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Chapter 1409 A different world
Chapter 1410 A Different World

“Our gold mine was discovered by chance during drilling. The surrounding area for dozens of kilometers is a primitive mining area, and there has never been any record of any artificial facilities.”

Aria hesitated for a moment, then said, "If there was a base, how come it wasn't discovered during the exploration?"

Qin Hao didn't argue, he just pointed to the number on the steel pipe.

“But look at the format of this numbering; it’s not the standard marking format for mining equipment.”

"Keep chiseling, let the facts speak for themselves."

Some things are meaningless to talk about.

Qin Hao is only speculating at the moment; as for the actual outcome, we'll have to wait and see what happens next.

It's also possible that after going around in circles, we found nothing.

Although Wang Gong was puzzled, he still directed the workers to switch to a smaller crusher.

With a booming sound, the rock wall was peeled away layer by layer, revealing more traces.

A piece of plastic sheeting embedded in the rock, with neat edges, was clearly laid by hand.

There were several neat grooves in the corner of the wall, as if a bracket had been fixed there. In the pile of rubble, a rusty tin lunchbox was found, with dried food residue still inside.

All of this confirms one thing: Qin Hao's guess was correct.

"This……"

When Engineer Wang picked up the lunchbox, his expression immediately changed.

"The design of this lunchbox is no more than ten years old; it's definitely not something left over from the old mine."

Even if he didn't want to admit it, he had to say that what President Qin said was probably true.

But he still found it unbelievable.

Arya also crouched down, looking at the grooves, and fell into deep thought.

“These marks are very recent, as if they were covered up only in recent years.”

Qin Hao didn't speak, but the beam of his miner's lamp had already pierced through the chiseled opening and shone into the deeper part.

The space there became noticeably more open, and the outlines of neatly arranged metal frames could be vaguely seen.

There are traces of artificial casting on the edge of the metal frame, indicating that it was originally welded there.

"It seems my guess wasn't far off."

Qin Hao's voice carried a hint of understanding, and he spoke with more confidence.

"Let's keep going, and be careful."

"Yes!"

Engineer Wang no longer argues.

Reality has already slapped him hard in the face.

Wow!
Gravel fell in a soft rustling sound.

As the gap was gradually widened, a rusty cross-section of a railway track was revealed to everyone.

The rails had long since broken, and the broken ends were covered with reddish-brown rust, clearly indicating that they had been corroded for several years.

The sleepers had rotted into dark brown fragments, scattered in the soil.

"hiss……"

Engineer Wang gasped.

Omg!

How could there be something like this in this place??
Qin Hao shone his miner's lamp along the direction the railway extended, and the darkness gradually disappeared.

The outline of the railway tracks could be vaguely seen in the distance, appearing and disappearing in the shadows, as if guiding them to some unknown depths.

"Don't just stand there, come and take a look."

Seeing that Engineer Wang was standing there dumbfounded, Qin Hao couldn't help but wave.

"Oh okay, this railway track..."

Wang Gong came to his senses, squatted down, and ran his hammer across the rust on the rails, analyzing, "Judging from the degree of corrosion, it's been buried here for at least five or six years."

Arya frowned, her gaze sweeping over the increasingly orderly rock walls around her.

"The fact that railway tracks could be laid indicates that the space underneath is quite large, and it was definitely not dug out temporarily."

Qin Hao put away his miner's lamp and turned to look at the gap.

"If we follow the railway tracks, we should be able to find the source."

"no!"

Upon hearing this, Aria looked at him and immediately spoke up to stop him.

"Nobody knows what's down there; it's too dangerous to go in rashly."

"Now that I've made a discovery, I can't just leave things unprepared."

Aria looked at Qin Hao with a serious expression and said, "Even if we really have to go down, we should at least bring more people, prepare weapons and detection equipment, and go down only when we are fully prepared."

She wasn't trying to argue with Qin Hao; she was simply worried about his safety.

