Following the voice in his heart, the panel that now resembled a futuristic machine appeared in Chen Feng's mind.

To be honest, he hadn't looked at this panel closely in a long time.

Each time you upgrade, something new appears on the system panel, so after so many upgrades, the original system and the current system are completely different things.

"Points balance...where are my points balance? I can't find them." Chen Feng asked, glancing back and forth.

"bite!"

The system notification sounded, and Chen Feng's points balance appeared in front of him.

"How much is this? Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands... hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, billions."

"It's been so long since I've used it; it feels like I'm playing a hacked version."

Chen Feng selected the depth of exploration option and began frantically adding points to it.

The deepest known rare earth deposits are over 2,000 meters deep. If Chen Feng were to perform manual scanning, his detection range would have to be at least 2,000 meters to ensure he didn't miss any deposits.

Finally, Chen Feng increased the depth to over 2,700 meters.

It's not that he doesn't want to add more points, but he needs to be careful with how he spends them.

Even with over 100 million points, 70% of them were gone after Chen Feng added them.

"Increase the detection range!"

With a boost, the detection range has reached a diameter of one kilometer.

Finally, Chen Feng added all the remaining points to the types of detection.

"Wait a minute, let me check. Rare earth elements... I'm still missing two, but I'm out of points."

"But it's okay. I'm earning an average of 1.5 million points a day now. I can just keep drawing tomorrow."

"bite!"

The system's voice sounded, and a map appeared in Chen Feng's mind, with one point flashing red.

This is a special ability that Chen Feng drew before, called "A Flash of Inspiration," with a one-month cooldown period.

The effect is that it can display a location on the map, and that location must contain the mineral that Chen Feng has locked onto, with a minimum limit on the quantity and no upper limit.

The gist is that if Chen Feng has identified gold, then a flash of inspiration will tell him which location on the national map still has unexploited gold mines.

However, after Chen Feng calculated that this thing could only guarantee a minimum value of about ten million gold, with no upper limit.

Of course, this minimum guarantee is good enough; otherwise, if even a piece of gold worth tens of thousands of dollars could flash, then this feature would be no different from not having one at all.

The last time this thing appeared, it was in the northernmost part of the country. Chen Feng looked at that spot, but after thinking about it, he decided to forget about it.

The key issue is that it's too far away, and the production volume can't be guaranteed. If it turns out to be worth ten or twenty million gold, then Chen Feng's trip would have been in vain.

Moreover, Chen Feng was unfamiliar with that place, so it was better for him to stay at Brother Qi's mine, where he could easily make tens of millions, no matter the weather.

Therefore, Chen Feng didn't have any intention of doing so, nor did he care.

However, this function has come in very handy nowadays when it comes to finding rare earth elements.

Even if this spot were shining in the northernmost part of the country today, even if it were shining in the capital, we still have to dig it up.

Nowadays, rare earth elements are more important than anything else.

Just now, Chen Feng turned off all other elements, leaving only the rare earth-related elements.

Sure enough, a flash of inspiration struck, and the map lit up.

Chen Feng said, "How could our great nation of China not even have a single rare earth mine?"

Having memorized that point, Chen Feng opened his eyes and pretended to yawn.

"Where are we going?" Chen Feng asked.

"Let's go to the city first, meet up with the other members, and then decide on the next step," Qi Minglin said, turning back to look at him.

"You're awake already?"

"You wouldn't understand the sleep of a genius." Chen Feng lit a cigarette in the car and cracked the window slightly.

"I think you didn't sleep much last night. Your wife is quite pretty, though. You went to work in a mine, and you ended up bringing the boss's wife with you," Qi Minglin said with a smile.

"What do you mean by 'digging'? That's called pure love." Chen Feng took a drag of his cigarette.

Qi Minglin raised an eyebrow, neither confirming nor denying.

She only knew about Chen Feng's past, but she didn't know the specifics of what had happened to him.

Who knows if their love is genuine or if they each have ulterior motives? But she doesn't care; she's not that gossipy.

Chen Feng flicked the cigarette butt out the window, closed the window, and this time he really fell asleep leaning back in his seat.

"Huff, huff..."

Qi Minglin glanced back at the sleeping Chen Feng, then turned to look out the window, her eyes filled with worry about what was to come.

She doesn't even know where she's going next.

After the car arrived in the city, Qi Minglin woke up Chen Feng, and the group went to an office building.

"Let's go up to the meeting first, and then decide on the next steps." Qi Minglin got out of the car and straightened her clothes.

Chen Feng and Li Chunlai followed behind her into the building and arrived at a large conference room.

There were dozens of people inside, and they all looked towards the door when they heard the noise.

"The captain is here."

"team leader."

Qi Minglin nodded upon hearing this and led Chen Feng to the seat that had been reserved for him.

Although there were dozens of people in the room, only ten could sit at the table; the rest sat in chairs at the back, and Li Chunlai also sat in the back.

To Chen Feng's left is Qi Minglin, and to his right is the old man.

"Hello, my name is Li Guanghao. I didn't have a chance to introduce myself yesterday," the old man said softly to Chen Feng.

"Hello, hello." Chen Feng had a pretty good impression of him. He reached out his hand under the table, and the two shook hands quietly.

What Li Guanghao didn't say was that he was a leading figure in geology in China and a professor with considerable influence.

It can be said that at least one-third of the geologists in China are his students, which shows his significant influence.

While casually looking around, Chen Feng also noticed a few people who seemed a little out of place.

She looked different from the other staff members; it seemed like she was an outside helper hired by Qi Minglin.

"Alright, everyone, let's share our thoughts. Where should we go next?" Qi Minglin waved her hand gently, signaling the staff to open the PowerPoint presentation.

As soon as the staff touched the computer, a map of China appeared, with blue dots marking the areas that had been explored, and three white dots indicating areas that had not been explored but were of high probability.

"These three points are all areas we calculated before. Which one do you think we should go to first?" Qi Minglin asked for everyone's opinion.

"I think the most urgent task right now is not funding, but time."

"We should go directly to the place with the highest probability to explore, and then drive in fifty stakes at once to cast a wide net and catch more fish."