The bitter cold wind brought the chill of winter, and after a sudden rain, the temperature in Haicheng plummeted to about three degrees, so cold that people could shiver when walking on the street.

Such a low temperature would basically have no effect on a powerhouse like Xie Feng who had undergone two life energy evolutions.

In the blink of an eye, it was already December, and it was the end of the year.

On Xiejia Island, the whistling sea breeze made people's faces hurt, and Wang Dashan, who was routinely patrolling, covered his face, "Damn, why is this winter so cold, the brothers on night duty tonight have to bear it." ”

"Brother Dashan, look, another freighter is coming towards us." A guard behind Wang Dashan pointed to the big ship looming on the sea and said, "This is the third ship this month, what are the things that have been sent?" ”

Wang Dashan glanced in the direction he pointed, turned his head and said: "It was delivered to the boss, you don't care what they send, there are some things that you shouldn't know, don't ask, you know?" ”

"Yes!"

"Okay, I've rested enough to continue working, and I'll go back to the office to blow the heating after the patrol." Wang Dashan stood up and moved his hands and feet, and then continued to patrol the coast, and after walking the coast, he had to go into the mountains for a walk.

…… A freighter slowly stopped in the sea near Xiejia Island, and the cargo on board was the crude oil that Reed had delivered.

"Lot, thank you for your hard work, come and smoke a cigarette!"

Xie Feng said with a smile, took out a red river from the cigarette case and handed it to Rot.

Roth was Reed's right-hand man who was specially sent to deliver crude oil to Xie Feng, and after coming and going, Xie Feng also became acquainted with this cold man.

"Thank you!" Roth smiled faintly, took the cigarette in his mouth, and lit it with a strange lighter.

Since Xie Feng created a huge number of robots, he needed more petroleum energy crystals, especially now that the scale of the cave production base is getting bigger and bigger, all kinds of large-scale equipment need strong energy to drive, and the consumption of energy is not a small number.

In addition, now that the submarine base has begun to be put into construction, Xie Feng's crude oil orders to Reed are getting bigger and bigger.

"How many were sent this time?" Xie Feng asked Roth.

Because it was smuggling, Xie Feng's order could not be delivered all at once, and Reed needed to be very careful to transport it in several batches.

Roth took a drag on his cigarette and slowly exhaled the smoke, which was immediately dispersed by the whirring sea breeze.

"Only more than thirty tons." Roth said lightly, "I don't know what the reason is recently, the price of crude oil has risen sharply, and it is difficult for us to get the goods." The boss asked me to tell Mr. Xie that the next batch of goods might be delivered late. ”

Xie Feng frowned, "How long will it take?" ”

"I don't know, it's going to be two months at the earliest! The boss has tried his best to transfer the supply to Mr. Xie this month, and other customers are urging it so much, and we have no choice. Roth said helplessly.

"Two months is so long?"

Xie Feng fell silent and slowly exhaled milky smoke.

Two thousand prospectors, three hundred logisticians, five hundred guardians, and one hundred diggers, adding up to nearly three thousand robots working 24 hours a day, consumed a huge amount of energy. Coupled with more than a dozen high-power production equipment and hundreds of deep-sea transport boats used to transport steel and finished metal parts, the 100 tons of crude oil that Xie Feng just ordered can't last long!

If he couldn't get the goods after two months, or didn't get much, wouldn't Xie Feng's entire plan be forced to stop?

Some time ago, the explorers found B-level energy on the seabed, but after the excavators mined it, they regrettably found that the reserves of this B-level energy deposit were pitiful.

"No! Before finding new energy sources, we must find ways to ensure the uninterrupted supply of petroleum energy, otherwise how to solve the need for a larger amount of energy when building submarine bases in the future? ”

Thinking of this, Xie Feng had a vague plan in his heart.

Let Roth sink thirty tons of crude oil to the bottom of the sea at the designated location, Xie Feng arranged everything before returning to his underground secret laboratory to continue his work.

Now, Xie Feng's job is not only to continue to improve the data database, but also to study the various unknown resources found by the explorer robot on the seabed.

These resources include substances that can extract chemical elements, as well as seabed ores with extremely high metal content, and there are many kinds of them, which Xie Feng has never come into contact with and understand. What Xie Feng had to do was to use the various techniques he had mastered to study the special surnames of these unknown substances in order to identify whether they contained use value.

It was a complicated process, basically, Xie Feng spent most of his day studying these unknown substances.

On the morning of that day, the excavators delivered samples of suspected lenlunt metal to Xiejiadao through the "War Fish" high-speed transportation machine designed by Xie Feng.

The "War Fish" is a small transport machine like a fish's tear, equipped with a powerful drive engine unit, and can sail at an extremely fast speed on the bottom of the sea. Its main function is to transport the energy crystals needed by prospectors scattered on the seabed.

