Chapter 67 Discovery! (bug hunting) Director Wu urgently borrowed the troops'...
Chapter 67 Discovery
As the helicopter flew higher and higher, the mountains, rivers and various landforms of the Yancheng area appeared before everyone's eyes.
For Yan Jiuru, being high in the sky, he regained some of the feeling of flying above the clouds in the past.
The pitch perspective is completely different.
After rising to seven or eight hundred meters, the geomantic veins and aura of Yancheng, the capital of several dynasties, all appeared in his consciousness.
Um?
Yan Jiuru's gaze fixed on several places, then moved away.
The laws of nature have their own order of operation. Unless there is external destructive destruction, no one is allowed to interfere. Otherwise, not only will they suffer backlash, but the consequences may be more serious than not intervening.
What's more, he only has a little spiritual awareness now and has no ability to intervene.
***
They flew northwest.
On the way, they stopped at a military area to rest and refuel, and then flew directly to their first visit location: a large coal mine in the west.
Of course, their helicopter did not fly non-stop, but circled briefly wherever it passed, giving Yan Jiuru enough time to "check".
Yan Jiuru cooperated with the captain, flying high, low, and circling along the way. Once they found something, they would record it in detail on the map.
Thus, they flew for nearly four hours instead of a two-hour straight-line flight.
After arriving at the designated province or city, the helicopter circled twice at high altitude before slowly landing at the designated military airport as planned.
Someone on the ground had already received the message and was waiting on the tarmac.
"Down, down, down—"
The jeep and military truck fell down little by little under the command of the ground. After the driver got off, he quickly checked the condition of the vehicle.
"Report to the commander, the vehicle is in good condition and ready to go!"
However, it was almost noon.
Commander Chen ordered them to rest and have lunch here with the local troops.
At noon, they had braised lamb and lamb soup in the cafeteria.
Yan Jiuru and others heard that the local troops specially killed a sheep to entertain the people from the brother troops!
At a time when even money couldn't buy meat, everyone remembered the kindness of slaughtering a sheep specifically for us.
***
"How is it? Have you found anything?" Director Wu sat down opposite Yan Jiuru with his lunch box.
He is the person primarily responsible for the "Outlook" operation and feels more pressure than anyone else.
Yan Jiuru nodded, and after a few bites of half the box of meat, he whispered, "Here, or should we talk about it over there?"
Director Wu breathed a sigh of relief, a smile spread across his face, and he said, "After dinner, let's borrow the army's place to hold a meeting..."
Their actions are confidential, so if conditions permit, it would be better to hold the meeting in the army.
***
A small meeting room in a certain department.
In fact, it is just one of a row of simple mud-brick houses, with guard posts in front and back.
On a large solid wooden table in the middle of the room, Yan Jiuru spread out a military map and circled and marked a red dot in the North China region with a red pen, "There are gold deposits underground here.
The shallowest part is over 200 meters underground, and the deepest part is estimated to be around 1,200 to 1,300 meters underground. It's not buried very deep, so I estimate it weighs around 70 to 80 tons. There may be deeper places beyond my exploration range."
"Are you sure?" Director Wu's voice broke.
Not to mention the coal mine they are going to, if this discovery is accurate, this alone is enough to make their project successful!
Yan Jiuru smiled, "Sure!"
It was only a few hundred meters underground, so his spiritual sense wouldn't be deviated.
"And here, there are copper mines and iron mines..."
Several mineral deposits are not far away.
The ones Yan Jiuru pointed out were all those with certain reserves. He did not mention those that were too small and not worth developing.
Director Wu walked back and forth in the conference room excitedly several times before he calmed down.
"Our country is currently extremely short of gold. No, this news needs further confirmation.
Jiuru, could you be more specific about where the mineral deposit is?"
Yan Jiuru pulled a piece of paper from the side and quickly wrote down the address coordinates, characteristics and other information. What he learned in the past month was not in vain.
"I suggest we ask a professional to investigate. Or, if you're not in a hurry, I can take Eleven directly to check out where we landed when we return."
***
He already knew Lin Shiyi's strengths.
This guy has a portable storage bag similar to a kangaroo's pouch, with a space of about two and a half cubic meters.
