There had never been anyone like Xu Yun in the gold mine, so both the Chinese employees and the local miners were completely shocked.
No one dares to confront mercenaries in this gold mine. Even the big bosses of China are very polite to these mercenaries.
This politeness is definitely not hypocritical, but because I have a certain fear of their weapons, so I have this kind of politeness.
Xu Yun pressed the black mercenary and walked straight to the elevator. People next to the elevator consciously moved out of the way and watched Xu Yun open the elevator. Xu Yun didn't hesitate at all and walked in directly.
The elevator in the gold mine descends very quickly. There is a platform one thousand meters underground, which can be reached in just over a minute.
There were only two people in the elevator, Xu Yun and the black mercenary. After entering the elevator, the black mercenary became timid.
"I was wrong, please forgive me, I will never dare to be disrespectful to you again." The black mercenary said: "If you have anything to discuss, you can talk to each tower. Everything we do is his intention!"
Xu Yun completely ignored what he meant and pressed the lift directly: "I will talk to each tower about the problem between me and him, but now it is between me and you."
The elevator began to buzz down, and Xu Yun let go of the black mercenary. The other party wanted to resist, but he was unable to resist Xu Yun.
The elevator soon reached a platform, and Xu Yun pushed the black mercenaries out.
Xu Yun had a certain understanding of the structure of this underground well, so he knew what was inside. But the black mercenary didn't know, and he felt very frightened when he saw the dim light.
Xu Yun pushed him for a few minutes and walked to the next elevator in another tunnel. This elevator was responsible for transporting the miners to the deepest operating location.
There was someone in charge next to the lift, and I was a little surprised to see the two of them.
Needless to say, Xu Yun's aura made it clear that he spoke with authority. The two of them got on the elevator again and began to descend.
The black mercenary's mind was in a mess, and he was really afraid that Xu Yun would let him die here.
Soon they reached a deeper place. When Xu Yun and the black mercenary came out of the elevator again, various thick pipes were fixed on the walls of the tunnel, sending water, fresh air, and wires underground.
Miners, their equipment, and ore are transported in the tunnels by trams. In addition to the rails, the ground of the tunnels is covered with dirty bugs, which is very disgusting.
Amid the din of generators and trams and various other machinery, the miners shouted to each other in the local language. Some miners also carried broken plastic bottles filled with locally brewed wine, sometimes in
Working in a place like this requires a sip of wine to refresh you.
In the mine, horizontal tunnels extend from the central shaft in all directions and enter the mining surface at various depths. The diameter of the main tunnel is seven or eight meters.
The walls and roof are made of a reinforced concrete structure, and the steel bars are firmly fixed to the surrounding rock.
But the closer you get to the active mining face, the harsher the environment becomes. The aisles become narrower and narrower, and miners have to bend down to pass, with their headlights constantly scraping against the top of the aisles.
In the end, everyone could only lie on the ground and crawl forward on their knees. The dim light fell on the stairs leading to different alleys, looking like the entrance to hell.
There was a lot of dust in the air, and rust-colored sewage seeped out from the cracks in the walls...
The working environment in this place is definitely the worst working environment in the world.
However, the miners who mine gold in this place receive extremely low wages. Some of them even only need ten dollars a day to do it.
On the continent of Africa, this kind of cheap labor may be the richest thing.
On the mining face, when the tunnel reaches the end, the ore body appears, and gold ore is mined in these places. The thickness of the ore layer may range from a few centimeters to one or two meters.
The exposed mineral layer has a smooth surface, is wrapped with quartz stone, and is mixed with spots of pyrite. Although this stuff looks like gold, it is what miners call "fool's gold."
The real gold ore is hidden among the darker stones. These ores will be blasted by miners into pool table-sized stones, transported to the ground through transportation rails, and then processed and crushed by workers on the ground.
things, and then they need to be refined.
Only if the process is solved step by step, will it eventually become the underground vaults of major banks, or become the "escape chain" in the necks of some local gangsters.
The thicker the gold necklace, the better it can pay back the money when these gangsters are in trouble, and it can be used in case of emergency when they run away, so it is called "running chain".
The black mercenary was a little confused. Xu Yun pushed him into the workers and said, "You have to work in here for twenty-four hours, and then you come out."
"What?!" The black mercenary was stunned at that time. What kind of request is this?
"It's okay if you don't want to do it. If you don't accept the punishment, I will let you die quickly now." Xu Yun challenged.
The black mercenary's legs went weak. He knew very well that he couldn't defeat Xu Yun.
One advantage of mercenaries is that they are particularly self-aware and will never show off to those they know they cannot defeat.
"This is your punishment. From now on, as long as you mercenaries don't respect me, I will send them in!" Xu Yundao said: "You'd better work hard. If I hear anyone say that you are lazy,
Just continue for another twenty-four hours, and I will not let you come up until you have a five-star reputation."
"Then what should I eat?"
Xu Yun spread his hands: "Whatever, I wonder if the big cockroaches here are super high-protein food."
"I..." the black mercenary was completely speechless.
Xu Yun pointed at the mining worker: "Learn from him and quickly find an air drill and start working! Don't let me see you so bored again."
The black mercenary had no choice but to obey the arrangements. He also took the air drill in a decent manner and started to walk slowly towards the mining area, then crawled over with a low waist, all the way to the mining surface.
Miners use hand-held air drills to drill small holes with a diameter of two or three centimeters on the surface of the ore layer, and then fill the holes with ammonium nitrate-based explosives. Then, ground personnel determine that it is safe before remotely blasting.
When drilling and blasting deep underground, what people need to overcome most is the high heat and increased rock stress.
In general, engineers in large mines will find ways to transport a large amount of cold water to the bottom of the mine every day, and then pump it back after the water temperature rises.
The air conditioning system pipes located thousands of meters deep underground circulate more than 500 liters of water per second. In order to reduce the amount of water consumed in the cooling process, engineers also used ice cubes.
But this process still consumes a lot of electricity, so small gold mines will not use this method to cool down workers.
Many people think that Africans are very heat-resistant and can still work even if the temperature is close to 50 degrees.
In addition, slowing the stress in the rock has proven to be much more difficult than maintaining the right temperature in the mine. There are so many large and small earthquakes caused by underground blasting in Africa that seismologists from all over the world often travel to Africa.
Some mines collect data that can help them understand earthquakes.
The deeper the miners drill and blast, the greater the stress created in the rock. Additionally, as large amounts of ore are removed, the remaining rock is put under tremendous stress.
After the accumulated stress reaches a certain level, the rock will explode violently and suddenly release the energy. This process is as fast as a tightened bowstring rebounding. Those working on the mining surface will hardly survive.
So it goes without saying how dangerous this place is.