Urban Sims

The third mining area is the living area.

There was a discussion in an ordinary miner's family in a certain mine.

"Husband, son, do you really want to go? You go to work in such a far away place and only come back every few months. What if you accidentally get into danger?"

Under the dim light, Hongyan frowned with worry on her face.

Recently, the company issued a recruitment announcement, saying that a high-value metal mine with huge reserves has been discovered in the middle and shallow mining area, and it wants to recruit 150 able-bodied miners to mine this metal mine.

However, the mine is located in a remote location and requires the construction of a long tunnel.

There was obviously no ore in the tunnel, so the announcement offered a reward of 400 credits per person per day to dig this tunnel.

After the recruitment announcement was announced, many able-bodied miners in the No. 3 mining area immediately applied enthusiastically. Within one day, thousands of people signed up.

The salary of 400 points/day is not as good as mining underground. Occasionally if you are lucky, you can earn 400 or 500 credit points, but it is more stable and the company will bear the repair costs when the tools are damaged. This alone is attractive. caught the eye of countless miners.

Moreover, the rocks in the middle and shallow mining areas are relatively loose, which is obviously much less labor-intensive than drilling those diamond-hard rocks twenty or thirty kilometers deep underground. This is also a relatively easy task.

The 18-year-old eldest son Tietou said: "Mom, the number of people recruited by the company this time is only 150. Dad and I finally got selected. It's a long way away. The treatment is really good and it's not that dangerous. If I can work for a few years, my father and I will definitely be able to save a lot of money!"

Tie Man also said to his wife Hongyan:

"Don't worry about danger. The mid-level mining area is much safer. Even if there is an accident, the announcement also said that if you die, you will be compensated with 200,000 credit points, and if you are disabled, you will be compensated with 100,000 credits. In addition to being unable to return home for a long time, in other aspects, it is better than It’s much better to go to deep mining areas.”

Tie Man even thought to himself that it would be great if he could always do this kind of job in the future. Even if he could only go home once or twice a year, it would be better than being able to go home every day and suddenly one day never being able to go home again.

The income is more and more stable.

"Mom, don't worry about dad and brother. They really seized a good opportunity this time. Many people in the third mining area can't get in even if they want to. What's there to worry about?"

Tie Ermei, the daughter on the side, said at this time, dispelling two layers of Hongyan's worries.

A similar scene occurred in many miner families in the No. 3 mining area. Many housewives expressed concerns similar to Hongyan's, but almost none opposed their husbands or sons to dig tunnels.

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this day.

After the manpower recruitment was completed and everything was ready, Zhou Ming also put on a small protective suit. He stood in front of the group of muscular miners. He did not make any long speech. He uttered the word "go" in his mouth. The miners were asked to take their tools and equipment and set off.

The so-called "metal mine with huge reserves" is just a cover. Zhou Ming's real goal is a tunnel.

An underground tunnel located 12 kilometers deep underground and 150 kilometers long can pass through the interception of the canopy system, from Area 51 to the adjacent area to the south.

Zhou Ming is not sure whether the area south of Area 51 is Area 50 or Area 49, but the living environment of people in this area to the south must be much better than Area 51.

In other words, the environment in any of the 51 bottom areas is much better than Area 51.

Why do you say that?

Because among the 51 bottom areas, only the surface of Area 51 cannot survive for humans. The surface of Area 51 is not only a desert with no grass growing, but the concentration of nuclear radiation is frighteningly high. Without protection, if exposed to the surface for more than seven days, there will be Risk of cancer.

In the other 50 bottom areas, although there is also nuclear radiation on the surface, more than 600 years have passed, and the radioactive elements with short half-lives have almost decayed prematurely. In addition, for hundreds of years, humans have persisted in purification and cleanup. Many of them have The area has returned to its original vitality and greenery. Of course, residual radiation is still there, but it is no longer so deadly.

So why is the concentration of radioactive elements in Area 51 so high and so difficult to purify?

Based on the [Area 51 Map], Zhou Ming judged that Area 51 hundreds of years ago was either a place where nuclear tests were frequently conducted or the location of a nuclear factory, otherwise There won't be so many nuclear bombs exploding here, and all the nuclear materials in the nuclear plant will be blown up into the sky, so Area 51 is the area with the worst environment among all the bottom areas.

In addition, in terms of population, Area 51 has the smallest population, with only about one million, while other areas have as few as three to five million and as many as tens of millions.

It is said that District 03 has the largest population, with more than 50 million people. The reason is that District 03 is located in the tropics, with fertile land and abundant rain. Food crops can be harvested three times a year. After hundreds of years of proliferation and reproduction, the population has reached a point close to explosion.

