Chapter 565: Calculating the Oilfield

For a moment, one could hear a pin drop in the small storage room.

Lv Hong was the first to snap out of it: "Factory Director He, how are we going to transport these things out?"

He Yuzhu thought for a moment and said: "It doesn't matter if we can't find the main entrance. The Dark Bunker has several firing ports that are quite large; the supplies can be moved out through there! If we really can't get them out, we'll just blast the openings wider."

Lv Hong's eyes lit up instantly: "That's a good idea!"

Yan Jiecheng had long been distracted, his eyes fixed squarely on those crates of canned goods, and he asked: "Zhuzi, how many years do you think this stuff has been sitting here? Is it still edible?"

He Yuzhu chuckled to himself; this kid really never forgot to try and snag some benefits wherever he went.

He walked up, picked up a can at random, and weighed it in his hand: "As long as it isn't leaking and the seal is intact, it can be eaten."

The group searched everywhere, but sure enough, they found no other exits.

The original passageway had likely been blasted shut long ago.

In the end, they chose the largest firing port in the Dark Bunker to pass things out; the opening was only two or three meters off the ground, so moving these items was not difficult.

Once everything had been transported back to the Farm Warehouse, He Daqing and Li Huaide heard that a Japanese underground Dark Bunker had been unearthed and a large batch of items brought back, so they rushed over excitedly to see the commotion.

But after rummaging around, it was just old-fashioned firearms and expired medicine, so the two quickly lost interest and went back to drink.

Only Yan Jiecheng remained, his heart set on those crates of canned goods, insisting on tasting whether they were still edible.

He Yuzhu was worn down and had no choice, so he simply told him to take them to the canteen to open and try.

Just then, Man Yatou came skipping over. Seeing He Yuzhu's face full of joy, her little face immediately filled with curiosity: "Brother Zhuzi, what's so happy? Did you dig up something good?"

He Yuzhu pulled her to his side and said: "I got a batch of oil exploration data from the Japanese. What our country lacks most right now is oil; with this stuff, we might be able to find oil using their data."

Man Yatou's eyes lit up in a flash: "Really? I hear the older brothers and sisters in the Laboratory complaining every day that buying gasoline is so hard."

He Yuzhu nodded and opened a notebook to examine it carefully.

Man Yatou also leaned in, picked up another one at random, furrowed her little brows, and began to read quietly.

He Yuzhu was somewhat surprised: "You can understand this?"

Man Yatou lifted her little head and said earnestly: "I've already self-studied high school physics and chemistry, and I've finished higher mathematics too."

He Yuzhu looked up abruptly and praised her sincerely: "I used to think you were a bit smarter than me, but now I see that 'a bit' is quite an understatement."

Man Yatou's little face flushed slightly, and she immediately took out her small notebook and fountain pen from her pocket, bowing her head to write and draw against the yellowed Japanese calculation draft, her little brows tightly knitted.

She seemed to have an innate intuition for numbers; she couldn't understand most of the Japanese, but relying on the Chinese characters above, she was actually able to figure out the gist of it.

"Brother Zhuzi," the little girl suddenly looked up, her eyes exceptionally serious, "the data they calculated... is not right."

He Yuzhu leaned over and asked: "What's wrong with it?"

Man Yatou pointed her little finger at several strings of numbers and quickly drew a curved arc on the ground: "The rock layer height the Japanese calculated is wrong... this section of the rock layer isn't flat, it's arched, like a large bowl turned upside down!"

He Yuzhu deliberately pretended to be confused: "So what if it's arched?"

Man Yatou straightened her little face and explained clearly: "Oil is lighter than water and will rise! Once this arched top is capped, all the oil is trapped right in the middle and can't escape..."

For a moment, He Yuzhu couldn't even guess how she had built the model.

Man Yatou said: "Also, they ignored these sets of data. The oil content here is clearly increasing bit by bit, but they ignored it and directly judged that there was no oil. They... calculated in the wrong direction!"

He Yuzhu felt a sudden jolt in his heart.

