Urban Sims

The mining company is the sky above Area 51 and controls everything in Area 51.

The reason for the existence of mining companies is the mineral resources tens of kilometers deep underground.

Mining companies need to create benefits and provide the upper class with all kinds of ores that they only want to increase, not decrease.

In order to achieve this goal, mining companies provide rock drills and protective clothing to miners at cost prices, including high-energy batteries, electric energy, and high-strength drill bits used in rock drills, as well as oxygen to fill oxygen bottles when going down the mine. These are basically provided free of charge. .

Otherwise, it is really necessary to strictly implement the regulation of 1 credit point for 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity, and the miners can’t afford to pay the electricity consumption for the mines they dig.

You must know that most of the mining areas are 2.30 kilometers deep underground. The hardness of the rock formations here is close to diamond. Mining 1 kilogram of ore from here requires at least half an hour of effort by the miners.

In the entire Area 51, the annual output of various ores is only 30 million tons.

This kind of output is simply an insult to the level of technological development in this world.

Why don't companies use large-scale mining machinery to increase production, or develop mining robots that are less prone to fatigue and sacrifice, instead of humans?

The reason is mainly cost.

One, the cost of manufacturing, purchasing, and using large-scale mining machinery is too high to be unbearable for mining companies.

Second, labor is cheaper, or in other words, miners are cheap, even cheaper than mining robots. They can be used as consumables, are completely sufficient, and are very easy to use.

The only value of miners is to mine for mining companies.

Therefore, the mining company has formulated a very strict price system, which not only ensures that the miners will not starve to death, but also cannot be lazy.

But now, this price system, in the third mining area, is being impacted to pieces.

In three years, the economic loss of the mining company exceeded 20 million credits for hydropower alone.

The most important raw ore production has plummeted by 30% in three years.

If this trend continues, once the third mining area achieves self-sufficiency in grain, the output of raw ore may still decline.

Other mining areas, seeing this scene, will also follow suit.

This is a terrible disaster for Area 51!

"Banish, all these new things that appear in the third mining area, all of them will be banned by me! Any means can be used!"

After reporting the situation to the head of the company, the head of Area 51 said to Fang Zhihong in this way.

"Yes, Mr. Wang!"

…

The fierce struggle between the Tie family in the third mining area and the mining company has officially begun.

It started with a warning. The staff sent by the mining company asked the Tie family to drain all the fresh water, turn off the generator, and dismantle the greenhouse within three days, otherwise they would accept punishment and sanctions from the company!

Of course the Tie family didn't buy it. The mining company only cares about the mine, so why should it care about the living quarters? Why should the company control what they are doing in the living area?

Because Area 51 is a fairly loose and anarchic area, the mining company is only responsible for mining matters and the supply of materials. The company does not send personnel to manage the more than 300 underground mining areas. All mining areas are actually in chaos and autonomy. The mining companies do not want to pay too high management costs to manage these miners.

Therefore, the Tie family still went its own way. Not only did they not demolish these facilities as required, but they also increased manpower protection and made all response plans.

But how could the arm be twisted past the thigh?

On the fourth day, the mining company just increased the price of all kinds of materials supplied to the third mining area in the store tenfold, and canceled the supply of a large number of important materials. The third mining area immediately fell into panic. Those who originally supported the iron industry After the miners' family felt the sudden increase in survival pressure, they immediately distanced themselves from the Tie family and complained behind their backs.

The Jin brothers and the Lang brothers did not forget to add insult to injury. They took this opportunity to lead people to attack many times and smashed a greenhouse of the Tie family.

Fortunately, Zhou Ming had anticipated this situation. While stocking up a large amount of supplies in advance, he also asked Tie Qiang to send people to the fourth and fifth mining areas next door to purchase a large amount of supplies. The more the better!

After all, the E7 area can be partially self-sufficient. Currently, only the third mining area is the only one. Prices in other mining areas are unlikely to change much. If they also increase tenfold at the same time, it would be strange if all the miners don't rebel.

After realizing this situation, Fang Zhihong was not easy to deal with. He was so ruthless that he actually increased the prices of the ten mining areas in the E7 area under his jurisdiction by 10 times, and told the people in these ten areas on the radio that Miners: "I want you to destroy the water source of the Tie family in District 3, destroy their generators and greenhouses! After killing all the people in this family, prices will fall back, and the company will give you another 10% reduction!"

After hearing the news from the radio, Zhou Ming knew that if he wanted to survive, it would be impossible if he did not implement the plan. He immediately said to Tie Qiang: "Now that things have happened, we can only implement Plan E."

"Plan E?"

Tie Qiang had a sad smile on his face and slammed his fist on the rock wall: "Company, you forced me! Since you want us to die, we won't make it easy for you!"

After saying that, Tie Qiang and his family all put on thick miner protective clothing and brought more than 50 people with them, holding hammers and rock drills in their hands. On the same day, they rushed into the company store in the mine and killed The clerk then looted all the supplies in the store and distributed all the supplies to the onlookers outside.

Not only that, after looting the company stores in this mining area, this group of people also worked non-stop to rob the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth and other eight or nine mining areas in the surrounding area in the next day or two. The company's stores were all looted, and all the supplies they grabbed were distributed to the onlookers. He also issued a revolutionary declaration to these people:

"enough!"

