Chapter 416 Checkpoint in the Spiral Mine

The moment his hearing returned to normal, Chen Yan immediately heard a faint "rumbling" sound appearing far away.

With the appearance of this sound, a feeling of weightlessness followed, and together with the feeling of weightlessness, there was a strong smell unique to rocks.

The smell of the rocks seems to be mixed with a strange salty smell, which just makes people sneeze.

Chen Yan was falling, but the feeling of falling did not last long - less than a second later, Chen Yan's feet touched the solid ground.

Fortunately, the height of the fall was not high, and he always remained vigilant. After using some strength when touching the ground, he finally avoided the embarrassing situation of spraining his foot.

Chen Yan raised his head, and through the dim light of the kerosene lantern, he saw in front of him a deep tunnel made of rocks. Although the tunnel was dim, it was not completely dark like in the wilderness. The darkness in the tunnel was not deep, and

Will not "swallow" light——

As the situation waxed and waned, the range that the kerosene lamp could illuminate increased accordingly. Chen Yan roughly estimated that the area that the kerosene lantern could illuminate was about 3 meters. He walked from the left side of the tunnel to the right, and roughly estimated that

The tunnel is about 7 meters wide at its widest point.

There are obvious traces of machine grinding inside the tunnel, and the "hexagonal space" presented by the entire tunnel is very regular.

‘This is the tunnel dug by the mining machine underground! We are here!’

It seemed that the bald man was a little excited because he finally met something he knew.

‘This prismatic mining machine is something that the company got from nowhere. It is much more efficient than those artisanal mines on the ground!’

Chen Yan did know that most mines in Yanan City still use coal diggers. Although internal combustion engines have appeared in this era, they are not yet popular, and there are not many diesel oil wells.

More importantly, the price of labor is hundreds of times cheaper than the price of various internal combustion engines, so factory owners have no reason not to use cheaper workers.

And this kind of electric mining machine that is obviously powered by electricity... Where did the technology develop from?

According to Chen Yan's poor industrial knowledge, an electric motor with the same power consumption consumes more valuable resources than a diesel engine. High-power electric motors are not only a symbol of technological progress, but also a sign that electric energy is sufficiently developed.

In other words, for the underground Sparrow Industries, due to sufficient power supply, they have skipped the era of internal combustion engines and directly entered an era of widespread use of electric motors and significant advancements in related technologies.

In other words, in terms of motor technology alone, the underground Spyro Industry has probably reached the level of Chen Yan's previous life...

This is so fucking magical...

Chen Yan couldn't help but ask:

"Parrot, are you sure this is an electric-driven mining machine?"

The bald man corrected his name with dissatisfaction:

'It's Parite! Yes, I'm sure that the power starting device of this thing has been modified by senior engineers from Spyro Industries. The extraction rate and efficiency of the snake-nosed rock are quite high. I have also operated it myself.

!'

Chen Yan asked further:

"Can you find your way out of here?"

The bald man sneered:

'Of course! I know the underground mines better than my bathroom!'

What a surprise!

Baldy continued:

'This is the spiral mine area where the electric mining machine is located. There are checkpoints every 500 meters. We go straight up the tunnel and reach the next checkpoint first, so we can know our current location.'

Completely losing his sense of direction underground, Chen Yan only followed his own feeling of the center of gravity and walked towards one end of the mine.

At the fifth minute of advance, the kerosene lantern began to flicker on and off.

After another three minutes, the kerosene in the kerosene lantern was completely used up, and not a drop could be sprayed out. The light was completely extinguished, and Chen Yan fell into darkness.

The bald man comforted:

‘It doesn’t matter! As long as there are no mining machines here, it will be fine! Just move forward!’

Chen Yan scolded:

"It's just luck again, right? I've had enough of this!"

Skylark-300 has no bullets left. Even if it does, it can't stop the high-power electric mining machine. That thing is not an extraordinary creature.

Not to mention ordinary pistols, they are useless from beginning to end.

'Luck is very important! We pray to the goddess of luck every day before starting work, and pray that we will not encounter snakes during today's mining process.'

Chen Yan was silent for a moment and then asked:

"Isn't Snake Kiss Rock a random name? Is it really a rock licked by snakes?"

Baldy replied cautiously:

'We only know that some kind of secretion from this [strange snake] underground can accelerate the [electrification] of ores, but what exactly is the principle of the specific process? The company's high-level laboratories have also been studying it, and no definite results have been obtained yet.

.'

Chen Yan quickened his pace in the darkness and said:

"You know a lot."

The bald man said proudly:

'Being a pirate must be well-informed! When I was living in Smokey Lake, if I didn't inquire about anything, I was still on the boat when I was eating, and after eating, I had to go to the lake to feed the fish - it was very important to get information!'

Chen Yan continued to move forward in the darkness. Because he accelerated his pace and could not tell the direction, he bumped into the rock wall several times.

