Chapter 979: Battle for the Tower (Thirteen)
Batman didn't know what Schiller's main job was, but he knew it was definitely not a good thing.
Batman had gradually noticed Schiller's abnormality. Schiller was no longer as weak as he was at the beginning. On the contrary, he began to become a little excited. Judging from the performance of his soul form, his soul began to become more and more active.
This was not a good sign. Batman knew that whether Schiller was weak or excited, it did not mean that he was healthy and normal. When he was mentally weak, he would become more crazy, and when he was mentally excited, he might do more crazy things.
In addition to completing the task of connecting the shadow monster, Batman knew that he had to keep an eye on Schiller to prevent him from making any terrible changes and causing a big mess after leaving hell and returning to the world.
After the meeting, Batman returned to his dormitory, and Rokuko hadn't slept yet, so the two started chatting again.
Rokuko was a little nagging, and the logic of his language was a little confusing. In Batman's ears, he was more like a child, with incomplete intellectual development, so it was particularly easy to talk nonsense.
In the subsequent chat, Batman learned that Roku was indeed a newborn. He had awakened less than 100 years ago. Compared with the lifespan of the races in hell, he was still a baby.
But perhaps the previous revenge stimulated him and kept his spirit in a highly excited state. He told Batman many secrets in the mines.
No one knows these mines better than Ying Teng, who has lived here for thousands of years. Roku told Batman that the continental shelf of the entire desolate continent is built on magma. Under the mine, there is a magma sea, which is very dangerous.
The magma sea will recede, and the exposed ore is called lava rock. People who make mistakes in the mines will be sent to carry lava rocks.
The lava rock that just erupted has an extremely high temperature, even hotter than magma. Most races in hell cannot stand such a temperature, including the lava demons born from magma.
In addition, Hexagon also described to Batman the execution scene he had seen in a very fearful tone. The supervisors would whip the miners who made mistakes and drive them to a cliff at the bottom of the central mine, and then push them into the magma sea to burn them to ashes.
Batman would ask his own questions from time to time. Hexagon didn't know the answers to some questions, but Batman would infer possible conclusions from his reactions.
In this way, throughout the second half of the night, Batman emptied all the knowledge that Hexagon knew, which was actually not much, because this little monster that had just been born had never left the Seven Mountains Mine.
At the beginning of the second day, Batman clearly felt that the atmosphere in the mine had changed, and everyone was very nervous.
Batman hadn't even woken up completely when the overseer roughly pushed open the door, dragged all the miner slaves out of the cell, and took them to the square outside.
When all the slaves stood in a row, the overseer cleared his throat and said, "I want to tell you that from today, we have big things to do!"
"This morning, the great Majesty Belial declared war on Astro!"
"The army has reached the border, and the endless supply of armor and weapons in the rear will become the magic weapon for the soldiers to win!"
"General Fuxin, who rules the Seven Hills Mine, has promised His Majesty that although the Seven Hills Mine is under His Majesty's command, you must work in the mine day and night until the mission goal is achieved. No one is allowed to leave the mine before the target output is achieved! "
"I know that some weak demons cannot survive without food, but you must know that if you fail to complete the task, your fate will be worse than starving to death!"
"In order to urge your work efficiency. General Rot Heart borrowed many eye demons from his fellow tribesmen. They will stare at you everywhere in the mine..."
The demon supervisor snorted coldly, and then Batman saw a huge eyeball floating in the air from the center of the mine.
Many smaller eyeballs flew out from behind him and flew to various corners of the mine. They were connected by purple nerves. It seemed that everything seen by those small eyeballs would be transmitted back to the big eyeball.
"General Rot Heart is in the palace above the big eye demon's head. I will keep an eye on every one of you. If anyone dares to be lazy..."
All of the miners trembled in fear, but they were more afraid of the death mentioned by the supervisor, and did not have sufficient expectations for what they would experience next. However, Batman had already anticipated it.
Sure enough, after entering the mine, there were eyeball demons everywhere, staring at everyone who entered the mine.
Many demons who had not yet reacted, as usual, picked up their pickaxes and started working, but not long after, a team of supervisors broke in.
"You! And you!" The head of the overseers pointed at the two dwarf demons with a whip, and said fiercely: "The Eye Demon saw you two slacking off! Carry the empty baskets and walk twice, come with us!"
The two overseers are humanoid demons, one with blue skin and the other with red skin. The red-skinned demon is very tall. When the dwarf demon was picked up, the two small demons couldn't even struggle.
"Where are they taking him? What's wrong with him?"
"Why can't we take the empty basket? What are we going to do now? What happened?"
The chattering sounded, but when the Eye Demon's sight swept over again, everyone shut up and worked in silence.
