Chapter Eighteen: The Scorching Underground Diamond

  Twenty minutes later, the mining ship brought Li Yang to the area where diamonds were found. Li Yang first tried to let the mining ship mine on the left side, but didn't find any, then above, still none, and finally tried all around, front, back, left, and right, but still didn't find any.

  It seems that diamond ore is below!

  Liyang hastily ordered the mining ship to move downwards. Sure enough, after a short while, a diamond the size of a fist entered the cargo hold of the mining ship!

  Li Yang's mind stirred, and the huge diamond fell heavily into his hand. He was about to take a closer look when a sudden chill made his hand tremble, causing him to drop the diamond to the ground.

  It's so cold!

  Liyang felt a look at the temperature around the mining ship displayed on the light screen, and it was minus sixty-seven degrees!

  Logically, being this deep underground should be warmer, but unexpectedly the outside is so cold. The mining ship's temperature can be adjusted at any time to suit Liyang's most comfortable feeling, making him ignore the extremely cold temperature outside.

  This colorless transparent diamond was emitting a cool air on the ground, and it slowly heated up after a while. Li Yang picked it up again, only to see that it was like an irregular ice cube the size of an apple in his hand. Under the white light shining inside the mining ship, it occasionally flashed a colorful light, looking crystal clear and beautiful!

  Leyang excitedly took the diamond in his hand and played with it for a while, then reluctantly put it back into the storage box. At this time, he was surprised to find that after just a short period of work, the mining ship had dug up more than ten diamonds of varying sizes, although none were as large as the first one, but these results already made Leyang very satisfied.

  Unlike other mineral veins, diamond veins don't show up on the light screen at all.

  Li Yang enlarged his eyes and found that the magnesium metal in this mining area was significantly higher. He thought of the characteristics of kimberlite, a diamond-bearing mineral on Earth, and perhaps searching for magnesium ore could lead to the discovery of diamond veins?

  He then ordered the mining ship to search for all magnesium ore in the surrounding area, and instantly he found a large amount of magnesium ore veins flashing with lead-gray light on the lower left side of the mining ship, and his own mining ship's trajectory only scanned one point of this magnesium ore.

  Liyang's mind turned, and the mining ship dove down with its head facing downwards. Suddenly, a large amount of diamonds poured out of the diamond storage box like rain, mostly the size of thumbs, occasionally even as big as fists!

  After seeing his judgment was correct, Li Yang ordered the mining ship to excavate the entire magnesium ore vein with a delighted face!

  At this time, Li Yang was sitting in the driver's seat with his legs raised, watching the diamonds pouring down from the warehouse box, and he couldn't close his mouth in delight.

  It seems that mining diamonds isn't that difficult after all. As long as you find the trick, getting ten tons of diamonds shouldn't be a big problem.

  Half an hour later, the ore vein in this area had disappeared. Li Yang had already obtained more than 500 kilograms of diamonds and, with a lingering sense of discontent, he simply ordered the mining ship to continue moving forward until it reached a depth of two thousand meters underground, where Li Yang vaguely saw that there was magnesite beneath the rock layer.

  However, when he manipulated the mining ship to run away, he only found a dozen diamonds. He looked at the temperature of the surrounding rocks and was surprised to find that it had reached over 100 degrees Celsius. It was too abnormal for him to be so cold on top and so hot below.

  He remembered that the data introduced diamond-producing rock layers on Earth were all at a depth of tens of kilometers underground, so he gritted his teeth and let the mining ship continue to move downward, slowly arriving at a depth of six kilometers underground.

  At this time, the surrounding temperature had already reached over 300 degrees. At such a high temperature, anyone who appeared outside the mining ship would instantly be burned to charcoal. However, inside the mining ship, the constant temperature of 20 degrees was still maintained. Li Yang looked at the rock layers around the spaceship, which were all emitting a faint red glow, and he felt a slight sense of fear in his heart. He was just about to order the mining ship to return to the surface when he suddenly discovered a large amount of lead-gray magnesium ore veins appearing beneath him!

  He is now unable to contact the flying saucer, and does not know what the temperature limit that the mining ship can withstand is. He is hesitant about whether or not to drill for diamonds in a deeper location below.

  But thinking again, if I don't find enough diamonds to repair the true star system soon, my father's and my own illness will not be able to be cured. In order to leave the sea of suffering as soon as possible, I must work hard!

  The mining ship slowly descended, the temperature getting higher and higher as it went down. The light curtain display of the magnesium ore belt became increasingly clear, perhaps because the surrounding rocks had better thermal conductivity after being heated up. The mining ship's survey distance had unknowingly reached several kilometers away. Li Yang discovered a huge magnesium ore vein three kilometers below, so he gritted his teeth and ordered the mining ship to slowly descend.

  Five minutes later, the mining ship approached the magnesium ore vein, and the surrounding rocks were all scorched red, with a temperature of as high as an astonishing 1,200 degrees!

  Li Yang knew that the ignition point of diamonds in air was 800 degrees, and the ignition point in a high-pressure environment without oxygen was 1800 degrees. So he ordered the diamond storage warehouse to be evacuated of oxygen and increased pressure, lest the red-hot diamonds would burn like coal blocks when they were stored inside, which would make him cry.

