Chapter 124: The Mine Disaster (I)
"Hey, Brother Hang, can't you give me a perspective? I don't know when I'm going to find it. Zhang Yuan put the hoe on his shoulder with one hand, and complained with the other hand on the rock wall. The team going down to the mine is still moving along the bottomless mine road, and the distance they have traveled is all excavated by their predecessors.
"It's useless, my perspective only works on humans right now, not on objects. Besides, you don't even know if the other party has done anything or not, and what they may have used, how can I help you? ”
Zhang Yuan withdrew the hand that was supporting the rock wall, and saw through the light of the light stone above his head that his hand was covered with black rock ash. He quickly shook his hand and scolded, "Damn, this is too dirty." ”
Hearing this, the spirit of the plug-in joked: "If you want to open it, you haven't taken a shower for a few days anyway, maybe it will get even dirtier after a while." But didn't they say that every time you go down to the mine, you will arrange a shower, and then you can wash your hands. ”
"Take a bath? If you say that, I'm starting to worry about changing clothes again. But it's a big question whether I'll be able to take a shower today, and I don't want to wear this dress for a second now. Zhang Yuan wiped his hands on his clothes, but instead of getting cleaner, there was a lot of black on his clothes.
After walking for a while, the team finally stopped at the bottom of the mine, and Zhang Yuan quickly stood in place and tiptoed back and forth. The mine road came down from the top and twisted and twisted, and he was numb on his feet when he walked far away, and he really doubted that he would have the physical strength to work for another distance. Thinking of this, he angrily walked to the middle of the mine and kicked the slide rail lying on the ground. Now that they have this thing, can't they be brought down in a minecart?
Only Xiao Xuan came down with the slaves, and the overseers would not deign to enter this filthy mine. But to ensure the efficiency of the prisoners is also a problem, so the overseers practice is to exchange water for ore, push a cart of ore up, and all the prisoners pushing the cart can ask for a bowl of water to drink. Of course, it was all the prisoners in the cart who shared a bowl of water to drink, not one bowl per person.
Zhang Yuan put his head on the top of the minecart and looked at it, the capacity inside was quite large, it was estimated that it would take a lot of work to fill it, and he would definitely not be able to push it alone, so he had to call the younger brothers to help. When Tai Meng, Tietou and Shen Ying saw Zhang Yuan, they all consciously moved closer, and the matter of ore for water was also said by Tai Meng and Zhang Yuan, and it belonged to the practice here.
Among the three people, it was still Tai Meng who spoke first: "Boss, let's dig it for you, you just look at it, and then we will push the car up together." Of course, you don't need to push the cart, the three of us can come, and when you drink water, you drink first. ”
Zhang Yuan turned around and leaned half-on the minecart, the mine hoe leaned at his feet, he looked at his three younger brothers, and said, "Do I look like a person who can't do work?" I'm just a little tired right now, and I'll work with you guys when I get a break. I'm really convinced, what are the minecarts all piled up underneath, they can't be pulled up to let us sit down. ”
"Boss, we can sit down after we push it up in a while." After Tai Meng finished speaking, he led the iron head and Shen Cheng to mine. As soon as Zhang Yuan leaned against the minecart, he felt like his whole body was glued to it, and he didn't want to stand up straight again. During the time he was resting, the three younger brothers all carried the ore back and forth.
Is this ore so easy to dig? Zhang Yuan stood up, he felt that he hadn't rested for long, why did the three of them all send a trip back with ore, and everyone brought a lot of ore. Zhang Yuan was about to pick up a pickaxe and dig together, but he saw a prisoner he was not familiar with coming over with several pieces of ore and pouring one of them into the mine cart that Zhang Yuan was leaning on.
"Hey." Zhang Yuan stopped the prisoner who was holding the remaining ore and was about to leave, "What do you mean by this?" Eh, don't put it in, I didn't let you put it in again. Why are you going to put ore in our minecarts, your minecarts? ”
"Huh? Ah, I, this ......" The prisoner held the ore in his hand, and could not utter a complete sentence. Fortunately, at this time, Tai Meng came back with the ore again, Zhang Yuan stretched out his finger and pointed at the prisoner in front of him, and Tai Meng immediately leaned over to explain the matter to Zhang Yuan.
"Boss, this is our rule here, every time an ordinary prisoner digs ore, he must hand over a piece to the prison bully before sending it to his minecart." Tai Meng said as he threw all the ore in his hand into the minecart, and now the ore inside could spread the bottom of the cart invisible.
"Rules, that's what you've done in the past?" Zhang Yuan turned his head again to ask the prisoner who was delivering the ore for confirmation.
"Yes, yes, that's what I did." The prisoner quickly nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice, which made Zhang Yuan wonder if he had scared the other party again.
Zhang Yuan originally wanted to ask the prisoner to take the ore away, but thinking that he wouldn't stay here for long, he wouldn't break the rules. Only then did he wave his hand at the prisoner in front of him: "Okay, then you can go with your business." ”
The prisoner hurriedly ran away as if he were about to be amnestied, and Zhang Yuan also picked up his pickaxe and followed Tai Meng to mine. As a city person who has traveled through the past in modern society, Zhang Yuan has naturally never been exposed to this kind of manual labor at all, but he is just doing it, and most of the ore is still knocked down by the iron head.
