"Tick-tock... Tick tock..."

The water dripping from the walls of the cave fell into the puddles on the ground, emitting hollow echoes, and An Xiaoyu and Chu Sui sat on a stone each, worried.

In the Eastern Desert, the last thing to worry about is getting soaked, even if the entire mine is filled with water, the clothes of the two of them are still dry in more than ten minutes. Chu Sui told An Xiaoyu the reason for her previous wandering, and she felt that it made sense, so they walked around the pit for most of the day.

However, things are not as simple as they think, the wall lamps hanging in the pit every now and then I don't know why, the waterproof is so good, and the power has not been cut off even when the outside has become a disaster, but they walk to a place casually, and they always feel that it is no different from what they have walked before.

The walls are similar, the sconces are similar, the overhead and the ground are similar. An Xiaoyu was a little deflated and asked Chu Sui: "Where is the end of this mine?" ”

Chu Sui spread his hands and said that he didn't know: "The deep mines are all old qualifications to be responsible, I have only been working here for two years, and I have always been on the shallow pit." ”

An Xiaoyu pouted, holding her chin with her hand, not knowing what she was thinking. This is bitter Chu Sui, and his heart is very entangled now. When I was in school, because I was too honest, I didn't have many friends at school who could talk, let alone girls. After graduating, I signed up as a miner within a few days of looking for a job.

This innocent old virgin who hasn't said a word to a girl for twenty years was deeply attracted by this girl at the first glance when he saw An Xiaoyu. He had a little excitement in his heart that he didn't know how to vent, wanting to show his firmness and reliability in front of this girl, but he didn't know that reality was about to hit him more than just this embarrassment in front of him.

To be honest, in the Eastern Desert, An Xiaoyu is a very beautiful one. From childhood to adulthood, as the eldest daughter, she was neither arranged with all kinds of housework like other older children in the family, nor did she follow the family to the field once, which can be regarded as a privilege for the daughter of the patriarch's family. So, all the while, she seems more tranquil than the others.

Either reading or studying at home all day long, plus the foundation is better, this girl is actually in the dusty world of the Eastern Desert, and she has a thin skin and tender appearance, which is not much worse than those daughters in the imperial capital.

However, the difference between her and everyone else is that she is plain, simple, and innocent, just like the Eastern Desert, blowing from the East China Sea, passing through the cracks of the long mountains and mountains, with a beauty that is completely different from this dry land and boring world, eye-catching, and unbearable to blasphemy.

An Xiaoyu sat on the stone, tangled, entangled, and suddenly turned around and asked Chu Sui: "We won't starve to death here, right?" ”

But Chu Sui didn't seem to hear her practical and worrying question, he was looking at An Xiaoyu in a daze, I don't know when he started, he was already completely immersed in fantasy. Even An Xiaoyu turned around, he didn't pay attention to it, and it wasn't until she called two or three times that Chu Sui came to his senses.

"Huh? What did you just say? Chu Sui blushed a little and asked pretending to be calm.

"I mean, if the water doesn't go down and no one comes looking for us, will we starve to death here?" An Xiaoyu's worries are not unreasonable, in such a mine, it is easy to starve to death in normal times, not to mention that it is still filled with water.

Chu Sui looked at An Xiaoyu, Dai Mei frowned like a small flower bent in the wind in the wilderness, he was heartbroken, made up his mind, and said loudly: "No!" ”

"Won't it?"

"Hmm." Chu Sui nodded, An Xiaoyu was infected by his firm expression, and instantly felt a lot more at ease. In order to relieve the boredom, and in order to stop the eagerness for the hope of life in his heart, Chu Sui began to chat with An Xiaoyu.

Most of the content of the conversation is the experience of these years, the years he grew up in Dongyun, from childhood to school, and then to graduation and start a life as a miner, he was going to talk casually, but seeing An Xiaoyu listening carefully, he actually stopped his mouth as soon as he said it, and said a lot at once.

An Xiaoyu also told him about some tribal things, most of which are difficult for others outside the tribe to know, although the empire has also had film crews that have made documentaries for the life customs of various tribes, but in the mouth of a native of the Eastern Wilderness, some things that outsiders don't know are more interesting.

Chatting and chatting, the two of them began to get acquainted, not as polite as they were at the beginning, talking and laughing, as if they were not in a distressed mine now, nor were they facing the situation of choosing to face death at any time, just like sitting idly under the blue sky and white clouds.

However, reality soon came back to them - An Xiaoyu's stomach screamed.

Originally, the four of them and "Harrier" were planning to come back for dinner at noon, but after they came back, they encountered the beast tide, so they stayed in the house, because they had eaten in the morning, and they were too nervous, so they never felt hungry, but now I don't know what time it is in the afternoon, and it may even be evening, An Xiaoyu finally felt that her stomach was empty.

Her stomach was screaming loudly, and she didn't know why, she had screamed when she was following the trend to lose weight at school before, and she didn't scream so loudly at all. Is it because of the echo?

An Xiaoyu looked at Chu Sui a little shyly and smiled.

Chu Sui scratched his head, he really couldn't think of any way, he couldn't find anything to eat in this place, and it was true that the miners who went to the deep tunnels stipulated that they must bring rations that could sustain a day's energy, but Chu Sui originally went to a shallow pit to explore today, and he didn't bring anything except instruments and safety ropes.

