Chapter 115 Luoyan Roadheader, Mysterious New Mine
The most dangerous place is the safest place, such as next to the enemy.
If you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't get the tiger's cubs.
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On the 30th day, at noon, Ren Zhong, wearing a full set of blue armor and riding a blue motorboat, met on time with five other members of the Linwang team outside the town.
The high-spirited Lin Wang waved his hand and said, "Let's go!"
The straight-line distance from Xinghuo Town to the new mine named Chenhui Mining Area is 620 kilometers.
Taking into account the undulating terrain and the detours required to avoid steep mountains and ridges, the total journey is approximately 1,000 kilometers.
At the speed of a floating motorboat, it only takes about two hours to arrive at full speed.
The last time Lin Wang and others set off for the return trip in the morning, the reason why they delayed arriving at the abandoned mine pit until three in the afternoon was because they took a shortcut through the valley and finally encountered a level five beast.
After resting for a long time, I wasted a lot of time.
This time Lin Wang was not in a hurry, nor did he take a shortcut, but led everyone to advance steadily along the regular route.
We encountered many small and large beasts on the way.
If it's a first-level or second-level beast, Pei Lihui would usually kill it on the spot with a single shot. He wouldn't even bother to pick up the first-level chips, but he would also have to see if the value of the second-level chips can exceed 30 points.
Level 3 Ruin Beasts and Level 4 Ruin Beasts have been encountered seven or eight times, and Lin Wang did not waste any time.
Whatever Pei Lihui can kill with one shot, he will kill.
If Bei Lihui can't handle it, the colonial warrior Song Qianlian in the team will take action, and then Sima Wan will be responsible for removing the chip.
Ren Zhong took a closer look at Sima Wan's techniques and found that although her equipment and tools were much more advanced than Chen Hanyu's, the work on her hands seemed rigid and not as spiritual as Chen Hanyu's fingers.
When encountering the relatively powerful level four ruin beast, it was time for the blaster Pan Fenglian to take action.
Occasionally, when encountering a situation where second- and third-level ruin beasts gather together, Lin Wang would ask Ren Zhong to try his skills on a small scale.
After Ren Zhong stabbed several second-level beasts with his two spears in a clumsy yet steady manner, Lin Wang nodded with satisfaction, "Although you are not yet proficient, your progress can be seen with the naked eye."
Ren Zhong expressed his gratitude to the captain for his encouragement, but he was also secretly glad in his heart.
Yesterday he practiced hard with Ma Xiaoling for a day.
Last night, he personally invested 960 points, called Teacher Shangma, and also pulled Ju Qingmeng into level 3 virtual reality training for six hours.
He has two technical instructors, one is in charge of equipment analysis, and the other is in charge of technical and tactical reviews. It can be said that he has made rapid progress.
After getting up at 6 o'clock this morning, he dragged Teacher Ma into the training ground at 6:30 and continued practicing until 11:30 in the morning. His control over this level 3 exoskeleton quickly improved a lot.
Otherwise, he really wouldn't be able to achieve this kind of progress, but the feeling of progress without being too much is natural.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone arrived at the Chenhui Mining Area at the junction of Chongyi County and Xinghuo Town.
Looking from a distance, a triangular cone-shaped building about 100 meters high and shaped like a pyramid rises from the ground.
If it weren't for the light blue color of the alloy surface and glass of the building, Ren Zhong almost thought he was seeing the Pyramid of Khufu on Earth.
Lin Wang, who was about to make a fortune and was in a good mood, rarely took the initiative to be Ren Zhong's commentator.
"This is the mobile mineral excavation center station of Amethyst Mining. There is an advanced equipment on it that no one knows the principle of. It can greatly limit the birth of new beasts within a radius of ten kilometers. Do you understand?"
Ren Zhong was greatly shocked, but his face remained calm and he only said: "This is the reason why Amethyst Mining stood out and quickly became one of the leaders."
Lin Wang carefully observed Ren Zhong's expression and nodded, "Yes. Okay, let's speed up and move forward!"
