Siheyuan: The Era of Core Generation

Chapter 273 The Underworld
As the expedition set off, several infantry vehicles also began to slowly climb out.After these vehicles came out, the on-site command asked them about the information inside.

It didn't take long for the second batch of convoys to set off again.Their task is to expand the forward camp, according to more equipment, and leave some people there to be responsible for some work there.

This time, more vehicles went underground, and on one side of the tunnel, engineering troops were already following a special rail.These rails have serrated teeth that engage with the gears on the wheels of the locomotive to increase friction.

The construction work outside was carried out in an orderly manner, and Captain Wu and their expedition were also not peaceful.

On the first day, they proceeded very carefully.Because the road is really difficult to walk, if the soles of their shoes have not been reinforced and protected, ordinary shoes would not be able to walk the road here.There are sharp stone thorns everywhere on the ground. The prospectors made a simple analysis and found that such sharp thorns have a very high iron content.If it's an ordinary shoe, it's okay to pierce your feet.

In order to open the way for the latecomers, they chose the edge area with fewer such thorns, and cleared the stone thorns on the ground while walking.The method is very simple, just hit with a hammer.

Walking all the way, smashing all the way, it took a day like this to advance less than three kilometers.

After Zhao Ye outside found out about this, he angrily scolded Captain Wu, this guy is too sloppy, you are an expedition team, not an engineering team.Things like this can be reported and let the follow-up team do what they want.

Captain Wu was criticized, so he stopped caring about these messy things the next day and started to move forward at an accelerated pace.The communications soldier stared at the signal tester in his hand all the time. Once he found that the signal strength had dropped to a certain point, he immediately moved to a suitable position and followed the signal repeater.In this way, the expedition team advanced nearly fifteen kilometers on the second day.

In the next few days, the expedition team kept the speed at ten to fifteen kilometers.After a week, they had gone eighty or ninety kilometers deep into the tunnel.

With six eDonkeys to provide logistics, their supplies are still sufficient.During the rest of the day, he asked someone to count the remaining supplies, and vacated an e-donkey, which was used as a death donkey in the lead.

The controller walked a few meters behind the donkey, followed by Captain Wu, and the deputy captain was in charge of the rear.

The 18-member team was also split into two teams by him.A sufficient safe distance must be maintained between the two teams. With a warrior's sixth sense, he always has a feeling that danger is getting closer.

Shortly after setting off the next day, the detection radar on the dare-to-die donkey discovered the situation ahead.Although his radar power is not high, it is no problem to detect tens of meters.In front of the team, a cliff appeared.What is displayed on the controller 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 time you take a step, you must look at your feet clearly.

Soon, they came to the edge of the cliff.This place is already much wider than the entrance of the tunnel. They threw down a cold light stick, and watched the light stick slowly disappear into the abyss, which made them very shocked.

There is no light at all here, and you can't see your fingers everywhere. Only with the help of the light above your head can you illuminate a small piece of ground in front of you.

"Captain, what shall we do?" A team member asked Captain Wu.

"What should I do? What else can I 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 encountered." The team members turned on their handheld devices and sent a situation statement to the headquarters.

"Bring over the high-power searchlights, let's brighten up the surrounding environment, otherwise the two eyes will be smeared, and nothing will be solved." Captain Wu felt that this is not the time to save electricity. Understanding the situation here is the most important thing right now.

The large searchlights on several donkeys were turned on. As the team members opened their eyes little by little and got used to the intensity of the light, they were stunned. They saw that the land under their feet was only tens of meters away. Along the way, they walked on a narrow and long passage, with abysses on both sides.

When Captain Wu understood the risk just now, he immediately ordered: "Quick, communication soldier, call the second team immediately and tell them to stop advancing, stop advancing immediately. Don't walk around randomly, turn on all the lights immediately, don't care about the electricity."

This situation is too dangerous.Human eyes, in a dark environment for a long time, will slowly produce illusions.Just like just now, they didn't even notice the abyss under their feet with their naked eyes. Although there are headlights, sometimes your eyes, or your brain, will involuntarily deceive you.

This big crack was discovered by the radar of Dare Donkey, which made Captain Wu realize that in such an environment, subjective judgment is important, but equipment is more important.If there is no detection radar, maybe they have been wiped out.

After some tossing, the second team and the first team merged.They decided to fix it 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 the team members to fire flares towards the open space.

The flares are brighter and have a wider range. At this time, everyone can see the surrounding environment clearly.In front of them was a canyon over 200 meters fast. The depth of the canyon was more than one kilometer as detected by the detector.As a result, the plan to continue is basically ruled out.In such a deep canyon, their ropes may not be long enough.Even if it is long enough, how can you climb up after going down?
That's [-] meters deep, and no one can climb a [-]-meter vertical steep slope.

After the headquarters received their report, they 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 ruined 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 as much as possible to find out the nearby terrain.For the next step, collect as much data as possible.

The geologists in the team were also not idle. With the help of other team members, they collected rock samples as much as possible in a larger area.At this time, a geologist accidentally dropped his hammer into the abyss.

In an abyss [-] meters deep, don't think about picking it up after falling.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.

(End of this chapter)