Xiaomei was assigned a backpack ← very sturdy and locked; a shovel ← a little old, it seems that it has been used by many miners before; a pair of gloves ← this is new; a very sturdy miner's hat with a searchlight in front of the hat; a set of work clothes ← this is new, even if it is the smallest size, it is still a bit big for Xiaomei's current body.
In addition, there is a small waist bag with some necessities, including food with high energy storage. Although Xiaomei doesn't need it, he still got a share.
"Anything else to say?" The masked recruitment head 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 a break."
As he said, he took out another hat from the box under his feet.
So Ronggui…also had a miner's hat on his head~
With Ronggui on his chest, a small miner's backpack on his back, and a small multi-purpose waist bag on his waist, Xiaomei, wearing a full set of miner's equipment, looked no different from other miners, except that she was a little shorter.
He was taken to work at that time.
The guide was still the masked man.
"Get in the car." He waved to Xiaomei and led the people to the ore transporter on the side. When Xiaomei climbed up, he slowly started the car: "You are lucky, there is no one here today, otherwise the miners can only sit in the back."
He pointed to the back of the car - the trailer that originally transported ore.
Holding Ronggui's head, Xiaomei ignored him.
The man was not angry and drove on his own.
The mines seemed to be very far apart. The car arrived at the destination after 45 minutes. It was different from the previous mines. When entering here, the car stopped once, and the man showed some documents before being allowed to enter.
Unlike the No. 4 mine where anyone could apply for a job, this should be a higher-level mine, requiring a pass.
Of course, it was Xiaomei who noticed this. Although Ronggui saw it, he didn't think anything.
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"Hey? There are new people here? Didn't the No. 4 mine have an accident? Those guys should have all run away." In the corresponding position where the masked man in the No. 4 mine sat before, there was also a masked man sitting. The two had the same style of gas masks, but the man here was much taller. Noticing Xiaomei's height, he was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "This isn't your relative, is it? He's even shorter than you..."
"What's wrong with being short? I can do my job better than the big guys!" The short man immediately retorted, patting Xiaomei on the shoulder: "Excellent miners are not tall, little guy, do your best to show him."
The latter half of the sentence was addressed to Xiaomei.
As expected, Xiaomei ignored him, but Ronggui answered energetically: "Of course!!!"
Suddenly, a loud voice came out from someone's chest, and the tall man was startled: "What is this? A radio?"
The short man who brought them here should have seen Ronggui a long time ago. Not only was he not surprised, he also smiled: "That's the energy, work hard."
"When miners have to work deep below the ground, it is the loneliest place. With the current safety technology coefficient, there is no need to worry about safety issues when working below. What needs to be worried about is psychological problems. Miners who have stayed underground for a long time often have psychological problems, either light or heavy, so it is recommended to find a few good friends to go down together and have someone to chat with. This is a good way to relieve psychological pressure." Maybe it was really free today, the short man said a few more words: "But don't be nervous even if you have psychological problems. There are special psychologists in the mine."
"Yeah, yeah." Ronggui listened very seriously, responding while listening, unable to move, he used his voice to indicate that he had remembered everything.
Satisfied with Ronggui's attitude, the short man said a few more words, patted Xiaomei's shoulder, and then another miner came out of the room behind. He led Xiaomei and Ronggui to the back.
This seemed to be the miners' lounge. When they entered, there were already eight miners inside, sitting or standing. When they saw the newcomers coming in, only two of them seemed to look up at them, and then turned away indifferently.
This made Ronggui, who had planned to introduce himself and Xiaomei well and integrate into the miners' team to avoid depression, dumbfounded.
Xiaomei quickly integrated into this small group.
By's cold attitude as always, ignoring everyone.
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Including the miner who led them here, there are now a total of ten people in the room (plus a head).
No one spoke, and the room was quiet.
About two minutes later, a soft music suddenly sounded in the room. No one spoke, and the room suddenly began to descend!
Ronggui was a little scared at the time, but seeing Xiaomei's calmness, he slowly stopped being afraid.
It descended for about twenty minutes.
The music finally stopped.
"Let's get started." The miner who was in charge of leading the way suddenly said, and then the door suddenly opened.
Outside the door was no longer the previous scenery, but a dark place.
Without saying anything else, the miner who was originally standing at the door went out after saying it. The other miners who were still in the room quickly followed him, and soon Xiaomei was the only one left in the room.
After checking the backpack carrying Ronggui, Xiaomei also went out.
The door closed quickly, and then Ronggui heard the sound of the gear chain, accompanied by the sound of the wind, and the room behind them immediately moved upwards.
Uh... So the previous room was a big elevator? It was arranged like a lounge. Should it be said that it is a humanized design? Or is it economical?
Ronggui pretended to think for a while.
But Xiaomei obviously didn't have this reverie. Following the other miners, he began to walk forward.