Moreover, he can "escape underground" for a short period of time, but it cannot exceed 500 meters, and each time he must come out for no more than 15 minutes, otherwise he will suffocate to death.
But it was enough for them to take samples.
It's funny to say that Lin Shiyi was caught for "tomb robbing".
He originally wanted to eat peanuts, but in order to survive, he had to give up his "special skills".
Finally, he was temporarily recruited into No. 107 Institute as a special personnel.
He is different from Yan Jiuru. He can be spared the death penalty, but his crimes are unforgivable. He is still in the process of "atonement" and has to go to "work" every day. Therefore, Yan Jiuru does not often see him at work.
This time he was called out just because we needed him.
***
Gold mine!
It’s a gold mine with reserves of dozens of tons!
This is definitely a major discovery!!!
At this time, most people don’t know that my country’s current gold reserves are less than 200 tons!
Director Wu had only learned about Operation Outlook since its inception. So, understandably, he was both excited and apprehensive about making a mistake.
Director Wu walked around the room twice and said, "I'll go report first. I'll follow the instructions from above for the next step."
Yan Jiuru naturally had no objection.
***
Director Wu urgently borrowed the army's encrypted phone and contacted the second-in-command directly.
The second-in-command was obviously a little shocked.
But he was a man who had seen a lot of storms. He no longer felt constrained by his arm and held up the phone. He paused silently for a moment, controlling his excitement, and said to the person on the phone, "Let's stick to the original plan. You should go to the coal mine to visit and study first. We will arrange for advance personnel and troops to go there based on your findings. On your return, you can fly directly there for a detailed investigation."
As for the coal mine, you can compress the trip into three days, is that a problem?"
"Report to the Chief, no problem!"
Even if there are problems, they must be overcome!
"...Okay, I'll contact you in three days!"
***
That afternoon.
Two jeeps slowly stopped at a large state-owned coal mine.
The only people who came to the mine were Director Wu, Yan Jiuru, Lin Shiyi, and four soldiers who protected them. Commander Chen and the crew members stayed with the army.
Yan Jiuru and others first went to the guesthouse to put down their luggage, packed up briefly, and then got on a jeep to go directly to the office area of a nearby mine.
Along the way, Yan Jiuru witnessed for the first time the strength of the state-owned mines:
Looking around, the entire mining area is extremely large, with more than a dozen mines, coal mines, and affiliated power plants, machinery manufacturing plants, maintenance plants, black powder/powder plants, ammonium nitrate plants and other ancillary factories and mines;
In addition, the living area on the mine is also very large, with several family quarters, as well as schools for children of employees, coal mine industrial schools, technical schools, kindergartens, nurseries, hospitals, cinemas...
The entire Mining Bureau has so many factories under it, and the population, including employees and their families, is tens of thousands. Not to mention ordinary county towns, some prefecture-level cities are not as big as their Mining Bureau.
No wonder the leaders of the Mining Bureau here are all department-level cadres!
However, the person responsible for receiving them today was only the deputy factory director.
Director Wu didn't care about the reception level or anything like that. His heart was already on the gold mine.
Yan Jiuru didn't care at all. While listening to Deputy Director Li's explanation, he scanned the area with his spiritual sense to get a clear idea of what was going on.
Lin Shiyi was currently following along purely to broaden his horizons, and more importantly, to control his desire to rummage things into the storage bag.
***
Apparently, the mine often hosts similar events, and has a set of routine arrangements:
First, we listened to a passionate explanation from a young female propagandist, from the history of the coal mine, to the crimes committed during the Japanese occupation, to the current achievements;
Then visit the main office area, take a tea break in the reception office, meet with whichever leader is free, chat for a few minutes, and then have a welcome dinner in the evening.
The next day, according to the itinerary, the other party arranged for them to walk around and take a look at a nearby mine, and then they were basically free to move around.
On the third day, you will basically listen to a report in the morning, or visit some individual mines, or go deep into a better mine to observe the coal mining process, and have a farewell dinner in the evening.
However, Director Wu directly rejected this cumbersome arrangement and they focused on visiting the mine and underground.
