Chapter 5 May miners rest in peace

The men guarding the mine, all local villagers, put them in a crate and down the mine.

Wynne's flashlight showed the bottom of the mine about a metre wide, and they didn't have much trouble getting down, one by one, about ten minutes later, her feet finally stepped on the ground covered with thick leaves. Ahead them was a tunnel, about two meters high, leading into the deep mountain.

Wynne and Dooley walked about 30 meters ahead and saw the blast hole not far away. Looked like it was where the cave-in happened.

The rubble and the rock gave them a rough and craggy way to it, and Wynne was stumbled by a protrusion of rock and fell to the ground.

Dooley, who was walking ahead, came over and offered her his hand.

"Give me your hand and I'll pull you along." He said.

"I'm not going to hold a murderer's hand." Wynne protested, getting up and giving him a irritated look.

"You're blaming me for giving in to Ms. Wan's demands, aren't you?" He asked, frowning lightly.

"What if those miners could live on? Yet you promised to kill them, aren't you a murderer?" 'she cried.

At this point, Wynne can't help but lash out at Dooley in sympathy for those who died in the mine.

He, however smiled.

"Did you see those smelly men lying on the board in the hall when you came in?"

"And then what?"

"They were people who had met the mummy."

Wynne looked at him quizzically, not understanding what he was saying.

"Come on, I'll take you in first, and then I'll tell you slowly, or if you fall again, I'll have to waste my powers on healing your wounds." Said, Dooley, holding her hands.

"What is mummy all about?" "Wynne asked.

"They are alive because they are supported by a very strong willpower. Although their bodies are dead, their terrible willpower told they are alive. Under this strong willpower, their bodies are able to remain uncorrupted even if they have lost their living features." Dooley told.

"Isn't that just like zombies?" Wynne continued.

Dooley smiled.

"No, zombies have no consciousness of their own and eat blood and flesh naturally, the mummy, however, has a consciousness and a mind of their own, so they are not capable of attacking people at random. The villagers lying on a plank in the hall had been cursed by mummy since when they did not keep their promises to mummy, which is why their body festering and are loathsome." Dooley replied.

Suddenly there was a excited voice not far away.

"Hey, bro, cheer up, someone is coming, we are saved!"

Soon Wynne saw a dozen dark figures running towards them!

In such a weird environment, suddenly rushed out of more than a dozen dark figures, startling her, the flashlight fell to the ground.

Dooley picked it up and illuminated ahead.

From the light, she saw a dozen, covered in black ash, middle-aged men, was approaching her and Dooley.

These men looked simple and honest, with a used black towel hanging from their shoulders, miners' caps was long since shed color, and smilling and baring their white teeth when they saw her and Dooley.

"Bro, how did you get down? Can you talk to the guys up there and take us up? Our wives and children are waiting for us at home for dinner." "One of older men said to Dooley.

"Forget it, Third, these two young people look unreliable, a few days ago our villagers also promised us to go up to find someone to save us, who knows they go up and never come back, until I found that they were working in other mine, and then i just understandd that they cheated us." "Said a young man standing behind.

"What do you have to complain about? You took revenge on peeding them!" "Said another worker.

Suddenly, all the workers burst out laughters.

It wasn't until now that Wynne realized that Dooley was right. The reason why the men lying in the hall were stinking was because the miner had urinated on them.

The entier darkish caverns echoed their lively laughter. If Wynne hadn't known in advance that they were mummy, who would have thought these honest and simple workers would have died ten years ago?

Dooley stood quietly among the miners, smiling slightly as he calmly took a box of cigarettes from his pocket, which she did not know when he had bought, and handed them out to each of them.

They were not too ashamed to see Dooley so polite, greeted him one after another, and invited him and her to sit on a slightly flatter stone nearby.

"This time, bro, we have come down to send you off." Dooley finally said it.

"To home? "Asked one of them.

"That's great! I just got paid $3,000 a couple of days ago and didn't tell my wife. I ganna give her a surprise!"

"We've been in the mine all year, and I haven't seen my daughter for long time. Now that I get paid, I'm taking her to town to buy her favorite guitar."

"Can you give me a ride to the town? I want to buy a birthday present for my mother!"

... .

All the miners were talking excitedly about what they would do after getting out of here.

Dooley patiently listened to them until they finished.

"Guys, may your soul rest in peace." Dooley murmured gently.

All the miners were stunned, and silence filled the cave for a while.

A gust of wind came, and all the miners slowly turned into dust and floated away into the depths of the moutain.

Some people died, but he thought he was still alive.

And some people were living, but they were already dead.

Wynne and Dooley were now the only ones left in the mine.