Text Chapter 2373 Information About the Big Iron Works!

Now that a large army has been assembled, it is inevitable that people will find out if they act with great fanfare. Most of the rebels are hiding in the abandoned towns and deep mines not far from the "big iron factory". The surging underground torrent.

Only Long Yangjun, Li Yao, Li Jialing and a very small number of experts in the rebel army dared to infiltrate near the big iron factory and contact the local Wuyou believers in the big iron factory under the personal command of the great guardian.

The underground world is one huge cave after another, a three-dimensional labyrinth connected by tunnels and gaps. In theory, it is the easiest to defend and difficult to attack. As long as you send an elite to guard the main passage between the two huge spaces, you will be able to escape. It can lock all the routes in and out.

However, near the big iron factory is a mature mining area that has been mined for hundreds of years. All kinds of intricate mines and tunnels are numerous. Not experienced old miners, no one knows the dark fork in the depths of a certain tunnel , where can it lead.

In order to transport fresh air and clean drinking water downwards, precious resources deep underground must be transported up, and a large-scale ventilation and logistics pipeline system must also be established.

In the past tens of thousands of years, the Yaozu built such a pipeline system, the Star Sea Empire built it, the Star Sea Republic built it, and the True Human Empire naturally built it too.

Numerous abandoned pipeline systems from the previous dynasty have become shortcuts to keep secrets, relying on a handful of immortal cultivators, they cannot guard against them no matter what.

Among the disciples of the Wuyou Cult, there are naturally old miners who have dealt with rocks all their lives. Li Yao is a peerless master at shuttling through the ventilation ducts. The group is familiar with the road, and they climbed into the ventilation ducts from the cracks, and climbed into the tunnel from the ventilation ducts without any hindrance. Drilled from the tunnel to a mine that was completely drained decades ago and abandoned long ago.

According to the mining industry norms of the Real Human Empire, this completely exhausted mine must be backfilled with rocks and rapidly solidified liquid metal to ensure the stability of the entire geological structure and prevent large-scale landslides and geological movements that would affect the To the world of cultivating immortals on the ground.

However, the cost of rock backfilling is extremely high. For profit-hungry and extremely corrupt immortal cultivators, the "Excavation Industry Standards" are all a bunch of nonsense waste paper. The Black Iron Group was originally affiliated with the Dongfang family. The imperial capital is not the territory of the Dongfang family, so why would Li Minghui care about any norms?

Therefore, there are dark and empty abandoned mines all around the big iron factory. It took several years for the Wuyou believers to open up most of the mines and carefully cover them up, so that the rock formations in this area became hollowed out by termites. The big tree is full of holes inside, but it can't be seen from the outside.

Li Yao and Long Yangjun drilled out from the depths of such a mine, directly bypassed the outer guards of the Black Iron Group, and appeared on a honeycomb-like rock formation not far from the big iron factory.

Everyone wore gray cloaks, as if they were integrated with the surrounding rocks. Looking down from the heights, they overlooked the whole picture of the big ironworks. The first thing that caught their eyes was naturally the lava well that looked like a volcanic eruption in the center of the big ironworks.

It is like a torch condensed by hundreds of millions of heavenly fires. It is burning fiercely, roaring and howling, even if it is several miles away, you can feel its scorching temperature. In the blink of an eye, it seems that sparks will sputter to the face.

Long Yangjun told Li Yao that under the rock formation where the big iron factory is located is the place where three flame spirit veins converge, which can continuously produce extremely strong and stable flame energy from far away. It is the highest quality energy source replaced by modern cultivation In terms of civilization, there is a magma belt with ultra-high temperature and ultra-high pressure but a relatively stable and strong geological structure in the rock formations underground of the Great Iron Works, and there are several rare ore veins with huge reserves and excellent quality nearby. Building a smelting plant in the ground, using geothermal energy to smelt ore, refining the raw ore into concentrate and then transporting it to the ground, the relative cost will be much lower.

Li Yao looked far away, and he saw the geothermal power plant built around the Well of Flames, as well as various types of mining farms, smelters, and metal processing plants built on the back of the power plant, and a small-scale magic weapon component rough processing plant .

The high and low smelting and refining furnaces are like cold giants, towering all the way to the top of the cave, making the originally open underground space extremely dull.

In underground smelting, the most difficult problem to solve is not the problem of industrial water, but the discharge of toxic waste gas. Li Yao noticed that there are countless huge pipes with strong suction on the roof of the cave and the surrounding walls of the entire large iron factory. , non-stop pumping away the filthy to nearly solidified black gas, and after heavy filtering, all highly toxic substances are filtered and compressed into extremely small cubes, and the purified air will be circulated back.

