Chapter 2483: Welcome the Special Envoy

The mining location of this copper mine is about 500 meters underground.

Ye Chen asked Li Nianzong and the Governor he controlled to take everyone to take the lifting cage to the dead soldiers' station.

On the way down, Li Nianzong introduced the specific situation of this copper mine to Ye Chen.

After decades of continuous development, the interior of this copper mine has become extremely complex.

It consists of three parts. The first is the normal mining part of the copper mine, including lanes and mining faces; the second is the part where the dead soldiers and their families live; the third is the part where all materials and equipment are stored.

Going down from the wellhead to the very bottom is actually just going down to the working face of the copper mine.

After going down, it can be seen that this is a very standard medium-sized copper mine. All facilities and equipment are for production, and there is no abnormality at all.

Ye Chen, led by Li Nianzong, walked out of the cage, looked at the deep mine lane, and asked curiously, "Where do the dead soldiers and their families usually live?"

Li Nianzong hurriedly said, "Reporting to Mr. Ye, this plane at an altitude of minus 500 meters is all the working face of the copper mine. The area where the dead soldiers live needs to go in from a hidden secret passage in front and take another lifting cage down another 100 meters."

Ye Chen nodded and asked him, "Why is no one working here now?"

Li Nianzong hurriedly said, "Because today is the day to take medicine, so the dead soldiers must follow the requirements and be driven back to the living area at minus 600 meters in advance, waiting for the antidote to be delivered there and taking the medicine together."

As he spoke, Li Nianzong added, "Under normal circumstances, only dead soldiers and their families who work in the copper mine are qualified to come to this layer as miners. Others have always stayed in the layer below and only have the opportunity to come out when they are selected to perform tasks."

Ye Chen asked him, "How do you usually manage these dead soldiers who act as miners?"

Li Nianzong said, "There are three teams of miners, each with about a hundred people. They work in three shifts. The specific management method is the same as the American prison management of prisoners. Every shift that comes up will have a Cavalry Guard responsible for this shift to count the number of people below in advance, and then bring them up to work personally. The Cavalry Guards above will also count the number of people they manage on duty on time. After confirming that the number of people on duty is no different from when they changed shifts, they will hand over with another team that came over to change shifts. After the number of people is checked correctly, all the people in this shift will be sent back. After arriving at the layer below, the number of people will be counted again. After confirming that it is correct, the miners in this shift will go back to rest, and the Cavalry Guards responsible for supervising them will also go back to rest."

Ye Chen asked him, "Do the dead soldiers and their families who act as miners have any extra rewards?"

"No." Li Nianzong shook his head, "According to the organization's requirements, we only select those dead soldiers and families with insufficient strength to let them work, and will not give any extra rewards."

Ye Chen nodded lightly.

At this time, Li Nianzong had already taken him and the others to a room marked as a power distribution room.

After entering the room, what caught the eye first was the orderly circuit equipment, but as Li Nianzong operated in a set of power distribution cabinets on the wall for a while, the whole wall suddenly opened inward slowly.

Ye Chen could see from the side of the door frame that the thickness of this door disguised as a wall was almost one meter, and both sides were reinforced with very thick steel plates. Let alone martial arts masters, even ordinary heavy firepower could not blow this wall open.

And behind this wall, there was actually a huge machine room. This machine room was actually the equipment and operation room of a heavy elevator. Below the machine room was a huge lifting cage.

Li Nianzong took everyone onto the cage, started the cage with his iris, and then the cage took everyone down to the depth of minus 600 meters.

During the downward operation of the cage, Li Nianzong said to Ye Chen, "Mr. Ye, all the safety equipment here is one-way. The secret door just now, as well as this lifting cage, can only be operated by us from the outside. Besides, after the cage reaches the bottom, there is a door that can be opened from the outside, which can only be opened by us from the outside."

Ye Chen asked him, "This should be the only passage from the dead soldiers' station to the outside world, right?"

"That's right." Li Nianzong nodded and said, "Dead soldiers can only rely on this passage to enter and exit. However, their station also has a large number of steel ventilation pipes. But the inner diameter of the thickest pipe is only eleven centimeters, and people can't get out at all. So they have no possibility of escaping. Even if they can open the door at the bottom, they can't climb up this 100-meter-high well lane. Even if they can climb up, this cage is tightly blocked at the mouth of the well lane, and they can't get out at all. So since this place was put into use for so many years, there has not been a single prison break."

As he spoke, Li Nianzong added, "Of course, this also has something to do with the deadly poison in their bodies. Even if they spend a lot of effort to escape from here, without the antidote, they will definitely die within a week."

Ye Chen nodded, feeling a bit more sigh in his heart about the living environment of the dead soldiers.

In this 600-meter underground, not seeing the sun for a long time, how agonizing must this life be?

Just as Wu death date said, many dead soldiers' children were born here. In the twenty years from birth to starting to work for the organization at the age of twenty, they didn't even have the opportunity to see the sun.

Thinking of this, how to solve the lives of these dead soldiers and their families in the future became a relatively tricky problem.

Ye Chen naturally didn't want to continue letting them live 600 meters underground, but this copper mine was a scale of hundreds of people in the eyes of the outside world, so if these people were moved to the ground, the ground buildings couldn't carry so many people at all.

At this time, the cage had reached the very bottom.

After walking out of the cage, it was a transition area of about forty square meters. The so-called transition area was that the back end was connected to the cage, and the front end was connected to the last door that imprisoned the dead soldiers.

Li Nianzong took a key out of his pocket, inserted the key into the keyhole, and then went through the comparison of his pupils. Then, the door made a click sound, and then it opened slowly outward.

And when the iron door opened, Ye Chen was a bit distracted by the scene in front of him.

What appeared in front of him was an underground square of at least tens of thousands of square meters. The height of the square was at least fifteen meters. Every ten meters or so, there was a thick load-bearing column supporting it, and the lighting on the top illuminated the entire square as bright as day!

And the passage in front of Ye Chen was not at the bottom of this square, but in the middle of the vertical surface of this square.

When he walked out, in front of him was a circular platform protruding outward. This platform was seven or eight meters from the ground and seven or eight meters from the top.

When he stepped onto the platform, thousands of people were standing neatly on the square ground seven or eight meters below his feet.

At this time, thousands of people suddenly knelt on one knee, and shouted respectfully in their mouths, "Welcome the Special Envoy!" ===== CHAPTER 2484 =====