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Chapter 96: Sova Lumber Mill (Seeking Subscriptions)

"Smuggling?"

Chen Jue's face revealed a playful smile as he listened to Tie Lao Liu's words.

For a normal MC player, how could digging a tunnel to cross the border between two countries be considered smuggling?

At most, it's just temporarily transforming into an outlaw, playing a bit of in-game displacement and clipping through the map, accidentally changing maps.

Besides, Blagoveshchensk, across from HH City, is the capital of the Amur Oblast in present-day Russia, known as the third largest city in the Far East, formerly called Hailanpao.

Chen Jue going there without a passport is at most considered a visit to his homeland without paying an entrance fee.

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Completely closing and locking all the doors and windows inside and outside the temporarily rented B\u0026B.

Chen Jue burrowed into the tunnel in the basement, and then took out the [Foundation] block he had just dug out and filled it back in, so that it could have an undetectable effect.

Following the U-shaped tunnel all the way forward, Chen Jue touched the soil deeply buried at the bottom of the Heilongjiang River, with a look of surprise on his face: "The bottom of this place is actually black soil?"

"The feng shui here in the Northeast is indeed fertile, simply a natural place for farming!"

Chen Jue clicked his tongue in wonder twice, holding the torch and heading forward.

Tie Lao Liu, who was responsible for digging the tunnel, was in charge of cleaning up the rear, "Dong, dong, dong~" filling all the blocks dug out during the excavation back in place as they were.

The reason for doing such a meticulous filling operation is also because the tunnel they are in now is located on the border between China and Russia.

It should be known that the more prosperous the border port, the stricter the investigation of smuggling and illegal immigration.

Just like the border between the United States and Mexico, in addition to erecting high walls and barbed wire.

Those underground tunnels for digging holes are also the focus of crackdowns by the US border police, with anti-smuggling teams carrying detection equipment patrolling the border every day.

Since Chen Jue was doing this kind of cross-border risky business for the first time, he was also afraid of being discovered by high-tech detection methods, so he asked Tie Lao Liu to make the tunnel a little bit deeper, just to be cautious.

After completing the displacement, Chen Jue got into a Lada car rented by Lao Shang from a Russian, and first wandered around this small city with a population of only 200,000, visiting the local customs.

Everywhere you can see domestic tourists and businessmen crossing the river, and even school-age students from Heihe on the opposite bank take a ferry for more than ten minutes to go to school here.

"When I was in school, why didn't I think about studying in Russia? There are many job opportunities for niche languages, and the cost of studying abroad is not expensive. There are also beautiful Russian girls everywhere, which is definitely better than those Japanese teachers in the collection folder and D drive!"

Chen Jue sighed after touring around this Russian city.

He felt that if he could be ten years younger, he would definitely sign up to study in Russia for a while.

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After touring the entire city with a critical attitude, Chen Jue spent almost half a day by car to reach an extremely remote lumber mill in the local suburbs.

As the third largest city in the Russian Far East, Blagoveshchensk, located in the middle and upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, has the most developed river port in the Far East.

As long as the cargo ship goes all the way southeast along the water system, it can even easily turn into the Songhua River and the Ussuri River, and reach large provincial capital cities in Northeast China such as Harbin.

Even now, Blagoveshchensk's timber and scrap steel export business is very developed.

Because Russia is a well-known resource exporting country, their Far East has some of the world's top forest resources, accounting for more than 75% of Russia's vegetation area.

Nourished by this fertile black land, everything can grow particularly well.

Taking the Amur Oblast, where Blagoveshchensk is located, as an example, its land area is comparable to a large province in China, but the population is only a mere 800,000, but the forest resource reserves have reached a terrifying 2.1 billion cubic meters.

Especially in the current environment where China advocates green mountains and clear waters and strictly prohibits indiscriminate logging, the raw materials for better wooden furniture and papermaking are basically imported from Russia, Japan, and forest resource countries in Africa and South America.

It just so happened that a large machine tool procurement contract of 2 billion yuan was newly signed with Shenji, and several hundred million yuan of bank loans were in arrears.

Chen Jue, who was a little 'tight' on hand, asked Lao Shang, the cunning merchant villager, to give full play to his subjective initiative and try his luck in Blagoveshchensk.

The dilapidated lumber mill called 'Sova Lumber Mill' in front of him was a manufacturer that Chen Jue had asked Lao Shang to find on the Russian Internet in advance when he was traveling and inspecting in Heihe.