Even with thousands of powerful industrial air purifiers going all out, the air is still filled with all kinds of suffocating smells, and even Li Yao feels a little uncomfortable, as if someone stuffed two lumps of rubber into his nasal cavity. The mixture of asphalt and asphalt, I really don't know how the workers and their families here can bear it.

"In fact, the Empire of Real Humans is the same as the new federation before you returned. It uses a large number of demon workers. To be more precise, it uses various medicines to activate the 'demon cells' in the lower workers' bodies, and bestows them with all kinds of strange things. , the 'ability' with great side effects."

Long Yangjun whispered, "In other words, since the domination of the monster race completely collapsed ten thousand years ago, in the center of the Star Sea, the human race has never stopped enslaving the monster race. The low-level monster race in the country is the best labor force, who is willing to slaughter all these 'big animals', isn't that too violent?

"Of course, in order to defend the 'dignity and pride of human civilization', it is even more 'humanitarian'. It is not common to completely transform human beings into grotesque monster races. Such a simple and rude approach, but for human organs Carry out partial transformation, or use the principle of 'eugenics' to combine human beings with certain demonic genes to produce offspring with certain functions. This practice, which is similar to breeding pet dogs, has never stopped.

"Workers living in various heavily polluted underground factories have a complete set of respiratory systems that are more like monsters than humans, which allows them to master the ability to survive and work in heavily polluted environments.

"It's not without cost. Demonizing genes can only help them work when they are young and middle-aged, but they can't prevent the accumulation of highly toxic heavy metals in their bodies. The end result is a greatly shortened lifespan and a certain probability of impaired intelligence. However, yes. For the immortal cultivator factory owners, these are not a "price", anyway, they don't need the miners to live to the limit of their natural lifespan, nor do they need them to have too high intelligence, a little stupid, better control."

Li Yao was horrified and furious when he heard this: "These cultivators are so despicable!"

"You are blaming the immortal cultivator wrongly."

Long Yangjun said coldly, "The immortal cultivators are not the ones who started it, but they just followed the bad rules of the previous dynasty. As early as the Xinghai Republic era, those sanctimonious cultivators set up some 'model factories' on the surface of the blue sky and white sun, not to mention how elegant the environment is. , Birds are singing and flowers are fragrant, laughing, but in the depths of the ground where the sun can't find it, for the sake of excess profits, isn't it doing this? Anyway, since these workers have been activated with demonization genes, they are considered to be polluted by demon races. Or simply be part of the Yaozu.

"The monster race is the great enemy of the human race, so whether it is a cultivator or a cultivator, they don't have any sense of guilt for enslaving the 'monster race', so they can be justified?"

Li Yao was silent, and suddenly thanked Jin Xinyue for everything he had done in the past hundred years.

If it weren't for her to lead the Yaozu's struggle, would the Xingyao Federation still retain a large number of such cruel factories today?

That is definitely not the dream world in Li Yao's mind, something that should exist!

In addition to the deadly poisonous gas, thousands of industrial air purification magic weapons emit deafening roars when they output full power, which is also like an endless brain-penetrating magic sound, hovering over the big iron factory, turning into thousands of poisonous poisons snakes, getting into everyone's ears.

Li Yao tried to restrain his psychic energy to the limit, relying only on his tyrannical flesh and blood to resist the noise, soon his mouth became dry, his heart beat faster, he was sweating profusely, his blood vessels thumped wildly, and countless dark and bloody thoughts came to him.

"How about it?"

Long Yangjun smiled and said, "You should understand now why so many people are crying and begging me on their knees. They all want to practice "Wangyoujue", right? Even if it is just to resist this endless noise, it is very difficult It's worth it!"

Li Yao squinted his eyes, staring at the "rumbling" air purification magic weapon above his head, shook his head and said: "There is no reason, even if it is a high-power air purification system for industrial use, as long as it is refined carefully, maintained regularly, and replaced It’s impossible to make such a harsh noise with the silent gasket, this is a technology that even the Star Federation can solve, there’s no reason why the Human Empire can’t do it!”

"You have already said that it needs to be 'extensively refined' and 'regularly maintained and replaced with quiet gaskets'. Every replacement requires partial factory shutdown, which is very expensive, okay?"

Long Yang Jun said, "Compared to such a high cost, the cost of distributing three pairs of earplugs to each worker and family member every month is much lower. Guess which way would a cultivator like Li Minghui choose?"

Li Yao frowned and said, "The air purification system is running all the time, and the noise won't disappear even for a moment. In other words, wouldn't it be very inconvenient for the residents here to talk to each other with earplugs all day long?"

"It's just inconvenient!"

Jun Long Yang said, "Then why don't you just stop talking, just shut up honestly, and devote your life to cultivators, wouldn't it be just right?" r