When Baolide drove the truck to drag the two pine trees to the entrance of the abandoned hospital for the fourth time, Wei Ran had already come down from upstairs early and started the motorcycle saw in his hand.
Amidst the ear-piercing roar, eight thigh-thick pine trees were cut open by the two of them one after another, and then moved to the corridor on the first floor.
After preparing to return enough fuel for at least the next week, Wei Ran returned to the room on the third floor and stared in the direction of the river. After having a simple meal, Paulide got directly into his sleeping bag and began to rest.
When the eight-hour shift was up, the two of them each brought a crock pot filled with potatoes and beef stew and a large truck, and drove the truck toward the entrance of the mine.
When they parked the car at the entrance of Mine No. 4, they saw from a distance that Mikita was connecting two wires to the truck's battery.
Accompanied by an explosion that was not too big and was extremely dull, a cloud of smoke and dust rose up from the entrance of the mine, but immediately after, a small crackling sound came out.
"How is the situation?" Weiran was the first to jump out of the cab and asked.
"not too good"
Mikita pointed to the mine illuminated by the car lights and said angrily, "I can now confirm that the landslide here is definitely caused by man-made causes. It was the fifth blast just now, but there has been debris sliding overhead.
Come down, I'm already starting to worry that our explosives may not be enough at all."
He leaned forward and took a look into the mine. Unfortunately, although the interior was illuminated by the car lights, the flying dust still made it impossible for him to see the specific situation inside.
Withdrawing his gaze, Wei Ran said with a smile, "Leave it to us. Go back and rest first. There is some food on the fireplace. I have set up an observation post on the third floor."
"Then I'll leave this place to you."
Mikita patted the cargo box as he spoke, "The electric drill used to drill blast holes and the engine that powers the electric drill are both in the cargo compartment. Don't leave them in the mine during blasting."
"Do not worry"
Seeing the embarrassment on Selsi's face, Wei Ran wisely did not dwell on this little reminder. He just turned around and took down the food he had brought and the coffee in the kettle from the cab.
Watching Mikita and Selsi climb into the truck they drove back the way they came, Weiran and Paulide looked at each other, each found a towel, covered their mouths and noses, crouched and got into the smoke.
Mine No. 4.
After walking about less than 50 meters further in, the mine tunnel was completely blocked by collapsed rocks. Almost everything as far as the eye could see was gravel the size of a rice cooker.
Following the remaining detonation line, we stepped on large and small gravels and climbed all the way up to the junction with the top of the rock. Wei Ran and Bao Lid put their flashlights into the gap in front of them in no particular order.
However, as far as the eye can see, the depth of this gap ends at less than two meters at most, and the width and height can only accommodate a cat to barely squeeze through.
"How much explosives did the people use to blow up this place?" Wei Ran muttered angrily.
"I don't know how much explosives were used, but I guess the collapsed length was at least ten meters."
Paulide said with some regret, "I should have thought of a way to serve for one more year, but I didn't expect that the mine would be blown up after this place was completely abandoned."
"But there is no reason..."
Wei Ran muttered to himself, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Well, don't rush into it yet. I'll go check out some other mines."
"I'll go with you." Before he could finish his words, Paulide had already climbed down carefully on the gravel.
The two returned to the entrance of the cave. Wei Ran deliberately went to take a look at the entrance to Cave No. 5, which was not far away. This mine has been completely invisible in later generations, but at this time it still maintains the appearance before the shutdown.
Leaving Baolid at the entrance of the cave to guard against the wolves who might backstab them, Wei Ran walked deeper into the mine carrying a kerosene gas lamp adjusted to maximum brightness.
However, what surprised him was that even though he walked at least two hundred meters along the remaining narrow track, the mine did not collapse at all.
Unwilling to give up, he continued walking a hundred meters further in. The increasingly thin air made him stop, and he turned around and walked towards the entrance of the cave again.
"How is the situation?" Paulide shouted and asked from a distance.
"No collapse occurred"
Wei Ran responded from a distance, and waited until he reached the entrance of the cave before continuing, "Let's go to Mine No. 123 and take a look at each other."
"What are you thinking about?" Baolide asked as he followed Wei Ran toward Mine No. 3.
"If among the five mines, only No. 4 mine collapsed. Paulide, what do you think this means?"
"Someone wants to use Mine No. 4 to cover something up."
Wei Ran gave a different answer as he walked, "If someone knows that there are gems in Mine No. 4, they can just take them away. Why blow up the mine? After all, we all know that those gems came from No. 5
It was dug out of the No. 1 mine."
"What if the people who found the gems didn't know?" Paulide asked. "What if they thought the gems were dug out in Mine No. 4?"
"Then it's even more impossible."
Wei Ran spread his hands, "Even so, unless they don't want to continue digging for gems in Mine No. 4, why would they blow it up?"
