The regulations in Base No. 1 are much stricter than those in Base No. 1. Ever since Ning Xiaofan and his party moved into the living area, their scope of activities has been basically limited to this area. Fortunately, the living area is large enough and various facilities are relatively complete, except for a few
There's nothing wrong with being a little bit free.
What's more, Ning Xiaofan's hands are injured, so he is not suitable for strenuous exercise. He most often goes for a walk near his residence. The rest of the time is spent either watching TV to kill time or opening his laptop to play P.
Two days passed in a flash, and many teams arrived one after another, and this quiet living area became more and more lively.
In the past two days, Ning Xiaofan has not seen the little goblin in person, but he did hear that the little goblin was sent to the medical clinic for examination, and the remaining poison in his body was not cleared, and he was still receiving treatment at the medical clinic.
Although Ning Xiaofan didn't like the little goblin very much, he was still a little worried about her. Later, he heard that her treatment was effective and she only needed to rest for a few days to recover, so he felt relieved...
At noon that day, Aunt Xiang received a phone call. She hurried out without even having lunch, and did not return to her residence until evening.
When Aunt Xiang came back, she looked a little tired. After taking a bath, she took an early rest. However, before she returned to her room, she gave Ning Xiaofan a disk and said it was information about the tiankeng and asked him to check it out on his own.
Ever since Ning Xiaofan witnessed the giant tiankeng on the top of Huangtou Ridge, he had always been in awe and curious about the giant tiankeng.
He also asked Aunt Xiang about the giant sinkhole, but Aunt Xiang seemed to have some concerns and always talked to him.
Aunt Xiang seemed to have something to hide. Although Ning Xiaofan was puzzled, she was not so ignorant, so she buried her doubts deep in her heart and stopped asking any more questions.
Now, Aunt Xiang has explained that this disk contains information about the giant sinkhole. When Ning Xiaofan returned to the bedroom, he couldn't wait to open his laptop and put the disk into the drive disk.
Click on the disk file, and first a password box pops up. Ning Xiaofan enters the password according to Aunt Xiang's instructions. With a slight click, a new page pops up. Then, two big words appear on the page - Top Secret.
Seeing these two big characters, Ning Xiaofan's expression couldn't help but become cautious.
I clicked on the next page, and there were rows of text displayed on the page. I glanced at it a few times, and it was about confidentiality regulations.
Ning Xiaofan had been a soldier and was engaged in the dangerous blasting industry, so he was no stranger to confidentiality regulations. However, when he saw the punishment for violating confidentiality regulations, he couldn't help but froze.
According to the general confidentiality regulations, there are only a few types of punishment for leaking secrets, either dismissal, fines, or more seriously, legal sanctions at most.
But the punishment for leaking secrets is a bit shocking. It’s just four words: the leaker will die.
Death? Ning Xiaofan feels a little unbelievable. We are a legal society now. Even if you commit a capital crime, you still have to pass the test of the public prosecutor. In other words, even if Xinao Group is a behemoth with tens of billions of dollars in assets, it does not arbitrarily deprive others of their lives.
Qualifications, right?
Full of questions, Ning Xiaofan clicked on the next page.
There is a picture on the page. The image is easy to recognize. It is a tiankeng. However, the tiankeng shown in the image is not large, with a diameter of less than 100 meters. In this regard, judging from the proportion of several people standing next to the tiankeng,
You can see it.
Shennongjia Tiankeng.
When Ning Xiaofan saw the words in the annotation under the picture, he was startled at first. He was still thinking in his mind that the tiankeng in this picture and the giant tiankeng here are completely different things. They were probably tiankeng elsewhere in Shennongjia.
Then turn the page, and the page still displays a picture. The picture is still a tiankeng pattern. There are still people standing next to the tiankeng, but judging from the ratio of people to the tiankeng, the area of the tiankeng in this picture is much larger.
.Of course, compared with the giant sinkhole, it still pales into insignificance.
The text in the picture annotation is still Shennongjia Tiankeng, but there is an additional data of the diameter of the tiankeng, which says 5 meters.
Then click on the next page, which is still a picture of the tiankeng. The area of the tiankeng seems to be much larger than the previous picture. The diameter of the tiankeng in the picture is 513 meters.
Seeing these three pictures of sinkholes that were expanding in size, Ning Xiaofan had a vague guess in his mind, but he was not sure yet, so he clicked on the page a few times.
Without exception, the pages that were clicked in succession were all pictures of tiankeng, and the data of the diameter of the tiankeng continued to increase as the page was scrolled down. After clicking until the last page of pictures, Ning Xiaofan saw an extremely
Familiar picture - giant sinkhole
Not only that, this picture seems to have been taken at the top of Huangtou Ridge, almost from the same angle of view as Ning Xiaofan.
Is the small sinkhole shown in the first picture the giant sinkhole today?
Ning Xiaofan was a little surprised. How big is a small tiankeng, with a diameter of more than 100 meters? How big is a giant tiankeng? Just by visual inspection, the diameter is probably several miles, right? Could it be that this tiankeng will grow on its own? How is it possible?
