20 was blocked again. "Brother Feng, Brother Feng..." Su Lun pushed me, a gust of cold wind blew, and I woke up from my meditation. I couldn't control the shock I had just seen after seeing the black bowl.
The setting sun had already set on the top of the Pyramid of Tucrack Khan. I smiled and relaxed the muscles on my face that were tense unconsciously. I was hesitating whether to go to Elder Sahan's place to have a look. Yelan was already calling from the tent.
Said: "Mr. Feng, please come and see, drilling is about to begin!"
I calmed down, took Su Lun's hand, took three steps at a time and then two steps back to the tent.
The final excavation work was a moderate secret in the camp, so Tang Xin and the other three were not invited to visit. As for Lu Jiacan, Elder Sahan did not take the initiative to come over to observe, so there were only us and Ye in the tent.
Lan and other staff.
The stone wall had already appeared on the monitor. To Su Lun and I's disappointment and relief, there was no trace left by Bancha at the scene. Su Lun and I looked at each other and smiled. There were two possibilities, either Bancha's disappearance was related to
Our inference is completely contradictory, he did not enter the tunnel at all; or, he has mysteriously entered the tunnel, just like Miss Toka before.
"Feng, we are about to start." On one of the monitors, Tan Ye faced the screen and made an "ok" gesture. Although his face was full of smiles, I could tell that he was
If you are trying to hold on, you must have become extremely guilty.
The staff moved the drill rig close to the rock wall in an orderly manner. They must have practiced these operation steps hundreds of times.
Yelan shrugged his shoulders disapprovingly. He was an expert on drilling rigs and was very familiar with these steps.
Su Lun leaned over and stared at the huge drawing on the table, which was a longitudinal cross-section of the imaginary Pyramid of Earth Cracking Khan. According to the results of the ray scan, the thickness of the outer stone wall here is about four meters. As long as
After passing through this wall, you can enter a square tomb chamber, and the side length of the tomb chamber is roughly estimated to be ten meters.
Yelan cleared his throat and said loudly like a speech: "Dr. Tang has the most advanced drilling equipment on earth. According to the working efficiency of this machine, it will conservatively estimate that it will not take more than fifteen minutes to drill through a four-meter stone wall."
His colleagues are enemies. As the main leader of the camp, he only has the right to dig tunnels, but he does not have the trust of his sponsors to personally break through the outer walls of the pyramid. It is inevitable that he will feel some resentment, which is completely understandable.
A conservative estimate of fifteen minutes, the normal speed should be about ten minutes, and that's enough - Su Lun suddenly took a long breath of cold air and made a "hissing" sound, and the little hand I held began to become cold.
"What's wrong? Su Lun, are you feeling unwell?" Now, I already have the concern for her that a big brother loves a little sister, but it has not risen to the level of emotional attraction between a man and a woman.
She frowned, took out her hand, took a paper cup, and walked towards the water dispenser in the tent.
Her abnormal phenomenon also attracted Yelan's attention. He turned around and shouted in surprise: "Miss Su Lun, your face looks so ugly. Do you want to find some medicine for you?"
When I turned my attention away from the monitor, I felt that the camp suddenly became very quiet. The desert wind in the evening roared through the top of the tent, making the top of the tent whistle non-stop. In addition,
, the workers surrounding the derrick were all silent.
The noise emitted by those Honda generator sets is so low when they are working that it can be ignored if you don't listen carefully.
"Su Lun, do you want my help?" I asked again. Her face turned pale as a sheet for a moment, but she managed to raise her head and smiled: "It's okay, I just think that this kind of excavation work is a bit...a bit reckless...it seems
We should make more preparations before taking action. Brother Feng, what do you think?"
She sat down on a nearby chair, holding the paper cup in both hands, letting the hot steam of pure water hit her cheeks.
Raising this kind of question at this time seems to be an afterthought.
I secretly asked myself: "More preparations?"
I don't think there's anything wrong with Dr. Tang's argument for starting excavation work immediately.
The ancient tomb has existed for thousands of years. One day earlier and one day later, or even one year earlier and one year later, are all trivial matters. I actually think that opening the passage earlier would be more beneficial to finding Miss Toka. Of course,
That is based on "she really entered the ancient tomb".
After making sure that Su Lun was fine, I turned my attention to the monitor again.
Five minutes have passed, and the drilling rig is working silently. From an outlet at the tail of the drilling rig that is bent toward the ground, gray powder is constantly flowing down. Even a layman like me can tell that it is a drilling rig.
At the moment of high-speed excavation, the excavated stone wall fragments are crushed into dust and sent out.