Zhou Ming has never been to these areas. How did he know the above information?

This information was obtained by Zhou Ming in Yao Xing City in the last game from the "promoters" who were promoted to Area 52. In more than eighty years, he sent people to collect 3,000 people. Multiple files of "promoted people" compiled various information on 48 low-level areas, so even if Zhou Ming had never been to these areas, he still had a rough impression in his mind.

What is the purpose of the underground tunnel that Zhou Ming and his men dug leading to other districts?

There are two main purposes.

One, to make up for the regrets of the previous life, and to relocate some of the relatives that I couldn't care less about to a place with a better environment.

Second, he plans to change the map. After signing up for the killing competition, he will complete the rising challenge and add a redeemable regional map.

Zhou Ming's idea is good, but is he really sure that through the interception of the canopy system, he can dig a tunnel to another area adjacent to Area 51?

He feels that the problem is not big. The canopy system is very powerful and good, but it limits the "sky". For the underground more than ten kilometers deep, this system, no matter what, is a blind spot that it cannot attack. , of course, this system can install a layer of metal mesh hundreds of meters underground and electrocute anyone who comes close.

But what about thousands of meters or tens of thousands of meters underground?

It’s simply impossible to install it, and you can’t afford such a huge cost.

Therefore, for the Sky Curtain System, the underground miners in Area 52 are its fatal bug.

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then.

In the next six and a half years, Zhou Ming led the excavation team of 150 miners based on the best excavation route planned in his mind on the "Area 51 Map", working in three shifts, working day and night. At a rate of 65 meters per day, a 155-kilometer tunnel was successfully dug.

It wasn't until Zhou Ming saw on the [Area 51 Map] that he was obviously in a dark area that was not on the map, and he immediately realized: they had crossed the canopy system and were no longer in Area 51.

This excited him so much that he immediately ordered the miners to dig diagonally upward, avoiding some rock formations with high water content and wet sand soil layers, and speeding up the work. It only took two and a half months, and with the crisp sound of rock cracking, several miners were dug. After a dazzling light shone into the tunnel, several miners with dark faces couldn't help but cover their eyes with their hands. Because they were not used to the natural light from the outside, their pupils shrank violently, and some people let out two screams of pain.

"Take off your helmet and oxygen mask. There is no need for oxygen bottles here."

After tearing off his oxygen mask and helmet, Zhou Ming took out a pair of sunglasses from his pocket, put them on his eyes, and asked the miners to make way for him. He was the first to walk out of the tunnel and stood on the edge of the granite geology. above the surface.

It was eight or nine o'clock in the morning outside.

The sky above is blue.

The air is not fresh, but it is comfortable to breathe.

The nearby surface is mainly rocky, with no grass growing. However, after walking a few kilometers further south and entering the edge of a white desert, I saw a few tall cactus plants scattered in the sand, as well as some inexplicable cacti. After naming the thorn-like plant, Zhou Ming basically confirmed where this place was.

District 49.

Area 49 has less rainfall and is covered with cacti. Most of the land is semi-desert and has a population of about three million.

It is an area with an arid climate, low food production, backward economic development, and widespread poverty, where people can barely survive.

He took out a small radiation measuring instrument from his pocket. After seeing the displayed data, Zhou Ming smiled slightly and said, "At least, the people here can survive normally on the surface."

"What is this place? How did we end up on the ground?"

"Didn't the company say on the radio that you can't go to the surface? The radiation concentration there is very high and it will kill you if you stay there for a long time!"

"Hey, look, there are some green things growing in the desert over there. They are tall and big, and there are many thorns on them. What are they?"

Hearing this, Tietou looked over, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, and he blurted out: "Green... plants, don't you often hear it on the company radio, are plants green? Plants, those things are plant!"

"It can't be a plant! It was also said on the radio that no one can survive on the ground in Area 51, let alone plants! It should be a green stone."

A miner next to him immediately refuted Tietou's point of view.

"If it is a stone, why does it move when it is blown by the wind, and the piles of things covered with thorns next to it, are they also stones?"

Tietou's words made the miner open his mouth, and he couldn't think of a reason to refute him again.

Tie Tou's father, Tie Man, stood among the miners, squinting his eyes and looking at the green plants standing in the desert, as if welcoming his master, waving to him gently, and couldn't help but murmured: : "It's impossible. Plants can grow in Area 51."

While listening to the miners talking and arguing about the plants they had never seen before, Zhou Ming came over, clapped his hands and asked them to stop arguing, and then said something that made them collectively shocked. if:

"Stop arguing. If I'm not mistaken, this should be Area 49, not Area 51."

The miners looked at each other, dumbfounded.

District 49?

This...how is this possible?

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