Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 466 [Chapter of Hidden Abyss] Ten: Black Paradise

Anyway, now that there is nothing to do but hurry, Chen Yan humbly asks about what happened in these factories.

My brother told Chen Yan that about five or six years ago, when Spyro Industries first came to the Omega sector, they found that the place more than 2000 meters underground not only had sufficient air, but was not as cold as the other three sectors— —

In the Omega sector, people don’t even need to wear thick miners’ uniforms, they only need to wear short shirts to keep warm. To use the words on the ground, it is “like spring all year round”.

In addition, people found that under the green light of the ubiquitous Snake's Kiss Rock in the Omega sector, there are perennial woody plants growing in the land here-people found an unnamed Trees and vines!
In other words, crops are likely to grow in the land of the Omega sector!
People tried to plant, and the result was harvested in less than two months.

At that time, the employees were almost all pirates from Smokey Lake, and most of the pirates were desperate people who had nowhere to go because they were expelled from Yanan City—new immigrants, peasants, workers who could not find jobs, bankrupt businessmen, and exiled criminals. aliens with language barriers, demi-humans who were expelled from Yanan City, a small number of shrimp-men, crab-men and murlocs that appeared due to the mutation of the underground environment...

Their situation is so bad that it can't be worse. They are already content with having a job to make ends meet. How could they expect such a "livable" place to appear?

Everyone at that time believed that the Omega sector was a gift from the gods.

In the few months after the discovery of the Omega sector, with the help of tens of thousands of people working day and night and the large machinery of Spyro Industries, a city was built based on the useless black marble in the Omega mining area.

The majestic city gives people an infinite sense of security. The two-way transmission channel leading to the Alpha sector in the city provides a steady stream of supplies. Pieces of tube buildings have sprung up in the city like mushrooms after rain.

However, within half a year, there were people first, then a city, and then residential buildings, shops, hospitals, police stations, stadiums, water purification plants, water towers, and even 24-hour hot water...

After so long adrift on the Smoky Lake, people finally have a home.

Half a year later, when facing this majestic city, people found that they had never thought that there would be a paradise at the end of hell.

A miracle happened, so the city got its name:

【Black Paradise】.

The senior executives of Spyro Industries were sensitive to people's enthusiasm for this place, so in the next two or three years, in order to stimulate the miners to work hard, they helped the miners to carry out a large amount of infrastructure construction, in addition to entertainment facilities and living facilities. In addition to supporting light industry production plants, they also built a large number of heavy industry factories that can make the Omega sector self-sufficient according to the wishes of the miners.

Even the mining machine production workshop originally located in the office building has been moved here.

In those two years, the production capacity of the Omega sector was ridiculously high, the miners received a lot of salary, the company's top management was very happy, and the surface forces that finally got the Snake Kiss Rock to generate electricity were also very happy.

Also in those two years, a large number of technology companies appeared in Yanan City, which received a large amount of electricity supply, and the top of the entire social structure rose rapidly.

"Brother... how do you even know about the surface? You... someone in the company?"

The old man smiled:
"We're just miserable miners, we don't know anyone, and we can't go to the surface."

"The reason why I know this is because there was an internal strife within the company at that time, and an insider revealed all the affairs of the company's top management-the reason why we worked so hard to mine underground was to give The forces on the surface provide the Snake's Kiss Rock, allowing the surface to develop."

"The big guy thought at the time, no, if Yanan City is stronger than before, wouldn't we see no hope of returning to the ground at all?"

"The [Black Paradise] at that time was a good place, but it couldn't be better than the surface. Who wouldn't want to go back to the surface and take another look at the sun?"

"The inner ghost also told everyone that the power on the surface has expanded and more electricity is needed. We will provide more snake-kissed rocks to the surface from now on."

"Since then, the amount of work the company is asking the big guys to do is not right."

"It was also from that time that people always died in the mines in the Omega sector, some were poisoned to death by poisonous gas, some were bitten to death by monsters in the darkness, but most of them still died of overwork."

"Everyone finally felt something was wrong, but it was too late."

Once a large capital machine such as a technology company is in operation, it will face unlimited expansion, and the basis of all expansion is electricity.

Coal-based thermal power plants are too inefficient, and according to the "inner ghost", the electricity needed by Yanan City at that time has become in short supply due to the emergence of a large number of technology companies.

Once the supply of Snake-Kiss Rock is stopped, the technology companies on the ground will face the danger of "stopping production". Such a danger is not wanted by the bigwigs who control these companies.

The only ones who bear the pressure of ore supply are miners.

The workload in the Omega mining area began to increase day by day, and the pressure from Spyro Industries was very high. Some miners couldn't bear the pressure and began to flee to other sectors—even if they didn't want the high treatment of the Omega sector, even if they didn't stay in a livable area. Black Heaven doesn't want to squeeze his own life anymore.

