Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Meat Grinder
Bai Yunfei withdrew the torch, raised it above his head and swung it upwards to observe, observed for a long time, and then violently chiseled the stone wall in front of him a few times with the iron drill in his hand, and then sighed:
"Alas, this pit is too deep, and the surrounding stone walls have been polished, which is extremely smooth, and the stone is extremely hard, even if you want to hit the stone wall, it is very difficult."
He pointed into the gap again: "However, the crack caused by this earthquake is very wide, and it is not a problem to drill sideways through it, and because it is a naturally formed fracture, the walls on both sides are not so smooth, and some transverse stubbles perpendicular to the faΓ§ade can be stepped on, and relying on these stubbles is also convenient for hitting pitons." So I don't think we should climb along this seismic crack, and see our way through the machine-like space in front of us, but we can't find it, and then go back and study and escape. What do you see? β
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Bai Yunfei couldn't help but say: "Thank you for this earthquake zone, otherwise it would be really difficult for us to get out, this earthquake zone has helped us break through the blocking between the two traps, and we have saved too much trouble." β
As he spoke, he took out the pitons and hammer from his backpack, and took the first step into the crack, reminding him when he stepped on the rock at the broken stubble: "You must be careful, this crack is bottomless, although it may narrow after going down very deeply, and after it is narrow to a certain extent, even if it falls, it will get stuck there, and it will never fall down again, but it is estimated that it is impossible to come up." β
For the sake of prudence, Bai Yunfei decided to nail a few pitons every once in a while, and then each person cut off a piece of climbing rope, tied it to his waist, and when his feet were moving forward with the walls on both sides, he tried to hang the rope on the pitons he had nailed in front of him, so as to prevent him from accidentally falling, so as to have a protection.
In this way, I walked slowly and hard down the cracks in the ground created by the earthquake to the mechanical area in front of me.
During this period, there were also several thrilling situations of stepping on the air, but fortunately, after Bai Yunfei's proposal was adopted by everyone, the effect of preventing falling was better, and no one fell into the abyss under the crack of the ground due to mistakes.
When everyone gradually left this dangerous but shortcut crack in the ground and came to the space that looked like a machine, they couldn't help but sigh again and again.
The last one to come out of the underground crack created by the earthquake was Lu Wuyang, and when he came out, everyone was lying on the machinery in the space outside the crack, not daring to act rashly.
Lu Wuyang also slowly and carefully chose a "branch" in this huge mechanical group and lay down.
His weight immediately pressed on this mechanical part full of rust and musty smell, making all the connecting parts in the vicinity "creak" and squeak, fortunately, time is the best weapon, thousands of years of corrosion and wind and water impregnation have made these machines rotten and dumb fire, how can they still have the flexibility and domineering of the year?
But even so, it still made Lu Wuyang, who was puzzled when he saw everyone lying on his stomach on these mechanical arms, finally understood why everyone was so well-behaved.
This intricate, huge machine made of bronze parts is a complex and huge machine, and the more people move in it, the more dangerous it becomes
Narrow pass! It is very likely that a struggle will cause the whole machine to work.
The more it moves, the greater the driving force will be, and if a person falls into it, the easier it will be ground into a pulp by the running machine!
Not only did Lu Wuyang, who had studied machinery, understand this principle, but everyone who came out first in front had already seen this situation, so after everyone lay on the bronze mechanical components, no one dared to act rashly, and they all held their breath and lay motionless, raising their heads and observing nervously.
This huge group of machinery is like layers of screens assembled together, dense and compact.
Just when everyone was worried and didn't know how to continue to act, they saw that since this Lu Wuyang came up, it became "the last straw that broke the camel's back", and the weight added by everyone finally made the huge machinery that was already seriously corroded and inflexible turn around.
"Not good!" Bai Yunfei hurriedly leaned back, grabbed the broken stubble of the stone wall at the crack behind him with his backhand, and shouted anxiously: "Quick, everyone climb the stone wall quickly, otherwise our weight will sink us into the winch, and we will all die!" β
When everyone heard his shout, they hurriedly did as he said, but they couldn't turn around in time for a while, or even if they reached out and climbed the cracked stone wall behind them, they didn't catch the place where they could hold their hands, and their bodies were still falling down with the "clicking" mechanical parts.
At this time, everyone's legs, chests and other parts have the pain caused by the various parts of the winch pressing each other, and no longer only the momentum of continuing to operate, everyone will immediately splatter blood on the spot and grind into meat puree!
Fortunately, Bai Yunfei, who turned around at this time, quickly scratched his iron drill on the stone wall quickly, quickly, and finally inserted it into a narrow derivative crack, he dragged his body with one hand with all his strength, and at the same time used his other arm to pull the bronze mechanical component upward, and at the same time held his face distorted, and shouted out with difficulty: "Big Niu, help me pull this iron drill!" β
Niu Gang saw Bai Yunfei's iron drill inserted in the crack of the stone by the light of the torch, so he reached out to pull it, and a hand he held it first, but it turned out to be Wang Ziming's hand.
