As a result, the generator hidden behind the simple house began to spit out black smoke all day long and desperately provided power to the project. Deep underground, a busy excavation project began in a multi-faceted manner.
Due to the lack of electricity, many construction activities on the construction site had to be temporarily suspended. Excavation of mines is a military activity, while visiting is an industrial activity. If the problem of underground mutant beasts is not solved, these projects will have no meaning at all.
Construction work has stopped, and with it comes more idle labor. Naturally, the mine manager couldn't let them wait to eat and sleep, so they all participated in the mine excavation project.
As a result, the construction project was stopped to save electricity for digging the mine. The addition of these people will inevitably increase the excavation speed. As the excavation speed increases, more electricity will naturally be consumed. The only solution is to stop work at unimportant construction sites again.
Naturally, workers who have become idle after work stoppage cannot be left idle, so the power is still not enough, and then the work continues to stop, and it is not enough.
Mine excavation sounds simple, just digging out rocks, but the excavated rocks must be transported out. Humans are not hamsters. There is no need to transport the soil out, they only need to arch forward.
This is the first mining operation by humans after five hundred years of great changes. Thinking about the equipment used, the effect is not high. It is remarkable that equipment that consumes a lot of energy and has low working efficiency can be taken out in such a short period of time.
The tools used were electric hammers and picks drawn from the construction department, not even a rhinestone. As for the blasting method, I don't dare to use it at all. An abnormal attack that doesn't trigger the strange object will be fatal.
It can be said that this excavation mode is a very primitive one. It is not much stronger than hammering, and the excavation speed can only be increased by quantity.
Even so, Gong Yun probably wouldn't be able to finish the project in less than ten days and a half. And he can't leave during this period. What if this thing is not an alien creation, but really some unknown mutant beast species. There will be no way to restrain it when he is gone. Wouldn't it be self-inflicted to release this thing? Why don't you wash the entire mine with blood?
The mine tunnel was enlarged three times to facilitate the transportation of the ore that was driven down. This was the original mining plan of the mine. In the past, it was not sure whether the mutant beast could be solved. Digging the mine would be like digging a door to the outside world for the mutant beast.
Now, the strongest people from Hope Island are here. No more scruples.
All Gong Yun could do was to fix some simple instruments transported from the Super Science Academy to the newly dug stone wall facing the object to monitor the movement of the thing. At this time, he seemed not to be a martial artist, but more like a geologist. Patrolling back and forth in the tunnel to record the data, and then sending it to Qin Yao to ask her to see if the data is normal.
After five days of doing nothing else, Gong Yun gained preliminary debugging and data analysis capabilities for these instruments.
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Postponed again? Are you, Hope Island, taking advantage of our four major bases? He said he was ready again and again. We arranged for personnel to communicate with you despite our busy schedule, and we had temporary cancellations time and time again. What happened to you? Do you still have any integrity?
In a hall on Hope Island. The owner of Xinghai Island was speechless as he faced the angry questions on the four big screens. This is the third breach of contract. In other words, this is the third time that Hope Island has released four human bases.
But what can he do? Every time I thought I was well prepared, and after contacting the four major bases and deciding to hold a consultation meeting, nothing could go wrong with Gong Yun.
The most terrible thing is that Gong Yun and Qin Yao don't take this kind of meeting seriously at all. When you discuss it with them, you just nod and agree, and when the time comes, nothing will go wrong.
It has been almost forty years since he took over as the island master, and he has always been in a good state of communication and cooperation with the few remaining human bases. Naturally, there are differences arising from respective interests, but they can all be resolved after consultation.
But there has never been a situation where four bases questioned one base at the same time. From his point of view, it felt a bit alienating. Deep down in his heart, he really doesn't want to have any rift with the relationship between the four bases. After all, there are only so many humans left on earth, and if they don't unite, they will really become extinct.
However, no one can help him with the difficulties that Hope Island faces. Hope Island is far away from the mainland and has great security guarantees, allowing the humans on the island to live in relatively stable conditions.
However, this pattern also places great restrictions on Hope Island, avoiding the invasion of large-scale beast tides. They can get by while other bases are in trouble. However, the energy and material crisis goes far beyond the other four human bases, and the channels for obtaining materials are too single. Without the loss of population, there will be a decrease in material acquisition.
The reason is easy to understand. Other bases will reduce their population after being invaded by mutant beasts, but after surviving the attack, they will receive generous rewards. With a smaller population and more supplies, this will have a certain effect on improving the living index.
Hope Island is different. What Hope Island faces is a material and energy crisis. As the population increases and there is no war consumption, the consumption of materials is increasing, but the channels for obtaining materials remain unchanged.
The other four human bases are faced with the crisis of population shortage, and they have to do their best to stimulate population growth.
Hope Island is also experiencing a population crisis, but the results are completely different between the two. Today, when the human population is seriously declining, he can't adopt a strategy to control population growth, right?
He has been trying to break this situation for more than twenty years, but countless failures have told him that it is not easy to break this situation.
He persisted and tried for more than twenty years, and finally found a glimmer of hope. For this glimmer of hope, he could give away everything he had, including this seat.
He knew that the other four human bases also questioned Hope Island's recent behavior out of concern for Hope Island. After all, in this era, no one wanted to see one less member of the human race.
Compared with the infinite glorious history in legends, there are traces of human beings everywhere on the earth. Today's total human population is less than 10 million people. Such a small population base reminds these leaders all the time that mankind is not far from complete extinction.
Under such circumstances, ensuring population security as much as possible is the top priority of the government. This is already the most important article in the base joint treaty, and all actions must be based on this treaty.
Strictly speaking, the recent behavior of Hope Island is indeed an edge ball, and it is inevitable to be questioned and criticized. However, if it does not do so, the humans of Hope Island will be trapped to death.
Stop this behavior? Psychologically, he himself disagreed, but he violated the original agreement. He was speechless in the face of various questions. The only way was for an outsider to join in. The isolation of the Special Warfare Department from Hope Island was one of his plans.
At the very least, Hope Island has a very influential person who is not completely under control. This reason is pretty acceptable, right? As for whether it is Hope Island's overall decision-making, can they still come and investigate it personally when they have too much to take care of themselves? .
