220、The Sea Tribe's World is in Danger (15)
"I'm okay!"
Mrs. Klein found that her husband's face was indeed very bad, and suddenly realized that her son was not at home, and she was still talking to her son on the phone last night, and that her son should wait for her at home according to the agreement.
"What about our son Sef? Why haven't I seen him?"
"Seif, him!"
Mr. Klein looked at Li Yi and Phantom Ji across the table, shook his head, and motioned for the two of them not to tell his wife the truth. www.biquge.info Li Yi looked at Mrs. Crane, who was sitting across from him, and suddenly his heart moved, and he accidentally learned that Mrs. Crane had seen mermaids on the islands around the Great Barrier Reef recently.
"Mrs. Crane, Mr. Crane, I have a proposal, I wonder if you are interested?"
"Our Chinese guest, your proposal, of course our couple is very interested!"
Mrs. Crane was intrigued by Li Yi's proposal, and she had a vague feeling that a guest from China might be able to help her find out the truth about the mermaid.
"Mr. Klein, I've heard something about your family, I need your help with a puzzle, and in return, I'll give you a gold mine!"
Mr. and Mrs. Klein looked at Li Yi with some surprise, and the couple knew from Li Yi's eyes that Li Yi was not joking, Mr. Klein thought of his missing son, and suddenly his heart moved, maybe Li Yi had found that his home was not suitable for talking about mermaids, and the gold mine was indeed a suitable place.
"Well, after lunch, we'll take a break and then visit our gold mines, and we'll talk about the specifics when we get there!"
Mrs. Klein did not disagree, the son was not at home, the husband seemed to be hiding something from him, and an hour after lunch, Mr. and Mrs. Crane and Li Yi and Phantom Ji got into the car again and left the villa.
This time, it was still Li Yi who drove, and soon the four of them came to the place where Li Yi and Phantom Ji appeared yesterday, the entrance to a gold mine that had long been abandoned.
"Mr. Li, why did you bring us here, the gold ore content here is already below the minimum level of mining, and we have long been abandoned!"
"You'll find out when you go inside!"
Li Yi pretended to be mysterious, and the Crane couple were full of doubts, and the four of them walked to the entrance of the abandoned mine together, although this place has been abandoned, the Crane family has completely closed this place in order to avoid accidents, and will send people to patrol here every day.
As the owner of the abandoned gold mine, Mr. Klein has the key to the gate here, and after Li Yi and Phantom Ji followed the Crane couple inside, the four of them arrived at the mine equipment management center, which was still intact.
After putting on all their gear and checking the status of the miner's lamp, the four of them boarded a minecart. Every quarter, Mr. Klein sends safety officers here for routine inspections, and if there is a problem with the geological structure of the pit, it will be completely blown up.
After the lighting system in the passage was turned on, Mr. Crane drove down the road, down a well-conditioned passageway.
"Mr. Crane, it looks like surveyors have been here recently!"
"Of course, after all, this mine still has a large amount of gold, but the existing technology is difficult to mine, and in terms of environmental protection, it really outweighs the losses. ”
The half-tracked minecart had traveled about three kilometers along the unobstructed underground passage when Li Yi abruptly asked Mr. Klein to stop. The Cranes watched in confusion as Li Yi got out of the car and moved a large rock more than half a person high, revealing a hole that could be bent over by a person, and they couldn't help but be amazed.
"Mr. Li, what is this?"
"This is our gift to you and your wife, a gold mine that is bigger than your existing gold mines!"
Suspiciously, the Cranes followed Li Yi and Phantom Ji into another cave, and they were shocked by the sight of a recently excavated tunnel that could accommodate one person, and they couldn't figure out how this neat tunnel had been excavated.
After the four of them walked along the tunnel for more than 100 meters, they came to a cave with a large space, Mr. Crane saw that the cave in front of him had natural gold nuggets of different sizes with the help of the mining lamp overhead, and then looked at the surrounding environment, there was groundwater seepage in many places, coupled with the performance of rock layers, it was obvious that this was a natural gold mining cave.
"Come with me, you two, it's not all here!"
Excited, the Cranes followed Li Yi and Phantom Ji on, this time walking for two hours, passing through a dozen or so mines of various sizes, each with a different amount of natural gold nuggets leaking, and finally they reached a depth of four kilometers above the ground.
The Cranes were completely stunned, and in a huge cavern in front of them that was unimaginably large, a faint golden light shone everywhere in the vicinity under the illumination of the miner's lamp.
In order to make the couple see more clearly, Li Yi turned on the Poseidon lantern, which was several kilometers in diameter and narrow, and the huge underground cave was full of natural gold nuggets, and in some places there were even golden walls formed by pieces of natural gold nuggets.
The light yellow, slightly bluish natural gold nuggets indicate that the gold content is about 30%, and the natural gold nuggets at the bottom of the cave are obviously closer to the artificially refined pure gold, which indicates that the natural gold nuggets there have a higher gold content.
As an experienced gold mine manager, Mr. Klein judged that the natural gold nuggets were formed by sedimentation and volcanic geothermal dissolution based on the geology of the cave.
Based on what he had seen along the way, Mr. Klein finally understood why his father's time had made the decision to close the place, as the earthquake many years ago had caused the gold-rich rock formations to fall deeper underground and be replaced by hard bedrock, causing the mine to lose its value for further mining.
The seismic fault zone changed the course of the gold-bearing rock formations inside the mine, and now that the truth was revealed, Mr. Crane became more and more excited, and Mrs. Crane was much calmer.
"Bill, along the way, there is enough gold here to continue mining for twenty or thirty years, and I hope you can use this wealth to help the natives according to our agreement!"
Mr. Klein was awakened by his wife's words, everyone has dreams of getting rich, and in the face of his wife's inquiring gaze, he nodded:
"Of course, my dear, but I have a more meaningful plan. Mr. Crane hugged his wife with some excitement, and said very solemnly:
"Lisa, do you remember the story I told you about my family?" )