826.Mine Collapse (5/5)
Li Du just guessed casually, but he didn't expect that he was likely to guess correctly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
There may have been a snake nest around the mine, and Meme told him that when they were digging the hole, they had found a poisonous snake some distance away, and that one of the miners had been bitten by a poisonous snake because of their carelessness.
"Fortunately, we were in time for the rescue and the serum was prepared in the mine, otherwise the situation would have been very bad." "As we dig later, we come across more and more snakes......
After discovering a large number of snakes, the miners became resistant to the mine and did not want to continue digging, they all have families with wives and children, and they are worried about accidents.
No trace of the gem vein was found in this mine, so Mime also decided to backfill the mine and not dig it, so the mine became what Li Du and the others saw, and only half of the digging was stopped.
After the introduction, Mim cautiously asked, "This kind of thing is common in all mines, doesn't it mean that I cheated you?" I'm not maliciously withholding negative information, am I? ”
Li Du cleaned up Blatche's affair to warn them, and Mime believed that he didn't have Blatche's energy, let alone fight Li Du, so he didn't dare to provoke him.
Hearing the jealousy in his words, Li Du smiled: "Oh, of course it doesn't count, I just asked you to understand the situation at that time, and now we have encountered a lot of snakes, as well as poisonous snakes." ”
Mime persuaded: "Listen to me, man, forget about this mine, it's normal for one or two snakes to appear, so many snakes?" Apparently, there is a nest of snakes. ”
There are many underground snake nests in Australia, and if you dig a hole and dig multiple snakes or find a snake path, people tend to think of snake nests and give up digging to keep digging.
Li Du couldn't give up, this mine was leading to a vein of black opal, which contained at least millions of gems.
He had to thank the vipers for keeping Meme and the miners at bay, otherwise they would have been able to discover the veins of gems.
It is not difficult to drive away the snakes, as long as you sprinkle strong snake repellent powder, it is really not necessary to use cement to seal the mine directly and see where these snakes come from.
He was a little puzzled, when he checked this mine before, he didn't see a single snake, why did the snake group appear as soon as it was dug up?
Controlling the little flying insect back into the mine, he carefully examined the surrounding situation, and then gradually came to a guess.
The snakes don't live in or near the mines, so he didn't see them when he checked them with small flying insects before, and they only appeared after digging the mines.
When they appear, try to gather at the end of the mine, as if something is attracting them.
All Li Du could think of was that the black opal was attracting them, and these snakes might have wanted to get close before, but the mine was blocked, and there were solid rock formations near the ore veins, and there were no holes and gaps for them to get closer.
There are holes and crevices around the perimeter of the mine, and after digging up the backfill ore, they may follow the gaps back into the mine.
If his guess is true, it is, as some miners say, that the snake has something to do with the black opal veins.
However, this cannot be established, this speculation has appeared for a long time, people have done experiments, and no connection between snakes and black opals has been found, that is, snakes have not been found to be more interested in black opals.
Confused, Li Dude continued to work.
Brother Wolf went to the town to buy two large barrels of snake repellent powder, he first sprinkled some around the residential cabin, then put on glasses and a mask, and went into the mine to sprinkle some.
If he could, Li Du didn't want to use this thing, snake repellent powder has a strong irritation, and Meow, Ah, Crispy Noodles and Ali don't like this thing.
Snake repellent powder was effective, and as the thing was sprinkled in, the snakes in the mine began to evacuate, wriggling away through the crevices around the mine.
Snake repellent powder was used twice to disperse all the snakes in the mine, so that Li Du and the others could continue to work.
Now the work is even more difficult, the mine is covered with dust, and they can't use the exhaust fan, otherwise the snake repellent powder will fly around and paste their whole body.
The mine was already damp and stuffy, and when you couldn't use an exhaust fan, it was torture to stay underneath.
Fortunately, Brother Wolf and Godzilla are hard-working people, and they are also obedient, so they did not complain and continued to work while wearing masks.
The next step is to dig deeper, this time with tools such as crushers.
Because of the addition of repellent powder, digging this mine was more laborious than opening a new mine at Mine 115, mainly because people were sinned underneath.
That's why miners give up when they find snakes in the mines, and the use of snake repellent powder can certainly drive away snakes, but it's too torturous.
Li Du was able to endure these tortures because he had a definite goal, and if he didn't know if there were any gems ahead, he wouldn't be able to persevere.
The edge of the sword is sharpened, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold.
The words left by the ancestors were indeed reasonable, and after some torture, they finally entered the mining area and dug up the ore containing the black opal.
Li Du gave bonuses to Godzilla and Brother Wolf, and one of them gave 100,000 yuan.
After getting the money, the two of them were even less disgusted with the crime, and it began to rain in late May, and they continued to work.
Among several subordinates, Li Du's favorite is the two of them, both of whom have a character of 'treating me as a countryman, and I will repay me as a countryman'.
Li Du gave them money, it would not fatten their appetite, it would only win their gratitude and love, and the two would work harder to repay him.
However, the autumn rain continued, and for safety, Li Du still suspended the mining work.
Brother Wolf put forward his opinion: "There are gaps between the underground ores, and the rainwater will flow into it, so that the snake repellent powder will soon be washed away by the rain, and the snakes will come back at that time." ”
Li Du shook his head and said: "Then when the weather is good, we will sprinkle snake repellent powder again, and we must not do it any longer, brother, you also see that water has seeped into the mine, so the mine is in danger." ”
Although the geology around Lightning Ridge is relatively good, and most of them are solid rock formations, which are not easy to collapse into the mine, this is just not easy to happen, not that it will not happen.
The autumn rain fell for two days in a row, and the next night it suddenly turned to torrential rain.
On the morning of the third day, Li Du went to catch crayfish again in the rain, and came back to make a big pot of spicy crayfish with beer to prepare a refreshing handful.
At the moment when the crayfish came out of the pot, the pot suddenly shook, and then a muffled sound came in: "Boom!" ”
Lying on the ground, Ah Meow Sixiao jumped up together and looked at the west with a flustered gaze.
Li Du subconsciously joked: "This thunder is really loud, the pot is shocked and jumped, I thought it was the crayfish alive." ”
Brother Wolf said with a solemn face: "No, boss, a mine has collapsed!" ”