Urban Sims

The third mining area, living area.

There was a discussion in a common miner's family in a mine.

"Husband and son, are you really going? Go to work in such a far place, and come back once every few months, what if you accidentally get out of danger?"

In the dim light, Hongyan frowned, very worried.

Recently, the company issued a recruitment announcement saying that it found a high-value metal mine with huge reserves in the middle-shallow mine area. Now it is recruiting 150 strong miners to mine this metal mine.

However, the mine is located in a remote place and requires a long tunnel to pass through.

There is obviously no ore in the tunnel, so in the announcement, 400 credits per person per day were paid to dig the tunnel.

After the announcement of the recruitment announcement, many healthy miners in the three mining areas were actively recruiting, and within a day, thousands of people signed up.

400 points / day salary, although it is better to go to underground mining, occasionally when you are lucky, you can earn four or five hundred credit points, but the victory is stable, and after the tool is damaged, the company will bear the maintenance cost. This is the only one that attracts Countless miners' eyeballs.

Moreover, the rocks in the medium and shallow mines are relatively loose, and it is obviously a lot easier to chisel those diamond-hard rocks than they are under the ground of twenty or thirty kilometers deep. This is another relatively easy task.

The 18-year-old son Tie Tau said: "Mom, the number of people recruited by the company this time is only 150. My dad and I finally chose it. It is far away. The treatment is really good. It is not so dangerous. If I can work for a few years, my father and I will be able to save a lot of money! "

Tieman also said to his wife Hong Yan:

"Don't worry about dangers, the middle mines are much safer, even if there is a danger, the announcement also said that one death compensation is 200,000 credit points, and one disabled compensation is 100,000. In addition to being unable to return home for a long time, other aspects It ’s much better to go to deep mines. "

Tieman even thought that it would be better if he could continue to do this kind of work in the future. Even if he could only return home once or twice a year, it would be better than returning home every day, but one day he would never be able to return home.

Income is still more and more stable.

"Mom, don't worry about your father and brother. They really took a good chance this time. Many people in the three mining areas can't get in. Anything to worry about?"

The daughter Tie Ermei at the side said at this time, and he also dispelled the concern of Hong Yan's heart, eliminating two layers.

A similar scene occurred in many miner families in the three mining areas. Many housewives have expressed similar concerns to Hongyan, but almost no husband or son was going to dig a tunnel.

...

this day.

After the recruitment was completed, Zhou Ming, who was ready for everything, also put on a small protective suit and stood in front of the muscular miners. He did not make a long speech and spit out the word "start" in his mouth. , Just call these miners, set off with their own tools and equipment.

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

A 12-kilometer underground and 150-kilometer-long underground tunnel, which can be intercepted by the canopy system, enters an underground tunnel from area 51 to the adjacent area to the south.

The area south of Area 51 is Area 50 or Area 49. Zhou Ming is not sure, but this area on the south, the human living environment, must be much better than Area 51.

In other words, the environment of any one of the 51 bottom-layer areas is much better than that of 51 areas.

Why do you say that?

Because of the 51 ground floor areas, only the surface of Area 51, human beings cannot survive. The surface of Area 51 is not only a desert and grass without grass, but also has a high nuclear radiation concentration, which is scary. Without protection, when the surface exposure time exceeds seven days, there is The risk of cancer.

In the other 50 ground floor areas, although there is also nuclear radiation on the surface, more than six hundred years have passed. Radiation elements with a short half-life have almost decayed early. Coupled with the continuous purification and cleanup of humans for hundreds of years, many In the area, the original vitality and greenery have been restored. Of course there is residual radiation, but it is not so deadly.

Why is the concentration of radiation elements in area 51 so high that it is difficult to purify it?

Zhou Ming judged from the "Zone 51 Map" that hundreds of thousands of large craters resembling craters spread all over the surface. Zone 51 hundreds of years ago was either a place where nuclear tests were often conducted or a nuclear plant was located. Otherwise, there will not be so many nuclear bombs exploding here, as well as the nuclear materials in the nuclear plant, all of which have exploded into the sky, so it has created Zone 51, which is the worst environment among all the bottom zones.

In addition, in terms of population, the 51 districts have the smallest population, only one million, while the other districts 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 cooked three times a year, and the population has multiplied for hundreds of years. The population has reached an explosion level.

And Zhou Ming has not been to these areas. How did he know the above information?

