Chapter 465: Chapter 214: Achieving Merit by Accident

The reaction time at the Hive Camp was actually quite fast.

From the moment the explosion sounded to the time the main area organized personnel to the mine district, it only took about half an hour to quell a riot.

Chen Yingba stood at the entrance of the mining area with a furious expression, looking at the three mining district supervisors in front of him, wishing he could slap them to death with a single blow.

The three mining district supervisors looked very disheveled, with two of them carrying knife wounds, unable to utter a single timid word.

Glaring at the unscathed one, Chen Yingba asked:

“You tell me, how many people ran away?”

Upon hearing Chen Yingba’s inquiry, the man immediately stood out and said, “There were a total of 105 people living past No. 80, 32 were killed in the riot, 41 were captured, and the remaining 32 are missing. The pursuit in the camp passage is still ongoing, and since it is daytime, they certainly can’t escape…”

Slap…….

Chen Yingba slapped the man so hard that he was knocked three meters away, pointing angrily at the passage area behind him, he roared, “Open your damn eyes and take a look, is it day or night now!”

That man climbed up from the ground, looked up in terror, followed Chen Yingba’s direction, saw the large pit over passage 19, and realized there was no light coming in from outside, realizing it was already night.

32 were killed, 32 ran away, a total of 64 Earth-digging Realm slaves, who could mine nearly ten thousand pounds of iron ore for the camp every day, were just gone like that. Chen Yingba’s heart was bleeding.

He turned to the right, where a long line of people was kneeling on the ground, with many holding weapons guarding them, precisely the 41 people captured in the riot.

Noticing their ankle chains all broken, a harsh look emerged on Chen Yingba’s face, and he said, “Separate everyone and question them one by one. Find out who opened their shackles. Hit anyone who dares to lie until they tell the truth.”

The subordinates immediately sprang into action upon hearing this, pulling aside the captured people to question them, and from the screams, it was evident the questioning was bloody.

Chen Yingba then led the three mining district supervisors into passage 19, raising his head to stare at the large pit leading to the surface, his gaze slightly freezing.

“Tell me what happened again just now.”

Upon hearing Chen Yingba’s request, one of the three supervisors spoke immediately:

“We were sleeping and suddenly heard a bang. We thought some part of the mining area had collapsed and were about to get up to check when we heard many people shouting to run away. Realizing those mining slaves wanted to escape, we immediately grabbed weapons and rushed out.

As the three of us rushed out of the room, we saw the mining slaves’ shackles were all opened, fleeing outside the passage, so we hurried to stop them. Others in the mining area also came out to help, but everything was too fast. By the time everyone else reacted, those mining slaves had already climbed to this position, hence why so many eventually escaped.”

Hearing this again, Chen Yingba’s expression grew heavier.

As one of the first to arrive at the mining area, he not only personally participated in capturing those who rioted but also had long since observed the large pit inside and out.

The opening of this large pit was only human-sized, yet its diameter reached five to six meters at the surface, as if something had burrowed upwards from below.

According to this person, those mining slaves were clearly prepared in advance, meaning this large pit in the passage was likely their doing.

How was this possible?

This passage was at least over fifty meters from the surface. Even with over a hundred Earth-digging Realm mining slaves, they couldn’t possibly tunnel through given a full day and night.

“Sir, could it have been some unknown Cold Beast?”

“Do you think those mining slaves could control a Cold Beast to dig tunnels for them?”

Chen Yingba immediately dismissed the man’s guess, his gaze growing increasingly puzzled.

At this moment, the results of the interrogation from the mining area came out.

“Sir, we found out that most of the ankle chains were opened by Wang Hun, Zhang Jun, and Liu Hua. They also informed others to escape. There are seven people, including four from cave 93, whose bodies are not among the dead on the ground. It seems they escaped, and the problem likely lies in cave 93.”

Cave 93!

Just as Chen Yingba was about to speak, the two injured supervisors also spoke up.

“That’s right, Sir, I remembered when the mining slaves rushed out, we went to stop them and were almost killed, but someone rescued us. He’s also from cave 93, just arrived today, seems to be named Hong Yu…”

“Yes, it was Hong Yu. He’s the one who saved us, and I even personally saw him kill a few escaping mining slaves while helping others stop them.”

“Yes, that’s him. If he hadn’t awakened the others in time, more mining slaves would’ve escaped just now.”

Hong Yu?

Realizing he had no impression of this name, Chen Yingba frowned.

“Is this person also a mining slave?”

“No, he’s a newcomer who just arrived yesterday and was assigned to the mining district.”

“Not a mining slave, why assign a newcomer to cave 93?”

Seeing the three supervisors stammering and unable to speak, Chen Yingba immediately understood the situation, a surge of nameless anger rising in his heart, he directly slapped them again.

He knew well that these people below extorted and exploited, arranging newcomers to live in mining slave caves simply because they hadn’t given benefits or offended somehow. Otherwise, how else would these three react this way?