Seeing that Tietou had sent another trip to the ore, Zhang Yuan crossed his waist and sighed: "Eh, it's really not easy to dig this ore down." ”
"yes, yes, this ore is too hard." Tai Meng on the side hurriedly nodded and agreed.
"Okay, don't keep talking according to me, the tone of a big man sounds weird." Zhang Yuan said angrily, it is good that this Taimeng is good at socializing, but it feels too tired to please himself like this every day.
"Boss, our minecart is full." The voice of the iron head came from far away from the minecart, and when Zhang Yuan heard this shout, he immediately put down the tools in his hand and ran towards the minecart. Except for the bowl of porridge in the morning, Zhang Yuan has never touched a drop of water, and now that he can finally get wet, how can he not be excited.
When passing by other minecarts, Zhang Yuan stretched out his head to look inside, these minecarts were only one-half to one-third loaded, although this had something to do with the mining speed of the three strong men, but I am afraid that there were still a lot of ores that were paid by other prisoners.
"Hey, Brother Hang, do you think I'm robbing others of the opportunity to drink water?" Zhang Yuan also felt a little uncomfortable at this time, he didn't have to do anything here, and he was the first to drink water.
"Don't think about it so much, since you can't change this situation, you might as well enjoy your privileges." "It's just right, when the cart goes up for a while, you pay more attention to the surrounding environment and see if you can find any clues." ”
Zhang Yuan nodded, signaling that he knew, and it just so happened that at this time they also walked to the side of the minecart, which was full of electric pyroxene with a slight blue light. Zhang Yuan casually picked up an electric pyroxene from his face and checked it in his hand, and his eyes looked around, taking in the surrounding scenes.
The prisoners were all mining seriously at this time, and Xiao Xuan was walking around patrolling, looking serious. It seems that there is no special situation in this underground at present, and I don't know if I am suspicious this time.
Tai Meng and Shen Cheng had already piled up the ore they had just dug up on the minecart at this time, and Zhang Yuan also put the piece back in his hand. Although the three younger brothers all said that they didn't need Zhang Yuan to push the cart himself, the matter of drinking water first already made him embarrassed, and Zhang Yuan himself would not be happy if he didn't push the cart.
The first step in delivering the mine is to push the minecart onto the slide, which is considered a technical job, but this kind of thing is still difficult for the technical responsibility of the trio of Li Minzhi.
Zhang Yuan originally thought that he would have to align for a long time before he could push the minecart from the end of the slide rail and let the wheels jam the guide rails, but after he and Tietou Taimeng let go of their hands, Shen Cheng gently pushed the minecart onto the guide rail at one time. After the iron head held down the minecart from one side and shook it, and fully confirmed that the wheels were jammed, the four of them pushed the cart up together.
I don't know if it's because a few people are too strong, or if the ore is too light, Zhang Yuan felt that he didn't need to use much force, so he easily pushed the minecart up. But it's normal to think about it, it would be unreasonable to send the prisoners to death, and the mine still expects the prisoners to work all day.
It just so happened that this process was not very laborious, and Zhang Yuan took advantage of the time when the cart was going up to carefully observe the surroundings. There was nothing wrong with the ordinary rock walls on both sides, and the supporting columns did not look like they had been touched by their hands and feet, the only thing that could not be observed was the beams on the columns. However, it stands to reason that there isn't much room on the beam for elemental sources, and the other party won't be stupid enough to climb up and trigger the trap.
Is it true that I found someone among the prisoners to attack me, but since I have already shown my hand before, the other party will not act rashly, right? Zhang Yuan glanced at his junior brothers, and secretly said in his heart that if this is the case, then which of the three of them will be each other's pawns, or will all three of them?
"Well, that's it?" Zhang Yuan was still thinking about it, and he saw a ray of light appear in front of him. Sure enough, after walking the road once, I felt a lot shorter the second time, and this time even if I pushed the cart uphill, Zhang Yuan didn't feel so tired.
After the four of them unloaded the ore, the overseer didn't weigh it or anything, but lazily pointed to a wooden bucket on the ground next to him and said, "The water is there, take a bowl and scoop it yourself, and you are not allowed to drink more." ”
After the overseer finished speaking, he and the others began to brag and fart, and the four of them did not stay long, and after drinking water, they pushed the cart back to the mine. The inside of the minecart is not big, it is not small, even if it is squeezed, it can only sit down Zhang Yuan and any of the three younger brothers, of course, there are also three people who are too big in it.
However, Zhang Yuan thought about whether the three younger brothers would blend into the enemy, so he was naturally reluctant to sit in the minecart, and when the younger brothers saw that the eldest brother didn't take the car, they didn't sit down, so the four of them simply pushed the minecart and walked down.
Not long after Zhang Yuan and the others returned to the mine, two sneaky figures appeared near the mine.
"Hmph, let you check, let's find out how you died first!"