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"Oh my god... Each employee only has 4 hours of rest time every day? Even black-hearted capitalists can't be so evil!"

In the lobby on the first floor, Wang Zhifan felt a little nervous when he heard the base commander in front of him announce the great progress plan for all employees starting from tomorrow morning.

It’s not that he personally couldn’t bear such high-intensity working hours, but he doubted whether the 100 miners and 20 security captains under him could hold on.

If these people were to die of exhaustion because their work was so inhumane, his team's monthly death quota would surely be exceeded. How would he be able to clear this dungeon then?

"Let's take a look at the specific situation first. If this elder Ji is stubborn and wants to make trouble for others, then we have to use some means to deal with him."

After thinking about it, Wang Zhifan remained calm on the surface, but he had made up his mind in his heart that he would never let any individual interfere with his completion of the copy.

Thus, in the lobby on the first floor, the month-end summary meeting ended quickly with the angry words of the base commander.

The white old man in a black suit didn't speak for too long before ending the meeting and leaving in a hurry. He was slightly different from Wang Zhifan's impression of those superiors who were addicted to meetings.

"Won't this old guy give us captains another small meeting?"

Originally, based on his personal experience, Wang Zhifan predicted that after the general meeting, the base commander would hold another internal meeting with the captains of their subordinates who were each in charge of more than a hundred people. However, the result was not the case at all. He vaguely felt that the status of his so-called security team might not be as high as he imagined in the base.

Just as he was contemplating this slightly subtle matter with his eyes narrowed, a white youth wearing a blue security uniform and holding a gun came quickly behind him and asked in a low voice:
"Captain, where should we send the miners next? Should we go back to the dormitory to rest first or go directly to the mining area?"

After hearing this, Wang Zhifan glanced at him standing beside him and said calmly:
"How long is it until midnight?"

The security team member immediately raised his hand and glanced at the electronic watch on his wrist, and quickly replied:

"Captain, there are less than two hours left."

"Then arrange for the miners to go back to the dormitory to rest first. Remember to let those who haven't eaten enough eat, and then go back to work on time in the early morning."

"As ordered!"

After communicating with Wang Zhifan, the security team member immediately turned around to inform other team members and began to skillfully organize the 100 prisoner miners in the team to leave the first floor hall in an orderly manner.

Almost at the same time, most of the other miners' teams in the hall also began to evacuate, with only a few remaining to be lectured by their security captains.

In the gradually empty hall, the contrast between the stern-speaking superiors and the silent prisoner miners gave people a sense of militarized corporate management.

"According to the transcript, these miners should all be criminals, but at a glance, I haven't found any particularly conspicuous troublemakers among them. The collective discipline is pretty good. I guess the security team is not lenient in their daily management."

Wang Zhifan did not leave the hall immediately. He observed silently for a while before preparing to leave to collect more necessary information.

Unexpectedly, a security captain who had just finished training his team suddenly walked towards him and waved to him. He must be an acquaintance of his.

"Captain Wang, why didn't you leave? Shouldn't you be digging into the mine with your children at this time of the year?"

The man who came was a rare yellow man among the 16 security captains. He looked to be around years old, dark, thin and capable. From the nameplate on the chest of his captain's uniform, it can be seen that his last name is Qian and his name is Aaron.

"Haha, we have to give our subordinates time to rest, right? Aaron, do you think that old man is crazy? Starting next month, he will only let people rest for 4 hours a day. Who can stand this?"

Although Wang Zhifan didn't know the security captain in front of him at all, he understood that the other party knew him as a potential arrangement of the copy, so he pretended to be very familiar with the other party and started chatting with him.

"Who says it isn't?"

As expected, the thin and capable captain named Qian Yalun deeply agreed with what Wang Zhifan said. A hint of annoyance flashed in his eyes, and he continued:
"I heard that the old man was severely criticized by his superiors in the communication today. It was said that he was scolded so much that he went crazy and came up with this rule!

