All players: I can choose my own dungeon rewards.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, several hours had passed and it was daytime on the alien planet.

Wang Zhifan spent most of this time patrolling the mine, and sometimes even went to the northern area where other teams were excavating to check out the general situation of the entire mining area.

At this moment, he came to the exit of the mine to count the results of his men's work and made a preliminary estimate.

"According to the current mining data, if everything goes well, we will be able to reach 80% of the total target by the end of the month. This company's targets are really accurate."

After a rough calculation, he found that the mining team he led would most likely complete 80% of the mining targets if they continued in this way, but it could not be fully guaranteed because if an accident occurred, they might fail at the last moment.

"To be safe, it seems we have to use some unconventional tactics."

After thinking about it, Wang Zhifan felt that he had to prepare in advance, otherwise he would be unhappy if he failed at the last moment of the copy.

But just as he was thinking secretly, a member of the security team driving a three-meter-tall combat mecha came near him and reported to him:

"Captain, the nutritional paste distributed by the base has arrived. Please tell everyone when to eat."

"Let's distribute it now... Never mind, I'll do it myself."

Wang Zhifan responded immediately after hearing this. He was not the type of person who liked to prevent his subordinates from eating.

Not long after, he started his five-meter-tall combat mecha for the first time and walked out of the mecha warehouse guarded by robots. Then he brought a large box containing nutritional paste and drinking water supplies for all members into the mecha cockpit, and personally went into the mine to deliver meals to his men.

Of course, the team members guarding outside the mine were the first to obtain their own nutritional paste and had already started eating it.

Wang Zhifan saw that the team members were eating a yellow square nutritional paste wrapped in green paper. They ate it like they were chewing cakes and their expressions were relatively normal, so it shouldn't be very delicious.

But what the miners ate was different. It was a white tube of nutritional paste. When he entered the mine and threw one of them to the elite black old miner, the black old man immediately showed a disgusted look on his face as if he had picked up shit, but he was reluctant to throw away his only nutritional ration, so he could only frown and prepare to force the whole nutritional paste into his mouth.

"Old man! Let me give you a taste of this!"

Seeing this, Wang Zhifan thought to himself how unpalatable this white tube of nutrient paste must be. Even the old man who had worked here for more than ten years couldn't get used to it. He raised his hand and took out a block of nutrient paste for the security team members from the big lunch box, and threw it from his own combat mecha cockpit into the old man's advanced mining mecha cockpit.

"Thank you, Captain!"

The black old man was indeed an experienced miner. He recognized what Wang Zhifan threw to him at a glance. He reached out and picked up the block of nutritional paste which tasted countless times better and began to stuff it into his mouth. As for the tube of nutritional paste he had just held, he threw it directly onto the floor of the cockpit.

"Galka, you have fifteen minutes to eat, enjoy it."

Wang Zhifan immediately reminded the other party and gave the elite miner more time to eat, which was equivalent to giving him a short vacation. This was a special reward for the hard-working miners.

After leaving the location of the elite miner Galka, Wang Zhifan drove the battle mecha to the next nearest location.

Originally there were two young white men mining here, but since Wang Zhifan came over to check the arrangements last time, they were forcibly separated, leaving only one of them still mining here alone.

When the young miner here heard the heavy footsteps of the combat mecha driven by Wang Zhifan approaching, his slightly lazy mining pace suddenly became fast, wanting to give a good impression to the newcomer.

"Stop, Joseph! It's time for you to eat! And don't work hard only when I'm here, the total amount of mining you've done is not deceiving anyone!"

Seeing this, Wang Zhifan threw a tube of unpalatable white nutritional paste and two bottles of drinking water to the miner who was not working properly, gave him a reminder, and then rushed to the next location.

The reason why he wanted to do such small things personally was, on the one hand, to improve the relationship between himself and his subordinates, and on the other hand, to further confirm their work status and make corresponding adjustments.

Before long, he made his way to the depths of the southern area of ​​the mine and found three miners arguing. Two security guards came to mediate, but to no avail.

