Urban Sims

Chapter 174 Gathering Information
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 dungeon, he collected the information himself.

"Drip~"

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

After a thin reminder, a scene of a baby crying and being born appeared in his mind... The game just started.

Soon, three years passed in the dungeon.

The baby in the picture in my mind has become a toddler who can walk on the ground and speak easily. He is strong, smart and intelligent. Among the four children, he is the youngest and loved by his mother the most.

but……

"In such a world, this child can grow up to be 6 years old without any worries at most, so he has to go to work in the mine..."

There are no character cards, no skill cards, no [map] and various items. This challenge level provided by the system is more like a hell level.

Why do you say that?
Because this is the basic judgment Zhou Ming made after observing from a shared perspective and collecting some basic information from this world.

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

A fairly happy family of six.

His father, Tieman, is a 30-year-old strong man with muscular muscles, 1.9 meters tall, and a stern face with Chinese characters.

Her mother, Hongyan, is two years younger than her father. She is an ordinary housewife with big buttocks and big breasts. She has given birth to four healthy children. She is good at cooking and sewing. She is shy and quiet. She is the head of logistics for the family.

The eldest brother Tietou, 10 years old this year, has already left the mine and 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 cooks for her mother at home.

Third brother Tieshan, 6 years old this year, has already left the mine and is engaged in simple rough ore selection in the middle mining area.

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

This family lives in the miners' living area 12 kilometers deep underground, which is called the "third living area". Among hundreds of similar underground living areas, this living area is medium-sized, with about 3000 people. For miners and their families, they make a living by mining.

On this planet, because the shallow surface resources have already been exploited, in order to obtain resources, miners have to go deeper underground, risking high temperature, high pressure, lack of oxygen, subsidence, magma, etc., to obtain such things as iron, Manganese, copper, gold, silver, sulfur, phosphorus, potassium and other raw ore resources.

The place where his father Tieman works is in a zirconium mining area that is 30 kilometers deep underground and close to the edge of the mantle layer. The zirconium ore here is of high grade and abundant in reserves, and zirconium metal is widely used in high-tech industries. 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 talking about it, because it is close to the edge of the crust of the scorching hot mantle layer, the temperature exceeds 200 degrees Celsius, the air pressure is three times that of the surface, and the underground is filled with poisonous gas, and the oxygen content is zero. Miners It is necessary to wear a heavy device similar to a space suit and carry an oxygen cylinder to work in this extreme environment.

Moreover, there is solid-liquid frictional movement at the junction of the crust and the mantle, and micro-earthquakes occur frequently. After the rock layer is broken, the magma suddenly erupted from the mantle is only in the third living area, and it will kill dozens of miners every year. life.

But it’s impossible not to go to such a dangerous deep mining area to mine, because the iron, copper, manganese and other raw ores in the shallow layer of the earth’s crust are not worth much, and 1 ton is only worth dozens of credits, which is far inferior to those 1 ton deeper in the earth’s crust. A kilogram of high-value ore is worth dozens of credits.

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

No, hardly ever.

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, energy, food, clothing, household appliances, daily necessities, mining tools and other materials are all provided by the '51 Mining Company', and they cannot be self-sufficient. 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 degree 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 30000 credits.

In addition to other daily necessities, furniture, household appliances, etc., a family of six needs at least 24 credits for maintenance in a 300-hour life cycle.

This is spending under 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 Tieman, the father who works in the deep mining area, the value of the ore mined in a day is basically between 300-500 credits.

So every time period, after father Tieman gets off work, the first question mother Hongyan asks is: "How many points have you dug today?"

If the answer is more than 400, the dinner will be richer; if it is between 300-400, the dinner will be as usual; if it is less than 300, or the tool is out of order, the whole family will be sad, and everyone will have dinner except father Tieman amount will be reduced.

The family has a large population, and the income of his father, Tieman, can only barely maintain the expenses. To improve the family conditions and prevent accidents, he can only send a few children to work in the mine early.

As for the education of the children...

It is enough to know those numbers. Father Tieman didn't go to school for a day, and he left the mine when he was 6 years old. 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 it can add up to a lot.

……

So, under Zhou Ming's silent attention, Tie Qiang, who grew to be 6 years old, soon went to work in the mine with his third brother. In the first few days, he threw himself into his mother's arms and cried as soon as he returned home. After two years of adaptation, as the son of a miner, he still endured that kind of high-intensity work and became the little pillar of the family.

However, there was an unforeseen situation. 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 were frowning and did not know what to do. "'s underground exploration team sent good news: It is said that in the junction area between the third and fourth mining areas, a medium-sized titanium mine was discovered, with a high grade and a reserve of one million tons, which has a high mining value.

The news made the residents of the third mining area excited collectively, and immediately applied to the company to mine the mine.Although the value of titanium ore is not as high as 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 the adjacent fourth mining area was also very excited after hearing the news, 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 However, after receiving a 500 million credit card from the mine manager of the fourth district, the titanium mine was all assigned to the fourth mining district.

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

In that battle of thousands of people, his father, Tieman, rushed forward, was pierced by a sharp knife in his internal organs and died. The pillar of a family of six collapsed.

After the fighting, the third mining area took back half of the titanium mining rights. The price was that more than 300 miner families have been impoverished and decayed ever since.

After the death of his father Tieman, his elder brother Tietou became the pillar of the family. Three years later, while working in a dangerous mining area, he suddenly encountered a landslide, and his life and death were unknown, and he never went up the well again.

At the age of 16, the elder sister Tie Ermei got married. At the age of 18, his mother died of lung disease. At the age of 20, the third brother Tieshan signed up for the "Game of Death". Tie Qiang, amidst a loud bang, the rock under his feet cracked, and the fiery red mantle magma swallowed him instantly...

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

(End of this chapter)