Chapter 50 Technology is Productivity
It's a good thing that Jasmine got promoted.
However, there was no time to celebrate. After Niu Sansheng had eaten his fill, he was taken to Pit No. 7. As soon as Jiang Xia arrived, he saw several monks with their upper bodies naked, swinging pickaxes and clanging on stones there.
There were several Soviet soldiers nearby, with guns in their hands, supervising them.
These monks had been injured before.
Several of the seriously injured were thrown into prison in Fengshan Street. After the wounds of the lightly injured were healed by Su's polymer treatment at night, they were stripped naked and thrown here to mine.
What a shame!
Not only were they stripped naked, but they were also forced to do work that only mortals could do. This was a double torture, both physically and psychologically.
When the monks saw Jiang Xia coming, their eyes were blazing with anger, and they wanted to bite off some pieces of meat from him. However, with the black muzzles of guns pointing at them all around, they couldn't do anything about it.
They had seen clearly before the power of this firearm.
With my limited training, I am definitely no match for this group of bandits.
Moreover, all the magical instruments and talisman papers and stones used for communication on his body were confiscated, so he couldn't even report the news. He could only do hard labor here and wait for the sect to notice the situation and come to rescue him.
They do have confidence.
Their teachers are all people who practice cultivation and are better at fighting than them. How could this group of mortals be so audacious as to imprison the monks?
When the commander arrives, he will grind them to dust!
Jiang Xia didn't even need to ask. Just by looking at the looks of these monks, he knew what they were thinking.
But he didn't care.
As long as Shi Liu was still in Fengshan, this group of monks would not dare to come and kill them openly. Asking the mysterious Mr. Crow to spare Shi Liu's life was indeed the right choice.
Speaking of Mr. Crow, it seems that I can get one more thing from him.
I've been a bit busy lately and forgot about this. I don't know where Mr. Crow is patrolling now?
What strength!
Jiang Xia sighed. If he had the unpredictable strength of Mr. Crow, why would he need to fight with Ruyifang in this remote place?
Just push it straight ahead and it's done.
"Come on, dig one up for me to see."
Jiang Xia took Niu Sansheng to another part of the mine, threw a pickaxe to him, and pointed to several clusters of mined spirit stones at his feet.
A small video recorder popped out from Rogue's prosthetic arm.
Jasmine opened her eyes wide, turned on the recording function of her chip, and turned on the energy detection mode of the chip, intending to observe carefully how this spiritual mine was mined.
Niu Sansheng was not afraid.
Mining, he is very familiar with it.
He strode forward, placed the spiritual ore cluster on the stone, then took a deep breath, and instead of knocking it, he stroked the surface of the spiritual ore with his left hand .
"Huh?"
Jiang Xia and the other two who were watching immediately expressed the same doubts.
They could all see that as Niu Sansheng touched the surface of the spirit mine, streams of cloud-like gas, with a faint glow, escaped from the mine.
It then wrapped around Niu Sansheng's fingers and finally rolled up around the pickaxe.
This process lasted for more than ten seconds. When the faint gas on the pickaxe reached a certain concentration, Niu Sansheng raised the pickaxe and started mining like an ordinary miner.
Bang, bang, bang, he smashed it several times without any technical skills.
It was just like using an impact drill to drill the spirit stone cluster before, but this time, the spirit stone cluster, which was hit by a huge external force, did not explode like before.
On the contrary, it seemed as if its toughness had suddenly increased, allowing the pickaxe to hit it more than a dozen times before cracks appeared.
"boom"
With a dull thud, the cluster of spirit stones exploded, and the shock wave hit Niu Sansheng, knocking the iron-headed idiot back several steps, but he stood firmly in place.
He dropped his pickaxe, reached out and fiddled with the stone in front of him that was swirling with smoke, and finally, like offering a treasure, he took out a shattered spiritual stone and handed it to Jiang Xia with both hands.
The latter took it in his hand and looked at it in front of his eyes.
This is indeed a spiritual stone.
But it is different from ordinary spirit stones.
When Niu Sansheng knocked off the piece, he found that the inside was full of debris like broken glass, and it looked like a defective product. He looked towards the cluster of spirit stones again.