"We've had enough!"

"We can't survive a day like this!"

"The company, the mining company, treats us as slaves in captivity, mining, mining, non-stop mining, making us use our lives to mine! How many wives lose their husbands every year, how many children lose their fathers, what about the company? I won’t give them even a single credit point as compensation!”

"We are lucky enough to work hard and risk our lives. What is the reward? It is just a small amount of compensation that is only enough for us to make ends meet. Under the company's careful calculation, if we don't work for a day, we will be hungry for a day. , 6-year-old children have to follow them into the mines, and miners in their 40s who are unable to work are disqualified from working in the mines..."

"Slaves, we are just a group of slaves, a group of humble ants! The value of our existence, in the eyes of those in the company, is not even as good as a piece of ore!"

"Who else is willing to continue living like this? Or, like us, we will no longer dig any mines underground, but use the hammer in our hand to smash the heads of those company employees, and use the rock drill in our hand to drill Open a store locker! Company, this big bonanza, we have fun digging it!”

"Yes, we may all die, but it will only be a few years premature. We prefer this way of death to dying deep underground, or to dying of poverty and hunger!"

"Are you tired of this life? What are you still hesitating about? Come on, come and join us! Put on your miner uniforms and go mining with us!"

Soon the first miner joined them.

Then came the second, third...the tenth, the hundredth, the thousandth...

In just one week, like a spark scattered on a pile of dry firewood, the miners' uprising in the E7 area spread like a raging fire, quickly wiping out all corporate power in the area in an instant.

Fang Zhihong fled in a panic and urgently reported the situation to his superiors. When "Mr. Wang" learned of the situation, he cursed "trash" and immediately ordered someone to drag the guy out and throw him into the mine shaft thousands of feet deep.

But killing ten Fang Zhihong at this time was of no avail. In order to quell the rebellion and not disrupt the company's production plan, "Mr. Wang" mobilized the security forces of more than 20 areas and organized an encirclement and suppression team of 5,000 people. , all equipped with chemical energy automatic rifles and a small number of high-energy electro-optical guns, striving to completely suppress this rebel force in a relatively short period of time.

However, three years have passed. Not only has this rebel army not been eliminated, but it has broken through sieges again and again. Not only has the company suffered heavy losses, but the territory controlled by the rebels has also expanded from ten mining areas to more than 100 In the mining area, the number of rebels increased from more than a thousand at the beginning to more than 30,000. They used a large number of weapons seized from the company's encirclement and suppression team to suppress the company and retreat.

Moreover, the rebels used guerrilla tactics in the mine tunnels, resulting in very small personnel losses. Moreover, the weapons used by the company's encirclement and suppression team, automatic rifles, were difficult to penetrate the protective clothing worn by the miners, and the high-energy electro-optical guns had a short range. The rebels used them again and again. The familiarity with the terrain of the mine tunnel would either make the encirclement and suppression team lose their way in the mine tunnel, or they would be attacked from behind... The advantages of advanced weapons could not be used at all.

Later, the company sent a special force equipped with advanced detective equipment, equipped with life detectors and radar scanners, which caused greater losses to the rebels. However, this special force of several hundred people came from other Those seconded from the bottom area were part of the ground troops and were not familiar with the underground mine tunnels, so they were all quickly lost...

In the fifth year of the great uprising, more than 200 of the more than 300 underground mining areas were controlled by the rebels. The company's newly appointed general manager, "Mr. Long", made a decision that shocked everyone. :

"Close 29 vents, leaving only one. Ask all the miners to come out from underground. When a miner comes up, install an 'explosion neck ring' on him. For the rebels who have not come out, close all the vents and wait. All the rats down there are dead and the mining area has become clean, so let the miners go back."

This plan can be described as vicious, because once the underground mining area loses external oxygen supply and no longer maintains ventilation, the poisonous gas and natural gas seeping out from the rock cracks will soon turn the entire mining area into a dead zone that is no longer suitable for survival. If it takes seven days Within that time, almost all humans in the underground mining area would die if they did not evacuate to the surface.

No matter how thorough Zhou Ming's Plan E was, he never expected that this situation would arise.

This is tantamount to a reshuffling of the cards.

So, when the top rebels were in a collective panic, Zhou Ming could only give Tie Qiang this advice:

"Now I can only dig an escape tunnel by myself and escape to the surface, or hide in a shallow mining area with better ventilation, and then return underground after the company restarts the ventilation equipment."

But at this time, the rebel troops had swelled to 100,000, plus more than 300,000 family members, and a population of nearly 400,000. They consumed a huge amount of food and fresh water every day. If they escaped from the several greenhouse bases and fresh water storage in the living area, At this point, all ran to the surface or shallow mining areas, and lost most of the power supply. The final outcome can be imagined.

The Great Uprising failed. Most of the rebels, after being put on "explosive collars", became slaves of the company again. The few rebels who escaped to the surface or shallow mining areas were defeated one after another within a few years under the company's heavy encirclement and suppression. and killed in action.

Ten years after launching the uprising, the leader of the rebel army, Tie Qiang, was betrayed by his closest comrade. A bullet shot from behind took away his 30-year-old life...