Chapter 465 [Chapter of the Hidden Abyss] Nine: Industrial Traces Two Thousand Meters Underground

There are no docks for ships to dock in the Omega Sector.

The docking location of the speedboat was not land, but an abandoned steel processing factory - Chen Yan saw a large abandoned furnace hidden in the darkness. It seemed that there had been traces of the budding industry here, but due to various uncertainties

Cause, sprouts wilt quickly in the dark.

The speedboat docked in the damaged casting tank of the steel processing plant. This thing looked like a place for cooling high-temperature cast iron. It was now rusted and dilapidated by the water. Half of the casting tank was immersed in the water, and the other part above the water was

Half of it is just enough for slender ships to dock.

After entering the water, Chen Yan vaguely heard the thumping sound of steel hitting each other in the distance. The sound was very regular and sounded every 10 seconds.

After the speedboat stopped and the passengers disembarked one by one, the boss of the shrimp boat said to the passengers:

"The next bus is still stopping at the steel slag factory, but I don't know what the next bus will be. The Omega Sector has been very popular recently, and the Wandering Soul House doesn't like us to have too much contact with the Omega Sector. There is nothing we can do.

Can reduce the number of shifts.

If everyone misses the next class, go to the assembly area to find Mr. Liang Ba, he knows our schedule."

Chen Yan asked:

"Where can I find Master Liang?"

The boss of the shrimp boat replied:

"You can just find a miner and tell him "Drink soda at 3:23 this afternoon." If he can understand, he will take you to find Mr. Liang Ba."

this……

The elder brother patted Chen Yan on the shoulder:

"Don't worry, Mr. Liang is very easy to find. People from Wandering Soul House are everywhere. As long as you can find one, you can follow him to find Mr. Liang."

Damn... It sounds like this Liang Baye is some kind of intermediary? Or a broker or something like that?

The ship boss explained:

"Liang Baye is one of the businessmen between the Home of Wandering Souls and the gathering place of the Omega Sector. He has a wide network of contacts. No matter what problems you have, you can just go to him."

The elder brother joked in a low voice:

"Without the cancer like Mr. Liang, Wandering Soul House would have a headache."

Listening to what this means, the Wandering Soul House obviously needs to rely on the miners in the Omega Sector to survive. Although the Wandering Soul House was established by the Wandering Souls who tore up the contract, they must rely on the flow of miners to support the surviving city.

Bring life.

My brother calls Mr. Liang a "cancer", obviously because the broker will charge a certain amount of "agency fee".

Simply based on the name "cancer", it sounds like Liang Baye must have paid a lot of agency fees.

Chen Yan never stopped recording on his cell phone. He planned to keep his cell phone in recording mode in order to record all the clues of this strange underground living environment.

The boss of the shrimp boat sailed away, and the miners who boarded the shore could only use the searchlights on the miners' hats for illumination.

In the dim vision, the empty space inside the "Steel Slag Factory" appeared in the not-so-bright beam of searchlights. Chen Yan looked up at the steel dome that was almost thirty to fifty meters above the ground. It was difficult to imagine that Sparrow

How did industry build something like this underground.

'Sparrow Industries once had a great time.'

Bald Parrett spoke in Chen Yan's breast pocket.

'They were just a group of poor people who could only make a living by fishing. They had to worry about the next meal to survive every day, and were always wary of other invaders that were about to appear on other islands in the Smokey Lake.'

He seemed very emotional.

Chen Yan didn't know his past, so he didn't understand where his emotion came from.

'Their original wishes were very small, and they didn't even want to return to the ground - they just wanted to build a habitat underground where they could have enough food, establish complete rules, and protect themselves from infringement.'

'When did things start to change...'

Bald Zi fell silent. Chen Yan didn't want to expose the fact that he had Bald Zi as a "helper", so he didn't ask about what happened that year.

The miners who got off the ship walked straight along the road of the steel slag factory workshop. In about five minutes, they had left the steel slag factory workshop and officially entered the operation area of ​​the Omega sector.

The vision suddenly opens up.

The lateral area of ​​the Omega Sector is several times larger than the Alpha Sector that Chen Yan has been to, but the "rock sky" above the sector is not high, and there is no huge "sun" like the Alpha Sector for lighting.

When Chen Yan left the steel slag factory, he saw that the ceiling of the steel slag factory was about thirty to fifty meters, and it had already touched the top of the "rock sky" in the Omega sector - the entire steel slag factory was like a star "clamped" in the Omega sector.

Rusty steel walnut inside the Ga sector.

Looking forward, the deep telegraph poles in the rock wall attracted Chen Yan's attention:

The reason why this place has a relatively bright view is because there are a large number of cement telephone poles inserted into the surface of the sector and the rock wall on the top.

These cement telephone poles are completely different from the "iron rod telephone poles" in the Beta sector where Wandering Soul's Home is located, and the "lighthouse" that serves as telephone poles on the ground. However, they look seventy-nine similar to the telephone poles in Chen Yan's previous life.

