msmithbooks Chapter 520 Wasteland ABO
Chapter 520 Wasteland ABO
After laughing, the watchmen gradually calmed down.
Finding your companions' distress calls is great, but it's only the beginning.The passage in front of them was too narrow and short, and even a seven or eight-year-old child might not be able to climb through it.
They have two paths.Either widen the channel forcibly, or search along the rock wall to see if there is a ready-made road connecting the two sides.
The former item will be difficult.The mechanical mouse walked for more than ten minutes, and it was difficult to get out of the way, and it was delayed for some time. The distance from here to the mark was still hundreds, or even thousands of meters.
This is a horrifying number, and just calculating it makes the watchers dizzy.
But speaking of the latter, if there are really other roads nearby, how come they've been going around in circles for so long?
The smile gradually disappeared.In the silence, the team leader spoke first.He looked very calm, and said, "First use the mouse to see what's going on over there."
mouse.Rong Li remembered this special title.
The original mechanical mouse moved forward again, looking for the next mark.The second and third mechanical mice also entered the tunnel. Unlike the "predecessors" who were purely used for pathfinding, they carried food, water capsules, and simple anti-inflammatory drugs on their backs.
Except for the people who manipulated these mechanical mice, no one else was idle.They divided into two teams and began to search along the direction of the rock wall, trying to find a road in the same direction as the gerbil passage.
Rong Li followed one of the teams.But after a whole morning, he no longer had the feeling of burning his heart and lungs like before, and couldn't help but pay attention to a certain corner.This made Rong Li believe even more that his previous experience was a reminder from Guanlan.
They returned the same way with bad news.When we arrived at the place where we left in the morning, I found that the expressions of the leader and the rest of the people were not very good.
The watchmen became tense, and even Rong Li couldn't help holding his breath.
Soon, they get good news and bad news.Needless to say the former, the mechanical mouse really found someone!But the people who came back heard the second thing before they had time to be happy: In the past few days, the trapped people who were short of food had conflicts with gerbils.With the help of their own weapons, they managed to turn several gerbils into food.However, they were also injured.
The inflammatory drugs helped a lot, but not enough to make the wounded recover.
The watchmen fell silent again.Many people feel that the situation seems to be worse than before.
Rong Li licked his lips, and proposed: "If you can't get through here, can you find the exit directly from them? Let's take a detour, go up to the ground first, and then go down to pick up people."
The team leader exhaled, shook his head, and said, "No."
Rong Li's eyelids twitched, and he heard the new bad news: "They have done a lot of exploration over there...there should be a space isolated by the collapsed strata after the collapse. At least there is absolutely no upward passage, and there is no way to go downward." , They have also made some efforts, but there are too many cracks below, and their situation does not allow too much consumption."
Rong Li took a breath and thought, okay.The "idea" that I can have, of course there are so many people on the other side, can also come up with it.
"Now we can only move here." The team leader told Rong Li, and he also told the watchmen who came back with him, "Someone has already gone back to move supplies and find equipment. During this time, let's find a way to get there." Next. We discussed it before, and the remaining directions are all blocked, and there is only a solution below—don’t rest today, let’s go a little further.”
No one disagreed.Rong Li took a deep breath and nodded as well.
According to the words of the team leader, this is indeed their only solution.From their side, explore deeper into the ground to find a path that leads to where the trapped ones are.
Before leaving, they used gerbils to bring half of the supplies to the trapped people.And leave a message indicating that people will continue to send them food, drinking water and basic medicines.Besides, it depends on what is needed on the other side.
Rong Li took a last look at the direction of the cave, and then touched his heart.Strange, if the previous special reaction was because Guanlan was reminding him that this is the direction of the trapped people, why did he not respond for a long time before he knew it now.Up to now, but feel the familiar heart palpitations?
He couldn't figure it out, so he could only temporarily attribute it to "Guanlan is far away after all, and the guidance he gave was not so timely and detailed."However, after the previous experience, Rong Li finally understood.He secretly thought, hoping that he would have the same reaction when he passed by a certain passage in the future.
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In the next two days, everyone was broken up into teams of three to try to be as efficient as possible.
After staying in the dark for a long time, sometimes, Rong Li even began to appreciate the faint blue color in the soil.
In addition, he also noticed that the watchmen seemed to be talking from time to time on purpose, making sure not to be silent.
He didn't know if it was because of a change in mentality after finding someone, or because there were too few of them, and the other Watchmen needed to use this method to ensure the stability of the members' mentality.
