Doomsday Totem

Chapter 327 Mining Area
"Boss Lu, you're doing well." Tie Slag grinned and said.

"Brother Tie, you've become a big shot, so don't laugh at me." The fat man shook his head and said.

After the two old friends met each other, they sat down on the sofa in the living room.Afterwards, Tie Slag asked Ju Amu to call Hillman Hiros. After all, they were both from the central part of the Northern Wilderness. Even if they didn't know each other, they could still be regarded as fellow villagers.

After a while, the four of them opened a bottle of wine and asked the chef of the restaurant to deliver some meals. They gathered around the tea table while drinking and reminiscing about the old days.

During the dinner, Lu Shanhai talked about the past three years ago...

At that time, Tie Slag entrusted him to contact the head of the Xiros family, saying that a No. 17 noble girl from Yincheng was lost and wanted to find someone to take her home.Although he agreed with all his heart, but because his status was too low, he couldn't contact Layton directly, so he had no choice but to find the young master Hillman.But when he went to Hiros Manor, he heard Steward Song say that Hillman had gone to Northwest City.He had no choice but to take another step back and explained the reason, wanting Butler Song to introduce Layton on his behalf.But Butler Song disagreed, saying that there was no need to bother the master with such a trivial matter, and just let Butler Song handle it.At that time, he didn't know what was going on, so he obsessively agreed.Unexpectedly, that guy was bought by the NO.13 Yincheng people long ago...

"Do you know who that noble girl was?" After listening to the fat man's narration, Hillman took a sip of his wine and asked with a smile.

"Who else can it be? Isn't it just a little nobleman?" The big fat man asked back.But as soon as he finished speaking, he found that Tie Slag and Ju Amu were both smiling and looking at him without saying a word.He frowned immediately, recalling carefully...

"Hmm... milky white skin, dark brown pupils, silver hair..." Thinking of this, he seemed to have captured something, but he couldn't remember it.

"Who is the owner of this fortress?" Seeing the fat man frowning and racking his brains, Hillman suggested.

"Silver-haired...silver-haired nobleman...silver-haired... Lombard..." Thinking of this, the big fat man couldn't help shouting, "Princess of the Temple!" As soon as he finished speaking, he opened his mouth in horror.The next moment, I saw cold sweat pouring out from his broad forehead, dripping down the flesh of his face.

"Brother Tie, save me..." It didn't take long for the shrewd fat guy to figure out the link, and then begged Tie Slag.He reckoned that Iron Slag's status today was bestowed by the temple princess.

"The past is over, but..." Tie Slag comforted, then changed the topic, and added, "It is said that she holds a grudge..."

"Brother Tie, I was wrong. If you want to blame, you can blame the young master of the Hiros family. He is so dishonest. Why did he go to the Northwest?" The fat man hurriedly shirked.

"Hey, hey... my friend, don't blame me for the mistakes you made yourself." Hillman said with a serious face, pushing the big fat man.

"Anyway..." Tie Slag glanced at them and concluded, "It's all about you two."

"Brother Tie, don't..." "What does it have to do with me!" The fat man and Hillman shouted at the same time.

Seeing this, Ju Amu laughed foolishly...

About half an hour later, the four of them had drunk to a certain extent, and they were all a little drunk. The big fat guy took the opportunity to pull the iron slag, and said sincerely: "Brother Tie, you are a big shot now, just take care of your brother and give me more." Let’s do business.”

"What do you want to do?" Tie Slag asked casually.

"Didn't your mithril mine run out? Leave the dismantling work to me, and I promise to make it beautiful for you." The big fat man said, patting his chest.

"Okay, as long as you can do it, I'll give it to you." Tie Slag said generously.

"Thank you Brother Tie, thank you!" The big fat man said seriously with a frown on his face.

Tie Slag has always been a man of his word. After drinking, he waved and said, "Let's go and see the silver mine."

After leaving the office, Iron Slag and Hillman each put on power armor, and then Ju Amu drove the four of them out of the castle and headed towards the silver mine.

After driving on the road on the cliff for a while, the road gradually narrowed and the street lights became more and more sparse.A moment later, as the last street light went away, the whole world was left with only the light from the headlights of the jeep and the dots of light on the cliffs.

Endless darkness is the true face of the bottomless abyss.

More than ten minutes later, there was a burst of mechanical roar coming from the front.After a while, the jeep pulled into a junction.Looking around, I saw a steel structure factory with tall chimneys built on the steep slope of the cliff ahead.At this moment, in the dim light, the chimney was belching black circles of black smoke.That is the ore refinery belonging to the Fortress of the Thinker.

"Brother Tie, since you're here, let's go and have a look." The fat man suggested, pointing to the factory not far away.He planned in his mind to visit the factory and see if there was any suitable business for them.

"Okay." Iron Slag said bluntly.From childhood to adulthood, Lu Shanhai can be said to be his good friend second only to Lao Niu. Although he is not as reliable as Lao Niu in his work, he has a lot of weird ideas, and the big fat guy has his own way of dealing with the world. He is a rare talent.Now that he has a corresponding status, he might as well support his old friends more so as to lay the foundation for his future.

