Urban Sims

Before entering the dungeon experience, Zhou Ming wanted to learn more intelligence and information from the system, but was dismissed by the system saying "please explore by yourself".

Shaking his head, Zhou Ming could only click to start the game. In the injection mode, he started a game of mine detection experience. In the copy, he collected this information by himself.

"Drip~"

"Start injection mode and start entering the game..."

After a simple prompt, a scene of a crying baby being born appeared in his mind... and the game began.

Soon, three years passed in the dungeon.

The baby in the picture in his mind has turned into a toddler who can walk and speak simply. He is strong and smart. Among the four children, he is the youngest and the most loved by his mother.

but……

"In such a world, this child, who can grow up to be carefree until he is 6 years old at most, will have to work in the mines..."

There are no character cards, no skill cards, no [maps] and various items. This challenge level provided by the system is better said to be a hell level.

Why do you say that?

Because this is a basic judgment made by Zhou Ming after observing some basic information from the world through a shared perspective.

Let me talk about the family situation of the default role in the instance:

A fairly happy family of six.

His father, Tie Man, is a 30-year-old muscular man with a muscular body, a height of 1.9 meters, and a stern face with Chinese characters. He has a bad temper towards outsiders but is warm and caring towards his family. He is the backbone of the family.

The mother, Hongyan, is two years younger than the father. She is an ordinary housewife with big buttocks and big breasts. She is easy to give birth to and has given birth to four healthy children. She is good at cooking and sewing, has a shy and quiet personality, and is the logistics director of the family.

The eldest brother, Tietou, is 10 years old this year and has already entered the mines. He is engaged in copper mining in the middle mining area.

The second sister, Tie Ermei, is 8 years old this year. She helps take care of her younger brother and helps her mother cook at home.

The third brother, Tieshan, is 6 years old and has already joined the mine. He is engaged in simple coarse ore selection in the middle mining area.

The default character is Tie Qiang, who is 3 years old and is taken care of by his mother and sister at home.

This family lives in a miner's living area 12 kilometers underground, called the "Third Living Area". This living area, among hundreds of similar underground living areas, is medium-sized, with a population of about 3,000 people. For miners and their families, they make a living by mining.

On this planet, the shallow resources on the surface have long been exhausted. In order to obtain resources, miners have to go deeper underground, risking high temperature, high pressure, lack of oxygen, collapse, magma, etc., to obtain iron, Manganese, copper, gold, silver, sulfur, phosphorus, potassium and other raw mineral resources.

Father Tieman works in a zirconium mining area 30 kilometers deep underground, close to the edge of the mantle layer. The zirconium ore here has high grade and abundant reserves, and zirconium metal has great uses in high-precision industrial fields. The value of zirconium, Among hundreds of metal and non-metal minerals, it can be ranked in the top 20.

Mining minerals 30 kilometers underground is not as simple as just talking, because here is close to the edge of the crust of the scorching mantle layer, the temperature exceeds 200 degrees Celsius, the air pressure is three times that of the surface, and underground poisonous gas is diffuse, and the oxygen content is zero. Miners You must wear a heavy device similar to a space suit and carry an oxygen bottle to work in such an extreme environment.

Moreover, at the junction of the earth's crust and the mantle, there is frictional movement of solid and liquid, frequent micro-earthquakes, and the sudden eruption of magma from the mantle after the rock layer ruptures. In the third living area alone, dozens of miners are killed every year. life.

But it’s impossible not to mine in such dangerous deep mining areas, because the iron, copper, manganese and other raw ores contained in the shallow layers of the earth’s crust are not valuable. 1 ton is only worth dozens of credit points, which is far less than those 1 ton deeper in the earth’s crust. A kilogram of high-value ore worth dozens of credits.

Could it be that there are no high-value ores in the shallow and medium underground?

No, almost none.

Even if there is, it is only a kind of lean ore with small reserves, low grade and high mining cost.

The mid-to-shallow mineral resources on this planet, especially the high-value resources, have almost been exhausted.

For all miners' families in the "third living area", ore is everything they depend on for survival.

