At night, the wilderness is the most unsafe area, whether you are setting up camp or staying in an armored city.
Most of the things that scare people appear at night.
The "Castle" activated three smelting furnaces, increased its speed to 18 kilometers per hour, and its destination was the unexpected "Zhenbei Iron Mine".
The Zhenbei Iron Mine is located in the mountains 37 kilometers north of the town of Manbach. It has been continuously mined for more than 160 years. It was basically built and excavated at the same time as the town of Manbach.
Over the years, basically no one knows how deep the mine has been dug and how wide the interior area is, and even the mine manager may not have a complete map of the interior of the mine.
Strange to say, after more than 160 years of excavation, the mineral deposits have not been emptied out. In recent decades, perhaps because the depth of excavation has been reached, the output of ore has actually increased a lot. Moreover, twenty years ago,
The extremely rare associated mineral 'iron-21 element crystal stone' was also discovered.
"City Lord, look for me!"
Bucher opened the door and walked in from the outside.
The driving in the 'Iron Armored City' is not only controlled by Li Yinguang. He sets the approximate route and can also be assisted by others to achieve the goal of autonomous driving.
"right!"
Li Yinguang nodded and asked thoughtfully: "Butler Goda said you have been to the Zhenbei Iron Mine? You know something about it, right?"
Buhe said solemnly: "I know a lot. I worked in a mine a few years ago and worked as a mine maintenance worker."
"Tell me about the structure inside the Zhenbei Iron Mine!"
After hesitating for a moment, Buhe looked up at Li Yinguang: "Lord City Lord, do we really want to go to the Zhenbei Iron Mine?"
Li Yinguang shook his head: "Just to understand, we may not really go to Zhenbei Iron Mine."
The reason why I walked north was to show respect to the lord. I couldn't openly leave on a "mission". If I walked in the opposite direction when I came out, wouldn't that be the same as telling others that the "Castle" was about to run away?
Where should Lord Bach put his face?
Going in the direction of ‘Zhenbei Iron Mine’ does not necessarily mean going to ‘Zhenbei Iron Mine’.
Seeing what Li Yinguang said, Buhe just sighed, without asking anything, and said: "The underground tunnel of Zhenbei Iron Mine is very deep and very large. In terms of depth, it exceeds several kilometers, and the horizontal width cannot be specified at all.
Statistics show that even the old miners working there can’t tell where many previously abandoned mines lead.”
After a slight pause, he thought for a while and continued: "More than ten years ago, the Zhenbei Iron Mine was not as attracting attention as it is now. At that time, there were actually strange things happening in the mine, and many people died."
"Strange things happen one after another? What kind of strange things?" Li Yinguang asked curiously.
Bucher shook his head and smiled bitterly and said: "I can't tell, but it's just weird things. For example, dead people come back to life again. Drinking some water seeping out of the mine can make people energetic and work tirelessly. But
After coming out, it will turn into a mummy, and there will be some soft ore. Eating it can make people become infinitely strong, but their tempers will also become manic, and they will turn into stone sculptures when exposed to the wind. Anyway, in the mine
, you may encounter any kind of strange things."
"Have you seen it with your own eyes?" Li Yinguang asked.
Bucher smiled bitterly and nodded: "Some things have been seen before, and some things were told by co-workers at the time, but there was no doubt that many people died inside."
Li Yinguang nodded. According to Buch's personality, he would not exaggerate and brag. What he said was extremely credible.
"Have accidents like the gold-eating rats happened in the mines before?"
Buhe nodded: "It has happened. Not counting other accidents, in the past twenty years, the known 'gold-eating rat plague' has occurred three times. Every time, the workers in the mine were slaughtered. It is rare that there are
Run out alive."
Li Yinguang said with some confusion: "There have been so many 'gold-eating rat disasters', how were they solved?"
Buhe smiled bitterly and said: "Wait!"
"Wait?" Li Yinguang was stunned for a moment.
Buhe nodded: "Yes, just wait until the gold-eating rats leave on their own."
Li Yinguang touched his chin and said with a smile: "Then when the miners go down, won't the gold-eating rats still come back?"
Buhe nodded first, then shook his head and said: "Yes, they will come back, but they won't come back immediately. Basically, the gold-eating rats will come out every few years to kill and clean up the mines. But as long as they leave, the gold-eating rats will come back.
It will be peaceful for a few more years, and during this period there will be basically no trace of gold-eating rats in the mines."
"Then where did these gold-eating rats go?"
Bucher shook his head: "No one knows!"
Li Yinguang frowned and fell into deep thought. From the information given by Buhe, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't get to the key point.
"Has there ever been an infestation of gold-eating rats in the Zhenbei Iron Mine before? I'm talking about twenty years ago!"
Bucher hesitated and shook his head slightly: "When I was working in the mine, I once asked the old miners inside this question, and they all said it had never happened."
Li Yinguang looked at him and said: "In other words, the Zhenbei Iron Mine has been mining for more than a hundred years without encountering a disaster like the 'gold-eating rat plague', and then it happened three times in the past twenty years?"
Buch said: "Including this time, it should be the fourth time!"
"Why?"
Li Yinguang raised his own question: "Things that have not happened for more than a hundred years have happened frequently in the past twenty years?"
Bucher thought for a moment and smiled bitterly: "I don't know, maybe the mine has been dug to a certain depth, and this depth happens to be the territory of the gold-eating rats."
"wrong!"
