nucmednet Chapter 377 This is intolerable!
Chapter 377 This is intolerable!
The boss's real name is Huang Xingui. He was originally a farmer from a small mountain village.
A chance encounter.
With nothing to do after the harvest, he thought of going into the mountains to hunt some wild game to improve his meals.
That day, a sudden downpour occurred, and he hurriedly sought shelter in a mountain cave, where he unexpectedly discovered a faint golden light shining through the layers of soil in the rock walls.
He stepped forward and dug away the soil, revealing a large stone that gleamed with gold.
Huang Xingui was not very knowledgeable, but the dazzling brilliance was enough to excite him greatly.
This must be an invaluable treasure, perhaps even the legendary gold mine.
Driven by greed, he disregarded the laws of the court and failed to report the operation as required, taking the risk of secretly mining under the cover of night.
They then obtained the goods through illegal channels and traded them secretly on the black market.
This illegal profiteering brought him huge profits, and he also learned that those were indeed gold ores.
Huang Xingui could not hide his joy.
"I'm... I'm rich! I'm rich! Thank God!"
He murmured excitedly, his voice filled with barely suppressed elation.
Compared to the arduous life of farming, this path offers profits a thousand times, ten thousand times greater.
Soon, he persuaded his father and wife to participate as well.
Since the whole family were farmers and illiterate, they didn't know how to refine gold ore into gold. Fortunately, they transported the mined raw ore directly to the black market in small quantities and multiple times for trading.
Although they earned a few cents less than by processing it themselves, they still managed to make a considerable windfall.
Huang Xingu's family lived in a remote corner of the village, with no other neighbors around, so their illegal gold mining activities were never discovered by others.
The gold mines discovered on the mountain were not numerous, and they were quickly mined out by this family.
After becoming rich overnight, Huang Xingui and his family were unwilling to live in a small village. So they moved away from their hometown under the pretext of going out to make a living and eventually settled in the capital.
Living expenses in the capital were considerable, and money was needed for everything, from hiring servants to daily necessities.
The luxurious lifestyle in the capital will soon empty their pockets.
Having grown accustomed to a life of being waited on hand and foot, Huang Xingui's family could no longer stomach simple meals.
With his savings dwindling, Huang Xingui turned his attention back to the black market.
However, the few gold mines in his hometown had already been exhausted, and if he wanted to continue this business, he would have to find new mines.
After years of navigating the black market, he gradually figured out the ropes and got to know many people involved in the reselling business.
Not only gold mines can be traded, but also iron ore, animal hides, and any other valuable goods can be traded in this turbulent black market.
As long as you have goods on hand, you won't have to worry about finding buyers.
Driven by a gambler's mentality of "fortune favors the bold," he risked traveling to various mountains and forests to acquire enormous wealth.
Last winter, Huang Xingu found a sizable iron mine, intending to make a fortune, but he discovered a den infested with rats in the mining area.
They intended to drive the rats away and continue mining, but unexpectedly, the rats went berserk and attacked people.
Thus, Huang Xingui was bitten and contracted the plague, which also plunged the capital into a dangerous situation due to the plague.
If he hadn't died suddenly from the plague, he would have been executed for his serious crimes of illegal mining and mineral trafficking.
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When Jinzi saw what was in front of him clearly, his eyes widened.
"It's the Rat King!" Su Yao's eyes darkened, and a chilling killing intent swept over her like a tangible force!
Suddenly, a huge rat demon appeared before them, with a tuft of white fur on its forehead, as big as a human!
Its fur was as black as ink, its teeth were as sharp as knives, its tail was as thick as an adult's wrist, and its eyes glowed with a sinister red light in the darkness.
Standing on two legs like a human, it stared arrogantly at Yao Xi and the other two.
Last winter, a group of men came from outside the mountains, each carrying a pickaxe and chisel, and began to chisel and break rocks at the foot of the mountain.
At first, they didn't pay any attention, taking it as just an ordinary human activity.
It has been cultivating in this cave for over a hundred years and has long been accustomed to the hustle and bustle and silence of the human world.
This time, however, it was different. The sound continued day after day, growing louder and louder, as if it were trying to carve through the entire mountain.
The group of people dug deeper and deeper, eventually moving the location of their chiseling to the mountainside, no more than a hundred steps away from his cave.
The mice were initially uneasy, but then they became panicked.
It turned out that the group of people were not ordinary villagers; they specifically targeted caves, and the caves would not be allowed to be destroyed at will.
The leader was a burly man with a protruding belly and a beard, who always clutched a shiny stone in his hand. "Later we learned that it was 'gold'."
Every time he came, he would mutter to himself how much wealth he could dig out of these mountains.
Wealth? It sneered.
The wealth hidden in these mountains is beyond the comprehension of short-sighted mortals like them.
"These mortals are utterly shameless!"
The rat demon stood at the cave entrance, watching the dust rising from the mountainside, its two whiskers trembling with anger.
"It has cultivated here for a hundred years and has never competed with anyone. But these people have the audacity to bully it!"
That day, it sent several clever mice to investigate.
When they returned, they said that those people had dug through three side tunnels, driving many of the younger generation into a desperate situation.
Scholars can endure it, but who can’t?
It rallied the rats in the burrow, determined to teach these madmen a lesson.
From then on, no one dared to come down the mountain to chisel the stone.
Now, the mountain has returned to its former tranquility.
The clanging and banging had finally stopped for a while, but today someone came again and even broke into their cave.
The Rat King spoke in human language: "You humans, you have repeatedly trespassed into my cave. I let you go before, but you dare to come again now. Do you really think I dare not kill you?"
Should we venture into its cave?
Does this refer to those who were first bitten and contracted the plague?
Is it letting them go?! It's clearly letting them go out to spread the plague.
Countless people are suffering from the plague, and countless people have lost their lives as a result.
Yao Xi angrily rebuked, "You monsters, instead of staying put and cultivating, you took the opportunity to spread the plague, causing the capital to fall into an epidemic crisis and countless people to die from the plague. Your actions are simply unforgivable."
"That's what you humans deserve," the Rat King shrieked. "This is my territory. You humans, for your own selfish desires, not only disturb my peace by mining, but also try to seize my cave and exterminate my disciples and descendants. We are only trying to protect ourselves."
"I merely ordered the mice to teach them a lesson and let them taste the pain of the plague. I did not directly harm their lives. Now that they are dead, it can only be said that they were unlucky."
"As for the spread of the epidemic, that was spread by them. How can you blame everything on yourselves? You humans should not be so unreasonable."
"Squeaky-"
The two little mouse demons behind it also bared their teeth, their tails slapping the ground uneasily.
"Committing such a crime, yet still trying to justify it." Gu Pan gritted his teeth at the rat demon's shameless remarks: "Today, I, this young master, will teach you a lesson."