To be honest, Tintin isn't working for the New York Daily Times anymore, his workplace has just changed. It's just that she hasn't had time to receive this notification yet. While he was heading towards the mine with Blackwater's convoy and the sailors, several newspapers in New York were gathering to agree on a joint agreement. Under the agreement, the newspapers would jointly fund a nonprofit news agency, the United States News Agency, or Associated Press, which they had previously co-founded.

In its original history, the predecessor of the famous Associated Press was the New York News Agency (New York News Agency), which was jointly established by several major newspapers in New York. However, the current Associated Press is not developed by this news agency, but a news agency jointly funded by the New York Daily Times, the New York Tribune, the Cleveland Daily News, and the American Radio Broadcasting Company. It will make use of its technological advantages in wireless information dissemination to provide news materials for members of news agencies on an equal footing and free of charge, mainly in the areas of news from abroad and in remote areas. Although the sparsely populated Alaska is not strictly outside the country, it is definitely a remote area and belongs to the business scope of this newly established news agency. Therefore, the reporters sent to Alaska by these media outlets were also assigned to the jurisdiction of the Associated Press and became the first batch of reporters of the Associated Press.

This news will not be known until he arrives at the Golden River mine. In the whole of Alaska, these are the only two places where there are shortwave radio stations that can get in touch with the continental United States.

Now is the beginning of Alaska's short summer, and the so-called summer in Alaska is actually cool, and even Tintin thinks that maybe the word cold is more appropriate. Although the ice and snow have long since melted now, even if you climb to a high place and look far away, you will never see any traces of ice and snow except for some high mountains in the distance; Although the sun hung in the sky for fifteen or sixteen hours a day, and by noon it was almost twenty degrees Celsius, it was still a little cold in the moor in the morning and evening.

However, such temperatures are not a big deal for Milou. This great wilderness excites Milou. At first, it always tried to tease the big guys who were doing stupid work. There's no snow or ice now, but that doesn't mean the big Alaskan Malamutes can sit idle, and there are no horses in Alaska, so they're now up to them.

Although Alaskan dogs are quite docile to humans, well, as far as Tintin knows, he has never heard of them, and these big guys have a record of biting. These guys aren't friendly enough to other animals, though. Whenever Milou ran past them, the big guys would let out a muffled menace and even bared their teeth in bad faith.

Compared to the Alaskan Malamute, Milou is a small one, but the Fox Terrier's sense of pride as a fighter will never allow him to back down in front of a group of silly big men. So Milou fought with these big guys without fear. As a result, it turns out that not all the big guys will fight, at least these big guys are not very good, maybe because they are tied by ropes, which affects their combat effectiveness, and when a few people arrived and forced them to stop fighting, although Milu looked like he was covered in mud and looked very wolf, but in fact he did not suffer, but a certain big dog was bitten hard by Milu.

After bullying the big guys, Milou shifted his interest to bullying rabbits again, and sometimes, when everyone was camping, Milou would run out and come back with a rabbit in his bite. Well, Milou is not like those stupid big people who don't have any sense of direction, as long as they send the rope, they can't find their way back if they run out.

When they arrived at the Golden River mining area, the changes here even startled the guards of Blackwater. Now along the Golden River, there is a small town, where thousands of gold diggers gather, and tents of various colors are everywhere. Some even live in wooden huts.

Tintin first followed Blackwater's men into the mine, which was also one of his missions, reporting on the situation of Alaska's largest gold mine.

Perhaps because there were a lot of gold diggers out there, and these gold diggers had weapons in their hands, the gold mines were even more heavily defended. On the periphery of the gold mine, barbed wire fenced three full lanes. The Guardian first moved open the door in the first barbed wire fence and let Tintin and the others in.

"Tintin, keep an eye on your dog, there are mines everywhere here." A Blackwater guard warned him.

Tintin hurriedly took Milou in his arms and thanked the guard, "Thank you, Tom. What mines are there here? ”

"That's a lot." Tom said, "But, it's not a secret anyway, and letting others know a little more will save them from being stupid, don't you?" Well, in the middle of the barbed wire are buried a large number of anti-infantry mines, the kind that were used in wars. But with us, this mine has been modified. Its charge was much larger, enough to blow a gray male into the sky. Well, you know, the attitude towards soldiers is not the same as the attitude towards robbers. Also, in Alaska, the stock of medicines is very limited, and we don't want to waste medicine for a robber with a broken foot, but we are embarrassed to watch him bleed to death, or rot to death from an infected wound. So giving him a good treat, it's a good thing for all of us. Well, in addition to anti-infantry mines, there are even jumping mines here, and it's like a defensive grenade that is buried in the ground and jumps, and once you step on that thing, it jumps to a place of twelve to thirteen feet (about three meters six to three meters nine) and then explodes, and none of the guys within a few tens of meters around can escape its shrapnel. ”

"Why are such terrible mines being laid?" Tintin asked.

