By the time William was called back by his son, Lias and the others had arrived in the abandoned mine in a multi-legged vehicle.

It's been abandoned for almost a decade, and it's littered with crumbling tunnels and dilapidated buildings, and it doesn't seem to have any value to continue mining.

"Mr. Lias, how are you going to explore? Would you like to find a local to take us down the tunnels? Moro asked.

Lias waved his hand, and Ena in the team walked to the clearing, closed her eyes and opened the spiritual network.

Susie, who was far away at the base of the "Divine Sleep", received her signal, and greeted Selena beside her and said: "A group of signals is coming, I will determine the coordinates, and you are ready to open the template of the 'Orbit Command Center'." ”

……

When the Federation's general colonial command base was first built, Tang Hao had the base's intelligent lieutenant try to contact the planet Dyson Sphere.

The result was not the expected surprise, the planetary Dyson sphere is now in a silent state, let alone remote control, and it can't even be activated.

However, although the "orbital command center" module cannot be linked to the planetary Dyson sphere, it can still play some other roles.

In addition to the overall broadcasting system covering the whole world, even in low orbit, "high-dimensional projection scanning" is also the most commonly used function of the "orbit command center".

By providing precise coordinates, the "Orbital Command Center" can directly scan the target location from a high dimension as long as it is within the coverage area.

This feature is generally used for terrain detection in new colonies and preliminary reconnaissance of enemy positions.

Now, the Journey to the Dead will use it to explore the minerals in the target area.

……

"Coordinates confirmed," Susie entered the 3D coordinates she had received from Ena into the "Orbital Command Center" module.

The range of the "high-dimensional projection scan" is not very large, only a spherical range of one kilometer in diameter, so accurate coordinates must be obtained.

Selena's screen also showed the target location, and she double-checked and clicked the start button.

A sphere of pure blue light appeared on top of the massive base, and the sphere quickly flattened and eventually became a circle.

This is a projection from 3D to 2D, and as a countermeasure, the 4D space in the same area also begins to project into 3D.

The resulting projection effect is like an X-ray passing through the body, and an all-round scan is made of the target area.

Invisible energy reverberates within the target area, recording all the information in it.

As the flattened circle reverts to a sphere, the results of the projection scan are displayed on the sphere, and the "high-dimensional projection scan" is complete.

After information gathering and remodeling, all the data within the sphere of one kilometer in diameter was collected into the computer.

Then the computer began to analyze the material composition of the mine, and there was a staggering amount of gold and silver ore about 200 meters down the "Garon Pit".

"Wow!" Susie was also surprised when she saw the scan results: "This ...... With such a large mineral deposit, I am afraid that there are tens of millions of tons of gold and silver, right? ”

Selena looked at it and said: "The mineral purity is very high, this time we have dug up the treasure, if all of them are mined, I don't know how many gold energy cores can be made." ”

Susie nodded and said, "I'll inform Lias and Ena of them and prepare to build an ore refinery there immediately." ”

After selecting a location, another convoy of three space engineering vehicles departed from the "Divine Sleep" base.

In fact, it can't be said that transportation, although the space engineering vehicle can only rely on the maglev ground effect to fly, but the speed is actually almost the same as the multi-legged combat vehicle, the role of the convoy is mainly to escort, although I don't know what these two-story tall guys have to escort.

On the other side, Daniel's convoy headed to the "Black Brown Pit" also sent good news, and they also arrived at the designated position.

However, the "high-dimensional projection scanning" energy consumption of the "Orbital Command Center" module is very large, and even the Type III steel energy core is not enough to support its continuous operation, and it must be charged for 24 hours before it can be used again.

……

William saw those driving mechanical monsters setting up camp in the open space outside the town, and walked over with some curiosity and asked, "Guys, may I ask, I heard that you are here to prepare to continue digging the pit, is there still gold and silver ore in the mine?" ”

Lias was hot with flour barley bread, and casually agreed: "Yes, but it is buried deeper, and it is impossible to mine it by manpower, and it must have a big machine." ”

William shook his head and said, "No kidding, I've watched how this mine has fallen since I was a child. ”

"In the beginning, all the gold and silver mines on the surface were plowed down, and all the stones were smashed, not a single piece of ore was spared."

"The ore on the surface is mined, and then the mining hole is started, and there will be a collapse accident at both ends in three days, and human lives will be buried underground as if they don't need money."

"It still can't stop the desire of those mine owners, I've only been down the well once, and it's hard to imagine that the rat-like tunnel is really a place for people."

He sighed, "Until the end, there was no more ore to dig from the ground, and this place was finally abandoned. ”

William looked at Lias and said, "Now, you're going to re-mine this mine, why on earth?" ”

Lias beckoned him to sit down, and shared bread with William: "I said brother, what you said is the old yellow calendar." ”

"You all relied on manpower before, of course it was thankless, we are different."

He pointed to the four multi-legged chariots outside: "Do you see, those mechanical vehicles, but they are all modern products, and the power of the machines is far beyond your imagination. ”

"We are going to build a large ore refinery here, which is enough to mine mineral deposits hundreds of thousands of kilometers underground, and by that time, you will know what science and technology are the primary productive forces!"

William still felt that Lias was talking in a dream, and that hundreds of thousands of meters, twenty meters deep tunnels were already the limit of human beings, and underground collapse and water seepage would always be a nightmare for mine workers.

He waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I won't persuade you anymore, you can do whatever you like." ”

Seeing that he was leaving, Lias smiled and said, "Dude, let me tell you a trick, while there are not many people in your 'Nugget Town' now, hurry up and repair those empty houses." ”

"It won't be long before your town will be overcrowded, hehe, this is a great opportunity to make money, don't miss it from your own hands!"