Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 416 Checkpoint in Spiral Mine
The moment his hearing returned to normal, Chen Yan immediately heard the looming "rumbling" sound appearing far away.

With the appearance of this sound, the feeling of weightlessness followed, and what appeared together with the feeling of weightlessness was a strong smell unique to rocks.

There seems to be a strange saltiness mixed in with the smell of the rocks, which smells just like sneezing.

Chen Yan was falling, but the feeling of falling didn't last long - less than a second later, Chen Yan's feet touched the solid ground.

Fortunately, the height of the fall was not high, and he remained vigilant all the time. After exerting some strength when he touched the ground, he finally avoided the embarrassing situation of spraining his feet.

Chen Yan raised his head, and by the dim light of the kerosene lantern, he could only see a deep tunnel made of rocks in front of him. Although the inside of the tunnel was dark, it was not completely dark like in the wilderness. The darkness in the tunnel was not deep, and Does not "swallow" light—

As the situation ebbs and flows, the range that the kerosene lamp can illuminate increases accordingly. Chen Yan roughly estimated that the part that the kerosene lantern can illuminate is about 3 meters. He walked from the left side of the tunnel to the right, and roughly estimated The widest part of the tunnel is about 7 meters.

There are obvious traces of machine grinding inside the tunnel, and the "hexagonal space" presented by the entire tunnel is very regular.

'Here is the tunnel dug by the mining machine underground!We have arrived! '

It seemed that the bald man was a little excited because he finally met something he knew.

'This kind of prismatic mining machine is something that the company does not know where it came from. It is much more efficient than those manual mines on the ground! '

Chen Yan did know that most of the mines in Yanan City still use coal diggers. Although internal combustion engines have appeared in this era, they have not been popularized yet, and there are not many diesel oil wells.

More importantly, the price of manpower is hundreds of times cheaper than that of various internal combustion engines. There is no reason for factory owners not to use cheaper workers.

And this electric mining machine, which is obviously driven by electricity... Where did the technology develop from?

According to Chen Yan's poor industrial knowledge, an electric motor with the same power consumption will consume more valuable resources than a diesel engine. High-power electric motors are not only a symbol of technological progress, but also a sign of sufficiently developed electric energy.

In other words, for the underground Spyro industry, due to the sufficient power supply, they have skipped the era of internal combustion engines, and directly entered the era of large-scale use of electric motors and the significant advancement of related technologies.

In other words, in terms of motor technology alone, the underground Spyro Industry may have reached the level of Chen Yan's previous world...

This is so fucking magical...

Chen Yan still couldn't help asking:
"Pyrot, are you sure this is an electric-powered mining machine?"

Baldy corrected his name very dissatisfied:
'It's Parrett!Yes, I am sure that the power starting device of this thing was modified by the senior engineer of Spyro Industries. The extraction rate and extraction efficiency of the Snake Kiss Rock are quite high, and I have even operated it myself! '

Chen Yan asked:
"Can you find your way out from here?"

The bald man sneered:
'certainly!I'm more familiar with underground mines than I am with my bathroom! '

What a surprise!

The bald man continued:

'This area belongs to the spiral mine area where the electric mining machine is located. There is a checkpoint every 500 meters. We walk up the tunnel and reach the next checkpoint first, so we can know our current location. '

The underground completely lost his sense of direction, and Chen Yan only walked to one end of the mine according to his sense of the center of gravity.

In the first 5 minutes of progress, the kerosene lantern began to flicker on and off.

After another 3 minutes, the kerosene in the kerosene lantern was completely used up, and no drop could be sprayed out. The lights were completely extinguished, and Chen Yan fell into darkness in front of him.

The bald man comforted:
'It's ok!As long as there are no mining machines here, it will be fine!Just go forward! '

Chen Yan scolded:

"It's just luck again! I'm fucking fed up!"

The Skylark-300 has no bullets. Even if it has, it cannot stop the high-power electric mining machine, and that thing is not a supernatural creature.

Not to mention ordinary pistols, they are useless from beginning to end.

'Luck is very important!Before we go to work every day, we have to pray to the goddess of luck, and pray that we will not encounter snakes during the mining process today. '

Chen Yan was silent for a moment before asking:

"Isn't the Snake Kiss Rock a random name? Is it really a rock that a snake has licked?"

The bald man replied cautiously:

'We only know that some kind of secretion from the [Strange Snake] underground can accelerate the [Electrification] of the ore, but what is the principle of the specific process? . '

While speeding up his pace in the dark, Chen Yan said:

"You know a lot."

The bald man proudly said:
'Being a pirate must be well-informed!When I was living in the smokey lake, if I didn't ask anything, I was still on the boat while eating, and I would go to the lake to feed the fish after eating - it was very important to get information! '

Chen Yan continued to move forward in the dark. Because he accelerated his pace and couldn't tell the direction, he bumped into the rock wall several times.

