Everyone climbed up along the staggered cracks in the ground, and the smell of sulfur in these cracks was so thick and abnormal that the nose and cranial nerves were almost numb, and the air was also scorching.

Crawling here is very slow and dangerous, and if you are not careful, you can fall into the endless darkness below, and eventually end up in the sea of lava.

The only thing that is good is that the air circulates in these crevices, but it is not suffocating.

After a life-and-death struggle, everyone was like running out of oil lamps, and they couldn't climb anymore, so they all fell asleep.

This long sleep has replenished a lot of physical strength and energy, and everyone's injuries are not so painful.

Bai Yunfei beckoned everyone to use all the remaining pitiful drinking water, except for medicines, climbing tools and tools, the rest were all abandoned, and they tried to travel as lightly as possible.

And encouraged everyone to say: "Ninety-nine bows have been worshipped, and we must not miss this trembling, everyone come on!" ”

Everyone gritted their teeth and continued to climb upwards with difficulty.

The arduous crawl lasted for several days and there was no end in sight.

Because sometimes the gap is so narrow, people can only use tools to widen it, and then reluctantly drill through it like insects, which is very time-consuming.

Fortunately, the rocks in these long-term geothermal conditions have been brittle, and in the geological changes of tens of trillions of years, they have been eroded by those salt lake waters, wind erosion, etc., and even the surface of some crevices has been crisped and can barely be widened.

Eventually, everyone climbed to the point where they couldn't move forward at all, and it was impossible to widen the gap here.

But fortunately, everyone saw that there was natural light shining in above the gap, although it was small, but it should be less than ten meters above the ground.

And if you listen closely, you can actually hear the slight sound of the wind outside.

However, the explosives are gone, and even if they do, they dare not use them, for fear that they will be buried alive after the explosion, and they may not be able to get out.

Judging from the data displayed on Li Yulan's "universal watch", it is estimated that this place is about to get close to the ground.

Before entering the underground, Cao Longxuan used this kind of watch to measure the altitude of the local area where everyone was located, and the data displayed now shows that there is no big difference between the height of the people from the ground and the visual estimate.

Unable to move forward, the group looked sideways for a crack and found that one of the cracks was sweating with crude oil on one of the rock walls.

It is possible that over a long period of time, cracks caused by earthquakes, crustal changes, volcanic eruptions, etc., have connected underground oil layers, and it is believed that crude oil has surged up and seeped out of these tiny cracks.

This discovery suddenly reminded Bai Yunfei of something, so he said in surprise:

"Everyone should have confidence, I remembered one thing just now, if the estimate is good, this time we are in the right direction, and we will definitely be able to successfully get out of danger.

That is, before coming to Xinjiang, when we were training at that expansion base, in order to prepare for homework, I had collected information on the Internet, and I still had some understanding of the basic situation of Karamay.

Although this area of Karamay in Xinjiang is rich in oil, it still needs to drill oil wells and drill hundreds of kilometers underground to extract oil, and the only place is where crude oil comes directly out of the ground. ”

When he said this, Han Debang's eyes immediately lit up, and he hurriedly shouted: "I know where it is, it's 'Black Oil Mountain', that is, 'Asphalt Hill'!" ”

Li Yulan also said: "I have combed through these materials in detail, before the liberation, there were people in the vicinity who collected open-pit crude oil for a long time, until the early days of liberation, there was an old Uyghur named Sailimbayi, who lived in a nearby cellar to collect crude oil, and then transported it to the surrounding area with a donkey to exchange for daily necessities." ”

Lu Wuyang's face was full of question marks, and he asked: "You mean that the oil here can be directly connected to the ground?" ”

Niu Gang glanced at him and said, "It's not what's wrong, we learned it during the training camp before we set off, why don't you understand it?" I saw that you just didn't pay attention to the lecture at that time, and you were a calf. ”

Han Debang happily gestured:

"Our 'Captain of the White Army' also said that although oil is abundant here, the only place where oil can come out of the ground is 'Black Oil Mountain'. And in the place in front of us that is not a few meters from the ground, we can actually see the extravagated crude oil, which means that we have arrived at the Black Oil Mountain. Maybe if you cut through this rock wall, you can drill out through the mouth where oil gushes out! ”

Bai Yunfei was not as blindly optimistic as Han Debang, but thought for a long time, and then Han Debang's words said:

"The only thing that can't be determined is how big this opening is, although we can try to get out of trouble by expanding the opening, but the rock layer at the mouth is thin, if it is particularly thick, if you want to open it, under our current conditions, it is almost impossible."

The Persian cat in Li Yulan's backpack became restless, she opened the backpack, and the cat jumped out, climbed up along the crack in the ground, drilled out of the crack, and went up to the ground.

Seeing that they were about to reach the ground, it seemed that they were about to escape, and everyone was naturally happy.

But there are disagreements on whether it is worth the risk of breaking through the oil-seeping stone wall, and the ratio of people to three is somewhat deadlocked.

At this time, everyone found that Li Yulan took out her mobile phone from her body and was making a call.

It turned out that she was dialing Cao Longxuan's mobile phone, but what she didn't expect was that there was a signal.

On the phone, Cao Longxuan said that he and Sun Er were about to leave Karamay and rush to the Devil's City, preparing to re-enter the underground palace to rescue everyone.

He said that he had also gone through a lot of hardships, and he finally got out of trouble and just came out of the underground palace.

