Monitoring equipment is installed in steel mills, not only at the main gate, but also in many places in the factory. Its main function is safety prevention and safety supervision.
To Li Ming, these connected monitoring lines are no longer ordinary lines, but data transmitted at the speed of light, as if each line is a ray of light, constantly flashing with the shuttle of data.
Li Ming drove the car under a telephone pole and turned off the lights. It was pitch black all around. There was a village to the south, which was the nearest residential area to the factory. The factory was to the north, about four or five kilometers away. Li Ming was in the middle of this road. After making sure that there was no one nearby, he opened the door and got out of the car, and glanced at the top of the telephone pole.
He jumped with both legs and his body flew off the ground. The easy movement was like jumping onto a one-foot-high step. When he stood firm, Li Ming was already on top of the electric pole. He slowly lowered his body, his eyes looking at the complicated wires on the pole, then he slowly stretched out his right hand and grasped four or five wires in his hand.
Pieces of information and data flashed in Li Ming's mind like a movie fast-forwarded thirty-two times. Now Li Ming's brain was like a computer running at super high speed. He could find the information he wanted in an instant just by relying on conscious perception.
All the video surveillance information after 22:00 on the evening of October 13 flashed through Li Ming's mind like a ray of light. Li Ming closed his eyes slightly and concentrated more on collecting information.
All the information in the entire factory is traveling through the lines at the speed of light, as if each line is no longer a line, but a high-speed channel for data to travel, and is traveling through Li Ming's mind one by one under a certain instruction.
A minute later, Li Ming's eyes suddenly opened, and a surveillance camera in the steel plant appeared in front of him...
At 22:15 on October 13, 20xx, a fireball streaked across the night sky and quickly fell into a pile of black slag as captured by surveillance video.
The waste slag covers a large area, two kilometers long and wide, and seven or eight meters high. It is the steel slag produced by steelmaking. These are not entirely waste slag, but also contain a large amount of iron. As long as they are carefully processed and recycled, the large amount of iron in them can continue to be used.
Steel mills have limited capacity to process slag themselves. In addition to the portion they process themselves, another portion is handed over to a third party for processing after being piled up and cooled, or is sold directly.
The video shows that the meteorite fell into this slag.
It is not easy for meteorites to fall to the earth. Most of them will burn up and disappear directly after passing through the earth's atmosphere. This is the effect of the friction between the earth's atmosphere and meteorites. Meteors are also formed in this way. The earth has protected itself in this way for billions of years.
But when meteorites are too large, they may successfully hit the ground of the earth, causing shock waves and even devastating power. However, nebula fragments are not meteorites and cannot achieve the effect of impact power at all.
Moreover, according to the surveillance footage, this meteorite seemed to be only the size of a fist. Even the force of its fall plus the gravity of the earth only caused a momentary violent impact sound, which did not cause much sensation. Even this sound seemed insignificant in the steel plant and would soon be drowned out by the noise of other machines. However, this kind of meteorite that did not disappear in the atmosphere was very likely the nebula fragment that Li Ming wanted to find.
However, it is not easy to find such a small meteorite in such a large area of slag, and Li Ming also has to face the problem of entering the factory.
In addition to these, some other images appeared in Li Ming's mind again, which were information about the treatment of this pile of steel slag. This pile of steel slag belonged to the steel slag waiting to be processed, and the senior management of the steel plant was already negotiating the sale with a company called [Kerry Steel Trading].
The person who negotiated with the steel mill was Hu Kai. It was a coincidence, but not really a coincidence. Hu Kai's family was originally a steel trading company and had cooperation with many steel mills. It was normal to have business dealings. But for Li Ming, if this batch of steel slag was sold, it would inevitably make the search for meteorites more troublesome and complicated.
After jumping down from the electric pole, Li Ming returned to the car and restarted it. He held the steering wheel with one hand and took out his mobile phone with the other hand. With a light tap of his thumb, a column of numbers appeared on the phone and he dialed the number.
"Hello?" The person on the phone quickly answered the call and said.
Li Ming was already driving back to the city and asked, "Where are you?"
"〔Central Hospital〕, who are you?" It was Hu Kai who answered the phone. However, after saying this, Li Ming hung up the phone. Hu Kai looked puzzled.
At this time, Hu Kai's right arm was seriously fractured. In the medical room, a middle-aged male doctor was carefully observing the X-ray.
"Your arm has a displaced fracture due to direct force on the bones, and there is also severe soft tissue damage, which requires surgery."
The middle-aged doctor put the X-ray film back on the table and looked at Hu Kai.
"This requires surgery! Did you see it wrong?! Ouch..." Just as he shouted in dissatisfaction, a sharp pain came over him.