So the three of them pulled the iron drill hard, and at the same time lifted the sinking bronze mechanical components, and finally blocked the sinking momentum, and at this time, the others also found stubble, or small cracks on the stone wall near the big crack, picked with their hands, and pulled the bronze mechanical components hard, and finally lifted the huge and complicated machinery back to its original state.
"it! This is to grind us into minced meat buns. Old Ghost Su shouted in shock, and when he saw that there was no danger for the time being, he began to curse.
Han Debang had been frightened in the danger just now, and he didn't even have the strength to shout, his hands and feet trembled and felt numb and soft, but now after stopping the momentum of continuing to operate, the entire huge group of machinery began to gradually quiet down, and he gasped again and again, stuttering incoherently:
"Meat...... Meat buns? You..
.... Just your sour meat...... Feeding dogs is disliked...... You, who are you selling to? Lord Yama? ...... I, I rub! Was this ancient man sick? Get this...... What a big meat grinder, this Nima...... Feed the whales? Whew......"
After everyone was able to exert force at the same time, Bai Yunfei was finally no longer so difficult, and he was able to breathe a sigh of relief, and after a violent breath, he looked back in surprise at the huge machinery in front of him that could almost be described as "overwhelming", but the light of the torch was uncertain, and this mysterious bronze machine that everyone called the "meat grinder" was not only complicated, but also huge, and it was difficult to see it all at a glance.
But after a detailed look left and right, Bai Yunfei found that these various parts that constitute a complex machine, while matching each other, some are embedded in the stone wall, which should be used as a support and fixed point of focus, the further inside, the thinner the parts, but enough to easily grind the bones and flesh of any creature, these rusted bronze parts with the unique luster of ancient bronze, although none of the faces are sharp, but just by the edges and hardness of the rolling, it is enough to kill.
"Yunfei, think of a way, what should we do? Scratch...... Not stopped. This is Li Yulan's voice.
"Let's hold on for a while, I've got a way!" Bai Yunfei hurriedly let go of his hand pulling the iron chisel, tied the section of mountaineering rope tied to his waist to a horizontal bronze component, and then climbed this component, dragged the other end of the rope with his hand, stretched it into the chaotic group of components, selected a horizontal component in the same direction, tied it firmly, and tied the two components tightly together.
Then Bai Yunfei said to everyone: "Don't worry, everyone come in the order of my name, tie the section of mountaineering rope on your waist to a bronze component, and then tie it to the component that runs in the opposite direction to this component when it is running, and pull them to no longer run in reverse, this big guy will definitely not be able to run." β
After Bai Yunfei finished speaking, he began to read the name, and then told everyone, whoever tied the climbing rope would say a word, and the next person would let go of the hand and quickly tie up the two bronze components.
After Bai Yunfei's arrangement, everyone started from Niu Gang, let go of their hands in turn, untied the rope from their waists, tied it to the bronze component, and then tied another bronze component, and so on, and finally when everyone let go of their hands, although everyone was still standing or lying on those bronze components, this huge machine that had been "crunching" was silent, quietly like everyone did not come forward, completely silent.
Bai Yunfei lay on the bronze mechanical component under him, and stomped his foot on the other horizontal bronze mechanical component under his feet, wanting to check whether the huge winch that everyone had tied up could still work.
He stomped hard several times in succession, but there was still no response, which made his hanging heart relax.
With a long sigh of relief, he said, "It's okay for the time being." "Everyone relaxed their tense nerves.
"Yunfei does this
The law is good, the good Yunfei, every time there is a critical moment, you can always find a way to deal with the emergency. Cao Longxuan praised Bai Yunfei without hesitation.
"Where, where." Bai Yunfei wiped the sweat from his forehead, and stretched out the burning torch into the dense winch, illuminating a certain range of lights.
"In my opinion, we should climb these dense bronze shelves, climb up first, the density on the top is small, and the gap is also large, we climb to the opposite side from above, it seems, although the opposite side is still not clear now, the torch light can't shine there, but I guess, such a big earthquake, since the stone wall of this huge meat grinder has been shaken open, that side will not be spared, as long as the gap is wide enough, we can pass according to the method just now."
After Bai Yunfei finished speaking, and thought that his observation was relatively accurate, he took out a torch from his backpack, lit it, and inserted the torch that was about to burn out into the three-way position in front of the horizontal bronze mechanical component that he was stepping on, allowing it to radiate light to the end.
Bai Yunfei held the newly lit torch and began to climb up as he said, but the backpack behind him seriously hindered the passage between the narrow bronze mechanical components and the stone wall.
So he simply carried the backpack on his shoulder, held the torch in one hand, and used his hands and feet together, and began to climb upward.
Because all the gaps between the bronze components and the stone walls, between the bronze components and the bronze components are very narrow, after climbing up for a period of time, finally can no longer climb upwards, looking up by the light of the torches, you can already vaguely see the top tight stone slabs, these huge bluestone slabs are neatly stacked together, like manhole covers above this huge meat grinder space.
(End of chapter)