The spirit stone cluster that was the size of a human head had exploded, and the ground was covered with spirit stone fragments just like before. Such a large spirit stone cluster should have been able to produce more than ten spirit stones.
But under Niu Sansheng's stupid operation, he only mined a piece of low-quality spirit stone with very bad texture.
Ninety percent of the spirit stones were wasted.
No wonder Ruyifang gave up on him.
If I were the manager of Ruyifang, I would also give up . Such an astonishing waste is something that no organization can afford.
"Why didn't they kill him?"
Roger asked doubtfully:
"He did master this technique, although it's better not to master it, he can't even be called half-baked. But according to Ruyifang's way of doing things, Niu Sansheng is useless and knows the secret.
He should be killed to eliminate the trouble forever."
“They don’t dare to kill.”
Jiang Xia tossed the inferior spirit stone in his hand, then reached out and punched the silly-smiling Niu Sansheng on the chest, and then said:
“This guy is a monk.
Although it looks shabby, it is genuine.
According to Shi Liu, there is a city god from Tao Fu Yuan nearby, and the monk's death cannot be hidden from their surveillance. And I suspect Han Han may have some background...
Ruyifang did not dare to take the charge of killing monks privately.
We can only let him hang around in Fengshan Street, but with his brain, if Ruyifang doesn't tell us, who can guess his true identity?"
After saying that, Jiang Xia turned his head to look at Jasmine who seemed to be thinking about something, and asked:
"Any ideas?"
"Yeah, a little bit."
Jasmine rubbed her forehead and said uncertainly:
“When Niu Sansheng was mining just now, a special energy in his body merged with the spiritual ore. It was also because of this energy balance that the energy in the spiritual ore did not get out of control when it suffered a heavy blow.
This should be what the monks call "spiritual energy".
No wonder Ruyifang has to use secret methods to train these miners. They are all able to communicate with spiritual energy. They are already half monks. "
“Is there any way to imitate it?”
Jiang Xia asked again. Jasmine pursed her lips, glanced at Roger who was also in deep thought, and said:
"Hey, Black Fox, tell me, is this the resonance of energy?"
"A bit like."
Roger stroked his unshaven chin and said:
“It looks like you’re hitting it with a pickaxe, but what’s actually working is the fusion and vibration of two energies, which causes the spirit stone to break from the inside.
If my guess is correct, this pickaxe is actually used to deceive people.
Those old miners can cut the spirit stones with their fingers without using pickaxes."
“Try it!”
Jiang Xia picked up another spiritual stone cluster, placed it on the stone, and said to Niu Sansheng:
" Dig again, not with the pick, but with your fingers."
"ah?"
Niu Sansheng showed a puzzled expression, and he said in a daze:
"But what they teach is..."
"Do as I say! If you do it well, I'll give you a snack tomorrow."
By now, Jiang Xia has already mastered the way to communicate with Niu Sansheng.
When he heard about the extra meal, Niu Sansheng immediately smiled foolishly.
He walked forward and repeated the previous steps. Instead of using a pickaxe, he used his fingers wrapped in spiritual energy to knock on the cluster of spiritual stones. After knocking them a dozen times, there was a loud bang and the previous scene happened again.
However, this time, Niu Sansheng was very lucky. The cluster of spirit stones did not break into pieces, and he was able to extract three spirit stones from it. This was a completely above-average performance.
He had a silly smile on his face and handed three spirit stones to Jiang Xia, his eyes full of anticipation for tomorrow's snack.
As for the three people nearby, this has confirmed their guess.
Jasmine jumped up and said to Jiang Xia:
"Boss, I have an idea!
Since it is confirmed to be energy resonance, we can modify the pulse rifle and make it into a continuous pulser, and then test the energy frequency inside the spirit stone, and then we can cut the spirit stone."
"How many days?"
Jiang Xia asked, Jasmine thought for a moment, raised two fingers, and said:
"If Su and the others can help, two days will be enough."
"Do it, the sooner the better."
Jiang Xia smiled, patted Jasmine on the shoulder encouragingly, and said:
"You are the talented person I need. You are the best employee this year. Keep working hard."
"Um!"
Jasmine tilted her head back and responded.
Although titles like best employee are just empty titles, Jasmine is full of energy working under Jiang Xia, and is not at all as bored as she was at the Eternal Life Society.
