Chapter 803 - 764: Siberian Deep Well
When Zhao Rong saw that six or seven oil workers were coming over,
he immediately whispered to the three beauties and the assistant, saying:
"Miss Lili, Beauty Yu Lan, Beauty Xuelian, Assistant, we are oil workers now,
so when you speak later, make sure you don’t say the wrong thing...
We must infiltrate their ranks and then gather intelligence..."
Miss Lili nodded, cooperating fully, and said:
"Brother Zhao Rong, I understand, I will definitely cooperate with you later and act well..."
Beauty Yu Lan talked to herself, saying:
"Beauty Yu Lan, you are no longer the rich second generation Yu Lan now,
but the oil worker Yu Lan..."
Beauty Xuelian also cooperated well, pointing to the oil flower badge on her chest, and said:
"Got it, Brother Zhao Rong,
I am now oil worker Xuelian..."
Just then, the six or seven oil workers had already arrived.
Standing first among them was the class leader...
He looked at Zhao Rong’s group of five and asked:
"Hey, that’s odd, did our 40649 drill team get assigned five more oil workers?"
Zhao Rong stepped forward, shook hands with the class leader, smiled, and said:
"Hello, it seems you are the class leader, which also means you’re the driller of this drill team?
We’re five newly assigned oil workers,
ready to join our drill team and work hard..."
When the class leader saw that Zhao Rong’s group of five were newly assigned oil workers,
he was immediately very happy and welcomed Zhao Rong’s group, saying:
"Your arrival is just in time, it’s simply providing timely help...
Our drill team had a particularly major accident two days ago, killing more than twenty drilling workers...
So now, we are very understaffed...
You five joining us means you can become part of our drill team and work hard with us..."
When Zhao Rong heard that this drill team had more than twenty drilling workers killed in one accident,
cold sweat dripped from his forehead, and incredulously he said:
"Class leader, your drill team’s safety factor is way too low, isn’t it?
I really want to know, what kind of accident happened to your drill team, that more than twenty people could die at once?"
The class leader sighed and said to Zhao Rong:
"What accident could it be, of course it was a top down smash..."
The oil worker behind the class leader explained to Zhao Rong, saying:
"Because the traveling block on the drilling rig started too quickly, it hit the derrick,
then the derrick snapped the wire rope...
and the derrick and traveling block smashed directly onto the drilling platform..."
The third oil worker supplemented, saying:
"At that time, the oil workers working on the platform included the outside pipe clamp operator, the inside pipe clamp operator, the driller, the assistant driller, the roustabout, the derrickman, and our drill team’s chief driller, chief mechanical foreman, electrician, team leader and deputy team leader, etc.
All of them ended up being crushed to death by this accident..."
The fourth oil worker reminded Zhao Rong’s group of five, saying:
"So, when you come to work at our drill team,
the first important thing is to pay attention to safety..."
Listening to the words of these oil workers, the assistant immediately got scared...
He walked up to Zhao Rong and leaned close to his ear, whispering:
"Brother Zhao Rong, given how dangerous this job is,
do we really need to pretend to be drilling workers and infiltrate their drill team?
If things go wrong, we might lose our lives..."
Before the assistant could finish his sentence, Miss Lili instantly slapped the assistant’s face and quietly reminded him, saying:
"Assistant, are you out of your mind?
We came here specifically to pretend to be oil workers and infiltrate this drill team...
If you quit now, wouldn’t all our previous efforts be wasted?"
Beauty Yu Lan also angrily warned the assistant, saying:
"Assistant, if you’re afraid of dying, then just leave now...
Our team doesn’t need someone like you, who is cowardly and afraid of death..."
As the three beauties were teaching the assistant,
the six oil workers ahead were walking and talking to them, saying:
"Since you are newly assigned drilling workers,
follow me and get ready to work the night shift tonight..."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Rong nodded in agreement and said:
"No problem, masters, we will now follow you to the drill team and start the night shift..."
After speaking, Zhao Rong turned around to Miss Lili, Beauty Yu Lan, Beauty Xuelian,
and the assistant lying on the ground, saying:
"Alright, let’s get ready to go to work now..."
When Zhao Rong’s group of five followed the oil workers to the drill team,
they immediately walked into a very simple tin house and started the pre-shift meeting.
And when the drill team leader discovered that new oil workers had arrived,
he curiously walked up and asked:
"Are you the newly assigned oil workers?"
Zhao Rong hurriedly said:
"Yes, team leader, we are newly assigned oil workers..."
The team leader looked Zhao Rong up and down and then said:
"It’s not easy, anyone who can apply and come to our drill team,
and take the elevator from the surface and after over ten days arrive at the center of the Earth to work here, is not easy...
Welcome to our drill team..."
Upon hearing about the elevator, Zhao Rong asked with interest:
"So is the elevator the only channel connecting our drill team to the outside world?"
The team leader smiled, revealing a mouth full of yellow teeth, and said:
"Indeed, back in the Soviet era, in Siberia, they drilled this well...
And they drilled this well from the surface to the center of the Earth...
And the reason we can enter the center from the surface,
is also because of this well from the Soviet Union, that’s how we came down..."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Rong understood now,
how the drill team entered the center from the surface...
Evidently, they did not reach the center through that deep pond...
Because they don’t have strong enough submarines to withstand the water pressure at more than 6 million meters depth...
So, they can only rely on the very deep well drilled by the Soviet Union in Siberia,
and then take a special elevator from the surface to the center.
Zhao Rong nodded and smiled as he inquired of the oil workers, saying:
"By the way, which oil company is your drill team employed by?"
Upon hearing this, the team leader smiled and told Zhao Rong, saying:
"Which oil company else could it be?
Of course, it’s the North Sea Island Country Oil Company..."
When Zhao Rong heard that this drill team was indeed from the Island Country,
he felt very angry inside, wanting to set fire to the drill team right away...
But, to find out the truth and uncover the hidden secrets,
Zhao Rong held back and said:
"Oh, so that’s why the big brothers came to the center to drill,
what is your purpose here?"