"What's so great about it, it's just the most ordinary platform drilling rig!" Yelan muttered dissatisfied. This kind of work is no more technically challenging than the excavation of transverse tunnels, and he probably feels that he is completely capable of it.
Ten minutes later, the powder in the tunnel had accumulated to nearly a cubic volume.
Yelan quickly drew a few strokes on a piece of paper, listed a few equations, and said to himself: "The diameter of the thickest part of the drill bit is fifty centimeters. After digging four meters, the space that can be obtained is about one meter.
Cube, if there are no accidents, it should be able to be excavated soon..."
We unconsciously held our breath, looking forward to the great moment when the hole was completed. I believe everyone in the tunnel felt the same as us.
After the time reached fifteen minutes, Yelan's face had become very ugly. His eyes almost popped out. He leaned over to look at the drawing, and then put his eyes on the monitor screen. He couldn't see that side clearly.
He stood on the dark stone wall, mumbling incessantly, sometimes raising his head to pray, sometimes gritting his teeth and cursing fiercely.
Next, time became extremely unbearable, every second seemed to be infinitely long, and the hands finally reached the twenty-minute mark.
Su Lun's face was even more astonishingly white. He came close to me and whispered: "Brother Feng, I'm going out for a while to see what's going on with Elder Sahan."
I didn't know what to say anymore, so I shook her cold hand and just said: "Be careful and keep in touch at all times." I didn't want her to disappear mysteriously like Tengjia and Bancha.
At the twenty-fifth minute, Yelan finally couldn't help it anymore, threw the pencil in his hand at the screen, and cursed in Egyptian dialect. Then, a steady stream of vicious curses were mixed in the messy Egyptian dialect.
Run out.
The drilling rig is still working, and the powder delivered has accumulated more than two cubic meters, completely exceeding the amount of slag that can be produced by a four-meter-thick stone wall.
In fact, there is a weirder phenomenon here. If calculated according to the diameter of the drill bit, after two cubic meters of slag are produced, the length of the drill bit entering the stone wall must be at least eight to ten meters. Now, the position of the drill rig has not moved at all, and the drill bit is advancing.
The maximum length should definitely not exceed five meters.
I was still sweating profusely in the tent in broad daylight, so you can imagine the weirdness and horror in the hearts of the dozen or so people underground who were in the same situation.
I'm really glad that I didn't choose to be among the first to enter the tunnel - the drilling rig stopped, and all the action on the monitor stopped, making people wonder if the picture had suddenly frozen?
Finally, Gu Ye's voice sounded: "Feng, Feng... are you there? This situation... this situation..."
The sound of chattering teeth came clearly from the speakers hanging on the wall. Of course I was there, and I saw the entire excavation process without missing a beat.
I leaned closer to the microphone and adjusted my nervousness before speaking: "Mr. Tanye, I think the thickness of the stone wall detected by radiography is questionable. What do you think?"
Before I finished speaking, Dr. Tang had already shouted loudly: "Fuck you wind! What do you know? What kind of detection can't detect? My drill is the best detector! This dust is the best proof, you China
people……"
I hate all words that involve insulting the Chinese people. Before he could express his endless complaints, he suddenly shouted: "Soup, fuckyou! And your broken machine..."
Suddenly, I covered my mouth with force, because I found that my emotions were quickly losing control. Now is definitely not the time to get angry and bicker. If I consider the overall situation, I have to fully understand their chaotic mood at the moment deep in the tunnel.
.
"Sorry! Dr. Tang, please check your drill." I lowered my tone.
The technicians quickly pulled the drill back, and I saw that there was a black hole fifty centimeters in diameter on the dark flat stone wall. I suddenly shivered all over because the hole was right on the edge of the stone wall.
The central position seems to have an evil eye out of thin air, or it could be said that a big hole has been cruelly opened in a living object.
Several technicians responsible for the observation stood up in unison, pushed away their chairs and retreated, while at the same time shouting in fear in Egyptian dialect: "Eye! Eye..."
Only Yelan stood stiffly, holding on to the table like a drunkard.
No words can adequately describe my feelings when I saw the black hole. I just had a strong and ominous premonition.
Cheney squatted down, grabbed a handful of dark gray powder and sniffed it under his nose, then stuck out his tongue to drink it, and nodded dully: "The composition of the rock is 100% the same as that of the Pyramid of Khufu.
Eighty similarities.”
Tang had already taken a powerful flashlight, lay down on the black hole and shined a light inside, and clawed hard at the hole, as if he wanted to crawl in. At this time, the "big mouth" feeling given to me by the hole became even stronger, and
Tang's actions at this time were more like trying to force himself into the monster's "mouth".