The Scourge of Witchcraft Chapter 51 Separation is imminent
As fewer and fewer rocks fell and more and more dirt fell, I suddenly felt a strong wind pushing me back, and I immediately realized that something was wrong, so I rushed out and pulled Qiu Yan back.
Just as I was protecting Qiu Yan at the foot of the brick wall, there was a loud "bang" outside the doorway, followed by darkness, and the gravel and dirt that hit me like bullets, and the roof of the cave collapsed!
After about a quarter of an hour, the shaking of the doorway and the sound outside, I turned on my headlamp and saw that the doorway had already been sealed by a pile of dirt!
"Okay, we only have one choice left now!" Mr. Bi glanced at the doorway, and then looked at the brick wall behind him.
"No, I'd rather die here than open this wall!" Zhu Wu's tone was very resolute, it seemed that he was really afraid of the zombies behind the wall.
I looked at the dirt blocking the doorway and thought for a moment, then said, "Maybe brick walls aren't the only option for us." ”
After listening to my words, Qiu Yan and the three of them looked at me at the same time, I paused, and then explained: "What does this soil mean when it is blocked at the door?" ”
Zhu Wu shook his head, "It means that the door hole is blocked!" ”
"Hehe, it means that the soil did not fall, but was caught by the iron chain net! Let's calculate, this hall is at most twenty meters above the ground, in addition to the height of the hall, the thickness of the entire covering is at most fifteen meters, I believe that if we dig up fifteen meters, we can definitely see the sky overhead, and then we can get out with a little way? ”
"But who knows how long the chain net will last, maybe we'll fall halfway through the digging!" Mr. Bi emphasized.
"Well, yes, the chain network will break at any time, and there may be zombies behind the brick wall, no matter which way we choose, there is no absolute safety, but, compared to zombies, I choose to believe in chains, what about you!"
"I believe in chains!" Zhu Wu said without hesitation.
"I~~~ I believe in you!" After Qiu Yan finished speaking, she walked towards the door.
"Hehe, Mr. Bi, three to one, let's go, start digging earlier, let's have less risk of falling!"
Mr. Bi shook his head and joined in.
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The four of us only had a sapper shovel in Zhu Wu's hand, Zhu Wu and I had to take turns digging, and Qiu Yan and Mr. Bi were responsible for transporting the soil.
We wore masks, and from time to time the masks were fogged by the breath I exhaled, and sometimes they were covered with mud, and I was in a hurry, so I ripped the mask off.
I didn't expect that after tearing off the mask, it didn't suffocate as suddenly as I imagined, and there was only a little pungent smell of sulfur in the air around me, but other than that, there was a strong earthy smell, but it didn't prevent me from breathing.
After discovering this situation, I quickly beckoned the others to take off the mask as well, Qiu Yan may have been busy transporting dirt before, and did not notice that I took off the mask, but now seeing that my head was bare, she quickly urged me to put the mask on, but after listening to my explanation, she finally quieted down, and after hesitating for a while, she and Mr. Bi took off the mask one after another.
Both of them took off their masks and took a long breath, and they could imagine that everyone was not engaged in manual work, and suddenly they were so busy with work, they must have been suffocated.
We took off our masks and looked at each other for a while, and then we laughed out loud, and Zhu Wu, who was still digging the soil above, didn't know why, and it took a long time to understand after watching us.
Zhu Wu was more simple than me, and when he saw that it was no big deal to take off the mask, he simply took off his jumpsuit.
It was easy, and naturally it was faster, but when I got to the back, I could clearly feel that it was getting colder and colder, and I realized that we were not far from going out.
Maybe we had been unlucky, but this time the good luck finally arrived, and there was no movement during the time we were digging the hole.
After digging up for a few minutes, Zhu Wu suddenly stopped, "Everyone be quiet!" ”
My heart twisted, thinking that something was wrong again, but Zhu Wu's next sentence immediately made me relax, "Listen, is it a voice?" ”
I quickly held my breath and pricked up my ears to listen, and sure enough, above us, there seemed to be a faint sound of talking.
"Hey, is there anyone out there?" Zhu Wu screamed coldly, almost breaking my eardrums.
However, the shouting had an immediate effect, and I heard someone getting closer, "Who, who!" ”
"We, Zhu Wu and Mr. Bi!"
"You live! Great, wait, we'll come to your rescue right away! ”
Not long after the sound of talking stopped, I heard the sound of shoveling dirt from above.
In this way, we joined forces up and down, and after a few minutes, we finally saw the bright sky above our heads, as well as the two wrinkled old faces of Old Man Li and Old Man Guo.
"Haha, I'll just say, digging it out is the best way, it seems that you think the same way." Old man Li, like Zhu Wu, was covered in mud, like a clay doll.
"What about the others?" I asked.
"I don't know, we were the first to come out, and we just tried to find a way to get out, and I heard your shouts!"
I looked up, and sure enough, I saw three people who had stayed outside throwing ropes down here.
"Alright, let's go up quickly, and then find a way to save the others when it's safe!" I commanded.
So, with the help of the people above, a group of seven of us finally climbed up, and when I went up to take a look, I found that the whole mountain bag had sunk down, and the original protruding mountain bag had now become a big pit with a radius of thirty or forty meters, and even our camp was almost destroyed.
After a short break, we discussed it and decided that we still had to find a way to save others, Lao Li is a master of digging holes, and he and I will go down first, and then take turns to dig down to save people.