"That's right!"

Engineer Wang quickly chimed in, "Miss Ailiya is right, Mr. Qin, safety comes first!"

He was also afraid of dying. Although he had discovered a lot of things, no one knew what was inside.

Qin Hao remained silent for a moment, looking at the gap leading to darkness, and finally nodded, agreeing to their explanation.

"Notify the security team to bring their equipment and assemble in one hour."

An hour later, ten fully equipped security guards gathered at the mine entrance, each equipped with an explosion-proof light.

Qin Hao took the tactical flashlight handed to him by his teammates, adjusted the communicator, and was the first to crawl into the gap that had been chiseled open.

Aria opened her mouth, as if to say something, but Qin Hao had already crawled inside.

Qin Hao was extremely curious about this place.

The railway tracks stretched out beneath my feet, the rust rustling against the soles of my boots.

Every few meters there is a rusty sleeper.

"It seems that it was laid out quite neatly back then."

Qin Hao sighed.

He was very curious about what this place was used for back then.

Arya followed closely behind, the metal detector in her hand emitting a soft buzzing sound from time to time.

She stared at the waveforms on the screen and whispered, "There are metal residues in the soil on both sides of the rails; they should be the copper core of the cable."

"But it's also possible that there are gold mines underground."

When the last two words were uttered, everyone held their breath.

If even this place has gold mines, it means that their gold mine area has expanded further.

Wang held up his miner's lamp to illuminate the top of his head, and the holes for fixing cables could be seen on the rock wall, arranged neatly.

“There must have been electricity here before.”

He clicked his tongue and said, "If it can supply the rails and equipment, this underground base must be quite large."

"But they're so capable, they should be able to discover there's a gold mine here!"

This problem baffled not only him, but even Qin Hao was completely baffled.

After going about 100 meters in, the railway suddenly turned sharply to the right, and a rusty iron gate appeared in front of us, with faint letters on the lintel that were barely discernible.

"Area B".

Qin Hao signaled his team to stop and shone a tactical flashlight on the door lock. The lock cylinder was already rusted shut, and the gap between the door frame and the rock wall was covered with damp moss.

"Prepare to breach the door." He took a half step back and nodded to the demolition expert behind him.

After a muffled explosion, the iron gate collapsed inwards with a crash, revealing a spacious underground space amidst the rising dust.

It's too late to say.

The team members spread out in a fan shape, holding their guns.

The flashlight beam swept across the area, revealing neatly arranged metal shelves piled high with sealed wooden crates bearing the same numbers as the railway tracks.

"This is... a warehouse?"

Arya approached a wooden crate and hesitated.

She used her dagger to pry open the gap, revealing a long, narrow object wrapped in oilcloth, the outline of which was vaguely discernible as a weapon.

"An arms depot?" Aria raised an eyebrow. Qin Hao, however, paid no attention to the location itself; he was more interested in what this place was for.

At the fork in the road at the end of the warehouse, the railway tracks split in two, each leading to deeper darkness.

"This is just the entrance."

He ordered, "Square into groups to investigate, and keep communications open."

"Don't touch anything you don't know. Wait for me to come."

The responses came through the earpiece.

Qin Hao walked towards the end.

This is a machine room, with several old-fashioned motors piled up in the corner.

The motor casing was covered in rust, and the lettering on the nameplate was blurred and difficult to read.

"crunch-"

Qin Hao stepped forward and flipped the switch; the sound of the gears turning was dry and harsh.

He took out a spare battery from his backpack, connected it, and the motor started humming.

"Connect the cable."

Qin Hao directly uttered these three words.

The team members quickly went up to connect the phone.

Within minutes, the wire was connected.

The instant the current was applied, a dim lamp overhead flickered on and off, barely illuminating half the room.

Engineer Wang stared at the motor, his brows furrowed, and sighed as if in a dream.

"That's ridiculous."

"How was the site built back then if this thing was hidden in the mine?"