Until I saw a light in front of me, there were already several small and medium-sized bumps on my forehead.

He became angry and started running towards the light.

The light got closer and closer, and after a while, the white model house embedded in the rock wall could be seen.

From the outside, the white model house is no different from the simple bungalows that the Aier people live in in the Xiacheng District of Yanan City, except that the rust marks are more serious. There are several traces of small water flowing on the roof. On the front of the model house

Several vertical rust marks form.

'This is a checkpoint for mining machines, as well as a supply station and a medical station. There are usually one or two workers on duty, usually cowardly shrimp people, and we can take them out.'

Chen Yan could already see the whole view of the checkpoint - a model house about the same size as a small train platform, located in a sunken rock wall. There were obvious excavation marks on both sides of the depression, which looked like it was dug out with a mining machine.

of.

Chen Yan pulled out an ordinary pistol with only two bullets left, loaded the pistol, held it with both hands, pointed the muzzle forward, walked to the side of the checkpoint, and looked in through the glass of the checkpoint.

Under the bright incandescent light, red and green buttons were constantly blinking on a small console, while at the other end of the model house, a large number of cylindrical white paint buckets were piled up.

'Did you see the pile of paint buckets inside? Those are the batteries for the electric mining machine!'

Chen Yan couldn't see clearly, so he took a step forward and saw the shrimp man on the other side of the console.

The shrimp man is eating, and what he eats seems to be a kind of box lunch.

‘Huh? It’s time to eat now? It should be five hours before the shift change time. The shrimp men at their checkpoint work in two shifts. They are not as hard as the miners. They can get off work in 10 hours a day.’

'Usually only the workers who operate the mining machines and the attendants come to this damn place, so the door is just closed but not locked, because there is no need to lock it.'

Chen Yan did not see the weapon from inside the checkpoint, so he went to the door of the checkpoint and twisted the door handle.

"Click".

The door handle was easily turned open, and the shrimp man turned his head in confusion, only to see a human pointing a gun at it.

The shrimp man was already timid, and he had never seen anything like this even in Smokey Lake. When he saw the black muzzle of the gun, his legs became weak and he collapsed from the stool to the ground.

Chen Yan glanced at the unopened lunch box next to the shrimp man.

When he was in front of his house this afternoon, Ryan Gama held a hand cannon to his chest. He didn't eat at that time. After experiencing the thrills and excessive physical exhaustion in the wilderness, he was already so hungry that he couldn't bear it anymore. Now he saw the shrimp man's face.

After lunch, all the pent-up hunger surged out and could no longer be contained.

He kicked the shrimp man away, opened the lunch box with one hand, pointed a gun at the shrimp man with the other hand, and wolfed down the lunch box.

The lunch box was a mixture of beans, rice and fish. Although it was unpalatable and tasteless, it was very finely chopped, easy to digest, and very dense. After Chen Yan swallowed it in a few big gulps, he was no longer hungry.

Do shrimp people actually eat this kind of thing? Shrimps themselves are omnivores, so it doesn’t seem strange to eat this kind of thing.

After he finished eating, he wiped his mouth with his arm and burped comfortably.

After a moment of silence, he took out his wallet from the inside of his clothes, took out three pennies, walked to the shrimp man, and stuffed them into his pocket.

"This lunch box is so delicious, you've earned three pennies."

The shrimp man looked at the steel coin in his pocket with incredible eyes, and suddenly cried "Wow" loudly.

Hold the grass, what's going on?

Then the bald man’s voice came:

'The life of most shrimp people is not easy. They were still normal crayfish when they were born, so they signed a supernatural contract with Sparrow Industries. Sparrow Industries provided them with headless corpses, and they owed money for purchasing the bodies.

The next huge sum of money, damn it, three times the interest on the principal, you will be in debt since you were born, and you will never be able to pay it back in this lifetime!'

Headless corpses... Chen Yan had already guessed that this kind of mutated shrimp people could not carry out normal sexual reproduction. Now that he heard about such "corpse trading", he understood their method of continuing the race.

Chen Yan wanted to express his surprise at this, but when he thought about what happened to the shrimp man George Lebster in his basement, he was not so surprised.

'Since they have been vassals of pirates all year round, they will also be in contact with human society and listen to some radio programs. Therefore, under normal circumstances, they should know that this kind of coin is money, and they may have seen it, but not many people have touched it...

…'

Bald Man sighed again:

'They have been burdened with debt since they were born, and they will not be able to pay it off until the end of their lives...'

After the bald man finished speaking, he continued:

‘What’s even more outrageous is that in the underground cave dominated by Spyro Industries, their debts do not end with the end of their lives, but are passed on to their next generation——

The next generation of shrimp people will have to bear the debts of their parents from the time they are born, and they will also have to bear the debts of buying their own bodies, and so on from generation to generation...'

Chen Yan's eyebrows knitted together, but he didn't expect that the situation underground was even worse than above ground.
Chapter completed!