He told An Xiaoyu about this, An Xiaoyu grimaced, looked down at the bundle of safety ropes on the ground, and muttered, "Safety ropes, why don't you eat them?" ”

Originally, it was still gloomy, Chu Sui was worried about the stomachs of the two people and the big water that still had no intention of retreating, and when he heard An Xiaoyu say this, he couldn't help laughing. An Xiaoyu felt that she had been greatly ridiculed, and pouted: "Hmph! ”

Seeing that she was unhappy, Chu Sui hurriedly said, "After I go out, I will definitely make the safety rope into something that can be eaten." ”

An Xiaoyu listened to him, and although he was sincere, he inexplicably felt that the ridicule was even stronger.

In order to alleviate their hunger, the two of them continued to chat casually, planning to wait for the hunger to pass, and they would be able to survive for a while, An Xiaoyu was more curious, why it was obviously underground, and even the underground layer of the base was submerged, but there was no water in this mine.

Chu Sui's guess is that between this mine and the seepage mine, there is a cave that leads directly to the underground, and all the water from there leaks down, so the water can't reach this side.

"Well, you have a point." An Xiaoyu was convinced, and he really deserved to be an old miner.

Chu Sui finally had a feeling of raising his eyebrows, although he clearly knew that he was just guessing, after all, he was just mining here, if it was about what he had in his head, he was far from being as good as An Xiaoyu, an honor student with top academic performance.

At this time, An Xiaoyu didn't know that because of her disappearance, the already chaotic base was even more chaotic.

Amaranth and the people in the control team finally worked out a reasonable passage that could keep most of the living area from being flooded, and through some passages, ventilation ducts, and water pipes, the underground water pressure was discharged to the ground.

By the time the simulation proved feasible, the water pressure in the resource area had reached a critical value, and if no immediate action was taken, the floor of the living area would crack, and there would be no possibility of controlling the water flow.

So Bai Amaranth immediately made a decision, immediately controlled the opening and closing of the hatch, opened the fixed pipe, and discharged all the underground water pressure through the ground floor. But what she didn't expect was that when she gave the order, there was actually a person who was ignored by the control room in those corridors that should have been notified to be cleared.

Because this person was not a staff member of the base, let alone a member of the visiting group, and even the registered identity was temporary, the electronic system showed that after this person went out in the morning, there was no record of her key card coming back in all the key card logs.

An Xiaoyu, who was not notified by anyone, stood in the most turbulent place of the drainage channel they had set up and was washed away.

Massive water gushed out along the passage of the region, filling the passage room, rushing along the corridors in all directions to the vast space outside, releasing endless power, and even breaking several hatches that had fallen into disrepair. Fortunately, because of the large transportation volume on the ground floor, many truck passages are extremely wide, and the water pressure that has been stored underground for a long time is perfectly dissipated.

When Chi Mo stood behind the divided troops to observe and direct the battle, his ominous premonition became stronger and stronger, as if an invisible knife was pressing against his waist and eyes, making him want to move but not know where to start.

Therefore, he can only be on guard at all times, guarding against a crisis that will suddenly arise from what direction, and in order to prevent a sudden situation from disrupting the combat arrangements, he strictly ordered everyone to be vigilant, and all part of the observer personnel reported every ten minutes.

However, what he would never have imagined, this premonition of crisis, was that when he was nervously observing the outside, he suddenly burst out of the base behind him.

The steel plates that fell off in the passage were carried by the water flow and gushed out of the passage, rising to a height of more than ten meters, and fell on the floor of the warehouse with a "clang". The raging water roared and rolled up waves into the warehouse, and before the people in the warehouse could react, the waves had passed through the soles of their feet, lifted them high into the air, and slammed them onto the metal floor, rushing out uncontrollably.

The sudden flood made everyone panic, if it weren't for the fortifications outside the gate for the soldiers to rely on, if it weren't for the mecha standing in the center of the position to give them a place to start, I'm afraid that this wave of water would be enough to rush all the divided troops in front of the gate out of the position and throw them into the raging swarm.

Chi Mo grabbed the doorknob of an armored car in his hand, shouted orders not to panic, ordered to rely on fortifications to prevent being washed away, used ropes to fix his body, and continued to carry out the scheduled attack on the swarm. He then immediately contacted the control room and asked loudly, "What happened?" ”

The voice of Bai Amaranth came from the communication in the control room, and told Chi Mo about the underground water leakage, Chi Mo's face was gloomy, and he told Bai Amaranth: "It's not that simple, you let everyone stay together, approve everyone to use weapons, and be careful not to disperse." ”

The gushing of groundwater will not always be so ferocious, let alone in the desert, Bai Amaranth wonders why Chi Mo is so worried, and asks everyone to bring weapons.

Chi Mo told her: "In the early days of the construction of the base, there was no undercurrent in the ground, and I suspect that the time of water seepage is not natural." ”

Bai Amaranth instantly became serious, and she asked, "The Crossing Beast?" ”

Chi Mo said "um", and was about to put down the communicator, but suddenly remembered to say to Bai Amaranth: "By the way, Xiaoyu is going back, you take her to the side." ”

Bai Amaranth's always cold face was surprised: "What? She's back? ”

"You gave her your key card?"

She put down the communicator and suddenly panicked.