After saying that, Lin Wang was the first to speed up, and the motorboat roared forward, rolling up bursts of smoke and dust along the way.
The other four people also followed suit, with only Ren Zhong hanging slightly behind, looking cautious.
This is in line with his cute new personality at this time.
Floating motorboats are not as hard to crash as wheeled motorbikes.
Looking at the retreating figures of the five people, the solemn expression on Ren Zhong's face flashed away.
This is Lin Wang, suspicious and selfish to the extreme.
Just now, Lin Wang suddenly came up with an impromptu idea to test his character of a down-and-out citizen.
He's conducting a sneak attack.
Fortunately, Ren Zhong was not careless.
But this was all within Ren Zhong's expectation.
What really frightened him was what he saw and heard during the four hours of stop and go today.
Except for Lin Wang, who never took action, Ren Zhong observed and learned the methods of the professional scavenging team at close range.
The professional team is worthy of being at the top of the Starfire Town Desert Pyramid for two and a half years. God knows how much wealth they have accumulated and how much wealth they have accumulated.
Their equipment is simply bizarre and all-encompassing.
Take Pei Lihui as an example. Even though he only has a Manticore gun in his hand, he only has a combat uniform and tactical glasses on his body.
But these are all appearances.
The two hundred sniper bullets wrapped around his body contained as many as twenty-five varieties. Several of each type of bullet could be used to deal with different scenarios.
In addition, the box behind the seat of Bei Lihui's motorboat is filled with various special magazines.
As long as he rides around on the motorboat, he will be like a sniper turret.
This is only an offensive weapon, and there are various self-reactive protective equipment emerging in endlessly on everyone.
Ren Zhong had seen Xu beasts trying to attack Bei Lihui or Song Qianlian more than once, but they were unable to get close at all, either because the small self-reactive weapons hidden in their belts, shoulders, backs, heels, etc.
A ground kill, or at least being repulsed.
The air curtain protection and instant anti-gravity field shield on Bei Lihui's body are enough to withstand level three explosive attacks.
Ren Zhong couldn't help but think to himself.
Last time, Lin Wang and Bei Lihui went through a fierce battle and consumed a lot of equipment and means in advance. However, he still failed to kill them on the spot with information flow jamming bombs and array-type remote control bombs. Sure enough, there was a reason.
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Last time, I was able to finally complete a two-level kill, fight to the death, and have many opportunities and coincidences.
Two minutes later than the others, Ren Zhong slowly drove into the hall on the ground floor of the pyramid building.
After putting away the motorboat, he looked back.
In addition to Lin Wang's team, there are already nearly fifty people standing here.
Judging from their respective attires, there are eight professional teams here including the Linwang team.
On the way here, Lin Wang briefly talked about some details of the excavation work of the new mine.
Under normal circumstances, Amethyst Mining will hire four professional teams when digging new mines, and it will take about a month to complete the clearing of underground ruins beasts.
But this time, for some unknown reason, the subsidiary developing the Chenhui Mining Area broke the convention and hired a total of eight teams from surrounding areas. The expected working time was reduced to half, taking only half a month, and the original normal remuneration was still maintained.
,1000000.
The team's average daily salary will be as high as 66,700 points.
This may not seem like an exaggeration, not much higher than the average daily income of a professional team in an abandoned mine, but these are extra money.
Including the normal income from hunting beasts, the team can earn up to 100,000 points on average every day, which is very impressive.
At that time, Lin Wang encouraged Ren Zhong, "The main purpose of bringing you here this time is to let you learn, but I will still share your reward of 100,000 points. In addition, after deducting Sima Wan's labor fee, your personal income from hunting beasts will be
The rest will be left to you."
"Thank you, captain."
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In the hall, everyone waited in silence for a minute.
A middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses walked out of the small door on the side of the hall, quickly walked to the high platform inside, and made a gesture of pressing down with his hands.
"To make a long story short, I am Yu Junren, general manager of the Chenhui Branch of Zijing Mining, and I am also the commander-in-chief of this excavation project. Everyone here is a veteran, so I won't talk nonsense. This time, our company is extremely well-prepared to participate.
