Li Xiang pulled out two more sticks from the same position, and the color changed obviously.
Both of them have yellow-green particles distributed throughout their bodies, some are yellowish and some are greenish, but the appearance is still mainly stone, unlike the pyrite in the underground city, which looks like gold crystallized and aggregated. The copper content is probably relatively limited.
Fortunately, the thickness of the mineral seam is good. As long as the span is one to two hundred meters, it will be valuable as an outpost for deploying equipment.
The matter is not urgent. In order to avoid Weng Ji's people from finding trouble, it is better to wait to develop the copper mine after flying. There are other things to be busy with today.
Let Li want to break all the rocks with mines behind, and let the inner court guards and exploration team members carry a pile back to the camp.
When they returned to the camp, the pilots had already rested and were checking the charging status of the aircraft and magic modules.
The magic module installed on the new aircraft is very user-friendly. There are indicator beads to display the magic power reserve, just like the remaining battery display.
Because the journey is relatively long, these aircraft all carry portable charging modules when they come out. The power is much smaller than that of the ground station. It takes about five days to recharge once. But now it is already within the range radius. The main thing is to ensure that it is enough. The margin can cope with some emergencies.
When Wang Qi and his party came back, the fleet made some preparations, took another group of prospectors with them, and took off again.
At this time, except for the three pilots, there were a total of 18 people on the wooden man, which was already over capacity. Even if some people sat on the bed in the lounge, it was still not enough. Fortunately, the load was okay, but the glider had to stand or sit on the floor. Not very stable.
This was a short flight, the total distance was only sixty kilometers.
You can see before landing that a piece of land rises in the distance from the coastline. Although it is only slightly above the sea, it represents a real matter of life and death.
The fleet put Wang Qi and one group of people on the original beach, and took the other group to work on the floating island on the sea. This was also the original plan of the wooden man's test flight.
The prospector led the way for a while, pointed to a color dividing line on several large rocks with barnacles attached, and said: "Your Majesty, this is the low tide line of the original coastline. It is twelve times higher than the low tide line we measured the day before yesterday. rice."
"Ah, is this only twelve meters?" Li Xiang was shocked.
Because with the naked eye, the current coastline position is about four kilometers away from their point.
"Your Highness, Special Envoy, this shallow sea is very gentle. It looks far away, but in fact the difference is very small."
Wang Qi asked a more serious question: "How fast is the coastline receding now?"
"Back to Your Majesty, the measured figures are not very stable. In the recent earthquake, the sea level dropped by three meters in two days. The usual changes are not much."
Wang Qi listened without saying a word, and the exploration team continued walking with them. There was a bend in the coastline in front of them. The beach stones on one side became larger, and the rock mass under the stones could be seen in some places.
"Here is the rock mass we found as required, but it is difficult to produce salt stably. We don't know when the terrain will change if the sea water recedes like this."
"It doesn't matter, just connect to the water pump." Wang Qi looked at the coastline and felt a little anxious.
Salt was the first target of Wang Qi's personal trip. He wanted to confirm whether a large-scale salt grab operation could be launched here.
...Yes, it can only be expressed in terms of combat, because no one knows now whether there will be a suitable salt drying field after the floating island becomes a floating island, and there is even a question mark as to whether there is a sea.
According to common sense, the ocean seems to exist no matter what, but since the process of floating islands started, many things cannot be understood with common sense.
Just like the steam spurting from the ice forest, when the oceanic plates float up, the seawater will probably be in direct contact with the earth's core, or at least with the high-temperature asthenosphere. It's hard to say whether the outcome will be good or bad. Maybe the seawater won't all evaporate, maybe the sea will. It turns into a high-temperature hot spring. It is impossible to judge based on the current accumulation of geological knowledge.
But no matter how it develops, one thing is certain - there will be a shortage of salt in the future.
In fact, there is no need to wait for the future. The drop in the water level of the Luna River has caused the price of sea salt to skyrocket due to poor river transportation. Fortunately, the basic price set by the Phoenix Kingdom for salt is not too low. The private retail price in the country has not yet crossed the official price limit, and it has not yet reached the point of releasing reserves. But if we ignore it, this day is definitely not far away. .
After the price of salt increased, Wang Qi planned to obtain sea salt directly by air freight.
The first option is to fly directly to the salt production areas of Fatel or Ongi to transport it. This is obviously a stupid plan.
Wang Qi realized from watching the news in his last life that it was nonsense to say that XX has no borders. If a plane flies over another country's border and a mage is a vegetarian, this is a food delivery.
In particular, the magic part of the magic glider does not have many secrets. The aerodynamic shape can be learned through surveying and mapping. Only the charging device based on football ene is somewhat exclusive, but this does not prevent the opponent from using artificial charging or some kind of special magic array. Use it first.
You can't go directly to other places to get salt, so you have to find a place to dry it yourself. It just so happens that Wengji has no formal border, and there are quite a lot of no-man's land in the north.
The plan to dry salt was waiting for the new aircraft to pass the test. As a result, news came halfway that the coastline was rapidly receding, and the priority of salt production must be increased.
Wang Qi made a trip by himself, mainly to see the specific situation so that he could formulate follow-up plans.
After visiting here, I continued to move north for a while and then turned back.
To the north is a natural bay. It only requires a small amount of work to build a super salt farm that can supply at least 200 million people. Unfortunately, the seawater has receded too far, and the land is useless.
If this land is used to dry salt, it will definitely be too late to dig a temporary pit, and the only way to pump water is to use a water pump.
There is a small factory at home that makes a water pump, but it is only a rudimentary version based on a single-cylinder diesel engine. It is not known how many days it can last for pumping seawater.
I hope there will be good news for the floating islands in the sea.
A group of people had something to eat on the spot. Those who went to the floating island on the sea would not be able to return for a while, so Wang Qi took Li Xiang off his shoes and stepped on the sand.
The sea water has receded for a long time, and now the beach is particularly comfortable. The stench of dead crabs and dead razor clams has long since dissipated, leaving only a dull sea flavor.
"The sand is so fine!" Li Xiangke, who grew up in Beidi, was happy. This was the first time he tried to step on the sand with bare feet.
Wang Qi is more dissatisfied: "If there is no reduction in illumination caused by a big collision, people can peel off their skin in a day on this white beach."
"Ah!" She tried to cover it with her hands.
"Don't be so nervous, let's just walk for a while, and it's still morning." Even if there was enough illumination, the possibility of skin peeling with Li Xiang's physique was extremely low.
The two swayed back and forth on the beach for a while, and even approached the new coastline, but they couldn't get too close, because only fine sand accumulated near the original coastline. As they moved forward, the stone particles became larger and accompanied by silt, and the new coastline had already Part of the coral top is exposed to the sun.
About an hour later, the wooden man flew back with the exploration team under two Tornado III escorts.
There is great news once it lands.
"Your Majesty! There is a lagoon on the floating island, which has formed a natural salt field!"
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! "It seems that there is still a way to survive.
Without any haste, the group returned to the plane and took a look around the scene.