She likes this job. The reason is probably that in addition to the safety, she also has a sense of accomplishment that she has never experienced before.
The knowledge in my mind finally found a place to be put to good use.
Instead of being treated as a mobile machine tool that can be replaced at any time as before.
“Exploration and creation are always the greatest joy for scientists.”
As Roger watched this scene, a sentence his grandfather once told him came to his mind.
He had never felt this way before, but now, seeing Jasmine's look, he understood his grandfather's words more deeply.
He looked at Jiang Xia again, who was smiling.
This person knows how to make the best use of things and give his subordinates a chance to show their talents. He is a good boss and a good soldier. As for whether he is a good businessman, it is still unclear.
However, he is about to make a deal with the biggest local governor, and perhaps the result will show whether he has the potential to be a good businessman as he said.
Jiang Xia is now a partner. The smarter and more promising he is, the more harm he will do to Black Hand.
——
Two days later, in the early morning, we were still in Pit No. 7.
Jasmine's eyes were red and had dark circles under them. It was obvious that she had been staying up all night. On the stone platform in front of her was a cluster of spirit stones that had just been dug out. It was the size of a human head and looked like crystal.
Next to her, Sue was holding a strange device.
This is a standard pulse rifle with four modes: penetration, concussion, stun, and group fire, but now the launcher and other parts have been removed.
Only the battery pack and the pulse generator probe were left. The trigger module was also removed and connected to the outside with wires and held in Su's hand. A current limiter and a current stabilizer were added, and some other modifications were made.
In terms of appearance, it no longer looks like a firearm, but has been made into a generator that can emit pulse rays for a long time, with several brackets supporting the four sides.
"The thirteenth test."
Jasmine yawned and said to Su:
"The four frequency fine-tuning corrections have been completed. Success or failure depends on this one. When you operate, be slow and steady."
Sue didn't answer.
The silent young man signaled with his eyes that she could start.
Jasmine rubbed her eyes, placed the spirit stone cluster under the pulse probe, slightly adjusted the position, made an OK gesture, and Su pressed the trigger.
The next moment, the three-pronged probe began to rotate at a fixed frequency, and a red pulse ray shot out, hitting the surface of the spirit stone cluster.
Jasmine stared at the small tablet in her hand, watching the frequency of the band slowly approach and merge with the energy vibration frequency inside the spirit stone, and then produce a resonance effect.
"Intensify!"
She shouted, and Su pressed the trigger again. The thin beam of light suddenly expanded and made a crackling sound, like the sound of breaking glass under foot.
"Hold on! The surface of the spirit stone is starting to melt! Hold on!"
Jasmine put on her goggles and stared with wide eyes, watching the red beam of light pierce through the spirit stone cluster bit by bit. This process was the most dangerous.
All previous attempts failed at this step.
Although the spirit stone looks stable, there is actually energy rolling inside, which can cause it to lose control if you are not careful.
But this time, after Jasmine's careful adjustments and verifications, the situation developed in a good direction. Under the close attention of the two, five seconds later, the pulse light completely pierced the spirit stone.
Jasmine made a gesture and Su stretched out his right hand.
The pulse generator on the bracket was pushed forward very steadily, millimeter at a time. The red light beam was like a laser knife, cutting the spirit stone cluster.
After repeating this several times, Jasmine took off the goggles on her face, and Su also turned off the trigger and took the pulser away.
The stone in front of the two people was surrounded by a faint mist, which was very beautiful. In the mist, the spirit stone that was neatly cut into twelve pieces was shining with a warm light.
The cut edge still had a cooling crust, but the energy inside was not out of control.
"Great! It's done!"
Jasmine jumped up excitedly and waved towards Su, wanting to high-five, but Su still looked cold, which made Jasmine curl her lips.
The next moment, Su suddenly reached out and patted Jasmine's hand.
This action made Jasmine stunned for a moment, but then she saw the fleeting smile at the corner of Su's mouth and the relaxation in his eyes.
He is also happy.
"hey-hey"
The girl ignored all this. She picked up a piece of cloth, wrapped the spirit stone, raised her hand to Su Yi, and said:
"Let's go tell the boss the good news!"
