After Xu Wen explained his needs to Xia Yiran, Xia Yiran immediately arranged for an engineer named Zhao from his company to connect with him. When Engineer Zhao learned that he was looking for a geological exploration company, he accompanied him there
Zhongjiang Geological Exploration Co., Ltd. Jiangxia Real Estate relies on this company for geological exploration work for almost all projects.
The person who received Zhao Gong and Xu Wen was a business manager named Wang Hui from a geological exploration company. Manager Wang enthusiastically arranged for them to sit down in the reception room and asked them about their purpose of coming.
Xu Wen took out the stone found at the landslide site from his handbag and placed it on the table. Manager Wang and Worker Zhao both looked at him in surprise, wondering what Xu Wen meant by bringing the stone out.
"Manager Wang, look at this stone. Are you familiar with the cylindrical hole in the middle?"
"Oh, you mean this."
Manager Wang carefully inspected the inner wall of the cylindrical hole, then got up and went out to find a ruler, measured the diameter of the cylindrical hole, nodded and said:
"You guys wait a moment, I'll be back as soon as I can."
Xu Wen and Zhao Gong waited in the reception room for about ten minutes. When they saw Manager Wang walking in with a cylindrical stone and an object similar to a steel pipe in his hands, he first stood the cylindrical stone on the table and put it on the table.
The steel pipe was put on the outside, and then Xu Wen's stone was picked up and slowly put on the outside of the steel pipe.
"Look, it really is like this." Manager Wang placed the two stones firmly and said:
"Mr. Xu, the stone you brought should be left after we drilled the core during geological exploration. Look, this stone is the core, and the casing is the drill bit. However, your stone is a little special.
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"What's so special?"
"Under normal circumstances, after we drill the core, it is impossible to dig up the stone below, let alone such a break in the middle." Manager Wang said in confusion.
"Then why does this happen?" Xu Wen asked.
"Unless someone digs or blasts in the place we have explored before, they can dig out the rough stone from which we extracted the core. But this possibility is very small."
"Why?"
"Because we usually explore the geological structure deep underground and extract the core of the rock below to the surface for study. Who would spend so much effort to dig it up?"
After hearing what Manager Wang said, Xu Wen thought for a while and said:
"I found this stone at a landslide site."
"Oh, that's it, I understand." Manager Wang patted his thigh and said:
"In addition to exploring underground structures, we sometimes also explore mountains that are prone to landslides, study the geological structure of the mountains, and determine whether they are in danger of landslides."
Manager Wang's answer explained why there was such a stone at the landslide site. What Xu Wen wanted to know next was whether the landslide on the Huangwang Highway had been explored recently.
"Manager Wang, I have another question. Have you conducted landslide exploration on nearby mountains recently?"
"That's right. Our Zhongjiang is a mountainous city, and we conduct exploration in dangerous areas in the southern mountainous areas every year."
"Can you check specifically where they are?"
"That's no problem. I'm going to get the recent construction catalog." Manager Wang stood up and walked out. When he reached the door, he suddenly turned around and asked:
"Where exactly did you find this stone? Our construction directory is for subdivisions."
"It's the landslide site on Huangwang Highway some time ago." Xu Wen replied.
Manager Wang heard that Xu Wen was talking about the landslide site on Huangwang Highway. He hesitated for a moment, closed the door, sat back, and said with a serious expression:
"If it's there, there's no need to look for it. That place is indeed our company's exploration, and it's a project I'm responsible for."
"Ah, what a coincidence?" Xu Wen asked in surprise.
"Oh, don't mention it. This matter is not over yet. Our project team and our entire company may be implicated because of this matter." Manager Wang said dejectedly.
"What's going on? Lao Wang." Zhao Gong took out a cigarette and gave one to Manager Wang and Xu Wen each, and asked curiously.
Manager Wang picked up his lighter, lit the cigarette, took a deep breath, and sighed a few more times before saying:
"At the end of last year, our company received the landslide risk exploration work on the left slope of the 25th kilometer Huangwang Highway. We conducted drilling exploration on site from February 20th to 27th this year, and issued the report on March 10th.
Exploration report. The report at that time concluded that there was no risk of landslides in the near future.
But just eight days after we issued the report, a landslide occurred there. After learning about the situation, the city's Bureau of Land and Resources, the city's geological hazards authority, wanted to hold our company responsible, saying that the exploration report we issued was of poor quality, and that we would be imprisoned.
The company is removed from their list of partners.
The land business is the bulk of our company's business. If we lose this business, the company will be in trouble, so the company will definitely take action on our project team this time, and maybe we will be fired."
"Ah, is it that serious?" Zhao Gong asked worriedly.
"Oh, I can't help it. Who told us to be so unlucky?"
"Has your project team analyzed the reasons? Why are the exploration results inaccurate?" Xu Wen asked.
"This is not easy to explain clearly. The underground situation is very complicated. Our exploration layout is also done in accordance with the specifications. The drilled cores have been carefully inspected and analyzed, and we have concluded that there is indeed no risk of landslides. But he
It just collapsed, and we can only admit that we are unlucky."
"Manager Wang, please take a closer look at this stone. If it were a natural landslide, would it have caused such a result?" Xu Wen asked, pointing to the fracture in the stone.
Manager Wang looked carefully at the crack in the stone, shook his head and said:
"It's hard to say. If the original stone was broken when we drilled the hole, this kind of semi-cylindrical stone might appear during the collapse."
"If it breaks during drilling, will the size of the broken stone be very large? I found this small piece of stone at the scene. Have you ever thought that it was caused by another situation?" Xu Wen looked at it.
Manager Wang asked.
"What do you mean? I don't understand." Manager Wang shook his head and said.
"Could it be that some external force caused the original drilled stone to break?" Xu Wen said word for word.
"External force? You mean explosion?" Manager Wang asked tentatively.
"Yeah." Xu Wen nodded.
"Do you have any evidence?" Manager Wang suddenly became energetic and stared at Xu Wen.
"No, I just suspect that the timing of the collapse was too coincidental."
"Then how can we prove that it was exploded?" Manager Wang asked anxiously.
"I suspect that someone used the drill holes left by your exploration to blast. They stuffed explosives into the drill holes and then detonated them. If this is the case, there must be residues of explosives inside the stone."
"Oh, I understand." Manager Wang hugged the stone on the table and asked Xu Wen:
"Can you lend me this stone?"
Xu Wen smiled and nodded. He did not expect to meet Manager Wang today, and he did not expect that Manager Wang would want to know more than him whether the landslide was caused by blasting.