THE LIGHTNING EMPEROR

Rebel stronghold

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Bukit Batu Hitam is located a little far from Yijing Village, it takes three days to get there if you walk from Yijing Village.

While the distance of the Black Stone Hill with the Perverted Forest also had the same distance, and not far from that Hill, two young men were observing from behind the stone.

"There are a lot of soldiers there! That much power might be almost on par with government power, if until they had complete weapons, a great battle between the two sides would be unavoidable!"

"Sister Luo, are we going to go straight there or still have to hide here?"

"We'll be there soon! As I told you before, we'll pretend to be lost in front of the soldiers, and we'll definitely be brought in and joined by the workers!" luo Ying replied.

After both steadying their hearts, the two came out of hiding and ran towards the soldiers on guard pretending to be confused.

"Who are you two and why are you here?" asked one of the guard soldiers to Luo Ying and Fang An.

"Uncle, which area is this? The two of us chased the rabbit to part with the group who were going to Tinsang Village, but we didn't know where we were at the moment!" said Luo Ying.

"You two are lost? Where did you come from, and what do you want your group to go to Tinsang Village?" ask the other soldiers.

"We are from Xiaxi Village, and we and our family intend to move to Tinsang Village because our village is having problems, our father said!" luo Ying replied.

"Is that really a little boy?" the soldier asked Fang An.

"Yes uncle!" replied Fang An.

The soldiers looked at each other and all of them nodded their heads while smiling broadly.

"You two need not fear, we will help you and will take you both to Tinsang Village, but for now we still have to keep watch, so you should be here first for a few days, then, after that, you will drive you, come with me!" said one of the soldiers with full confidence.

Luo Ying and Fang An were both looking at it, the plan of both turned out to be successful, whereas the soldiers thought that the two young men were in doubt.

"eeee.. You have nothing to fear, we are royal warriors named members of the People's Protector Group, so we are not criminals!" said the soldier.

Luo Ying and Fang An both nodded then the two entered the rebel fortress by following the soldier who had invited them.

Inside the fortress made of thick wooden fences and also high, a lot of large tents with a lot of soldiers and passing by holding various kinds of weapons.

It is estimated that the number of troops in the fort is around more than 1500 soldiers, that was according to rough calculations, it could be less or more.

The soldiers carrying Luo Ying and Fang An continued walking, and this time they had already passed through the warrior tent and walked through another door leading towards the hill.

Luo Ying guessed if they were definitely heading to the mine, it was because she heard the sound of people breaking rocks.

"Where's the uncle going to take us?" asked Luo Ying.

"You will live with the people who are near the hill in front of it!" the soldier replied without looking.

"Residents? So there are inhabitants here too?" ask Fang An.

"Of course there are, they are here working and later they will get a wage, if you want to get a lot of money, you two will also be able to work, if you can work mining metal, if you can work mining metal, you will definitely have a lot of money, the more you get Metal, the more money you will get!" answer the soldier.

They finally arrived at a place that was very smoky and dusty, many wooden carriages driven by men from the old to the young.

Their bodies looked lethargic, as well as shabby clothes, not to mention there were many scars on their bodies.

"Look at them, they are all very excited, even if they have to get hurt they keep working hard! How, do you want to work? Yes itung-itung than you wait a long time and get nothing, you should not look for money?"

"I want an uncle!"

Luo Ying and Fang An both accepted the job, even though they were both pretending.

"Good, but there's one thing you should know! You must not make a mistake, because if you make a mistake, you will be severely punished! Remember that!" said the soldier then he called out to another soldier who was watching the workers.

"Hi you! These two young men want to work, quickly you tell them what their duties are!"

The summoned soldier immediately approached Fang An and Luo Ying, after which he led the two towards the pile of wooden carts that were being pushed by a few people.

"You two help push that wagon, quick..!" said the supervising soldier with a half-snaps tone.

Luo Ying and Fang An headed straight towards the wooden cart driven by the three middle-aged men in tattered clothes and looked exhausted pushing the wagon.

The three men pushing the wagon were shocked when Luo Ying and Fang An suddenly just came and helped him.

Looking at Luo Ying and Fang An's appearance, the three men instantly found out if the two young men were the ones who had just been arrested.

"Come uncle, we push together!" bring Fang An.

"Where did you two come from and why did you get caught by them?" ask one of the workers to the two young men.

"Later we talk, we'd better push this!" said Luo Ying then the five of them immediately pushed the wagon towards the other pile of stones.

From that job, Luo Ying and Fang An started to get acquainted with each other so that everyone started to get acquainted with Luo Ying and Fang An.

Of all the working youths, only Fang An was the smallest as well as the youngest worker.

The attitude of the supervisors towards the workers is very harsh and cruel, they do not hesitate to whip the exhausted people.

Luo Ying and Fang An themselves were still trying to communicate with all the workers who turned out to be from different villages.

They use their time to reveal their plans as well as explain if they are actually just undercover.

Of course it was not easy to convince Luo Ying's plan to everyone, there were those who believed and supported Luo Ying, but also those who did not believe and rejected Luo Ying's ideas and plans that had been conveyed.

Luo Ying and Fang An were also sometimes able to clash from the Overseers, and the two also watched for themselves as one of the exhausted workers was whipped many times to unconsciousness.

"It turns out they're very cruel and inhuman!" fang An said as he clenched his hands.

"We have to be patient for our plan to succeed Fang An, until the day comes, all we can do now is just continue to work so that the guarding soldiers do not suspect them.

Day after day they had passed, and now the two of them were close to knowing the one who was forcibly hired.

Although they were not fully familiar, it was at least more than half of what they recognized, and it all took five days.

Although only disguised and pretending to work, they both felt the same suffering as the others.

All the workers only get one meal a day, even drinking water is not enough for everyone until they can only withstand thirst until someone is dehydrated and falls unconscious.

Every time someone is unconscious, the soldiers will immediately lift the body of the fainted person to the burning place and throw the body of the person who is just unconscious into a large fire and automatically the person will immediately burn out alive.

"Prepare Fang An, tomorrow we make a scene!" said Luo Ying.

Without feeling like they had already been there for six days, and as planned, Luo Ying and Fang An would make a fuss after the seventh day, because according to calculations, they would, granny Meng should have already relayed the news to Luo Ding, and Luo Ding would have already conveyed this to the government side.

If it was right, the seventh day was the right day to create a commotion as well as coincide with the government troops coming, that was according to Luo Ying's calculations.

"I'm ready!" fang An replied as well as speaking inwardly, "I can't wait to try my Lightning Element!" inner Fang An.