Demolition Earth

Chapter 94 Underground (1)

In order to avoid suspicion, Lao Chen tried not to go to the scene after the formation of the tunnel digging team.

So in theory, this engineering team actually has no leader, and those who come to work are strictly "volunteers".

Not to mention that they have no salary, and they need to spend some money for food and water every day, as well as for projects, and they have to pool their own money to buy them.

If it was an ordinary engineering team, I am afraid that these people would have dispersed in a hurry, but this volunteer team has not.

The oldest one in the team, surnamed Wang, is about 60 years old, because in the team, each other did not tell each other's full name. Many people only use their surname at most, and a few young people even use their online names.

At first everyone called him Old Man Wang, but later it was known that he had diabetes.

According to the new naming rules in the team, anyone who wants to come to cure diseases and participate in this operation, everyone is used to calling him by their surname and disease, so everyone calls him Tang Diao Wang, because the word urine is not pleasant, so they simply call him Tang Tang .

Wang Tang may be regarded as the hardest-working one among the eight members of the entire team.

After the tunnel was dug underground and started to dig horizontally, the daily workload began to increase. Even a muscular man would be exhausted and panting within half an hour after digging down, and had to come up for rotation.

Only Wang Tang took the longest time to go down each time.Because diabetics are afraid of hypoglycemia, every time before going down, he will put a few pieces of candy in his pocket, and he will not come up for a rest until he has eaten all these pieces of candy, which takes more than an hour.

So many people in the team are willing to form a group with him, which is relatively easy.

The team of eight people can be roughly divided into two groups according to the purpose.

The first wave is like Wang Tang, who is old and sick, but he can't be cured, and he is not reconciled, so Lao Chen contacted him, gritted his teeth, and spent the rest of his life in prison, so he came here for success After that, use the stolen S healing device to heal yourself.

There is another wave represented by young people who come only for the money promised by Lao Chen.

Like Wang Tang, the labor enthusiasm is usually the highest. Eight people work in two shifts, day and night, in groups of four, divided into two groups.

One guards, one digs holes, and two passes.Usually, those who are responsible for digging pits and guarding sentries are old people like them, because these two jobs are the most important and test people's sense of responsibility the most.

The ones who are responsible for passing things are mainly a few young people. They are tired of digging holes and bored of keeping watch, so this is the most suitable job.

The project has been in progress for more than a week, and the underground passage has been dug out for more than 100 meters, which is still more than 600 meters away from the scheduled distance.

Lao Chen came to visit once during this time, and brought a foreigner with him. He was very satisfied with their progress. When he left, he left them a lot of food and a large amount of cash—for a few young people people's wages.

Seeing the money, the young people lost their temper and discussed with the old people represented by Wang Tang whether they could have a day off. They planned to take the money and go to the city center to "relax and relax."

Wang Tang refused without even thinking about it: "Don't say that we are breaking the law, keep it secret. Even if you are going to the engineering team, there is no reason to do half of the holiday."

The old people like Wang Tang are the core of the whole team, and Wang Tang is the core of the old people, so he objected, and the young people had no choice but to give up.

When Lao Chen came this time, he installed a camera in the room, not to supervise their work, but to facilitate them to report back the excavation progress at any time.

In this way, Lao Chen can come once without a period of time, and will not appear until the completion of the work and preparation for action.

Of course, Lao Chen never thought of it. The good idea he came up with on his own brain was actually achieved by Zhao Changqi through many means. In this way, Zhao Changqi can have first-hand on-site information about the progress of this crime.

It rained heavily outside that night, and they didn't dig very deep. Although the road above was partially hardened, when it rained, there would still be water in the tunnel.

At this time, the work is much more troublesome. Not only must we pay attention to drainage at all times, but we must also pay attention to the possible collapse of the tunnel at all times, and the progress is much slower than usual.

Wang Tang had a good rest for the second time at night. When he went down to dig, he suddenly heard a young man named Xiao Jin who was in charge of passing the soil clods say, and shouted from below: "Wang Tang, there seems to be a sound of water leaking, did you dig it? What's the pipe?"

"We dug by looking at the drawings. Where did the pipes come from?" Wang Tang didn't quite believe the young man's words, so he asked Zhang cough, who was digging the hole in front, "Old Zhang, did you dig a drainage well?"

