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Chapter 965: 846
Minutes later.
Above the cave interior.
A flash of light.
"Boom... Plop..."
A huge blue container slammed into the water’s surface.
The direction of teleportation at the Teleportation Node is not differentiated by up or down.
As long as the Teleportation Node is placed at the top of the cave, the teleported items can appear anywhere desired.
The door of the container was open, water kept pouring in, and soon, the container sank, stirring up a whirlpool of undercurrents and bubbles at the falling spot, which would definitely pull down anyone on the surface.
A hundred meters.
If it were in the air.
The fall would take only about four or five seconds.
But in the water, it took almost half a minute.
Two meters above the ground, the container stopped. Tang Qing thought and, under the invisible influence of Nerve Telekinesis, the gold bricks on the ground started flying into the container.
After making sure there were no more gold bricks below.
The container slowly settled down.
It sank into the silt by more than thirty centimeters.
The fighters began placing gold bricks into the container while the submersibles were being retrieved.
As for Tang Qing.
He began to wander around erratically.
He was there to help.
But not with gathering gold bricks.
It was with packaging and transportation, simply eliminating one step in the process; don’t forget, he was a man with "Space Equipment," a full thousand cubic meters. If he really wanted to help pick up gold bricks, there would be no need for containers and fighters.
He could handle it alone.
Just now, while waiting for the container.
Tang Qing had dug through the thick silt below to see if there were any that slipped through the net. After clearing away over a meter thick layer of silt, Tang Qing found loose red gems and lots of scrap gold apart from that.
This was not crudely refined.
But rather Gold Ore fragments.
This piqued Tang Qing’s curiosity.
That Duke of Meyi wouldn’t be so foolish as to throw away such gold ore fragments here when having so much gold, if indeed large quantities of gold ore fragments exist here, that would mean upstream of the Underground River, there’s a gold mine.
As for this place.
Tang Qing held no hope.
With the mining conditions back then.
It was impossible for the ore to have been mined from this site, even with today’s technology, it’s difficult to mine minerals from a depth of a hundred meters, unless... the water level here wasn’t so high back then.
That thought suddenly erupted in Tang Qing’s mind.
"Tang Yi, deploy the Detector, and map out the terrain below the water surface," Tang Qing immediately ordered.
"Yes, Commander."
Three minutes later.
The cave ceiling flashed with light once again.
A detector dropped down, spinning like a gyroscope.
One meter long.
At the moment of its descent.
The two ring devices on its top and bottom began spinning, with a laser emitter on either side of each ring. The principle was simple, continuously spinning at high speed, and using the messages reflected back to determine the underwater terrain.
The two ring devices on the detector used two different spectral frequency lasers.
One to detect.
One to verify.
However, water’s scattering and refraction capabilities were too strong.
The maximum detection distance was only four hundred meters, which was dozens of times shorter than on land, but still incredibly powerful, and the prohibitive cost was equally outrageous.
One point six billion RMB.
And that’s the cost price.
More expensive than building a satellite, thankfully, this device was not only for mapping underwater terrain but also had nearly ten kilometers of underwater mobile target exploration and positioning capability, capable of discovering submarines and even locating schools of fish.
Otherwise.
With that amount of money, Tang Qing would definitely not have let the scientists build it.
The cost of building made Tang Qing cringe.
This was also one of the reasons why Tang Qing was frantically accumulating wealth, as the scientists in the Research Area came into contact with deeper scientific aspects over time and used more sophisticated materials.
The crazy rise in development costs made Tang Qing want to tear up the budget sheet when he saw it.
It was just damn scary.
Scientific research.
Still a full system, all categories of scientific research were being carried out simultaneously.
It was really like burning money with a boiler.
Still throwing it in handful by handful.
The detector slowly descended at a speed of one meter per second, and on Tang Qing’s watch, a topographic map projection starting from the surface was continuously generated; after a little over a minute, the entire topographic map was complete.
Once the detector finished its job, it automatically surfaced, and was retrieved by the fighters above.
Looking at the projection in front of him.
Tang Qing found that his guess was not wrong; this place was not previously filled with water because during the detection, a wooden bridge was visible far away, descending from above. However, the bridge had decayed so only traces could be seen.
Since the wooden bridge was still about ten meters below the surface, it had not been discovered before.
Tang Qing found that the underground river had two outlets.
One was at the very bottom, blocked by rocks with obvious artificial traces, as they were massive boulders certainly not formed naturally. However, they were not tightly sealed, and water was still continuously flowing through the cracks.
The other was the current outlet, almost level with the water surface.
Tang Qing immediately understood.
The lower outlet used to be open.
Thinking this,
Tang Qing drifted underwater and moved over.
Arriving at the outlet,
Due to the high water pressure, dark currents continually drifted past the cracks. Getting close would definitely suck one over, though the cracks were so small that even if there was suction, it couldn’t possibly pull Tang Qing through.
"What would happen if I cleared these rocks?" Tang Qing’s urge to disrupt began to rise.
Thinking it, he did it.
Tang Qing touched a rock with his hand.
Nerve telekinesis slowly permeated it, and in less than a second, when the nerve telekinesis had fully covered the rock, suddenly, the rock vanished before his eyes, absorbed into his ring.
After the rock disappeared, water instantly filled the original spot.
Then, thousands of tiny bubbles emerged from where it had been, a phenomenon produced when the air in the water made contact with a vacuum-like environment. The ring’s collection process involved extracting all particles in that area into a space.
Quite an interesting sight.
The rock just removed was not a support point, so it did not cause any particular situation.
Tang Qing started on the next.
Over the next minute,
intense bubbles continued to rise. Tang Qing had considered using explosives, but feared unexpected issues could arise, so he opted to just move the rocks that others had placed there. There was no rush.
Suddenly,
when Tang Qing removed a large rock with a diameter of one meter,
the entire stable structure was disrupted.
The rocks in front of him started to shift and tremble.
At the same time, a massive thrust came from behind him; Tang Qing knew it was the water accelerating. Standing over the outlet, he felt a significant force, but the magnetic resonance connected with the Earth’s magnetic field.
To push Tang Qing,
one would have to see if that force was stronger than the combined grip of nerve telekinesis and the Earth’s magnetic field.
Unfortunately,
this kind of suction, which generally no one could withstand, was still unable to shake Tang Qing in the slightest. Watching the rocks’ trembling grow more intense, Tang Qing did not intend to stand pompously there under the current.
Tang Qing ordered, "Tang Yi, have the fighters start surfacing."
"Yes, Commander."
After speaking,
Tang Qing walked about twenty meters to the left, leaving the range of the blocked rocks, standing at the edge because there were still rocks there to hold on to in case he got sucked in unintentionally.
Although he couldn’t die and could return to the command room at any time, it would still be embarrassing.
After all the fighters had surfaced,
Tang Qing began collecting rocks at the edge.
When he had removed the third rock, weighing several tons,
"Boom ..."
The blocking structure completely collapsed.
The rocks, under immense pressure, rolled toward deeper areas, and the surrounding currents suddenly also increased. After feeling it out, it was still unable to shake him, and Tang Qing let go of the rock he was holding.
He looked at the projection on his watch.
He saw the water level in the pool was dropping, though very slowly. According to the command room’s calculations, it would take over four hours to drain, which was painfully slow. In four hours, Tang Qing would be waking up.
Suddenly,
where the rocks had been cleared,
Tang Qing saw something.
His expression became surprised.
Why would there be railroad tracks here?
