Chapter 73: ice sculpture. Chu Mu stared blankly, but just then, an indescribable sound faintly rang out from within the Mine Cave.
The sound grew louder, like howling winds or roaring beasts. It was deep and oppressive.
Faced with such a mutation, the Patrol Inspectors and Forced Laborers were clearly at a loss.
Many Forced Laborers even dropped their tools and prepared to run!
"Keep digging! Anyone who retreats dies!"
Li Jinghong decapitated a retreating forced laborer with a single slash and shouted.
Immediately afterward, under a series of orders, the surrounding Patrol Inspectors advanced at once. Long blades slid from their sheaths, their gleaming edges pointing directly at the several hundred Forced Laborers before them.
Seeing this, Chu Mu also advanced with his blade in hand. Fortunately, there were several hundred Patrol Inspectors, along with five or six hundred Forced Laborers. He stood at the rear, quite far from the Mine Cave.
After using Spirit Radiance Perception for a moment and finding none of that indescribable chill, Chu Mu couldn't help but calm down.
There were only five or six hundred Forced Laborers, dressed in rags and holding nothing more than a few tools. As for the Patrol Inspectors, nearly two hundred had been urgently summoned, while another hundred or so had escorted the hundreds of Forced Laborers here.
"Go dig!"
"Anyone who dares retreat will end up like this!"
Li Jinghong's face was livid as he shouted angrily. As he did so, he seemed to glance inadvertently at the White-Robed Man, evidently afraid that this change would displease him.
With more than three hundred fully armed Patrol Inspectors, and the threat of their gleaming blades, the choice before the Forced Laborers was unmistakably clear.
One after another, many Forced Laborers stepped into the Mine Cave, which was only