What appeared before Wang Chen was a pitch-black building.
It had thirty-seven floors, making it one of the tallest buildings even in Yinsen Underground City. It had once served as the Senhai Star headquarters of a mining company.
The company later abandoned its operations here, and the building was subsequently purchased by the Miner Mutual Aid Society.
Yinsen Underground City had nearly four hundred thousand residents, of whom more than seventy thousand were miners. Including their families, they accounted for nearly 70% of the population.
Though not every miner had joined the Mutual Aid Society, the organization was undoubtedly the largest civilian force in Yinsen Underground City. Its position was as solid as a rock and its roots as sprawling as a great tree; none could stand shoulder to shoulder with it.
This situation was actually closely tied to the way energy ore was mined.
Energy ore was immensely valuable, an Imperial strategic reserve material with an enormous range of applications and demand without any upper limit.
Every year, the Empire invested trillions of Star Yuan in searching for new deposits.
Yet when it came to extraction, energy ore was unsuitable for automated machinery and had to be mined by human labor.
Therefore, although the energy ore reserves near Yinsen Base were not especially large, vast numbers of miners still had to be deployed for extraction, even giving rise to this Underground City.
It was precisely because of these special circumstances that Meng Liangao, who commanded the Senhai First Mechanized Infantry Regiment, was wary of the Miner Mutual Aid Society like a man afraid of breaking a rat's nest for fear of the vessels beside it. He did not dare take drastic action.
In Wang Chen's view, Meng Liangao had long since lost the keenness and fiery blood a soldier