"This is 400 meters deep in the No. 7 mine. The main minerals are: germanium, Kuroda stone and sandstone. These are the original stones of the three minerals. Take a closer look." The leading miner took out three stones and let Xiaomei take a look. Without asking Xiaomei if she understood, he quickly put the samples away.
He moved too fast. Ronggui only had time to see that it was vaguely two stones and a ball of mud. He didn't even have time to remember the color before the other party put the things away! ?
So Ronggui could only pray that Xiaomei's eyesight was better than his, because he didn't understand anything!
"You are in that direction." The man pointed in another direction: "Meet here in eight hours."
After saying this, he left.
He left in a direction to the right. Other miners seemed to have their own designated mining areas. After a burst of footsteps, there was no one else around them.
In the darkness, there was only the clanging sound of mining.
"Xiaomei..." Ronggui said timidly.
Xiaomei's mechanical hand touched his face, and then moved up along his cheek. Xiaomei's hand fell on Ronggui's hat. After a "click", the searchlight on Ronggui's hat lit up.
The strong white light illuminated the road ahead of them.
"Let's go." With Xiaomei's calm words, they walked in the direction designated by the miner before.
There was actually a big hole there.
It was black and embedded in a huge rock wall.
There was no ladder outside. Only the steel nails embedded on it could serve as footrests. Xiaomei had 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 always black, but now he knows that even darkness can be deep or shallow.
The darkness here is obviously deeper.
Fortunately, it is still spacious inside, not as narrow as Ronggui imagined.
"You are here." Putting the backpack on the ground, Xiaomei immediately put Ronggui on the backpack.
Then he started to work.
"Xiaomei, Xiaomei~" Ronggui also started to "work".
For Ronggui, now that he has no hands, the only "work" he can do is to chat with Xiaomei.
He took this task very seriously.
"Xiaomei, do you see the appearance of those minerals clearly? Can you dig them?" He started from a professional perspective.
"No, I can't dig them." Xiaomei's answer was still concise.
"Huh?" This was unexpected. Although Ronggui asked this, he was ready for Xiaomei to give him a positive answer, and then he would humbly ask how to distinguish the ore, and Xiaomei would patiently explain it to him. In this way, wouldn't Xiaomei be able to talk a lot?
Of course, he probably still couldn't learn how to distinguish the ore.
"What can I do? He collected it too quickly just now, and I didn't see the appearance of the ore at all..." Ronggui was very worried for a while, and then he began to recall desperately: "The first piece of ore... a little blue? The second piece... black? Green? Ah ah ah ~ It seems to be a lot of colors! And the third piece of mud is..."
Unable to remember the color of the last piece of mud, Ronggui finally stopped thinking about it, and continued to chat with Xiaomei: "But it's rare that there is something that Xiaomei hasn't seen."
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 before, but I've never seen such low-grade native ore - Xiaomei thought to herself without saying anything.
These ores grown in the deepest underground are actually useless here. Even if they are refined to a very high precision, they cannot play their true value. The place where they can really play their value is still the "sky", especially the Kuroda Stone. The Kuroda Stone purified to the highest purity will turn white and weigh very little. It is an indispensable material for building the Sky City. Of course, it will no longer be called "Kuroda Stone" at that time...
Xiaomei only knows what these minerals look like after being purified to a certain degree. She has never seen their original appearance.
But this does not prevent him from mining.
As a newcomer, the old miners must have assigned him the worst mine pit, but it doesn't matter. There are advantages to being bad.
First of all, the space - this hole is very wide, and it is obviously a unique spaciousness after being collected and excavated for a long time. All the ores that can be dug inside must have been dug away. This is the second advantage.
The miners only took away the ore, and basically left the rest of the place untouched, which is just right for future generations to study what kind of place may produce ore. Although the type of ore cannot be determined, when he digs into a similar environment in the future, he will know that there should be ore.
Overall, this is a good place.
It is much better than a virgin mine that has never been dug and does not know whether there is ore.
After a mental evaluation, Xiaomei began to study the walls of the mine.
Before that, he took out the things in his waist bag. As a must-have for other miners, there were some food, medicines, and even a radio, and two batteries in the waist bag.
Xiaomei only took the batteries. For him, only this was useful, and the others were useless.
When Ronggui 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 quickly, I want to listen to music!"
So Xiaomei put all the "garbage" that she originally planned to throw away next to Ronggui's head. At Ronggui's request, he also tuned a music station for Ronggui!
Ronggui was satisfied now←The cave is more lively, isn't it? Xiaomei is less lonely!
Xiaomei was also satisfied←With the radio, Ronggui's voice was finally quieter by comparison, and he finally stopped talking to her.
So, Ronggui started talking to the radio.
Xiaomei started working.
The two of them worked like this for eight hours.
After eight hours, the radio ran out of power, and the only thing left in the mine was Ronggui's singing, who had just learned a lot of new songs.
Seeing Xiaomei returning from her hard work, Ronggui proudly said his conclusion: "I am more durable than it~"