After all, Ouyang Jun couldn't wait to come to Zhuang Rui. After staying in Xinjiang for ten days, he finally returned to Beijing because he also ran a film and television investment company and had recently appeared in several major dramas with the main theme. He usually had a lot of things.
The big star was in a hurry to go back to filming, so he had no choice but to go home.
Zhuang Rui didn't know that there was someone waiting for him outside the mountain. He was living a very carefree life during this period. Naturally, he was not needed to work in the mine. He had nothing to do every day. When he saw the mine protection team, they were all in a hurry. Zhuang Rui
Rui took Mengzi up the mountain to hunt during the day, and he did a lot of harm to the wild goats in the Kunlun Mountains.
The mining of the jade veins went very smoothly. In five days, the mine has been drilled more than ten meters, and nearly twenty tons of jade have been dug out. Mr. Adila is right. The deeper you go, the better the quality of the jade.
High, the few pieces of jade recently collected are of medium to high quality and are worth a lot of money.
However, there was a heavy rain yesterday, which caused the water level at the river mouth to rise a lot. Although it has not yet reached the height of the rock wall mine cave, it is not far away. Now the mining team is faced with the problem of diverting the stream. These two
Adila took Gong Zhao to observe the terrain every day, preparing to use explosives to block the mouth of the river and open up an outlet for the stream.
It's just that this stream usually doesn't look very deep, only reaching a person's waist. However, during the flash flood season, it can spread to a depth of three or four meters above the river. Therefore, it is not a simple matter to intercept the stream and divert it.
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After inspecting several places on the mountainside, Adila decided to use explosives to blow up part of the mountain above the river mouth, let the gravel roll down, block the river mouth, and then dig out another ditch for
Guide flash floods.
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"If you open a mountain and fire cannons, the idlers will stay away. If you open a mountain and fire cannons, the idlers will stay away..."
The sound coming from the big loudspeaker could be heard four to five hundred meters away from the river mouth. Zhao Gong led people to hit more than 20 blasting points thirty meters above the river mouth, and detonated them simultaneously.
If so, those rocks would be enough to block the mouth of the river.
Although this is likely to block the entrance to the mine, there is nothing we can do about it. The terrain at the foot of the mountain is low, and if there is another heavy rain, the mine may turn into a water curtain cave, and then there will be no way to do it.
Mining.
"Xiao Zhuang, here you go, there will be something good to see later."
Mr. Adila, standing next to Zhuang Rui, casually handed over a high-power military telescope.
"Why do you want this thing? You can see clearly from this close."
Zhuang Rui was a little puzzled. From a distance of four to five hundred meters, coupled with the clear weather and high visibility, he could clearly see the people who were placing detonators and explosives at several explosive sites.
"You'll know later..." The old man smiled but said nothing.
More than half an hour later, a rapid whistle sounded, and the people who planted the explosives immediately ran from the mountain towards the camp.
"Time's up, detonate!!!"
Seeing that the workers had all run back safely, Adila shouted loudly. After hearing the order, Zhao Gong held the remote control and pressed it hard.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!!!"
With the rhythmic and huge explosions, Zhuang Rui felt that the earth was shaking. The mountain a few hundred meters away seemed to be cut in half, and countless rocks poured down, large and small.
Stones flew everywhere, and some even landed dozens of meters away from Zhuang Rui and others. If the distance had been any closer, they would have ended up with a bloody head.
The explosion points were detonated one by one, and the sound of explosions was still coming. Zhuang Rui quickly picked up the telescope in his hand and put it in front of his eyes. Now he could see more intuitively. Under the power of the explosives, those hard rocks were like
It was as fragile as tofu and broke into pieces of stones of different sizes, all of which blocked the mouth of the river.
"One blast, two blasts, three blasts...twenty blasts, twenty-one blasts...Zhao Gong, all the explosion points have detonated, there are no dumb guns." Someone next to him was counting the sounds of the explosion. When the explosion disappeared, that person also
He breathed a sigh of relief and immediately reported it to Zhao Gong, who was responsible for the interception.
Using explosives to open a mountain is not a joke. Due to various reasons, a squib failure may occur if you are not careful, and this is also the most difficult to eliminate. When encountering such a thing, you must send someone to check, but after checking
In the process, the squibs often detonated, and the fate of those who checked the faults naturally goes without saying.
In some places where people make a living by eating mountains and mountains, using explosives is commonplace, and not a few people die from dumb cannons every year.
When he heard that all the explosive points had been detonated, Zhao Gong breathed a sigh of relief. No one wanted to do the job of removing the squibs. It was like working with his head on his back.
