Fang pulled out a multicopter drone from a bag behind his back. He was not big, set the screws, connected two scanners and a camera to it.

Fang issued a voice command in Chinese.

Dara wondered why the Chinese, when they bring their new gadgets to the international market, do them in their native language and not English for example. If you don't know the iroglyphs then hello. Dara remembered how at the Academy of Sciences, they were shown a new 3D mapping software product, it was better than its European counterparts, it cost cheaper by 30,000 euros, but it was only in Chinese. Which, however, did not upset the Arabs from the oil company. What is interesting, the Chinese gave a free sample only to Arabs, but did not give anything to Americans and Europeans. Then the Arabs signed a contract with the Chinese for the purchase of software in the amount of $ 30 million, along with the translation of the software into Arabic, and took the Chinese programmers to train their staff.

The drone began to speak something in Chinese ... Fang cursed ... apparently, then the drone said something again, Fang repeated. The drone slowly took off, hovering over the well, and then began to sink down.

"Wow !!! That's cool!" published the cry of Dara.

Cho Fang just waved his hand, - nothing special, the copter has artificial intelligence, and there is a guide that understands speech, though so far only in Chinese and only in Mandarin.

He or she or it, bickering with me, was too smart, did not want to climb into the well. But I insisted. Now let's see what we have in the well. Turn on the bluetooth, I will transfer the picture to you on android.

"Oh, how did you develop technology, however," said Dara.

- Of course, technology does not stand still, they are developing! Fang noticed.

"And everything is forbidden in our country, you can't, shamelessly, be ashamed of how it was once written by Donald Bisset," Dara remarked dejectedly.

- Well, you yourself have abandoned socialism, and now you have state feudalism and still a monopoly, so everyone forbids one and allows others. No wonder they come to you from Japan - to study the Edo era in real time! barely holding back the ulby, Fang noticed.

"It's somehow not fun, they live in the world in the 21st century, and we are in the 16th ..." Dara remarked sadly.

- Well, this is quite natural, if the empire is set free, this does not mean that it will allow the colony to bloom and develop independently. All the leaders will be stooges of the empire, so the empire will control the development of the colony, from the side and then again at some point to come and take the colony back. Fang answered insistently.

"Yeah, but it's somehow not fun," said Dara.

- This is a classic of the genre, politics is called. Fang said.

- Alright, enough about politics, come on, it seems the drone is already starting to give out data. he said.

"But I'm wondering, did you somehow call the drone" squeaks "for example, or some Chinese name?" asked off topic Dara.

- What are you doing? Already already that? The drone has the official name "heavenly dragon-4" as it is called. Without a shadow of irony, Fang noticed.

"But I wonder why you have the Chinese, all the names of companies or devices have some too lofty names like" heavenly stream "," water dragon "," fire tiger "," sky pagoda ", these names are very strange" raising his eyebrows up, and scratching the back of his head, he noticed Dara.

- Well, you again take the topic aside, this is such a tradition with us, do not get distracted, we'll talk about this topic some other time. Lunch is coming soon. Sighing exaggeratedly and narrowing his eyes, Fang noticed.

- So look, we already get the picture, two meters from the surface there is a void in the wall of the well, just five meters from the surface there is a void and there seems to be something. said Fang, clenching his fists and shaking them a little.

"How can you say this? I see only a green cone and some kind of blue and yellow spots. Do they mean something?" asked Dara.

- Yes, Carl! Green is the usual structure of stone, blue is emptiness, and yellow is that there is some kind of metal. If it was red it would be a tree. Sensors read spectral radiation from objects. Fang explained.

"Yeah, interesting, so in one place someone has already pulled something out?" said disappointed to Dara.

- Not necessary! This could be just a technical solution, so that the masters making the well could catch their foot either by hand during the descent or vice versa, ascent along the well trunk. Fang noticed.

- But the emptiness in the middle, the well causes more interest, since there is some kind of metal. It will be necessary to go down. It's good that the well allows you to do this. But I have to go down, because I'm thinner and not as fat as you. Ahahahahhaa! Laughing noticed Fang.

- Okay, okay, conciliatory waving his thin hand Fang noticed.

- Look and then there is nothing, green. Now I will try to scan the bottom of the well. I switch the mode to the camera, which sees through the thickness of water. Fang said something in Chinese that was supposed to mean "turn off the scanner," "turn on camera mode," "maximum penetration," "remove restrictions."

Dara saw that the color of the barrel had turned purple; on the 3D model, the surface of the water was visible with a light green color. Depth is 8 meters. And then on the bottom are yellow pieces. Reds. On the lip of 11 meters is a large red-yellow object.

At a depth of 12 meters, three yellow objects.

Something is definitely hidden. But the question is how to get it? The water is cold, you can easily drown. Of course money is important, but life is more important!

What to do?