Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 465 [Chapter of Hidden Abyss] Nine: Industrial traces 2000 meters underground

There is no pier for ships to dock in the Omega sector.

The docking place of the speedboat is not the land, but an abandoned steel processing factory——Chen Yan saw a large abandoned furnace hidden in the dark. There seemed to be traces of industry sprouting here, but due to various uncertainties, Cause, the sprouts wither quickly in the dark.

The speedboat docked in the damaged casting tank of the steel processing plant. This thing looks like a place for cooling high-temperature cast iron. Now it has been corroded and dilapidated by the water. Half of the casting tank has been immersed in the water, and the other above the water surface Half of it is just enough for a slender ship to dock.

After entering this water area, Chen Yan vaguely heard the thumping sound of iron and steel colliding with each other in the distance. The sound was very regular, about once every 10 seconds.

After the speedboat came to a complete stop, the passengers disembarked one by one, and the boss of the shrimp boat said to the passengers:

"The next shift is still stopping at the steel slag factory, but I don't know about the next shift. Recently, the Omega sector has been in the limelight, and the Home of Wandering Soul doesn't like us having too much contact with the Omega sector. The number of flights can be reduced.

If everyone misses the next shift, go to the assembly place to find Liang Baye, he knows our shift. "

Chen Yan asked:

"Where can I find Mr. Liang Ba?"

The boss of the shrimp boat replied:

"You just find a miner and tell him "Drink soda at 23:[-] this afternoon". If he can understand, he will take you to find Mr. Liang."

This……

The elder brother patted Chen Yan on the shoulder:

"Don't worry, Mr. Liang is very easy to find. There are people from Wandering Soul's House everywhere. As long as you can find one, you can follow to find Mr. Liang."

Talking... It sounds like this Baye Liang seems to be some kind of intermediary?Or a broker or something?
The boat boss explained:
"Baye Liang is one of the businessmen between the Wandering Soul's Home and the Omega Sector assembly place. He has a wide network of contacts. No matter what problems you have, you can just find him."

The elder brother joked in a low voice:

"Without a cancer like Master Liang, Wandering Soul's House will have a headache."

From the meaning of this, the House of Wandering Souls obviously needs to rely on the miners in the Omega sector to survive-although the Home of Wandering Souls was established by the wandering souls who tore up the contract, they must rely on the flow of miners to provide support for the surviving city. Bring life.

The elder brother called Baye Liang a "cancer", obviously because the broker would charge a certain amount of "intermediary fees".

Purely from the title of "tumor", Liang Baye should have collected a lot of agency fees.

Chen Yan never stopped recording on his cell phone. He was going to keep the cell phone recording in order to record all the clues of this strange living environment underground.

The boss of the shrimpman boat sailed away, and the miners who landed could only be illuminated by the searchlight on the miner's hat.

In the dim field of vision, the hollow space inside the "Steel Slag Factory" emerged in the not-so-bright beams of light from the searchlights. Chen Yan looked up at the steel dome that was almost 50 meters above the ground. It was hard to imagine that the Spyro Industry How to build such a thing underground.

'Spyro Industries has had a great time. '

Baldy Parrett spoke in Chen Yan's chest pocket.

'They were just a group of hard-working people who could only live by fishing. They had to worry about the next meal to survive every day, and they were always alert to other invaders that would appear on other islands in the smoky lake. '

He seemed very emotional.

Chen Yan didn't know his past, so he didn't understand where his emotions came from.

’ Their original intentions were very small, and they didn’t even want to go back to the ground—they just wanted to build a habitat underground, where they could have enough food, establish complete rules, and shelter themselves from harm. '

'Since when did things change...'

Baldy fell silent, Chen Yan didn't want to expose the fact that he had such a "helper" as Baldy, so he didn't ask about what happened back then.

The miners who got off the ship walked straight along the workshop road of the steel slag factory. After about 5 minutes, they had already left the steel slag factory workshop and formally entered the operation area of ​​the Omega sector.

The field of vision suddenly opened up.

The Omega Sector is more than several times larger than the Alpha Sector that Chen Yan has been to in terms of horizontal area, but the "rocky sky" above the Sector is not as high, and there is no such huge "sun" as the Alpha Sector for lighting.

When Chen Yan left the steel slag factory, he saw that the ceiling of the steel slag factory was about 50 meters, which had already touched the top of the "rocky sky" of the Omega sector—the whole steel slag factory was like a star "caught" in the Omega Sector of rusty steel walnut inside.

Looking forward, the telegraph poles deep in the rock wall attracted Chen Yan's attention:
The reason why there is a bright view here is because there are a large number of cement poles inserted in the surface of the sector and the rock wall on the top.

