Chapter 714: Underground River
Su Manman really had no way to answer what kind of induction this was.
"It's nothing, your words are very useful to me, I will definitely find him, your brother will be fine, I have a hunch. ”
The telepathy between the twins is not nonsense, but there is a certain basis, does that mean that Zheng Jingyi may not have an accident? Is there an accident when he falls below, is it possible that there is a place like a secret room below?
Although it was only based on speculation, it gave Su Manman endless confidence and gave her the courage to pick up the shovel again.
Everyone set up tents, rested in the open space for the night, and started digging again early the next morning.
Zhao Xiang divided the people into two groups, one group went to the lighter places in the forest where there was no miasma to find food, and the other group went to the rescue, and the two sides replaced them after a period of time, so that the efficiency was greatly improved.
There is no way to compare the labor of more than 100 people working together with a dozen people, and in a day's work, at least dozens of baskets of dirt have been lifted up the pit.
At this rate, it is estimated that it will not take long to dig through to the end.
The treasure flew back that day, and it was not too clear to everyone, Zheng Jingyi and his party fell in, but it was not the ground that collapsed, but a crack in the surface at that time, and the people fell.
After the person fell, the surrounding ground collapsed, and the earth piled up, crushing the person underneath.
In fact, it was just a moment's effort, and the people on the side couldn't even react.
If this is the case, it means that the person fell into the bottom rather than being trapped in the dirt, so that the possibility of suffocation is half smaller, and if there is another space below, it is not necessarily an immediate death.
After Zhao Xiang listened to the information of Zheng Jingyi's subordinates, he was also in high spirits, arranged manpower, and even filled the queue in the first half of the night, whether it was life or death to dig it out.
But as the hole gets deeper and deeper, after the soil dug up by everyone at five or six meters fills the soil basket, it needs to be lifted by a special person, and the speed is getting slower and slower.
Su Manman was anxious, she felt that this would not work, it was too time-consuming, so she made a pulley out of wood, and only two people were needed to control the pulley on it, and she could take turns to bring the soil up, which saved a lot of manpower.
Only then did everyone realize that Xiao Su's mechanism technique was not covered, it was very useful!
There are trees around, and if the quality is not good, they will be replaced when the time comes, and everyone is full of energy.
According to Zhao Xiang's estimate, how can it be almost dug in another three or five days, after all, the previous eleven people also spent a lot of time.
His estimate was not wrong, after four days, there was a feeling of bottoming out, but after that, it was not only the gravel and dirt that were dug up, but also the corpses, which made everyone's hearts sink, could it be that Zheng Jingyi and his party were killed?
"Dig hard, even if it's a dead person, it's our brothers, let's take the brothers home!" Zhao Xiang shouted in a hoarse voice.
Su Manman picked up the shovel again and joined it, she didn't believe in that evil, she had to see people with her own eyes before she died, even if she couldn't see the faces of these people clearly, she could still recognize Zheng Jingyi, because he had a pendant around his neck, she knew.
That was Zheng Jingyi's unique mark, something he would never take off until he died.
One by one, the corpses were dug up, and in order to prevent the plague, everyone had to dig a large pit and bury everyone in their place, and as the number of corpses increased, everyone seemed to have little hope.
Every corpse was examined, and most of them were stoned to death, and a small number were suffocated, indicating that some of them died instantly, and some of them struggled for a while.
When dozens of corpses were dug up, the sound of gurgling water suddenly came from the ground, and as the digging got deeper and deeper, the sound became clearer and clearer.
"There's an underground river down there, and there may not be any living people, so dig it up!"
The sound of flowing water was injected into people's hearts like a heart booster, and everyone worked harder.
Another day passed, and they dug a natural cavern, which was stretching to one side, and in the distance an underground river was gurgling and glowing darkly.
After dozens of bodies were exhumed, not a single body was left in view.
Every body of Su Manman has been examined, and there is no Zheng Jingyi in it, so he is still alive?
The huge surprise overwhelmed her, making her almost unable to control herself, she knew that so many people were killed, she shouldn't be so happy, but she couldn't stop the surprise welling up in her heart, although her face was expressionless, but a flower had bloomed in her heart.
Zhao Xiang held the torch and walked around the cave: "The ground is very wet, there are some obvious footprints on it, and it is disorganized, it should be Zheng Jianshi and they have walked here, we only need to follow those footprints to find people." ”
"What Lord Zhao said is good, but there was no news from them a month ago, and I don't know if they have returned to the ground. Let's follow their footprints to find someone, everyone's supplies are also very important, why don't you rest for a day today to prepare your things, and set off again tomorrow!"
Zhao Xiang listened and nodded: "What you said makes sense, the situation below is unknown, we can't be wrong to make more preparations, in case they don't come out of the surface, we have to take them back with us after we find people, and it will take time when the time comes, and it will definitely not work if the supplies are not sufficient." ”
He sent several tasks in succession, the hunting of the group, the repair of weapons, and the torches of torches, all of which could not be idle.
Su Manman naturally doesn't have free time, she doesn't need to hunt, but it's still useful to add some herbs to everyone, maybe there are fish in the dark river inside, and making some harpoons and fishing nets will also be rewarding, in case there are no fish, those harpoons are also very useful, and they are also very good as weapons.
This workload is a bit large, and she doesn't have eight hands, so she can only ask Zhao Xiang for a few hands to help her.
After learning that Zheng Jingyi might be fine, her mood has changed a lot, and she has the patience to calm down and do something else, and people's mood really has a lot to do with the stimulation of the outside world.
Everyone was doing their own things in an orderly manner, Su Manman was busy picking herbs in the afternoon, and then making medicinal herbs into pills, these are life-saving means when necessary, everyone knows the importance of medicinal materials, and they all help.