April 16.

Two fully armed Chinese geophysical exploration teams passed the bumpy road crushed by vehicles and drove silently into the Kuwak area. There was no ceremony, no welcome, and no flowers or applause. However, the hearts of the geophysical exploration team members sitting in the car were enthusiastic.

Break out of Asia and go to the world!

The reason why this slogan can be widely spread in China is not because of sports itself, but because of the emotional needs of the Chinese. For the past three hundred years, China has been no longer being humiliated by foreign powers at all times. Therefore, when the people finally see hope and become citizens of a nation that is independent, the mentality of longing for recognition naturally arises.

Now, the Chinese geophysical exploration team has left the country and embarked on the land of Siberia in the former Soviet Union. This kind of emotion will become strong and hot if it is promoted.

When the geophysical team members saw the railway workers in the former Soviet Union fighting for 50 boxes of canned food, when the geophysical team members saw the Russian border police looking disgusted because they heard about the destination of Chinese workers, there was no need for banners to "bring glory to the country" and a generous salary system, and everyone was ready to contribute all their abilities.

Chinese workers have always been the group that is most easily moved and dedicated. The Chinese workers who aided Asian, African and Latin America in the 1950s and 1960s were for national politics. After the 1990s, Chinese workers who went abroad to work were for national economy... In the end, no matter what the result was, all they did was to contribute and contribute.

Siucheng shook hands with each of the geophysical team members, then patted their shoulders, watching the convoy penetrate into the undeveloped Kuwak area.

His location was the temporary camp prepared by Ariksai and the last supply point in the entire Kuwak area. There was originally a team of lumberjack here, but since the 1980s, it had been cancelled unknownly, leaving a piece of open space, some wood and tools that could be used, and the most important source of water.

Compared with the city, such camp conditions are naturally difficult. However, even such difficult conditions are not acceptable to the geophysical exploration team. Once they go deep into the Kuwak area, they can basically rely on themselves. The helicopter can only call when life and death is at risk. In order to save fuel, there is no heating device in the tent. In addition, the food carried with the vehicle is all their supplies. Each person relies on dozens of kilograms of supplies and needs to survive in the wild for about two months. If the exploration situation is good, it is not surprising that it will continue to work for three or even four months, so even the food has to be carefully calculated...

The so-called survival of geophysical team members is not just about surviving. They also need to complete the most important exploration work. The 8-hour working system in the city, or triple overtime salary, is meaningless to the exploration team members. First, they must adapt to nature, secondly, to equipment, and thirdly, to technology. Racing against time is simply part of their work... If the weather is sunny, it will delay the progress once it encounters thunderstorms or storms.

If there were no thunderstorms and storms - if such good weather is not working hard, the team members themselves would not be able to see it.

Su Cheng watched the convoy disappear behind the hill before turning back.

Lee Zhengfu, who was also in the camp, smiled and said, "The exploration team of Singapore and Malaysia has been transported to the destination by helicopters. You are one week late."

"Oh? Is it?" Su Cheng said in a meaningless tone. He planned to carry tens of thousands of people for large-scale exploration, so helicopters could not be used. In fact, the equipment and logistics supplies involved in the moving site alone weighed 35,000 tons. The two geophysical exploration teams that had just passed were still in the nature of advance teams.

Lee Jung-fu said as if he had already won: "In another week, the geophysical exploration team of Ito Trading Company will also arrive. According to the rules, both sides will explore 6,000 square kilometers. If you don't hurry up, you can only wait to admit defeat."

6,000 square kilometers may sound not small, but in terms of calculation, it is just a narrow area of ​​100 kilometers long and 60 kilometers wide. Three exploration teams can travel it in one month, and it takes a detailed conclusion to reach a maximum of two or three months. Of course, if the terrain is complicated, it may require drilling to determine the situation. Even so, such a small exploration area will not take too much time.

In his tone, Li Zhengfu was proud and looked at Su Cheng with his eyes, looking a little bit like a villain.

Of course, he deliberately put on this look. The results of this racing exploration are really important. The winner can not only get more contracts, but also get reasonable exploration costs. The loser not only loses the contract, but also cannot get exploration compensation. This is explained in the contract signed by the three parties.

The reason for signing such a contract is to get a better share of the contract from Ariksai. After all, the kind of contract signed with Ariksai is likely to affect many future contracts. Therefore, they would rather give up the compensation for failure than hope that the fruits of victory will be sweeter. Since Ariksai can get actual benefits from it, he doesn't care about the gap of a few percentage points and happily wrote down his name.

Such a result is something that Dahua Industrial and Singapore and Malaysia are willing to see, but on the other hand, it puts great pressure on Li Zhengfu.

If we cannot defeat Dahua Industrial, it means that Singapore and Malaysia will have to pay off all the expenses used for exploration, which may be tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars, depending on how many exploration wells are finally dug.