Whether it is for Spyro Industries or for the major companies on the surface, the reduction in the productivity of the Snake Kiss Rock ore is catastrophic.

As a result, the pressure was applied layer upon layer, and when it finally fell on the miners, it had become a mountain—overnight, the Omega sector was closed, all food was distributed in limited quantities, and the living environment was completely determined by performance appraisal. The heavy firepower supervisor team airborne the Omega sector!

Miners can only dig down!

There is Snake Kiss Rock underground, and Snake Kiss Rock is life!
At that time, when the miners went deeper underground, they came into contact with a layer of "grave layer". The tomb layer was full of Snake Kiss rock rich ore, and the ore was densely packed with finely divided corpses of strange snakes.

Something like this is obviously not right, but the company even issued the task of continuing to dig on the grounds of "higher power generation efficiency"!

Huge fear, survival pressure and the strangeness of the underground have imposed a lot of fear on the miners. The rising death rate and intermittent bizarre haunting events finally broke the fragile nerves of the miners at a certain point in time.

The miners finally understand that this is not home.

Despair after dashed hopes crushed almost everyone's hearts, and the miners gathered in groups and lit a fire underground.

"A lot of people died at that time..."

When the elder brother said this, even his voice became much lower.

"Human life is so fucking worthless... At that time, the overseer team took a machine gun, stopped at the passage leading to the Alpha sector, and started shooting..."

"The desperate miners can only pour out their desperate anger on the underground buildings. They finally understand that they are the property of the company, and they want to destroy them all, so that the company cannot continue mining operations. gone."

"Ha, what a beautiful idea..."

Even though the elder brother said that, there was sadness in his voice.

He looked towards the ruins of the factories under the pale light.

"Well, later on, the Omega Sector became like this."

"Human life is worthless. After the pirates in the smoke lake died, didn't they add shrimp and crab people later? The waterways in the underground cave area are full of these things, and they just sell the bodies of dead miners to them. Let them sign contracts with the company and become new miners.”

The old man cursed.

"Damn it, those monsters can give birth to more than us, hundreds or even thousands of them per litter! You can't finish killing a few with nothing to do!"

Chen Yan heard that brother's words were a joke.

"However, I heard that due to the serious pollution of the water source, shrimp people, crab people... and murlocs are not as productive as before, and the number is slowly decreasing now."

"The Omega sector seems to be cursed, whoever comes and who dies..."

The old man finished complaining and smiled:

"Don't be too pessimistic. It's the same wherever you live. Maybe if you spend a few years in Yanan, you might not be as good as underground."

"After that wave of people died back then, the company also knew how powerful the miners are. No, the treatment is much higher than before - 5% of the value of the ore dug out every day is taken as a share! This was unimaginable before. OK!

At least ten times higher than the previous salary, right?

Before, it was pure work, and there was no salary at all. "

This old man is a bit inconsistent, Chen Yan understands him very well, even Chen Yan himself is like this, he is unsatisfactory at work, he is more ruthless than anyone else when he complains, and he has to work when it is time to work.

Chen Yan asked:

"According to the current sharing ratio and work intensity, how long will it take you to pay off the money you owe the company?"

The elder brother smiled and spit out the truth:

"In another 20 years, when I am 50 years old, not only will I be able to pay off the money owed to the company, but I will also be able to save money for my wife and I to use for our retirement."

The old man sighed:

"Pity my ugly wife. I can't help you with raising the child alone."

After the elder brother finished speaking, he glanced at a certain track next to him and said:

"I'm here. Our team is working in this area. Be careful on the road."

After bidding farewell to his brother, Chen Yan and the team members continued to move forward, but within 2 minutes, a dilapidated city appeared in sight.

The city is semi-enclosed, and the three walls that have completely collapsed prove the majesty of the place. The only city wall sandwiched between the top rock wall and the underground concrete is already full of potholes. There are lights flickering on the city wall, as if it has been built. It became something like a watchtower.

There are crowds of people under the city, various types of mining machines are scattered in the parking lot within sight, and there are constant shuttle mining machines going to and from the "iron rod" track between the Alpha sector.

The "iron stick" track starts from the assembly point and penetrates upwards into an artificial cavity on the rock wall at the top of the Omega sector. Presumably the other side of the cavity is the Alpha sector.

Under the track, on the other side of the mining machine station—the other corner of the city, a giant iron and steel crusher more than 20 meters high, like a monster with fangs, is constantly rolling over the raw stones of the Snake Kiss Rock thrown into it. Every time it rolls, Then there was a sound of steel colliding, and a huge tongue of flame emerged from the top, reflecting everything in the field of vision like daytime.

This is the original [Black Paradise].

After being burned down, a new stronghold was built on the ruins, named [Assembly Place].

(End of this chapter)