As the expedition team set off, several infantry fighting vehicles also began to crawl out slowly. After these vehicles came out, the on-site command headquarters inquired about the information inside them.
Not long after, the second batch of convoys set off again. Their mission was to expand the forward camp, add more equipment, and leave some people there to take charge of some work there.
This time, more vehicles went underground. On one side of the tunnel, the engineering team was already following a special kind of rail. This kind of rail has saw teeth that can engage with the gears on the locomotive wheels to increase friction.
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The construction work outside is proceeding in an orderly manner, but Captain Wu and his expedition are also not peaceful.
On the first day, they moved very carefully because the road was really difficult to walk on. If their soles had not been reinforced and protected, ordinary shoes would not have been able to walk on the road here. There were sharp edges everywhere on the ground.
The explorers made a simple analysis of stone thorns and found that these sharp thorns have a very high iron content. If they were ordinary shoes, they would pierce your feet.
In order to open up a path for those who came after them, they chose an edge area with relatively few thorns. As they walked, they removed the stone thorns on the ground. The method was very simple, just smash them with a hammer.
Walking and smashing all the way, it took a whole day to advance less than three kilometers.
When Zhao Ye from outside learned about this incident, he angrily scolded Captain Wu. This guy is too arrogant. You are an expedition team, not an engineering team. You can report such things so that others can follow.
What are the subsequent teams doing?
Captain Wu was criticized, and the next day he stopped caring about these messy things and started to move forward faster. The communication soldier kept staring at the signal tester in his hand. Once he found that the signal strength dropped to a certain point, he immediately
At the appropriate location, follow the signal repeater. In this way, the expedition team advanced nearly fifteen kilometers on the second day.
In the following days, the expedition team maintained a speed of ten to fifteen kilometers. By the time a week later, they had penetrated eighty or ninety kilometers into the tunnel.
Since there were six electric donkeys to provide logistics, they still had sufficient supplies. During the break that day, he had someone count the remaining supplies and vacated an electric donkey to be used as the lead donkey.
The controller walked a few meters behind the daredevil donkey, followed by Captain Wu, and the deputy captain was in charge of the rear.
He also split the eighteen-man team into two teams. A sufficient safe distance must be maintained between the two teams. With a soldier's sixth sense, he always had a feeling that danger was getting closer and closer.
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Shortly after setting off the next day, the detection radar on Dare to Die Donkey discovered the situation ahead. Although his radar power was not high, it was no problem to detect a few tens of meters. In front of the team, a person appeared
Cliff. What is displayed on the controller's screen is that there is suddenly no road ahead.
Captain Wu asked the team members to turn on their headlights and slow down their pace. Every step they take, they must look clearly at their feet.
Soon, they came to the edge of the cliff. This place was much wider than the entrance of the tunnel. They threw a cold light rod down and watched the fluorescent rod slowly disappear into the abyss, which made them very shocked.
There is no light at all here, and everything is in a state of darkness. Only with the help of the light above you can you illuminate a small patch of ground in front of you.
"Captain, what should we do?" a team member asked Captain Wu.
"What should we do? What else can we do? Report the situation to the headquarters. We have to find a way to figure out the situation here."
"Yes, I will immediately report our coordinates and the situation we encountered." The team member turned on his handheld device and sent a situation description to the headquarters.
"Bring over a high-power searchlight, let's illuminate the surrounding environment a little brighter, otherwise our eyes will be completely black and nothing can be solved." Captain Wu felt that this was not the time to save power.
Understanding the situation here is the most important thing at the moment.
The large searchlights on several donkeys were lit up. As the team members opened their eyes little by little and adapted to the intensity of the light, they were simply stunned. They saw that the land under their feet was only a few dozen meters away.
Along the way, they were walking on a narrow and long passage, with abysses on both sides.
When Captain Wu understood the risk just now, he immediately ordered: "Quick, communications soldier, call the second team immediately and ask them to stop advancing. Stop advancing immediately. Don't move around randomly, turn on all the lights immediately, and don't care about the electricity."
This situation is really too dangerous. Human eyes, when exposed to darkness for a long time, will slowly create illusions. Just like just now, they didn’t even realize that there was an abyss under their feet with their naked eyes. Although they had headlights, sometimes you
Your eyes, or rather your brain, will deceive you involuntarily.
This large crack was discovered by Daredevil's radar, which made Captain Wu realize that in such an environment, subjective judgment is important, but instruments and equipment are more important. If there was no detection radar, they might have been wiped out.
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After a lot of twists and turns, the second team and the first team merged. They decided to repair here and then determine the next course of action.
After everyone rested for a while and their eyes adjusted to the light, Captain Wu asked his team members to shoot flares into the open space.
The brightness of the flare was higher and the range was wider. At this time, everyone could clearly see the surrounding environment. In front of them was a canyon that was more than two hundred meters fast. The depth of the canyon was more than one meter measured by the detector.
Kilometers. In this way, the plan of going down is basically eliminated. In such a deep canyon, their ropes may not be long enough. Even if they are long enough, how can they climb up after going down?
That's 10,000 meters deep. No one can climb a 10,000-meter vertical slope.
After receiving their report, the headquarters could only order them to wait on the spot. The second batch of teams would join them in three days.
But it was this order that almost ended the lives of their entire expedition team.
On the second day of waiting, the team members were not idle. They used the equipment in their hands to understand the nearby terrain as much as possible. They collected as much data as possible for the next step of work.
The geologists in the team were also not idle. With the help of other team members, they collected as many rock samples as possible in a larger area. At this time, a geologist accidentally dropped his hammer.
In the abyss.
If you fall into an abyss 10,000 meters deep, don't think about picking it up. Besides, it's just an ordinary hammer, so there's nothing to feel bad about.
But when no one was paying attention, a special movement suddenly made the quiet and dark space suddenly become terrifying.