Perfect Feast

Liu Yang's side is busy with fire, and the drainage work on the eastern line has intensified. Just as Liu Yang excavated the alley to over 50 meters, there were also two large pumps running there.

The water in the alley is slowly falling, but whether it's the seventeen men on Lin Xiaobing's side or Wang Zengtian's hundred or more people on their side, they've reached the limit of life.

Five days have passed since midnight on the 23rd.

Without eating or drinking, a person's life is in danger for just three days. And now, five days have passed, 120 hours, and is anyone still alive in there?

Those fine boys behind them can now fall asleep almost against the wall, and that one smeared black and grey face, a pair of deep sockets, all whispering silently that they are exhausted.

Twenty meters left...

Qiu Huiquan pointed to the drawings and said to Liu Yang: “Through the survey just now, this passage will open up to 20 meters...”

The old man has always been regarded as a national treasure panda. When Liu Yang and the others worked, he was not allowed to get involved at all. Others worked for him to rest. Only technical problems were encountered before he was invited to come forward. According to theory, he should be the most spiritual of the more than 50 commandos below, but now Liu Yang's look at him is also a little depressing. The complaint rushed to his mouth and swallowed back.

Grandma, didn't you say it was only 60 meters up there when you pulled me blind? Why are we digging more than 50 meters now and 20 meters?

Come on, old man, you're 10 meters and 10 meters up, but you're killing people.

If it were on the ground, let's not talk about the distance of the actual meters, even if it was 20 meters of steel mountain, I wouldn't put it in my eyes, but it was almost 700 meters underground, and every meter of progress had to pay the price of bleeding and sweating, which is not a joke.

Looking at the drawings in Qiu Huiquan's hand, Liu Yang asked him: “I wonder if we can drill a small hole in the alley in front of him first. Although people can't climb out, it's good to find a way to get air in. If we can get water and food in through the pipeline, it would be better, which will buy more time for rescue. ”

Qiu Huiquan shook his head and said, "That's a good idea, but it's almost impossible. If you drill holes as you envisioned, you need to use large drilling machines, but you also know..."

Qiu Huiquan said that he lived here. Liu Yang looked at the dark cave in front and had to show a bitter smile. Because they tied the alley through, they dug this one into a trumpet.

At the beginning, the tunnel will remain two meters wide, one meter, seven or six. But the further we go in, the smaller and smaller the width and height, and now it's just a little more than a metre high, less than half a metre wide.

In such an environment, people just need to drill inside, and there is no possibility of switching large drills.

“I think that reducing the dosage and shrinking the hole a little bit faster... However, in that case, the strength will increase for the people transporting coal slag to the outside world. Now the big guys wear out their shoulders with the backs of bags of coal, but the General Command side says there are no replacements for us, I'm afraid those guys can't hold up...” Qiu Huiquan glanced behind him, behind him, those guys all black and black, several have snored against the wall.

“That's a problem, but since there's a glimmer of hope, we have to do everything we can to try. Those trapped are our brothers.” Liu Yang glanced at the rescue team behind him and said in a low voice.

Qiu Huiquan stretched his hand and patted Liu Yang's shoulder. “Dude, as the governor of a county, you are an accomplice, not down for a show. I see all this in my eyes. If you hadn't rushed ahead, we wouldn't have been able to dig this alley so fast, and now we need you to come out and talk. ”

“Alas, President Qiu, don't flatter me. I'm just doing things with my conscience.” Liu Yang said, getting up vigorously, rubbing his temple hard with his hands full of foam deep inside, shouting out: “Everyone wake up...”

Not in both ears comes the overwhelming twisting sound of "snapping” and "squeaking" columns, with "snapping" over the head from time to time... when "small pieces of coal and gravel hit the roof. All the people searched and planted in front of Liu Yang, and all the rescue team members' faces became very heavy.

This is a test of blood and fire, a measure of the moral quality of fear and professional ethics. The power of the role model is endless. It is precisely because Liu Yangchong was at the forefront that none of these rescue team members became deserters.

