Persimmons are poisonous.

Chapter 977 Niu Tai Moli

Fang Er understood the pleas of the craftsmen and said indifferently.

No matter what they say, just take the silver.

It doesn't matter if these craftsmen are killed or not; the purpose of coming here this time is the silver.

The visible portion can be taken back, but the most important thing is the unmined silver ore within the mountain.

Li Shimin looked around and then said to Fang Er, "Go to the mine and see if there are any more Wa soldiers."

Fang Er didn't think much of it. He turned and picked four special forces members to accompany him. Not long after they left, he seemed to hear Li Shimin speaking with the Wa craftsmen, and he instinctively stopped.

"Ni de mo li, not kill you~"

Li Shimin's voice sounded somewhat lewd, a phrase that made Fang Er almost spit out a mouthful of blood.

Damn it!

So this guy deliberately sent him away to negotiate with those craftsmen!

"Ni de mo li" means "Nyotaimori" in Wa language. Old Li only tried it once and actually learned Wa language?

This is outrageous!

Fang Er shook his head speechlessly and continued towards Mount Ishimi. It was more important to get the silver.

He walked along the rugged mountain path to the mountainside, but he didn't see any remaining Wa soldiers. However, there were many mining slaves. They were like liberated people, desperately fleeing from the mine tunnels.

He brushed past them and walked directly towards the mine. The four special forces soldiers beside him, holding AKs vigilantly, guarded him.

Upon entering the mine, Fang Er reached out his right hand to touch the cave wall, his mind communicating with the system.

"Sister Tong, can you collect it?"

"Yes, I can!"

"Can you collect it all?"

"Of course, sister Tong is here, nothing can't be handled."

"Then collect all the silver in this mountain, let's be generous."

"Kid, listen to my advice, you can't handle this!"

Fang Er: ???

What's this about not being able to handle it? I'm not selling wine. Besides, haven't we, brother and sister, done this before?

The system's words made him very confused, but soon the system provided an explanation.

"Kid, before, it was just absorbing a portion. Now, it's the entire silver mountain. Look at your current position, do you want to be buried alive inside?"

Fang Er quickly realized that if he exchanged all the silver in the mountain for points, wouldn't the mountain collapse?

To do this safely, he needed the system's advice.

"Sister Tong~~~"

"Get lost! When did you learn to be so mushy? You're giving me goosebumps!"

"Go out and walk south. There's a surface ore deposit at the foot of the mountain, which is connected to the silver mine in the mountain. It's safest to collect it there. The location has already been marked for you."

As soon as the system's voice fell, a 3D map appeared in Fang Er's mind, showing the outline of Mount Ishimi.

The ore veins inside the mountain were also displayed in a see-through manner, showing the direction of the entire silver mine at a glance. A red dot was flashing in a corner of the map, marking the safest place to collect the silver ore as indicated by the system.

With the guidance, it was much easier to get the job done. Considering that the mountain would collapse after collecting the silver ore, Fang Er casually pulled over a mining slave who was fleeing nearby.

"All personnel, evacuate!"

"Those who remain will all die!"

The mining slave he pulled heard this and turned pale with fright, nodding frantically.

When he let go, the mining slave instinctively tried to run out, but was pulled back again.

Fang Er pointed into the depths of the mine and said, "Inform the people inside!"

The mining slave had no choice but to run back into the cave.

Fang Er had asked him to call everyone out of the cave and told the mining slave that staying inside would lead to death, which was why he was so scared.

The four special forces soldiers looked at Fang Er with admiration as they heard him speak fluent Wa language.

"Master Duke is truly a master, who knew he could speak Wa so smoothly."

"Let's go, we'll wait outside!"

Fang Er turned and walked out of the cave. After they were outside, the five of them waited for a long time. Groups of mining slaves kept fleeing out from inside.

The mining slave who had been ordered to deliver the message saw Fang Er at the cave entrance and hurried over to report.

"My lord, all the people in this mine have come out."

Fang Er pointed to Mount Ishimi at his feet and asked, "Are there any other caves?"

The mining slave nodded repeatedly and pointed in several directions, "There, there, there, eleven in total."

Hearing his answer, Fang Er's scalp tingled. If the system hadn't reminded him, under the mountain collapse, even if he could escape, none of these mining slaves would have survived!

He had roughly counted. The mining slaves who had fled from this single mine tunnel numbered at least three to four hundred. With twelve mine tunnels, there were at least several thousand in total.

Mining in this era did not rely on machinery; it was all done by mining slaves chipping away at the ore in the tunnels. That's why there were so many mining slaves.

If these mining slaves were replaced by Wa soldiers, Fang Er would not hesitate to bury them all.

However, faced with these Wa slaves, he couldn't make such a heartless decision.

Mass graves and no-man's-lands were the work of beasts!

He had one special forces soldier escort the mining slave to the other mines to relay the message, to ensure no one was left behind.

Doing so was considered doing his best and leaving the rest to fate. If someone was sleeping inside, then there was nothing that could be done.

If one was a mining slave and could fall asleep in the mine tunnel, such a person might as well reincarnate early.

Moreover, Fang Er had noticed that most of these mining slaves were Wa people, with a portion of them being Goryeo people.

When they were fleeing, their constant use of "simnida" clearly indicated their origin.

The evacuation took a full day. These mining slaves also ran for their lives. Escaping the mine might allow them to hide in the nearby mountains and regain their freedom. Staying on the mountain meant certain death, so the choice was obvious.

While waiting for the mining slaves to evacuate, Li Shimin sent someone back with a message, saying he was going to the town where the silver craftsmen lived to understand the people's conditions.

If Fang Er hadn't heard Li Shimin speak that Wa phrase earlier, he might have believed this explanation.

But now it seemed that the guy wasn't going to understand the people's conditions at all!

He was clearly going to the town to feast on Nyotaimori!

The reason was that there wasn't a single woman on this mountain, and without women, where would Nyotaimori come from?

As dusk fell and all the mining slaves had evacuated, Fang Er found the location marked by the system, used a grenade to blast open the rocks on the surface of the mountain, revealing the ore veins underneath, and then placed his hand on it.

"Sister Tong, time to get to work~~"