Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 439 Past Events in the Center of the Earth ([-]): Darkness Without Boundaries

Chen Yan sorted out what had happened in the underground over the years in his head, and felt that there were still doubts in some places.

He doesn't have enough information to speculate on the correct answer:

For example, the mystery of the origin of the city of mountains, such as why there are two different cities of mountains, such as where did James Parrett's technology beyond the times come from...

Even before what happened underground, there were still some temporarily unanswerable questions:

What kind of experiments did the graduates of the generation of the University of Midland do on the [crack] leading to the world of brass pipes; how did the director intervene in it, and what were the consequences of the intervention; Even though the experiment failed, he still went to the other side of the rift. What is the [New World] he went to...

After a brief silence, Chen Yan said to it:
"You just said that you are familiar with the underground, right?"

Spherical Tungus sneered, subconsciously replied:

"I'm more familiar with the Omega Sector than I am with the garbage dump in Yanan City!"

It felt wrong after it finished speaking, and immediately became vigilant:

"But now there is a problem with that place, and we can't go down for the time being."

Chen Yan uttered slowly:
"Oh?"

It noticed Chen Yan's gaze on it, which was exactly the same as when the North Bureau and the pirates saw it for the first time.

It knows it has to explain itself.

"Didn't I just say that after I helped the pirates earn their first pot of gold, they bought a lot of large-scale mining equipment and dug to a depth of several thousand meters underground."

"When I was still in the Alpha sector a few years ago, mining operations were easy, because the Alpha sector was the closest to their supply station in the underground lake, and the supply was easy. Even if there was an accident, it could be dealt with in time."

"The Alpha Sector itself is a big hole. I guess it used to be a big snake's den, because there is a strong smell of big snakes."

"The rich ore in the Alpha sector is almost dug, and they will continue to go down."

"When the Beta sector is dug, the mineral veins are not as dense as the Alpha sector. It is necessary to dig out very complex and deep mine tunnels in order to mine enough Snake's Kiss Rock."

Chen Yan listened carefully, because he was always thinking about underground mines.

The unowned mine veins are there, so why can't I dig them when pirates can dig them?
With this in mind, while listening to the incident, Chen Yan quit the laptop app and turned on the phone's own recorder.

The spherical Tungus carefully watched the change of Chen Yan's face, and what made him despair was that he had seen the change of Chen Yan's face countless times in the past—every time the pirates discussed how to maximize the value of the Snake Kiss Rock, It was such a serious face.

It is very anxious, because the ghostly place underground is really not accessible to people now, the situation now is completely different from that of many years ago, and going down now is courting death!
It must completely explain this matter to Chen Yan, and dispel his crazy thoughts caused by greed—the most important thing is not to bring it!

“They changed the mining strategy so the beta sector doesn’t have as big a hole as the alpha sector, the whole beta sector is like…”

Spherical Tunguska described:

"Ant holes! Like complex termite caves!"

"They were just a group of pirates who didn't understand anything at the beginning, and opened mines everywhere, causing the entire Beta sector to be dug into an ant hole that was unobstructed everywhere. Therefore, there were countless mine collapses in the Beta sector that year, and many people died. Too many shrimp people and crab people..."

"Fortunately, the bodies of those weirdos can be reused, so they recycle the intact bodies and sell them to mutated shrimp and crabs that need their bodies, making them their employees... They say they are employees, but in fact they are no different from slaves in essence. , the money they owe them will last for several lifetimes!"

"Going off topic..."

Spherical Tunguska cleared his throat:

"The Beta sector will die soon. It doesn't mean that there are no mines to dig, but it is too dangerous. The dead people exceed the limit they can bear. So now, most of the Beta sector has almost stopped. Mining operations have ceased, and only two mine veins that have been confirmed safe still have mining machines going in and out.”

The idea of ​​spherical Tunguska became clearer and clearer, and Chen Yan also had a clear understanding of the underground sector of Spyro Industries.

"The beta sector has become like this. Although they have no choice but to continue digging down."

It pauses here.

"I heard... just heard, I don't know the specific situation... After a large number of mining disasters occurred in the Beta sector, they didn't plan to continue digging, because they made enough money, even with the money , go to the surface to buy a house, do nothing, only collect rent, and live a comfortable life.”

