Exiting the workers' basement living area, over the hillside and further south is the base's workstation.
The so-called workstation is actually four simple cement buildings forming a "kou"-shaped square. This square is larger than the mercenary square in the center of the base.
Every morning, countless workers come from the residential area and take the unmanned transport vehicle at the work station to the main mining area 50 kilometers away for a day of work. The transport vehicle is naturally managed and mobilized by the mercenary group, and the ride is not free. A single ride consumes 5 points exchange value.
For workers, if there is no harvest on this day, not only will the train you took be gone, but you will also lose all your money.
The main mining area is located in a sandy field, which looks like a huge sinkhole. Countless workers start from the bottom of the pit, put the excavated sand and gravel into sacks, and walk up and down through the turbid and dirty water. Until you reach the top of the pit, you pour the sack into the basin and sift the sand and gravel over and over again. If you are lucky, you can find dark gold stones. If you are particularly lucky, you can return directly if you find gold sand. .
The people who work here are generally old laborers and child laborers like that "child". Most of them are in ragged clothes and covered with dirt. The long hours of work have turned these people into hunchbacks.
From a distance, this sinkhole looks like ants moving up and down, densely squirming together. People with trypophobia will find this place as scary as hell.
Because this is not a simple labor. Robbery incidents will occur here at any time, killings and bloodshed will occur at any time, mining disasters will break out at any time, irregular plagues, unknown diseases... all of these make the lives of people here like ants, and even Worse than ants.
Living in this place is really no different from living in hell.
It's just that this place is hell in the eyes of the workers, but it is paradise in the eyes of the mercenaries. These workers are working day and night to dig out huge wealth for them. Because no matter in any era of mankind, things like gold and diamonds It is always a luxury product and a symbol of wealth.
It’s strange to say that the components of things like diamonds are pure carbon elements, but their rarity is even more expensive than today’s energy crystal sources. After all, these sandstone ore embryos have been repeatedly smelted, extracted, and processed. In the end, they will all turn into pieces of elegant, luxurious and exquisite jewelry, and then one of them will definitely appear on a certain day in a so-called high-end place where celebrities gather, and be hung on a certain woman's body, shining brightly. She was so radiant that she naturally became the center of attention, because she knew that she was the most beautiful woman tonight...
Maybe she doesn't know that behind her luxurious and precious jewelry and her alluring beauty, there are countless human lives, countless blood and tears, and countless tragic stories.
This world is so strange. Behind the beauty and splendor, the essence is that the uglier and dirtier it is.
The tiankeng is only the periphery of the main mining area. What the workers do is simple back walking and sifting. From the bottom of the pit, three elevators transport the young and strong workers underground. This is the main battlefield of excavation. .
Passages criss-crossing the underground world are as dense as human capillaries. These are dug out by countless workers using the most primitive tools. Anything dug down here can be used as long as it is taken back and certified by the exchange center. To obtain the exchange value, there are mostly batches of crystal source associated ores, and their value is much higher than the peripheral residues.
Therefore, the underground world is often full of disputes. This group of workers may be one group of people, and that group of workers may be another group of people. Different groups of people have their own territory. It is almost impossible for a single-handed worker to work alone here.
thing.
The group Ding Meng and Xiaosi are in belong to the most powerful group down here. The leader is nicknamed Machine Gun. According to Xiaosi’s introduction, Machine Gun has been working here for almost 6 years and is familiar with the various complex terrains down here.
If you know where there are more minerals? Where is there water? Where is easy to collapse? Where are branch roads... The machine gun is as familiar as its own body structure.
It's just that Machine Gun is not a talkative person. In the area under his jurisdiction, every worker must show "filial piety" to him before being allowed to enter. If the Marshal is the most important figure in the ground base, then Machine Gun is this person.
The real boss of the underworld.
Ding Meng admired this very much. He didn't admire Machine Gun for being the boss in this place. What he admired was Machine Gun's patience. If he had lived in this hellish environment for six years, he might have gone crazy.
In the dark and dull underground passage, Machine Gun is standing on a suspension steel bridge. He looks like an iron tower on the bridge. His whole body is solid and stout, and his waving arms are powerful, with a look on his face.
Hengrou looked like he was a violent and cruel guy.
But Dingmeng and Xiaosi must pass this bridge. On the other end of the bridge is a recently discovered mining treasure land. It is said that someone got a cat's eye-sized colored diamond there.
Of course, Ding Meng can see the machine gun, and the machine gun can naturally easily detect them.
"Xiaosi, aren't you sick? Are you getting better so soon?" Machine Gun is not like Vader. He always has the word suspicion written on his face at all times, and his questions are also quite skillful, which not only shows that he
You are very familiar with the flow of people in this place, and are you even testing Xiaosi's "recovery" speed?
To put it bluntly, Xiaosi must have obtained the healing agent at the redemption center.
In this place, everyone fights over one or two nutrient solutions every day, breaking their teeth, but Xiaosi can get it easily, which shows that there are a lot of things to find in the newly developed PC35 area.
Xiaosi obviously didn't have such a deep scheming. Facing the machine gun, he could only nod and bow: "It all depends on Brother Ding, it all depends on Brother Ding."
Ding Meng sighed secretly, Xiaosi is still too honest, and you can't hold your breath anymore with someone's frivolous words.
It's just that it's useless to sigh now. The machine gun's hand is so straight that it's almost reaching his face. Ding Meng also knows that once this hand is stretched out, it will rarely go back empty-handed. If you let him go back empty-handed,
, then he can make you unable to look back even if you want to.
But when he thought of the strange injury on Xiaosi's back, Ding Meng secretly gritted his teeth, took out a green test tube from the bag on his waist, and handed it to the other party.
This is naturally a healing mixture. Machine Gun took it in his hand and tossed it, then shook it, and then showed a satisfied smile: "New here, very good, haven't used it yet."
Ding Meng said calmly: "The boss of Quanmeng Machine Gun took care of it."
Machine Gun waved his hand: "Go in, if anyone dares to cause trouble for you two, then break their legs and say this is what I said to Machine Gun."
Ding Meng and Xiao Si quickly thanked him: "Thank you, Brother Machine Gun."
Watching the two people walking away side by side, Machine Gun's smile suddenly disappeared and he shouted coldly: "Leopard."
As soon as he finished speaking, a person flashed out from the darkness like a shadow, just like a ghost on the rope bridge.
"Brother Gun." This sturdy man named Leopard looked very respectful in front of the machine gun.
Machine Gun said: "Watch these two boys and see which passage they are going to. If you find anything new, report back quickly."
"Yes!" The leopard's figure floated to the other end of the bridge like a shadow.
