If they really put effort into mining, the annual production of natural diamonds would increase by hundreds, if not thousands, of times!
But if that happened, wouldn't the value of natural diamonds be greatly discounted?
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PS: Second update presented!!!
Chapter 83: Strange People Under the Sea! Atlantis? Crushing the Undersea People! [Seeking Subscriptions]
Under the sea.
After confirming that what lay beneath the silt was indeed Vibranium ore and not a misperception, Luo Di couldn't help but feel astonished.
So much Vibranium, even if he only sold a tiny fraction of it,
would be enough to make him the richest person in the World overnight!
Of course!
As Luo Di had said before, once money reaches a certain amount, it truly becomes just a string of numbers.
Moreover, Luo Di didn't want to spend his time making money.
He wasn't short on money.
What was the point of having so much money?
Developing a business empire?
But the problem was, Luo Di had no such intention.
He just liked to eat, drink, play, and enjoy life.
Making money?
Engaging in schemes with others?
Whoever wanted to play could go ahead; he certainly wasn't willing to play such business games with a bunch of capitalists!
Therefore;
Even if Luo Di possessed a large quantity of Vibranium, he never thought of setting up a company to develop the value of this Vibranium himself, to sell it at a higher price,
or to create more other value for himself.
Those things were completely meaningless to him!
Secular values are meaningless in the face of an individual with powerful strength!
If you, the richest person in the World, went up to Doomsday and told him how rich you were, how high your social status was, and then demanded that Doomsday work for you, do you think Doomsday would agree?
If he didn't stomp you to death, you'd be lucky to be alive!
With Luo Di's current strength,
he completely didn't need to care about these secular values.
As long as he was willing,
he could even seize a small country and become its king.
Therefore, the value of the Vibranium mine, for Luo Di, was not how much money it could sell for.
Rather, Vibranium itself was a rare treasure for Luo Di!
When he previously gained the Mechanical Enhancement and Mechanical Animation abilities, Luo Di had considered whether to create a large number of machines made of Vibranium and then build an invincible Mechanical Legion composed of Vibranium Mechanical Warriors.
At that time, Luo Di had even thought of making a trip to Wakanda when he had time.
He wouldn't steal Wakanda's Vibranium.
He would just pack up and take away all the various mechanical equipment they produced using Vibranium!
However, Luo Di had been busy traveling the World, so he hadn't had time to go to Wakanda.
Now, though;
There was no need to go to Wakanda anymore.
Directly mining this large Vibranium deposit below would be enough for Luo Di to create an invincible Vibranium Mechanical Warrior Legion!
"Tens of thousands of tons of Vibranium, if only used to create small machines, could indeed build a Mechanical Legion of over a million, but there should be small Mechanical Warriors, and large ones too."
"And a million is a bit too many."
"I don't need that many; a few hundred thousand will be enough!"
Luo Di thought for a moment and decided to create a diverse Vibranium Mechanical Warrior Legion.
The most numerous among them would naturally be small Vibranium Mechanical Warriors.
Roughly the size of a normal human.
Specifically, they could be modeled after Stark's Iron Soldiers, or directly after Ultron's body.
Of course, not Vision's body!
That thing was another way of using Vibranium.
A bit high-end, and Luo Di didn't need it either.
Because he had the ability of Mechanical Animation, there was no need to do that at all.
It would be time-consuming and laborious, and the result would be similar!
Then there would be medium and large Mechanical Warriors.
Specifically, they could be set to be between 10 and 20 meters in size.
Modeled after Transformers, but much larger!
Finally, there would be super-large Mechanical Warriors.
The number of these wouldn't need to be many.
A dozen or twenty would be enough.
In terms of size, they could directly use Vibranium to build aircraft carriers, or even spaceships.
Then, after animation, they would instantly transform into Mechanical Warriors hundreds or even thousands of meters tall!
Just thinking about it, Luo Di felt incredibly awestruck.
If these were brought out, putting aside everything else, just the visual impact alone would be enough to intimidate people!
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"It's a pity my Different Space is still too small, otherwise I could just pack up this entire Vibranium mine and be done with it."
Luo Di looked at the huge Vibranium mine beneath his feet; its volume was still too large for his Different Space to hold, so he could only cut it into pieces and then pack them away.
Even so, Luo Di would have to make many trips.
After all, his Different Space was only so big.
Fortunately, he also had the ability to teleport.
Even if he had to make trips repeatedly, it wouldn't take much time.
Now, it remained to be seen how large this Vibranium mine truly was.
Tens of thousands of tons was Luo Di's initial estimate.
It was possible that the actual amount could be even more than that!
"First, remove all the surrounding silt to see the exact size of this mine."
Luo Di thought to himself, then began to clear the silt from the Vibranium mine.
The more he cleared, the more Luo Di was shocked by the size of this ore deposit!
This was simply too big.
It was definitely more than tens of thousands of tons.
At least a hundred thousand tons or more!
This was much more than Luo Di had initially estimated.
Soon;
Luo Di had cleared the top layer of silt.
As far as the eye could see, a large area around him was all Vibranium ore!
It was said that Wakanda's Vibranium was discovered from a meteorite, so does the Vibranium mine Luo Di found under the sea now mean that there was actually more than one meteorite that fell on Blue Star back then?
There was one in Wakanda.
And one under the sea?
Whether that was the case or not, Luo Di was determined to claim the Vibranium mine brought by this Vibranium meteorite!
Aren't things in international waters claimed by whoever discovers them?
Now, this Vibranium was discovered by Luo Di.
So it naturally belonged to him!
"Let's start cutting; it will need to be refined later, so I'll have to get some professional machines for that."
The Vibranium produced from the ore deposit was still in its raw state and needed to be refined before it could be truly used.
Regarding how to refine Vibranium, the Wakandans were undoubtedly the most familiar.
Luo Di had originally thought he wouldn't need to make another trip to Wakanda.
Now it seemed that this trip was unavoidable after all!
The cutting work was not difficult for Luo Di.
He could directly use his Cyclops to cut off the raw Vibranium ore from the deposit.
Crimson laser beams bloomed underwater, and the hard ore was gradually cut along the cracks in the rock.
Soon;
A large piece of Vibranium ore, five or six meters in diameter, was cut off.
Luo Di put it into his Different Space and continued to cut the second piece.
Just as Luo Di was busy with the cutting work,
he didn't see that below the large slope, in the bottomless deep sea abyss, blue figures suddenly appeared, secretly watching Luo Di.
When these blue-skinned strange people saw Luo Di cutting the Vibranium ore, expressions of anger immediately appeared on their faces.
The next moment—
A group of blue-skinned strange people swam towards Luo Di.
Their speed was very fast;
Much faster than an ordinary person swimming underwater!
And they were holding primitive weapons in their hands.
Spears, bone spikes, and the like.
When this group of blue-skinned strange people approached Luo Di, Luo Di finally discovered their existence.
So he stopped his cutting work and turned to look at the strange people surrounding him.
"Are there humans living in the sea?"
Luo Di subconsciously thought, then remembered that in the Marvel Universe, there was someone named Namo, who was an undersea person and the King of Atlantis.
He was the King of the undersea World!
Just like Aquaman from DC next door.
Hmm... so who copied whom?
Luo Di didn't care who copied whom.
These blue-skinned strange people in front of him were clearly the undersea people from the undersea kingdom of Atlantis.
These people had moved from the land to live in the sea a very long time ago.