This information is the last game. In Yaoxing City, District 52, Zhou Ming has heard from the "promoters" who have continuously entered the 52nd district. More than 3,000 copies have been collected in more than 80 years. The files of "Promoters" have compiled all the data of the 48 lower-level areas, so even if these areas have not been visited by Zhou Ming, there is a general impression in his brain.

So, what is the purpose of the underground tunnel that Zhou Ming led with other people?

There are two main purposes.

One, to make up for the regrets of the previous life, and to put some people who can't rest assured to a place with better environment.

Two, he intends to change the map, after signing up for the killing competition, complete the ascent challenge and add a redeemable area map.

Zhou Ming's idea is good, but he is really sure to intercept the tunnel and dig the tunnel to another area adjacent to Area 51?

He feels that the problem is not big. The sky system is very powerful, which is good, but it is limited to "sky", more than ten kilometers deep underground. This system, no matter what, is a dead end that cannot be attacked. Of course, this system can be equipped with a layer of metal mesh at a depth of hundreds of meters underground, and anyone who gets close will be electrocuted.

But what about kilometers or tens of kilometers underground?

It is simply impossible to install, and it cannot afford such a large cost.

So for the canopy system, the underground miners in Area 52 are their fatal bugs.

...

then.

In the next 6 and a half years, Zhou Ming took the route set by the [Zone 51 map] in his mind. He took the excavation team of 150 miners and adopted a three-shift working method, starting work day and night to dig in every day. At a speed of 65 meters, a tunnel of 155 kilometers was successfully dug.

Until Zhou Ming saw on [Map of Area 51] that he was in a dark area that was clearly not on the map, he suddenly realized that they had crossed the sky system and were no longer in Area 51.

This excites him, and immediately ordered the miners to dig diagonally upwards, avoiding some high-moisture rock layers and wet sand layers, and speeding up. It took only two and a half months, accompanied by a brittle sound of cracking rock. After the dazzling light shone into the tunnel, several black-faced miners couldn't help covering their eyes with their hands, because they were not yet adapted to the natural light of the outside world. After the pupils contracted violently, someone gave two painful calls.

"Remove both the helmet and the oxygen mask. There is no need to use an oxygen bottle here."

After tearing off the oxygen mask and taking off the 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. The first one came out of the tunnel and stood on a granite structure. Above the surface.

At this time, the outside world was 8: 9 am.

The sky above is very blue.

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

The nearby surface is dominated by rocky landforms, without grass, but after walking a few kilometers to the south, after entering the edge of a white desert, I saw several tall cactus plants scattered in the sand, and some could not be called. After the thorny plant with the name, Zhou Ming basically confirmed where it was.

District 49.

There is less rainfall, overgrown with cacti, most of the land belongs to the semi-desert zone, with a population of about 49 million in 49 districts.

Arid climate, low food production, backward economic development, poverty everywhere, people can barely survive in a district.

Pulling out a small radiometer from his pocket and seeing the data shown above, Zhou Ming smiled slightly: "At the very least, people here can survive normally on the ground."

"Where is it? How did we get to the ground?"

"Don't the company say it on the radio, you can't go to the surface, the radiation concentration is very high, and it will be deadly after a long time!"

"Why, look at the desert over there, there are some green things growing, tall and big, and there are many thorns on it, what is that?"

Tietou's eyes also looked at him, and suddenly a flash of light flashed in his head, and he blurted out: "Green ... plants, don't you often hear these things on the radio, plants, those things are plants!"

"It can't be a plant. It's also said in the broadcast. No one can survive on the ground in Area 51. Plants are even more impossible! That should be a green stone."

A miner next to him immediately refuted the view of the iron head ~ www.readwn.com ~ If it was stone, why did it move when it was blown by the wind, and the piles of thorny things next to it? Are they all stones? "

The iron head made the miner's mouth open and couldn't think of any reason to refute him again.

The iron-headed father, Tieman standing in the miners' group, squinted and looked at the green plants that stood in the desert, as if welcoming his master, gently beckoning to him, his mouth could not help murmuring: "It's impossible. Area 51 can also grow plants."

Hearing the miners talking and facing the plants that they had never seen before, the face of the argument was red and red, Zhou Ming came over, clapped his palms, let them stop arguing, said a sentence, let them collectively fall into Shocked words:

"Don't be noisy, if I'm not mistaken, it should be Zone 49, not in Zone 51."

The miners looked at each other, dumbfounded.

District 49?

How is this possible?