Chapter 19: The Miners (1)
"Luda is the best miner in Kiha, there is no one."
This is not Luda's boast, but the opinion shared by almost all the teenagers in the base, except for Roger and Tommy.
Roger is the one who was smashed to the head in the earthquake a while ago, from the day of the accident, although no one said anything on the surface, but judging from the many different performances of this guy, he definitely became completely abnormal or completely brain-dead after suffering a major blow to the head, and he felt fresh when he saw everything, and he felt unpleasant to see everything. Therefore, his opinion can be ignored by everyone, unless it can be proved that this guy has completely returned to normal in the future.
As for Tommy, that's another story. In fact, if it is purely based on physical strength and skills, and even the number of years of study (work), Luda and Tommy should be half a pound and eight taels of each other. However, the real decisive factor is not in these aspects, but in another small detail that usually seems completely unimportant:
Tommy is a dark-skinned man, and for a miner who works day and night in the depths of a dark mine, in addition to his skilled individual skills, the overall level of cooperation is obviously a key factor in measuring everyone's business ability. Although Luda was not white, his complexion was more conspicuous at the bottom of the shaft than Tommy, who could only see a lone miner's hat if he didn't turn on his headlamp...... Who would work with a mine hat when they're half exhausted?
So there is no doubt that Luda has ascended to the throne of the No.1 miner.
This so-called NO.1 does not have any substantial benefits or permissions, and the underground base has not given it the corresponding position. It's just that humans are social animals who like to huddle, and a group of half-grown children with an age difference of up to four or five years are gathered together, and they always have to compete for a leader to guide everyone forward, right?
When Luda was only the size of Roger, he was not the No. 1 miner in the base. However, I can't remember who the child king was at that time, because he was the same as Roger now, at best, he could only look at the NO.1 at the front from a distance on the tail root of various teams, and even daily learning could only refer to the actions of the teaching robot or a few people around him, and it was impossible to learn directly from the highest-ranked "king".
No way, it's okay to say on the flat ground outside the miners, the lighting is sufficient, the range of motion is large, and with a little effort, you can still see every move on the "leader's" side. But if you go down to the mine one by one, especially in the vertical pits that have just been carved out, the latter person can only look at the previous person, and then be watched by the person behind you, and so slowly grind until the new mine.
Sometimes it is necessary to excavate even in between such marches, so that naturally there is no superfluous reference. It was difficult to even turn around, and the tools could not be picked up directly, so they could only scrape close to the wall of the pit until the electric bell rang in the pit.
Years ago, Luda never felt that there was anything wrong with this kind of hard work, and even now, when he had unknowingly become the leader of the base, he had never violated the miners' working rules that had been constant since the beginning of the road, and only carried the pickaxe he had carried with him for many years to get up early and stay late every day.
Only a guy like Roger, whose head is smashed abnormally, always likes to secretly mumble something like "the distribution of minerals here is too strange, and it is impossible for this kind of accompanying scene to be naturally possible". Normal young miners don't need to think about what to adapt to the special situation of the mine, anyway, just a pickaxe is enough.
The pickaxe was so hard that no matter how strong it was, it would sooner or later turn into scattered ores of various colors under the onslaught of a dozen pickaxes, and then be thrown into the basket behind the boys, who would make sure it was full and crawl backwards out of the mine.
As a result, the tunnels are filled with only monotonous clanging and the occasional brief rattle of ore being thoroughly mined. The eyes of the teenagers are not bad, and the ear power that they have exercised in this working environment is naturally stronger. Almost all of them don't have to look back to know if their basket is full, and they can even guess whether their companions on the other side of the tunnel bend have done the same amount of work as themselves.
As Kiha's best miner, Luda is even more talented in this area.
The work progress of more than a dozen miners cannot be completely consistent, some people have good physical strength and strong endurance, and some people have poor physical strength and lack of concentration, so if everyone is facing the same environment and working hours, due to the different efficiency of each person, it will naturally appear that Luda's basket has already been filled, and Roger's side has just covered the bottom.
If the bell rings at this time, most people can easily complete their work goals, but it is also very likely that there will be a few laggards who will be punished for obviously gaining much less than the average level.
Everyone is a companion, and Luda, as the leader of the teenagers, will naturally try his best to avoid this situation.
Fortunately, the problem itself is not too difficult to solve, after all, the specific distribution of each mine site is different. Luda is the first to go down the shaft every day, but when he arrives at his place of work, he will consciously or unconsciously adjust the order of the team, so as to change everyone's pickaxe location by the way.
Masters like him and Tommy would be assigned to dig in difficult locations, while subjects like Roger might be standing in an area that was easy to dig and plan, with a lot more noise than normal around them.
In this way, as long as the electric bell does not ring so abruptly, under the simple deployment of Luda, the gains of the teenagers will be almost the same, so naturally the punishment from the robot instructor to the base regulations will not be with everyone.