Because he was injured while fleeing, he returned to Karamay on a tour bus that came to Devil's City, and just finished healing, and then led Sun Er and them to prepare to go to Devil's City.

Now that I am halfway there, I know that everyone is here in the Black Oil Mountain, and I will immediately rush here.

When he heard that it was Cao Longxuan, he aroused several people to abuse him.

Everyone waited until nightfall, until they lost their patience, and Cao Longxuan and they arrived.

He had people dive into the oil in the "asphalt mound" pit to find a way out.

The probing people said that the hole below was small, and people could not go down at all.

The crowd communicated by phone, saying that the crowd would drill through the rock wall here, drain the oil pressure, see if it could allow people to enter underneath, and then widen the hole to go out.

Later, I saw that this method did not work, the rock wall was thick, and the oil pressure was also large, so I used a sledgehammer to drive the iron drill into a deep hole, and the crude oil shot outward like a line, but it still did not pass through.

They kept looking for the place of the people on the ground, but they couldn't find it.

Old Ghost Su came up with a trick, and lit some plastic bags that he always carried in his backpack in everyone, as well as some medical gauze given by Wang Ziming, wrapped around the handle of the connected Luoyang shovel, stained with crude oil, and immediately gave birth to thick black smoke after ignition, and it came out along the cracks, and they finally discovered the location of everyone.

They measured on the ground, and the nearest "oil spring" in the "asphalt mound" was only a dozen meters away, so they let people dive into the bottom of the oil again, drill the rock with an electric pickaxe, and then chisel horizontally in the direction of everyone.

Because the drill is working in the oil, there is no serious noise coming out, so it will not be detected.

And the power supply is connected from the power supply of a nearby drilling well.

In addition, this kind of rescue will not leave any traces afterwards, and it is better than digging directly in the crack of the ground to conceal it.

However, it is said that not only in the Karamay Oilfield in Xinjiang, but also in the Daqing Oilfield in Heilongjiang, the Liaohe Oilfield in Liaoning, the Shengli Oilfield in Shandong, the Zhongyuan Oilfield in Henan, and the North China Oilfield in the Jizhong Plain, there are those who specialize in stealing crude oil for a living.

Because oil has a high value, stealing oil is naturally a huge profit, and those who steal oil do not hesitate to take risks and risk breaking the law to steal oil.

Therefore, there is always a popular saying on the oil field front, calling those who steal crude oil "oil guzzlers".

In fact, this is also a derivative phenomenon of the development of things, as the so-called "relying on the mountain to eat the mountain, relying on the water to eat the water".

Just like the train station has ticket sellers who specialize in dumping "scalper tickets", and the hospital has "medical trusts" who pretend to see patients, they are all "parasites" and "vampires" who cling to the body of the legitimate industry and seek improper benefits.

For a long time, although stealing national crude oil is also a felony, but the huge profits obtained after stealing crude oil are too tempting to people, so although the state has intensified the crackdown on "oil guzzlers", it is still repeatedly prohibited.

Only in recent years, national laws and regulations have been continuously updated, oilfield management has become stricter, the industry order has become more formal, and the industry market has been cleaned up, so that these "oil guzzlers" have no loopholes to drill.

And in today's long dark night, under the starless and moonless night sky, in the cold wind howling in the Gobi Desert in the Great Northwest, everyone is a "fuel guzzler".

I don't know if I will think that everyone is stealing oil when I am bumped into in the middle of the night, and there will definitely be patrols or public security departments to arrest everyone.

After tossing for most of the night, they finally chiseled open the rock wall between the "oil spring" and the gap where everyone was, and everyone was able to pick up their lives and escape.

In the end, everyone was covered in black oil, and they could barely see the human form, and they came out of the oil pool of the "asphalt mound".

In fact, oil is not a liquid like diesel and gasoline, like water, but a viscous porridge-like gelatin, and people trapped in this thing are like being bound by ropes, and their movements are slow and difficult, and it is easy to imagine how long they can survive in the absence of air.

At this time, the Persian cat appeared again, probably because everyone was covered with oil, and it couldn't recognize everyone anymore, especially Li Yulan.

So the blue and faint terrifying essence light in the demon pupil bloomed again, and everyone didn't dare to look at the demon light, Li Yulan began to block her eyes and gently summoned it: "Nyanko, Nyanko..."

Hearing Li Yulan's call, the strong light in its eyes weakened a lot, and it hesitated to take a few steps forward, raised its nose and sniffed vigorously, sneezed, turned around and ran, and disappeared into the vast night.

Li Yulan was so distressed that she called out repeatedly, but the shadow of the cat that was as gentle as a lover and as terrible as a demon god was gone.

Everyone hurriedly took off their wetsuits full of oil, packed them in plastic bags, changed into clothes, boarded everyone's escort car, and headed for Karamay City.

When Karamay was resting, everyone pointed the finger at Cao Longxuan, except for Li Yulan and Su Laogui who didn't speak, the rest of them were emotional and had great opinions.

Cao Longxuan still looked calm and relaxed.

The reason he gave was that in such a dead end, he had to escape to be able to rescue everyone, and it was better than dying there.

It was difficult for everyone to accept his statement, but after all, it was everyone he rescued in the end, and they all came back safely, so they buried their grievances in their stomachs and didn't say anything more.

(End of Volume 1 "Kurosawa's Domain")