Chapter 244: Bacchus (Afternoon)
"What did you find below?" Da Jiang saw that Xiao Zhao was relieved, and hurriedly asked again. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"It's weird down there, how do you say that? I didn't think it was at first, but the more I cleaned it up, the more strange it became. The place of the collapse is about seventeen or eighteen meters from the water surface, and it is not exactly the masonry piled up from which the well wall falls off, and there are many mud and pebbles that do not know where it comes from, much more than the bluestone of the well wall, it is estimated that the well was abandoned later, and the people in the factory saved trouble and dumped some used building materials into it. ”
"But the strangest thing is that the muck did not completely block the well, only more than half of it was blocked, and the remaining half was always open. ”
Xiao Lei immediately reacted to the meaning that Xiao Zhao didn't express clearly, and then asked: "If it is a waste dumped from above and piled up more than ten meters high, then the well must be completely blocked, Xiao Zhao, do you mean that these waste materials have been cleaned up before, leaving the current narrow passage?"
Xiao Zhao nodded, and immediately shook his head, "It's hard to say, if it is artificially cleaned, how can it leave only such a small passage, that is, a bucket thick, or a flat round, I can't think of any way to chisel it down, but it is definitely not a machine, but it is even more impossible for people, and it can't accommodate a person's space at all." ”
Xiao Zhao's description was beyond the expectations of Da Jiang and Lao Xue, and there seemed to be no reasonable explanation.
"The inside of this well is also very strange, the wall of the well is not flat, every half a meter or so, the stone bricks will have a protrusion of about two inches, spiraling upward, like the rifling in the gun, I don't know what the effect. Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Xiao Zhao took a sip of the second pot head and added another sentence.
"I used to see craftsmen building wells in my hometown, and there will be this kind of masonry method you said. Generally, sandy soil is used more, and it should be the same as the carpenter's hoop tube, and these protrusions will play a role in reinforcing the wall of the well, but I was young at that time and did not understand the reason. Lao Xue nodded and tried to explain, it seems that this is the most reasonable statement that everyone can think of at present.
Da Jiang raised his head and poured most of the bottle of wine into his stomach, and said, "Xiao Zhao, you rest for a while, I'll go down and dig a few barrels, and take a look by the way." ”
Oe stood in a small stainless steel bucket, with the big plastic bucket between his legs. He held a chain in one hand and an emergency light in the other. The hinges descended slowly, and it didn't take long for his legs to go a little sore. The temperature in this well is obviously several degrees lower than the outside, if it weren't for the two taels of liquor just now, it is estimated that at the bottom of the well, Dajiang's rheumatism would have to be committed.
In Xiao Dou'er's slow descent, Dae saw the spiral-shaped bulges that Xiao Zhao described that were not too noticeable on the wall of the well. Da Jiang carefully illuminated it with an emergency light, which was narrower than Xiao Zhao described, and a whole brick was about a quarter of the way out. But Oe noticed that these bumps had signs of wear and tear in many places, perhaps because they were worn out more, and the edges and corners were no longer sharp, but became very smooth, reflecting a dark glare under the illumination of the emergency lights.
Da Jiang was very surprised in his heart, could it be that someone really used these protrusions to climb up from the bottom of the well? But think about the height of more than 100 meters, if you put it on the ground, it is a building of more than 30 floors, and you can climb it up with your bare hands? Da Jiang shuddered when he thought about it.
A few minutes later, Da Jiang approached the bottom of the well, and with the help of the emergency lights and the light from the scattered spotlights above his head, Da Jiang saw the oval-shaped hole that Xiao Zhao had said. The four sides are not very regular, obviously not mechanically excavated, but the natural formation is indeed unreasonable, and the intuitive impression of Dajiang is like a thief hole.
Tying the safety rope tied to the two chains around his waist, he picked up the sapper shovel from the bucket, jumped onto the pile of rubble, thought about it, and began to dig around the oval hole, piling the excavated earth and stones into the plastic bucket.
The clean-up was a very boring task, on the one hand, the bottom of the well was too quiet, except for some gravel falling through the hole into the water at the bottom of the well, and occasionally making a few ripples, all that was left was the ticking sound of the watch on his wrist. The voices of his comrades-in-arms on the ground became so distant and ethereal that Oe couldn't even confirm whether he really heard them.
On the other hand, the oxygen content in the depths of this well is low, and when people come up, their heads are a little groggy and their wheezing becomes rapid.
Soon, the plastic bucket was filled with stones and dirt, and Dajiang sat on the pile of rubble, untied the safety rope, lit a cigarette, and silently watched the stainless steel bucket rise and disappear in the sound of hinges. After transporting a few barrels of gravel in this way, Oe could no longer remember the exact number, and the concept of time was slowly disappearing. At this time, he admired Xiao Zhao and the police officers who had taken turns to go down the well before, and working at the bottom of this well for a day was more painful than being directly locked in a confinement room.
