Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Strange Cave
This act of checking the guns has become a habit of the "Eight Immortals" expedition.
Through inspection, everyone found that the guns were basically good, and just now, because they suddenly heard the statue emitting a piercing and strange whistling sound, felt the earth tremble, and heard the roar in the distance, everyone vaguely guessed that it might be those "sword stabbing cattle" herd back again, and the instinct of self-protection made everyone carry the submachine gun in their hands when they came out of the barracks and wooden huts.
And this time, because Wei Baozhu was kidnapped on the way back, everyone came in a hurry, all with only guns and no other supplies, although it was a bit laborious to track in the mud, but it was much better than carrying those heavy objects on their bodies.
Before they reached the steep cliff in front of them, they saw Bo Deqin and a few soldiers and bandits who had lost their armor and were very embarrassed, and they were already running towards the barracks in a panic.
Bai Yunfei and the others stopped them, and when they saw Bai Yunfei and the others, they also had an expression that they could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and shouted loudly in shock: "Come and see, those bull demon kings in your Chinese mythology have knocked the mountains out of big holes!" ”
When everyone heard this, they were very surprised: no matter how big these "sword stabbing bulls" are, no matter how fierce their strength is, and how wild their temperament is, it is impossible to knock the mountain out of the hole.
Bai Yunfei asked the frightened Bo Deqin to say again what was going on.
Podchin swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and said with a pale face:
"It's so amazing, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, if someone else told me, I wouldn't have believed it. The army of those 'returning' Bull Demon Kings crashed into the ochre mountain in front of them and knocked the mountain out of a big hole, which was really fucking scared to death! ”
Naturally, these words were said in Shan language, otherwise with his current level of shock, if he expressed them in broken Chinese, he would definitely be incoherent and incomprehensible.
When the "Eight Immortals" expedition team and a few of his subordinates led by Bodechin rushed to the location where the "sword stabbing bull" herd that Bodechin said crashed into the "big hole" in the mountain, they couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
I saw that the steep cliff in front of me was intact, and there was no "big hole" at all.
With his head in his hands, his eyes widened, he looked at the cliff for a while, looked at his subordinates for a while, and couldn't even say a word.
And his subordinates were like dead fish, staring at the abrupt eyes, shocked by the scene in front of them.
"Commander Deqin, is this the place where you said that the big hole that was knocked out by those 'sacred cows'?" Bai Yunfei looked at him a little playfully, and couldn't help but ask with mockery.
"This, this... This. The leader of the bandits, Bo Dechin, who claimed to be the commander of the Shan Autonomous Army, and Po Dechin, who claimed to be a patriot, lost his leadership demeanor at this time, and stammered and did not know how to answer Bai Yunfei's questions.
Bai Yunfei saw that he couldn't answer, and he didn't save him any face, so he directly and ruthlessly exposed his "scars": "I think this hole does exist,
But it's not as big as you say, it's supposed to be a small hole drilled by ants..."
Bo Deqin was stimulated by Bai Yunfei to blush and have a thick neck, but he couldn't refute it for a while, making his already tanned face look purple and red like soy liver, and he could cut a piece and fry the wine.
"Oh, that's not right, you see, this mountain is good, but the cow's hoof prints on the ground are not fake." Bodchin suddenly pointed to the hoof prints of cattle trampled on the muddy ground, and his emotions immediately became excited.
Everyone looked down at the ground at their feet, and suddenly shouted in unison as if they had encountered a devil.
It turned out that on the muddy ground, the dense ox hoof prints were completely facing the direction of the steep cliff, and extended to the bottom of the cliff, and even directly in the direction of the cliff, they had directly reached the cliff.
But the strange thing is that these hoof prints are facing this direction, neither turning nor turning back, but disappearing into thin air before reaching the cliff.
"The world's top ten unsolved mysteries appeared outside the ancient tomb of King Wei?!" Although Han Debang was also surprised, he still didn't forget to humor it.
"In my opinion, it's not some unsolved mystery, but it seems that this group of mutated giant bulls really rushed into the mountain." Bai Yunfei frowned, staring at the cow's hoof prints on the ground and the cliff of the mountain, and said hesitantly.
"!" Old Ghost Su glanced at him, and his tone was quite disdainful:
"My old ghost has robbed tombs all my life, and I have experienced many strange things, but I have never seen a cow break through a mountain. Not to mention breaking the mountain, it is the two bull horns itching, and they are also on each other's top frames, how can there be horns to hit the mountain drops? Cows, although no one is smart, are so stupid. ”
After speaking, he didn't forget to add a sentence to laugh at Bai Yunfei's discussion: "It's really a brag and no taxes, you baby, you can actually blow the cow to the mountains, your bragging ability is about to surpass my old ghost." ”
"I don't think Yunfei is speculating, maybe what he said is really right."
Wang Ziming took a few steps forward, came to the cliff wall, bent down, pulled out the rock fragments that had been in the mud from the cow's hoof print, wiped the mud with his hands, and then compared the cliff in front of him while refuting Su Laogui's words.
"What's right?" Old Ghost Su asked.
Everyone also opened their eyes and looked straight at Wang Ziming, hoping that he would answer this question as soon as possible, because this is also the question in everyone's hearts now.
"You see, there are some crushed rock fragments in these hoof prints, and it must be that the direction of the ox impact is towards the mountain, so the crushed rock fragments must be splashed into the mountain, and if this guess is correct, it also proves that the mountain is empty."
