Chapter 484 Stealing Mines

Time passed quickly, and several hours passed in the blink of an eye, and it was daytime on the alien planet.

Wang Zhifan spent most of this time patrolling the mine, and sometimes even went to the north area where other teams were excavating to learn about the general situation of the entire mining area.

At this moment, he came to the exit of the mine to count the fruits of his men's labor and made a preliminary calculation.

"According to the current mining data, if everything goes well, it will probably reach the passing line of 80% of the total indicators by the end of the month. This company's indicators are really accurate."

After rough calculations, he found that the mining team he led had a high probability of completing 80% of the mining target if this continued, but there was no guarantee, because in the event of an accident, the chain might be disrupted at the last moment.

"For insurance purposes, it seems that we have to use outside tactics."

After thinking about it, Wang Zhifan felt that he had to prepare in advance, otherwise he would be unhappy if he failed at the last moment of the copy.

But just as he was thinking secretly, a member of the security team flying a three-meter-high combat mecha came near him and reported to him:

"Captain, the nutritional ointment distributed by the base has arrived. Please tell everyone when to eat."

"Let's distribute it now...forget it, I will distribute it myself."

Wang Zhifan responded immediately after hearing this. He was not the type who liked to hinder his men from eating.

Not long after, he opened his five-meter-high combat mecha for the first time and walked out of the mecha warehouse guarded by robots. Then he brought a large box containing nutritional cream and drinking water supplies for all members into the mecha cockpit, and entered the mine in person. Cao delivers meals to his men.

Of course, the team members guarding the outside of the mine were the first to obtain their own nutritional ointment and have already started to consume it.

Wang Zhifan saw that the team members were eating a yellow square nutritional ointment packaged in green paper. It looked like they were eating cakes, and their expressions were relatively normal, so it should not be difficult to eat.

The miners ate something different. It was a white tube-shaped nutritional paste. When he entered the mine and threw one of the tubes at the old black man of the elite miner, the old black man's face suddenly showed a disgusting look as if he had picked up shit. But he was reluctant to throw away his only nutritional ration, so he could only frown and prepare to forcefully stuff the nutritional paste into his mouth.

"Old man! Let me try this for you!"

When Wang Zhifan saw this, he secretly thought how unpalatable this white tube-shaped nutritional paste must be. Even the old man who had worked here for more than ten years could not adapt to it, so he raised his hand and took out a piece of nutritional paste eaten by the security team members from the large lunch box, and took it from himself The cockpit of the fighting mecha was thrown into the cockpit of the old man's advanced mining mecha.

"Thank you, Captain!"

The old black man was worthy of being a senior miner. He recognized what Wang Zhifan threw at him at a glance. He reached out and picked up the nutritious cream that was countless times more delicious and began to stuff it into his mouth. As for the tube of nutritious cream he was holding just now. The paste was thrown directly onto the cockpit floor.

"Galka, you have fifteen minutes to eat, enjoy it."

Wang Zhifan immediately reminded the other party that giving this elite miner ample meal time was equivalent to giving him a short vacation. This was a special reward for the hard-working miner.

Leaving the elite miner Galka's location, Wang Zhifan then drove the combat mecha to the nearest place.

Two young white men were originally mining here, but since the last time Wang Zhifan came to check on the arrangements, they were forcibly separated, leaving only one of them still mining here alone.

When the young miner here heard the heavy footsteps of the combat mech driven by Wang Zhifan approaching, his slightly lazy mining rhythm suddenly became faster, hoping to give the visitor a good impression.

"Stop it, Joseph! It's time for you to eat! Also, don't work hard when I come, the total amount of your mining cannot be deceived!"

Upon seeing this, Wang Zhifan threw a tube of unpalatable white nutritional ointment and two bottles of drinking water to the miner who was not working well. After giving a warning, he rushed to the next location.

The reason why he has to do such small things personally is, on the one hand, to improve the relationship between himself and his subordinates, and on the other hand, to further confirm their working status and make corresponding adjustments.

Not long after, he came all the way to the depths of the southern area of ​​the mine and found three miners quarreling. At the same time, two security team members came to rescue them, but the results were not good.