No matter what, if Li Zhengfu, as vice president, loses so much money, it is impossible to be safe and sound.

Under such strong pressure, Li Zhengfu would rather do everything he wants than give in. Pretending to be a villain, it is too simple for him to perform in a true way, and perhaps even easier.

Su Cheng smiled and looked at Li Zhengfu, without saying anything, turned around and wanted to leave.

Li Zhengfu could not get any information, so he let Su Cheng run away and quickly sang: "Dong Su, is Dahua Industrial only capable of this? Two geophysical exploration teams that came by train? Do you want to give up?"

"It's still early to win or lose." Although Su Cheng spoke, he actually said nothing.

Li Zhengfu saw him enter the tent and negotiate with Axes, and he was helpless. He turned around and said to his subordinates: "Go and check what the geophysical exploration team of Dahua Industrial is. He is a little too confident. It is impossible to send only such a few people."

the next day.

Before the investigation was returned, Li Zhengfu saw the third geophysical exploration team of Dahua Industrial.

Still arrived silently, got off the bus and rested silently, and drove away silently.

Li Zhengfu could feel the difference between the Chinese geophysical exploration team. But he was a little easier than yesterday. He smiled at Ito Nobunaga and said, "Not to mention the three geophysical exploration teams, they even sent six teams to come. It is impossible to compare with our team. Look at their equipment, many of them are products we eliminated, and they actually sent such teams overseas."

Nobuge Ito was not very adaptable to the Siberian weather. As soon as the sunlight at noon passed, he began to wrap himself up in three layers inside and three layers inside, like a dwarf bear, muttering, "You can't take it lightly. Our Ito Trading Company has dealt with Dahua Industrial, and you know that Sucheng is not an old fox, but it won't let us win easily."

"Maybe, but I can't see the possibility of him winning. At most, our plane will arrive the day after tomorrow." The plane he said was officially the secret weapon of the Singapore-Malaysia Race Exploration. Aerial geophysical exploration through aircraft equipped with special detectors is the fastest large-area geophysical exploration method. Although it cannot draw accurate conclusions, it can save a lot of manpower and complete primary geophysical exploration at the fastest speed.

The aircraft was also the equipment that the Singapore-Malaysian Group had just purchased. In order to ensure the victory of racing exploration, the board of directors canceled its original mission and sent it to Siberia. Lee Zhengfu smiled and said, "Through aviation geophysical exploration, we can save at least one week. At that time, it would be great that Dahua could complete the preliminary exploration work."

Nobuge Ito also laughed and said, "Fortunately we have secret weapons. When the exploration results come out, I will invite you to drink. The sake brewed in my hometown is very clear... By the way, when will the drilling team arrive?"

Only by finding the oil layer and successfully testing the oil can it be considered a real exploration success. Li Zhengfu said steadily: "I am contacting the ship and will arrive in about one month."

If you are looking for oil areas, that is, oil-producing areas like Tyumen Oilfield, exploration work often lasts for 10 years. There are many people who drill two dry wells in about three to five years. However, the Kuwak area is a certain oil field in the oil-producing area. The drilling time must be very early, but it is always necessary to drill one month.

Ito Shin-kun reassured and said, "It's better to reduce the cost. We try to rent our equipment for Russians as much as possible. It's too expensive to ship all from the local area."

"Okay." Li Zhengfu agreed, disagreed and thought to himself: I just had a little advantage and started saving money, but you have a good idea.

After talking about the main business, Ito Nobuge wrapped his clothes tightly, sucked his nose and prepared to go back to his temporary residence to rest. Before leaving, he said, "I remember one thing. Dahua Industrial's exploration team is the one that I just passed by. Have you noticed their equipment?"

"It's all old equipment, what's wrong?" Li Zhengo thought Ito Nobuge wanted to mock Dahua, and smiled and prepared to make it feel better.

However, Nobuki Ito's face became a little more serious and said, "They probably used equipment produced by China. The rag is indeed ragged, but it is not impossible to use..."

"What does that matter."

"If they use all domestic equipment, the cost of the exploration team will be lower. Maybe they can send a large number of personnel, so you have to pay attention." Ito Nobuge said casually. The large number of personnel he thought was six or seven exploration teams, with a scale of three or four thousand.

For the oil giants, the three thousand exploration team is already considered to be huge.

"I'm watching." Li Zhengfu didn't care, thinking that even if Dahua organized one or two thousand people, it wouldn't be faster than us.

He grew up in Singapore. The metropolis in his mind is Singapore City, and the crowds are Christmas shopping malls. The exploration team of one or two thousand people has become a large number of people in his habitual thinking.

"Didi".

The sound of car horns sounded outside again.

Several Russians were happily welcomed. It was almost time for dinner and they were very eager to see a supply truck full of food.

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Chapter completed!