Chapter 40 Mines
In fact, the strength of the New Star is far more than just an exaggerated speed. This guy's electronic warfare ability is unparalleled. The mine where something happened here knew we were coming, and the troops sent by the state were stationed here. In addition, it was originally a uranium mine, so of course there were very good security facilities around it, including a powerful fixed radar group. However, even if there were large fixed ground radar stations and if we knew we were coming in advance, the people below did not notice our infiltration at all. Even until the New Star had begun to prepare for landing in the designated area that had been prepared for a long time, someone discovered the huge hull of the New Star with his naked eyes.
In fact, the people below saw it with their naked eyes because it was an ordinary transition and not during combat, so the New Star did not start optical camouflage. Otherwise, only after the spacecraft landed on the ground and someone came over and accidentally bumped into it would be possible to find that the spacecraft was docked there.
Although we sent a notice to this place before we set off, the new star was too fast, so it still scared the people here when we landed. Fortunately, Nuwa was always online, otherwise someone would shoot us.
When the New Star first appeared, the people below were surprised, and after this guy landed, it still surprised everyone. On the one hand, it was surprised by the size of this alien warship. After all, this thing is about the same size as an aircraft carrier, and the appearance may be slightly larger. After all, it is relatively slender, so it looks larger. But what surprised everyone even more was not its size, but its black technology.
After landing, the New Star did not unfold its landing gear and parked on the ground. Instead, it directly fired eight fixed anchors and then floated at a height of about two meters above the ground like a landing airship. In other words, this thing actually has a constant anti-gravity device.
Generally speaking, no matter how advanced the equipment is, of course it needs to be turned off when not in use, because as long as the machine starts up, it will inevitably consume energy. And when the equipment can be turned on when not in use, there are only two possibilities. Either the energy consumption of this thing is very low, and even if it is always on, it doesn’t matter, or the thing almost consumes energy.
No matter why Nova does not need to turn off the anti-gravity engine, it is an amazing black technology. Humans want to get rid of gravity, all of which use huge energy as a price. In addition to the fact that hot air balloons can levitate more easily, most human aircraft need to consume a lot of energy in the sky. Even gliders require a considerable amount of energy when taking off. However, Nova, a space warship that is larger than an aircraft carrier, can remain suspended forever, which is quite amazing.
We were inside the spacecraft and didn't know what people outside were thinking. As soon as the spacecraft stabilized, we jumped directly from the open hatch door of the spacecraft.
This is another special feature of the New Star. Its cabin door does not have a spiral ladder for up and down the spacecraft, because our dragon clan has a very good physical fitness. It is two meters high. For us, it will be up with a small jump. There is no need to make a spiral ladder or something to assist. If you really need to transport goods in and out, there is a special lifting platform on the spacecraft, so the entrance and exit of ordinary personnel is directly a door, and there is no escalator or something. At most, you can make some handrails on the edge of the door that are easy to grasp.
When I took Ling, Xiaochun, Yeyue, and Yiphrit from the spaceship together, the people below were still running here because they had just received the news that we were here and we had arrived before we could reach the arranged parking position here.
There were many people coming to greet us. After a rough look, there were more than 30 people. The four or five people walking in front of us who were over fifty should be the main personnel, and the others were probably followers and other people.
We took the initiative to meet him, and naturally we arrived in front of them soon. After giving a military salute, I opened my mouth and spoke. "Hello everyone. I am Shenlin. You should all know my identity, so I won't introduce myself." After that, I introduced Ling and the others again, and then asked, "So, may I ask you..."
The old man walking opposite the other side, who looked about 60 years old and in a suit was very capable, said, "I am Wang Guodong, a member of the State Council, who is responsible for this matter." He said, and introduced to me an officer in a military uniform who looks about 50 years old next to me. "This is Major General Liu Sitong, who is responsible for the mining area security work." As he said, he turned to a man who looks a little younger than Liu Sitong on the other side and said, "This is Dr. Wang Han, the technical supervisor here. I don't need to introduce the rest, right?"
The person Wang Guodong mentioned was a woman in her fifties, and she was wearing a suit like him. She looked quite masculine. But I really don’t know this person, but I know she is from our Longyuan because she has an identity chip, which is a formal employee of Longyuan. She is also an implantable type for high-level employees, which is the type that requires surgery to be disassembled and installed. Most ordinary employees are placed in their identity cards and do not require surgical implantation.
I just scanned her recognition chip and immediately learned her information. She was just sent by our group to be responsible for the contact work. Because alien remains were found here, the country needed professionals to take over. Therefore, she was sent here.
I nodded to say hello to everyone, and then asked directly: "What do we need to do now?"
Wang Guodong's special commissioner said: "You have two jobs now, but they are actually one thing, that is, you need to find a way to go to the bottom of the mine to see if there are survivors in the buried personnel below. The other is to investigate the situation of alien relics. We need to know what the relics are and whether they have excavation value."
I nodded to show that I understood.
It seems that things are a little different from what I thought. The government obviously intends to give up this mining area. Siran nuclear materials are also necessities for immigration, but this thing is not necessarily no place to supplement in space. Moreover, because our country has a base on the moon, the reserves of Helium III are very high, so it does not require nuclear materials. In this way, it will not take long to start immigration anyway, and it will be difficult to dig this mining area and mine it before anything is mined. It is obviously not cost-effective. Therefore, if the alien ruins below have no development value, the country may completely abandon the mining area.
After I figured out the situation, I said, "So can I send me the information you have now?"
"The thing is here." The company's liaison officer handed over a universal memory directly, and I directly pasted it on my ear, and returned the thing to her two seconds later. "Okay. I've finished downloading."
