This young lady too was wearing a shit brown slave cloth _ though not as bad as the one he was wearing.
Her nose was the size of four people's noses combined _ with two massive front teeth that almost reached her upper chin.
Her head was so freaking huge _ it completely blocked his view of the other people in the mine.
But she was best friends with the former owner of this body, and from his memories, she was indeed a decent person.
"Yuchen!!"
"Are you okay _ why are you not responding ?_ wait here I'll go call for help " she turned and was about to dart back out.
"Mei! Wait ! _ wait, am fine_ just help me up please" Peter called back to her as she hurried over and helped him up.
"Let's go report this to supervisor Zhang and make sure that asshole is dealt with. " Mei ling said through her massive front teeth.
"No!, please don't bother _ it will just make things worse _ you think supervisor Zhang would believe a slave over one of his guards ? "
"I just need some time to figure out their motive behind this actions and find a perfect way to resolve this whole thing"
Peter quickly said to meiling _ he was nothing if not prudent in his actions _ he had already noticed something fishy from the dead boy's memories _ and he was getting the feeling that he was forgetting something _ something very important.
After peter finished talking _ mei ling who was still holding him up with one hand, was now looking into his face expressionless, with her deep orange brown eyes.
What's that scary look ?
Why does she look like a character out of an eldritch horror movie!
don't scream
don't scream
Peter! You are a grown ass man, get yourself together _
She's now your friend _ you'll get used to her looks
"Mei, what's with the stare, is something wrong ? It's kind of scary, you know !" Peter tried saying as he croaked out a nervous laugh
"Scary ?, What's scary? " Mei looked completely confused as she asked Peter.
"Never mind, something on your mind ?, you look like you were thinking of something " Peter said as started regaining his balance.
"Yeah, you just surprised me that's all _ you are not sounding like your usual timid and reserved self at all"
"I guess so ..but isn't that a good thing ?"
Peter asked her as he grabbed the pick axe on the floor _ ready to ger back to mining .
From what he has seen from the memories _ the only break you get here _ is after work hours or you're sent into confinement, and that is the very worst place to be on this entire mountain.
And mei was already risking so much, coming to his rescue from the other side of her section as she did.
"Yeah, I guess it is."
mei smiled as she was liking this new outspoken Yuchen.
"Now mei, get back to work, we don't want to give that asshole another excuse to put us both through the wringer"
Mei ling in full understanding, turned and started walking towards the other cave entrance _ as Peter called back to her_
"..and Mei ...Thank you"
She turned and gave a smile _ at least Peter thought it was a smile ..since all he could see from that distance was her two massive gigantic front teeth _ then she was gone.
Peter held the pickaxe in his hands _ the reality of his new existence settling in.
First step _ Escape
I need to leave this place
I know the punishment for slaves who run is death_
but I'd rather die than live the kind of life I have experienced through this body's memory.
Peter cast his gaze around the cave he was in, and at the workers heaving axes on what appeared to be stone but looked stronger than the stones from his former would.
They didn't pay him any mind _ they weren't even feeling or looking guilty that they kept quiet when he was literally killed.
They were slaves and slaves had no voices _ except the brave odd ones like mei ling that is.
My love _my babies _ daddy will come home to you _ one way or another !
I must survive!
Peter with determination, got to work swinging the axe on stone _ he found he was actually executing the drills quite easily _
even though he looked like a twig that the wind could blow off his feet at any moment .
Muscle memory I guess.
After a gruelling two more hours _ there was a bell ring and the two guards stationed to the adjourning cave of the left wing _ came as usual and distributed a handful of small mouldy and stale bread to the slaves _ as they filed out of the caves.
Peter went ahead for his own share, wanting to test what he knows, and like from his memory _ both guards ignored him.
He was beginning to feel light headed and he was getting a deluge of new feelings from his stomach -
Extreme hunger!
He wouldn't be able to last the week in this condition.
Peter had never experienced extreme hunger in his nearly forty years of living _ staying hungry had been a choice _ not because he couldn't afford to eat.
It was now time to shut down for the day and for all to go to sleep.
So the slaves filed out of the mines from all wings in a uniform manner.
Mei had offered to share her piece of the moldy bread with Peter, but he refused her saying he had gotten access to one from someone else.
She didn't believe him but couldn't press more since they were getting roll calls to start moving to their accommodations.
And Peter didn't bother to explain more, since he would rather starve to death than eat that disgusting bread and soggy soup.
They came out to an open mountainous area, it was already very dark out_ unlike inside the mine white the stones illumination let everywhere bright.
As he had gotten from his memories _ spirit crystal mines were mostly found in mountainous areas _ and this one was no different.
"Yuchen!"
"Here !" Peter answered and started moving towards a small simple bungalow structure made of spirit wood.
Each one is used by ten slaves, men separate and women separate _ guess they don't want their slaves multiplying, bad business if you ask me.
It was a tight squeeze but they made it work _ going inside, Peter noticed the other eight slaves were already inside and with him it's just one person left _
That's when it hit him _
Shit!, this is what I was forgetting!
A shadow loomed over Peter who was still at the door way entrance _
As bulky and fat figure of a middle aged man in slave robes began to squeeze his way in _
"Yuchen! come have some bread, I saved some for you, I know what they give us here is too small _
So, have some of mine okay ?" the man at the door said _ stretching a mouldy bread to Peter.
no!no!!no!!no!!no!!no!!no!!!!!
Not this!
Definitely not this!
The memories all came flowing back _ almost like a dam had been opened.
This person had joined them of recent _ and would often share his left over bread with the former owner of this body _
Then he started getting a little too touchy with the previous Yuchen while they slept in the same cramped space _
And when the previous yushen instinctively began distancing himself from the man _ his troubles started.
The previous Yushen didn't know what was happening and what this man truly was.
But Peter ?
A thirty-seven year old man from the twenty -first century of earth ?
How would he not know?
Peter stared at the hulking giant as he made his way into the tent _ with a creepy smile that doesn't reach his eyes _
Peter only had one thought in his mind _
A cultivation world with pedos ?!
What fresh hell is this ?!