"Hello, I'm Xia Zhang, the guide sent by Taihang Station."

The next morning, Xia Zhang said to Dong Qingchen with a calm face.

Dong Qingchen didn't know what was going on, but he always felt that the mood of this scientific expedition member seemed to be a little problematic, but as a big boss, he was still very generous.

"Hello, I'm sorry for you." Dong Qingchen stretched out his hand to him.

After hesitating for a moment, seeing that the people in Dong Qingchen's team were staring at him, Xia Zhang still stretched out his hand and shook it.

After counting the number of people, bringing equipment and supplies, a group of people walked out of the hotel and set off on a rented snowmobile.

They set off relatively early, because the F3974 area is far away from Taihang Station, where the terrain is also complicated, not suitable for the landing of aircraft, so they have to take a snowmobile, and the snowmobile has to travel for more than ten hours at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour.

So this time they brought enough supplies, to live there for a period of time, and even "order takeout", Taihang Station related service companies can send it to you, but there are minimum requirements for the price and quantity of delivery.

In addition, there are services such as tow trucks, tugs, rescues, and so on.

As the guide of the official scientific expedition team, Xia Zhang knew it very well, and although he was unwilling, he still had to complete the tasks assigned by his superiors, so he gave Dong Qingchen and them a detailed introduction to the situation there along the way.

“…… The F3974 area is a medium-sized mine with reserves of more than 50 million tons, and it is a magnetite bonanza, with an average iron content of more than 50% in the ore......"

While reviewing the information of Deep Space Mining, Xia Zhang introduced the information of the F3974 area to them, and shared the data model with Dong Qingchen and several main technicians in the car, so that they could hear and see clearly.

"You belong to the first wave of companies in China to come to Antarctica, you have no experience, and your qualifications are not bad, so it is more appropriate to get a mine of this scale......

The information is not too much and not too little, and it will be introduced in a while, after all, the specific situation will be carefully detected after they arrive at the scene, so let a few technicians discuss there, Dong Qingchen simply looked at the scenery outside the window, took a few photos with smart glasses from time to time, and occasionally raised his hand to take a selfie with a smart watch, and took a photo with the snowy mountains dangling outside.

"The view of Antarctica is beautiful, isn't it?" Xia Zhang asked coldly beside him.

Dong Qingchen was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at him and said, "It is indeed beautiful, blue sky and white snow, a pure scenery of the pure land of the world." ”

"Have you ever thought that when you mine here, all those views will disappear?" Xia Zhang asked.

“……”

"Do you believe in extreme environmentalism?" Dong Qingchen was speechless, and did not answer his question, but asked another question himself.

"No," Xia Zhang shook his head, "Extreme environmentalism hopes that human beings will return to the Stone Age, which is obviously contrary to the direction of social development, I just think that human beings are not ready to develop Antarctica now, and cannot develop Antarctica while taking into account environmental protection, especially Antarctica is extremely clean here, and a little discordant factor will be very conspicuous." ”

"Uh......"

Dong Qingchen didn't know what to say, looked at him strangely and said, "Didn't Stationmaster Cui let you see the technical characteristics of our company?" We were allowed to come to Antarctica because of our good environmental protection technology. ”

Xia Zhang saw Dong Qingchen looking at him, he also looked directly at Dong Qingchen, and then said seriously: "I never believe in these paper data, it's too easy to deceive." ”

"In the past, the new group also said that it would strictly abide by environmental protection regulations, but now the mining operation has killed more than a dozen penguins, and used high-power infrasonic generators to drive away snow petrels, encroaching on their homes, and causing serious interference to their identification organs, so that they can't distinguish directions, these things are not seen on the news at all, or a friend from the nearby federal Antarctic research station told me."

There is no mention of deep space mining in the whole paragraph, but the meaning of this passage is self-evident, Dong Qingchen feels that Xia Zhang probably thinks that the companies in the world are all black, one is like this, and everyone is like this.

He has the heart to tell the other party that he is different from those glamorous companies, and he will always do what he says, but just saying it will definitely not change the other party's stereotype, so he simply doesn't bother to say it, and he will have to contact him for a period of time later, and the other party will always understand.

It's nothing if you don't understand, the other party is just a small team member, and no matter what, they will complete the tasks explained above, which is actually enough for them.

A few cars drove for a day, did not stop halfway, directly in the carriage to eat self-heating dry food, the co-pilot after eating the main driver to eat, the car does not stop much, although here is also intelligent driving, but the driver has to stare at a little, and on the road is different.

When you rest at night, you can finally come out to move, take out the self-inflating smart tent, put it on the open space and select the start button connected to the glasses, it can automatically set up a hemispherical tent, and then pneumatically anchor and fix, no one needs to do it at all.

Then Xia Zhang watched Dong Qingchen and them take out all kinds of polar camping equipment in the same way, all of which were the most expensive, and their scientific expedition team was reluctant to equip them, and he was dizzy when he saw it.

"It's so rich!"

He could only sigh like this.

Eat a hearty dinner, then sleep in a comfortable tent before continuing your journey the next day.

The experience of the luxury tent is different, Xia Zhang didn't feel uncomfortable at all, he woke up refreshed, and even looked at Dong Qingchen's eyes much better.

After driving for half a day, they arrived at their destination, the terrain here is really not very good, originally wanted to take advantage of the dark to do it first, but in the event of a heavy snowstorm, they spent a night in the tent, and only after dawn did they begin to accurately detect the ore vein.

In the busy work of Dong Qingchen and a group of them, Xia Zhang saw a lot of equipment that he had never seen before, and he had never even heard of it.

"Well, you devices ......"

"yes, set this up!"

"Excuse me, you ......"

"Detect the drone taking off and transfer the data to me!"

"Uh......"

"Captain Zhan, you take someone over there and put the supercrystal detector over there!"

"Can anyone ignore me......"

"There it is, the data is coming, the first snow, and the data is analyzed."

“……”

According to the data of the scientific research station, this is a sideways vein, and Dong Qingchen and they are now on the side of the beginning, intending to accurately detect it piece by piece.

There are still two scientific research stations, and they can basically match them, Dong Qingchen and they are quite satisfied, but seeing that they can get accurate data so quickly, Xia Zhang is a little dumbfounded.

This equipment is also too advanced, how is it possible?

But this is not the most shocking, the real shock is that a detection drone released to explore the surrounding area, less than a kilometer to the left of the main body of the vein, also found a faint metal reaction, which was not seen when they were prospecting.

Looking at the results of the simulation that gradually took shape, Xia Zhang leaned over and said, "Is this a barren little vein with deeper depths?" The metal reaction was so weak that we didn't notice it at all......"

"Wait, this shape...... What is this? ”