Just in case, Old Man Li and I tied ropes around our waists, and the other end of the rope was tied to the camp, so that if the pile of dirt fell, we wouldn't fall with it.
Just do it, Old Man Li and I drank some water, and set off with a shovel.
After going down, we calculated according to the direction they dug out, and the rest of the people were distributed in the three door holes, it is certain that Chen Fangyuan and Luo Laodao and the brother who went to dig the brick wall before were in a door hole, and among the other five people, there were three hired people together, these three people were young and strong, the problem was not big, the biggest problem was Mr. Ouyang here, if we calculated correctly, there was only one person around Mr. Ouyang, Mr. Ouyang was a literati, and he was old, so he probably couldn't help much. Even if the brother who was with him thought of digging it up, he probably had to die of exhaustion.
After calculating the location, I discussed it with Old Man Li, and decided that Old Man Li would dig Mr. Ouyang's place, while I would dig Chen Fangyuan's place, and after rescuing these people, I would finally save those three people.
At this time, it had been more than half a day since we entered the hall, and it was getting darker and darker, and I couldn't help but speed up my hand.
After two rounds of rotation, when it was my turn again, I suddenly heard a sound in the middle of the pit, I ran over to listen, and sure enough, I heard someone shouting below, so I hurriedly beckoned Old Man Li to come over, and the two of us followed the sound to dig a few shovels, and sure enough, the three young and strong people were dug out.
When they came out and asked, I realized that the three of them were actually the same as me, and as soon as the cave was quiet, they thought of digging a hole, but the three of them had no experience, so they just dug all the way, and they didn't expect to waste so much effort, and they dug all the way to the middle of the pit, and if they dug in the right direction, maybe they would come out before me.
I beckoned the people above to pull the three people up first, and then went into the hole that had been dug deep with Old Man Li and then dug down.
After digging for more than ten minutes, we finally dug out Professor Ouyang and Chen Fangyuan successively.
I have to say that these old men are really miserable, and there is no one to dig them out, among them, Professor Ouyang is the worst, the two of them have not dared to take off their masks, and they are almost suffocated.
After pulling the people up, the group of people sat miserably around the fire in the camp, and not a single one said a word, but I looked at the neatly eighteen people, and my heart was indescribably relaxed.
The three people who had stayed outside the camp seemed to feel guilty, and they gave everyone a hot bath without saying a word, and after washing up, they prepared dinner, and almost didn't bathe us themselves.
I couldn't wait to see that the bath had to come one by one, so I hugged my clothes and said to go to the hot spring to wash, who knew that the translator shook his head and said that there was no need to go, the hot spring was gone!
When I asked, I found out that after the collapse of the hill, it may have caused a linkage reaction, and several hot spring eyes stopped watering, and now in the past, I can only see a few calcareous soil pits.
In desperation, I had to sit honestly and line up.
Fortunately, after everyone took a hot bath and had a full meal, the atmosphere finally began to improve, and everyone talked about this escape, and slowly, there was a smile on their faces.
But unlike the others, it was Chen Fangyuan and the other six old men, who were around the fire, whispering something, I didn't need to listen to it to know, most of it was about tortoise shells.
In the hall before, the tortoise shell had been on my chest, and when I was taking a shower, I took a special look at it, and I could make sure that it was the same set as the tortoise shell that my grandfather gave me, and at this moment, the tortoise shell was in my underwear pocket, and it was impossible for me to hand it over.
Chen Fangyuan's action this time can be said to be a failure, and I have gained a lot, so I don't bother to care about those old men, pulling Qiu Yan to mix in the crowd of Zhu Wu and others, eating mutton and drinking beer.
Chen Fangyuan didn't come to me until late at night, although I felt a little strange, but I didn't pay attention to it, the next day, I slept until I woke up naturally, and I felt sore, but this soreness with a kind of relaxing pleasure was not particularly uncomfortable.
When I woke up, Chen Fangyuan's people were packing up their things and carrying them to the car, and it seemed that they were about to withdraw.
I woke up Qiu Yan, who was sleeping, and then found Chen Fangyuan, who was directing the lifting of things, and asked him what was going on.
Chen Fangyuan smiled miserably, "Hey, the tortoise shell was not found, and the tomb collapsed, why are you still staying here?" ”
I said disapprerovingly: "It's your business to find the tortoise shell, but you promised to help Qiu Yan afterwards!" ”
Chen Fangyuan patted me on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry, what I promised will definitely be done, let's go out first, and then let Professor Ouyang take some blood samples for Qiu Yan, and then contact you after we study and study." ”
As soon as I heard it, Chen Fangyuan was planning to break up with us!
I don't know why, my mood is very complicated at this moment, originally I thought that I should be in a hurry to avoid Chen Fangyuan after secretly getting the tortoise shell, but when I realized that I had to part with Chen Fangyuan, I was a little reluctant!
In these days of contact with Chen Fangyuan, seeing their actions with my own eyes, I found that they are not as bad as I imagined, especially this contact I did learn a lot from them, and also answered a lot of my doubts, which makes me want to continue to follow them, want to learn more things from them, and answer more doubts.
However, although I think so in my heart, I also know that separation is inevitable, the purpose behind Chen Fangyuan's group is still unknown, I can't really treat them as good people because of a little favor, reason tells me that before I really understand them, it's better to keep a little distance from them!