Chen Yan immediately said:
"Impossible. They can't stop. If they don't mine, what will happen to the big electricity users on the surface? Whether to continue mining is no longer something they can decide."

There are only two thermal power plants in Yanan City, but those high-tech companies in the upper urban area are relying on electricity to survive. Their companies have established a series of supporting facilities based on electricity. If there is no electricity, it will be equivalent to ruining their business. foundation.

Spherical Tungus was a little surprised by his guess:

"This is indeed the case... They were already planning to stop production at that time. That night, a big man came to the ground and didn't know what he said to James Parrett. The miners resumed work the next day."

"Since production cannot be stopped, then continue to dig down."

"But mining is getting more and more difficult, especially in the gamma sector - the gamma sector is different from the previous two sectors. The rock formation here is very loose and very wet... …as if the interior of the rock formation has been infiltrated by groundwater throughout the year.”

"When mining in the Gamma sector, I am not afraid of digging poisonous gas, but I am afraid that the water channel will suddenly collapse—I remember that when the underground water channel was dug and collapsed in the Gamma sector for the first time, the flood washed away a full three Only a team of miners, the groundwater flowing out of the cracked channel almost filled the entire gamma sector at that time."

"The months of hard work of tens of thousands of miners went to waste."

"But they couldn't stop, James Parrett became very violent after that, and the regulation of the miners became stricter, although he changed the wage system to make it more radical and reasonable... But the shrimp people I have no place to spend the money I made with the Crabman."

"The gamma sector was already very large at that time, and it was impossible to empty the water in the sector, so they thought of a way, spent a lot of money, and manufactured an underwater mining machine, directly in the gamma sector work in an underwater environment.”

Chen Yan interrupted here:
"How did they make it?"

Spherical Tunguska said:
"I don't know either... It seems to be conjured out of thin air. James Parrett has always had this ability. They seem to believe in some evil god and claim to the outside world that as long as they pray to the evil god, they will be blessed—this kind of nonsense , anyway, I don’t believe it.”

When it said this sentence, the logic was completely messed up, and the words were confused, which was completely different from the clear thinking when describing other things before.

Chen Yan had reason to suspect that it was lying.

The wish that has been listening carefully also said:
'This little thing is really smart... don't rush to cook it, wait and see what it has to say. '

Chen Yan didn't ask any further questions, because ordinary questioning obviously couldn't tell the source of the pirates' technology from Tungus the Ball, so he had to find a way to make him tell the truth.

Spherical Tunguska didn't notice Chen Yan's doubts at all, and continued:
"It was also at that time that they discovered that the underground space was much larger than they had imagined, like an upside-down funnel.

At the top of the funnel is the smallest alpha sector, slightly lower down is the slightly larger beta sector, and then the larger, flooded gamma sector. "

"With underwater mining machines, they are able to do mining operations underwater."

"But the efficiency is much lower than before, because the Snake Kiss Rock itself is charged. Once the mining machine leaks—this kind of thing happens from time to time—the entire mining machine will be scrapped, and the driver's life will also be taken. ——Training a driver is very costly and time-consuming.

Although they are not short of money, they cannot afford to waste time. "

"They can only go deeper, and pray that the deeper underground is not all areas that are flowed by waterways."

"The process of advancing is difficult. They cannot dig directly at the bottom of the water, because it will cause the water to flow downward and submerge the new mine tunnel dug."

"They can only use a modified amphibious mining machine in the area where the water level is low in the gamma sector to conduct exploration on the rock wall at the edge of the sector, trying to open a new mine tunnel that goes down."

"Hey, they really found it later - at the edge of the gamma sector, they found a passage leading to a deeper underground space - this time is different from the previous situation, the passage they discovered was not through the mine It’s not connected by machine, but it already exists there.”

"The channel that was discovered at the beginning, on the surface, looks like it was made by man. I don't know how many years it has existed there."

The spherical Tunguska suddenly let out a strange laugh.

"Hey……"

"Isn't it very strange, how can there be traces of human activities in the place thousands of meters underground?"

"They didn't know, and they didn't get to the bottom of it. They only needed ore."

"Then for about two years, they spent a lot of money to build a mining machine passage from the Alpha sector to the fourth underground floor, and countless miner teams swarmed into the fourth sector—the current Omega sector."

(End of this chapter)