The Witch's Taste

Chapter 151 The Sword of Damocles

The shadow was enough to cover half of the starships in Extreme North City, and it slid across the sky like a dark cloud, which naturally alarmed almost all the residents of the city.

In less than half an hour, everyone received text messages on their mobile phones:
"To all the citizens, the Dijing Group invited the Bacht Group's mining ship to come to the star area for mining resource development. Its mining ship arrived at the sky above Extreme North City at 2:42 pm today. Please do not be overly alarmed."

So the online discussion quickly turned to "what are mining ships for".

Of course, if you are not a member of the system, you naturally don't know the concept of "sending text messages to the whole city"... It means that the officials got the news of the mining ship definitely not much earlier than the citizens.

Relying on the public security department's network of contacts, Chen Zi'ang quickly learned that the huge monster above his head was indeed a mining ship, and that it was indeed contacted by Dijing Group. The only problem was that he hadn't communicated with the authorities in advance.

Although the report has been filed, the registered mining ship is also a mining ship, but how can there be such a large mining ship?Are you kidding me!
Regarding this incident, Dijing Group, a local mining giant, expressed its innocence, claiming that they did not know it was "a mining ship of this tonnage".

The cause of the incident is simple: around June this year, Dijing Group and Bacht Group, as business allies, reconciled their accounts in the middle of the year, and found that the mineral transaction volume in the first half of the year was particularly small.

This is not a surprise: after decades of long-term mining, most of the mineral resources on the surface of Gaotianyuan planet are close to exhaustion, and the mining cost of deep crust minerals has risen sharply. The group is also unwilling to mine at a loss, so it is still going around in surface mineral sources, which naturally affects its trade share.

The two parties have been negotiating on this matter for several years, and neither side is willing to make concessions. However, the report in the first half of this year is too ugly, so the Bacht Group proposed a new plan—using their newly developed mining ship.

What is a mining ship?It refers to the space starship that specializes in mining asteroids.They will roughly drill holes in asteroids, insert giant professional mining equipment deep into the surface for crushing, and then use conveyor belts to pull massive amounts of gravel out to filter minerals... Since this mining technology can be used on asteroids, it is also natural It can be used to colonize planets, and can effectively solve the problem that mineral deposits are located too deep.

The reason why it is not widely used is that this kind of mining is too destructive to the surface.It’s fine if no one lives on the asteroid. If the colonized planet does this, whether it’s noise, dust or other environmental pollution, it will seriously affect the nearby colonies.

But Gao Tianyuan is a special case.Because it is extremely far away from the star, most of the planet's surface is no man's land, extremely cold, and only the north and south poles with abundant geothermal resources have colonial cities.

After calculation, the Bacht Group believes that as long as the mining site is limited to the area near the equator between north and south latitudes of 27.6 degrees, the damage to the environment caused by deep mining will not affect the extreme north city and the final south city at all.

As for the nearby remote villages and towns, considering that most of the mining families are employees of the Dijing Group, the group can move out the employees collectively, creating an experimental exploration environment for the mining ships of the Bacht Group.

Things are roughly as mentioned above, and it should have been just an ordinary business cooperation development.

But it wasn't until Bakht's mining ship arrived in Extreme North City that everyone realized that this thing was not a serious mining ship at all-this ship was too fucking big!

Comparing it with the warships of the human empire, its volume even exceeds most of the battleships, so it is difficult for people not to suspect that it has some military uses.

It is said that the military has made serious representations, requiring the mining ship to leave the atmosphere and dock in outer space immediately, and ask the military to send commissioners to board the ship for inspection to confirm that it does not carry any equipment with suspicious intentions.

The request was rejected by the Bacht Group. The two sides are still in a stalemate, and Dijing Group is actively mediating among them. It is said that it has initially persuaded the other party to drive the mining ship out of the atmosphere and stop on the outer orbit of the planet... because This ship is really too big, there is no berth available for berth at Star Port, so it can only be allowed to "find a parking space by itself".

By 9:[-] a.m. the next day, the Bacht mining ship had left the atmosphere of the plateau, and then carried out an orbital hover.

After Chen Ziang arrived at the unit, he looked out from the office and could see a round white object hanging in the distance, like a smaller moon.

This thing... reminded him of the "Sword of Damocles" in myths and legends.

It is said that a certain ancient lord had a favorite named Damocles. He flattered the lord and said, "You are so lucky to have power", so the lord proposed to exchange identities with him for a day.

Damocles enjoyed the feeling of being a lord very much, but when he was having a banquet at night, he suddenly found a sharp sword hanging above his head with only a single horsehair, and he was frightened to the point of shit.

There is such an unknown thing hanging above everyone's head, it is like Damocles under the sword, it is really hard to let people feel at ease.

I can only hope that the military will find out as soon as possible.

He sat back at his workstation, turned his head to look at Tsukimiya Suzuna's empty chair, could only take a deep breath, and after calming down, he began to deal with the recent backlog of work.

Now it is approaching the end of the year, and all major units are summarizing the materials needed for year-end reporting.Although Xia Qingyu is the kind of leader who doesn't like trivial matters, and usually doesn't ask to write daily, weekly and monthly reports, but the fifth department is still under the intelligence bureau's system, and it's too outrageous not to even have a year-end report.

Therefore, she quickly made a decision that all leaders would make: let the supervisors write their own year-end reports and hand them in, and then pick and piece them together.

The pressure came to Chen Ziang.As we all know, the key to the year-end report is not "what I did", but "how well I did it".

Fortunately, the influence of Xichuan Meihui's incident has been completely subsided now, and there have been no ghoul mutations for two consecutive weeks, so this report is not impossible.

Chen Ziang thought for a while, and quickly drew up a year-end report discussing field work from four directions. Just as he was about to start making an outline, Xia Qingyu's news came again:

"come over."

Having been with this beautiful snake leader for a long time, Chen Ziang has also discovered some of her habits. For example, when calling a subordinate, the fewer words used, the more urgent the situation is.

"Come to my office" means ordinary cases; "come" means urgent cases; "come" means urgent cases.

Therefore, seeing Xia Qingyu only sent two words, Chen Ziang also became a little nervous, wondering if it was Seiko Takahashi who started to move again?

The last time we talked about "no action during the mid-term elections", now that the mid-term elections are over, the other side will naturally continue to pursue...or more precisely, hunt down.

After knocking on the office door, Chen Ziang pushed the door open and went in. He saw Xia Qingyu standing in front of a big blackboard with his hands behind his back.

There are a lot of symbols and marks written on the blackboard, which seem to be some kind of logical relationship or social relationship, anyway, it is the kind of thing that cannot be understood without explanation.

"Chen Ziang." Xia Qingyu didn't turn around, but continued to stare at the blackboard, saying:
"Have you ever heard of an occultist?"

(End of this chapter)