"Agreed!"
Yang Xiao stretched out his hand.
"Slap!"
Guo Lang slapped Yang Xiao's hand and said coldly,
"Agreed!"
The next morning, as the sun rose above the distant mountains, Yang Xiao and the others had already had breakfast and were ready to start the exploration.
"Young Master Yang, considering the difficulties of initiating a business, I'll give you one last chance. Let's go back now. You can save tens of millions of Crystal Coins. Don't waste your money; there are no ore veins here."
"Weren't we clear about this yesterday? I have no regrets."
"Fine, then we'll start. Rember, it's twenty million Crystal Coins a day."
Guo Lang said loudly, as if he was holding a grudge.
He gestured to his subordinates to adjust the paraters of the exploration equipnt.
Lao Jiu stood by observing, this large exploration machine with eight wheels, once its exploration capabilities were activated, could be driven slowly over the ground, moving and detecting simultaneously.
"Young Master Yang, we've adjusted the settings. Co take a look so you can't say I've hoodwinked you. Look here, this is 40 ters,"
Guo Lang pointed begrudgingly at a few parater values on the machine and forcefully read them aloud to Yang Xiao and the others.
Yang Xiao chuckled lightly, letting Guo Lang vent his feelings.
"Alright, let the exploration begin."
Guo Lang flipped on the machine switch, and along with the exploration team mbers, started operating various instrunts.
The exploration vehicle moved slowly across the ground surface, and after 2 hours, there were no findings.
Yang Xiao, Lao Jiu, Qin Lu, and others looked tense and remained silent, creating a heavy atmosphere.
Guo Lang spoke up loudly, rather pleased with himself:
"You see, using your thods and adjusting the settings for the search, there was nothing. I told you, you guys are just ssing around. I've been professionally exploring for over a decade, could I be worse than you?"
"Beep, beep, beep..."
Before Guo Lang could finish his words, the machine suddenly emitted an alarm sound.
Everyone was startled.
Guo Lang glanced at the electronic display on the device, his mouth agape, and he froze imdiately.
On the screen, there was a continuous display of a clear Purple Crystal Vein.
"How is this possible?"
Guo Lang muttered to himself,
"Adjust the direction; keep exploring along the direction shown in the image."
Thus, the exploration vehicle followed the direction of the ore vein upwards, clearly indicating a complete vein.
Yang Xiao, Qin Lu, Lao Jiu, and Ah Bao, among others, were so excited at this mont that they were simply speechless. They just followed the exploration vehicle dumbfounded, their eyes fixed intently on the display screen, fearing that the image would suddenly disappear.
Eventually, the exploration vehicle stopped in front of a pile of disorganized rocks.
Guo Lang said weakly,
"Let's dig into this pile of rocks and take a look."
Yang Xiao, Qin Lu, Lao Jiu, and Ah Bao stepped forward and quickly cleared the stones on the ground with their hands.
"We found it!"
Qin Lu shouted with excitent. At the spot his fingers had cleared, there erged a translucent Purple Crystal Stone embedded in a piece of purple rock.
"Yay!"
Yang Xiao roared enthusiastically, lifting Lao Jiu up in a hug.
Both of them shouted excitedly.
Qin Lu and Ah Bao also jumped around excitedly, shouting, knowing well what finding a Purple Crystal Vein ant.
Only Guo Lang and his team mbers wore faces of incredulity, unable to believe what they saw.
"How can this vein be so shallow? This is unscientific!"
Yang Xiao and others finally cald down from their excitent.
Yang Xiao looked at Guo Lang,
Guo Lang scratched his head awkwardly and said:
"Master Yang, you win, I lose."
Yang Xiao waved his hand and said:
"Captain Guo, don't ntion winning or losing, we were just lucky. Let's consider everything said before as just a joke. Let's stick to the old rules, for discovering a vein, we'll pay a hundred million Crystal Coins."
"Really?"
Guo Lang looked at Yang Xiao in surprise, hardly believing his ears.
After hesitating for a mont, Guo Lang gritted his teeth and said:
"Master Yang, you are honorable, and I am not one to take advantage of situations. Let's do this, today and tomorrow, I'll try my best to prospect for you, no matter how many veins we find, I'll only charge you a hundred million, sound good?"
Yang Xiao didn't mince words and said:
"Sure, just as Captain Guo said."
Guo Lang imdiately said loudly:
"Brothers, let's get to work. Master Yang has treated us well; we can't let him down, can we?"
Everyone initially thought they wouldn't get this money, but now that Yang Xiao was willing to give a hundred million Crystal Coins, their trip for prospecting was not in vain,
At the sa ti, they admired Yang Xiao's generous character.
"Alright, Master Yang, rest assured, we will prospect carefully."
With his team, Guo Lang continued prospecting, while Yang Xiao and others remained imrsed in their excitent.
By evening, Guo Lang had found three more veins with each extending over 2 kiloters and were rich in reserves.
Yang Xiao and others were overjoyed. According to Guo Lang's estimation, those four veins alone were worth over ten billion Crystal Coins.
"Captain Guo, could you please prospect for another day tomorrow?"
"Don't worry, no problem, and moreover, I believe, this several dozen square kiloter plain area could contain dozens more such veins —Master Yang, you guys have struck it rich."
"Hehe, thanks to Captain Guo, here's the deal: after tomorrow's prospecting is done, I'll contract all future prospecting to you. I just can't continue right now though, I wouldn't have enough money to pay you, and I wouldn't be able to develop it, we'll have to take it step by step."
"Understood, I get it, many mines start with exploring a couple of shafts and then develop progressively. The shallowness of these veins really saves you a chunk of digging expenses."
Yang Xiao nodded, he was aware, hiring a professional team to drill a hundred-ter deep shaft costs over a hundred million Crystal Coins, currently, it seed they could start digging from the surface along the vein, saving a lot of money.
The next day, Guo Lang helped Yang Xiao find five more veins, two about thirty ters underground, and the other three also extended to the surface, ready for direct mining.
Suddenly finding nine vein bands, Yang Xiao and Qin Lu were thrilled.
"Yang Xiao, I'm going back imdiately to tell David and my father, have them shift all funds here, order Spaceships, buy various equipnt, build the base, and oh, hiring Miners is a big deal, that's on you."
Yang Xiao laughed:
"Don't worry at all. Before you go, first take to the Wild Man King Valley, to help deliver the things you bought."
"Sure."
That day, the Spaceship first took the Prospecting Team to David's base.
David, hearing that Yang Xiao had suddenly found seven veins, was overjoyed.
Initially hearing that Yang Xiao hadn't found any veins in over ten days had made him quite despondent; suddenly hearing such a huge piece of news was almost too much for him.
"Oh gosh, my dear mother, I finally have my own private mine, I am finally going to make it big, no more working for others for the rest of my life, haha!"
(End of Chapter Five)
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