  At this time, the temperature inside the mining ship had not changed much, but all around were red rocks, which gave Li Yang a huge sense of psychological pressure. Cold sweat was dripping from his forehead, but he still ordered the mining ship to descend slowly.

  When a burning red diamond fell into the warehouse, Li Yang's lips bit hard, almost bleeding!

  He saw this diamond as big as a human head, his heart racing wildly!

  Although this four-pronged object, like a fiery red ember, still can't reveal its true appearance, Li Yang believes that the mining ship's identification ability won't be wrong, and it must be a diamond!

  More diamonds the size of a human head poured down, Li Yang's eyes widened, his body trembled slightly, and he thought to himself that just one second ago, he had gotten 100 kilograms of gold and was so happy he didn't know what direction he was facing. Now, in just one second, he had gotten over ten diamonds the size of a human head, it was too bloody awesome!

  Such diamonds weigh at least twenty kilograms per piece, and each one can be exchanged for a mountain of gold. For some reason, when he saw these diamonds, his excited mood slowly subsided in no time.

  Thinking of my own 20 billion worth of gold, these diamonds are not that important anymore. Anyway, I won't be able to spend all my money in this lifetime, and the accumulation of wealth is just a number from now on. Even if I have two trillion, one hundred million will still be enough for me to live a life of luxury, and the rest should be given back to society.

  After figuring out the joint, Li Yang restored his calm mind. He looked at the large diamonds falling down and took out the roasted cake he bought from the night market stall. He cut it open horizontally with a small knife, then quickly sliced a few pieces of cooked beef and stuffed them into the roasted cake. Holding it in his hand, he took a bite, and that aroma!

  He didn't take much effort to finish the 50-cent bun and 3-yuan beef, still unsatisfied, he processed another one, this time a 50-cent bun and 5-yuan beef went down.

  He took a few gulps of pure water, watching as each diamond worth tens of millions fell into his pocket, and he sadly discovered that his stomach was so small.

  Used to watch others eat this shaobing sandwich with beef every day, but I was too embarrassed to spend money on it and could only walk away drooling. Now that I've opened up my wallet to try it, surprisingly even the 10-yuan version is not edible!

  He wondered if all the rich people in the world were hiding at home, gnawing on this beef patty, each one bloated with tears streaming down their faces, unable to sleep?

  This time, the mining frenzy went deep into the underground, nearly ten kilometers down to a region similar to magma. In one breath, he obtained more than six tons of diamonds. After he had a sense of security, he manipulated the mining ship to shuttle back and forth underground for half a day before sadly confirming that the diamond vein here had been mined out by him, so he could only return home.

  When he returned to the underground 200 meters below Mercury, a worried voice from Xing Nao immediately appeared in his mind: "Li Yang, you've been diving for more than a day and haven't surfaced. Your mom can't find you anywhere and has already made a scene at school. What do you think you should do?"

  Li Yang realized that it was already 6 o'clock in the morning of the second day, and as soon as he thought of his anxious parents, his heart felt a chill. He had been so busy coming out to dig for diamonds that he forgot to tell his parents!

  "Wow, Lei Yang, you're much stronger than those Gilisdon Star people! You've gotten over six tons of diamonds in such a short time, how did you do it?" Xing Nao couldn't help but exclaim when he saw the mountain of diamonds inside Lei Yang's mining ship.

  "What else can I do? I've almost dug into the magma to find these diamonds for you!" Leyang said with a bad tone.

  In the blink of an eye, Li Yang and the mining ship were taken to outer space by the flying saucer star brain. It eagerly took out these diamonds and laughed with surprise, turning Li Yang into a flower.

  "Hey, Lai Yang, you don't know that those people from Gilisdorf planet also often take mining ships into the magma to find diamonds. But they're unlucky and often return empty-handed after searching for several days. Most of the time, the diamonds consumed by mining are more than what they found! I just realized now, it's so great to be able to cooperate with you! Hahaha!" Xing Nao was overjoyed like a little kid.

  "Hehe, I won't tell you, it seems like I need to hurry back now, or else my mom will go crazy!" Seeing Xing Nao's excitement, Li Yang was also very happy.

  "Alright, hurry back home! Your mother finally has a wealthy son like you and hasn't even had a chance to be happy for a day before losing you again. It's impossible not to get angry, and who knows, she might just get so furious that she'll faint!"

  "I'm dizzy, Flying Disc little brother, how can you even talk about farting now? What have you been doing these days?"

  "Hehe, nothing much, just watching movies on the computer internet every day. I just finished watching the entire Harry Potter series and now I'm watching Star Wars."

  Li Yang shook his head and thought to himself that this flying saucer was really formidable, getting smarter and smarter. Now it even knew how to find movies to watch on its own, which was truly unexpected.

  At 6:10, Li Yang rode his bicycle to the bottom of his apartment building. What surprised him was that there were cars parked everywhere, many people were making phone calls in a hurry, and Li Yang even saw three police cars. Officer Liu Xia was also standing there, shouting loudly while holding a walkie-talkie.