Chapter 264 Rough Stone Mine
The Second Rough Stone Mine.
Longbai and Heiti each have 60 large worker ants, medium worker ants, and medium soldier ants. They rest during the day and work at night, digging holes and drilling on hilltops.
Hard, tiring, monotonous and boring work.
Long Bai persisted for less than ten days before he came up with the idea of running away.
After persisting for two more days,
at dawn, on the way back to the nest after finishing work,
Long Bai made up his mind to leave today, and began to think about how to say goodbye to Hei Ti and how to appease Hei Ti. Emotions...
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"
Suddenly, Heiti, who was working on another hilltop, rushed down the hillside like crazy and ran towards this side.
"My King! Found it!"
"Finally found it!"
"Original Stone!"
Heiti shook his tentacles desperately to release the message.
——Found it? !
Long Bai was stunned, and then he couldn't help being ecstatic.
I found it!
Behind Heiti, a team of soldier ants ran after him. One of the soldier ants held a rough stone in his jaws. Surrounded by the ants, he came to Long Bai and carefully placed the rough stone on Long Bai. At the foot of the cypress.
"Okay!"
Long Bai was overjoyed. He picked up the rough stone and inspected it. He waved his paw and gave the order: "Take a look!"
An inconspicuous hilltop with a height of a hundred meters and dark brown rocks.
Under the mountain there are rugged gravels of all sizes.
"Your Majesty, here."
Heiti ran ahead to lead the way.
At the foot of the mountain, there is a tunnel with a diameter of about 30 centimeters, which is just right for two large worker ants to pass through side by side. It goes forward horizontally and leads directly to the belly of the mountain.
"...Okay." Long Bai mentally scanned the area. Forty meters deep inside, worker ants were busy digging rocks and widening the cave.
Heiti waved his tentacles, and the soldier ants got into the cave and helped carry the stones out.
Soon, another digging worker ant waved its tentacles and released cheering pheromones, and the surrounding worker ants rushed to help.
Eight rough stones are concentrated and embedded in the rock.
"Your Majesty! Look! I've dug it!" Heiti cheered and directed the worker ants to quickly dig out a few rough stones and send them to Long Bai.
"Don't be too happy too soon!"
Long Bai buried his head and looked at it, his excited mood quickly cooled down, and explained:
"Raw stone deposits are divided into rich ore, medium ore and poor ore according to their abundance. , the difference is huge. If the rough stone accounts for more than 10%, it can be called a rich mine; if the rough stone accounts for 1% to 10%, it is considered a medium ore, and it is also valuable for mining.”
“The rough stone accounts for 1% to 10%. If it is less than 1%, all that is dug out are stones. If you find raw stones in the pile of stones, the value will not be high..."
Heiti raised his paw, interrupted, and asked: "Your Majesty, what does proportion mean? It’s...”
Long Bai: "Accounting for 1%, it means digging 100 bags of stones and getting out 1 bag of rough stones."
Heiti: "Uh..."
Heiti: "Your Majesty, this The rock is very hard!”
Long Bai: “The rocks in the raw stone mine are very hard, and most of them are black.”
Long Bai waved his tentacles and said, “Heiti, Don’t rush to dig now. You command the worker ants to dig tunnels deep into the mountain, up, down, and left. I will command the ant colony to explore around the foot of the mountain first.”
"Understood, Your Majesty." Heiti replied, sonorously and forcefully.
Long Bai and Heiti each led a team of worker ants and worked separately until noon.
Half a day off.
After sunset, continue.
After two days of drilling and exploration, it was initially confirmed that there are no rough stones on the mountain.
Click in many places and dig down.
It took another two days to locate the distribution range of the mineral deposits, located under the mountain.
Dig deeper, and the proportion of rough stones increases.
Long Bai and Heiti worked separately, digging caves in many places underground for test excavation. About a hundred meters deep underground, the proportion of rough stones gradually increases from less than 1% to more than 10%. Going deeper, the proportion of rough stones begins to shrink.
