Wu Qi thought silently: The Dawn base is only 50 kilometers away from here, and the speed of the heavy battlefield vehicles is not slow, if there are really reinforcements, how can it be delayed for three days and not arrive.

Wu Qi couldn't help but think of the words he had made when he persuaded Morley, although everything he said at that time was based on speculation based on a small amount of intelligence, but now, time has proved them right for him.

The Dawn base is now severely understaffed, and the No. 130 mine area probably can't wait for reinforcements, even if the plague species that hit the mine in the last few days only increases, they can only rely on their soldiers to carry it.

"In the last three days, there is only one-thirtieth of the Gaussian stone left compared to the total mining period, is it really worth the risk of the miners and guards in the mining area?"

Wu Qi couldn't figure it out after thinking about it, and just at this moment, he heard Li Fushan end the communication with the base headquarters, and the footsteps were getting closer and closer to the curtain of the camp tent.

Wu Qi moved his position quickly, and when Li Fushan lifted the curtain, he was just standing 20 meters in front of Li Fushan, looking like he was walking towards the camp.

"Hello, Mine Chief Li." Wu Qi bowed his head slightly, put his right hand lightly on his heart, and saluted Li Fushan.

"Well, hello." Li Fushan symbolically greeted Wu Qi, he didn't remember the faces of the guards soldiers, only the uniforms.

"Mine Chief Li, my subordinates are the squad leaders of the last batch of soldiers brought by Officer Ye Zheng, I don't know if you are free now, your subordinates have questions and want to know a thing or two." Wu Qi respectfully asked Li Fushan to stay.

Coincidentally, Li Fushan had just finished solving the troubles of daily communication, and planned to personally patrol and inspect the equipment in the mining area before going for dinner. He saw that Wu Qi was good-looking and respectful, so he casually agreed: "Okay, you patrol with me, and ask on the way if you have any questions." ”

"Thank you, Mr. Li." Wu Qi smiled.

An orange-red glow covers the ground of the mine. With his hands behind his back, Li Fushan walked forward unhurriedly, inspecting one large mining machine after another that was in a state of stoppage. Wu Qi followed Li Fushan, and he watched whatever Li Fushan saw.

"If you have any questions, ask them." Li Fushan finished inspecting the machinery and equipment in most of the mining area.

Wu Qi finally had a chance to bring out the rhetoric that had been prepared for a long time, and he said: "Mine Manager Li, I don't have too many doubts about the machines in the mining area, but I am very curious about Gaussian stone. How important is its value? ”

"You said Gaussian stone," Li Fushan smiled, this question was too simple, he said eloquently, "Gaussian stone can be said to be the ore with the first echelon of importance among the ore materials required for the construction of the base." They are naturally produced in small quantities, and after being excavated and processed, they are materials with a very high compatibility with high-tech products. Whether it is to modulate super composite metals, to make core chips for energy base sets, or to serve as a high-energy light and heat source, no material has so far been able to reach twenty or thirty percent of the efficacy of Gaussianite. ”

Li Fushan held up a finger: "To put it bluntly, if there were no Gauss Stones in this world, the size of the Dawn Base might only be one-fifth of what it is now, and even if it was restarted by the great pioneers, it would be almost impossible to survive." ”

Wu Qi nodded slightly, in fact, he basically understood this part of the knowledge, he just pretended to accept a lot of information at once, and expressed his feelings: "I see." If it is a miracle that the Dawn Base can exist in the occupied area, then the Gauss Stone is one of the important pillars that support this miracle to become a reality. ”

"yes, how's that, anything else to know?" Li Fushan looked at Wu Qi.

Wu Qi blinked his obsidian-like beautiful eyes, and said sincerely: "Mine Chief Li, I want to see and touch the Gauss stone, is it okay?" ”

"Of course," Li Fushan said briskly, "Although Gauss Stone is a major resource and should not be shown to unrelated people, you are now a member of the No. 130 mining area, and you are not an unrelated person." But ......"

"But?" Wu Qi tentatively continued.

"Since the head of the mine, the mine manager has never encountered a single guard who is interested in ore. All the guards only care about their duties and the merits of the upgrades they get from completing their missions, and no one has the leisure to learn about ores or machines. You're the first, you're the first. Li Fushan's oily face showed laugh lines.

Wu Qi said: "This is also human nature, most of the people like us who choose to be soldiers are ordinary people who can only fight and kill, how can they understand this." As early as the level of Joestar, people who understand it have chosen to become the producers needed by the base and have a promising future. ”

"Haha, you're right," Li Fushan was amused, "but then again, I trust you to show you the Gauss Stone, and you don't want to use your bells and whistles to take away the valuable resources of the base." ”

"Mine Chief Li, Wu Qi can't do that kind of thing to take revenge."

Li Fushan took Wu Qi to the depths of the mining area, and the large mining machines that surrounded it were like a labyrinth of high walls, tightly wrapping the inner area. The guards usually patrol the middle and outer rings of the mining area, and hardly come to the core area of mining and beneficiation.

"This is a gravity concentrator where the minerals collected by the mining machine are fed into the concentrator through a 'head pipe' to separate the irrelevant minerals and screen out the Gaussian stones. All the Gauss stones end up in the tail passage and fall into the 'harvest basket'. ”

Li Fushan raised his right hand and pointed to the right with his left hand. In front of Wu Qi is a complex 'beneficiation system' composed of several large machines, and the thick orange painted pipes are like steel bridges in the air, responsible for transporting the products of the mining machines and the raw materials of the beneficiation machines.

Wu Qi did not understand complex mechanical structures, nor did he have any knowledge base about large industrial machines. The plural machines linked to each other in front of him were like a steel giant beast with linked organs, this was Wu Qi's direct feeling.

Li Fushan had walked up to a large mining machine called the "Harvest Basket". It is an orange-painted machine, as its name suggests, with a large basket of Gaussian stones. In fact, it has other forms, as long as Li Fushan or a miner enters the password, the "harvest basket" will automatically change its structure and become a huge "orange cube"; The cube is made of high-strength composite metal armor on all six sides, and has the ability to move with autonomous rollers.

The "harvest basket" is cleverly designed and uses Gaussian stone. When transporting, the heavy field vehicle only needs to place the "harvest basket" in the large cube that has been transformed into a large cube, or simply drag it by a steel cable. In the event of an accident, the "harvest basket" itself has a certain ability to protect itself, and will not easily be destroyed by plague seeds or terrain damage disasters, resulting in the loss of important Gauss stones, and the personnel in charge of escorting can focus most of their energy on dealing with the crisis.