However, these people are not such stunners as Liu Yang, they can be chosen to be allocated, and participate in this rescue operation, they are all the best in the industry, and they are the backbone of business proficiency.

They understand very well that this kind of excavation of alleyways is the first time they've been in the business. Every step forward requires a test of bleeding and fire, and a hundred times more courage.

“Comrades, I won't hide it from you, but our chief engineer Qiu just told me that after his detailed calculations, there are still twenty meters ahead, we can open this passage of life. Inside, more than one hundred and thirty lives await our rescue. Go ahead, it's dangerous, but there's hope of rescuing the workers. Back off, the safety of our people can be guaranteed, but that hundred lives will forever accompany the dark, long sleep underground of more than 700 meters. Think of the eyes of their wives and children outside the mine worried about despair, comrades. It's heartbreaking. What do you say we do?” Liu Yang also learned the look of Qiu Huiquan and mobilized before the war. He knew that there was no way to win this war without drumming up the strength of the rescue team and erasing their fears.

“Governor Liu, give the order, we will complete the task.” These voices, though low and dull, speak with utmost firmness.

Finally, the team members responded, and Liu Yangxin was relieved.

Turning around, he said to Qiu Huiquan: “Chief Qiu, you can do whatever you want with your professional affairs. I'll be with you, and I won't leave as long as there's one more person here. You give the order! ”

Qiu Huiquan was also excited and shouted aloud with his old voice: “Don't worry, Governor Liu, if you don't get the people inside out, I won't be a son of a bitch. I said, we're all trapped in the same downhole. Chief Liu could have sat in the office drinking tea. Why is he standing here despite the danger? Isn't it for us hard-working miners? We are a group of four, each group rotates for half an hour, rest the drills, drill bits, water pipes, detonators, explosives are ready, dry now...”

Qiu Huiquan began to name the group, and the first to pick up the drill first.

The vibration of the drill made the coal blocks falling over his head more dense. Some of them slammed on top of the helmet worn by Qiu Huiquan, but Qiu Huiquan still held onto the handle of the drill.

At first, the eye-catching was going very smoothly, but when they dug more than three meters forward, Liu Yang had new problems on their side. When a young man held an electric drill for five minutes at a point, the drill bit couldn't get in.

Try another place… this is still the case. Qiu Huiquan grabbed a pickaxe and dug out a sliver of Mars on a dark wall, a phenomenon that told everyone that a hard rock had hit the front.

No wonder every time the drill was started, the rescue team member holding the drill was shocked with numbness in both hands, but the drill pipe never moved forward by a single point.

What are we going to do? It's disgusting to stop like this. But everyone knows that drilling on rocks can be a hundred times harder than drilling on coal seams.

Guys, look at me. I can't talk to anybody for a while. Liu Yang, who had just gone down to take a break, came back from the back again and shouted: “Change the drill bit, let me try...”

Liu Yang reached over the drilling rig and held the handle on both sides tightly. After pressing the power switch, a huge rebound path passed along the drill pipe. Liu Yangma stepped up and pushed the drill forcefully.

One minute… ten minutes… the drill finally moved forward a little bit. Half an hour... an hour... Liu Yang held the drill himself for an entire hour and a half, except that he brought all the drill pipes out in the middle and changed the drill bits.

Finally, I felt the front end loose, and the drill stopped hissing, as if it had slowed down the air, and started to chirp again.

“Chief Liu, take a break, I'll drill.” How hard does it take to drill through a rock like this?

Qiu Huiquan counted, as did the rest of the rescue team. At this moment, the eyes of the rescue team members on Liu Yang have changed. Can't this man really fight steel cast iron?

There are two rescue team members standing behind Liu Yang, waiting for Liu Yang to step aside and replace them immediately. But none of them felt that, because Liu Yang had been in there for a while, just above their heads, a rock that was already loose had finally fallen out of the gravity of the earth.

“Go away...” As Liu Yang shouted, the rock had broken apart overwhelmingly. The big, dark rock fell on three people standing below it.

When ordinary people are in danger, the first reaction is to be stunned. And precisely because of this instinctive reaction, that is, the stunning of zero seconds, it will kill people...