Feeling great, I continued working.
As shovel after shovel of ore was dug out, Jiang Ye's operations became increasingly rapid.
He dug for three hours straight without stopping.
The mine pit expanded quickly, as easy as slicing tofu!
The shovel was very hard, easily scooping up loose soil. In dense rock areas, it only took a few more knocks.
With repeated work, Jiang Ye's operations became more and more proficient, like an experienced driver.
The excavated poor water borax ore piled up into a small mountain!
Dusk descended, and the clouds on the horizon burned red.
He stopped mining.
Jiang Ye climbed into the driver's seat of the ore transport vehicle and tilted the truck bed.
He then returned to the excavator and operated the mechanical arm to shovel the excavated ore into the transport vehicle.
Half an hour later, all the ore was in the truck bed, not full, only about half a truck bed.
Jiang Ye returned to the ore transport vehicle, raised the truck bed, and restored it to its original state.
Then he drove the excavator back to the base.
The ore transport vehicle rumbled along behind.
It got dark quickly, and by the time they returned to outside the perimeter wall, the sky was full of stars.
Jiang Ye carried the sacks, climbed into the truck bed of the ore transport vehicle, and loaded all the ore into sacks.
Then he carried them bag by bag back to the base to sell.
There was quite a lot of ore, and it took an hour and a half of work to sell it all.
The earnings were also quite considerable!
In half an afternoon's work, he earned a total of 1,082,300 yuan!
His personal account balance surged to 2,361,800 yuan!
Jiang Ye laughed quite wildly.
With an excavator, an ore transport vehicle, and a knack for finding ore veins, as long as there was a rich vein, the speed of making money was comparable to a printing press!
In the coming period, he could quickly upgrade the base and further widen the gap with other colony commanders on the planet.
He returned to the base to make dinner, the classic stew.
Before he finished cooking, the chat channel chimed with notifications, and his passive income was being transferred.
He really couldn't open the bottle cap, so 3,790 yuan was transferred.
Cao County Citizen ordered ten instant cameras, a thousand erythromycin, and some bear meat and vegetables. A total of 30,000 yuan.
Profit sharing from sales, 48,700 yuan.
Money from the chicken farmers, 116,700 yuan.
Jiang Ye's account balance rose again to 2,560,990 yuan.
At this rate, he estimated he could upgrade to a Level 11 base in less than two days!
After eating half a pot of stew, he habitually browsed the chat channel.
As usual, there were many people chatting in the public channel, talking about everything:
"When no one's around, I'm an idiot": I hunted a deer today, a white one, and sold it for a full forty thousand yuan! Brothers, forty thousand! I'm instantly rich!
"Ka Lede": Envious! I only have snow rabbits here, one hundred yuan each. They jump over two meters high. I tried my best to catch them all morning, and my legs are frozen numb, only earning 1,000 yuan.
"Ou Henry": You guys are so rich! I only have two days of rations left. My cotton coat is wet, and I'm so cold I can't sleep.
"Trash Bag Can Hide Well": I encountered a wolf pack, and they almost killed me. Luckily, I ran fast!
"Jiang Ye": Life is so hard, I can't go on. May winter end soon, it's about a week away.
He closed the chat channel and went to bed.
He woke up precisely at five in the morning.
Recently, as long as he didn't stay up late, he always woke up between five and six.
And after waking up, he wasn't sleepy at all, but rather full of energy, likely due to the supplements and physical enhancement agents.
Looking at himself, he had developed a lot of muscle, and he even had six-pack abs.
Jiang Ye got up and made a pot of tomato and egg soup.
The tomatoes were stored in the warehouse before winter; they were cracked from the cold but not rotten. The eggs were from Cao County Citizen, who managed 30 chicken farmers and had plenty of eggs.
After drinking two bowls of hot soup and taking his supplements, he left the base.
He first went to the cowshed to milk the cows.
The cows were already full and unbearable. As soon as they saw Jiang Ye, they mooed eagerly.
"Stop mooing, I'll milk you now!"
He shooed the cows, grabbed the milk buckets, and began milking them one by one.
After milking, he refilled the cows' troughs with hay and took the milk buckets to the trading post to sell.
Today's milk yield was higher, selling for a full thirty thousand yuan.
Looking at his personal account, the balance was 2,590,990 yuan.
Jiang Ye set himself a goal: to increase his balance to four million today! If it didn't happen, he would work overtime!
He left the base, got into the excavator, started it, and proceeded along yesterday's path.
Fifty meters after leaving, the ore transport vehicle also started, rumbling along behind him.
Soon, he reached the edge of the mine pit, parked the excavator where it was yesterday, and continued digging!
The mechanical arm hummed, extending and retracting repeatedly.
The driver's cabin also rotated left and right, dumping the excavated poor water borax ore onto the open ground beside it.
He dug like this for the entire morning.
At 12:30 PM, he had just finished collecting the excavated ore into the truck bed of the ore transport vehicle.
It was almost a full truck bed!
Driving the excavator, he returned to the base.
Carrying sacks, he loaded the ore and took it back to the trading post to sell.
He worked non-stop until two o'clock.
All the ore was sold, earning 2,013,500 yuan!
His personal assets soared to 4,574,490 yuan!
Jiang Ye fried four eggs for himself and drank the leftover tomato and egg soup from the morning.
He was exhausted, but in a good mood.
The ore excavation speed of the excavator far exceeded expectations. He had broken through his morning target of four million and estimated he could accumulate five million today to upgrade to a Level 11 base!
After eating lunch, he went out to work.
He drove the excavator to the mining area and began excavating.
Just ten minutes into digging, something went wrong.
The color of the excavated ore had changed!
A slightly greenish-white ore, with edges that shone like glass in the sunlight.
Jiang Ye opened the excavator's window and sniffed.
Indeed, the smell of the ore had changed, with a scent like mint toothpaste mixed with a hint of pungent toilet cleaner.
As different ores appeared, the poor water borax was depleted, and this new ore began to show.
Jiang Ye felt a bit disappointed. To be honest, poor water borax ore was very expensive, and he liked it a lot.
If he had dug with a shovel, he could have continued for many more days. Now, with the excavator, the efficiency had increased dozens of times, quickly depleting it.
He didn't know what this new ore was or if it was valuable.
Jiang Ye operated the excavator and continued to dig.
Shovel after shovel of new ore was continuously unearthed.
He worked non-stop until the evening clouds appeared. Jiang Ye loaded the newly excavated ore onto the truck and returned to the base along the same route.
As soon as he arrived, he impatiently got out of the vehicle.
He went to the truck bed of the ore transport vehicle, grabbed a piece of the white and green new ore, and ran back to the base.
He threw it into the trading post for scanning.
[Item: Brucite]
[Item Description: A hydroxide of magnesium, mostly white, but can also be pale green, gray, or blue. Easily soluble in acid. It is the primary source of medicinal magnesium oxide. It can also be used for wastewater treatment, carving materials, and structural materials for nuclear reactors and nuclear rocket equipment. Fifty years ago, the brutal Mil people's civil war, which began with the struggle for magnesium resources, resulted in the destruction of 46 planets and casualties in the hundreds of millions of soldiers.] Da Feng Novel Network
[Estimated Value: 100 yuan]
Jiang Ye breathed a sigh of relief.
It was a good ore!
The price was not low, he could get rich!
(I've been designing the subsequent plot and refining the world-building for the past two days. The world of this book is actually quite vast and will be gradually unfolded. I'll have a burst of updates when I have time.)