"We stumbled upon this while we were mining for gold; what a coincidence!"

Aria kicked the rails beneath her feet. "It's not a coincidence."

"They were originally hidden in the veins; the gold deposits were a later overburden layer."

Qin Hao didn't speak, his flashlight sweeping across the logbook next to the motor; the pages were already yellowed and brittle.

He carefully opened the journal, touching the pages that hadn't yet decayed; a few lines of writing were barely legible:

"Detection revealed the presence of a high-density metal region at depth, with extremely high purity."

"The main structure of the base has been completed, and the track extends to the core of the ore vein."

The writing on the back was blurred by the dampness, and only fragments of words such as "mining" and "transportation" could be seen.

The last few pages were completely stuck together, making it impossible to read the content.

"High-density metal zone".

Qin Hao closed the book, his gaze sweeping across the corner of the warehouse, and suddenly realized, "It seems they built this base just to dig for this stuff."

Engineer Wang squatted down, pondered for a moment, and then asked, "But what exactly is this metal? Is it worth going to such lengths?"

"Could it be a gold mine?"

Ailiya naturally took the diary from Qin Hao's hand and carefully examined it against the light.

"The words at the end are blurred, it seems to say... the mining encountered an unexpected incident?"

Qin Hao shook his head. The log ended there, with no further entries.

The reason why the base was abandoned remains an unsolved mystery.

But the more this was the case, the more Qin Hao wanted to know.

My curiosity has been piqued.

"Let's go, let's continue our look."

"Mr. Qin, you have a phone call."

He had just finished speaking when a team member handed him a satellite phone.

Qin Hao was staring blankly at the bolts on the motor base.

Although it wasn't built very long ago, some of the equipment is still usable.

However, the gold mine remained unexploited, and the place was abandoned.

What exactly happened?

"Ok."

Qin Hao took the satellite phone from his teammate, glanced around, found a corner, and then pressed the answer button.

"what's up?"

He asked in a very low voice.

They looked as if they were afraid someone would hear them.

Sophia's cool voice came from the other end of the phone. Perhaps because Qin Hao was underground, her voice sounded a bit noisy and mixed with static.

"There's a problem with the approval documents for the new energy project; you need to come back in person."

Qin Hao frowned slightly and asked, "Can't we handle this tomorrow? I have some things to take care of right now."

"I'm afraid that won't work; the regulatory officials are waiting to sign off."

Sofia said calmly, "I'll be waiting for you in my office."

Before the dial tone had even faded, Qin Hao had already grabbed his equipment bag.

"I'll leave this to you, I'll be right back."

Arya watched his retreating figure disappear quickly at the end of the railway tracks and took a deep breath.

Although the female voice on the phone was a little muffled, she could still tell it was a woman's voice.

As a woman herself, her innate sense of smell compelled her to suspect something.

"Then what should we do next?"

After watching Qin Hao leave, Engineer Wang was a little stunned.

He wouldn't dare continue mining without the leader's permission.

Arya kicked at the rusty iron filings at her feet, her voice turning colder.

"Engineer Wang, send more men to guard the entrance. No one is allowed to enter without my order."

After saying that, Aria also left.

After half an hour.

When Qin Hao arrived at Sophia's office, he saw her typing on the keyboard in front of the computer screen.

Where are the regulatory officials?

Qin Hao looked up and found that Sophia was the only person in the office.

"sit."

Sofia didn't even look up or answer Qin Hao's question. Instead, she pulled out several documents and placed them in front of Qin Hao.

"We have already completed the acquisition of these local auto parts companies."

The official seals on the documents are bright red, and the dates are all from the last three days.

Qin Hao picked up the document, flipped through it, and praised, "You're quick."

Once the contract is signed, there's no need to worry about others monopolizing the market.

"Otherwise, how can I work for you?"

Sofia printed out the contract, pushed the pen over, and continued.

"Sign it, and we won't have to rely on external suppliers anymore."

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