The business here is run by an old Russian couple, who were very enthusiastic when they met everyone.

Especially after hearing Lao Shang speak a fluent and tongue-twisting Russian, Sergei, the owner of the lumber mill, warmly embraced him, calling him "Comrade" and trying to get close to this group of wealthy buyers from the Eastern country.

Because the Sova Lumber Mill has been out of work for more than 1 year, and the geographical location is a bit remote, the entire factory area is built in a densely forested mountain col, and the road into the mountain has not been hardened, all of which are old dirt roads.

As long as it rains a little, and then pressed by a large truck, the black mud rolled up on the dirt road is as thick as paste.

Not only is it difficult for people to walk, but even cars are not easy to pass.

With this kind of geographical condition, let alone finding a suitable successor, it is not easy to recruit workers from outside.

Because those who work in lumber mills are heavy physical labor, the working environment is harsh, and it is extremely easy to trigger safety accidents when operating logging equipment and felling large trees.

The wages given by Russia are so pitifully low, and if you just look for any lumber mill in the Far East, you basically can't see the figures of local young people.

All are North Korean laborers with light in their eyes, working hard and closed-door in it.

"Dear Comrade! Your Russian is so standard!"

"It sounds as good as the announcers on those TV stations in Moscow." After Sergei warmly greeted Lao Shang, he led everyone to visit the lumber mill.

After passing through the simple wooden fence, there is a tin warehouse where various old logging equipment is placed.

There are also a few simple dormitories where the loggers used to live, dirty and full of dust and oil stains, which looks like they have been abandoned for a long time.

Chen Jue didn't have the mood to open a treasure chest at all for the leftovers of this broken factory.

At this moment, he was looking at the continuous and steep mountains behind the tin warehouse with great interest.

I saw that these mountains were quiet, and the occasional birds and insects chirping could not stir up any waves.

The mountains are densely forested, and larch, birch, and spruce, which are common tree species in the Far East, can be seen everywhere.

However, due to indiscriminate logging, several nearby mountain forests close to this lumber mill have become bare.

Looking closer, you can find a large pile of thick stumps that were cut down in the past.

The annual rings displayed on the stumps are as solid and dense as toilet paper, and you can tell at a glance that they are old trees that have grown for more than a hundred years.

As for those replanted saplings, they are still in the growth stage, and they are as thin as toothpicks between those stumps, and they are not sturdy enough to burn firewood, let alone have any economic value.

"What a great place!"

Chen Jue took a deep breath, and the natural atmosphere mixed with forests and soil made his whole person refreshed.

This kind of pure virgin forest without industrial and automobile exhaust pollution is very rare in China.

Only the deep mountains and old forests in Wencheng, Wenzhou, which have been designated as natural reserves, can see similar scenes.

So he gave the big-nosed villager beside him a satisfied look, and the other party immediately nodded knowingly, and began to rap with Sergei, the owner of this place, to break it down.

Finally, for a box of vodka and 60 million Russian rubles, he successfully contracted the 20-year right to use this lumber mill.

However, before signing the contract, the enthusiastic Sergei still whispered: "Dear Comrade, if you want to send workers into the mountains to cut trees, you must pay attention! You must not cross the height red line of the designated natural protection, you must cut economic wood for more than 10 years below the red line, otherwise you will be severely punished if you are discovered by officials from the Forestry Bureau!"

Chen Jue nodded slightly when he heard Lao Shang's live translation, revealing a meaningful smile: "Don't worry, Uncle Sergei, we will definitely abide by the local rules! We won't easily cross the red line."

After the crowd finished chatting, the old Sergei couple took the big nose to the local relevant departments to go through the relevant procedures.

Leaving Chen Jue and Tie Lao Liu in the lumber mill, hiking into the mountains along the mountain roads that the loggers had stepped out in the past.

Waiting for the sky to gradually darken, the light in the mountains began to dim.

By the way, after confirming through the released drone that there were no suspicious personnel and power grids inside and outside the lumber mill.

Chen Jue walked to a small birch tree that had not been planted for a long time, and took out [Bone Meal] from his backpack and poured it on it.

Accompanied by the flash of green light, swoosh~, the small tree that was originally only 3 meters high immediately rose from the ground, like it had eaten Jin Kela, and窜成了像远处的林子中几十年老树的的枝繁叶茂的模样!

This scene made Chen Jue's mouth smile to the back of his ears: "Haha! Not a square tree in MC!"

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