Ning Xiaofan was not surprised for long. Soon, the dense text and data on the next page solved the mystery for him.
The Shennongjia tiankeng was discovered in 1919. It was a forest ranger and a local herb collector who discovered the tiankeng at that time.
At that time, the two discoverers did not report the tiankeng to the organization. The discovery of the tiankeng was only circulated locally.
In 19RU, after receiving the news, the Xiangbei Provincial Geological Bureau sent a small expedition team to conduct a preliminary inspection of the Shennongjia tiankeng. Due to insufficient equipment and other reasons, the expedition team only measured the diameter of the tiankeng and did not reach the tiankeng.
bottom.
Exactly 10 years later, that is, in 1990, a scientific expedition team to investigate the savages came to the Shennongjia Tiankeng again, and with the help of equipment, reached the bottom of the Tiankeng, further investigated the geology and formation of the Tiankeng, and found that there are
A cave was discovered at the bottom of the pit. Due to lack of time, logistics, and equipment, the expedition team only went a hundred meters deep into the cave before stopping.
At the end of this inspection, all the information on the inspection of the Shennongjia Tiankeng was submitted to the State Geological Bureau and the Institute of Biology, and attracted media attention.
Five years later, in 1995, with the sponsorship of Xinao Group, the National Geological Bureau, Beijing University, Nature Research Association, Xiangbei Provincial Tourism Bureau, and Xinao Group formed a joint scientific expedition team to enter Shennongjia again and conduct a survey of the sky in Shennongjia.
A relatively extensive scientific research was conducted in the pit.
This joint expedition team once penetrated about one thousand meters into the cave at the bottom of the pit and discovered a large number of stalactites in the cave. They also discovered the existence of underground rivers in the cave, as well as some unknown insects, microorganisms, plants, etc., and brought back a large number of
ore for further study.
Based on this investigation, the joint expedition team reached a preliminary conclusion that the Shennongjia Tiankeng is similar to karst landforms and was formed at least 100 million years ago...
From 1999 to 2001, Xinao Group and the National Geological Bureau conducted 13 inspections of the Shennongjia tiankeng in more than two years.
As of July 2001, the sinkhole collapsed for the first time, and the scientific expedition was forced to stop.
From 2001 to 2007, the tiankeng collapsed at least three times a year, and its area grew rapidly. It was not until April 2007 that the tiankeng stopped collapsing, forming a giant tiankeng with a diameter of 3 miles.
After the collapse of the Shennongjia tiankeng stabilized, Xinao Group invested huge amounts of money in the name of scientific research and tourism development to reach a joint development agreement with the State Geological Bureau, National Tourism Administration, and Nature Research Association. It also went through the Land and Resources Bureau and the State Environmental Protection Administration.
, the National Security Administration went through all the legal procedures and obtained the rights to the long-term inspection, tourism development, and partial mineral development of the Shennongjia Tiankeng.
In March of UR, the Xinao Group successively broke ground outside Shennongjia and near the Tiankeng, and began to establish a scientific research base, which has continued until now...
The giant sinkhole turned out to be the result of collapse in just a few years.
As for why the sinkhole collapsed? There is no further description in the data.
The next page contains information about the construction of the base and the construction inside the tiankeng. It also appends many pictures of the inside of the tiankeng, giving Ning Xiaofan a certain understanding of some conditions inside the tiankeng.
There are not many pictures and descriptions about the internal information of the tiankeng. However, Ning Xiaofan was pleasantly surprised to see the records about gems from the later information.
In this information, the gems that Ning Xiaofan had been thinking about had an official name. It was the same as the one that Fatty had learned from Feng Zijun, the man in Tang suit. They were collectively called Tianling Stone and Earth Spirit Stone, and Earth Spirit Stone was classified according to the era.
For Jurassic stone, chalk stone, new Yuan stone, etc...
However, whether it is a Heavenly Spiritual Stone, an Earthly Spiritual Stone, a New Essence Stone, etc., this information only uses the official name at the beginning, and the following text descriptions are all replaced by the names of gemstones...
The information on gems was relatively detailed. It took Ning Xiaofan more than an hour to read it all. It was many times more detailed than the information he got from Koreans. In addition to text descriptions, there were also a lot of talismans.
Browsing through the pictures was an eye-opener for Ning Xiaofan.
After reading the gem chapter, Ning Xiaofan thought that this information would end here, but he never thought of casually reading it. There is still dense text below.
After Ning Xiaofan lit a cigarette, he continued to browse down. This time, what he saw was not a surprise, but something that made him tremble.
The further he looked down, the more solemn Ning Xiaofan's expression became. He forgot to smoke the cigarette in his hand, so much so that the cigarette burned his fingers, which was when he woke up in shock.
After reading the information, Ning Xiaofan let out a long breath, lay down on the chair, and found that his back was covered with cold sweat. At this moment, he finally understood why the opening chapter of this information included the two words "Top Secret"
Words, why the penalty for leaking secrets will cost life
People die for money, and birds die for food. Ning Xiaofan thought of this famous saying summed up by his ancestors, and a wry smile appeared on his lips. Things had exceeded his imagination. This prospecting trip would be better than he imagined.
