Chapter 439: Past Events in the Center of the Earth (5): Darkness without Boundaries

Chen Yan reviewed in his mind what had happened underground over the years, and felt that there were still doubts about some places.

He does not have enough information to guess the correct answer:

For example, the mystery of the origin of the City of Mountains, such as why there are two different cities of Mountains, such as where James Parrett's technology that transcended the times came from...

Even before things happen underground, there are still some questions that cannot be answered for the time being:

What kind of experiments did the generation of graduates from the University of Michigan conduct on the [crack] leading to the world of brass pipes; how did the director intervene in it, and what were the consequences of the intervention; why did the boy named [Chai]

Even though the experiment failed, he still went to the other side of the rift. What was the [New World] he went to...

After a short silence, Chen Yan said to it:

"You just said that you are familiar with the underground, right?"

Spherical Tunguska sneered and subconsciously replied:

"I'm more familiar with the Omega Sector than the garbage dumps of Yharnam City!"

After it finished speaking, it felt something was wrong and immediately became vigilant:

"But there's something wrong with that place now, and we can't go down there for the time being."

Chen Yan slowly said:

"oh?"

It noticed the way Chen Yan looked at it, which was exactly the same as when Bei Bureau and the pirates first saw it.

It knows it must explain itself.

"Didn't I just say that after I helped the pirates earn their first pot of gold, they purchased a lot of large-scale mining equipment and dug thousands of meters underground."

"When we were still in Alpha Sector a few years ago, mining operations were easy because Alpha Sector was the closest to their supply station in the underground lake, and supplies were easy to handle. Even if there was an accident, it could be dealt with in time."

"The Alpha sector itself is a big hollow. I guess it used to be a big snake's nest, because there is a very strong smell of big snakes there."

"They have almost mined the rich ore in the Alpha sector, and they will continue to move downwards."

"When you dig into the Beta sector, the ore veins are not as dense as the Alpha sector. You need to dig out very complex and deep mine tunnels to mine enough ophiolite."

Chen Yan listened carefully, because he had always been thinking about underground mines.

The ownerless mineral veins are there. Why can pirates dig them but I can't?

With this idea in mind, while listening to this incident, Chen Yan exited the notebook APP and turned on the recorder on the phone itself.

The spherical Tunguska carefully watched the changes in Chen Yan's face. What made it despair was that it had seen the changes in Chen Yan's face countless times back then - every time the pirates discussed how to maximize the value of the Snake-kissed Rock,

Such a serious look on his face.

It is very anxious, because that ghost place underground is really not accessible to people now. The situation now is completely different from what it was many years ago. Going down now is courting death!

It must completely explain this matter to Chen Yan and dispel his crazy thoughts caused by greed - the most important thing is not to bring it!

“They changed their mining strategy so the beta sector doesn’t have as big of a hole as the alpha sector, the whole beta sector is like…”

Spherical Tunguska described:

"Ant holes! Like complex termite burrows!"

"They were just a group of pirates who didn't know anything at first. They opened mines everywhere, causing the entire Beta Sector to be dug into ant holes with smooth flow everywhere. Therefore, there were countless mine collapses in the Beta Sector that year, and many people died.

Lots of shrimps and crabs..."

"Fortunately, the bodies of those weirdos can be reused, so they recycle the still intact bodies and sell them to the mutated shrimps and crabs who need the bodies, making them their employees... They say they are employees, but in fact they are no different from slaves.

, the money they owe them will take several lifetimes to repay!"

"Off topic..."

Spherical Tunguska cleared his throat:

"Beta Sector will die soon. It does not mean that there will be no mines to mine, but it is too dangerous. More people have died than they can bear. So now, most areas of Beta Sector have almost stopped.

Due to the mining operation, only two mine veins that have been confirmed to be safe still have access to mining machines.”

The idea of ​​​​Spherical Tunguska became clearer and clearer, and Chen Yan also had a clear understanding of the underground sector of Sparrow Industries.

"The Beta sector has become like this. Although they have no choice but to continue digging deeper."

It paused here.

"I heard... I just heard that I don't know the specific situation... After a large number of mining disasters occurred in the Beta sector, they were not prepared to continue mining because they had already made enough money, even with that money

, buy a house on the surface, do nothing, just collect rent, and live a comfortable life."