Normally, this kind of happy scene should continue directly, yes, but the question is, hasn't Roger's head been smashed before?
It is not uncommon for teenagers to be injured due to various factors inside and outside the mine before, and most of them do have an inexplicable situation of reduced work efficiency and even fear of the mine itself after being injured, but Roger is completely different this time.
In Luda's memory, this guy of the same skin color as himself hadn't been around for longβjust one year earlier than the last batch of young ten-year-olds who had arrivedβand his productivity was basically at the bottom. But since Roger was smashed, it was okay to say that in the first two days, when he was ignorant, from the third day, this guy's work efficiency has inexplicably skyrocketed.
As is customary, the mine selected by Luda for Roger these days is a secondary object of care. Aside from the youngest of his companions, Roger's mining location is the easiest to excavate, and even if he doesn't move properly, the sound of successful ore mining similar to "bang" still rings slightly higher than the normal frequency.
But in Luda's ears today, the sound of Roger's pickaxe landing on the ground was four or five times a minute less than the others, but correspondingly, the sound of ore entering the basket was three or four more than before.
"Strange, could it be that I made a mistake in my survey today and assigned the wrong place to the youngest miners to take care of them?"
Luda was a little puzzled in his heart, and then after the first break of the morning, he gathered everyone and gave a few simple orders, and took this opportunity not only to revisit Roger's position to take a few glances, but also quietly make this guy a little more difficult.
It is said that Roger had already had some intention of "promoting" before the accident, and if it weren't for the fact that he had not recovered from his injuries two days ago, Luda would have been ready to raise Roger's mine level difficulty by one level. So now it seems that if Luda's own simple survey had not gone wrong, maybe the guy with the pit in his head had really been smashed open?
Anyway, for the rest of the morning's work, Luda tilted his attention slightly to Roger's side for a minute and a half, and then he found out with some experience that even though he had adjusted the mine level to a new level, Roger could still create a new efficiency that surpassed the level of a miner of his class in an orderly manner.
In the future, if there is another earthquake, do you have to ask others to take a look at it one by one?
Ruda shook her head, put away the ridiculous thought, and began to prepare for the end of the day.
It's not that he's "not motivated", it's because in Kiha, an underground miner base, even if the work efficiency really improves, it doesn't make sense.
Purely because of the physical strength or the efficiency brought by the pickaxe technique, there is nothing to bring about it, and at best it can only play a small role in the competition for the leader. However, if you use equipment other than pickaxe techniques, or even only slightly improve the pickaxe itself, no longer smashing straight up and down, but digging and prying at a slight angle, or even further using circular movements and strength, you will be severely warned after finishing work in the past.
When the time comes to enter the shaft next time, there will be an extra miner robot by his side, not to mention, the person who invented the new technique may be directly taken away by the upper echelons of the base, and never return.
Although his memory is a little less clear, Luda also seems to vaguely remember that two years ago, there seemed to be such an older leader who had sharpened his pickaxe into strange circles and left Keha in this way. And since then, Luda has not heard from him again......
The memories come to an end here, and it is estimated that there will be a few minutes left at most to call it a day, and the electric bell will ring. While Luda examined his basket slightly, he accidentally discovered that Roger, who had skyrocketed in his work efficiency today, was now moving a little slower than others.
It turned out that it wasn't this guy who suddenly opened his mind, but he was suffocating two days ago, and now he is completely exposed after venting.
The corners of Luda's mouth twitched silently, and he began to focus on the rest of the group.
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"Congratulations, it seems that your green head performance has been registered on the boss's side." In the spirit link, DG's ridicule rang out in time.
Roger, who deliberately slowed down and restrained his strength, was worried that he had nothing to do, so he shot back quickly and ruthlessly, "Don't say that I'm the same as earlier, I remember that you are a woman, so you can't be reserved?" β
"It's not me who has a weak heart, but what do you think of the new information that you just got from the mind scan?"
"New information, shouldn't this stuff be recorded in the base's database? But you don't really seem to have passed on anything about it. β
"There are quite a lot of erases in the original database, which I thought was caused by automated data protection and backup, but now it seems that it is the result of some procedurally prioritized actions being performed directly from the next level."
"Speaking of which, how much time do you have left before you capture the higher-level intelligent system?"
"It will take about two days without alerting the Anti-Spiral Clan, and not being detected by the spies they don't know where they are located."
"Five days in total, this efficiency is not low, but I don't know how much difference there is between the upper level of the Dao and the entire Earth-Moon System."
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The raising of the bar and the exchange of information came to an end with the ringing of the bell for the time being, in fact, Luda's initial speculation was not wrong, at that time, Roger was worried about the world, simply put, he was thinking about the earth-moon system, and even the higher-level spiral battle and other major events, and the instinctive action in his hand forgot to add restrictions, and the result was that the mining efficiency was much higher than under the "normal" situation.
