Chapter 484: Under the Mine (Second Update)
The mine is very deep, and the straight lead is about 100 meters into the ground. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
After that, the pit was built in all directions, and there were no minecarts in the pit, because every grain of sand crystal had to be preserved in a high-grade incubator.
Under the leadership of Yuan Hua, Zhang Sheng entered a mine and walked to the end of the mine road.
A faint halo of light flashes on a stone wall at the end of the tunnel, visible beneath the pitch-black cavern.
Yuan Hua rubbed his hand on the rock wall, but the rough palm was like a steel brush grinding off the sand and stone on the rock wall, revealing a small grain of rice-sized sand crystals wrapped in the sand.
Carefully use your fingers to buckle the sandstone around the sand crystal, then catch the falling sand crystal with a towel, and then put the sand crystal into the high-grade thermostat box hanging around your waist, everything seems very skillful, although it is not easy.
Just grinding off a layer of rock with the palm of your hand is enough to be amazed.
"Alright, you're going to dig here! I'm going to another mine. Remember not to be in a hurry at the beginning, it is better to be slow than to hurt Sha Jing. There are cameras connected to each of the mines, and people will be able to see them. Yuan Hua said as he walked out of the mine with the box on his waist and walked towards the other mine.
Zhang Sheng tried to rub his palms on the rock wall as he practiced, and the uneven rock wall rubbed his palms were hot and painful, but Zhang Sheng did not stop but continued to rub until his palms were hot and stinging, and the skin might be about to break. Because there may be blood oozing out of a broken palm, which is also not allowed.
After wiping his palms with a towel to prevent sweat from remaining on his palms, Zhang Sheng continued to rub his hands against the wall.
This friction was for most of the day, but the rock wall did not see any changes, as if Zhang Sheng had been just doing useless work.
At the end of the day, Zhang Sheng had nothing to gain.
Silently, a large number of miners gathered directly below the mine, waiting for the hanging basket to fall. Almost all of them make eye contact with each other, and no one speaks. Because in the mines, too much communication is also not allowed.
On the second day of going down the mine, Zhang Sheng successfully excavated a grain of sand crystal in the evening.
Holding this sand crystal in his hand, Zhang Shengqiang held back tears, this is not only a sand crystal, but also his hope and future.
The sand crystal is very beautiful, there seem to be grains of starlight sand flowing in the amber transparent crystal, Zhang Sheng guesses that this flowing sand dust may be some kind of mysterious power, once this power leaks out of the closed crystal, it will dissipate immediately. This is why sand crystals are mined so pristine and discreet.
In the next half month, every three or five days, Zhang Sheng will have something to gain, which is basically no different from most miners. There are not many people like Yuan Hua who can easily collect sand crystals from the rock wall, or Yuan Hua is the only one in this mine.
All the miners felt that Yuan Hua had a secret, but he couldn't do anything if he didn't say anything about it.
Anyway, the amount of treatment collected is the same, as long as it doesn't damage the sand crystal, so no one really cares.
After New Year's Day, the weather in the northern desert became more and more bad, and the heavy snow covered up this originally dusty and noisy world.
The army had a great demand for sand crystals, and the officers in charge of contact with Yuan Hua kept urging him to take people to collect more sand crystals.
Rumble!
The wind whipped up waves of snow and broke through the barrier of the windshield and poured deep into the mine.
A bitterly cold wind rushed in.
The miners cowered into the depths of the mine in fear, waiting for rescue.
Heavy snow filling is the biggest disaster, because when the snow melts, it is water, and the sand crystal mine cave is the least waterproof. Therefore, the soldiers in charge of the rescue need to pull out the snow little by little, and they cannot melt the snow directly with boiling water, let alone use fire.
The enclosed mines lacked food, clothing, or even air.
A day later, some miners went crazy in fear, frantically rushing towards the snow that was spreading deep into the mine, and then being covered by the snow. By the time they were dragged out, the bodies were frozen and stiff.
Two days later, some miners were hungry and tried to fight their hunger and thirst by eating a lot of snow, and then died of dehydration in the cold.
For three or four days, the hope of survival became slimmer and slimmer, and the few remaining miners looked at each other with green eyes, as if they were about to bite off a piece of meat from each other at any moment.
Yuan Hua was old, suffered from the wind cold, and developed a high fever in the absence of food, and his will became blurred.
A few miners finally couldn't hold back their hunger and gathered around Yuan Hua.
"What are you doing?" Zhang Sheng stood in front of Yuan Hua, holding a piece of sand crystal in his hand.
"If you come one step further, I will crush this sand crystal, the sand crystal overflowing material will remain on our bodies, and the sand crystal in my hand is more than three taels. "This piece of sand crystal was accidentally excavated by Zhang Sheng who was enclosed in the well in the past few days, it is in excellent condition and the size of a baby's fist, if it is handed over, it will be regarded as a great achievement.
Looking at the sand crystal in Zhang Sheng's hand, several miners showed fear on their faces.
If Zhang Sheng was serious, then even if they ate Yuan Hua, it would only delay the time of death. The mines are domesticated with special military dogs, which can smell the miners for the smell of broken sand crystals.
"Okay! Wang Qiu, you kid is amazing, wait for us. Wait a few more days, we won't eat Yuanhua, we will eat you. A swarthy and short miner looked at Zhang Sheng fiercely, and threatened to retreat with a few miners, but always looked at Zhang Sheng and Yuan Hua with hungry wolf eyes.
Zhang Sheng is very familiar with this kind of look, he has seen many of them in his wandering for more than a month, and he himself has had such eyes. In the face of hunger, even civilized people can degenerate into wild beasts at any time.
On the fifth day of the heavy snowfall, the mine was finally dug up, and the miners, who had already fainted from hunger, were carried out of the mine. This time, a total of nine miners died completely underground. Their family receives a five-million windfall, which can be the inheritance of a distant relative or an unexpected lottery win.
And their traces will be deliberately erased by invisible forces, and gradually even those closest to them will forget them.
Zhang Sheng was given a week of recuperation, and Yan Yu brought him some supplements and food through layers of checking, and was sent out without chatting with Zhang Sheng. Although he is nominally the owner of this mine, he has no qualifications to meddle in the affairs of this mine. All he has to do is to spread suspicion outside, so that countless people believe that he is a mine owner, and there is an ordinary small mine with a very inconspicuous name and not much output.
"Can I come in?" Yuan Hua had already pushed the door open and walked in.
Yuan Hua recovered quickly, even much faster than Zhang Sheng, not at all like the situation when he was in the mine before. It was obvious that someone had used some rare special medicine on him.
"Do you have something to do with me?" Zhang Sheng looked at Yuan Hua, his eyes were puzzled, but he was slightly excited in his heart.
Yuan Hua said: "You saved me, I won't hide it from you, I know that you have always wanted to learn mining skills from me, and I have heard about your situation, it is not easy." ”
For Zhang Sheng, it is almost a nightmarish bloody past, but in the eyes of others, it is only the ups and downs of life and not easy, and only he knows whether people are warm or cold when they drink water.
(To be continued.) )