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Chapter 966: Chapter 847: Golden Mountain (Please Subscribe!)
Looking at the railway tracks in front of him,
Tang Qing felt his interest piqued.
Clearly, there was an established mine of considerable value here; otherwise, if it were merely common commodities like iron ore, mining them in these deep mountains wouldn’t be worthwhile unless that duke had lost his mind.
Below this,
could only be something extraordinary.
That would be interesting.
Tang Qing was prepared to investigate thoroughly.
Watching the water continuously pouring into the cave,
he thought for a moment,
and had the fighters airdrop a high-power underwater searchlight afterward.
Tang Qing followed the current forward as it drifted.
Entering the cave,
the power of the water flow grew stronger but still couldn’t shake him. Tang Qing could float wherever he wished, although it was only easy in the forward direction; if he wanted to go back, he would have to exert some effort.
At this moment,
Tang Qing felt his cultivation had gained new meaning—defeating nature, overcoming the environment. Facing nature, life, and unpredictable dangers, who could claim to be fearless?
But now,
these things,
were no longer so frightening to Tang Qing. He could go wherever he wanted—sky, deep sea, underground. He no longer feared earthquakes, tsunamis, or assassinations.
Ten meters.
...
Twenty meters.
...
Fifty meters.
...
The passage was very straight.
He walked more than one hundred meters.
And still hadn’t reached the end.
Tang Qing continued along the railway tracks. The tracks inside the passage were rusted and much narrower than a train’s tracks. Along the way, Tang Qing even saw a car, meant for carrying ore, that had derailed and was stuck in a rock wall recess.
Two hundred meters.
...
Three hundred meters.
...
The passage still had no end, but Tang Qing wasn’t in a hurry, drifting with the flow. Besides some man-made side pits, he also discovered a lot of skeletons, which had been corroded beyond recognition.
These were probably miners who had been slain by that duke; judging by the skeletal features, they were very likely from Africa.
For Tang Qing, who had already seen all sorts of horrifying things,
this little scene,
simply couldn’t scare him.
Until he drifted nearly eight hundred meters and descended more than one hundred meters, he finally reached the end, or strictly speaking, the end of the water flow, as there appeared a cliff ahead.
The cliff was tens of meters deep.
"Boom, boom..."
The water kept crashing against the bottom of the cliff, sending echoes reverberating.
Tang Qing stood in the high air, tens of meters up, with nothing beneath his feet, the waterfall behind him, and an underwater searchlight held up by his Nerve Telekinesis, which yet couldn’t fly.
Looking at everything in front of him,
a smile appeared on Tang Qing’s face.
Through the dazzling light of the searchlight above his head,
he saw what he wanted—gleaming gold, countless shimmering reflections before his eyes. It was a vast underground space that was staggeringly huge compared to the pit before.
The height was over one hundred meters.
The area was nearly one square kilometer.
The entire underground space was higher in the middle and lower around the edges.
Apart from the entrance he had used, four more were continuously flowing non-stop, flooding the space with water. The streams varied in size, and due to the terrain, the water flooded the entire perimeter of the underground space.
This formed a circular river with a width over a hundred meters.
The most crucial thing was,
In the middle, not submerged by water, a golden gleam reflected.
Tang Qing flew downwards.
He reached the ground.
He grabbed a handful and looked at the sand grains reflecting the golden light in his hand, and the nearly endless gold around him. Tang Qing swore, if this stuff was copper---he’d have people blow up this mountain.
He walked a few steps.
Tang Qing grabbed a few more handfuls.
He flashed back to the Command Room.
"Analyze the composition of this material." Tang Qing handed over several kilograms of collected sand grains to a scientist in the Research Area. To save time, he had to teleport them personally.
After that scientist left.
Tang Qing returned to the underground space.
Looking at the scene before him, Tang Qing couldn’t help but marvel at nature’s craftsmanship, creating such a fascinating place. If these were confirmed to be gold, he would make a fortune.
He went to the water’s edge.
Looking at the clear groundwater slowly flowing in one direction—toward the outflow of the entire underground space—Tang Qing guessed that these materials must have been carried down by the water flow. They couldn’t have formed naturally here.
Two minutes later,
"Commander, the analysis results are out. These are gold ore grains, mixed with some fine red gem particles. Based on existing data, we speculate there is a gold mine upstream of the underground river with a very high gold content.
This mine was once subjected to severe thermal expansion and contraction, combined with geological changes, which fragmented the gold mine. Located twenty kilometers from here is an extinct volcano, and this area is in a polar climate zone, providing a possible environment for such phenomenon," Tang Yi’s voice came through.
Tang Qing nodded.
It seemed the only possibility.
Otherwise, how would these fragmented gold ore grains exist in such large quantities? It was completely illogical.
Looking at the gold sand beneath his feet, whose thickness he could not determine.
Tang Qing nearly burst out laughing.
He had previously been stressed by the astronomical research and development costs proposed by the scientists.
Now, he finally had a solution, thinking about that last number on the "2006 Research Area Forty-One Major Scientific Research Plans, Six Hundred and Seven Functional Product Development Plan Budget Summary."
One hundred ninety-five billion eight hundred million RMB.
This was this year’s research and development budget for the Research Area.
Nearly two hundred billion RMB, at the time Tang Qing was ready to rob a bank, and this was only this year’s research budget. Next year’s budget was expected to be even more. Burning money at this rate, Tang Qing felt like even printing money wouldn’t keep up.
Now, this expenditure finally had a return.
Tang Qing felt a deep relief.
"Tang Yi, send those three groups away, don’t let them start fighting, warn them, and also seal the entrance we came through. From now on, this place is closed for mining," Tang Qing ordered.
Whether those people were killed did not matter.
He believed, with the Fighters’ skills, they would surely instill deep fear in their hearts.
And it would linger for a long time.
After thinking for a moment, Tang Qing added: "Also, temporarily reclaim the teleportation node at the African Algerian Gold Mine, and have the smelting factories within the territory prepare to transport these ore grains here."
The teleportation nodes were in high demand.
The one in the African prison could not be moved because it was in constant use.
The teleportation node of Qingyan City had been reclaimed before he came here, stored in the rented living room of Fudan University’s apartment, otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to return later.
"Yes, Commander."
Two seconds later.
"Commander, the reclamation is complete," Tang Yi said.
"Good, I’m going to get it."
After speaking,
Tang Qing returned to the Command Room, teleported to the Transmission Area, retrieved the teleportation node, and returned to the underground cave. Tang Qing threw the teleportation node to the ground and stepped back several dozen meters.
A few seconds later, dozens of Fighters appeared.
They began to explore and measure.
Tang Qing did not interject, finding a spot to sit down.
Watching batch after batch of Fighters and equipment arrive, each busy with their tasks, the gold sand was loaded into carts, then transported to the Gold Smelting Factory inside the Myanmar Economic Zone valley.