The core argument heard among the three miners was the amount of minerals they mined. Two of them believed that they had been taken advantage of by others, that is, the mines they mined had been stolen, but the identified miners did not admit it at all.

"Jerry! Did you see with your eyes that I stole your ore! My mining location is more than twenty meters away from you! How could you not have noticed it if I came to steal it!"

"Asshole Thomson! Don't think I don't know you are a serious thief! I really don't know when you stole it! But you were closest to my location! You definitely stole it!"

"Yes! He even stole all the ores from my truck! Otherwise, the statistical weight of the mine truck wouldn't have suddenly decreased so much!"

"I'm so angry! You are wronging a good man who has returned to the normal road! If you don't believe me, you can investigate my truck body. There is no ore you mined in it!"

"Haha! There is no name on the ore! Who can tell who belongs to you when it comes to your place! You value this and use dirty theft methods!"

"You three, stop arguing! You will be punished collectively for delaying mining!"

"The captain is here! Let the captain judge it himself!"

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For a moment, the three quarreling miners and the two security team members who came to rescue them all focused their attention on Wang Zhifan, who came to deliver the meal, hoping that the boss of the mining team could give a judgment.

Wang Zhifan acted very calmly. He waved his hand to stop the chattering of the three miners and said:

"It's meal time now! You all eat quietly and don't make any more noise! ​​As for the matter of stealing mines, I have made my own decision. I will send someone to inform you of the results of the investigation later!"

After saying that, he immediately distributed the nutritional ointment to each of the five people present, and at the same time arranged for two security team members to lead one miner away, leaving only the miner Thomson, who was considered a thief, to stay where he was.

After the other two miners left, Wang Zhifan asked Thomson, who looked angry and was shown to be the thief in the information:

"Thomson, to be honest, you really didn't steal the mines?"

"No! Sir Captain! I swear to God not at all! How could I value a few broken stones! This is an insult to my character!"

When Thomson saw the captain, he also suspected that he couldn't help but look even more excited. Maybe it was because of his acting skills as a habitual thief, or maybe he really felt that his professionalism was being questioned.

"Well... I understand. You can dig with peace of mind. I will investigate this matter myself and will not wrong anyone."

After Wang Zhifan made his statement, he left in a hurry without exploring the place too much.

In fact, this kind of trivial matter of stealing minerals is nothing to Wang Zhifan. Anyway, the minerals are circulated within the team and do not affect his captain's performance indicators. However, Wang Zhifan suspects that the situation is not that simple, and there may be something hidden.

"According to the workstations of the three miners I just saw, it would definitely not be that easy for any of them to steal the mines...

The ore is very heavy and cannot be moved without controlling the mining mecha. As for a machine as big as a mining mecha, any movement of a machine can be detected by deaf people. It is impossible to say that a few miners who have been working for several years cannot detect others. Driving a mecha to steal minerals...

So the real situation is very clear. Either these three people are acting together to create opportunities for laziness, or someone else has used special means to steal the mines, hiding it from their sight..."

After a brief analysis, Wang Zhifan greatly narrowed down the scope of his suspicions. The one he suspected most was not the former thief Thomson, but the two newcomers in his mining team, specifically the two players!

The reason is very simple. Only players have various magical means to hide from the sight of ordinary miners and take the fruits of other people's labor for themselves without anyone noticing.

And players are very motivated to do this. In order to achieve the mining goals required to pass the level, they will definitely do everything possible to increase their total ore.

Of course, it’s not necessarily players from your own mining team who can do this kind of thing. Players from other teams, such as the No. 2 mining team in the north area of ​​the mine, if there are players, there is a high probability that they will come to fight in the autumn wind.

Therefore, Wang Zhifan then distributed the remaining nutritional ointment and drinking water supplies while secretly observing the movements in his mining area.

In fact, he had two clones placed in the mining area to guard him secretly, but the mining area was too large, and his clone had not noticed any outsiders intruding before. His main goal of controlling the clone at that time was to protect a few elite miners to ensure production. I didn't put my mind on this aspect at all.

