Ronan knew that the Deep Blue World was one of the most important mineral deposits on Earth after the Aberration Era... bar none.
The energy storage element mother currently commonly used by Deep Blue Walkers, as well as the most indispensable ghost stone in the world today, all come from this mine.
Yuan Mu is the main ore, and Ghost Stone is the accompanying ore.
Human society has made great strides into the "fusion era" and "superconducting era" not because of the breakthrough improvements in related technologies, but because of the discovery, mining and purification of ghost minerals, a normal-temperature superconducting material.
This technical route is certainly unhealthy, especially since the source and backbone are both tied to one domain. To put it bluntly, we might as well call it the “Mining Era”… or the “Deep Blue Era”.
The first people to come into contact with those mineral resources that dominate human society, and in a sense also stand at the "frontier" of this era, are the miners working in high-energy radiation mines.
In Murra's data set, this group is mentioned in the section "Tracking of the living environment of participants in the experiment". In fact, when it comes to Deep Blue World, they cannot be avoided at all.
Currently, more than 99% of the population in the Deep Blue World are miners, with the number ranging from 400,000 to 600,000.
Here, there are not only professional teams who have been stationed and rotated through regular channels, but also "permanent residents" who were brought here in various ways as early as ten, twenty or even thirty years ago.
These two types of people basically never interact with each other until death.
Around the "Stone Shell Sun", highly complex vortices and a cruel ecology formed by a large number of deformed organisms divide the operating area of approximately one million square kilometers into 12 mining areas and 3 waste mine treatment areas. Each mining area is an "isolated island" facing the terrifying deep sea independently, with no communication between them.
It is in this context that professional teams that have signed confidentiality agreements and rotate regularly are just passers-by. Under the influence of confidentiality mechanisms such as early misdirection, vague cognition, and strong psychological intervention, some people have worked for half a year or one year and still have no idea about the Deep Blue World. They even thought they were working on a resource satellite in the solar system.
But it is impossible for these people to touch the real side of the deep blue world. The most real and cruel aspect only unfolds for "permanent residents", who are also "life-long prisoners".
The working environment there is extremely harsh. Even if the regular team is fully equipped with all kinds of protection, they will have to be rotated after working for a year at most. As for "permanent residents", they do not have the conditions for rotation, but they must withstand the hardship, so what should they do?
Mo La attached a photo: It was a modified person with about 50% normal flesh and 50% cold machinery. The face was so unrecognizable that it was impossible to tell the difference between his age and his original appearance.
The photo is not as rigid as a staged shot, because it is a record of a real moment.
The modified person must have encountered an accident. The protective suit outside his body was damaged, one arm was exposed, and flames were coming out of it. The area he was in was clearly in the sea, and there was an overexposed light on one side.
There he was howling... or so it seemed.
Only half of the ferocious muscles on his face were pressed against the cold and hard metal shell. It felt like he was using all his strength to stretch the burning flesh and blood arm away from his torso.
As for his other hand, which was already in a fully mechanical state, it was clasped on the opposite shoulder. The flesh and blood there clearly had a tendency to separate... and there were gaps.
Ronan stared at this picture, speechless for a long time.
At this time, Mo La's call came belatedly.
"Junior brother, have you read it?" She said it was late. In fact, Mo La's timing of intervention was very accurate and his attitude was very positive. "If there is anything that is not written well, I will add it to you."
one time. "
Ronan twitched the corner of his mouth: "The photo is very powerful."
"The beginning or the end?"
Mo La's tone was relaxed, as if after a night of adjustment, he had regained the feeling he had when he first faced Ronan:
"If it's the ending, don't worry, it should be regarded as the HE ending. He finally succeeded in tearing off his arm and installed a new multi-functional arm. At least when I left last time, he was working as the supervisor of the mine. , living happily, cutting off countless people’s arms every year to help them escape fatal injuries.”
"..."
Ronan did not respond. On the one hand, it was due to the physical and psychological discomfort that made him not want to speak. On the other hand, there was a sudden surge in the memory area, which made him feel that this scene was somewhat familiar.
It's probably like this: people are sinking in the dark and deep sea, struggling hard, yearning for the light, but they may also be distorted and collapsed... this kind of feeling.
Ronan hesitated for a few seconds, during which time his rationality told him with great certainty: Before seeing this photo, he had never encountered such a scene.
However, his doubts did not last long, and a more accurate memory picture came up. He immediately added an operation to the virtual workspace, switched to the drawing software, and after a few searches, he found an old painting from a few months ago.
It was a somewhat chaotic deep sea scene, a psychic drawing he drew by hand. There must have been a "merger" with other psychic diagrams during this period, so the structure is a bit weird.
Ronan didn't think about the overall structure for the time being, and just looked at the corners of the painting. Just as he remembered it, there were struggling people and faint light there.
Why did he make such a painting at that time...