As he spoke, he glanced at the cliff again, showed the cliff rock fragments in his hand to everyone, and continued:
"But the physical phenomenon of impact will naturally not be completely regular and absolutely one direction, so there must be some scattered debris flying out of the mountain, and this should be. If there had been no impact, how could there be these fragments in these fresh, freshly produced hoof prints? ”
"Oops, listen
It's so hard for you to die in this pimple, what are you doing with that calf? You said that there may be an empty shell in this mountain, so why are you still stabbing around here? Can't you just chisel it? As far as you are concerned, you are really clean and ridiculous (the same as "pulling calves", in the Northeast dialect), how can you do it with this efficiency? The cave room hasn't entered yet, and the children have come out. ”
Niu Gang looked angry, lifted the submachine gun and stepped up in a few big steps, stood under the cliff of the Ten Thousand Peaks, turned the gun body, and smashed the cliff with the butt of the gun.
There was a loud "bang", and under the manipulation of Niu Steel's tower-like body, the butt of the gun slammed heavily on the cliff.
I saw that the rock cliff that seemed to be like an iron wall was immediately shattered under this smash, revealing a hole the size of a basin.
"Wow!!" Everyone exclaimed in unison.
"How?" Wang Ziming looked at Old Ghost Su and said with a mocking smile: "I said that it is very likely that Yunfei said it, right?" ”
"I'll be a good girl!" Old Ghost Su's mantra burst out again.
Lu Wuyang hurriedly stepped forward, took out the "wolf eye" flashlight he carried with him, and shone it into the hole that appeared on the cliff wall.
"Oh my God! It's so empty here, you can't see the edge at all. Lu Wuyang turned around and said in astonishment.
"Very good, Yunfei's intuition is as accurate as ever." Cao Longxuan sincerely praised Bai Yunfei with satisfaction. "Without further ado, we will quickly expand the hole in this mountain, so that it is convenient to enter and trace."
"Don't rush yet, let's figure out the situation." Bai Yunfei also stepped forward at this time, carefully observing the cliff wall of the mountain that could be smashed out of the hole.
"What's the trouble, if you want me to say, it's over after a few smashes." Niu Gang said impatiently.
Bai Yunfei ignored him, he had been with Niu Gang's comrades-in-arms for many years, Niu Gang's quick temper he knew very well, and he spoke like a pump, straight to the point.
"That's it, what's the hesitation? Isn't that like words?" Bodchin looked anxious, but he was not very easy to express, and he pondered how to make the meaning clear.
"No, what our Captain Bai said is very right, there are weirdness everywhere here, if you don't figure it out, rush in, once you encounter an unknown situation, it will be difficult to get out."
Lu Wuyang said, giving Bo Deqin a blank look, he naturally didn't have any good impression of this murderous demon king who abused him, so he didn't hide his dislike for him:
"When you hear about the treasure, your eyes are brighter than a light bulb, but you have to have a life to make it happen." After speaking, he ignored Bodchin, who was still wondering what he meant by his words.
Lu Wuyang stretched out his hand and pulled off a piece of fragment from the hole smashed by Niu Gang, put it in front of his eyes to observe it carefully, and then heard him say with great certainty: "Paraffin, this is natural paraffin." ”
"Are you sure?" Cao Longxuan asked Lu Wuyang.
"Of course." Lu Wuyang replied without modesty: "In our business, since you want to study and understand the types of machinery and equipment, the understanding of materials is the most basic, you don't even know what one thing is made of, how can you talk about analysis and research?" ”
Cao Longxuan nodded, expressing his approval of his words.
Then I listened to Lu Wuyang introduce to everyone:
"Paraffin is generally a mixture of hydrocarbons extracted from certain distillates of petroleum, shale oil or other bituminous mineral oils, and the main component is solid alkanes, odorless and tasteless, white or light yellow translucent solid. Paraffin wax is amorphous but has a distinct crystalline structure. There is also artificial paraffin. ”
As he spoke, he plucked out a few pieces of rock from the hole in the cliff and handed them to each of them.
"Of course, paraffin wax is also natural, but it is very rare to encounter natural paraffin, because in the natural environment of nature, it is very difficult to form natural paraffin. Come on, everybody. ”
He explained to everyone with the paraffin fragments in his hand:
"Paraffin, also known as crystalline wax, is usually a white, odorless, waxy solid that melts at 47°C-64°C and has a density of about 0.9 grams per cubic centimeter.
It can be soluble in gasoline, carbon disulfide, xylene, ether, benzene, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, naphtha and other non-polar solvents, insoluble in water and methanol and other polar solvents.
Pure paraffin wax is a good insulator, with a resistivity of 1013-1017 ohms per meter, which is higher than most materials except some plastics. Paraffin wax is also a good heat storage material, with a specific heat capacity of 2.14..."
Talking about his familiar professional knowledge, Lu Wuyang talked eloquently: "But everyone looks at the current in our hands, these rocks are not white and tasteless, but completely like stones, with both the texture of rocks and the unique smell of rocks. But you see..."
As he spoke, he took a lighter out of his jacket pocket and set it on fire to the small stone.
But when he found that the lighter was out of steam, he angrily threw it on the mud ground covered with cow hoof prints, and yelled at Bodechin: "Damn, it's all a good thing you did, a good lighter, it was originally a spare one, I just ran out of that lighter, and this one was fucking broken when you tortured us!" ”
(End of chapter)