When he quietly passed by the two white players in his team in his combat mecha, he found that they were both controlling the standard mining mecha and working hard, not even paying attention to the nutritional ointment distributed to them.

And he sent a clone in advance to observe secretly, and confirmed that they were in the same state when there were no outsiders, and their work attitude was obviously much better than most of the sneaky NPC miners.

"It looks like they are two common steady players who tried hard to mine in the early stages of the dungeon to achieve the clearance target... In that case, the person who stole the minerals is likely to come from another team..."

After some thinking, Wang Zhifan basically confirmed that the thief came from outside, which made him have a long-planned plan in his heart.

"Haha... Isn't it just stealing mines? Who doesn't know that? Brother, I will steal all your mines right now!

No...stealing everything is too exaggerated. Stealing half or even a small half is enough. The dungeon still takes a long time and needs to be kept steady..."

After making the decision, Wang Zhifan then started the corresponding operations.

I saw that he created a Menga clone with the same appearance to replace himself in piloting the combat mecha. The real person put on the Fengyin hat and entered the invisible state, and went to the northern area of ​​the mine that he had already roughly explored once.

The captain of the No. 2 mining team responsible for mining the northern area of ​​the mine is a middle-aged white man with a stern expression. His style is similar to Wang Zhifan. He is used to patrolling and investigating the mine in person and whipping miners who want to be lazy at any time.

The invisible Wang Zhifan easily avoided the captain's investigation route, and then began to profit from his mining team.

The first person to be attacked by him was a novice miner. This miner was an NPC boy. He was not very skilled in controlling standard mining mechas. The mining efficiency was obviously low to the naked eye, but his work attitude was quite serious.

When Wang Zhifan saw this, he went over to help him. He jumped onto his mecha truck in stealth mode, reducing the burden on the NPC who had finally mined the ore, and took away one-tenth of the mine in one go. All the minerals were put into his space ring, which was the modified Poseidon Meditation Ring.

The second group of people who were killed by him were two veteran miners. The two miners were working very close to each other, so they chatted while mining skillfully, and did not notice that an invisible thief had arrived.

Wang Zhifan then mercifully took away one-fifth of the fine ore in their mecha mine warehouse. Anyway, with their efficiency, they did not care about this loss.

Later, considering the limited capacity of the space ring, Wang Zhifan reduced the number of times he took action, and his main focus was on finding the players in this mining team.

It didn't take too long for him to find that there were at least three players in this mining team.

One of them was a hard-working type, and his mind was focused on mastering the standard mining mecha, and he worked very hard in mining.

One was a bold and lazy type, and he actually fell asleep in the mecha cab without anyone watching. I don't know how he planned to pass the level.

The last one was a sneaky type. Wang Zhifan sensed that the puppet he left in the cockpit was a humanoid puppet, which was slowly controlling the mining mecha to work, while the original body ran away.

"This person's puppet seems to be average in intelligence. It's hard to refuse his kindness, so just accept the fruits of his labor!"

For the two players in front, Wang Zhifan did not steal their mines. After all, players have various means and he might be exposed.

But Wang Zhifan, who used a humanoid puppet as a substitute, did not have to worry about it. He judged that the puppet was rather dull, so he jumped into the back of the car invisibly, intending to fill the last remaining capacity in the space ring.

But at this time, some movements around him that were difficult for ordinary people to detect triggered his perception, allowing him to quietly jump off the mining mecha's car again.

In the mining cockpit, a young player with the appearance of a Xia nationality suddenly appeared next to the humanoid puppet. He put the puppet working for him into his personal space, then jumped out of the cockpit, came to the back of the truck, raised his hand and poured out many ores of different colors out of thin air.

"Good guy, I actually met a colleague... No, he is probably the player who stole my mining team!"

For a moment, Wang Zhifan judged that he had met the culprit, so revenge was justified, but how to retaliate required some thought.

"This person is probably a Xia nationality. It's not good to kill him directly. If he works in the management bureau, it will be a big loss. Besides, I don't have much hatred for him, so I will give him a taste of his own medicine."

After making up his mind, Wang Zhifan immediately took action. (End of this chapter)