Mythical Card Creator: Myriad Ghosts Night Parade at the Start - Section 629

Even Wei E was starting to fidget. He leaned forward, staring fixedly at Lin Chen, his eyes nearly bulging from their sockets:

"Two... two mines?

Lin Chen, you're not joking, are you?

Besides the lead-zinc mine, there's another!?"

How was that possible?!

By all common sense, prospecting was an extremely time- and labor-intensive task.

Even with professional equipment, finding the course and reserves of a single ore vein in half a day would already be astonishingly fast.

Shi Jin had found that iron mine by using the Lineage's inherited Iron-Eating Earth Mouse and high-tech drones, and even then, he had only stumbled upon it thanks to good luck.

Lin Chen and the others had returned earlier than anyone else, with enough time to cook a meal.

That meant their efficiency was absurdly fast—so fast it defied logic!

Had they flown there and simply picked the mines up?

Faced with everyone's doubts, Lin Chen offered no further explanation.

He merely smiled faintly, leaned back, then nodded at Gu Qingyi beside him, signaling for her to explain.

Gu Qingyi had been holding it in for ages.

From the moment Shi Jin had started bragging about the iron mine, she had wanted to leap up and slap him in the face with the facts.

Now that she had received Lin Chen's instruction, she was proud to share in the glory. She excitedly stood up and smoothly picked up the tablet computer beside her.

In a calm voice tinged with pride, she announced:

"Besides the lead-zinc mine, we also discovered a copper mine!

And it's a rich copper mine! It's estimated to be exploitable for many years!"

"Is that really true?!"

Wei E slapped the table and shot to his feet, nearly knocking over his chair.

As the director of the Security Bureau, he