The doctor sat down slowly, looked at the other person and said, "The bones are severely displaced, and it is impossible to guarantee complete reduction from the outside, and..."
"Okay, okay, it's just an operation, come on, come on..." Hu Kai said impatiently.
At this time, Li Ming was driving quickly to the urban area of T City, and his destination was where Hu Kai was, the Central Hospital.
After another hour's drive, Li Ming's car stopped at a gas station in the city. After filling up the tank, Li Ming continued to drive somewhere.
As the early morning approaches, the number of vehicles in the city becomes scarce. Apart from the occasional taxi, there are few private cars. The neon lights of the shops on both sides are still flashing. Basically all the shops are closed and there are no pedestrians on both sides of the street.
After passing several intersections, Li Ming's car had entered a hospital. After parking the car, Li Ming entered the hospital lobby from the emergency room door.
After a brief inquiry with the doctor and nurse on duty, Li Ming walked through the hospital lobby to the inpatient department at the back, took the elevator directly to a certain floor, and checked each room one by one until he came to a high-end VIP room and pushed the door open.
Hu Kai, who was lying on the hospital bed, had just finished an operation. His right arm was tightly wrapped in plaster and bandages, and his left arm was still hooked up to an IV. At the same time, three men in black were surrounding Hu Kai and talking to him.
"Should we notify Mr. Hu?!" one of the men in black said.
"What notification? Don't let my dad worry about this minor injury. I'll call the Honglong Steel Plant tomorrow. And..." Hu Kai was talking when he saw Li Ming who suddenly came in out of the corner of his eye.
"It's this guy!" Hu Kai suddenly sat up, and in his excitement his right arm seemed to be touched. He couldn't help but screamed in pain: "Ah..."
Just as the three men in black were about to do something, Li Ming pushed one of them onto a chair nearby. When the other two were about to swing their fists to attack, Li Ming was already standing next to Hu Kai.
The two men in black suddenly rushed to nothing, and even Hu Kai was surprised. Why did Li Ming suddenly disappear? But when the three turned around, they found that Li Ming was already sitting beside Hu Kai's bed.
Before the three of them could do anything, a nurse in white was already standing at the door and said angrily, "Why are you making so much noise? This is a hospital, not your home. Be quiet!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the nurse closed the door and left. Li Ming glanced at the three men in black, then his eyes stayed on Hu Kai, and said, "I want to talk to you alone. Let them go out first."
Hu Kai's expression suddenly became a little stiff. He looked at Li Ming, then at the three men in black. Finally, he gave a helpless look and said, "You...get out first."
The three men in black glared at Li Ming, but slowly left the room.
"Brother, it shouldn't be that serious. Meng Lianyi is already my girlfriend. It's not appropriate for you to do this."
As soon as the three men in black left, Hu Kai looked at Li Ming and said helplessly.
"How's your negotiation on the purchase of steel slag from Honglong Steel Plant going?" Li Ming suddenly asked.
Such a sudden question made Hu Kai look confused. He was in a daze for a while and could not come back to his senses. He could only stammer: "How did the talk... go? What do you mean by this?"
Li Ming stared at the other person with his eyes, as if he had no patience to continue asking. He slowly raised his right hand and gently placed it on the other person's head.
It seemed very slow, but when Hu Kai reacted, Li Ming's hand was already on top of his head. Hu Kai's body couldn't help but shrink, but he didn't move much. He just looked at Li Ming in horror. His arm was broken when he was grabbed, and if he exerted force on his head, he would be dead.
The next moment, Hu Kai felt dizzy and his vision suddenly became blurred. There was a buzzing sound in his head, as if his brain was no longer under his control and was completely dominated by some force. Some inexplicable memories emerged in his mind.
Li Ming narrowed his eyes slightly, and various information began to emerge in his mind. The memories in Hu Kai's mind were like a book that Li Ming could flip through at will. Every page was a continuously playing picture. Li Ming quickly extracted the content he cared about, and only smiled with satisfaction after seeing and hearing the content he wanted.
His right hand slowly withdrew from Hu Kai's head, and Hu Kai's distracted gaze also recovered. It was as if he had just had a nightmare in the past ten seconds.
"Your company and Honglong Steel Plant have reached a verbal agreement, but have not signed a contract. Contact Honglong Steel Plant tomorrow and tell them that they will send someone to inspect the goods." Li Ming said again.
Hu Kai looked confused when he heard this, but still nodded slightly.
Li Ming continued, "There is something I want in that piece of slag. As long as I get it, it will never affect your company's business."
Hu Kai continued to nod without saying a word, looking at Li Ming with eyes full of fear and horror, as if he was looking at a scary monster.