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Chapter 97: The Far East, a Land of Mines! (Seeking Subscriptions)

Looking at the birch tree that was instantly matured before him, Chen Jue's face revealed a hint of joy.

Previously, in the underground base in Chen Village, using MC farmland to accelerate the growth of bayberry saplings resulted in unnatural, square shapes, just like in the MC game.

Although that operation could quickly produce fruit, the material of the trees themselves could not be used for monetization.

Seeing that the birch trees in reality could also be quickly matured with [Bone Meal], Chen Jue valued the newly acquired Sova Lumber Mill even more!

Of course, the reason Chen Jue took a fancy to this dilapidated lumber mill was also because of its business model of having a factory in the front and a garden in the back.

The raw materials didn't need to be imported from outside; they could be directly felled from the economic forest behind the mountain, roughly processed on-site, and then sent by truck to the river port of Blagoveshchensk for export to China.

If he could obtain a cross-border logistics permit, Chen Jue could even save the cost of hiring a transportation team locally and directly send Tiehan Logistics' large truck fleet to the Far East.

After all, the economic momentum of the Far East's cooperative development has been very strong in the past two years, and the procedures at the trading ports have become very simple.

As long as it's not transporting contraband, and customs are declared and taxes are paid in accordance with the law, wood-type materials in short supply can be easily transported into the country.

Chen Jue had previously seen videos online of Russian iron-waisted drivers taking orders from cargo owners, driving container trucks all the way south to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, engaging in a transnational transportation trade of over 10,000 kilometers.

There's no reason why Russians can run cross-border transportation, but the Iron Golems with Chinese skin can't.

After all, when it comes to whose waist is tougher, Chen Jue has never seen anyone who can work tirelessly like the Iron Golems!

So, after testing the [Bone Meal]'s ability to mature real wood, Chen Jue sent an implicit ' (OjbK) ' message to the old merchant who had gone out with Sergei to handle the procedures, using the server chat box.

He also sent an order to Tie Yi, who was far away in Ruixian, instructing him to bring the last 20 available Iron Golems from the Magic Cube Factory and to gather all the trailers previously purchased by Tiehan Logistics at the Heihe port to wait.

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After issuing instructions to the MC creatures, Chen Jue took advantage of the night to continue wandering in the mountains behind the lumber mill.

"The Far East is remote enough, sparsely populated, and mostly in a semi-primitive state."

"There are no villages nearby, let alone surveillance, you can't even see a single person!"

"Setting up a base in this place is definitely safer than in China."

Chen Jue muttered to himself as he surveyed the surrounding environment.

Because this time he ventured abroad, in addition to planning to make a quick buck from the timber business by accelerating the growth of economic trees, he was also seeking a way out for his future.

Once he accidentally exposed all the secrets of the Magic Cube Factory and the underground base in China in the future, Chen Jue could pour a bucket of lava or infinite water down, directly destroying everything related to China and MC, and run abroad to develop.

After all, he is now alone, with only his grandfather and a few uncles still in contact.

Of course, this is the worst and last resort.

In addition, as a qualified MC player, it is impossible not to build a few branch bases to live in every time he changes a map.

"A cunning rabbit has three burrows, leaving a few backup plans in advance is just in case," Chen Jue comforted himself.

After inspecting the forest farm in the mountains and seeing the red line markings painted on the trees that Sergei had mentioned.

Chen Jue found a hidden hillside and took out an [Iron Pickaxe] and started digging downwards with Iron Lao Liu.

By the time the big-nosed old merchant returned to the lumber mill in his Lada car, smelling of vodka and with green eyes, Chen Jue had already carved out a branch base filled with torches at a depth of one hundred meters below the lumber mill.

It was just that the further down Chen Jue dug, the more he discovered something was wrong.

He found that the underground rock layers of this lumber mill actually showed snake-like patterns, and upon closer inspection, there were also signs of silk threads fraying in textiles.

"Can hair grow in rocks?"

"This is… asbestos!"

Upon seeing this, Chen Jue hurriedly raised the [Iron Pickaxe] and knocked on the ore in front of him.

With a "biu~" sound, it was put into the backpack, and when he picked up the newly collected ore block, a line of subtitles appeared: [Serpentine Asbestos: Item, a natural fibrous silicate mineral that can be used to make asbestos products.]

"Did I just find a mine so easily?" Chen Jue exclaimed with a look of emotion.

He knew about asbestos, because factories that process auto and motorcycle parts would build their own coal kilns for calcining blanks and iron parts.

In addition to refractory bricks, asbestos cloth is also needed to be laid inside and outside for insulation, to prevent the high temperature emitted by the kiln from affecting the production of workers in the workshop.

The most important thing is that asbestos is not cheap.

A ton of better asbestos costs at least a thousand, and the special asbestos used to manufacture brake pads is even more expensive, basically selling for 5,000 yuan a ton, a price that is more stable than the rising and falling steel.

This seemingly inconspicuous mineral has a wide range of uses, and its presence can be found in automobiles, chemicals, electrical equipment, and the construction industry.

Even the earliest pharaoh's shroud in ancient Egypt was woven from asbestos!

The only disadvantage is that asbestos mining is relatively difficult, because the natural fibrous properties of asbestos can cause a series of diseases in the human body and is classified as a Class 1 carcinogen by the World Health Organization.

In China, the production of 'amphibole asbestos' was banned as early as 2002.

The 'serpentine asbestos' that Chen Jue mined is still in normal circulation and use.

"The Far East is really full of treasures! You can easily find asbestos mines by digging down casually."

"The Russians are really sitting on a mountain of gold and begging for food."

Chen Jue complained in his heart, looking curiously at the serpentine asbestos block for a while.

He also took out an MC [Furnace] from his backpack and tried to smelt it.

As a result, he found that the [Furnace] did not light up like it did when smelting iron ore before, but directly stopped working, and he could not obtain a further smelting formula.

"The furnace doesn't work?"

"Is the tool not right?" Chen Jue thought to himself.

He took out his notebook to record this new discovery, and after looking at the frayed asbestos minerals on the rock wall of the branch base, he suddenly had an idea.

"Everyone has hair!"

"Since it's fibrous and hairy, it should be the same as the wool properties in MC, right?"

So Chen Jue took out the [Shears] and right-clicked on the row of serpentine asbestos mines in front of him, and he heard the familiar "biu~" sound, and a brand new block product popped out of the ore.

When he picked it up and looked at it, a line of subtitles appeared: [Asbestos Fluff: Item, a high-grade natural mineral fiber extracted from serpentine asbestos, with anti-corrosion, acid resistance, insulation, and pressure resistance properties, and can be used in the construction industry and national defense cutting-edge technology.]

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