Chen Yan immediately said:

"It's impossible. They can't stop. If they don't mine, what will happen to the large electricity consumers on the surface? Whether to continue mining is no longer something they can decide."

There are only two thermal power plants in Yanan City, but the technology companies in Shangcheng District are counting on electricity. Their companies have established a series of supporting facilities based on electricity. If there is no electricity, it will be equivalent to destroying their business.

The foundation is established.

Spherical Tunguska was a little surprised by his guess:

"This is indeed the case... They were already preparing to stop production at that time. That night, a big man came underground and said something to James Parrett. The next day, the miners resumed work."

"Since we can't stop production, let's continue digging."

"But mining is getting more and more difficult, especially in the Gamma sector - the Gamma sector is different from the previous two sectors. The rock formations here are somehow very loose and very wet...

…It’s like the inside of the rock formation has been penetrated by groundwater all year round.”

"When conducting mining operations in the Gamma Sector, we are not afraid of poisonous gas, but we are afraid of suddenly digging the water channel. I remember that when the underground water channel was dug for the first time in the Gamma Sector, the flood washed away three whole meters.

With only a team of miners, the groundwater flowing out of the cracked channel almost filled the entire Gamma Sector at that time."

“Months of hard work by tens of thousands of miners have been wasted.”

"But they couldn't stop. James Parrett became very violent after that, and the control of the miners became more stringent. Although he changed the wage system to make it more radical and reasonable... But the Shrimp Man

I have no place to spend the money I made with Crab Man.”

"The Gamma sector was already very large at that time, and it was impossible to drain the water in the sector, so they thought of a way and spent a lot of money to create an underwater mining machine, which was directly installed in the Gamma sector.

Work in an underwater environment.”

Chen Yan interrupted here:

"How do they make it?"

Spherical Tunguska said:

"I don't know...it seems to have been conjured out of thin air. James Parrett has always had this ability. They seem to believe in some evil god and claim that as long as they pray to the evil god, they will receive blessings - this kind of nonsense

, I don’t believe it anyway.”

When it said this sentence, its logic was completely messed up, and its wording was also confusing. It was completely different from the clear thinking when describing other things before.

Chen Yan had reason to suspect that it was lying.

Desire, who had been listening carefully, also said:

'This little thing is really smart... don't worry about it, wait and see what it will say.'

Chen Yan did not ask further questions, because ordinary questioning would obviously not reveal the origin of the pirates' technology from the spherical Tunguska. He had to find a way to get him to tell the truth.

Spherical Tunguska did not notice Chen Yan's inner doubt at all and continued:

"It was also at that time that they discovered that the underground space was much larger than they imagined, like an upside-down funnel.

At the top of the funnel is the smallest alpha sector, slightly lower down is the slightly larger beta sector, and then the larger, flooded gamma sector.”

"With underwater mining machines, they can conduct mining operations underwater."

"But the efficiency is much lower than before, because the Snake Rock itself is electrified. Once the mining machine leaks - which happens from time to time - the entire mining machine will be scrapped, and the driver's life will also be taken.

——Training a driver is very expensive and time-consuming.

Although they are not short of money, they cannot afford to waste time."

"They can only move deeper and pray that the deeper underground areas are not all areas flowed by water channels."

"The process of moving forward is difficult. They cannot dig directly under the water because it will cause water to flow downward and submerge the new mine tunnel."

"They can only use a modified amphibious mining machine in the area with low water level in the Gamma sector to conduct exploration on the rock wall at the edge of the sector, trying to open a new mine tunnel diagonally downward."

"Hey, they actually found it later - at the edge of the Gamma Sector, they discovered a passage leading to a deeper underground space - this time it was different from the previous situation. The passage they found was not through a mine.

It’s not connected to the computer, but it’s already there.”

"The passage that was originally discovered looks like it was man-made on the surface. I don't know how many years it has been there."

The spherical Tunguska suddenly let out a strange laugh.

"Hey……"

"Isn't it strange that there are traces of human activity thousands of meters underground?"

"They don't know, and they don't delve into it. They just need the ore."

"Then for about two years, they spent a lot of money to build a mining machine passage from the Alpha sector to the fourth underground level, and countless miner teams swarmed into the fourth sector - which is now the Omega sector."
Chapter completed!