616: Chapter 428 616: Chapter 428 Jiang Tang initially followed Su Chang’an’s guidance to rescue and kill people.
Later, he directly asked the Marquis to have their people say if anyone had been left behind.
The Marquis asked those tribe members, who were imprisoned in a place that had no communication with the outside world, and they did not know where other members of their tribe lived.
Only among the sold girls were one or two from different places; seeing that their relatives were not the ones being rescued, they worried about their own family members.
When the Marquis inquired, these two girls timidly raised their hands.
“My home is in a valley where there is a diamond mine.”
“My home is in the Wealthy District, where all the rich people live.”
The Marquis could only ask them to describe the map of the place because they had flown high above and could not have possibly covered an entire country.
With the descriptions from the two girls, the Marquis drew a map and handed it over to Jiang Tang.
Jiang Tang looked at the map and then placed his finger on it; the Flying Artifact moved towards the locations marked on the map.
As they neared a marked point on the map, they saw from the image recorder that below them were valleys, mountains with few trees but abundant in ores.
In many mountains, there were tents and houses; these people lived here, where they produced minerals.
Jiang Tang had never truly seen a diamond mine before, such as the Spirit Stone Mines in the Cultivation World, and he had no desire to covet those things; external possessions were not important to him now.
The gems produced in his space were much more valuable than any outside mineral sources.
The Marquis asked the girl again.
The girl nodded and said that the people living here as tenants were managers; their families and fellow workers did not live in houses, but in the mine tunnels they had dug.
Jiang Tang lowered the Magic Artifact a bit, searching for people in the ore tunnels.
He wasn’t too fussy, absorbing all the workers in the tunnels who looked like members of the Vampire Clan.
But that wasn’t enough; those diamond mines hidden within each mountain, many still unmined, were all absorbed into his space.
He had a feeling of not leaving the scene empty-handed.
In these mountains, the people managing the miners suddenly discovered the workers gone; this was a disaster, for how could they mine without the laborers?
The situation was urgent.
Those people frantically searched; some were only managers, not the owners of the mines.
Now that the workers had disappeared, they bore a heavy responsibility.
Among the people Jiang Tang had absorbed, indeed, there were relatives of that girl.
The family members cried upon reunion, and there were still other family members in another location not yet rescued.
Those who were still able to work were on the other side, their tasks being cooking and laundry.
Those unable to even do these tasks were not fed and could only wait for death.
Jiang Tang could only continue rescuing to the end, saving all of those treated as slaves.
Of course, among these slaves, not all were from the Vampire Clan.
He did not bring these people onto the Magic Artifact.
Rather, he sent them to a place far from here, hoping they could hide and survive on their own with the labor of their hands.
After Jiang Tang absorbed all of the resources from those diamond mines, he circled in the high sky, looking for other mineral sources nearby.
Believe it or not, he discovered a mine in an undeveloped mountain that contained gold.
Jiang Tang chuckled to himself; these gold particles looked just like sand and could be refined into Gold Coins and gold bars.
The loot this time was quite substantial; these items could be used to purchase daily necessities and food for the people the Marquis brought back.
Jiang Tang had no intention of using the food from his space to support them, feeling that he couldn’t help them forever after aiding them once.
He could supply the initial resources, but afterwards, they would have to rely on their diligent hands to strive for a living.
After Jiang Tang collected these resources, he left those people alive.
Some were merely lackeys, not worth the trouble of dealing with.
As his Flying Artifact flew away, the mountains that he had absorbed collapsed; the entire mountain with the gold collapsed, and a cascade of dirt and rocks rolled down from the mountain top, burying the houses and tents at its base.
Jiang Tang, observing from high above, could imagine this happening, which is why he didn’t resort to killing people, letting others assume it was a natural phenomenon.
The collapse of these mining regions caught the attention of the wealthy, especially the mine owners and those who had invested in the mines.
Terrified, they ran to see what had happened, not to rescue people, but for their own interests.
Upon examining the fallen rocks and dirt, they discovered only ordinary stones; they couldn’t find a single piece of the true diamond ore, leaving them with gloomy faces, stripped of their money-making prospects.
Having invested so much capital, to lose it all so suddenly was unthinkable; the owners felt as though they had gone bankrupt.
Not only had they lost their spouse, but their soldiers had perished here as well.
The people who had been rescued were just treated with the Marquis’ Magic Staff and dressed in fine clothes, given good food, and were immensely grateful; they watched the image recorder.
The recently rescued saw the collapse of the mountains where they had mined, feeling fortunate to have been saved or they would have been buried in them.
Then they watched those wicked people die inside, feeling a sense of vindication.
They also saw some people who appeared to be mine owners arrive; seeing their property gone and their people dead, the mournful expressions on their faces made everyone laugh.