Send the information to everyone using the Mind Network, and then I said, "Then I will start now?"
"If you are convenient, of course the faster the better. The people below may not last long."
The situation below is not as bad as expected. Indeed, a landslide collapse occurred in this place, but the mining area did not completely collapse. The uranium mine is different from ordinary mines. It is not a small coal mine that can just dig a hole. The construction of this kind of mining area is like an air raid shelter, and it is even more exaggerated than an air raid shelter. The entrance is wider than a highway toll station, and it is fine if more than a dozen cars drive in side by side. Of course, it is not that big inside, but it can still have a width of more than six lanes. The top of the cave is also very high.
However, this situation is limited to one hundred meters in the entrance, and it won’t work if you go inside. It’s not that the mine is not as well as the outside, but because the collapse caused by the landslide inside blocks the cave, so the passage inside begins to become very narrow.
It can be said that this passage is not completely blocked, but because the landslide causes a large number of obstacles to block the entrance. The current situation is that the gap left by the collapse inside is too small and people cannot get out. Many obstacles are support beams, large pieces of rock and concrete blocks. Anyway, they are things that humans cannot do. Large machinery cannot be opened at all. If large machinery needs to dig in a little bit, it may take a very long time. Moreover, if large machinery wants to pass, the passage must be widened. Once the area excavated is too large, it may also lead to landslide again, so this method of excavation is somewhat undesirable.
However, without large equipment, it will be difficult to unlock these obstacles by relying solely on manpower and things that can be carried with you. This is the difficulty of rescue. But it is much more convenient for us to come.
We have the same destructive power as large machinery and the same size as humans, so we can easily get in. If we encounter some steel bars blocking the road or cement blocks, we have a way to do it. This is our advantage.
The people who came to pick us up did not send us to the mining area, but briefly introduced the situation to us at the command center at the foot of the mountain. It took us less than five minutes to complete the task overview, and then a special person sent us to the vicinity of the mining area.
In fact, the real mine area is still quite far from where the spacecraft landed. It was better when I was just below the mountain. After driving into the mountain, I found that all the soldiers standing on the roadside were wearing chemical defense suits. After all, this is a uranium mine. Although there is no radiation at the foot of the mountain, I began to feel a certain intensity of radiation from one-third of the mountain. Of course, this will not cause any harm to the human body. However, when the mountain passes by two-thirds, the radiation intensity may already hurt people. However, the soldiers in the mountain wear three defense suits. So it is no big deal.
When the car that sent us stopped in the real mining area, I found that there was a rescue front-line command center here. The command center at the foot of the mountain should have been placed here, but when the landslide seemed to have cracks on the surface, causing radiation leakage. The radiation intensity in this place had reached the point where it could kill people in half an hour without protection. This kind of ordinary radiation-proof suit can no longer be completely blocked. The soldiers here can tell that they are all wearing heavy protective suits that look like space suits. This thing is actually almost as good as the power armor, but it does not have bulletproof capabilities, and is specially designed for high-intensity radiation.
The soldiers who sent us did not dare to get off the car at all. They only wore ordinary protective clothing, but the ones who sent us were armored personnel carriers equipped with three-defense functions, so as long as they didn't get off the car, it would be fine.
Because we had already explained it clearly before, there was no need to know anything here after we were put down. We directly met with the person in charge here, and then the other party sent eight entourage personnel to go down to save the person with us.
These eight people are all staff members in the mine area and are familiar with the environment below. Moreover, they are all military. They are not wearing simple protective clothing now, but simple version of power armor with three-defense functions. This thing is called simple version of power armor, mainly because it is power armor used in the mine, which is a kind of power armor specially prepared for mining operations in this radiation area. The main strengthening direction of this thing is radiation protection, and secondly the function of power armor, but because it is not designed for combat, it is very serious in function.
These people have different tasks from ours. The five of us are to open the way and inspect the remains afterwards, while the eight of them are to lead the way and transport rescue supplies.
Because there may be wounded below, and some people's radiation-proof equipment may be damaged, so they need to bring more radiation-proof equipment to deal with the situation. Anyway, they are mainly responsible for rescue, and we are mainly responsible for opening the road.
Each of the eight people carried a big box with rescue equipment in it. Of course, we were light-fitted, wearing only our own power armor and not even buckled the helmet because the radiation did not respond to us at all. However, the soldiers next to us were all gaze all the way when they saw us. After all, those who did not wear protective equipment under this radiation intensity would die at most for more than ten minutes, but we did not react at all. This was definitely not a normal state for humans. However, the people here were soldiers of the army, and they were secret forces, and they knew that they should not say anything and should not ask.
After entering the cave, we saw some vehicles parked at the entrance of the cave. The shapes of these cars looked like lunar rovers, and they all had iron racks. It is said that it was inconvenient to move in protective equipment, so if the car had shells, it would be difficult for the staff to get up and down. Later, they simply turned into iron racks, which was more convenient.
When we passed through the entrance of the cave, we saw the collapsed passage. Not to mention, it was really not completely blocked. The collapsed earth and stone piled up a ridge like a dam in the passage, but the top was still a little far from the ceiling of the passage, which was enough for a person to stand straight and walk over.
We climbed up the ridge and found that there were still many people digging the passage behind. After all, the entrance in front was not blocked, so it was easier to come here, but the section they were digging was difficult to walk. Almost all the roads here were blocked, but in the middle, you can see some steel beams forming a triangular space, which could barely pass by, but the above orders not to pass, because the passing here is likely to increase the number of victims.
Chapter completed!