The core of the argument among the three miners was the amount of minerals they had mined. Two of them believed that they were being taken advantage of by others, that is, the minerals they mined were stolen, but the miners who were accused did not admit it at all.

"Jerry! Which eye of yours saw me steal your ore? I was mining more than 20 meters away from you! How could you not notice if I came to steal it?"

"Asshole Thompson! Don't think I don't know that you are a serious thief! I really don't know when you stole it! But you were the closest to me! It was definitely you who stole it!"

"Yes! He even stole all the ore from my truck! Otherwise the weight of the collected ore truck wouldn't have suddenly dropped by so much!"

"I'm so angry! You are wrongly accusing a good man who has returned to normal life! If you don't believe me, you can check my truck bed. There is no ore you mined in it!"

"Haha! There's no name on the ore! How can you tell whose it is once you have it? You value this fact so much that you resorted to such dirty theft!"

"You three, stop arguing! You'll be punished together for delaying the mining!"

"The captain is here! Let the captain judge for himself!"

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For a moment, the three quarreling miners and the two security guards who came to mediate, all focused their attention on Wang Zhifan who came to deliver meals, hoping that the mining team boss could give them a judgment.

Wang Zhifan was very calm. He waved his hand to stop the three miners from chattering and said:
"It's dinner time now! Eat quietly and don't make any more noise! ​​As for the mining theft, I will make my own decision and will send someone to inform you of the results of the investigation later!"

After saying that, he immediately distributed the nutritional paste to the five people present, and arranged for two security team members to take one miner away respectively, leaving only Thompson, the miner who was believed to be a thief, behind.

After the other two miners left, Wang Zhifan asked Thomson, who looked angry and was listed as a thief in the file:

"Thompson, tell me the truth, you really didn't steal the mine?"

"No! Captain! I swear to God! How could I be interested in a few broken stones? This is an insult to my personality!" Thompson became even more agitated when he saw that the captain also doubted him. It might be because of the acting skills of a habitual thief, or he might really feel that his professional ethics were questioned.

"Well... I understand. Just focus on mining. I will investigate this matter myself and will not wrongly accuse anyone."

After Wang Zhifan expressed his opinion, he left in a hurry without exploring the place for too long.

In fact, this kind of small matter of stealing minerals is nothing to Wang Zhifan. Anyway, the minerals are circulated within the team and do not affect his captain's performance indicators. However, Wang Zhifan suspects that the situation is not that simple and there may be other hidden secrets.

"Based on the workstations of the three miners we just saw, it would be very difficult for any of them to steal the ore...

The ore is very heavy and cannot be moved without the control of the mining mech. And the mining mech is so large that even a deaf person can detect the movement of it. It is impossible for a few miners who have worked for several years to not notice that someone else is driving a mech to steal ore...

So the real situation is very clear. Either these three people are acting together to create an opportunity to slack off, or someone else used special means to steal the minerals and concealed them from their sight..."

After a brief analysis, Wang Zhifan greatly narrowed down the scope of his suspects. The one he suspected most was not Thompson, the former thief, but the two newcomers in his mining team, specifically the two players!

The reason is simple. Only players have all kinds of magical means that can hide from the sight of ordinary miners and take the fruits of other people's labor for themselves without anyone knowing.

Players are also very motivated to do so. In order to achieve the mining goals required to pass the level, they will do everything possible to increase their total amount of minerals.

Of course, not necessarily players from one’s own mining team would do such a thing. If there are players from other teams, such as the No. 2 mining team in the north area of ​​the mine, there is a high probability that they will come to take advantage of the situation.

Therefore, Wang Zhifan distributed the remaining nutrient paste and drinking water supplies while secretly observing the movements in his mining area.

In fact, he had already placed two clones in the mining area to guard it secretly, but the mining area was too large, and his clones had not noticed that outsiders had broken in. His main goal of controlling the clones at the time was to protect several elite miners and ensure production, and he didn't think about this at all.

When he drove his combat mecha past the two white players in his team calmly, he found that they were both operating standard mining mechas and working hard, and they didn't even pay attention to the nutrient paste distributed to them.