***
Obviously, the Mining Bureau also received the order from the higher-ups in advance to arrange the reception according to their requirements. A deputy director came out of his busy schedule to exchange a few words before handing them back to Deputy Director Li.
In less than half an hour, they set off for the nearest mine.
Deputy Director Li said it was more than ten miles away.
It was ok that they had their own jeep.
The roads here are all paved with coal gangue, and you can see coal trucks coming and going along the way. Perhaps because there are so many heavy trucks running on it, the originally compacted road surface is inevitably bumpy and potholed.
After getting off the car in front of a large coal yard, Yan Jiuru followed Director Wu silently, like an ordinary entourage, but his spiritual sense was not idle, scanning as he walked.
A close-up view is still clearer than a high-altitude scan, mainly because his current spiritual awareness is not that strong.
What catches the eye are piles of coal that look like small hills, nearby train tracks, and train cars carrying coal!
"So much, so much coal!" Lin Shiyi couldn't help but exclaimed.
“How many years will it take to dig this out?”
Deputy Director Li was still happy to hear the compliments, even though he'd heard them many times. He couldn't help but say happily, "You're Comrade Xiaolin, right? Haha, we don't have much else, but we have a lot of coal! If you add up all the coal here, we can dig for fifty or sixty years without any problem."
Lin Shiyi opened his mouth in a helpless manner...
"It's like living off the mountain and eating the coal!"
They struggled to pull back several carts of coal on tricycles, but it seemed worthless here and was scattered everywhere. Some of the coal was not even in piles, but just pieces scattered everywhere.
Lin Shiyi leaned close to Yan Jiuru and muttered, "These can be easily scraped to fill a truck, which is enough for us to burn for two years."
Yan Jiuru smiled, bent down, picked up a shiny black piece of coal from a pile of coal and began to look at it.
Deputy Director Li glanced at it and said with a smile, "What you are holding is the main bituminous coal produced by our mine, which is used by power plants and large manufacturing plants.
The boilers in homes and general units use lignite, which is of much lower quality.
Of course, we also have lignite in our mines, but it's not a large percentage, but we produce tens of thousands of tons a year. What you see now is unwashed, waiting to be shipped to the coal washing plant."
Lin Shiyi: Isn’t this enough?
While chatting and laughing, Deputy Director Li took them into the mining area. It was an open-pit mine. The huge factory area was full of coal, and many workers were coming and going, pulling or pushing carts.
"We started mechanized coal mining a few years ago. However, due to limited funds, it has not yet been widely popularized." Director Li introduced while taking them to a place with large machinery.
"This is our coal preparation and washing equipment. The mined coal blocks are crushed and transported here for cleaning and screening. The gangue and impurities are removed and the grades are separated. Only after drying do you see the clean coal..."
***
After visiting the open-pit coal mine for an entire afternoon, although several people did not do anything, they were covered in coal dust. Yan Jiuru even found that his nose was full of black dust.
Fortunately, there was no shortage of fuel here, and there was plenty of hot water in the guesthouse. Several people returned to the guesthouse and took a good bath.
Deputy Director Li agreed to treat them to dinner at the bureau in the evening.
At six o'clock in the evening, Deputy Director Li and two deputy directors were there and they treated them to a meal together.
Because of official business, Director Wu declined to drink and had a meal of mutton knife-cut noodles and the local specialty braised rabbit head, which tasted very good.
***
After returning to the guesthouse and resting for a while, Yan Jiuru knocked on Director Wu's door.
"Sit down, would you like some water?"
Director Wu is shaving.
He had been busy for two days and had grown some stubble. It was thanks to the good conditions in the guesthouse that they provided him with toiletries and a razor that he was able to shave.
Yan Jiuru took a quick look and said, "If you shave it now, it will grow back overnight. Why not shave it tomorrow morning?"
Director Wu sneered, "You must have been in the army too short a time and lacked training. Today I'm going to teach you a secret. In the army, there's no such thing as 'waiting'. Whether it's pooping, peeing, or anything else, you just do it as soon as you think of it."
Who knows when an emergency meeting might come?"
"By the way, is this what you are talking to me about?"
"Of course not." Yan Jiuru fiddled with the razor box idly. "I just want to ask, if we find any danger in the mine, should we tell them?"
"What?!"
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