We should not mess with him for the time being. After a few days, when his anger has subsided a little and he realizes that this rule cannot last long, we can unite and talk to him. There should be a good chance that he can restore his working hours to their original state."

"That's right! That's what I was planning too."

"Hey? Where did you get the long sword hanging on your waist? It looks pretty good! It must be expensive! Why haven't I seen you carry it with you before?"

"This is my heirloom. I used to put it in the cabinet. Today I plan to let it breathe more."

"You're quite particular! But you have to be careful with this stuff. Be careful that some miner steals it and sells it to the store to exchange for alcohol. The store owner is a bastard who doesn't recognize his relatives..."

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The two continued talking for a while, and Wang Zhifan subtly inquired about some information he needed to know, such as the location of the mining area, his office and resting place, and the potential dangers of this job. Then he and Qian Yalun parted ways and went about their own business.

"It turns out that the minerals mined now can be counted towards the upcoming next month's performance. No wonder most of the mining teams have already started working in the mining area... But it doesn't matter. Miners have to rest. It doesn't mean that starting work early will only bring benefits."

Through a conversation with Qian Yalun, Wang Zhifan had learned most of the content of his work indirectly, and understood how unique it was that he had just asked his mining team to go to the dormitory to rest.

"So what's the difficulty of this instance? Forcing the miners to work hard to mine? This shouldn't be a big problem for me... I guess it will involve combat in the end...

Qian Yalun also said just now that there are many ferocious alien creatures on this prison planet. In the past, many miners and security team members were eaten by them as rations...

The miners are also not easy to deal with. They would riot from time to time. Some security guards were killed or maimed by them, but we can't kill all the troublemakers because the higher-ups won't accept the loss of their human and property resources."

While walking towards the captain's office, Wang Zhifan was thinking in his mind, making the most basic summary and judgment of the situation in this copy, so that he would have an idea of ​​the possible situations he might encounter.

He initially deduced that the difficulty of this dungeon should not be very high, and compared with the disaster dungeon he had experienced before, it was probably just child's play.

After all, how dangerous could a prison planet with few permanent residents and only prisoners forced to mine be? Could the monsters on this planet be powerful enough to master the laws of time and space?
Not to mention the prisoner miners, except for the players who sneaked in, Wang Zhifan felt that their physical fitness was not much different from that of ordinary workers on Earth. Without hot weapons in hand, it was hard to say how strong their combat power was. "It seems that the extraordinary game has accepted the existence of my bug and has given up on targeting me... I hope my idea is not naive."

With some divergent thoughts, Wang Zhifan spent the next hour in his captain's office, specifically, searching for public information on the computer in the office.

This undoubtedly greatly enhanced his understanding of his environment, as well as his job responsibilities and rights.

For example, he learned through public information that the K54 prison planet where he is currently located is a planet exclusively owned by the Kaibo Interstellar Group.

Legally speaking, spacecraft from any other organization are not allowed to land without authorization, and even approaching for exploration will be considered an offense and will be expelled or even attacked by the K54 Prison Planet's global orbital protection fleet.

Wang Zhifan also found relatively detailed information about the natural conditions of the K54 prison planet itself. To his surprise, he discovered that the conditions on this planet were actually not that bad in terms of various indicators, and could even be called habitable.

Its global average temperature is close to 30 degrees Celsius, water resources are slightly scarce but not difficult to obtain, the atmospheric oxygen content is about 20%, there is no excessive toxic gas content, and the gravity coefficient is only 1.1g. Except that the ferocious creatures on the planet are a bit difficult to deal with, there are no major survival difficulties.

But the Kaibo Interstellar Group has set this place up as a prison planet, only allowing interstellar criminals to come here to mine and suffer, creating some benefits while achieving the purpose of labor reform.

Instead of purely from the perspective of creating profits, the use of large-scale mining robots is a waste of resources.

The mining base where they are currently located is the only mining base on the K54 prison star indicated in the computer data. Although it does not appear to be small in scale, for a huge interstellar group like Kaibo, the industrial value is so small that it can be completely ignored.

