Another cargo twin otter landed first, and the one Zhang Nan rode in followed behind, this is for safety: this is no man's land, God knows how many years no one has come to explore here, and it is very likely that there has not been a two-legged creature other than birds on that island for hundreds of thousands of years!

The lake looks deep enough, but the pilots are not sure that there will be a shallow swamp in a certain section of the lake - it is the uncle who spends the money, and he is still given the top salary of the mercenary, of course, someone must go to the "mine" first. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the cargo plane flickered, some birds flew up, which made it even more necessary for someone to drive them away.

After the previous cargo plane had landed safely and slowly approached the island, the pilot of the passenger plane entered the landing route.

The feeling of water take-off and landing is very different from that of land: the take-off distance is long enough, but when landing, Zhang Nan feels that the plane seems to have just landed on the surface and stopped in the blink of an eye.

Zhang Nan didn't move first, and the bodyguards went up first.

This is not a rush position, and the seaplane cannot be allowed to lean on recklessly, and wait for the shore with kayaks first.

Twenty or thirty meters away from the island, the plane stopped, Zach and Paul opened the rear hatch, held an orange rubber bag, pulled a red rope and quickly threw it out, "hoo mile bang", a quickly inflated rubber boat appeared on the water next to the plane.

The black and white buddies went up first, and by the way, they measured the depth of the water, and the others waited patiently.

Half an hour later, Paul finally used a few pitons to connect ropes to fix the rubber boat to the shore, and then everything was done, and then the plane was pulled over, and the rubber boat was used as a cushion.

The passengers got off first, and they were not in a hurry to inspect and unload!

There is some luggage in the cabin of the passenger plane, and the 3.6 cubic luggage compartment is stuffed with a lot of equipment.

Zhang Nan also worked, so he asked Nicole to direct the placement of materials.

The island is more than a meter above the surface of the water, and at first glance it looks like an irregular flat terrain, with no trees on the ground, only moss, lichens, and some unnamed low herbaceous plants that can only be named this season: the terrain is very low, but it is not surrounded by the sea, so there is no need to worry about high tide.

After Alyosha chose a location to camp, the camp arrangement was handed over to Nicole - the proprietress also had more experience in camping in the wild, having spent time in the Boy Scout training camp, at least more than the boss.

After unloading the supplies on the passenger plane, the passenger plane first got out of the way, and the cargo plane came up again and wrote down more than a ton of equipment and materials!

Generators, small stone crushers, oil, drinking water, food, tents......

Five or six strong men unloaded, and Zhang Nan saw that he almost didn't need his own help, so he arrived at the camp more than ten meters away from the lake shore and helped set up the tent.

This time, instead of a small quick-open tent, a relatively large military tent was used, with a total of three large, one large and one small.

The smaller one is Zhang Nan and Nicole's, the big one lives there, and the other stacks supplies.

There is a lot of thin soil exposed on the island, but for insurance, the tent is set up by using a large hammer to smash the pitons directly into the rocks, and then use a rope to tighten the safety.

There is flat terrain as far as the eye can see, and if the wind blows, there is no place to hide, and the tent must be covered!

"Yes, I'm worried about too many mosquitoes. ”

After smashing the last two nails and setting up a tent, Zhang Nan said to Nicole, who was looking east and west with a telescope.

"The wind is strong, I don't know if it will come up when the wind stops. ”

The wind is very strong, and Nicole's hair is blowing up, which will look at Nicole, who is wearing a spring and autumn jacket from head to toe, and it is really a bit heroic.

I glanced at a thermometer hanging from the tent cloth: 15 degrees, the temperature was right.

After more than an hour of busyness, the camp was set up, and it was almost 10 o'clock.

When the temperature is right, set up a light table on the ground outside the tent, spread out an aerial map of the area, and press the gravel picked up on the ground at the four corners.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the entire island is about 20 square kilometers in area, don't worry about the rest, just look at the 4 square kilometers of land in this salient to the east. ”

After speaking, he straightened up and pointed to a piece of land more than a kilometer away, and then pointed out it on the map, and said: "It can also be regarded as an island, and the westernmost point is connected to the island at our feet.

After looking at the survey here, Lao Tang and Lao Xie, you have to go over there to see the geological conditions and see if you can build an airstrip with a length of at least 2,000 meters. ”

Well, experts are numb to this kind of move, which requires huge amounts of money to back: a 2,000-meter-long runway, which can take off and land a Boeing 737.

Nicole asked, "How long is it going to be?"

"Be prepared, if you don't need to build an airport, just run to the nine. In winter, it is estimated that all workers will have to charter planes, and passenger planes are more convenient than those C130s. If you rent 130 directly, then 1500 meters of runway is enough. ”

Don't dwell on this problem, the airstrip must be built, but it is estimated that it will be at least a year or two later.

The location where everyone landed was the easternmost protrusion on the island, and Zhang Nan took a pencil and drew on the map, and a general triangle appeared.

"Lao Tang, Lao Xie, Zhang Sheng, we are divided into three teams and check from the three corners to the middle division. ”

A few people nodded, and then they set off. Chen Hao and Lin Ming were left in the camp, and Guan Xingquan and Paul carried guns on their backs to check the situation on the west side of the island, lest there were still a few steppenwolves hiding in the grass.

The two pilots had nothing to do, so they simply prepared Chinese food for everyone to enjoy in two or three hours, while Chen Hao opened a box marked as explosives and poured out his detonators and explosives.

Zhang Nan is the boss, of course, he doesn't have to run 2 kilometers away, just start the search near the circle of the camp.

Because they had heard from the three experts about what the indicated minerals they were looking for looked like, everyone was holding a one-handed pickaxe and searched with wide eyes.

The rocks exposed on the island are all granite, but most of the ground is covered with moss and lichen, and Xiang Zhangsheng uses a crow's beak hoe to chisel the bare and exposed rocks from time to time: even if Zhang Nan knows that the huge kimberlite pipes are near here, he will have to look for them slowly, and he can't rush to come.

Xiang Zhangsheng completely entered the state of work, and Zhang Nan and Nicole were embarrassed to disturb him, and they were like two marmots, searching and digging everywhere.

Alyosha carried a fal on his back, and dangled a huge large crow's beak hoe to the side, and went to chisel the hard rock, "bang", and the chiseled stone was smashed with an 8-pound hammer inserted into the work belt around his waist.

Treasure hunting, it's fun.

Nicole was obviously impatient, and she felt a little bored in less than half an hour, and was about to return to the camp, planning to take the new semi-automatic shotgun that Zhang Nan bought, and go to see if she could catch some black swallows - she saw that there were many on the island before landing just now, and she was worried about whether she would crash into a plane.

At this time, I suddenly heard Xiang Zhangsheng's words: "Boss, there is a discovery!"

Immediately gathered around, only to see that he was holding a green ore crystal larger than his thumb in his hand, a bit like the common fluorite (fluorite) in Zhang Nan's hometown.

Xiang Zhangsheng had a smile on his face, and his voice was a little higher: "Boss, this is a green diopside crystal, diopside crystals are very easy to break, it is impossible to withstand the long-distance transportation of glaciers, and its parent mine kimberlite pipe must be under our feet!"

I'm very excited, I've been working for so many years, I've never heard of someone who can make a major discovery within half an hour of starting the search, Xiang Zhangsheng feels that he is going to burst with good luck!

"The boss is right, his luck has been good!"

As soon as Zhang Nan took the small green crystal, he laughed "hahaha".

He didn't even use a walkie-talkie, he pulled his throat and shouted to the east: "Chen Hao, Chen Hao!

The camp is seventy or eighty meters away.