A few minutes later, the jeep pulled through the gates of the refinery.As soon as the current factory manager heard the visit of the very popular person in charge of the Thinker Fortress, he rushed out with all the management and greeted them in person.

Then, surrounded by the factory manager, technical director, safety director, financial director and others, Iron Slag and other four people walked into the refining workshop and started to visit.

"This is the mithril ore calcination furnace..." The factory manager pointed to a large furnace surrounded by more than a dozen workers, busy up and down, "Here, the mithril mine will carry out the first step of separation, remove Impurities such as silicon are removed, and the heat generated by the furnace will be transferred to the distillation room..." The factory manager pointed along a heat transfer pipe to a steel boiler several meters high, and said, "The distillation room will carry out the processing of the Lingshi mine. Secondary dissociation, forming crude liquid psionic energy..." Then, the captain followed another relatively small pipeline, pointing to a smaller iron container and the oil tank next to it, as well as the workers who were packing and transporting. He continued to explain, "Due to the high toxin content of the crude liquid psionic energy, it has to be transported back to the biochemical pharmaceutical factory in the Central Continent for microbial dissociation before it can be used to make special agents..."

after an hour……

After visiting the workshop, the four of them came to the office of the factory.After some explanations from the factory manager, Iron Slag learned that only rough machining can be done here, the main purpose of which is to reduce transportation costs.After all, the journey is long and the road is full of dangers, so the ore can only be initially refined, reduced in size and weight, packed and transported back to the world of Silver City for further processing.

After introducing the situation of the factory, the factory manager took out a few pieces of mithril ore that were dark on the surface but shone with silver light under the light, and showed them to Iron Slag: "Master Wilderness Knight, look, these mithril ores The quality of the mithril is getting worse and worse, and the content of mithril is getting lower and lower. If I guess correctly, our mithril veins will be exhausted within two months. Therefore, we must mine new mines as soon as possible, otherwise There will be a breakdown in the production of the factory; as a result, some workers will have nothing to do, and the overall efficiency will decline, but these workers are not easy to dismiss. After all, there are not many skilled workers who are willing to work in the abyss, and it is more difficult to hire..."

After listening to the situation report, Tie Slag nodded, expressing that he understood.Then he got up to say goodbye, took people out of the factory building, got into the jeep and went to the silver mine to inspect the situation.

About four to ten minutes later, Tie Slag and others came to the Mithril mining area along the rugged mountain road.The person in charge of the mine received them in person, and pointed to the several kilometers of mine caves on the cliff and introduced: "This is a landslide area, where stones are mixed with soil, and a large number of I-shaped steel bars are needed to prop up the mine caves, so as to be able to move forward." dig deeper."

Then, he pointed to some dimly lit mines and said, "Most of these mines have been exhausted, and some of them still have some tailings. After the full mining is completed, people will be asked to recycle the I-shaped steel bars for use in the next mine." point."

"What is the density of the soil here and the rate of abyss collapse?" After the person in charge of the mining area finished speaking, the fat man continued to ask.The former immediately looked at the iron slag with a questioning gaze, and after getting the consent, he replied: "The density is [-], and the abyss collapse rate is [-] per ten thousand."

"The landslide rate is very low." The fat man couldn't help sighing.

"It's not too low for the mining area." The person in charge of the mining area frowned and said.A landslide rate of [-] per [-] means that [-] to [-] skilled miners will die every year.

Realizing that something was wrong with his words, the big fat man immediately laughed, patted his big head and said, "I'm sorry, those of us who dismantle abandoned mines are not so sensitive to the rate of landslides." Hearing what he said , The person in charge of the mining area immediately shook his head and said modestly, "I don't know that you are engaged in the demolition of the mine area. I misunderstood it. I should be the one to say sorry." You must know that the dismantling of abandoned mines is more dangerous than mining.A little carelessness, the entire demolition team will be buried alive inside.This is not only a technical job, but also a desperate job, and its danger is no less than fighting on the battlefield.

Next, Iron Slag asked the person in charge of the mining area to take the fat man around to learn about the situation here, and ordered: "The follow-up demolition work will be taken care of by them."

"Obey, my lord." The person in charge of the mine, who was dressed in overalls with suspenders, had dark skin, and a yellow miner's lamp helmet, bowed deeply to the iron slag and responded.

"Doo...Doo...Doo...Doo...Doo...Doo...Doo..."

Not long after the fat man and the person in charge of the mining area left, Iron Slag's communicator suddenly rang.The voice was connected, and Jerome's steady voice came from inside.

"Boss, the outpost of the Dawn Expeditionary Army found a trace of a red abyssal demon, and I ask you for advice on how to deal with it."

"Wait for me to go and have a look." Iron Slag replied, then hung up the voice, let Juamu stay in the Mithril mining area, and Hillman was responsible for driving, and drove to the coordinates of the outpost sent by Jerome.

(End of this chapter)