There are a total of forty-eight people involved in the excavation operation, and we have prepared a total of forty-eight rock boring machines and forty-eight kangaroo skin bags used to contain the source rocks."
"I have only one request. Everyone should go all out to start the excavation work. We must complete the excavation work within half a month and clear out all the ruin beasts underground in the mining area. No one will be left alive! If the task can be completed on time, then each team will
In addition to regular remuneration, you can also receive a performance bonus of 1 million points."
As soon as the other party said this, everyone including Ren Zhong showed a look of surprise on their faces.
In the past, during the excavation of new mines, fully imported rock boring machines were a rare commodity.
“Import” here does not mean trade between regions in the conventional sense.
The special machinery of the Lite boring machine comes from the interstellar trade, and once the core components have a serious failure, it cannot be repaired in the Origin Star. It can only be returned to the seller through the interstellar trade, and then it is repaired and sent back at a high cost.
This cycle of coming and going lasts for decades, and the waiting time is longer than the life span of a Source Star person.
However, it is not easy for this thing to be so damaged that it needs to be returned to the factory for repair. Even if the protection is breached by a level 5 ruin beast and the professionals inside are bombarded to pieces, the core components inside it, such as the instrument panel, will remain unscathed.
But when the number is large, there will always be accidents. It can still be said that there are rock boring machines running in space every day.
Because the equipment is so rare, the usual mining of new mines can only achieve 50% of the configuration.
That is, assuming that 24 people participate in the operation, there are only 12 boring machines.
This machine has to be used in two shifts, with each person using it for eight hours.
It makes sense, after all, the scavengers still have some time to rest.
But this time, it seemed that Yu Junren was not planning to give him any rest time.
Lin Wang was the first to ask, "Manager Yu, how long do we work every day?"
Yu Junren grinned, showing his white teeth, "Everyone works from seven in the morning to nine in the evening, fourteen hours a day."
hiss!
There were gasps of cold air in the hall.
Ren Zhong has already analyzed another factor in an instant.
With double the number of personnel and a full complement of rock boring machines, the daily working hours are forcibly increased to 14 hours!
Then the scale of Chenhui Mining Area is probably much larger than that of Xinghuo Mining Area!
This is unreasonable!
Ren Zhong has seen the exploration map of the Xinghuo mining area.
There is such a sentence in the exploration data of Xinghuo Mining Area.
"This molybdenum iron ore is the largest metal deposit within a radius of 1,500 kilometers."
The Chenhui mining area is obviously also within this 1,500-kilometer radius.
The Spark Mine was excavated two hundred years ago.
Ren Zhong did not believe that the Chenhui mining area would not have been explored with the technological level two hundred years ago, and he would have left such a fallacious and conclusive description in the database of the Xinghuo mining area.
So, what happened in the past two hundred years to create a new, larger mine out of thin air?
On the other side, many professional captains, including Lin Wang, have lodged protests, saying that such intensity of work has seriously exceeded standards and poses great safety risks.
Unexpectedly, Yu Junren just waved his hand indifferently, "I said, our company is extremely well prepared this time! We have the best mechanics, the most advanced equipment repair workshop, the best medical team, and the best life assistants
team, and the most comprehensive logistics preparation system for weapons and equipment. Apart from rest, we can give you whatever you want. There is only one thing you scavengers should do, and that is don’t ask anything and complete your tasks well.
Work. Before you came here, we signed a contract with Amethyst Mining. You know the price of breaking the contract, which must be something that the desert people cannot afford."
There was silence in the hall.
Ren Zhong quietly looked at Lin Wang's angry and helpless expression, and gradually understood why Lin Wang wanted to climb up so crazily and was so paranoid about being replaced.
Huangren is really... very humble.
In Xinghuo Town, Lin Wang was almost one person below ten thousand people, but in Yu Junren's eyes, to put it bluntly, he was still just a tool.
The pyramid of exploitation in this world is really as solid, cold and ruthless as the "Pyramid of Khufu" above everyone's head.