At present, the explorer robots are only exploring near Chinese waters, relatively close to Xiejia Island. But in the future, as the explorers go deeper and deeper into other seas, it will be impossible to spend time coming back and replacing the energy crystals.

After obtaining a sample of suspected lenlunt metal, Xie Feng immediately entered the laboratory for research.

Special metals naturally require special technology to study their special surnames, and Xie Feng, who is from the interstellar era, does not lack the technology to identify various rare metals.

In the laboratory, where the light was as bright as day, Xie Feng, who was wearing work clothes, put a piece of milky white and heavy deep-sea rock on the energy cutting device, and corrected the position. Xie Feng activated the energy cutting device, and then an extremely bright light knife slashed down, and the milky white rock was suddenly split in two, the cut surface was smooth and smooth, and it could even refract a special luster under the light.

Xie Feng glanced at the energy cutting device, which showed the energy loss required to cut this piece of metal ore. The energy consumed by the energy cutter is different for cutting different densities, which allows the user to more intuitively judge the density of the cut substance.

"It doesn't look like Lenlunt metal, but it's very hard." Xie Feng thought in his heart, and cut this piece of metal ore into several uniform parts for the next step of research.

According to the data transmitted by the diggers, the place where the special metal was found was near an extinct volcano under the sea, and the reserves were very large. If this unknown metal can have extremely high utilization value, it will definitely be a huge help to the construction of submarine bases.

This whole day, Xie Feng spent the whole day in the laboratory, he didn't even eat lunch when he was immersed in research, and he had been studying the special surname of the milky white unknown metal.

With the continuous in-depth research, the surprise in Xie Feng's heart became stronger and stronger.

Xie Feng conducted various hardness tests on the special metals extracted from the raw metal ore, and the results of the tests were actually shown to be high-grade, even a more advanced metal material than Zhilunlunte metal.

After getting this result, Xie Feng couldn't help but be excited in his heart, it turned out to be a high-grade metal substance with a texture of A+ grade. Compared with the C-grade ink gold, it is more than two levels higher.

Since this metal was found near an undersea volcano, Xie Feng named it "Yan Gang", a metal substance that could be used to make various high-level equipment.

Such a good thing, where is Xie Feng willing to use it to build an undersea base, it is simply a waste to do so.

Finding Yan Gang, Xie Feng was in a good mood, but he didn't realize that he had been working from the morning to this moment, and he had even forgotten lunch and dinner. Look at the time, Khan! It was already 10:40 p.m.

"It's called forgetting to eat and sleep." Xie Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly, and there was a gurgling sound in his stomach.

At night, there are still people on duty in the canteen, which is convenient for some employees who have the habit of eating supper, of course, eating supper needs to be charged separately, after all, for the employees of the canteen, overtime is very hard.

Xie Feng briefly cleaned up the laboratory where he had worked for a day, and then called Shang Shaolong, Wang Dashan and others to have some wine together.

Hearing Xie Feng's treat, Fang Shaolong ran around without saying a word, and first ordered a bunch of delicious food, Xie Feng, the big boss, had a treat, and he didn't slaughter it, the night snack in the Xie Jia Island canteen was not ordinarily expensive!

"Damn, can you eat that much?"

Xie Feng was speechless, this kid actually ordered three servings of bird's nest porridge.

Fang Shaolong smiled mysteriously, at this time his mobile phone rang, Xie Feng's ears were sharp, and he heard a girl's voice on the phone saying: "Shaolong, Yingying and I have come down, where are you, and said to invite us to have supper." ”

Fang Shaolong hurriedly said: "In the third box, you come over quickly, I will wait for you at the door." There is a big pig treat, hehe, slaughter it. ”

"Grass!" Xie Feng's eyes widened, and when Fang Shaolong hung up the phone, he immediately grabbed him and asked, "You kid, when did you have a relationship with MM on the island?" ”

"Hey, hey! Not long after I first met, the newcomer was assigned to my previous group, and I went to chat with old friends when I had nothing to do that day, so I ......" Fang Shaolong smiled proudly.

"Haha, congratulations!" Xie Feng immediately laughed, "How's it going, how's it going?" ”

"Still dating, fourth, I'm sorry tonight, anyway, you have money, haha! Don't say anything, I'll go to the door to pick up Xiaojing. Fang Shaolong flashed after speaking, because Xie Feng had already kicked at him.

"Damn, is Lao Tzu's salary still less?"

Wang Dashan and the others on the side smiled and watched Xie Feng and Fang Shaolong fighting, and said in their hearts that it was really good to follow such a boss.

Soon, a burst of conversation came from outside the door, and Xie Feng and the others could hear it clearly.

A girl's thin voice sounded, "Shaolong, who did you say was the treat, do we know each other?" If you don't know each other, isn't it a little embarrassing? ”

(To be continued)