By the time he saw the light in front of him, several small bumps had already appeared on his forehead.

He became angry from embarrassment and started running towards the bright spot.

The light was getting closer and closer, and after a while, the white model house inlaid in the rock wall could be seen.

From the outside, there is no difference between the white model house and the simple small bungalows where the Ayers live in the lower part of Yanan City, except that the traces of rust are more serious, and there are several traces of small water flowing on the roof. Several vertical streaks of rust are formed.

'This is the checkpoint for the miners, it's also the supply station and the medical station, there is usually one or two workers on duty, usually cowardly shrimp people, we can kill them. '

Chen Yan can already see the whole picture of the checkpoint—a model house about the size of a small train platform, located in a sunken rock wall, with obvious excavation marks on both sides of the sunken place, which looks like it was dug out with a mining machine of.

Chen Yan pulled out an ordinary pistol with only two bullets left, loaded the pistol, held it with both hands, pointed the muzzle forward, came to the side of the checkpoint, and looked in through the glass of the checkpoint.

Under the bright incandescent lights, a small console has red and green buttons on and off, while at the other end of the room in the model house, there are a large number of cylindrical white paint buckets piled up.

'See that pile of paint buckets in there?That is the battery of the electric mining machine! '

Chen Yan couldn't see it clearly, so he took a step forward and saw the shrimp man on the other side of the console.

The shrimp people are eating, what seems to be a kind of box lunch.

'what?Is it time to eat now?That should be five hours before the shift change time. The shrimp people at their checkpoint work in two shifts, not as hard as the miners, and they can get off work in 10 hours a day. '

'This place is usually only the workers who operate the mining machines and the on-duty staff, so the door is just closed, but not locked, because there is no need to lock it at all. '

Chen Yan did not see the weapon from inside the checkpoint, so he came to the gate of the checkpoint and twisted the door handle.

"Crack".

The doorknob was easily turned open, and the shrimp man turned his head in a daze, only to see a human pointing a gun at it.

The shrimp man was timid, and he had never seen such a situation even in the Smoky Lake. Seeing the black muzzle of the gun, his legs became weak, and he slumped from the stool to the ground.

Chen Yan glanced at an unopened lunch box next to the shrimp.

When he was at the door of his house this afternoon, Ryan Gamma held a pistol to his chest. He hadn't eaten at that time. After experiencing the thrills in the wilderness and excessive physical exhaustion, he was so hungry that he couldn't bear it. Now he saw the shrimp The box lunch, the pent-up hunger all came out, and I couldn't hold it back anymore.

He kicked the shrimp away with one foot, opened the lunch box with one hand, pointed a gun at the shrimp man with the other hand, and wolfed down the box lunch.

The box lunch is a mixture of beans, rice and fish. Although it is unpalatable and tasteless, it is very finely divided, easy to digest, and very dense. Chen Yan swallowed it in a few big mouthfuls, and he is no longer hungry.

Do shrimp people actually eat this kind of thing... Shrimp are omnivorous, so it doesn't seem too strange to eat this kind of thing.

After he finished eating, he wiped his mouth with his arm and burped comfortably.

After a moment of silence, he took out his wallet from the inside of his clothes, took out three penny coins, went to the shrimp man, and stuffed it into his pocket.

"Your lunch is unpalatable. Three pennies count as your money."

The shrimp man looked at the steel coin in his pocket with incredible eyes, and suddenly burst into tears with a "wow".

Hold the grass, what's going on?

The bald man's voice followed:
'Most of the prawns also had a difficult life. They were born as normal crayfish, and they signed an extraordinary contract with Spyro Industries. Spyro Industries provided them with headless corpses. They owed them money for buying their bodies. The next huge sum of money, damn it, three times the interest of the principal, debts at birth, this life will never end! '

Headless corpses... Chen Yan had long guessed that this kind of mutated shrimp people would not be able to have normal sexual reproduction. Now that they heard about such "corpse trading", they understood how they continued their race.

Chen Yan wanted to express his surprise at this, but he was not so surprised when he thought of what happened to the shrimpman George Lebster in his basement.

'Since they have been vassals of pirates for many years, they will also contact human society and listen to some radio programs. Therefore, under normal circumstances, they should know that this kind of coin is money, and they may have seen it, but not many people have touched it... ...'

The bald man sighed again:
'They are burdened with debts from birth until the end of their lives...'

After the bald man finished speaking, he continued:

'What's even more outrageous is that in the underground caves dominated by Spyro Industries, their debts don't end with the end of their lives, but are passed on to their next generation—

The next generation of shrimp people have to bear the debts of their parents from birth, and also the debts to buy their own bodies, just like this one generation after another...'

Chen Yan's eyebrows frowned, unexpectedly, the situation underground was even worse than that on the ground.

(End of this chapter)