Urban Sims

Chapter 213 The Uninvited Guest in Area 49

The third mining area, the living area.

In an ordinary miner's family in a certain mine, there was a discussion.

"Husband, son, are you really going? Go to work in such a far place and only come back once a few months. What if you accidentally get into danger?"

Under the dim light, Hongyan frowned, her face very worried.

Recently, the company issued a recruitment announcement, saying that a high-value metal mine with huge reserves has been discovered in the shallow and medium-level mining area, and 150 strong miners will be recruited to mine this metal mine.

However, the mine is located in a remote place, and a long tunnel needs to be dug there.

Obviously there is no ore in the tunnel, so the announcement offered 400 credits per person per day to dig the tunnel.

After the announcement of the recruitment was announced, many healthy miners in the third mining area immediately applied enthusiastically. Within a day, thousands of people signed up.

400 points/day salary, although it is not as good as going underground to mine, occasionally when you are lucky, you can earn four to five hundred credit points, but the advantage is stability, and after the tool is damaged, the company will bear the maintenance cost, only this one, it is attractive It caught the attention of countless miners.

In addition, the rocks in the middle and shallow mining areas are relatively loose, which is obviously much less labor-saving than digging those diamond-hard rocks at a depth of [-] to [-] kilometers. This is a relatively easy job.

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

Tieman also said to his wife Hongyan:

"Don't worry about danger. The middle-level mining area is much safer. Even if there is an accident, the announcement also said that one who dies will be compensated with 20 credits, and one who is disabled will be compensated with 10. Except for being unable to return home for a long time, other aspects are better than mine. It’s much better to go to the deep mining area.”

Tieman even thought that it would be great if he could continue to do this kind of work 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, but suddenly one day he would never be able to go home.

Income is more and more stable.

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

The daughter Tie Ermei at the side said at this time, dispelling Hongyan's worries twice.

A similar scene happened in many miners' families in the No. [-] mining area. Many housewives expressed concerns similar to Hongyan's, but almost none of them objected to their husbands or sons digging tunnels.

……

this day.

After the manpower was recruited and everything was ready, Zhou Ming also put on a set of small protective clothing, stood in front of this group of muscular miners, did not make any long speeches, and spit out the word "departure" from his mouth. Call these miners and set off with their tools and equipment.

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, which can pass through the interception of the sky screen 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 of any one of the 51 lower-level areas is much better than that of Area 51.

Why do you say that?

Because among the 51 lower-level areas, only the surface of Area 51 is impossible for human beings to survive. The surface of Area 51 is not only a desert without any grass, but also has a terrifyingly high concentration of nuclear radiation. 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 radiation elements with a short half-life have almost decayed early. In addition, for hundreds of years, human beings have relentlessly purified and cleaned many areas. The original vitality and lush greenery have been restored, and the residual radiation is of course still there, but it is no longer so deadly.

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

According to Zhou Ming’s judgment on the [Map of Area 51], there are thousands of large circular crater-like craters all over the surface. Area 51 hundreds of years ago was either a place where nuclear tests were often conducted, or where a nuclear factory was located. There won't be so many nuclear bombs exploding here, and all the nuclear materials in the nuclear plant will be blown up to the sky. Therefore, Area 51 is the worst environment among all the lower-level areas.

In addition, in terms of population, District 51 has the smallest population, only a million or so, while other districts have as few as 500 million and as many as tens of millions.

It is said that District 03 has the largest population, with more than 5000 million people. The reason is that District 03 is located in the tropics, with fertile land and abundant rainfall. Food crops can be grown three times a year. After hundreds of years of multiplication and reproduction, the population has reached a level close to explosion.

And Zhou Ming has never been to these districts, how did he know the above information?
This information was obtained by Zhou Ming from those "promoters" who had been continuously promoted to Area 52 in Yaoxing City in the last game. He had sent people to collect more than 80 copies in more than 3000 years. The files of the "promoters" sorted out all kinds of information on the 48 lower-level districts, so even if Zhou Ming had never been to these districts, he still had a general impression in his mind.

What is the purpose of the underground tunnel dug by Zhou Ming leading to other districts?
There are mainly two purposes.

One, to make up for the regrets of the previous life, and arrange some relatives who I can't worry 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 an exchangeable area map.

Zhou Ming's idea is good, but is he really sure to pass through the interception of the sky screen system and dig the tunnel to another area adjacent to Area 51?

He feels that the problem is not big. The sky screen system is very powerful, which is good, but it limits the "sky". For the underground that is 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 at a depth of hundreds of meters underground, and anyone who gets close will be electrocuted to death.

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

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

So for the sky screen system, the underground miners in Area 52 are its fatal bug.

……

then.

For the next six and a half years, Zhou Ming led the excavation team composed of 6 miners according to the optimal excavation route planned in his mind [Map of Area 51], and worked in three shifts, day and night. At a speed of 150 meters per day, a 65-kilometer-long tunnel was successfully excavated.

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

This made him very excited, and immediately ordered the miners to excavate obliquely upwards, avoiding some rock formations with high water content and wet sandy soil layers, and speeding up. It only took two and a half months, accompanied by a crisp sound of rock cracking, almost A glare of light shone into the tunnel, and several black-faced miners couldn't help covering their eyes with their hands. Because they were not used to the natural light outside, after the pupils contracted violently, some people uttered two screams of pain.

"Take off the helmet and oxygen mask, there is no need to use oxygen cylinders here anymore."

After tearing off the oxygen mask and 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. above the surface.

At this time, the outside world is eight or nine in the morning.

The sky above was blue.

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

The nearby landforms are dominated by rocky landforms, with no grass growing, but after walking a few kilometers to the south, after entering the edge of a white desert, you can see a few tall cactus plants scattered in the sand, as well as some plants called "Unclear". After naming the thorny plant, Zhou Ming basically confirmed where it was.

District 49.

There is less rainfall, and it is full of cacti. Most of the land belongs to the semi-desert zone, and the population is about 300 million in District 49.

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

Taking out a small radiation measuring instrument from his pocket, Zhou Ming smiled slightly after seeing the data displayed on it: "At least, the people here can survive normally on the surface."

"What is this place? How did we come to the ground?"

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

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

Hearing this, Tietou looked over, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he blurted out: "Green...plants, you can 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 of Area 51, let alone plants! It should be a green stone."

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

"If it's a stone, why is it moving when it's blown by the wind, and the piles of thorny things beside it are also stones?"

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

Tietou's father, Tieman standing among the miners, squinted his eyes, looking at the green plants standing in the desert, as if welcoming his master, as if waving to him gently, he couldn't help muttering: : "Impossible, Area 51 can also grow plants."

When the miners were arguing and arguing about the plants they had never seen before, Zhou Ming came over, clapped his hands, told them to stop arguing, and said something, which shocked them collectively if:
"Stop arguing, if I'm not mistaken, this should be Area 49, not Area 51."

The miners looked at each other, dumbfounded.

Area 49?
This... how is this possible?

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