Transmigrator's Guide to Conquering Another World-Chapter 464 - 429: A Crucial Leap Forward (Double-Length - )

The upheavals occurring within the island relics are nothing short of earth-shattering.

One of the most elite cultivators of the Damo Realm has fallen, while another's nascent soul has escaped, with life and death uncertain.

This is undoubtedly news so shocking it would shake the entire realm.

In just a few short months, the central region has already lost four Nascent Souls.

Should the Demon Realm learn of this, the demon gate is destined for another round of bloodshed and chaos.

Yet, unfortunately,

due to communication channels, the bunnies remain unaware of the changes and conversations within the relics.

Nor do they know what kind of impact the shattering of two Nascent Soul Life Plates will bring to the demon gate's side.

At this moment.

The entire camp's focus is directed to a location forty kilometers southeast of the valley.

Which is...

the coal mine discovered by Lei Wenjun's team a long time ago.

Indeed.

After more than half a year of preparation, this coal mine is finally about to commence mining! 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Strictly speaking.

This coal mine is the first long-term exploitable resource discovered by the bunnies after arriving in the Damo Realm—the Spirit Stone Mine's discoverer being Wei Siming, credit cannot be claimed by the camp.

At that time, Lei Wenjun's team made an initial assessment of the mine's scale.

The Bowan Coal Mine covers an area of about 4 square kilometers, and the coal layer is not very thick.

The mine's total geological reserves are approximately 11 million tons, with an exploitable reserve of between 5 and 7 million tons.

It is classified as a standard small coal mine.

In subsequent further exploration, the command confirmed that this information was almost entirely accurate.

Meanwhile, the command also learned that the most prominent landmark around the mine is a small hill called Bowan Mountain.

Bowan Mountain is about three kilometers from the working face, visible upon looking up.

Thus, after a brief discussion, the coal mine was formally named the Bowan Coal Mine.

Although compared to the native Jin Province's mines with annual outputs easily in the hundreds of millions of tons, Bowan's few million levels of production might seem minor.

But from the power capacity perspective of the Tengzhi Gate.

This is an extremely critical, perhaps even core-level, link.

Upon first arriving in the Damo Realm, the core layer had set two plans:

Dauntless, Pillar of Heaven.

Among these long-term projects, power supply is a fundamental hurdle that must be solved.

Thus, the bunnies brought in three generator sets, boasting a total installed capacity of 1.44 million kilowatts.

That's 1440 megawatts.

Later, the camp used these three generator sets as the power hub to construct a thermal power plant.

Without considering peak regulation, this power plant can supply approximately 21.6 million degrees of electricity per day.

Theoretically speaking.

Under full operation.

The power plant should be able to supply the bunnies with three to four years of residential and research electricity needs.

And for a thermal power plant to supply power, naturally, it requires fuel.

Currently, this power plant consumes about 2000 tons of coal and uses approximately 17,000 tons of water daily.

Most of the coal consumption is transported from Modu—Modu's annual coal consumption is about 42 million tons, averaging 120,000 tons daily.

Under such a base, squeezing out two thousand tons presents no pressure at all.

While the supply link poses no issues, the bunnies are naturally troubled by the transportation link.

What does transporting 2,000 tons of coal mean?

The gate's daily handling capacity is just about 10,000 tons!

Which means, a single coal mine alone occupies 20% of the current gate's carrying capacity!

To put it simply.

If this 20% capacity were freed up to transport spiritual energy, the number of Huaxia cultivators could increase by 20%!

Based on current numbers.

20% equates to a full ten thousand people.

Under such base conditions, it might ultimately result in one or possibly several fewer Core Formation or even Nascent Souls.

Thus, long ago, the core layer began optimizing the gate's carrying capacity.

However, everyone understands that Rome wasn't built in a day.

Because unlike iron mines, coal mines require massive upfront preparation work.

Fei Qiu, who was promoted from the Spirit Stone Mine due to outstanding management, has been tirelessly supervising the preparations, managing to get everything ready by mid-April.

By this time, seven and a half months had passed since the coal mine's discovery, and the Spirit Stone Mine in cooperation with the Wei Family had already been one-third excavated.

Such a prolonged waiting process.

Fei Qiu and Lei Wenjun naturally place greater importance on the coal mining phase than others.

At this moment.

Fei Qiu and Lin Ziming, who had recently arrived on-site, were both wearing safety helmets, personally descending into the mine for final inspection.

"Colonel Lin, to ensure safe coal extraction, we are using the single-direction longwall mining method this time."

Below the mine shaft.

Fei Qiu held a schematic, gently moving his right index finger over it:

"The coal face route follows the district transportation stone gate—the lower district yard—the track incline—the upper yard—segment return airway—to the working face entrance, which is the route we just came through.

The coal transport system's working face is the coal district transport roadway—transport incline—district coal bunker—district transport stone gate, and finally external transport."

Upon hearing this, Lin Ziming looked up to inspect the top.

He also touched the steel bars beside him, finding them very secure.

Then he thought for a moment and asked a question entrusted to him by the command before arriving:

"Director Fei, is the arrangement of the segment flat roadway bi-directional or uni-directional?"

"Of course it's bi-directional."

Fei Qiu, with a bit of dust on his index finger, pointed to another schematic, demeanor as though retirement will never intersect with cleanliness in this field: