Live in Doomsday Wasteland

Chapter 163 Bamboo
I came to the place where I found the pumping machine that I visited yesterday. Sure enough, after the rain, the place looks very humid, but fortunately, the air circulation is okay.

After all, there are no big trees nearby that can block the wind, but in this way, when Chen Qi is working and digging a hole, there must be nothing that can block the sun for him.

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"Let's find out if it is possible to see the mine they left behind.

I think that although the local gem resources are abundant, it is not necessary, but this thing must be subdivided somewhere. "

Chen Qi took a stick that he broke off from a tree branch, and swept the weeds and other low plants on the ground. He searched for a long time, but found nothing.

"It's useless, I can't find it."

Chen Qi threw the stick casually.

No traces of mines could be found, and Chen Qi didn't show any signs of distress.

Originally, even if he really found it, he wouldn't dig down according to the location left by others.

At the beginning, those gemstone mines were all at a depth of 30 meters. If Chen Qi went to dig, he would have to go to this depth at least.

Even if he can use wood to support the mine layer by layer to prevent it from collapsing.Even if Chen Qi had a way to drain the water in the mine, based on the labor volume of 30 meters, he might have to dig this hole for a month.

This is not counting other issues such as transporting earth and rocks out, and the time to cut down trees and saw wood for support.

Digging mines that others have abandoned is the most unreliable thing to do.

Chen Qi raised his head and set his gaze on a hillside in the distance.

That place is where Chen Qi wants to go.

But before that, he still decided to try here too.

The effect of the live broadcast.

If you don't dig a few holes here, the fans will not agree~
Whether it exists or not, the digging is over.

Chen Qi put down the things in his hand, looked around, there were no animals, only a few small monkeys on the tree, holding on to the branches and looking down at him.On the tree not far away, there are still a few crows.

"Not bad! Good omen!"

Seeing the crow, Chen Qi actually laughed happily and said it was a good omen.

Turning to the camera of the drone, Chen Qi explained: "Different places have different customs and cultures.

In our eyes, crows may not be a symbol of auspiciousness, but they are part of cultural customs.

But in the eyes of Sri Lankans, the crow is a kind of divine bird. In local legends and stories, it assumes a very important and positive role image, which is also a part of cultural customs.

Now we are going to dig the soil to find gems, and a crow is flying over. Is this not a good omen? "

Chen Qi was very happy, and decided that when he needed to cut down a tree later, he would not cut down the tree where the crows landed.

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After putting down the things, Chen Qi opened the multi-functional alloy folding shovel. He didn't care about the ore veins or the ore veins, and there were so many theories about choosing a location, so he randomly found a place that didn't seem to have any rocks, and shoveled it down with a shovel. .

Speaking of digging, if this thing is also a skill, it must be one of the highest skill levels among Chen Qi's ordinary skills.

He is too experienced with this stuff.

Not long after, Chen Qi dug a hole the size of a laundry tub in the ground.

But at this time, as Chen Qi expected, water had already started to seep from the bottom of the pit.

From this point of view, it may take more than half an hour for the pit to be filled directly with water.

After all, it had just rained, so Chen Qi didn't have to worry about drinking water this time.

This is so easy to dig a hole and it can be used as a well!
"Let's rest for a while, go sit over there for a while..."

Chen Qi's physical strength is very good, and he is very accustomed to digging pits, but it is different from the time in the north. Digging under the sun in the tropics, the physical exertion is too serious.

Chen Qi felt that the skin on the back of his neck was sore from the sun.

It seems that after this live broadcast mission is over, when he returns to Space City, his skin will definitely be darkened a few shades.

"Got to find a way to get a hat or something..."

There are a lot of plants that can be used to weave straw hats. Chen Qi casually cut off some branches with leaves with a knife, shook them hard a few times, shook off any possible insects on them, and then twisted a few of them. Bend, twist the branch in your hand into a circle like twisting a hemp rope.

"This thing doesn't need any technology at all, as long as it can keep it from falling apart and cover the sun.

When I'm done with this matter today, I'll make a real straw hat for use. "

Just like when he was playing with his friends when he was a child, Chen Qi simply rubbed his hands a few times and made a straw hat with only a brim.

When I pressed it on my head, the sunlight disappeared from my eyes, and I immediately felt much cooler.

Although, this straw hat is indeed green...

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After resting for a while and drinking a few mouthfuls of water from the kettle, Chen Qi regained his energy.

Holding the shovel, he returned to the place where he had just dug the hole.

The pit is almost full of water.

"Just use this water!"

Chen Qi used a shovel to shovel some of the soil dug out just now into the pit.

Squatting down, he directly "washed" the soil in the water with his hands. After repeating this process over and over again, Chen Qi found nothing, and dug the soil and water out of the pit again, and raised them in a fixed place.

"Brothers, we seem to have made some mistakes."

Chen Qi went back to sit under the tree to enjoy the shade. He looked at his hands and said to the fans: "For things like digging gems, it seems that you need to choose a place with more small stones...

Hahahaha, just kidding, you really thought I came here with a shovel without investigating anything.

That is of course impossible~"

Chen Qi clasped his hands on his knees, squinted his eyes and said, "The place where the most gemstones are produced here and the quality of gemstones is also the best is usually by the river.

Like the gemstone mine we saw, it is estimated that marginal people with little skills can't get a good place by the river, or can't afford to buy a pump with sufficient power, so they can only run here to open the mine.

This kind of thing is very common. Many ordinary residents in Sri Lanka who make a living from planting have the habit of digging small pits when they have nothing to do.

Like the problem they encountered, we don't have anything to pump water, so even if we know that the location by the river is the best place for gemstones, we can't go there. We need to start pumping water from the middle of the night, and then it will be noon. To go down the well to dig gems. "

Chen Qi spread his hands as he spoke: "We can't beat this at all.

