Fully loaded!
Must return with a full load!
The titanium ore is not far away, just in the high seas of the South China Sea. It will arrive in less than half an hour at full speed, but some aluminum and tin ores need to be mined, which requires a detour.
But the return voyage is not slow either. After forty minutes, it is fully loaded, and more than 4,000 tons of several ores fill the entire storage compartment.
It is worth mentioning that this time it is not like the past, directly processed into finished materials and shipped back, but pure ores. As you can imagine, there is not much left after these ores are processed back.
There is no other way. It needs to be concealed. It has been decided to place it in the open air next to Warehouse No. 2. In this way, it can only be piled with ores. After all, the entire factory area is now crowded with people.
If it were in the past, he would never bring ore back unless there was no other way, such as mining crude oil, which will produce multiple substances during processing and refining, and cannot be stored together in the storage compartment.
Otherwise!
Zhang Heng will definitely transport it back with the highest efficiency and maximum capacity. After all, there is a big difference between more than 4,000 tons of finished materials and more than 4,000 tons of ore.
"Captain... are you sure you want to return now?" Smart No. 1 suddenly asked.
"Why?"
Zhang Heng053 was stunned. He had mined several types of minerals and the storage compartments were full. Was he going to wander on the sea? Not returning to stay for the New Year? He curled his lips and said, "Of course I will return."
"If we return now, it will be daytime. If we return at full speed, it will only take 26 minutes to arrive!" Smart No. 1 was just a reminder.
"D..."
Zhang Heng was stunned again, and then reacted immediately: "Yes, there are so many people in the industrial plant area now, and it's hard to explain why a pile of ore suddenly appeared.
He subconsciously ignored that it was daytime.
It's a rare opportunity to go out to sea, and I thought it would be nice to go around. It's not because the sea is beautiful. To be honest, for a child who grew up by the sea, the sea is nothing special, and I'm tired of it.
"Speaking of which, the island country's native islands have been circled, but it seems that only a part of the Ryukyu Islands has been sailed!"
Zhang Heng has decided not to return for the time being. With this time, it's really good to find out the situation in the surrounding seas: "Let's go there, mainly near the Ryukyu Islands, and the seas between the island country's native islands."
"Explore the sea area in that area and see if there are any valuable (abeg) mineral resources, and record them for future convenience. " Zhang Heng made a decision and went there immediately.
"Understood, the route is being generated!"
According to the order!
The mining ship immediately changed its course and headed for the designated sea area.
Speaking of which, the Ryukyu Islands belonged to the country in ancient times and were a vassal state.
However, with the changes in history, the island country has taken it as its own.
Because it was a vassal state, it is not easy to say that it is a state-owned island, so the controversy is naturally smaller.
But it does not mean that there is no controversy. In fact, up to now, there is still the Ryukyu Kingdom standing up?
But the royal family of the Glass Kingdom has perished, and the country has also perished. There are only some descendants left, and that's it. Let the island country immigrants assimilate and completely occupy it.
Turn left and rush straight!
It's not far, less than 300 nautical miles. At the current speed of the mining ship, it will arrive in less than an hour.
Sailing along the coastline!
It is already a routine operation of the mining ship. There is only one reason. It is impossible to mine and scan the sea area that is too deep at present, and the seabed is shallower near the land or island.
In the waters of the island countries, it is even more important to sail close to the coastline.
First, the affiliated small islands of the Ryukyu mainland island.
Going back and forth, it made a semicircular route.
Turning again, it headed towards the direction of the island country's mainland island.
"Captain, it is only 80 nautical miles away from the Ryukyu mainland island!"
"Well, stick to it!"
Zhang Heng knew that the current scanning detection diameter had reached 30 nautical miles, and there was still 50 nautical miles away from 80 nautical miles.
He also knew why Smart No. 1 had to remind him: "The current Ryukyu mainland island is stationed by the Stars and Stripes Empire's garrison, so what? No matter how advanced their radar is, they can't detect the existence of mining ships.
Instead, they can find them first, no problem.
"Understood!"
Smart No. 1's reminder worked, so naturally he wouldn't say anything else, but he still added: "There should be submarine activities of the Stars and Stripes Empire nearby, after all, they have a large fleet stationed here. "Well, there must be!"
Zhang Heng was 100% sure and still didn't care: "It means that the mining ship's weapon system is gone, otherwise, I really don't mind sinking a few submarines for fun. "If you really want to, it's not impossible?" "Don't you want to use large metal ores to directly transmit them to the submarine's navigation route, causing them to be hit and then sink?"
Zhang Heng was able to think of a way even without a weapon system. "Yes, this method is feasible, but there is no way to guarantee it 100%.
After all, the submarine's shell is extremely hard and made of titanium alloy."
"That's it. Even if a large ore is hit at high speed, it is estimated that it will only be scratched and cannot hurt the root!"
Zhang Heng shook his head.
The submarine sneaking on the seabed is not as fragile as imagined: "Forget it.
If you can't sink it with one blow, don't do anything.
Once an accident happens, there is still communication available and you will call for help.
This place is close to the Glass Mainland Island, and they can quickly arrive for rescue."
"The most important thing is that the submarine can still float to the surface, and there is no way to deal with them, unless they can't float and can't communicate [then maybe they can be sunk."
Zhang Heng still chose to give up. Doing this kind of thing is very passionate, and he is also happy to do it, but there are risks, so he still has to restrain himself.
"Understood!"
Intelligent No. 1 also referred to a lot of domestic history, and combined with the understanding of the captain over time, it will come out to remind. Now that the captain has given up, it will not say anything more.
Keep sailing!
The whole ship is invisible, even the sea surface is well compressed, there are no big waves, even in space, with high-definition spy satellites watching, they can only take pictures of normal waves rolling, nothing else.
Rapidly approaching the main island of Glass Ryukyu, which is now the big island that the island country renamed Oki Island.
Distance from the island, 30 nautical miles!
The mining ship began to adjust the route, the distance is enough, and the next step is to scan and detect in a semicircle like before in the affiliated small island group.
But!
The course has just been adjusted not long ago, and it has not traveled more than 10 nautical miles.
"Beep beep beep"
Continuous prompt sounds rang, not alarm sounds.
"Found something good?"
Zhang Heng is very familiar with this prompt sound, he has heard it once before.