During another excavation, Oe felt that the pile of rocks under his feet began to loosen a little, and the stones that fell into the well water were noticeably more than before. Dajiang fastened the safety rope, simply lay on the ground, stretched the emergency light in his hand into the oval hole, carefully illuminated, along the wall of the well, it seemed that it was less than two meters to the water surface, and the moisture of the well water formed a layer of light mist in front of the light pillar of the emergency light. Through the mist, Dajiang vaguely saw that less than half a meter below the pillar of light, there was a rectangular black shadow on the wall of the well, about thirty centimeters high and fifty centimeters wide, it seemed to be a gap without a bluestone wall, but the scattered light seemed to be swallowed, and it was impossible to see what was in the gap.
Oe's arm was turning very inconveniently in the hole, and he tried to turn his wrist, hoping to adjust the angle of the light of the emergency light, and at this moment, Oe felt the gravel beneath him begin to shake violently. In an instant, a muffled sound was transmitted from the bottom of the well, and Dajiang's originally flat body was almost upright under the action of the huge force under him.
The long-term criminal investigation work has made Dajiang's reaction speed and judgment ability longer than ordinary people, and when this thought crossed his mind, his body had already reacted to stress. He let go of his right hand that had reached into the hole, and the emergency light in his hand fell sharply downward, while he pulled it back as fast as he could. At the same time, he felt that there was still a stone under his right foot, and before he could think about it, his right foot glared downward, and his left hand pulled up the safety rope tied to his waist and extended upward, and the force of his left hand happened to be at the same time as the force of his right leg, and the last action was to try his best to lift his body up and curl up together.
This series of movements may have occurred in a fraction of a second, and Oe's alertness and sensitivity when danger struck him may have been only a fraction of a second faster than the speed of the rockfall collapse. After that, a deafening sound and smoke and dust rose everywhere, drowning everything. At the last moment before the bottom of the well was obscured by smoke and dust, Dajiang, curled up in mid-air, vaguely saw that the gap in the wall of the well he had just noticed seemed to have two cracks extending downward, forming the shape of a looming door.
Da Jiang couldn't hear what everyone was shouting above the well, but soon, the hinges began to turn, and his lung lobes were completely occupied by the smoke and dust, and after coughing a few times in pain, Da Jiang found that he was rising much faster than before.
The extreme lack of oxygen, coupled with the safety rope in his waist to bear all the weight of his body, aggravated Dae's difficulty in breathing. In the end, Dajiang only remembered that he had made a very solemn wish that he would lose weight starting tomorrow.
In fact, Dae was only in a coma for a short ten minutes, and when everyone was hurrying to untie him from the safety rope and prepare to carry him to the car to the hospital, he suddenly woke up. "What are you doing, put me down. Oe's shouts were full of anger.
The officers were all frozen in place. Lao Xue, who was holding his arm on the side, involuntarily pressed on his right arm.
"I don't have anything to do, don't talk nonsense. Hypoxia underneath. Oe bared his teeth and shouted again. Lao Xue sighed and nodded at everyone, "Put it down, put it down." ”
Da Jiang sat on the ground and coughed a few times, took the mineral water handed by Xiao Zhao, rinsed his mouth, and felt a lot more relaxed in his chest. "Keep working, I'm almost digging to the end, and there seems to be a passage blocked by rocks underneath. Dae said as he stroked towards everyone.
Only then did Dajiang notice that Xiao Lei had already stood by the well, tying the safety rope to his waist, and the emergency lights and sapper shovels were all put on small stainless steel buckets.
"Xiao Lei, you haven't gone down, you're not familiar with it underneath. Let Xiao Zhao and them go down. Dae shouted anxiously.
"Team Jiang, don't worry, Xiao Zhao is in the police academy, and I still teach the special rescue course. Xiao Lei smiled at Da Jiang, and the movements of his hands did not stop.
"Da Jiang, Xiao Lei is bold and careful, let him come, if it is him who just went down, we don't have to worry so much, you think we have nothing to do in the well! Lao Xue scolded while helping Da Jiang up.
"Take your time, it's almost there, don't rush it, safety first. Da Jiang turned his head and told Xiao Lei as he walked. "And Lao Xue, Secretary Zhang and they will definitely come tomorrow, you must dispose of the wine bottle, don't come to victory, and make a charge of going down the well after drinking, it's not worth it." ”
(Great Wisdom, if it is convenient for a person to cross the river in a dream, and before he crosses it, he realizes that he has already thought about what he sees: 'Is it true, is it false?' and recited himself: 'It is not true or false, but it is true, but it is seen and heard, and it is perceived, and it is separated from the ears that appear in the dream of the consciousness of non-thought!' This is the bodhisattva's attainment of nirvana, not destruction. --Ranga Sutra)