"I can't tell you anything"
Paulide, who has a simple and honest personality, decisively chose to give up thinking, "Victor, tell me what you think."
"I don't have any ideas"
Wei Ran looked back at Mine No. 4, "I just guessed that there must be other secrets in the mine No. 4 that collapsed in addition to the gems we hid back then. These are just them, but what are those secrets?
I don’t know who blew up the mine.
Of course, the premise of this guess is that Mine No. 123 was not collapsed by the explosion like Mine No. 5. If they were also collapsed by the explosion, then the guess I just made would not be valid."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After chatting here, the two of them walked back to the entrance of Mine No. 4. Baolid, who was eager to know the result, started the truck directly and greeted Wei Ran to get on the truck.
, he stepped on the accelerator and reached the entrance of Mine No. 3 and drove directly in.
"Do you need me to go down with you?" Paulide asked before Weiyan opened the door.
"No need." Wei Ran waved his hand, "Of course, don't let the wolves sneak in."
After saying that, he opened the car door and jumped out, holding the bright kerosene gas lamp again, and walked along the rusty narrow track to the depths of the mine.
However, this time he only walked less than a hundred meters inside before stopping. There were no signs of collapse or man-made damage at the current location of the mine, but it was directly in front of the sanitary ignition station.
However, there are already continuous layers of ice on the slope.
He bent down to pick up a piece of ore and threw it away from the distance. After a series of knocking sounds, the piece of ore had already collided with the fixed mining lampshade on the top of the mine tunnel at the end.
Seeing this, Wei Ran simply turned around and walked out. The mine had been filled with water and frozen. If he wanted to enter the depths of the mine, he would have to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to remove the solid ice and ice inside.
Transporting all the water under the ice is obviously unrealistic.
Returning to the entrance of the cave, Wei Ran briefly described the findings here to Paulide, and then took the truck driven by the latter to reach Mine No. 1.
With Baolide still guarding the door, Wei Ran took the kerosene lamp and explored the mine again. But soon, he stopped again.
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Behind the first corner of this mine, a mine cart parked on a narrow track caught his attention.
Most of these minecarts that were once used to transport ore are already rusty, but unlike what I saw before, the minecarts parked here are actually piled with things.
Carrying a kerosene gas lamp, he carefully approached the mine cart. Wei Ran frowned when he saw what was inside.
Although the things accumulated in the mine cart were covered with dust, he could still tell that hidden under the thick dust were all types of landmines!
Looking back at the direction of the mine entrance, Wei Ran stared at his feet carefully and walked to the side of the second mine cart. As expected, it contained mines!
Are you afraid that this little devil came from Siberia to steal landmines?
Wei Ran muttered to himself, stayed away from the mine carts, and continued walking a hundred or two hundred meters deeper.
Like Mine No. 5, this mine had not been destroyed except for some more mines that had been dismantled. This was enough to prove Wei Ran's previous guess, but the appearance of those mines put him in trouble again.
In confusion.
"What should we do now?" Paulide asked as he waited for Weixian to get into the cab and drive towards Mine No. 4.
"What else can we do? We can only go back and find a way to blow up Mine No. 4." Wei Ran spread his hands and returned to the original point of solving the problem.
After learning that there might be secrets other than gems hidden behind the collapsed mine, Paulide's motivation increased a lot.
But even so, after the two masters had been busy for a full eight hours, it seemed like they had done nothing in vain and they had not made much progress at all.
"If I had known we should have brought a bulldozer over, it might have been much faster than blasting."
Paulide sat on a big rock at the entrance of the cave, lit a cigarette and looked at the increasing snowfall outside. He said angrily, "It took eight hours to advance less than two meters, and we could only get in crawling, and even some
Maybe after the next blast, the gap we worked so hard to create that we can barely crawl through will be buried again."
Hearing this, Wei Ran also sighed. The fact is as Baolide said, there is no way to open up the collapsed mine tunnels in this place just by blasting. If we can get a bulldozer, maybe it will be better than blasting.
Much faster.
But in fact, the Soviet Union at this time was not the Soviet Union when it disintegrated. The Soviets in this era still upheld the good habit of diligence and thrift. Otherwise, all the doors of Mine No. 52 would not have been demolished.
Therefore, they could not expect to find abandoned bulldozers and other machinery from the military base next door.
"Forget it, let's go back and discuss it with Mikita first."
Wei Ran had already opened the car door as he spoke, "It's snowing so hard now, even if we want to get a bulldozer, we probably have to wait until the snow stops."
"You can't get a bulldozer around here."
Polyd flicked the cigarette butt away and muttered with some anticipation, "Why haven't those two-legged animals come yet? Victor, are they not planning to come?"
"I don't know about that." Wei Ran got into the cab as he spoke, "Anyway, let's go back first."