At least Rong Li himself has become more and more unstable.How can a distance of 1000 meters be an obstacle if it is on the ground?The trapped people must have been brought back to the base long ago for safe treatment.How is it like now, they know that the distance between themselves and the trapped people is getting shorter and shorter, but they can't find the most correct way between each other anyway, they can only watch the time go by.
so terrible.Rong Li thought secretly.
He looks forward to it every day, hoping that after he falls asleep, he can dream of the scene of that night again.A way, so that he can find the next marker, or be sent directly to the side of the trapped people.
A few times, his fingers even touched the flakes.But in the end, he still didn't press it down. Rong Li still believed in Guanlan, and the team leader would tell them from time to time that the situation of the trapped people had stabilized, and there would be no danger to their lives in a short time...
But still anxious.
It's not just them, the trapped people seem to be equally anxious.The wounded man is still alive now, but the situation has indeed begun to deteriorate.They are so short of time.
When we met again at night, the team leader mentioned: "...they have also started manipulating the mechanical mouse now, and they are also looking in our direction."
The watchmen nodded as they ate.
No one has a smile on their face anymore, and they don't think it's reliable.There are too many complicated and tortuous underground fissures. Maybe the mechanical mouse on the opposite side is really approaching them, but whether it can really approach is another matter.At this time, no one can put hope on "if luck is better".
Still can only rely on manpower to find.Fortunately, as clues emerged, the base dispatched almost all of its personnel.They comfort themselves every day, but fortunately, several paths have been ruled out.
Someone else is modeling the terrain here.When Rong Li closed his eyes and meditated, he heard their discussion.Maybe they don't need to find a direct way to each other, just the closest one, the shortest distance from the rock face.A new explosion shouldn't cause too much trouble as long as you're prepared.
Rong Li paused for a moment, thinking: too many...
He decided not to speak.After all, I just joined, and I don't know the life under the ground, nor do I know the technological level of the watchers.However, based on his observations of other people's reactions, the so-called "not much trouble" should also be the worst direction to choose.At least at the moment, from the team leader to the newcomers, no one is willing to make this choice.
After all, this is underground, and it is a place that has just experienced a collapse.All of them have the worry of "one more time, maybe we will all be buried in it", and they don't say it out of frustration at such times, but they can always see it in the eyes of their companions when they look in each other's direction "Ha, if it really develops to this point, the inspectorate should be very happy."
Another day passed, and Rong Li was assigned to a new area.
This time, he also had a mechanical mouse in his hand.
On this day, his long-awaited special reaction finally reappeared.
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"here?"
With the signal from Rong Li, three hours later, the watchmen gathered in front of an extremely narrow passage that was almost impossible to pass through by the naked eye.
It was still hard to believe.But after seeing the sign next to it, the team leader took a deep breath and said, "Let's go—the previous message said that they were too short on time to open the passage directly, so they squeezed in. But if we If you come, you better start widening the hole."
"Is this really okay?" Someone wondered.
"Maybe?" the team leader said, "The bow tie said, as long as you walk the first five or six meters, there is a road behind that can accommodate two or three people in parallel."
Putting five or six meters and 1000 meters together, everyone knows how to choose.
People look at each other and start preparing tools.
At the same time, Rong Li and the watchmen who were with him saw the marks that appeared on the screen of the mechanical mouse countless times earlier.
They were overjoyed and said one after another: "That's it! Finally found it!"
"Bow tie, all right, you! Tell me, how did you find out?"
Rong Li pursed his mouth slightly, showing a slight smile, and said, "I just accidentally slipped the mouse in. I didn't expect that there is such a wide passage behind..."
"Great." They walked forward while talking.During the walk, I couldn't help but started calling my companions' names.
During this process, Rong Li clearly felt his heart beating faster and faster.This is not the first time, he gradually got used to it, and felt: Maybe the moment he really sees the person, the "signal" given to him by Guanlan will disappear.
He was wrong.
He doesn't even know what's going on.I was pulled aside by a force, and then, a hand covered his mouth.
He was about to activate the law enforcement stick, but he heard someone whispering in his ear: "Be careful."
Rong Li's pupils shrank suddenly.
His lips moved and he said a name silently.
Qi Wang...
Why is Qi Wang here? !
The author has something to say:
When Xiaorong recovered his memory, he only got that Brother Wang was a playmate when he was a child, but he didn't get the identity of Brother Wang as a watcher~
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