The Sabbath

Xiaomei was assigned a backpack ← very strong and with a lock; a shovel ← a bit old, it seems that it has been used by many miners before; a pair of gloves ← this is new; a very strong miner's hat, There is also a searchlight in front of the hat; a pair of overalls ← this is new, even in the smallest size, it is still a bit big for Xiaomei's current figure.

In addition, there is a small pocket, which contains some necessities, including food with high energy content. Although Xiaomei can't use it, he is still allocated a portion.

"Is there anything else you want to say?" the masked recruiter raised his head and asked.

Xiaomei looked at Ronggui in her arms.

"I need another miner's hat."

The man seemed to smile: "According to the rules, this is not allowed, but there are few people today, so I will make an exception."

As he spoke, he took out another hat from the box under his feet.

So Ronggui... has a miner's hat on his head~

With Ronggui on her chest, a small miner's pannier on her back, and a small utility bag on her waist, Xiaomei, who is wearing a full set of miner's equipment, looks no different from other miners except that she is a little shorter.

He was taken to work at that time.

The leader is still the man wearing the mask.

"Get in the car." He beckoned to Xiaomei, and he led the people to the side of the ore truck. After Xiaomei climbed up, he slowly started the car: "You are lucky, there is no one here today, otherwise The miners had to sit in the back."

He pointed to the back of the carriage—the trailer that originally transported the ore.

Holding Ronggui's head, Xiaomei ignored him.

The man was not angry, and drove on his own.

The mine pits seem to be very far away. The car arrived at the destination after 45 minutes, which was different from the previous mine pits. When entering here, the car stopped once, and the man showed some documents before he was allowed to enter.

Unlike the No. [-] mine where people can apply for jobs in the past, this should be a higher-level mine and requires a pass.

Of course, it was Xiaomei who noticed this. Although Ronggui saw it, he didn't think about it.

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"Yo? There are newcomers here? Didn't something happen in the No. [-] mine? Those guys should all run away." In the corresponding position where the masked man was sitting in the No. [-] mine, there was also a masked man. The style of the gas mask is the same, but the men here are much taller.Noticing Xiaomei's height, he was stunned for a while before he smiled and said, "This can't be your relative? It's actually shorter than you..."

"What's the matter with being short? My work is better than the big ones!" The little man retorted immediately, and patted Xiaomei on the shoulder: "A good miner is not tall, little guy, work hard for me He sees."

The latter part of the sentence was addressed to Xiaomei.

Taking it for granted, Xiaomei naturally ignored him, but Ronggui replied energetically: "Must be!!!"

Suddenly a loud voice came out from someone else's chest, and the tall man was taken aback: "This, what is this? A radio?"

On the other hand, the short man who brought them here should have seen Ronggui a long time ago, instead of being surprised, he even smiled: "That's the motivation, work hard."

"When miners have to work deep below the ground, that is the loneliest place. With the current safety technology factor, they don't have to worry about safety issues when working below. What they need to worry about is psychological problems. Miners who have been underground for a long time There are often psychological problems, mild or severe, so it is recommended to find a few good friends to go down together, someone to chat with, this is a good way to relieve psychological pressure." Probably because today is really leisurely, the short man said a few more words : "But even if you have psychological problems, don't be nervous, there are professional psychologists in the mine."

"Yeah, yum." Rong Gui listened very seriously, and while listening, he echoed, unable to move, he used his voice to express that he had memorized everything.

Satisfied with Ronggui's attitude, the short man explained a few more words, patted Xiaomei on the shoulder, and then another miner came out of the back room, and he led Xiaomei and Ronggui straight back.

This seems to be the miners' lounge. When they entered, there were already eight miners sitting or standing. When they saw newcomers coming in, only two of them looked up at them, and then turned indifferently. away.

This made Ronggui, who was planning to introduce himself and Xiaomei well, and integrate into the miner squad to avoid depression, was dumbfounded.

On the contrary, Xiaomei quickly integrated into this small group.

By, as always, has a cold attitude of ignoring everyone.

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Including the miner who had brought them here, there were now ten people in the room (plus one head).

No one spoke, and the room was silent.

After another 2 minutes or so, there was a burst of soft music in the room.Without anyone speaking, the room suddenly began to descend!

Ronggui was a little scared at the time, but seeing Xiaomei's calm look, he gradually became less afraid.

It went down like that for about 10 minutes.

The music finally stopped.

"Work has started." The miner who was in charge of leading the way before said suddenly, and then the door suddenly opened.

Outside the door is no longer the previous scenery, but darkness.

Without saying a word, the miner was standing at the door, and the miner went out after finishing speaking.The other miners who were still in the house quickly followed him, and soon Xiaomei was left alone in the house.

After checking Ronggui's front backpack again, Xiaomei also went out.

The door closed quickly, and then Ronggui heard the sound of gears and chains, and with the sound of the wind, the room behind them immediately moved upwards.

Uh... so the previous room was a big elevator?Arranged like a lounge, should it be said to be a humanized design?Or is it saving?

Ronggui pretended to think for a while.

But Xiaomei obviously didn't have this kind of reverie, following behind the other miners, he started to walk forward.

"This is the depth of 400 meters in Pit No. [-]. The main minerals are: Germanium, Kuroda Stone and Sani. These are the primary stones of the three minerals. Take a closer look." The leading miner took out three stones for Xiaomei to see. He glanced at it, and quickly put away the sample without asking Xiaomei if she understood.