"It's not like I'm worried that the guys out there are going crazy. You know, although there are a lot of guards here, they are still not enough compared to such a large mining area and so many people outside. With that, we don't have to worry about them playing with us. "Gold is always irrational. Well, so, although we work in the gold mines, we never look at the gold, lest we do something stupid. Well, you come with us, don't mess around. ”

Blackwater's guards didn't go straight inside, in fact, there was only barbed wire and no door. The door is two hundred meters away on the beveled side. The soldiers walked more than 100 meters along the inner edge of the first barbed wire fence to the front of the gate reserved for the second barbed wire, and then zigzagged for a while to reach the second gate. Tintin noticed that near the second gate, there were some slightly curved green boxes.

"What's that?" Tintin asked.

"Broadsword anti-infantry directional mine, a murderous weapon." "We don't know how this thing works, but if it explodes, it can shoot thousands of steel balls in front of it, and one such mine can sweep away everyone within 60 degrees of the front and within 100 meters." Well, it's even more ferocious than a shrapnel. So, those guys out there had better be sensible and not do stupid things. Otherwise, these 'broadswords' alone would be enough for them to drink a pot. ”

After entering the second layer of barbed wire, there are trenches and communication trenches, and everyone goes down to the trenches, through the longitudinal communication trenches, and quickly enters the interior of the gold mine, but Ding Ding, who has been a war correspondent, also knows that when the time comes, once the guards retreat, these trenches and communication trenches will also be quickly covered with mines.

"Well, that's the workers' quarters, and there's the mine over there. The canteen is over there, and the lumber and general supplies warehouse is over there. The telegraph room is over there, and you have to have a special pass to go. Tom pointed out these key points to Tintin.

"By the way, don't go in that direction. There's the vault over there. Tom remembered something again, and said to Tintin, "Take care of your dog, and I'll put you on a rope to tie it, or if it runs into a minefield, or goes in the direction of the vault, well, something will happen, but it will not be very good." ”

"Thank you, Tom!" Tintin said very seriously, he knows what kind of naughty bag Milu is holding now, such a thing, it can really do it.

"Can I go over there and talk to the workers?" Tintin asked.

"Of course it's fine." Tom said, "But I'll tell you to go straight to the cafeteria, because it's going to be dinner time." You can talk to the new workers there. ”

Unlike before, people working in gold mines now have short-term contracts for one year, and generally no one wants to just dig for someone else, even if they know that most people can't get too much gold. These people were willing to work as gold miners only because they could not afford to pay for the gold at their own expense, so they had to work in the gold mines for a few months, and then go out and pan for gold on their own until they had made enough money. Because of this intention, they signed short-term contracts with the gold mines.

"But, as far as I know, you can earn enough money for your own work in just a few months, so why work for a year?" Tintin sat at the table, eating dinner, as he asked a bearded worker.

"Because the summer in Alaska is so short, and after a few months it will be winter, and you can only pan for gold in the river outside, not in the mines, as you do now. At that time, the golden river will freeze, and there will be no way to pan for gold. So it's better to work for a few more months, earn more money, and buy a house here. ”

"Buying a house here?" Ding Ding was taken aback, can he engage in real estate development in such a remote place?

As if seeing Tintin's doubts, the man explained: "In winter, all these gold diggers outside will have to retreat." Their tents couldn't support them here for a winter, and they had to leave as soon as it snowed. It doesn't matter if they get the gold or not. But if you can have a house here and have enough food to keep going until the river freezes completely, and the next year you can start panning for gold as soon as the river begins to thaw, so that you can take the best position and work for nearly two months a year longer than the others. In this way, the opportunity for wealth is greater. ”

"But won't the guy out there build a house of his own?" Tintin asked.

"How is that possible? Last winter, the company had cut down all the trees in the neighborhood for 30 miles that could be used to build houses. The bearded man smiled and said, "Unless they also buy houses and food for the winter from the company." But they can't get the internal price, which is not a small amount. ”rg

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