Author: September Sauce

On the other side of the sea, there is the May Club office.

"Are you kidding!? There is actually a gold mine in Evander?! Is it such a big mine?"

Houston roared hysterically, his eyes full of unwillingness and anger.

How is this possible?

Can these Chinese people really predict the future?

Or is their luck so strong that they can dig out gold even if they choose a piece of land?!

You know, South Africa has not conducted inspections of the Evander area before, but no matter which inspection result it was, there was no evidence that there were large-scale gold mines buried under the mountains in the White River area!

In addition, the terrain there is rugged and development is difficult, so it has not been included in the list of "mines with development value" from beginning to end.

According to the evaluation report of professional organizations at that time, the gold reserves in the Evander-White River area must reach at least 200 tons, and the ore grade must reach 5 or above to have development value.

Everyone believes that this goal is basically impossible to achieve.

——

But I never expected that according to China's actual survey results, the goal was not only achieved, but also doubled.

Houston took a deep breath, suppressed his already somewhat out-of-control emotions, and then continued to ask:

"Is it possible that it is fake news? Is it possible that they deliberately released it to save themselves face in order to ease the public opinion storm in the country?"

The assistant shook his head sadly and replied:

"There is basically no such possibility."

"The South African Department of Mines and Energy has made a public statement acknowledging the newly discovered mine in the White River area."

"Moreover, their next step is to seek cooperation with China in mining."

"When the dust settled, we thought we had won. Unexpectedly, the game had not reached the last minute."

Hearing the assistant's words, Houston's heart skipped a beat.

"The game did not develop to the last moment."

This sentence was like a thorn, piercing deeply into his bone marrow.

So, when is the last moment of the game?

Do you want to wait until they take over all of Africa?

Or should we wait until they take over the entire world?

He felt as if he had seen the ending, but he could not accept that ending anyway.

That’s all.

At least the Los Angeles project is progressing smoothly.

——

etc.

It seems that I have not cared about the progress of this high-speed rail project for a while.

“Is the Los Angeles-San Francisco high-speed rail project still going well?”

He quickly asked.

"So far it's going pretty well."

"According to feedback from the front, we have completed more than two-thirds of the project work, and the time is just over half. No matter how complicated the follow-up work is, the demonstration section of the line can be completed on time."

"However, the progress of the Chinese people is not slow either."

"The large-scale equipment they use is even more advanced than ours to some extent. We expect that they will complete the 30-kilometer project before us."

"Are we going to lose to them again?"

Houston raised his eyebrows and asked in a stern tone.

"This can't be considered a loss. We have never included project time in the competition, and investors don't care about this."

"As long as we can complete it on time, then our goal will be achieved."

After hearing this, Houston finally nodded.

But he couldn't help but ask one more question, just wanting to get a definite answer:

"You mean, whether we are slower than them or not, it will not affect the original purpose of this project, that is, it will not affect the activity of the capital market, right?"

"right."

The assistant said firmly.

"That's good."

Houston breathed a sigh of relief.

In his view, as long as the financial market can take this opportunity to stabilize, all failures will no longer matter.

However, what he didn't know was that at this very moment, the entire Los Angeles project was on the verge of collapse.

Los Angeles-San Francisco high-speed rail demonstration section.

Evans stood bored in front of the nearly completed tunnel, almost completely unaware of what he should do.

You can’t blame him for this. Since joining this project, he has actually been existing in a state that is almost equivalent to a “mascot”. He has not done any serious work at all. What he has to do every day is not to accept interviews, but to memorize lines and practice.

modeling.

After more than a month, he could no longer keep up with the progress.

But now, after the initial popularity was snatched away by China's amazing construction machinery, he has regained his "freedom" again.

But such freedom also comes at a price.

The price is that no one on the construction site is willing to play with him.

He once tried to ask the project leader for some work, but the other person called him a big star as soon as they met, with undisguised sarcasm in his tone.

As a result, Evans also lost his temper.

Since you don't want to take me with you, then I won't do anything.

Anyway, the salary will still be paid. After these three months, even if I get interviewed or work as a model in the future, it will be enough for me to live on.

Besides, if the director hadn't asked him to "finish the show," he would have left this dirty and messy construction site long ago.

Thinking of this, Evans couldn't help but feel a little angry.

In the final analysis, those Chinese people still have to be blamed.

If it weren't for the competition show they created, I could have easily made a lot of money.

Are those machines that good-looking?——

Okay, it's pretty good-looking.

Even he himself had to admit this.

Thinking of this, Evans shook his head and walked forward casually along the paved railway track.

Directly in front of him is Tunnel No. 01, which has already started construction and is about to be completed. The total length of this tunnel is less than one hundred meters. In theory, the shield machine can complete it in only about 10 days.

But in fact, the tunnel has been repaired for 15 days from the start of construction to now, far exceeding the expected completion time.

what is the reason behind the scene?

Evans was a little curious.

He crossed the roadblock placed at the entrance of the tunnel and tried to walk inside. The staff on the side recognized him and quickly stopped him.

"Evans, this is not the place you should go. There is construction going on here and it is very dangerous!"

"very dangerous?"

Evans looked at the staff member puzzled and continued to ask:

"This is a shield machine. A tunnel less than 100 meters long, what dangers can there be?"

"Teno, are you going to be like that project manager and want to make things difficult for me?"

Teno looked around a few times, then pulled Evans aside and lowered his voice and said:

"Evans, we are friends."

"I'm not like those hypocritical mice. No matter what you do, I will treat you as a friend."

"I'm not kidding you, this tunnel is really dangerous."

"Just yesterday, we dealt with two incidents of prefabricated panel ruptures."

"Moreover, there were problems with the installation of the tunnel walls, insufficient sealing of the vaults, problems with the installation of the waterproofing membrane, and even the concrete poured on the ground was substandard."

"Yesterday, a heavy truck directly collapsed the ground in the tunnel. I really don't know how they were constructing it at that time."
To be continued...