He also sent his clones ahead of time to observe secretly and confirmed that they were in the same state when there were no outsiders around. Their work attitude was obviously much better than most of the sneaky NPC miners.

"They look like two common, steady players who tried to mine in the early stages of the dungeon to reach the clearance target... In that case, the thieves are likely from another team..."

After some thought, Wang Zhifan was basically certain that the thief came from outside, which made him come up with a plan he had already planned.

"Haha... isn't it just stealing minerals? It's like anyone can do that... I'm going to steal all your minerals right now!

No...stealing everything is too much of an exaggeration. Stealing half or even a small half is enough. The dungeon will take a long time, so we have to do it slowly..."

After making the decision, Wang Zhifan began to take corresponding actions.

He created a dream clone that looked exactly the same as himself to drive the battle mecha instead of himself, while his real self put on a wind-hiding hat and entered invisible state, and went to the northern area of ​​the mine that he had already roughly explored once.

The captain of the No. 2 mining team, who was responsible for mining the northern area of ​​the mine, was a stern-looking middle-aged white man. His style was similar to Wang Zhifan's. He was used to patrolling and investigating the mine himself, and was ready to whip any miners who wanted to slack off at any time.

Wang Zhifan, who was in invisible state, easily avoided the captain's reconnaissance route, and then began to take advantage of his mining team crazily.

The first person to fall victim to his murder was a novice miner, an NPC teenager who was not very skilled in operating a standard mining mecha. His mining efficiency was visibly low, but his work attitude was still serious.

Wang Zhifan went over to help him upon seeing this, and jumped onto his mecha's cargo box in stealth mode, lightening the burden of the NPC's hard-earned ore. He took away one-tenth of the minerals in the cargo box at once, and put them all into his space ring, which was the modified Poseidon Meditation Ring.

The second group of people who fell victim to his murder were two veteran miners. Their mining stations were very close to each other, so they chatted while mining skillfully and had no idea that an invisible thief had arrived.

Wang Zhifan then mercifully took away one-fifth of the fine ore in their mecha mining warehouse. With their efficiency, they didn't mind the loss anyway.

Later, considering the limited capacity of the space ring, Wang Zhifan reduced the number of times he took action, and his main focus was on finding the players in the mining team.

It didn't take him long to discover that there were at least three players on this mining team.

One of them is a hard-working type. He focuses on mastering the standard mining mecha and works very hard at mining.

One is the bold type who actually fell asleep in the cockpit of the mecha without anyone watching. I don't know how he plans to pass the level.

The last one was the sneaky type. Wang Zhifan sensed that the person he left in the cockpit was a humanoid puppet, who was slowly controlling the mining mecha to do its work, while the real person had disappeared somewhere unknown.

"This man's puppet seems to be quite intelligent. I can't refuse his kindness, so I'll just accept the fruits of his labor!"

Wang Zhifan did not steal the mines from the two players in front of him. After all, players have various means and he might be exposed.

But Wang Zhifan, who was using a humanoid puppet to take over the shift, didn't have to worry about it. He judged that the puppet was rather dull, so he hid his body and jumped into the back of the truck, intending to fill up the remaining capacity in the space ring.

But at this moment, some movements around him that were difficult for ordinary people to detect triggered his perception, allowing him to quietly jump off the mining mecha's cargo box again.

In the mining cockpit, a young player with the appearance of a Xia nationality suddenly appeared next to the humanoid puppet. He casually put the puppet that was working for him into his personal space, then jumped out of the cockpit, came to the back of the truck, raised his hand and poured out many ores of different colors out of thin air.

"Oh my goodness, I actually met someone in the same field... No, he might be the player who stole my mining team!"

For a moment, Wang Zhifan judged that he had met the culprit, so revenge was justified, but he needed to think about how to retaliate.

"This man is probably from Xia Country. It's not a good idea to kill him directly. If he works in the Administration, it will cause great losses. Besides, I don't have much hatred towards him, so I'll give him a taste of his own medicine."

Once he made up his mind, Wang Zhifan immediately took action. (End of this chapter)