The overseers came several times, and each time they took away one or two slaves. It was not until the break time was almost over that everyone was taken to the bottom of the mine and saw the group of demons hanging in the net that they knew what General Rot Heart was going to do.
The bottom of the mine was a huge hole, with only a small piece of ground at the entrance for standing. Opposite it was a cliff, with a hole behind the cliff. Obviously, there was another way to get there.
At this time, on the edge of the cliff, there stood a tall pillar with a horizontal bar on it, which extended toward the molten sea in front. At the end of the horizontal bar, there was a large net, in which the miners who were taken away during the day were.
From Batman's perspective, there were at least dozens of demons of various kinds in the net. They were constantly struggling and calling, and they had obviously foreseen their fate.
Almost all the slaves were brought here, and the supervisors drove them to gather together to watch the execution ceremony.
After a while, General Rot Heart appeared. He slowly walked to the edge of the cliff, and he looked very majestic under the firelight of the molten sea.
It was a humanoid demon with dark green skin. According to Hexagon's description, he should be a kind of ancient demon, with a tall body, thick limbs and a head like a fly.
The reason why he was called General Rotten Heart was because there was a fluorescent green pattern on his chest that bloomed from the inside out, which looked like it had been mutated by radiation.
He held a weapon like a harpoon in his hand, and when he spoke, the hoarse and rough voice made people's eardrums hurt.
"Look at this bunch of scum! Idiots who are lazy at work! Criminals who dare to disobey my orders, they will-"
General Rotten Heart deliberately dragged a long tone, and then raised his voice and said: "They will be sunk into the magma and scalded to death!"
"Watch out, if you make me fail to complete the task, this will be your fate!"
After speaking, he controlled the big net and slowly fell down until he came to the sky above the magma sea. The skin of the demon at the bottom almost touched the magma and screamed because of the burn, while the demon above it kept grabbing the mesh of the big net, trying to climb up, and made a heart-wrenching and miserable scream.
Batman saw Schiller in the crowd, but at this time, the professor showed disgust, as if he thought the devil's cry was too harsh, but Batman thought that Schiller might be disgusted with General Rotten Heart's unaesthetic behavior.
After dealing with this group of mental patients for a long time, Batman found that he could also judge from their perspective whether something was in line with their values.
This kind of lunatics hate slaughter very much. They think that it is a waste of precious life. They don't enjoy killing a large number of their own kind. On the contrary, they hate this kind of thing very much, calling it "repetitive and boring assembly line work" and "more suitable for butchers who slaughter chickens and cows to do", and think that such behavior is neither aesthetic nor artistic.
However, General Rotten Heart was unaware of it. His purpose of killing chickens to scare monkeys was achieved. Now, most of the slave miners knelt or lay down. They kept crying and begging the supervisor and the general to let them go.
The fear of death for intelligent creatures is inevitable. In the face of death, whether it is human, demon or angel, all lives are equal, and fear is also equal.
General Rotheart, however, seemed to want to torture the group of executed demons. He used a bow and arrow to shoot the rope that held the net, but he deliberately missed the target, letting the arrow break the edge of the rope and causing the whole net to shake.
The crying and screaming mixed together. In such an environment, Batman felt that there was something like hell here.
In the chaotic sound, only General Rotheart's laughter broke through the mountain and echoed in the sky of hell. There was no sun there, only magma that kept flowing for thousands of years.
With a "bang", the net finally fell into the magma. The screams of the demons on the verge of death were engraved in the hearts of every demon, so that when they returned to the dark mine, everyone was a little dazed.
Batman knew that such a big drama of execution provided him with the best opportunity. These slaves who were immersed in panic needed someone who could comfort and lead them.
Just as Batman was selecting his target, another team of supervisors came in. This time, they pulled in two empty mine carts along the track. The leading supervisor said:
"I hope to see you fill these two carts by tomorrow morning, otherwise, you will all be thrown into the lava!"
Hearing this, all the miners were stunned. Looking at the two huge transport carts, many people began to cry.
"How is this possible?! This is absolutely impossible! This is the workload of seven or eight days. How can it be completed in one night??!!"
"There are not so many mines here. We don't have time to dig the rock layer. Without the thorn demons and the tail-exploding demons, we can't dig the rock layer. Even if we dig it, it will collapse!"
"Who can come to save me! I don't want to fall into the magma and be scalded to death!"
Just then, Batman saw that a dwarf demon who was crying and a little unconscious bumped into his legs. He lowered his head, picked up the dwarf demon, and asked him:
"Is it really impossible to dig so many mines in one night?"
"Of course not! Of course! This is impossible!!!"
Batman looked around the scene in the mine, silently estimated the number of surface minerals in his mind, then shook his head and whispered:
"Maybe not."