Chapter 483: Entering the Mine for Investigation

The mining area that Wang Zhifan's team arrived at was not just a primitive mine cave, but actually more like a small base.

After everyone got off the car, they saw large-scale artificial facilities, such as crushers, smelting furnaces, etc., as well as mine cars driving out of the mine cave, and members of other teams operating three-meter-high combat mechas patrolling back and forth.

"This time, the higher-ups arranged for us to dig the same mine cave with the No. 2 mining team! But they are responsible for the north area, and we are responsible for the south area! Remember not to go to the wrong place later!"

At this time, Wang Zhifan led everyone to the door of the mecha warehouse guarded by robots. After explaining the work location to everyone present, he arranged for them to start landing on their respective mechas.

First, the security team members entered the mecha warehouse in batches, boarded their combat mechas and prepared, and then a hundred criminal miners boarded their mining mechas, drove the production tools out of the warehouse and prepared to line up to enter the mine cave.

As the captain, Wang Zhifan also had his combat mecha, and his mecha was the most advanced military-grade among the crowd, but he went into the warehouse and took a look at the thing and came out directly, without choosing to log in.

The reason was simple. He looked down on the stupid, big, black and rough guy. He felt that he was inferior to the Sirius mecha in every aspect. Moreover, he did not need the assistance of the mecha, which would easily restrict his hands and feet.

So soon after, all his men drove their mechas into their workstations under his eyes.

Among them, all the miners entered the mine. They drove two mining mechas with obvious differences in size, which were undoubtedly standard and advanced.

Most of the team members drove combat mechas to supervise, and a few stayed outside the mine to assist in guarding.

The standard mining mecha was only about two meters high and three meters long. The overall shape was a bit like a steel crab. The two mining claws in the front were responsible for crushing and grabbing ore, and there was a truck for temporarily loading ore at the back. The miners sat in the cockpit at the connection between the mining claws and the truck. It looked more like a weird excavator than a mecha.

The advanced mining mecha is more humanoid, with a height of five meters and a trunk diameter of three meters. Its huge steel arms are sharp weapons for grabbing ore, and its chest and stomach are used to temporarily load ore. As for the driver, he is in the cockpit that constitutes the head of the mecha.

In order to prevent the miners who drive these two mining mechas that are very destructive at first glance from causing trouble, the combat mechas controlled by the security team members are more terrifying.

Although their combat mechas are not as big as the advanced mining mechas in terms of size, they are equipped with powerful weapons and electronic jammers specifically for mining mechas.

Once the miners use the mining mechas to cause trouble, the security team members who rush over will instantly block the control of the mechas and become fish to be slaughtered.

"Captain, why don't you drive your own mecha? It will be very dangerous if you encounter falling rocks when entering the mine like this!"

When the miners drove the mining mechas honestly and entered the mine accompanied by the security team members driving the combat mechas, Wang Zhifan still looked like the captain's uniform at the beginning.

He walked on the ground towards the inside of the huge mine cave, and was reminded by the team member who was responsible for guarding the exit of the mine cave.

"I don't want to open that thing today. You guard it well and be careful not to let other mining teams steal the minerals we mined."

After listening to the casual instructions, Wang Zhifan walked into the huge mine cave in front without looking back.

He was still very curious about this mining area. After all, he had never entered such a place before, and it felt like a sightseeing tour.

In his field of vision, he could see that the mining area in front was very huge. The main road of this mine cave was dug at least ten meters high and thirty meters wide, enough to accommodate multiple advanced mining mechas passing side by side.

In front of him, two truck-sized cube-shaped suspended automatic mining cars were driving quickly from the depths of the mine cave. The mining cars were piled with unknown ores of different colors, reflecting multiple layers of light under the illumination of the surrounding mining lamps.

Next to the mine cart, there were two other team members who were operating combat mechas and escorting Wang Zhifan throughout the journey. When they saw Wang Zhifan walk in without even turning on his mecha, the alertness on their faces turned into surprise.

"We have to arrange bodyguards to guard a mine, for fear that it will be robbed by other mining teams... This mining base is completely nonsense."