The third difference is that at the top of each telephone pole is a large incandescent light bulb bound by a spherical iron cage.

Continuous large incandescent light bulbs like starlight illuminate a large area of ​​the ground in the Omega Sector. Although the pale color makes people feel panicked, it is better than the pitiful field of vision provided by the searchlight on the miner's hat.

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With these lights, Chen Yan saw the wires that were more complex and dense than those in the Wandering Soul House in Beta Sector. The wires piled up above each telephone pole could no longer be described as "a mess."

Chen Yan thought to himself that these wires looked like a thousand wires tied with a thousand knots.

When my brother saw Chen Yan looking at the telephone pole, he chuckled and said, "You're stupid, this is really not something that ordinary electricians can repair. You're new here, so be careful."

Chen Yan asked: "How to say?"

The old man pointed to the cement telephone pole inserted into the rock wall not far away and said: "Teams with mining machines usually have their own electricians who can get electricity from the telephone pole. The telephone pole inserted into the ground is equivalent to

It’s a charging station for mining machines.”

Chen Yan thought to himself, wouldn't it be quite troublesome if the mining team didn't have an electrician?

He thought again that the mining machine was so expensive, and if it was not equipped with on-board maintenance personnel, it would be an embarrassing situation if it broke underground and could not be removed.

It seems that the "electrician" underground is not the same thing as the "electrician" that Chen Yan understood before. Not only must he be able to repair circuits and connect power, but he must also be able to repair small and medium-sized machinery.

The old man continued: "If you look at so many telephone poles, as long as the lights on them are on, it means there is electricity. It can be used, but there is no guarantee that there will be any safety hazards. I often hear that electricians have been electrocuted to death.

Hey, underground, an electrician’s life is worth a little more than an average person’s.”

Chen Yan nodded and looked at the ground in the Omega Sector along the area illuminated by the telephone pole.

Where the light barely illuminated, several "railroads" of different styles were crisscrossing and winding. Chen Yan rubbed his eyes before confirming that what he saw was indeed a real "railway", but the differences between different styles of railways were a bit big.

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The older ones can clearly be seen as old-fashioned railways used by large steam locomotives. The structures of these railways are complex, from track beds, concrete sleepers and wooden sleepers to bolts, rails and connecting parts. It can be seen that a lot of time was spent on the original construction.

strength.

But now, these old railways have obviously been abandoned, the sleepers are incomplete, and many parts of the tracks have been removed to make room for new tracks.

Some of the newer styles of "railroads" are similar to the embedded tracks used by the steam buses in Yanam City. The tracks themselves are embedded in the concrete floor. They appear to be still in service, but are obviously rusty.

The latest style of "railway" has an extremely simple structure. It only consists of an "iron rod" as thick as a wrist, suspended half a meter above the ground. At first glance, you can't tell it is a railway at all. Chen Yan saw it because

When there was a shuttle mining machine driving along this "iron rod" not far away, I suddenly realized that this thing turned out to be some kind of railway!

The spherical Tunguska made a sound from the backpack that was so subtle that only Chen Yan could hear it:

"Hey, you are stupid. Let me tell you, this thing is very high-end. The shuttle mining machine on the iron rod uses magnetism to move! This is also a new thing made by the pirates, and it is very fast.

The disadvantage is that safety is not guaranteed. If this thing breaks somewhere and the shuttle mining machine rushes out of the track, the team will definitely be destroyed."

It seems that because he came to a familiar place, Spherical Tunguska is not as scared as before and talks more.

In addition to these three types of railways, there are many industrial products in the illuminated Omega sector in front of Chen Yan. He clearly saw some dilapidated processing factories. The lights on the telephone poles illuminated those factories.

In some corners, rows of lathes and large machinery prove their former prosperity.

Chen Yan looked at the vast factory ruins under the pale light and thought that such a large-scale factory was enough to form a barely complete industrial system. Logically speaking, even if it was not managed well, it would not be completely turned into ruins.

But the field of view is full of ruins. Large walls are charred and dilapidated, as if they have been burned by fire. Outside some factories, there are mountains of broken small machine tools. Those things have been eroded by the moist underground air and have now turned into moss and moss.

A gathering place for various small organisms that love acid and alkalinity.

These factories were obviously destroyed by violence.

What happened to them?

The miners who got off the ship moved non-stop towards the assembly point in the center of the Omega sector. According to the old man, the steel slag factory where they disembarked was not far from the center assembly area of ​​the Omega sector. The pace was faster and they only needed to

It can be reached in 15 minutes.

The enthusiastic old man noticed Chen Yan's curious gaze as he looked toward the ruins of the factory. He squinted his eyes with a look of reminiscence:

"Thanks to these places, the later Home of Wandering Souls came into being..."
Chapter completed!