It took another three days to basically prove that the entire mineral deposit is roughly spherical, with a radius of about 100 meters, and the center has the highest proportion of rough stones. About 30 meters away from the center, the proportion of rough stones drops rapidly to less than 1%. About 50 meters away from the center, it takes 1,000 bags of stones to get out one bag of rough stones.
In terms of scale, this is a miniature rough stone mine.
......
In the second rough quarry, in the temporary ant nest, Long Bai greeted Hei to propose something.
The forefoot scrapes against the stone wall, sorting out a smooth surface, and the toes are carved with mountain patterns and characters.
"Heiti, this is the peak where the original stone deposit is located. It is more than 400 meters long and more than 200 meters wide. This is the location where the original stone was found during drilling."
Longbai pointed with his tentacles.
“Yes!” Heiti stood up straight and moved his tentacles to show that he could understand.
Long Bai raised his paw, carved a circle under the mountain pattern, and said: "This is the overall distribution of raw stone deposits, with a radius of about 100 meters."
Long Bai carved another circle in the big circle A small circle said: "This is the central mining area worth mining, with a radius of 50 meters."
Heiti nodded his tentacles and agreed, thinking, and asked: "Your Majesty, don't you dig in the poor mining areas?"
Long Bai: "Don't dig. It's a waste of time. If you have this time, why don't you dig more in the Black Lotus Lake?" Fruit trees are much more cost-effective than this."
Long Bai: "Just dig this area."
Heiti: "...Okay!"
Long Bai Ti. Claw, draw a vertical line from the bottom of the mountain to the bottom of the circle, saying:
"Overall, the raw stone content is not high, the rock is hard, and there is no risk of collapse. Directly drill a vertical channel and dig upward from the bottom. During excavation, the rocks are backfilled on the spot, and the raw stones are screened, transported, and stacked centrally."
Heiti: "Understood!"
Longbai's tentacles pointed at the center of the circle and said: "The rough stone content in the central area has reached about 10%. The rock layer may not be strong enough. Be careful when digging closer. Hollow out the center first."
Heiti: "Remember!"
Heiti: "Your Majesty, can you calculate how many rough stones there are in this mine?"
Long Bai: "More than 10 million, less than 15 million. You can get 100,000 to 150,000 rough stones."
"Okay!"
Heiti's tentacles were dancing in excitement, "My King , dig it tonight?”
Long Bai clicked his tentacles and said: “Let’s dig it for one night as planned. If there is no problem, you can stay and be responsible for mining. It’s almost the end of winter. Rush back to Xianglan Mountain to take charge of the winter fishing work."
"Is the ant nest food enough to last the entire ant colony for two months? With the number of soldier ants, mining can be completed in at most 4 months.”
Heiti: "I know——"
Heiti: "Your Majesty, my share..."
Long Bai: "After the mining is completed, not a single rough stone will be recorded in the accounts. "You're missing."
Long Bai spread his membrane wings, patted Heiti's back lightly, and said, "Heiti, look, you're following the king, right?" The king has more than 100,000 wealth. In the future, he will have the resources of the advanced evolutionary mountain master."
"Work hard! The king will not treat you badly."
"Oh——"
Heiti hesitated and asked anxiously: "Your Majesty, can you also help me buy a kettle made of ice and fire?"
Long Bai: "???"
Long Bai: "Why did you buy this thing? After the work here is done, you will go back to Heilian Lake to open up and run the orchard. The lake is full of water, can it make you thirsty?"
Heiti: "Uh..."
Heiti: "I think the 'ice making' function is very good."
Heiti: "Your Majesty, buy me a cheap one. It doesn't require the quality, as long as it can make ice cubes. Black Lotus Lake It’s also quite hot in summer..."
Long Bai reminded: "After I evolve to the Mountain Lord level, I will awaken a new water ability. Not surprisingly, it should be 'Ice Creation'. Accordingly, I will. The specially trained blue soldiers can also master this ability."
Heiti thought for a while and insisted: "Your Majesty, Bailiu doesn't know how to command the blue soldiers. I'll buy one for him to use."
Long Bai: "..."
Long Bai: "Okay. I'll ask the flame spider dealer later. If you don't ask for quality, the price will definitely not be too expensive."
(End of Chapter)