Moreover, I just came to dig 100.Not like them.

If according to their kind of investment, 100 gemstones of different quality are dug out in about a month, nothing to say, the lost pants must be gone. "

Unless it is a gemstone of particularly good color, or it is a super rare gemstone, or it is a very large one, otherwise, the rough gemstones that have just been dug out are not expensive at all in the local area.

Things like [accidentally dig out a gem and make a fortune] are basically a fantasy, and the chances of winning the first prize in the lottery are lower.

The rough gems produced here will be handed over to the owner of the mine, and then sold to the local gem merchants.

At this stage, these rough gemstones will go through the first step of relatively random grading, and are initially divided into different prices according to their color, type, and size.

In the hands of gem dealers in local gem bazaars, gems are sold to second-hand gem dealers from all over the world.

Because there are generally three or five here and five or six there, so without this middleman, those big transactions really can't go on, which is extremely troublesome.

In the hands of these merchants, the gemstones will undergo preliminary processing, polishing, and removal of external impurities, etc. These merchants gather the gemstones together and sell them to jewelry companies. After a long and long journey, the gemstones arrive all over the world.

Then, the jewelry company will select, cut, polish, design, shape, and make jewelry, etc., plus a lot of messy added value, which is the final price when ordinary people buy gems.

After so many people passing through the middle, everyone made money, so the price of the final gem is that.

In the first place of production at the source, when the rough gem is dug out of the soil, its price is unbelievably low.

Just like this, they still have more than 5 million knives of precious stones exported every year, which is evident from the production of precious stones here.

Like what Chen Qi said, three or five people dug a 30-meter-deep gemstone mine with a local big flat-head shovel, and produced more than a dozen ordinary worthless gemstones every day, such as spinel, Gemstones such as garnet and quartz cat's eye, and a few relatively high-end gems such as red sapphire, starstone, moonstone, and chrysoberyl cat's eye can't make money at all.

In contrast, Chen Qi doesn't pick anything, he likes any stone, whatever color he likes, whatever size he likes, whatever he likes, whatever.

According to Chen Qi's collection of 100 per month, regardless of any other requirements, it is indeed more willful to dig holes anywhere.

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In the following time, Chen Qi did not choose to dig around and change places to dig new pits.

After pumping out the water in that pit, Chen Qi identified this pit and kept digging down.

Because he didn't do any work to fix the edges at all, the pit not only got deeper and deeper, but also got bigger and bigger.

While digging, Chen Qi found that with his own hands alone, it seemed that he could no longer "clean" the soil.

"No way, brothers, we must have a basket, a sieve or something that can filter water and keep soil.

I remember that the local people seem to have been directly hand-picking gems with bamboo sieves since ancient times.

We should do the same! "

Chen Qi worked hard for a long time, but he didn't get a single gemstone. The only one, which was not as big as a fingernail, looked like a gemstone. It's just sand together.

However, despite this, the fans are also happy to watch.

They knew that every gem that Chen Qi dug up might be given to them for a lottery.

It's not that no one thought about what would happen if Chen Qi dug up a very expensive, super rare gemstone.

However, most people felt that even if it was a rare treasure, Chen Qi would definitely not use it for a lottery, but if it was a slightly more common one worth tens of thousands of dollars, he would be embarrassed to just give it to the dirty ones in full view of the public. Lost it.

According to the popularity of Chen Qi's current live broadcast, as long as he is not a big fool, he will definitely not leave such a black spot on himself for such a small profit.

In other words, they looked at Chen Qi now, just like the boss looked at his wage earners.

Then every shovel of soil dug may bring benefits to himself!
Can you not be happy to see it?
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When noon passed, Chen Qi walked back with a shovel on his shoulder.

On the other side of the shelter, there were a lot of mushrooms left over from his morning. Even if he didn't find any food today, he would definitely not be hungry.

It would be a joke on this island to make people go hungry because they couldn't find food.

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After simply eating something, Chen Qi sat under the shade of a tree to rest for a while, and then he was about to get up and move again.

It turned out that he decided to find a bamboo forest because he had planned to use bamboo, a strong and light plant, as the building material for the tree house he built.

After all, it’s not like on the ground, there is a solid foundation, and if you build a tree house with wood, it is likely that the branches and branches of the big tree will not be able to bear it, and the project will be directly tofu dregs.

This was not an urgent matter at first, but now, Chen Qi found that if he wanted to find gems, he also seemed to need the help of bamboo.

If you want to make a sieve or something to sift sand and stones, bamboo is definitely the best.

He has the skills of [weaving], and he also has the skill of weaving baskets and sieves.

Now, only bamboo is missing.

Patting his buttocks, Chen Qi stood up from the ground, confirmed the position of his shelter, and walked into the woods again.

This time he wanted to go farther, try not to do anything on the way, just pay attention to safety, and then set the only goal of finding the bamboo forest.

"It seems that this shelter may stay for a day or two."

When Chen Qi was on the road, he was still thinking about whether it would be better to reinforce and decorate his temporary shelter when he came back, and upgrade it to a higher level. After all, it seems that finding a bamboo forest and a place where a tree house can be built is not a good idea. so easy.

Unexpectedly, after walking for more than two hours, he saw a small river covered with grass, and on the opposite side of the small river, there was a large bamboo forest that was a bit ridiculously tall.

"Oh, that temporary shelter seems to be able to temporarily retire."

Standing by the river, Chen Qi crossed his hips and said vigorously.

(Ps: Sri Lanka seems to be in an economic crisis now...

I searched all kinds of information, and it gave me all kinds of things about how miserable Sri Lanka is, it's hard...)
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