Li Yinguang shook his head, stood up from his chair, walked back and forth and said, "Are there many people making a living in the Zhenbei Iron Mine?"
Bucher said: "There are many, the number of miners underground in the mine at its peak will not be less than in the town of Manbach!"
Even in the slums of Manbach Town, you have to pay taxes and make money to live. If you have no source of income, you will still be kicked out.
Zhenbei Iron Mine just solves the problem of ‘work’!
Although the risk factor of entering a mine is not low, compared to going to the wilderness to make a living, the risk is still much smaller, which is why so many people can gather in the mine.
Secondly, it is large enough. The Zhenbei Iron Mine has been dug for more than 160 years. It is at least several kilometers deep underground and the crisscrossing mines can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, not to mention tens of thousands of people.
"As far as I know, it is true that gold-eating rats are social creatures, but if they can kill tens of thousands of people underground in a mine at once, then their group must be unusually large. One or two times may be accidents and unprepared, but continuously
Four times, how can the mine workers not be on guard against these gold-eating rats?
We will definitely look for their weaknesses, set up early warnings, and take protective measures, but disasters still happen.
Why?
Is it because the gold-eating rat group is too large, or is there another reason? Even if there are millions of gold-eating rats, tens of thousands of people can't even escape alive from the mine?
In less than twenty years, there have been four rat infestations, and each time tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, people died."
Speaking of this, Li Yinguang felt a little numb. In the past ten years, hundreds of thousands of people died in the Zhenbei Iron Mine. This was not a mine, it was simply a man-eating mine.
Buhe listened to Li Yinguang's analysis, and his expression was not very good either.
Anyone who enters the mine knows that there are strange things going on inside, and a group of people will die every few years, but the latecomers will still grit their teeth and step in again to restart the mining work in the mine.
The owners of the Zhenbei Iron Mine will still hire a large number of people for iron ore, because compared to the losses, the wealth generated by the mine after several years of mining is enough to make up for those losses.
The workers who entered the mines to excavate had no choice but to take risks. If they wanted to survive, they had to take risks. In these troubled times, there was no way to enjoy peace and happiness.
"Okay, you go and do your work first!"
After Li Yinguang waited for Buhe to leave, he sat back on the chair and started thinking. No matter how he reasoned, he felt that the gold-eating rat plague that occurred in the Zhenbei Iron Mine was not caused by the excavation disturbing rats, but more like... man-made
!
Suppose that if these huge groups of 'gold-eating rats' are artificially raised, every time the number of miners in the mine reaches a certain level, or the miners dig up some kind of treasure, the owners of these 'gold-eating rats' will drive them out.
Harvest a wave and exchange based on this inference, it seems to be a lot more reasonable.
It is true that treasures can be dug in the mines, but if you just want to snatch the ore treasures, there is no need to slaughter all the workers in the mines, right?
What if it's not for the items in the mine, but just for harvesting the batches of workers who enter the mine?
Li Yinguang couldn't help but shudder. If his calculation was really correct, then there might be an unparalleled devil hiding under the Zhenbei Iron Mine.
"A generation of cheaters!"
Cursing in a low voice, he shook his head to clear all those horrible thoughts from his mind, and stopped thinking about it at a deeper level.
Li Yinguang has decided that Zhenbei Iron Mine, a place of right and wrong, cannot go!
In the main control room of the Iron Armored City of the 'Castle', Li Yinguang pressed his palm on the Iron Armored City controller and activated the 'space radar' detection function provided by the 'mysterious gem' stitched in his heart.
His original intention was to see if there were any enemies or ferocious beasts in the surrounding area that would pose a threat to the Iron Armored City.
If not, stop the armored city first, turn off the engine and wait for dawn.
In the dark night, the movement of the armored city was too noisy. It was a good thing it didn't go deep into the wilderness, where it might attract large predators.
The 'space radar' detection radius is 7.5 kilometers and the diameter is 15 kilometers. Cities that can threaten the 'Castle' armored city are marked as red dots of the same size as the green dots where the 'Castle' armored city is located. On the map
The larger the red dot, the higher the risk level.
Creatures are marked in orange, non-threatening entities are marked in green, and all metallic motor vehicles are marked in yellow.
"The 'realgar stone mine' was discovered, seven kilometers northwest, with a detected reserve of no less than ten tons. Mining difficulty: easy. It is recommended to dig and mine!"
Li Yinguang was stunned by the detection prompts fed back by the 'space radar' in his mind. He just wanted to detect whether there were any hostile forces around him, and he wanted to turn off the 'Castle' armored city and take a nap, but he did not expect to get an unexpected reward.
"Is realgar ore useful?" Li Yinguang said to himself. Although the 'space radar' showed that mining is easy, realgar powder is a relatively common alchemy material and is not very precious.
The 'mysterious gem' stitched in his heart trembled and reminded: "The realgar ore has absorption value and can be used to refine the 'realgar insect repellent powder', which has a restraining effect on the 'gold-eating rats'!"
Li Yinguang: "..."
Regarding this 'mysterious gem' stitched in his heart, he just wanted to say: It's useful, it's useful, it's really useful!
The location of the 'Realgar Mine' is only seven kilometers away from the 'Castle' armored city. At a speed of fifteen kilometers per hour, you can get there in half an hour.
Thinking of this, Li Yinguang didn't say anything, and directly controlled the "Castle" to drive towards the "realgar mine" marking point.
If it has value, then mine it! This chapter has been completed!