A large crowd had already gathered near the makeshift tents.
Everyone's face was beaming with joy. These were all faces that Lu Yuan knew well. Most of the laborers were the same people from the gold mining team. Although they knew they had been infected by radiation, they still chose to continue working here. The reason was simple: their lives had completely lost hope, and they would rather earn a few more coins before they died to leave for their families and descendants.
Chen Kaiming stood on the high stone platform and surveyed the crowd, then patted the megaphone in front of him.
"Brothers, friends, today our Future Ore Mining Center is officially established. From now on, I will work alongside you all to dig out ore from this barren land, safeguarding your future lives! I hope that together..."
Standing below the stage, Lu Yuan was also somewhat excited as he looked at the enthusiastic Chen Kaiming. He had to admit that Chen Kaiming was indeed good material to be a leader. His speech immediately made everyone below cheer, and everyone shouted the name of the Future Ore Mining Center.
Seemingly caught up in the atmosphere, Lu Yuan couldn't help but wave his walkie-talkie and cheer along with the crowd.
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Ding ding ding…
A makeshift mine cart was slowly driven out of the cave, and the cart was fully loaded with black ore and other associated minerals.
A group of workers, all dressed in radiation protection suits that were blackened by volcanic ash and nearby mining, were working nearby.
Everyone's work was proceeding in an orderly manner, with each person fulfilling their responsibilities, and none of the tragedies that had occurred in the previous gold mining teams had happened.
Lu Yuan sat in his office, a cigarette dangling from his lips, looking at some mining reports on his desk. The reports were filled with numbers representing the amount of ore extracted from each mine.
Having worked here for several months, Lu Yuan has gradually adapted to the local lifestyle. Although the work is very hard, he feels a sense of joy every time he sees high-quality ore being mined.
Especially when Lu Yuan used his perception to send those ores into the resource space and bury them under the golden fruit tree, and watched as new land was expanded, he felt an indescribable joy.
Over the course of several months, Lu Yuan gave all the remaining ores to the research and development center, except for those high-quality ores that did not react when placed in the dimensional space and sent them to the mysterious organizations.
Lu Yun kept his word. Zhou Qi and his wife are now working at the mine. Zhou Qi's wife is now the head chef in the canteen, and they have added a lot of things to their home. They have also bought a house in the inner city.
Zhou Qi was in charge of the financial statistics of the entire mine, since Lu Yuan didn't want these things to fall into the hands of outsiders. Although Zhou Qi was short and timid, he was quite serious when it came to his work.
Hei Zi also couldn't stand staying in the inner city, so he resigned from his job as deputy director and came to work at the mine.
In his words, although he controlled the finance department in the inner city, not a single penny of the money actually passed through his hands. Rather than just loafing around there and collecting that meager monthly salary, he would rather work with the mine and earn much more extra money.
Because Hei Zi was arrogant and particularly stingy, Lu Yuan put him in charge of external liaison. After all, he didn't want to have anything to do with the R&D departments in the inner city, as those people were ruthless and heartless.
Another point is that Hei Zi has a wide network of connections in the inner city, so Lu Yuan could rest assured that he would be in charge of the external relations department.
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Inner City Mineral Research and Development Department.
A middle-aged man in a white coat looked at the boxes of ore that had been delivered, then at the sales contract in his hand, and was so angry that he slapped his thigh.
"Damn it, this Future Company is too shady! They bring in low-quality ore and sell it for 10,000 yuan per gram! Isn't that ripping people off?! Get the car ready, I'm going to find the minister right now. If this isn't resolved soon, they'll drain our R&D budget!"
The assistant standing to the side said tremblingly in a low voice, "Brother Han, is it inappropriate for us to go directly to the minister, bypassing his level?"
"Damn it, what's wrong with that? Feng Ping has been managing the R&D funds and has been squeezed out of his funds countless times. If they continue to control it like this, our R&D funds will be eaten up sooner or later."
"And with the higher-ups keeping such a close eye on things, and the research and development work only having this little bit of funding, how could we possibly extract all these catalysts? You know, once our machines are running, the daily electricity and other material consumption is unimaginable. If this continues, our catalysts will eventually be depleted!"
"But... Director Feng has already spoken, and he's in charge of this matter. If we go directly to the higher-ups, shouldn't we give him a heads-up?"
"What's the point of saying hello? If we actually do that and he finds out, we'll be starving! Hurry up, stop talking nonsense, get a car ready right now, we're going to find our supervisor!"
The assistant could only sigh, then turned and went out to prepare the car.
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