It was a desert; a sea of sand below the blistering heat of the sun!

Rat-a-tat-tat!

Nasty looking men rode on galloping horses, which created a thick dust cloud behind them. 

They soon arrived in a quarry, which was filled with nothing more than sand and some yellow grass.

"Let's go." 

The men got off their horses and entered a normal-looking cave.

"The Gold Valley!" the leader yelled as soon as they reached the end of the cave. Then, something extraordinary happened.

Rumble!

A giant boulder, which blocked their path, rolled to the side and revealed a road that led someplace else. None of them looked surprised. It seemed like they were used to this phenomenon.

The men went inside. The passageway inside was as tiny as an ant tunnel. However, there was a giant space that lay at the end of the tunnel.

It was no normal room.

"Hurry up and get a move on!"

"Do you want to die!?"

It was a giant workhouse!

The overseers repeatedly yelled and swung their whips, their eyes filled with murderous intent.

The workers beneath them were mining something. It shone with yellow light... It was gold!

That's right. This was a gold mine.

"Hurry up and move! Do you want to die!?"

Swish, bam!

An overseer's whip struck a lanky, elderly man's back.

"Ugh," the man weakly cried out, and then died.

"Wait, you're dead already? Hey, hurry up and get him out of here!"

Although he'd just...