Lu Nianzi knew that although Chen Mengqi was weak in appearance, her personality was extremely stubborn, and she already had an old problem of depression, if she insisted on not letting her go to the scene, maybe it would really cause an old illness.

So, she had to tell Chen Mengqi: "You can go to the scene, but you must do two things: first, you have to stay a little away from the crowd, and it is best to stand in a darkly lit place and try not to let people see it; Second, no matter what happens, you can't be too sad, you can't rush to the front, you can't cry out loud, okay? ”

Chen Mengqi nodded silently, followed Lu Nianzi up the small slope, and found a place to stand outside the searchlight circle at the scene, She Mengyao was afraid that something would happen to her, so she followed her closely.

At about half past ten, there was a sudden commotion in front of the drilling, as if something unexpected had happened.

She Mengyao knew that Chen Mengqi must have wanted to know what was going on in front of her, but it was inconvenient to go over, so she said to her: "Qiqi, you are standing here now, I will go to the front to see what happened." ”

Chen Mengqi nodded, and She Mengyao hurriedly ran to the front right, found Su Jinsong, and asked him what happened to him.

Su Jinsong's eyes were red, and he said with anxiety on his face: "The drilling machine has been drilling for more than two hours, and it has been drilled more than 120 meters away, but it has not yet penetrated into the empty roadway, and it is estimated that there is a problem, so the drilling engineer recommends stopping drilling first and studying what the cause is." ”

When Su Jinsong explained to She Mengyao, Guo Guangwei, who had been waiting near the drilling rig, began to frown and ask the engineer why.

An engineer analyzed: "Secretary Guo, according to the analysis of the criminal investigation technicians of your provincial department, the collapse caused by the explosion of those gangsters may be about fifty or sixty meters. In order to test the length of the tunnel in the cave, we did not start at the top of the ventilation shaft, but from the middle of the rocks in the cave. In this way, at the end of the collapsed roadway, there is a void in front of our drill bit, and there is no rock to block it, and the drill bit will idle, and we can judge how long this roadway is collapsed.

"However, we tried twice in succession, the first time to 150 meters and the second time to 120 meters, and the drill bit did not idle, and there were still rocks in front of us. In other words, according to the direction of our current drilling, one hundred and fifty meters ahead, there is not a tunnel for ventilation shafts, but a very solid rock wall——"

Guo Guangwei asked impatiently: "Just tell me where the problem is!" ”

"It's simple: we're drilling in the wrong direction and at the wrong angle. I reckon: the shaft either has a slope that slopes downwards or a bend in the front section. And the angle and direction of our drilling is to assume that the hole is straight forward, so our drill bit is also straight ahead. However, if a hole in front of it is tilted at an angle downward, or if a turn is made somewhere, even if it is a small angle, it will cause our drill bit to deviate a lot from the roadway. If you drill like this, there will always be a rock wall in front of you, and it will be impossible to drill into that empty roadway. ”

Guo Guangwei's face suddenly became grim, and he turned his head and asked the criminal investigation technician surnamed Chen: "Have you understood the internal situation of this cave?" Does this ventilation shaft have a sloping slope? Are there any curves in the front section? ”

The technician's face turned red all of a sudden, and he replied in a snort: "Secretary Guo, I'm sorry, I've never entered such a hole, and subconsciously always thought that they all extended straight to the front, and I didn't think that there would be slopes and curves inside, which is a dereliction of duty in our work, and I will review." ”

Guo Guangwei said angrily: "It's really a mess of playing the piano!" If you carry out criminal investigation with such a working attitude and sense of responsibility, how can you solve the case? How to provide evidence and clues for investigators? Before you make a plan, can't you ask an absentee who is familiar with the situation to ask about the situation? ”

Xia Wei, who was standing on the side, saw that Guo Guangwei was furious, and the technician surnamed Chen had been trained to be like dirt, and he was busy explaining to him: "Secretary Guo, Lao Chen, they are all criminal investigation technicians, not exploration engineers, and it is understandable that some problems are difficult to think through. It is useless to hold them accountable now, and a solution must be found immediately. ”

Subsequently, he instructed Luo Xiong to quickly find a local absentee who was familiar with the situation of the ventilation shaft, and asked if the ventilation shaft was inclined down?

The absentee replied: "This wellhead does have a little slope, that is, it slopes down a little from the wellhead, but the angle of inclination is not large, and I don't know exactly how much." ”

A drilling engineer hurriedly asked, "How long is this slope?" When you reach the bottom of the slope, are there all straight lanes inside? Are there any curves in between? ”

Kuang Gong thought for a while and replied: "This slope should be about ten meters, and after reaching the bottom of the slope, it will be very straight to the front, and there will be no curves, and there will be no forked roadway until five hundred meters later, leading to the north, east, and west three faces." ”

The engineer nodded and said to Guo Guangwei: "Secretary Guo, if you want to accurately drill through the collapsed roadway, there is only one stupid way now: first use an excavator to clean up the first ten meters of the collapse, and then drive the drilling rig into the bottom of the slope, and then start drilling into it from there." Otherwise, our drill bits would not be able to drill into the empty tunnels inside. ”

Guo Guangwei anxiously asked: "How long will it take to clean the ten-meter-long collapsed roadway with an excavator?" ”

"The fastest is 24 hours, because this hole is not big, can only accommodate an excavator for operation, and there may be a secondary collapse at any time on the way, so the speed is not fast, 24 hours is already the most optimistic estimate!"

Guo Guangwei waved his hand helplessly and said, "Start digging, try to speed up!" ”

At this time, at the three-way intersection in the ventilation shaft, Ye Ming began to have a high fever because of the severe inflammation of the shoulder wound.

Since the afternoon, he has been leaning on the cave wall of the three forks, in order to save the power of the mobile phone, turned off the mobile phone, slept groggily in the dark for several hours, and at eight o'clock in the evening, he only felt that his whole body was hot, and his mind was like a mess, and he was so uncomfortable.

He was well aware: this was due to the fact that the wound in the shoulder was not treated in time, began to become inflamed, and provoked a high fever. This kind of high fever is very fatal, in the case of lack of water and food, your resistance and tolerance are already very poor, if the high fever continues, you are likely to pass out and never wake up again.

At the thought of the terrible consequences, he stuck out his tongue and licked the skin of his chapped and scorched lips, then struggled to open his eyes, struggling to get up and not let himself fall asleep. However, as soon as he straightened up, he suddenly felt a dizziness in his mind, his body went limp, and he fell to the ground with a thud, and passed out......