Because the people here live in the dark underground, all materials such as energy, food, clothing, household appliances, daily necessities, mining tools, etc. are all provided by the '51 Mining Company'. They cannot be self-sufficient and can only use what they dig with their hands. Sell ​​the ore to the mining company, exchange it for credits, and then use the credits to buy all kinds of necessary materials from the mining company.

For example:

1 kilowatt hour of electricity is worth 1 credit point.

1 liter of fresh water, worth 2 credits.

1 simple style shirt worth 20 credits.

100 compressed nutritious lunches worth 50 credits.

1 induction cooker for cooking, worth 200 credits.

1 set of airtight protective clothing for deep wells, worth 30,000 credits.

Including other daily necessities, furniture, household appliances, etc., a family of six requires at least 300 credits for maintenance expenses in a 24-hour life cycle.

This is despite extreme frugality.

If his father Tieman's protective clothing is broken, or the mining tools need to be repaired, the repair costs will sometimes make his father Tieman spend a day in vain.

As for his father, Tie Man, who works in a deep mining area, the value of the ore he mines in a day is basically between 300-500 credits.

So every time period, after my father Tieman got off work, the first question my mother Hongyan asked was: "How many points were dug today?"

If the answer is above 400, the dinner will be richer; if the answer is between 300-400, the dinner will be as usual; if it is less than 300, or the tool breaks down, the whole family will be sad, except for the father Tieman, everyone else will have dinner. The amount will be reduced.

The family has a large population, and his father Tieman's income can barely sustain his expenses. To improve the family's conditions and prevent unexpected situations, he can only let a few of his children work in the mines early.

As for the education of our children...

It's enough to recognize those numbers. His father, Tie Man, didn't go to school for a day and started working in the mines at the age of 6. How can his children live better than him?

Although a 6-year-old child laborer can only do some light chores and can only earn about 10 credits in a period of time, it is better than nothing and can add up to a lot.

…

So, under Zhou Ming's silent attention, Tie Qiang, who grew up to 6 years old, soon started working in the mines with his third brother. In the first few days, he threw himself into his mother's arms and cried loudly as soon as he came home. But after After two years of adapting, as the son of a miner, he was able to withstand the high-intensity work and became the mainstay of the family.

However, something unexpected happened. When I was 10 years old, as the zirconium mine mined in the third mining area gradually dried up, thousands of families in the third mining area looked sad and didn't know what to do. But soon after, "Mining Company" "The underground exploration team came with good news: it said that a medium-sized titanium ore was discovered at the junction of the third and fourth mining areas. It has a high grade and reserves of up to one million tons, and has high mining value.

This news made the residents of the third mining area collectively excited, and they immediately applied to the company to mine the mine. Although the value of titanium ore is not as high as that of zirconium ore, the reserves of one million tons are enough for the third mining area to be mined for 100 years. This is a long-term meal ticket.

But when the neighboring fourth mining area learned the news, it was also very excited and immediately competed for the mining rights of this titanium mine from the mining company. The company manager in charge of this mining area originally wanted to suggest that the two mining areas should share the titanium equally. Mine, but after accepting a five million credit card from the mine director of the fourth area, the titanium mine was allotted to the fourth mining area.

Conflicts broke out. In order to defend their respective interests, a fierce conflict broke out in the third and fourth mining areas.

In that fight involving thousands of people, his father, Tie Man, rushed forward and was stabbed to death in his internal organs with a sharp knife. The backbone of a family of six collapsed.

After the armed struggle, the third mining area regained half of the titanium mining rights. The price was that more than 300 miner families were impoverished and declined.

After the death of his father Tieman, his eldest brother Tietou became the mainstay of the family. Three years later, while working in a dangerous mining area, he suddenly encountered a landslide. His life and death were unknown, and he was never able to rise to the mine again.

When he was 16 years old, his elder sister Tie Ermei got married. When he was 18 years old, his mother died of lung disease. When he was 20 years old, his third brother Tieshan signed up to participate in the "Death Game". No news came back. When he was 22 years old, he was mining in a deep mining area. Tie Qiang, with a loud rumbling sound, the rocks under his feet cracked, and the rolling red mantle magma swallowed him up instantly...

"The game character has died and is exiting the game..."