Volume 1 Chapter 43: Soft Stone
In order to discourage, I punched the stone wall, and although my hand hurt, the stone wall was deeply sunken into a pit.
It's not that I have a lot of strength, and it would be impossible to make a hole in the wall if I used the same force to hit an ordinary earthen wall, but I did make a hole in this stone wall with the punch I just made!
I immediately thought, could there be something strange about this stone wall?
To test my suspicions, I punched the wall again, only this time not as much force as before, but still a hole in the cavity.
I walked a little further and punched hard at the stone wall, still with the same effect.
By this time I was sure that the surrounding stone walls were special, even though they looked the same as the ones we had encountered earlier, and even looked the same. But the stones here are too soft, and they can make a hole with a casual punch, so it is not impossible to dig through here by relying on a sapper shovel.
Seeing that I kept punching on the mountain wall, Dawu thought I was nervous, so he hurriedly grabbed my arm: "My Third Master Qiu, even if I didn't learn the skills from the Second Master, you wouldn't be so angry, why do you want to hit the wall, what if you do this...... Huh? ”
When Da Wu pulled my arm, he also found that the few punches I had hit on the stone wall earlier had sunk out of the pit, and he was stunned.
"Third master, I didn't expect you to hide it deeply, this punch is no smaller than me....."
I kicked Dawu and scolded: "Bullshit, you punch the wall yourself and hit it with the strength of milk!" ”
Dawu looked at me like a neuropath, and didn't speak for a long time, I was a little anxious, and hurriedly said: "You hurry up, what's the ink?" ”
"Third master, I, Zhang Wu, am not very smart, but you can't treat me as a fool, let my fists be hard, but no matter how hard I am, can I be harder than a stone? This punch hit the wall, and I can't give up my hand? ”
I hated that iron could not become steel, and my face was red when I was angry, and I couldn't care about Dawu's face and scolded: "Are you stupid?" It's okay if I didn't see Lao Tzu hit the wall, did you want to kill you with a punch or what? Hit the wall quickly, or kick it! ”
Seeing that I was really angry, Dawu finally kicked the wall tentatively in disbelief. But it was obvious that he had deliberately kicked me lightly in order to cooperate with me, and there was no trace on the wall at all.
I was almost stunned by this thing, and I didn't believe it at the critical moment.
I didn't care about talking nonsense with Dawu, so I picked up the sapper shovel on the ground, walked to the side of the stone gate and went down directly with a shovel.
As I expected, I directly shoveled out a hole in the stone wall with a sapper shovel, and after a few shovels, a hole the size of a head had been dug out.
Dawu stood to the side and looked dumbfounded, and exclaimed: "Third master, this is god, can the sapper shovel move the mountain rocks?" What brand of sapper shovel is this, if I can go back, I have to wholesale a warehouse! ”
I kicked Dawu angrily, and hurriedly said, "You're a stupid donkey, what's wrong with letting you punch the wall..... There is a problem with the stone wall around here, the stone is very soft, I can make a hole with one punch, and I can dig it with a sapper shovel. I don't know why, but now that I can dig up, I'll dig out of here as soon as possible. ”
After listening to my words, Dawu finally understood why I had asked him to punch the wall just now. He spared his head, and finally used all his strength to punch the wall, and suddenly a deep pit appeared in the wall, two or three times as many as I had hit.
My scalp is a little numb, and my heart says that these two stunned people are really big, this circle hits people, and they can't be killed directly?
According to my speculation, this stone gate is only one meter thick, and we dug around both sides of this stone gate, and it will not take us a day to dig through the stone wall and go to the back of the stone gate.
Although the stone wall is soft, it is not as soft as sand and can be shoveled easily, and it is still very laborious to dig.
I discussed with Dawu, and the two of them dug in shifts, and while one was digging, the other person would hurry to sleep, and strive to get out of here in the shortest possible time.
We hadn't slept since we left the cave with the Terra's frog, and it had been almost thirty hours now. There is strenuous exercise all the way, and the body is already exhausted, and people will collapse if they don't rest.
Dawu's physical strength was better than mine, and he suggested that he dig first, let me rest first, and wake me up after three hours, and replace me.
I soon fell asleep on the floor.
I thought three hours would be fast, but I felt like I had slept for a long time, and when Dawu woke me up, I felt like I had slept for more than ten hours, and my whole mind was exceptionally clear.
Dawu's face was covered with mud, he had already stripped off his clothes, his upper body was exposed, his whole body was full of fine meat, his abdominal muscles and chest muscles were particularly conspicuous, he didn't expect Dawu's thin appearance to be so strong when he took off his clothes. But his tired look made me feel like he had just returned from a two-day stay at an Internet café, and I always felt like he would fall asleep in the next second.
I realized that Dawu might have let me sleep for more than three hours, and I asked, "How long have you been digging?" ”
"Six hours."
I raised my eyebrows and said, "Why didn't you call me?" Didn't you say that we should change shifts every three hours? ”
Dawu wiped his forehead and smiled bitterly: "Third Master, there is something wrong with your guess..... When I first started digging, the stone walls were really easy to dig, but the deeper I dug the more I couldn't move, and I was shocked when I went down with a shovel in the back..... I found that if I went a little deeper, the stone would turn back into ordinary rock, and the sapper shovel could not dig it at all. I saw that I couldn't dig here, so I quickly changed the side to dig, but fortunately, it was relatively easy to dig here, and I didn't encounter a stone that couldn't be dug when I dug very deep..... You'll dig here later, forget it over there, you can't dig it. ”
I walked to the place where Dawu had dug at the beginning, touched it with my hands, and found that the stone wall had indeed hardened, and it was no longer the soft soil.
I thought strangely, even though they are in the same place, the stone walls all look the same, why can't I dig a little deeper, and the stone seems to have changed?
After thinking about it for a long time, I gave up thinking, and then asked Dawu to go to sleep quickly, and then picked up the sapper shovel and continued Dawu to dig up the newly dug place on the other side of the stone gate.
After digging for about an hour, I couldn't straighten my waist when I was tired, and I really didn't know how Dawu insisted on digging for six hours.
I sat down on the ground and rested, and then I saw a large pile of rubble that had been piled up next to me, and I moved it bit by bit from here into the tunnel behind.
After moving, I saw that the tip of the sapper's shovel had been rolled up, and if I didn't polish it, it would be impossible to dig again. I hurriedly found a hard stone and used it to smooth out the tip of the shovel that had been rolled up.
However, when I was polishing the tip of the shovel, I didn't notice that there had been strange changes in the tunnel....