This little girl had actually managed to calculate the underground oil-bearing structure based on a pile of broken data.

He Yuzhu encouraged her: "Man Yatou, I believe you are right, but this result is for important people to see, so there cannot be the slightest error."

The little girl's eyes went round: "Brother Zhuzi! I, I need to perform meticulous calculations. There are some words I don't recognize, I need someone who knows Japanese, it can't be wrong..."

Man Yatou became nervous after hearing He Yuzhu's words.

He Yuzhu comforted her: "Don't be nervous, I'll go get you a translator right now."

He immediately called Lv Hong over.

As soon as Lv Hong entered the room, she wondered: "Junior Factory Director He, why aren't you keeping your father company while he drinks? Why have you started working?"

He Yuzhu said seriously: "This girl is a once-in-a-century math genius. She discovered that the calculations in the Japanese notebooks are problematic. Please help out and translate the Japanese symbols and technical terms for her."

"Alright." Lv Hong immediately sat down beside Man Yatou.

Man Yatou gave Lv Hong a sweet smile and immediately pointed to the words she didn't recognize.

Lv Hong answered them one by one with patience.

Time ticked away second by second, and Man Yatou seemed tireless, organizing all the key sets of numbers.

He Yuzhu also brought over the Computer he had recently modified from his room—this one was an enhanced version, with an operational efficiency ten times higher than before!

Man Yatou reported the key data, and He Yuzhu programmed small subroutines to assist with the calculations.

In less than six hours, Man Yatou had locked onto the Great Oil Field area based on the Japanese drilling data!

Overall oil layer depth: between one thousand and one thousand three hundred meters!

Estimated reserves: over five billion tons!

When He Yuzhu received the final data, he was so excited he almost jumped up, and immediately took out some Fruit Wine from his room to celebrate.

After hearing the result, Lv Hong was completely stunned.

She was also a learned and knowledgeable Cadre; she knew better than anyone—once the things these two had calculated became reality, it would be earth-shattering news!

She was so excited on the spot that her voice trembled: "Zhuzi, I participated in this too, you have to count me in for the credit!"

"That goes without saying!" He Yuzhu agreed immediately.

Just then, Man Yatou suddenly discovered that two pages in one of the notebooks were sealed shut, and it seemed like something was tucked inside.

She took a small knife from her pencil case and carefully cut the two pages open; hidden inside was actually a small drawing, marked with latitude and longitude!

He Yuzhu frowned: "What map is this?"

Man Yatou looked at Lv Hong.

Lv Hong stared at a line of small text on it and said: "The general meaning is that just as they were about to discover oil, the government surrendered. They believed that sooner or later they would fight their way back, so they secretly hid the entire set of exploration equipment in a Cave."

Upon hearing this, He Yuzhu clenched his fists in excitement: "Cadre Lv, with this map, can we find these things?"

Lv Hong nodded: "The marked location is not far from here, less than seventy kilometers."

"Tomorrow morning, we will go and bring the things back!"

He Yuzhu's voice carried irrepressible excitement, and he immediately sent a telegram to Tian Dan, telling her to report to Secretary Liu at once.

The next day, the group rushed to the location in high spirits, but as soon as they opened the Cave door, many of them were deflated on the spot.

Parts were scattered all over the floor inside, the racks were covered in rust, and it looked no different from a pile of scrap metal.

Yan Jiecheng hung his head and shook it repeatedly: "It's rotted to this extent, can it still be used?"

But what was junk in others' eyes was completely different to He Yuzhu.

He was inherently extremely sensitive to mechanical equipment; with just a glance, his brain automatically categorized, pieced together, and restored them according to their functions.

Amidst the collective sighing of the crowd,

He Yuzhu already saw it clearly:

Among this pile of junk, one was a Light Drilling Rig, used back then for drilling survey holes, with a limit of around eight hundred meters.

The other was a Medium Drilling Rig, capable of drilling oil wells, only the engine was damaged and the drilling tower had a broken main beam. However, the frame was still there!