armor on the guards are all forged from these minerals..."

"What's your name?" Batman asked again.

"I'm calling, my name is Roku, please let me go, my leg is going to break... Oh, it hurts..."

The voice on the other side was already a little tearful, and Batman found that the demons here were much simpler than he thought, so he loosened one of the legs and let the tentacles retract, but the other leg was still held in his hand, and he said:

"I know there are guards in the dormitory, so no matter what strange noises you hear next, it's best not to make a sound. If you attract the guards, I will definitely kill you before the guards kill me."

Batman's threat did not The shadow monster called Hexagon retracted its last leg with a little water, groaned twice, and then said: "You humans who don't know your own limits, you always want to escape, I don't want to care, what are you doing in your room."

Batman narrowed his eyes and asked: "Have humans been here before?"

Hexagon seemed to be stroking his injured foot, and he said: "What nonsense are you talking about? There are humans here, I have been neighbors with at least five or six humans, and they all want to run away..."

"Did they run away?" Batman asked again.

"Most of them have escaped. I have to admit that you, a cunning race, are quite capable. However, this is hell. Even if you escape from this mine, where else can you go? You will end up working for other demons..."

"After arriving in hell, weak individuals like humans will have only two fates. Either they will hide in mines, barracks, and slave houses and work for demons, or they will be unlucky and encounter powerful demons and be swallowed up..."

"Are you a powerful demon?" Batman asked.

"You humans really love to talk nonsense." Liujiao sneered and said, "If I am a powerful demon, would I be so embarrassed by you?"

"Shadow monsters are just companions of shadow mines. Most of them have no reason and will only attack demons who want to mine shadow mines instinctively. Because of this, rational shadow monsters will be caught. We can appease our kind when mining shadow mines and let them not attack miners. This is what I do..."

Batman silently wrote down the information he said. After a moment of silence, Liujiao took the initiative to ask, "Are you going to run out too? Then you can take advantage of tonight to dig a hole through the crack in the back wall. Before, my neighbor ran out like that. You'd better get out quickly. I hate cunning humans."

Hearing this, Batman looked at the crack in the wall behind him. Because he was in the shadow of the torch, Batman did not look carefully at the corner of the wall on the right side of the straw mat. At this time, he found that there seemed to be a small crack there.

When Batman put his hand in the gap, he could clearly feel air blowing out of the gap, which means that there is a large space behind it.

"Don't the guards here worry about people running away?" Batman asked. He was really a little confused, so he asked again: "The defense here is incredibly lax..."

"Run away if you want to." Liujiao said indifferently: "Those big bugs can bring back dozens or hundreds of people every day. Even if they all run away, they can continue to catch them the next day. Moreover, only you humans can't think about it. For demons, working anywhere is working?"

"Have you never thought about resisting or escaping?" Batman asked while checking the gap.

"Why should we resist or run away?" Liujiao's voice was also somewhat puzzled. He said: "If I run away, I will be captured by other demons and taken to other mines to do the same work."

"Besides, His Majesty Belial is a good demon lord. He is powerful, majestic and ancient. Almost none of the surrounding demon lords dare to provoke him. He can defend his territory and protect us."

"If I run to a weak person and get attacked by other demon lords every day, I might be dragged to the battlefield. Shadow monsters are not good at fighting, and I'm afraid my legs will be chopped off."

Batman paused, then asked: "Don't you want to be a demon lord? Don't you want to be a leader?"

"Demon lord? Don't be kidding." Rokuko muttered: "I am a shadow monster. Have you ever seen a shadow monster that can be a demon lord? We don't know any magic at all, and we don't have a strong body. Although the most abundant thing in each mine is shadow monsters, it's useless..."

"We are one of the weakest races in hell, just like humans. Let alone being a demon lord, we don't even have the right to be an overseer."

"Because we are weak, we won't resist?" Batman said to himself.

"Every shadow monster is like this. They suddenly find themselves in the mines. They awaken their intelligence and are found by the supervisors and taken to work..." Hexagon's tone is very light. He said:

"My luck is already quite good. Sometimes, those low-level shadow monsters go crazy and will tear us to pieces and swallow us, but I have worked here for a long time and have never encountered such bad luck."

"But yesterday. That damn lava demon threw a fireball at my feet. He wanted to blow me into the magma. I knew he didn't like me. I will meet him again when I work tomorrow. Satan, I am really fed up with him..."

"Why don't you fight back?" Batman asked again.

"Fight back? You want me to fight him? Don't be ridiculous! The Lava Demon is one of the most powerful demons. Even among the overseers, he is very strong. How can I beat him?"

"Just because you can't beat him doesn't mean you can't deal with him..." Batman whispered, and then he said: "Your foot is injured, right? I know some medical technology, maybe I can help you heal it, let me see your wound..."

"What????"

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