'Well, crap.'
Moments before he had split off from Alefa and Joseph, Zhen Xing had determined with the two of them that they would be in charge of determining whether or not the rest of the slaves could be rallied and finding an exit, respectively. Meanwhile, he would go and find his cousin's "puppets," since he was the only one who could recognize them at a glance.
Things were going just as planned until several unforeseen incidents happened one after the other.
Firstly, both Joseph and Alefa had stumbled upon the only caverns in this entire fucking mine that were filled with people that they both had issues with.
The former was a native to Umbral Spider, more specifically from the Twilight Lands, and he had accidentally stumbled into a cavern that was filled with people from Radiant Feather, who were also from the Twilight Lands. Needless to say, fists and fireballs started flying on sight.