Back in their car, someone couldn't help but say, "Judging from his resume alone, he's just a lucky gold prospector. Is he really worth our attention?"

"And to be honest, although his achievements seem remarkable, in reality, to us, it's like a child getting a red flower, not worth mentioning at all."

"Ten million... that's really not enough."

He wasn't wrong. For people like them, tens of millions is just a drop in the ocean; they really don't care about that little bit of minerals.

The situation they were about to face was a national crisis. Could such a young man handle it?

"If he just got lucky and stumbled upon a lot of gold, even if it were ten million or a hundred million, he wouldn't need to pay any attention to it."

"But he wasn't like that. He was just lucky all the time, even for most of the year. In the end, the gold he found kept getting bigger and bigger, sometimes even in the millions."

“The most crucial point is that we have no idea when he discovered the gold mine, and judging from his behavior, he may have discovered it a long time ago.”

“He made enough money outside and went back to mining as soon as possible. Do you still think he was just lucky?”

"If you win the lottery once, twice, or even ten times, I can say you're lucky."

"But he wins every time, and you still say he's just lucky? Don't you think that's a bit self-deceptive?" the woman said coldly.

Upon hearing this, the man opened his mouth but did not speak further.

Indeed, if one still believes he was just lucky under these circumstances, it's somewhat like deceiving oneself.

"You mean he has a way to pinpoint the location of rare metals?" another older man asked.

"Probably, but I'm not sure. I just know that he definitely has his own method to locate rare metals."

“I don’t care whether this method is a dream from his ancestors or determined by astronomy and geography. As long as it works, we should give it a try.”

"Our time is running out." The woman looked out the window, a hint of worry flashing in her eyes.

"Should we go find him now, or should we try contacting other people first?" the person asked.

"Let's try contacting other people first. Those people are leaders in the industry, and they understand it better, so the chances of finding someone are greater."

"Chen Feng, let's wait and see."

What the woman was too embarrassed to say was that Chen Feng was a last resort for them, a desperate measure.

If other domestic experts had any hope, they wouldn't have turned to unorthodox methods, and some even started to consider using metaphysics.

They have six months left. The reason they have six months left is that the country's rare earth resources are only enough to last for six months.

Rare earth elements are a strategic resource that plays a vital role in many fields; they can be considered the gold standard of industry.

It is also something that a great power cannot do without.

However, in China, the production of this product has always been extremely low, and the country has relied heavily on imports.

Since the financial crisis, the United States has joined forces with all other countries to control the strategic export of rare earths to China, and even raised the price by 340 times!

This move is an attempt to strangle China and cause it to lag behind in the development of high-tech fields.

As for China, its domestic rare earth reserves have been exhausted, and it urgently needs to mine and find the next rare earth mine.

Otherwise, the Dragon Kingdom will face two different fates.

One is to purchase rare earth elements from other countries at extremely high costs, reluctantly becoming a sucker.

Secondly, the complete lack of rare earth elements led to a significant stagnation in technology and a substantial slowdown in development.

For the Dragon Kingdom, both of these paths are actually dead ends.

Imagine if one day China couldn't produce grain that cost three yuan per kilogram and had to import it, and those countries simply raised the price to five thousand yuan per kilogram.

So, are you going to buy it or not?

Buying is like giving money away for free, and you might even end up spending more than you earn.

If you don't buy, you're doomed; so every path is a dead end, there's simply no way out.

The only way is for China to discover its own mineral resources, achieve self-sufficiency, and no longer have to depend on others. If the output is large enough, I can even turn the tables and hold you hostage!

The reason why such a team was established is because they do not believe that our vast and resource-rich China could possibly be without rare earth elements!

The benefits provided to this team from above were unimaginable, which is why Wang Shan's direct superior was always by his side, ready to solve any problems at any time.

This is why Chen Feng's resume was thoroughly investigated and cleared up in a very short time.

Just kidding. In front of the state apparatus, everything you've done over the past twenty years will likely appear on your resume without missing a single detail. That's no joke.

The fact that this team has started looking for ordinary people like Chen Feng shows just how urgent the situation has become.

This team has been established for more than half a year, and it has attracted countless talents.

Within six months, they made unsuccessful attempts to explore many places at any cost, spending nearly 400 billion yuan, but they gained nothing.

The entire team was at a standstill, and the atmosphere was terribly gloomy.

As the leader, she had no choice but to do everything she could to continue recruiting talent, while the team continued to search for locations where rare earth elements might be found.

However, Chen Feng, who was only resorting to this as a last resort, was unaware of all of this. He was driving home, preparing to have hot pot.

When Chen Feng arrived home, his brothers came to greet him, and each of them reached out for gifts.

"Hurry up, Fengzi! Didn't you say you'd bring me some seafood? Where's the seafood?"

"Yeah, Fengzi, what about those big sea snails? It's so hard for us to get those things here. They don't even sell such big ones in the county town."

"Didn't you say there were plenty, that you could just grab them? Do you even have any? Isn't that just bullshit?"

"Brother Feng, I don't want seafood. Do you have a mermaid for me?" Li Chunlai chuckled, his hands tucked into his sleeves.

"Mermaids, my ass. If you have Aquaman, why don't you get one for him? They're all just dreaming."

"We bought a lot of seafood, damn it, my car smells awful now. Let's not drive tonight, let's have seafood hot pot here, and then split the portions and go home." Chen Feng opened the trunk and handed them boxes of seafood.

"Holy crap, this is amazing, such a huge octopus?"