Chapter 491: The Ice Mining Company’s New Project (1/2)

Chapter 491: The Ice Mining Company’s New Project

Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation

”First, second, third and fourth batch, please queue to enter landing hatch no.1!”

”Fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth batch, please queue to enter landing hatch no. 2!”

”The ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth batch, please queue to enter landing hatch no. 3!”

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The gentle hum of electronics could be heard all over the huge space on the top floor. Under the shadow of the large emergency spaceship, there was countless support staff who wore biochemical, nano-protective clothes. They were in a neat queue, entering the spaceship in order.

Time passed and soon, it had been more than four months since Luo Yuan last landed on the earth to obtain the gigantic beast's energy crystal. They were ready to enter earth again to collect the gigantic beast’s dead body. After the interstellar creature lost its energy crystal, it would have stopped its struggle and died after two days. Luo Yuan did not want to do everything himself to avoid people from getting used to being dependent on him. At the same time, he also wanted to make full use of the unemployed people and thus, collecting the dead body became a new project for the people who lost their job in the ice mining industry.

In order to fully master the logistics of such a huge operation, a large number of factories worked around the clock. At the same time, new results from the research were also applied to the manufacturing of equipment for this particular project. In other words, they were doing a test-run for new technology. However, the production timeline that was originally given by the manufacturers were postponed time after time. It was not a matter of them being unable to manufacture the equipment but was instead due to the changes in technology that happened too fast.

With a complete set of the Glassian industrial system, one could take their time to explore the technology, especially more so now that the nanomaterial factory has been completed. Even if there was a severe lack of technical staff support, humans remained at the top of the chain when it came to expertise in their respective fields. There would be new innovations every other day and technology would become obsolete and get replaced every month. The level of human technology was developing at an alarming speed. This happened to the point where some equipment had to be disposed of because they became obsolete the moment they were manufactured. Obsolete technology had to be gotten rid of as soon as possible.

The original timeline of the project was initially postponed for one month. Then, it was postponed for two, three and now, it had been postponed for four months. If Luo Yuan had not noticed this and had them fix a date, the project may just take a few years to complete.

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It was crowded outside the spaceship but people were arranged in a neat formation. Cui Weichuan got his teammates to join his formation.

”Start counting off!”

”Reporting, captain! There are 300 people in the first squad. All 300 present!”

”Reporting, captain! There are 301 people in the second squad. All 301 present!”

All the staff members here were on reserve duty. Almost all of them had military training and even the management of the company undertaking this project were from a military background.

After Cui Weichuan performed spectacularly well in the ice mining project, he got promoted and was now the squad leader. The number of people under his management increased from 100 to 300 people. Realizing that it was now his turn, Cui Weichuan reported, ”Reporting, team leader! There are 300 people in the second squad but there are only 299 people here. One of them is on leave.”

”Why are there people on leave? Did he give a reason?” The team leader frowned and asked.

Since the last project ended, these people have been unemployed for half a year. Even the leader had to send in an application for a leave if he was sick. After all, the project was on earth, now 600,000 kilometers away from their people. The company did not go to all this trouble to enter earth just to have one staff take a leave of absence. If they missed the opportunity, they would be considered AWOL and their absence meant they had resigned from the company - the discipline within the company ranks were very strict.

”There's a general examination for adults a few days later, he's taking the test by himself. Prior to the apocalypse, he was a senior year student that was behind in his education.” Cui Weichuan said matter of factly.

”Is that so? All the best to him then. No matter what, he was part of the team.” The team leader sighed. The learning environment in Hope City was vibrant as the government had come up with countless, free tuition classes for adults. Many who had been students before the apocalypse and even some of the young men who had been in the workforce for many years joined the crowd, studying hard for the sake of their future.