The four of them sat awkwardly for a while, and I wasn't in the mood to say anything to ease the scene. In the silence, the knock on the door is particularly loud.

The one who came in was a young man, not tall, wearing camouflage casual clothes, with a black and red face like Xiao Guolin, but he looked more energetic. It's hard to judge the age, and I look like I'm in my thirties, but I know that the actual age is not so old.

Captain Zhou gave us a little introduction, and left with a black face. Xiao Guolin patted me on the shoulder, "It's not easy for Lao Zhou to rush like this." There was some helplessness and reproach in his tone. After saying that, he also left. This young man is the squad leader of the engineering corps who will work with me, Liu Xiangrong.

Song Guilong couldn't leave, he still had to do specific handover work. The three of us sat around the desk and talked about the specific handover work, and Team Leader Liu and I also made specific introductions to each other and detailed plans for the following work. The work plan, at the moment I can only listen to it, and I am not qualified to make a proposal.

Squad leader Liu is very capable, and he has a kind of refreshing energy unique to soldiers. The most important thing is that I don't see decadence and depression in him, but he is full of vitality and confidence when it comes to work plans. His squad was full of twelve soldiers, including him and another deputy squad leader surnamed Zhang. He also saw that I had no experience in desert archaeology, and comforted me: "Our engineering company has been working in the desert all year round, and it is not difficult for us to dig this kind of exploration." Tomorrow you will guide us in the direction of excavation on the spot, in fact, in the desert construction difficulty is not underground, but on the ground, the weather is our biggest enemy. I guarantee you'll get the hang of it in three days. ”

Driven by his confident and energetic emotions, I gradually gained confidence in the next work.

After dinner, I met with this group of engineers, after all, they were all young people, and they quickly became acquainted. I'm the oldest, and they all affectionately call me Brother Qiang. Fortunately, there is no one older than me, and it will be more miserable if someone calls Xiaoqiang.

Early the next morning, I met up with the team and went to the construction site.

This is the largest archaeological exploration I've seen, and it's not the usual square exploration. This is a 10*20 square meter rectangular probe, the depth has been more than 10 meters, the pit is surrounded by support from top to bottom to prevent collapse. It was the strongest pit protection I'd ever seen, but when I got to the bottom of the pit, I looked up at the light blue support on the four walls, and then thought of the quicksand behind it, which couldn't be fixed at all, and I still felt a deep fear in my heart.

There is a hoisting equipment similar to a crane above the exploration pit, and the huge crane bracket is not independent of a certain exploration pit, but is connected in mid-air, forming a complex hoisting system. It's as if a complex transportation network has been established in mid-air, through which a dozen or so exploration pits underground are connected. There are already large-scale excavation probes on the ground, and there are only seven or eight of them, and they are far away from each other. From where I was, I could see a dense forest of brackets for the hoisting system.

Looking at this huge crane network, I couldn't help but feel the grandeur and complexity of this project, and I also deeply understood Captain Xiao's words: For some of us, it may be a lifelong career.

With such a huge investment in this project, it seems that it has been planned for a long time. According to Song Guilong's introduction on the road, this archaeological activity must be completed before the end of the year, that is, before the arrival of the desert wind season. But there is another problem I don't understand, in the desert wind season, a sandstorm will wipe out all traces here, in the face of quicksand, these steel keel frame hoisting system, fragile as firewood. I have never seen the horror of sandstorms, but I still understand and hear about them. I really don't know what they think.

Dump buckets the size of a small truck hang down from the steel cable under the hoisting system. The fighters load the excavated yellow sand into the dump bucket, which is rising, and transports the yellow sand to the material specialist through the hoisting network. They had to do the most meticulous screening until they were sure that there was nothing of value in the sand, and then they would scatter it into the distance.

We also entered the probe in a dump. Because Song Guilong went to pick me up yesterday, squad leader Liu took a day off for their class, which is very rare for them. Similarly, if you enter the probe every other day, you should be more careful about the inspection of the protection of the four walls of the probe. As soon as he entered the exploration side, squad leader Liu led the soldiers to check the protection. I was immediately attracted by one of the pits, something that resembled a submarine.

It is a round jar with a length of four meters and a diameter of three meters, with a striking orange appearance and flat ends, and is placed in the middle of the exploration square. I used to tap it with my knuckles, and it made a metallic sound, which was hollow. The two round tanks each have two round windows with a diameter of nearly 20 centimeters, a bit like the portholes on small airliners. Through one porthole, I could see that inside was a confined space, with four seats facing each other in two rows. There is a breathing mask on top of each seat, and a tube is attached to the back, which is supposed to be an emergency breathing system.

I walked around the tank and found that the four portholes were set up the same, but they were not connected to each other, and they were four separate cramped spaces. The space in the four portholes is divided between the ends of the tin can, and there is obviously a mezzanine in the middle of the round can. I could tell that this was a rescue pod, which would be used to escape if there was a collapse here. The unfamiliarity with desert archaeology, and the fear of this deep and large exploration area, made me immediately interested in this escape pod.

Helping me get acquainted with this escape pod is obviously also one of the responsibilities of squad leader Liu. After he checked the pit protection, he immediately came over and told me how to use the escape pod. He first slapped one of the middle of the escape pod, a red protrusion in the shape of a peach pit. On both sides of the middle of the escape pod, open two doors upwards at the same time. Through the four portholes, I was presented with a space that I had never seen. From my side, I saw the sand on the opposite side and the faces of several fighters coming over, which was a buffer bin device. There are four handwheels with a diameter of more than a foot on both sides, and it is obvious that behind them is the main rescue cabin.

At the signal of squad leader Liu, a soldier jumped on the buffer bin and turned a handwheel. Immediately, a door the size of a dog's hole fell inward, and as soon as the warrior turned around, his back was over the dog's hole, and he entered the hole with his body bowed first, and then he fell backwards and the man disappeared. I was still amazed by the amazing performance of this warrior, and the second warrior jumped on it, and then the third, and the fourth, and in the blink of an eye, the four warriors disappeared into the dog hole, and the hatch closed the moment the fourth warrior disappeared.

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