Yes, wasn't it precisely because of the "miner" who died bearing the infamy of the "Soul Cult"?
Oh, and the Order of Souls!
This unique organization name flashed through Ronan's mind, and a series of corresponding information flows were aroused in Ronan's mind, weaving into a web in his thinking space. Between the network cables, electric fire flickered.
I suddenly want to make a few more strokes on this psychic diagram. How can I break it?
Ronan was a little distracted, but Mo La over there was "taking advantage of the victory" and continued to ask: "What, are you interested? Do you want to add some more details?"
"If it is the total amount of mineral resources in Deep Blue World or the corresponding distribution..."
Ronan responded nonchalantly.
However, halfway through the conversation, another message came from a specially marked contact, causing the bracelet to vibrate.
Soon, a beep was added to the communication signal, indicating that there was another direct communication request.
"Wait a moment." Ronan glanced at the communication interface and temporarily put the communication with Mo La into the "call waiting" state to deal with things here first.
The new call here lasted for several minutes before a consensus was finally reached and ended, and the communication with Mo La was automatically restored.
It’s not easy, the other side is still waiting.
As soon as the communication was restored, Mo La couldn't bear to be curious and touched his bottom with an angry tone: "What, who are you talking to, just abandon me like this?"
"Partner."
"who?"
"Lanier."
"..."
This time, it was Mo La's turn that Ronan was so frank that he was visibly suffocated before asking again: "Raniel from the Order of Justice?"
"Well, let's discuss the launch of the experimental site."
Because of the interruption, the previous topics, ideas, and accumulated emotions between the two of them were a little unsustainable for a while.
Mo La simply started a new topic: "Junior brother, can I ask a question? About you
That big project. "
"You said it." Being able to respond like this proved that Ronan basically accepted the information provided by Mo La.
Mo La could obviously feel this, and his voice became a little tired: "Junior brother, your big project will eventually cover tens of billions of people in the world, and it will cover all levels...isn't that right?"
"That's right."
"So, am I also the one you plan to benefit?"
Ronan didn't blink: "Theoretically yes, but there will be priorities."
Mo La did not ask what the criteria for "priority" were, but his focus was raised to a higher level: "With a population of 10 billion, if you push forward according to your plan, can you afford it?"
"Um?"
"I mean, are there enough resources on earth?"
Molla discussed related topics seriously: "After 90 years, the human government entered the stage of strategic counterattack on the wilderness, and the development and utilization of aberrant resources also began to accelerate.
"Take Xia City as an example. Under the premise of effective governance, a thousand people with abilities, plus some passers-by, can basically kill all the aberrations around Xia City and make them into nutritious porridge. Like The kind of thing Xiu Shen Yu encountered near the satellite city back then would be difficult to happen again.
"Correspondingly, the number of ability users that a super-large city can support, including those in the military and political departments, will eventually be multiplied by two, which is just this many... Junior Brother, do you agree with this base number? So, if your big project is put into practice, Implementation, the number of ability users will explode, where will the resources for long-term supply and maintenance come from?"
Ronan said "Huh": "I seem to have heard your statement from someone before... There is a person named Wen Huilan, do you know her?"
Before Mera could respond, he answered directly: "Theoretically, it is enough. The earth will enter the era of distortion and realize the hegemony of wild creatures for decades, which proves that the solar energy carried on the surface of the planet can support this bizarre world. world."
"But this is theoretical."
"Yes, from the perspective of applied technology, the available resources on the current earth, including within the boundaries that can be reached by aerospace technology, are still limited after all. Not only that, directional evolution that conforms to social ethics and expectations will consume more in the early stage; think about it Not to mention deliberately speeding up the process."
There are a large number of historical texts and real examples for reference. The breadth and depth of Ronan's thinking on the "Century Sequence" project have far exceeded the circle drawn by Mo La.
But he didn't want to waste his time in a useless debate with Mo La, let alone persuade her. At this point the conversation changes:
"So, the road is tortuous, but the future is bright. In reality, projects do have priorities. They also need to make some reserves in advance, leave some margin, and then try their best to tap the surrounding potential - such as Deep Blue World. Its potential is really Have all of them been revealed? According to your description, it feels like nothing more than a reverse prison surrounding the so-called 'mining area'."
Mo La said "Wow", sounding so excited that "I am afraid that the world will not be in chaos". But at the same time, she also showed amazing acumen:
"If it has potential, isn't your 'new dimension' good?"
"It's another kind of value." Ronan replied.
Mo La whistled: "Awesome! By the way, you are also in the preliminary preparation stage of a big project now. Is that 'experimental field' part of the preliminary work of the project?"
"That's right."
"Then, can I go and visit?"
"certainly."
When Mo La asked, he always had to lengthen his tone and act as a buffer, but Ronan's answer was crisp and clear, without any hesitation:
"Anyone is welcome at any time."
