Chapter 3593 — Hard to Make a Move!
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Meng Jueming led Meng Zhou and Li Zhengming into Mine Shaft No. 7, the other new disciples entered Mine Shaft No. 8, and as for Wei Zhao, he entered Mine Shaft No. 10 in the company of Senior Brother Miserable.
"Senior Brother Miserable, do you people really not need a special entry token to get in?" Wei Zhao turned his head and asked Senior Brother Miserable in surprise. When they had come in just now, he had clearly seen Senior Brother Miserable merely show the guards his jade badge as a managing senior brother of the Newcomers' Pavilion; Meng Jueming on the other side had done the same.
"That's right. The identity badge of a managing senior brother of the Newcomers' Pavilion is equally valid here. However, since I belong to the Qingyun Pavilion, I can only enter and leave Mine Zones Seven through Nine. Mine Zone Ten, of course, is a public zone, so one may come and go freely," Senior Brother Miserable nodded and said.
Pausing a moment, he then grumbled, "Junior Brother Lin, you really shouldn't have signed that contract just now. I once came to try my luck in Mine Zone Ten before—you simply can't dig up any good jade here. But what's done is done, there's no helping it. Let me take you to a few spots where I once dug up spirit jade. True, you'll only get worthless jade out of them, but that's still better than you flailing about like a headless fly and doing useless work on your own."
"Then I'll have to thank you, Senior Brother Miserable," Wei Zhao answered with a smile.
Although he was already at the early stage of Foundation Establishment and did not face the time pressure that other newcomers did, three months was neither short nor long; if he truly dug up nothing at all and simply wasted the time, that would be rather awkward. Still, being able to dig up worthless jade was already enough.
The mine shaft was winding and long. According to Senior Brother Miserable, Mine Zone Ten was already in an extremely marginal location, and the two of them walked for a full half-hour or more before reaching their destination.
Along the way, though they occasionally saw a few people, they were few and far between. Even after reaching the actual mining site, such a vast stretch of mine zone held only two or three people, two of whom were guards in uniform. The name "Mine Zone Ten, the dead mine" was indeed well deserved.
Seeing Wei Zhao and his companion, the two bored guards exchanged a glance and said jokingly, "Hey, two more unlucky wretches."
In a dead mine zone like this, even the useless sorts of the Qingyun Pavilion were unwilling to come; anyone assigned here must surely be an unlucky wretch who had offended someone up above. As the guards stationed here, they had long grown used to such things.
Miserable's face instantly darkened—he had actually been taken for an unlucky wretch by the guards! Just look at how Meng Jueming had been received so warmly earlier, with acquaintances wherever he went. By contrast, he, Miserable, was... truly miserable in name and in fact!
"I am Ku Zhongle, managing senior brother of the Qingyun Pavilion stationed at the Newcomers' Pavilion, here to deliver a disciple into the mine zone for mining!" Senior Brother Miserable spoke up.
"Ku Zhongle?" The two guards were visibly taken aback. "Never heard of him. You're a managing senior brother? Aren't the managing senior brothers Meng Jueming and Miserable? Where does this Ku Zhongle come from?"
"Uh... I am Miserable. Miserable is my nickname; Ku Zhongle is my original name..." Senior Brother Miserable explained with a bitter smile.
"Good grief, you should have just said you were Miserable and saved us the trouble." The guard nodded, then waved his hand, signaling that Miserable could go in.
Senior Brother Miserable nodded to the two guards in greeting as well, then led Wei Zhao to the mining spots he knew well.
Yet they had barely taken two steps when they heard the two guards chattering behind them.