These cement poles are completely different from the "iron rod poles" in the Beta sector where the Wandering Soul's House is located, and the "lighthouses" on the surface as poles, but they look seventy percent similar to the poles in Chen Yan's previous life.

The third difference is that there is a large incandescent bulb bound by a spherical iron cage at the top of each utility pole.

The continuous star-like incandescent light bulbs illuminate a large area of ​​the Omega sector. Although the pale color makes people panic, it is better than the poor vision provided by the searchlight on the miner's hat. .

With the help of these lights, Chen Yan saw more complex and dense wires than the Wandering Soul House in the Beta Sector. The wires piled up on each pole can no longer be described as "a mess".

Chen Yan thought, these wires look exactly like a thousand wires with a thousand knots tied to each other.

Seeing Chen Yan staring at the utility pole, the elder brother smiled and said, "You're silly, this is really not something that ordinary electricians can repair. You're new here, so be careful."

Chen Yan asked: "How do you say?"

The elder brother pointed to the cement utility pole inserted into the rock wall not far away, and said: "Squads with mining machines usually have their own electricians, who can get electricity from the utility poles, and the utility poles inserted in the ground are equivalent. It’s the charging station of the mining machine.”

Chen Yan thought, wouldn't it be quite troublesome if the mining operation team didn't have an electrician.

He thought again, the mining machine is so expensive, if it is not equipped with on-board maintenance personnel, it will be a very embarrassing situation once it breaks down underground and cannot get out.

It seems that the "electrician" in the underground is not the same as the "electrician" that Chen Yan understood before. Not only must he be able to repair circuits and connect power, he must also be able to repair small and medium-sized machinery.

The old man continued: "Look at so many electric poles, as long as the lights on them are on, it means that there is electricity, and it can be used, but it is not guaranteed to be a safety hazard. I often heard that electricians were electrocuted to death. Hey, an electrician's life is worth a little more than the average person's life underground."

Chen Yan nodded, and looked at the ground of the Omega sector along the area illuminated by the telephone poles.

Where the light barely shined, several "railroads" of different styles intertwined and meandered. Chen Yan rubbed his eyes before he was sure that what he saw was indeed a real "railway", but the differences between the different styles of railways were a bit big ——

The older ones can be clearly seen as old-fashioned railways used by large steam locomotives. These railways have complex structures, from ballast beds, concrete sleepers and wooden sleepers, to bolts, steel rails and connecting parts. It can be seen that a lot of money was spent in the original construction. strength.

But now, these old railways are obviously abandoned, the sleepers are incomplete, and many parts of the track have been removed to make room for the new track.

Some newer types of "railway" are similar to the embedded rails used by steam buses in Yanan City. The rails themselves are embedded in the concrete floor. They seem to be still in service, but they are obviously rusty.

The latest style of "railway" has a very simple structure. It is only composed of a wrist-thin "iron rod", which is suspended half a meter from the ground. At first glance, it is impossible to see that it is a railway. Not far away, there was a shuttle mining machine driving along this "iron rod", and it suddenly realized that this thing turned out to be some kind of railway!

The spherical Tungus made a sound that only Chen Yan could hear from the backpack:

"Hey, look silly, let me tell you, this thing is high-end, the shuttle mining machine on the iron rod is moved by magnetic force! This is also a new thing made by the pirates, and the speed is very fast.

The disadvantage is that the safety is not guaranteed. If any part of this thing breaks and the shuttle mining machine rushes out of the track, it will inevitably end in annihilation. "

It seems that because he came to a place he was familiar with, the spherical Tunguska was not as scared as before, and he talked more.

In addition to these three kinds of railways, there are many industrial products in the illuminated Omega sector in front of Chen Yan. He clearly saw some dilapidated processing factories, and the lights on the utility poles illuminated those factories. In some corners of the city, rows of lathes and large machinery testify to their former prosperity.

Looking at the ruins of the factory under the pale light, Chen Yan thought to himself that such a large-scale factory is enough to form a barely complete industrial system. It stands to reason that even if it is not managed well, it will not be completely turned into ruins.

However, there are ruins and ruins in sight. Large walls are scorched and dilapidated, as if they had been burned by fire. Outside some factories, there are mountains of dilapidated small machine tools. A variety of small biological gathering places that like acidity and alkalinity.

The factories were clearly vandalized by violence.

What ever happened to them?
The miners who disembarked from the boat were heading towards the assembly point in the center of the Omega sector without stopping. According to my brother, the steel slag factory where they disembarked is not far from the center of the Omega sector. It can be reached in 15 minutes.

The enthusiastic brother noticed Chen Yan's curious eyes looking at the ruins of the factory, squinting his eyes with a look of reminiscence:
"Thanks to these places, there is the Wandering Soul's Home..."

(End of this chapter)