Seeing this scene, Wang Zhifan felt a little speechless. He felt more and more that this mining base was not a professional mining base, but a special place for making a living. The various regulations and settings were not what a production enterprise should have.

But he had no intention of making any adjustments or suggestions. For him, the most important thing was to pass this dungeon smoothly.

"Perhaps robbing other people's mines is also a feasible strategy for passing the level. We have to make some contingency plans."

Turning around and watching the other team members escorting the fruits of their hard work out, Wang Zhifan had such an idea in his mind.

Generally speaking, with his personality, he doesn't like to rob others. The fruits of his own labor are the sweetest. But sometimes, if it is difficult to pass the level by conventional means, then he has to adopt special strategies. People can't be suffocated to death by some of their own ideas.

Time passed quickly. After walking through the nearly 1,000-meter-long main road of the mine, Wang Zhifan soon arrived at the fork leading to the north and south mining areas.

There were also two team members he arranged to guard here. When they saw him coming, they raised their hands to salute him in the cockpit of the high-up combat mecha.

"Hello, captain!"

"Hello, captain!"

"Well, you guys guard here well, and notify me on your watch if there is any unexpected situation."

Wang Zhifan responded calmly when he saw this. He was not at a disadvantage at all because he was weak and weak without using the mecha.

He raised his hand to look at the high-tech communication watch on his wrist, followed the location guidance above and headed towards the target area. He began a detailed inspection of his miners, and his figure quickly disappeared into the depths of the huge and deep mine.

The first place he arrived at was the easternmost part of the southern part of the mining area. This is a mineral-rich area. Many kinds of ores are hidden deep in the stone walls. More than 30 miners under his command chose to drive their mechas here to dig hard. .

The person in charge was an old black man who looked to be in his fifties. He was driving a five-meter-high advanced mining mecha. He was shaking his head and hands while working, and was humming a nasty song. His expression was very intoxicated. He efficiently grabbed the ore from the broken rocks in front of him and put it into the mecha's mine bin with his giant mecha hand, without even noticing anyone approaching from behind.

"Galka, a robber, has been participating in labor reform at the base for twelve years, and is an elite miner."

Wang Zhifan's communication watch now displayed the information of the corresponding miner, indicating that this old black man was worthy of his care and was one of the main laborers in his mining team.

He glanced at the information and then left slightly to go elsewhere, without disturbing the old miner who was devoted to his work.

The second group of people he inspected were two young white miners working together. They both drove standard mining mechas, like two steel crabs working hard to dig holes, and chatting while digging.

"Mike, have you noticed the new female miners here today? One of them makes me feel something. I plan to capture her within three days."

"Which one? I remember they all look different? But there are a few new women in the other team who are really good. They make me want to commit a crime..."

"Who else could it be? That black girl with a big butt and two big breasts..."

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The two were chatting animatedly and did not notice Wang Zhifan coming from behind. Wang Zhifan secretly observed their work efficiency for a few seconds and felt that they still had room for improvement.

But he did not directly punish the two men. Instead, he turned around and left and notified his men on his watch to deal with it. He ordered them to be mined separately and put more pressure on them, so that they could not continue to work hard.

Then, he came to the third group of miners in the surrounding area. There were also two young miners gathered here, but these two were even more outrageous than the two who just talked.

I saw one of them controlling a standard mining mecha and mining at a slow speed, while the other simply stopped working and sat in the mecha's cabin to smoke, not even bothering to do anything, as if he was here for a vacation.

"I said David, how boring is it for us to go on like this, why can't we find a way to defeat this ghost base? I remember you mentioned that there are people outside who are interested in this place, and we can cooperate with them."

"Wait a little longer. That person hasn't sent a message to me for several days. Wait until I find out the plan."

The two of them were talking in low voices when suddenly they felt a strong force coming from their bodies, and they were almost thrown out of the mecha cockpit at the same time, and then whip shadows occupied their field of vision.

Snap! Snap! Snap!

"ah!!!"

"Telling you to be lazy!"

