"Brother, you have no idea. These days, we've been living in constant fear, worrying from dawn to dusk!"
"Someone dies every few days!"
"Forced Laborers die, Patrol Inspectors die. Brother, you saw the frost on that corpse just now, didn't you? To think someone could freeze to death in the middle of summer—it's downright uncanny!"
"If the Thousand Household hadn't issued a ban..."
As their relationship drew closer and the conversation opened up, nearly horrifying inside information was also revealed before Chu Mu's eyes.
According to the Patrol Inspector before him, the deaths in several mining areas at the bottom of this mine had already begun appearing one after another more than a month ago, before winter had even arrived.
And these deaths were not ordinary accidental deaths or deaths from illness. They were all... "frozen to death!"
Some suffered what seemed like sudden illnesses, with bone-piercing cold before they were frozen alive. Others died suddenly in their sleep, and by the time they were discovered, their entire bodies were covered in frost.
Whether Forced Laborers or Patrol Inspectors, no one in the several mining areas nearby had been spared.
Such eerie occurrences naturally left everyone trembling with fear, unable to feel safe for even a single day.
However, under the suppression of authority, this panic remained confined to these several mining areas and was unable to spread.
According to this Patrol Inspector, it was precisely because of these strange occurrences that the Thousand Household had taken notice, leading to the Thousand Household bringing people to wander around the Mine all day long.
The cause of the matter seemed to have become quite clear.
It was not that Chu Mu himself had a problem, nor that something had gone wrong with his Qi-Blood cultivation.
The problem lay with this land,