At this time, the originally low-lying river mouth seemed to have been built into a dam in an instant, intercepting all the water flowing from the mountain. However, Zhuang Rui was a little puzzled. This was just drinking poison to quench thirst. Wait until the water level on the mountain becomes higher.
Afterwards, if it is filled with those rocks, it will still flow down.
However, this situation was obviously expected by Adila. Just three or four minutes after the first round of explosions stopped, Zhao Gong pressed the button of the remote control on his left hand again, and suddenly, the deafening explosion sounded again.
Coming out, this time the explosive point was buried in the shape of a long dragon, exploding downward in a line fifty or sixty meters up from the foot of the mountain.
The situation in the telescope was different from before. This time, the explosive spots were relatively shallow. Zhuang Rui could only see the place where the explosive spots passed. The land seemed to have been plowed, and it was opened to both sides, and a deep road was opened.
The chasm came into view.
"Xiaozhuang, look up there." The words of Mr. Adira came from the side.
"above?"
Zhuang Rui raised the telescope for some reason, and when he saw it, he was shocked.
The place where Zhuang Rui and others camp is already at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, and the peak in front is more than 5,000 meters above sea level. The snow on the top of the mountain never melts all year round, even at
In summer, only the white snow on the mountainside slowly melts and flows into the Bison Valley.
"avalanche?!"
Zhuang Rui saw through the telescope that on the mountainside, which was almost as high as the clouds, there was a crack in the ice and snow that was as hard as hard iron.
Zhuang Rui's ears seemed to be able to hear the "click" sound of the ice layer breaking. Then, the huge snow body began to slide. The snow body quickly gained speed as it slid downwards. As a result, the avalanche body became
It turned into a white snow dragon that almost poured down, soaring into the clouds and mist, roaring and rushing down the mountain with great force.
The snow layer broke, white, layer upon layer of snow, and the snowboards rose up in response - as if the mountain god suddenly used his internal force to shake off a white robe on his body, or like a white snow dragon soaring into the clouds and riding in the mist, roaring along the mountain.
Below, like a giant white beast, swallowing everything that Zhuang Rui could see.
"Ibex?"
In Zhuang Rui's sight, he suddenly saw a group of wild goats running wildly, but their speed was far slower than the snow. In just a few seconds, those dozen wild goats disappeared from Zhuang Rui's eyes.
The avalanche continued for more than half an hour. It was not until the mountain slowed down that the speed of the snow pouring down slowed down. However, the bushes that were halfway up the mountain had disappeared and were all covered by the thick snow.
Covered, I believe that in a few days, all this snow will turn into snow and flow down.
Zhuang Rui knew something about the principle of avalanche. On the snow-capped mountains, there is always a kind of competition: gravity must pull the snow downward, but the cohesive force of the snow hopes to keep the snow in place. When this competition reaches its climax,
, even a little external force, such as animals running, falling stones, wind, slight vibrations, or even a shout in the valley, as long as the pressure exceeds the cohesive force that condenses the snow particles into a group, it is enough.
Triggering a catastrophic avalanche.
For example, if it is windy, the wind will not only cause a large amount of snow to accumulate, but also cause the snow particles to condense, forming a hard and brittle snow layer, so that the upper snow layer can slide along the lower snow layer, causing an avalanche.
This avalanche was obviously a man-made disaster. The huge explosion far exceeded the cohesive force of the snow particles, causing the years-old snow on the mountain to be unable to withstand the pressure. This avalanche occurred.
The power of nature left Zhuang Rui dumbfounded, but he also felt a deep sense of powerlessness. Human beings seemed so insignificant in the face of this power of nature, and life here seemed so helpless.
"Let's get to work. Clean the rocks at the entrance of the mine. You guys, follow me up the mountain."
An hour later, no more gravel fell. Zhao Gong organized people to open the mountain and got busy. The explosion was successful. The original river mouth had been completely blocked, and more than ten meters away on the right
, another gap appeared, and the snow water that had begun to dissolve on the mountain turned into a stream, rushing down from this.
The water in the stream became even colder. Zhuang Rui put his hand in the water and felt a biting chill. From time to time, ice cubes the size of millstones rushed down from the mouth of the new river.
The original entrance to the mine was now completely blocked by gravel, but cleaning these stones was much easier than digging the mine. By noon the next day, the outside of the mine was cleared, and the deafening diamonds
The sound of the machine began to echo in the canyon again.
Today is the day to prepare to return. Zhuang Rui and others have been in the mountains for half a month. The jade veins have been identified and mined. Adila decided to take the mined jade back first and send some people over.
After all, there are only seven or eight people working now, and the mining progress is too slow.
Except for the donkey that transported the jade, all the other tools and materials were left behind. As the general manager of this mine, Zhao Gong also stayed here, while Zhuang Rui followed the Jade Prince out of the mountain.