"Stop fighting! I was wrong!"

"Why don't you be lazy?"

"I don't dare, I don't dare! Boss!"

"ah!!!"

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It turned out that when Wang Zhifan saw them slacking off in their work just now, he chose to punish them personally, using the captain's whip to let them know the consequences of not working hard.

The specific process was that he used the authority of the captain's communication watch to directly open the cockpit door of the two men's mecha, then jumped up at an inhuman speed, pulled them out, threw them to the ground, and beat them severely with a whip.

During the whole process, the two young miners had no chance to react. They entered the stage of being punished before they saw the person coming. Therefore, when they saw that the whip wielder was Wang Zhifan, they looked quite shocked and found it difficult to understand what had just happened and why. The person coming was so elusive.

Wang Zhifan naturally had no need to explain to them. He whipped them hard and walked away with a few warnings. He then notified his team members to come over and supervise, and ordered that if these two people continued to slack off in the future, the punishment would be further increased.

"David, that kid didn't turn on the mecha! Let's fight him!"

When Wang Zhifan left, one of the miners who had been whipped and bruised got up and looked at Wang Zhifan's retreating back with resentment, hoping to encourage his friends to attack with the mining mecha.

Because he discovered that this enemy actually showed up in light clothing without the protection of a powerful mecha, which meant that they could crush him even if they were driving a mining mecha.

"You're crazy! That kid is very weird! I suspect he is the legendary superpower! We must not take any chances!"

Although the miner named David also suffered from unbearable pain and wanted revenge, he was well-informed and judged very critical information.

"Superpower? You mean he..."

For a moment, the other person remembered what happened to the captain Wang Zhifan who came all the way to the mining area. It seemed that only a person with superpowers could explain why the other person was extraordinary.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain that he was extremely skilled and could easily repel the swarm of battle beetles encountered in the car before. The process when they were whipped just now was also very strange. They were pulled out of the mecha cockpit and suffered a blow without any chance to react. He was beaten severely.

"Yes, this captain is definitely not easy to mess with. We must be confident enough before we attack him."

Seeing that his partner had stopped being impulsive, David lowered his voice and responded, implying that he would contact an unknown person for support.

But what these two people didn't know was that their conspiracy was completely exposed to Wang Zhifan's ears.

It wasn't that Wang Zhifan could hear very clearly even though he was so far away, but that he had just quietly arranged for a Mengwo clone to hide nearby to monitor every move of the two men.

"A murderer, a fraudster, and a so-called mysterious man actually want to subvert the mining base... Is there anything worth worrying about in this base?"

In the distance, Wang Zhifan couldn't help but feel confused when he heard the message from his clone.

He remembered the spy option in the identity selection at the beginning of the dungeon. Perhaps the mysterious man mentioned by the two miners with evil intentions was the spy in the option.

But this raises the question of why this mining base with a joke-like structure is of concern to spies. This is not even explained clearly in the identity description of the spies.

"It doesn't matter. As long as I send a clone to investigate secretly, I will definitely figure it out sooner or later... It is more important to focus on clearing the dungeon... These two people will be on the death list first."

Wang Zhifan thought in his mind and gave the two people just a death sentence with a suspended execution.

This is because his captain's performance indicators include a death toll indicator, which must ensure that at least 3 people among the criminal miners die every month, and at the same time, the death toll cannot exceed 12.

Wang Zhifan originally thought that asking the security captain to kill his miners was to scare chickens and monkeys and promote the survival of the fittest to promote mining efficiency, but now it seems that the situation may not be that simple.

"The mining indicators of dead miners will not be cleared, so I'd better deal with them at the end of the month when their value is used up... This copy has really sinister intentions."

After further thinking, Wang Zhifan found that there were many detailed issues in this copy, which must be considered comprehensively, otherwise it would be easy to focus on one and miss the other.

With these thoughts in mind, he then inspected the work conditions of other miners under his command, and divided the miners into three levels: key protection, strengthened supervision, and strict supervision. Those in strict supervision also included those who needed to be on the death list. (End of chapter)