This copper mine was mined at a location about five hundred metres deep underground.
Ye Chen had Li Nianzong, along with the sectarians under his control, take the crowd with them and ride the elevated cage to the dead man’s quarters.
As they made their way down, Li Nianzong introduced Ye Chen to the specifics of this copper mine.
After decades of continuous development, the interior of this copper mine had become extremely intricate and complex.
It consisted of three parts in total, the first being the normal mining part of the copper mine, including the tunnels and mining faces; the second, the part where the dead soldiers and their relatives lived; and the third, the part where all the supplies and equipment were stored.
When you go down from the shaft to the very bottom, you are actually just going down to the working face of the copper mine.
Once down there, one could see that it was a very standard medium-sized copper mine, with all the facilities and equipment needed for production, and nothing unusual could be seen at all.
Ye Chen, led by Li Nianzong, walked out of the cage, looked at the deep mine tunnel and asked curiously, “Where do the dead soldiers and their relatives usually live?”
Li Nianzong hurriedly said, “Back to Mr Ye, this plane at an altitude of minus five hundred metres is all the working face of the copper mine, the area where the dead men live, you have to go in through a hidden dark tunnel in front and take another lift cage to go down another hundred metres.”
Ye Chen nodded and asked him, “Why is no one working here now?”
Li Nianzong was busy saying, “Because today is the time to take the medicine, so the dead soldiers have to be driven away early back to the living area at minus six hundred metres, as requested, so that they can wait there for the antidote to be delivered and take the medicine together.”
Saying that, Li Nianzong added, “Normally, only the dead soldiers working in the copper mine and the families of the dead soldiers are qualified to come to this level as miners, everyone else stays at that level below all the time and only has the chance to come out when they are selected to go on a mission.”
Ye Chen asked again, “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 men, working in three shifts. The specific management style is similar to that of American prisons, where each shift comes up, there will be a primus inter pares who is in charge of that shift to count the number of men in advance and then bring them up to work personally, while the primus inter pares above will also count the number of men on the shift they are managing on time. After making sure that there was no difference between the number on duty and the shift change,