However, the top management of Kaibo pays close attention to this place and strictly controls the performance indicators of every employee at the base. No one can sit back and do nothing.

Once a base employee behaves lazily and refuses to change after being warned, soldiers from the orbital garrison fleet will come down and take him away, allowing him to experience the humanitarian spirit that the Kaibo Interstellar Group is famous for throughout the universe.

In addition to this macro-level information, Wang Zhifan also learned about the various configurations in the base.

He discovered that except for the miners and security team members, most of the other staff in the base were cyborgs, that is, non-natural people with control chips in their bodies.

These cyborgs are completely controlled by the group's AI system, and together with some robots, they maintain the basic functions of the base.

That was why Wang Zhifan discovered that most of their group was not present at the previous meeting. The reason was that they did not need to be present, and the so-called base commanders had no control over these cyborgs.

In terms of basic living conditions, in order to be consistent with the prisoner reform function, the base only meets basic survival requirements.

For example, the prisoners’ free rations consisted of only the lowest-grade nutritional paste, which was nutritious but tasted disgusting.

If the prisoners want to improve their lives, they have to spend their meager wages to buy food from the base store, where there is food that is more in line with normal human tastes.

Apart from food, prisoners are mostly only allowed to wear the uniform black and white striped prison uniforms.

I wash my clothes when I have free time, and I take a bath when I am free.

They live in a large dormitory with multi-layered beds, which is monitored by surveillance cameras and guarded by strict robots.

It is generally unwise to cause trouble in the dormitory, as you will be electrocuted by the robot guards and your whole body will smoke.

In comparison, prisoner management personnel such as security team members are treated better.

First of all, the nutritional paste that the security team members eat is more humane. It has richer nutritional elements and tastes more normal. There are several different flavors to choose from, and you can tolerate it for a long time once you get used to it.

Then the beds in the security team’s collective dormitories are more comfortable, and there will be no blind-angle surveillance and robot guards, so they will feel much freer and more comfortable when resting.

Captains like Wang Zhifan even have their own private room with a separate bathroom, giving them maximum personal privacy.

In addition to the basic living conditions, the team members also have a special training room where they can practice their marksmanship and arm mechas in their spare time, or simulate battles with some native ferocious creatures, as long as the team member really has the free time and motivation to train.

As for other equipment such as mine-exit prisoner vehicles, medical staff, etc., the base also has no shortage of them.

But these relevant personnel are cyborgs or robots, so the security team generally does not need to worry about them. They can just call for help when they are needed.

"The planning of this mining base is really strange. The technology level is advanced enough to enable unmanned and highly efficient mining all over the world, but they insist on torturing people in this way. Do they really expect to reform the prisoners in this way? This train of thought is really hard to understand."

After digesting the public information in the captain's office computer, Wang Zhifan had a lot to complain about but no one to talk to.

Seeing that it was almost midnight, he left and went through all the key locations in the base.

After walking around the base himself, he found that it was much larger and more complex than what was shown on the data map. If it weren't for the route guides everywhere, it would have been easy to get lost.

After a while, he saw that it was almost midnight, so he went to the large dormitory where his 100 miners were located. At the same time, he notified his 20 team members on his communication watch to assemble and get ready.

He found this communication watch on his office desk. Together with a captain's uniform, personal nameplate, combat mecha control panel, captain's whip, captain's pistol, and captain's rifle in his office cabinet, he is no longer the captain who was disguised with invisible clothes before. He is now a genuine captain's full set of equipment that can withstand any inspection.

But just as he was about to reach his destination, a female figure suddenly emerged from a passage blocked by a metal isolation door and blocked his way.

She was about 25 years old, a yellow-skinned woman of average appearance, wearing a black and white striped prison uniform and had a calm expression. Wang Zhifan had an impression of her. She was a player miner from another team.

"Sir, I think you are a player... I want to cooperate with you."

The visitor seemed to have seen through Wang Zhifan's identity and spoke directly as soon as he appeared. (End of this chapter)