Zhang coughed and listened for a while, and replied with a coughing sound: "It seems to be, do you want to stop for a while?"

"The time is up, let's change it, and I'll listen." Wang Tang is the foreman of this team, and basically he decides to solve any problems encountered in the project.

Wang Tang carefully wrapped several pieces of candy in plastic paper, and after eating one piece, he went down the hole.

The pit is not very big, it is about 1.5 meters square, and a small track is installed underneath for the convenience of soil transportation. A small pulley occupies half of the place. Wang Tang is dripping water, pushing the pulley by the way, slipping in the mud step by step forward.

After walking for a long time, I finally came to the end of the excavation.

Lao Zhang pointed him to the direction from which the sound came from. He listened carefully and determined that it should be a drainage well, not far to the left of their tunnel.

"The current engineering team is too casual...the drawing of the drainage well is not marked." After Zhang coughed and left, Wang Tang frowned and muttered to himself, then set up the lights, wiped his hands vigorously, and prepared work.

At this moment, he heard something around him.This sound is very faint, but it is so obvious in the quiet underground, amidst the faint sound of running water.

That sound didn't come from the direction of the drainpipe, but from around the tunnel, yes, all directions around the tunnel, it was the sticky sound of a lot of soil being squeezed by something at the same time, like the surrounding soil layer, There is a huge monster moving quietly.

Although the voice was faint and indistinct, it was particularly frightening.

At this moment, Wang Tang, who has always only focused on work and doesn't believe in any gods and ghosts, and who has worked in engineering all his life, couldn't help but feel furious in his heart.

When doing underground projects, what I am most afraid of is encountering such strange sounds. It is not because I am afraid of some evil things, but because I am worried that there will be some problems in their tunnels.

Lao Wang stopped the movements of his hands, as if he was afraid that his movements would disturb some existence, and then heard the voices gradually change direction, they surrounded him, then gradually moved away, and finally disappeared in the distance of the tunnel.

After confirming that the sound disappeared, Lao Jin patiently checked the tunnels around the sound carefully, and continued his work after confirming that there were no signs of collapse.

When going up to rest, Lao Wang coughed and changed shifts with Zhang, who was on guard. He told him about this and asked him to pay attention to the collapse. If something happened, stop work immediately and reinforce the tunnel first.

Next is the time for Lao Wang to watch the whistle. The matter of watching the whistle is simple to say, it is nothing more than staring at the roof of the building.

Strictly speaking, this place is not sh, it is almost the countryside.

But even in the countryside, the conditions are pretty good, surrounded by construction sites, basically a commercial area planned later around the blue sky.

The shop that Lao Chen rented was on a street in the original village. It was far away from those construction sites, and even the sound of construction could not be heard, but the construction environment perfectly concealed their tunnel digging.

At night, everyone in the village went to bed early, and the night vision goggles scanned around, but there was nothing but two stray dogs in the distance.

Lao Chen stayed for a while, and subconsciously remembered the sound he had just heard underground. According to his memory, he probably found the location of the drainage well on the ground, but when he looked carefully at that location, there was nothing in that direction. , no buildings, no roads... It's just an ordinary greenhouse vegetable field, and there will be drainage wells in the vegetable field?

Just as he was thinking about what this incredible voice might be, Xiao Jin called him: "Old Zhang said he dug a big rock."

Wang Tang hurriedly went down, followed to the end of the tunnel, and Lao Zhang continued to dig less than half a meter from the position he just finished, but a huge stone outline appeared in front of him, almost covering the direction of their entire tunnel. .

Wang Tang frowned and glanced at the stone. With his many years of experience in underground construction, he had never seen such a large stone, no matter how big the project was.

He could tell at a glance that this rock was not something that a small team of them could handle.

"Try to the right...Turn around the corner."

An hour later, Wang Tang saw such a stone again, just like the one just now, a huge granite, firmly blocked on the excavation road.

Wang Tang decided to go to the right again.

When changing shifts the next day, the team that changed shifts saw Wang Tang’s overnight results—along the vertical direction of the original direction, they have dug out seven or eight meters to the right. Along the seven or eight meters, you can see There is a neat row of granite, about every half a meter, and each piece looks to be more than two meters square, which is bigger than their entire pit, completely blocking their direction to the target.

(End of this chapter)