And then it happened that this situation inexplicably touched on Luda's memories, and the memories themselves were collected by DG, who was doing daily scanning.
After coming to the conclusion that the anti-spiral or Earth-Moon automatic system will actively deal with some people who are beyond the norm, someone will certainly have a legitimate excuse for being lazy......
Laziness itself is a trivial matter, and in Luda's vague memory just now, the strange reason of "digging out an ordinary pickaxe out of a spiral pattern" is definitely a rumor, but the reality should be that a "smart person" developed a tool similar to a drill bit, or at least put forward the theory of replacing ordinary mechanical excavation with drilling, right?
Of course, the natives will not understand what is special about this thing, but the reincarnators know very well that this kind of "spiral" behavior is obviously a villain's taboo, and it must occupy a very high level in various emergency plans, otherwise there will be no situation where even Kiha's own brain and database will be eliminated after the implementation of the corresponding countermeasures.
I have to say that the big boss of the anti-spiral clan whose location is unknown so far is still keeping a close eye on this side of the earth, at least Roger and DG are not so attentive to monitoring Guam and Passafor.
In fact, there are still many suspicious things about this scene itself, and it is strange to make a big deal about this little clue. If you are really so worried about the miners in the underground base, wouldn't it be better to simply use the extermination order, why bother so much to create an inexplicable mine first, and then let these miner teenagers spontaneously exercise their spiral instincts?
According to the scans of the DG clones, someone had already discovered that Kiha's underground was an artificial mine that had been made by the robots in its entirety.
There was nothing inherently wrong with Luda's miner instincts, but they were all based on "working in this mine" and had been distorted, consciously or unconsciously, from the start. And as Roger muttered, it would be impossible for the Earth under normal circumstances to produce that kind of natural mine or vein. However, if we refer to DG's experience in devouring spiral arm-level planets in the TOP plane, it is possible that the entire galaxy or the "professional mining stars" in the universe will generate this situation by mistake.
Well, to be more specific, the planets that are not inhabited by humans are near-Earth creatures, but pure mineral planets with relatively single mineral reserves, but most of them are quite similar to the environment of this man-made mine.
That is to say, in fact, these human miners in front of us are prepared by the anti-spiral clan for their own resource collection?
Is it no wonder that there are no humans over the age of 15 in the entire underground base, and after a long time, they have been directly taken away to alien mining when they reach their age?
Although this hypothesis seems to have some truth, Roger always feels that something is wrong-
The reason is very simple, if it is DG, it really does not need any auxiliary conditions, and it is simply to go to the cosmic vacuum to devour the ore star. Although the anti-spiral clan is not as convenient as DG, their robot level is so high, and things like mining can be done directly with these iron lumps, so why is there any need to send humans or spiral miners to do it?
Not to mention whether the miners will suddenly open up in their perennial work, not only continue to invent spiral tools, but also take advantage of the situation to engage in some rebellion and so on. It's hard enough to transform those mining stars into planets that humans can work on β and thankfully aren't habited β anymore, okay?
Purely confined to the earth's environment, it is already boring to do more than one such an underground base, and as I said before, the input-output ratio is definitely a frightening number. The number of mining stars in the universe is obviously several orders of magnitude more than that of terrestrial planets, even from a macro perspective, it is impossible to achieve a mathematical balance by cultivating miners just by relying on the resources on terrestrial planets, not to mention that various life-sustaining devices must be attached......
If other resource stars are needed to supply terrestrial planets, and terrestrial planets rely on natural reproduction to create a bunch of spiral miners, and then put these miners on nearby harsh environment mining stars, even if the mining and development are completed, they have to be transported back by other means, or directly sent to other professional smelting planets, etc. The countless related planetary systems built in the vast cosmic space have barely managed to build a huge range of potential forces of the anti-helix race.
It's obviously an extremely loud anti-spiral clan who shouts "to destroy or at least imprison the spiral clan", but every time they go to the "actual operation", it always becomes all kinds of child's play, are they planning to play a cosmic-level real-time strategy game?
ββββββββββββββββββββThis is the dividing line between the sad spring and the sad autumnββββββββββββββββββββ
The thing I said before that my wife's computer was broken, in fact, I have already judged it myself, and it is a problem with the twenty-four pins on the right side of the motherboard connected to the power interface.
You can see it without moving the multimeter, which is not difficult in itself, but how to solve it.
There are no 24-needle joints related to the sale of parts nearby, if you want to buy it is estimated that you will have to go to Zhongguancun, and I will buy a power supply directly at that time - in fact, it is also solved in this way, the price of the new power supply is almost the same as the round-trip fee in Zhongguancun plus a meal.
Alas, if the high-tech technical content can't be solved, it can only be replaced, and if the technical content is so low, it is still changed after comprehensive consideration, so what's the use of the electrician repairing this skill itself, 233