His movements were so fast, Ronggui only had time to see that it was vaguely two stones and a lump of mud, and he didn't even have time to remember the color, so the other party put away the things! ?

Ronggui could only pray that Xiaomei's eyes were better than his, because he didn't understand anything!

"You are in that direction." The man pointed in another direction: "Gather here in eight hours."

After saying this, he left.

He left in one direction to the right, and the other miners seemed to have their own designated mining areas. After a sound of footsteps, there was no one else around them.

In the darkness, only the tinkling of mining was left.

"Xiaomei..." Rong Gui said timidly.

The mechanical hand belonging to Xiaomei touched his face, moving upward along the cheeks, Xiaomei's hand landed on Ronggui's hat, and after a "click", the searchlight on Ronggui's hat turned on.

A bright white light illuminated the way ahead of them.

"Let's go." With Xiaomei's calm words, they walked in the direction designated by the previous miner.

There is actually a big hole there.

A black hole embedded in a huge rock wall.

There is not even a ladder outside, only the steel nails embedded in it can be used as pedals, and Xiaomei has to use these steel nails to climb in. After climbing in, they entered a darker place.

In the past, Ronggui only knew that the night was black, but now he knows that even the darkness is deep and shallow.

The darkness here is obviously a deeper darkness.

Fortunately, it is quite spacious inside, not as narrow as Ronggui imagined.

"You are here." Putting the pannier on the ground, Xiaomei then put Ronggui on the pannier.

Then he got to work.

"Xiaomei Xiaomei~" Ronggui also started to "work".

For Ronggui, now that he has no hands, the only "job" he can do is to chat with Xiaomei.

For this task, he did it very seriously.

"Xiaomei, have you seen the appearance of those ores? Can you dig them out?" He started from a professional perspective.

"No, I can't dig it out." Xiaomei's answer was still concise and to the point.

"Huh?" This was unexpected.Although Ronggui asked this question, he was ready for Xiaomei to give him a chance to answer affirmatively, and then he took advantage of the opportunity to humbly ask how to distinguish ore, and Xiaomei explained to him patiently. In this way, wouldn't Xiaomei be able to talk a lot? ?

Of course, he probably won't be able to learn how to identify ore.

"Then what should I do? He collected it too quickly just now, I didn't see the appearance of the ore at all..." Ronggui was very worried for a while, and then he began to desperately recall: "The first ore... a little Blue? The second piece... black? Green? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Unable to remember the color of the last piece of mud, Ronggui stopped thinking at last, and continued to chat with Xiaomei: "But there are rare things that Xiaomei has never seen before."

Although Xiaomei is just an ordinary country robot, his usual performance is too knowledgeable, as if there is nothing he doesn't know, so Ronggui guessed that Xiaomei must have read a lot of books before.

It's not that I haven't seen it, it's just that I haven't seen such a low-level primary ore——I didn't speak, Xiaomei thought to herself.

These ores that grow in the deepest ground are actually useless here. Even if they are refined to a fairly high precision, their true value cannot be exerted. The place where their value can really be exerted is the "sky", especially the Kuroda stone. Kuroda Stone purified to the highest purity will turn white, and it is quite light in weight. It is an indispensable material for the construction of Sky City. Of course, it will no longer be called "Kuroda Stone" at that time...

She only knows what these minerals look like after they have been purified to a certain extent, but Xiaomei has never seen their original appearance.

However, this does not prevent him from mining.

As a newcomer, those old miners must have allocated him the worst mine pits, but it didn't matter, bad has its benefits.

The first is the space - this hole is very wide, obviously it has been collected and excavated for a long time, and the ore that can be dug in it must have been dug out.

The miners only took the ore, leaving the rest of the place largely untouched, just for future generations to study what kind of place might produce ore. Although the type of ore cannot be determined, he can know when he digs into a similar environment in the future. There will be ores.

Overall, it's a great place.

It is much better than a virgin mine that has not been dug at all and does not know whether there is ore ore.

After evaluating inwardly, Xiaomei began to study the four walls of the mine.

Before that, he took out the contents of his pocket, as a must-have for other miners. There were some food, medicine, even a radio, and two batteries in the pocket.

Xiaomei only took the battery. For him, only this is useful, and the others are useless.

But Ronggui, when he saw the food, his eyes lit up, and when he saw the radio, his eyes lit up even more!

"Xiaomei Xiaomei! Turn on the radio, I want to listen to music!"

So Xiaomei put all the "garbage" that she planned to throw away next to Ronggui's head.

At Ronggui's request, he even tuned a music station for Ronggui!

Now Ronggui is satisfied ← the little hole is more lively, isn't it?Xiaomei is not lonely any more!

Xiaomei was also satisfied. With the radio, Ronggui's voice was finally a little softer in comparison, and finally he stopped obsessing about talking to her.

So Ronggui started talking to the radio.

Xiaomei started to work.

The two tossed like this for eight hours.

Eight hours later, the radio ran out of power, and the only thing left in the mine was Ronggui's singing voice who had just learned a lot of new songs.

Seeing Xiaomei returning from hard work, Ronggui triumphantly expressed his conclusion: "I'm more durable than it~"