When the welding gun cuts the steel, a large cloud of sparks explodes across the track and flies down. As soon as the workers who are busy shuttling on the traffic rope fall to the ground, there are sparks hitting and splashing on the welding masks, which is so dazzling that it is difficult to look straight at it, no matter how careful people are. , and always bathe under the fire waterfall.
These things that cannot sting people disappear indefinitely in the elevator shaft that cannot be seen to the bottom, making people lament the splendor and impermanence.
Sometimes, the little train drivers would stick their heads out and shout to the railway workers not to block the way of the mine cars. The workers under the fire waterfall waved their wrenches and punched out an iron flower. It really looked like some kind of traditional art of the old times—— "Tiehua".
Shen Rusong scratched his hair and suddenly felt his scalp was itchy. He fiddled with the cigarette case, pulled out a cigarette but didn't really want to smoke it. He rolled it in his palm and said:
"Slow down, slow down, is there anyone else who can't compete with you? I don't even know what you're so anxious about smoking."
Shao Gang coughed for a long time and kept spitting. He lit up his cigarette as soon as he recovered, and took a puff of it until the end of the cigarette shone brightly. He inhaled half of the cigarette in one breath, exhaled a cloud of white mist, straightened his tongue and said:
"I greeted everyone who came out in the same year as us and was assigned to the Eastern Military Region base."
Shao Gang bit the candy and said angrily: "Songzi, sometimes I really don't understand you. We have said so many times at graduation ceremonies, graduation dinners, and small dinners that we should take care of each other." If we get together, everyone knows what you mean, and no one refuses to agree. Now you ask me to say the same thing in addition, and say goodbye. Why, are you afraid that they will forget?!"
Hearing Shao Gang's complaint, Shen Rusong raised his forehead and said:
"My brother, you still don't understand what I mean?"
"You have had so many fights in the past three years, and how tense have been your relationships? We had our last meal at Dawei Guobarou, and you almost got into a fight with someone. How can you enter the sergeant academy without remembering anything? I asked you to go and tell me. Have a safe journey. At this time, I am out of the earth. With your words, many things have passed away."
"That's called talking heads. It's not like you don't know that I can't deal with that grandson of the little pot sticker. I just want to slap him when I see that stinky face." Shao Gang yelled, holding his neck.
Shen Rusong drooped his eyelids and replied, "Yeah, although Datou has a very embarrassing reputation for chasing girls, he doesn't slap anyone he meets, right?"
Gao Keming shamelessly gloated: "The third child is running around like this. What he knows is to connect the brothers, but what he doesn't know is that he thinks he is going to have a fight."
Shen Rusong reached out and slapped Gao Keming on the back of the head and cursed, "Do you think I'm praising you here?"
Gao Keming covered his head and yelled: "Fuck! I only missed one glance, I can't help it! It takes so long to write and send a letter in the next few months. I won't have a chance if I don't read it. What's more?" …”
"Okay, okay, stop talking." Shen Rusong was too lazy to listen and said seriously:
"When you went there, no one was going to pick a fight with you, right?"
Shao Gang puffed out white smoke from his nostrils, grinning like a half-yellow but not white teeth, and said dullly: "Yes! Everyone nodded and applauded, except for the turtle grandson who said nothing."
Shen Rusong frowned when he heard this, grabbed the cigarette that Shao Gang was about to refill, and said in a deep voice: "Speak carefully! I call you Guo Yong, not pot stickers. Don't beat her up all day long. The instructor just now What did you say? After leaving Tianmen, we are not only classmates but also comrades-in-arms. We have to turn our backs and risk our lives! Guo Yong is still in the same army as us. In the past three years and in the next ten years, are you going to fight with Guo Yong for thirteen years? Next time When you fight, ask me for my hand gestures first! Damn it, after talking for so long, even the straight rails are bent, you..."
"Definitely!" Gao Keming held down one with both hands and smoothed things over: "It's time to change the bad temper of the third brother. Boss, don't be sarcastic with your words. We are brothers."
Shen Rusong slapped Gao Keming's hand away, looked at Shao Gang who looked resentful, and said forcefully: "Why did Zhou Kenlong get back to you with those sauce jars?"
Shao Gang tilted his head and scratched his forehead, paused for a long time before replying: "Oh, of course it's not for me, I'll take the message, but I'll take care of Brother Seed even if he's sent to that nook in the east. Come back." I also said 'um huh' twice."
"It's up to them. He doesn't care about this favor. I don't care." Shen Rusong didn't care much and stared at Shao Gang and said: "Don't provoke them. No matter these people are looking for seniority or something, they have their own rights." With all his methods, he might be able to get involved with the Tianda Gang, let’s do our thing.”
After hearing this, Shao Gang touched the engineer badge, wheat ear bottom, and gear wrench pinned to his chest.
He smacked his lips and said, "Hey, it would be great if our chapter also had the Lotus Chapter. We could just take the rocket of the headquarters and go to the mobile brigade to be the platoon leader. That would be great."
Shen Rusong immediately thought that this boy's daydream kung fu had become stronger again, "Lotus Chapter"? It was specially worn by the pride of Tianhai Military University, and it was gold-plated! The genuine "Golden Lotus Medal"! It has nothing to do with this group of "Mai Sui Zhang". These gods will be iron-clad generals when they live to their age. They are not from the circle. Ordinary military academies don't take them seriously. They can take a good look at them. A scumbag from the Military Academy?
Shen Rusong didn't want to hear Shao Gang's farts anymore, so he changed the topic and said, "After you have performed meritorious service, you can go to the training class. This will clear your status as a non-commissioned officer. You should consider changing your belt!"
"By the way, Third Brother, do you know the map by heart? We'll leave the company in just two days. We need to be good at eating!"
It is true that engineers and soldiers repair things, but they do it in deep mountains and old forests. These days, individual soldiers cannot communicate far, and satellites are even more unthinkable. Without careful survey of the wild old ditches on the surface, painting If you get lost and accidentally bump into a deformed creature, a mobile brigade will come to collect the corpses for you.
Shao Gang picked his nose as soon as he heard the map and said angrily: "Forget it, you really have more control than my father."
"If Song Zi were your father, he would have to give birth to someone to take care of you, a bachelor." Gao Keming said with a smile.
"If I call you daddy, can you find me a wife?"
"If you call me, I will find it for you."
"..."
Shen Rusong listened to the two people bickering and curled his lips helplessly. He looked around at the cadets who couldn't tell who was who even after taking off their helmets. The men had short hair and the women had ear-length hair. They were all wearing black windbreakers and sighed. Suddenly he threw his arms around their necks and whispered:
"Listen! We grew up on the same street. Everything is not easy when we get up there. I won't say anything else. As long as the three of us support each other, there will be no obstacle that we can't overcome. We won't deal with any problems. Our shoulders are not meant to carry the fate of Venus. . As long as the hardware and software are there every time we go back, we are the only boys in the family. We think about our parents and sisters, so we can take our time here."
"We'll take care of anything together."
The three of them bumped their heads and said nothing more.
"Listen to Songzi." Shao Gang said in a muffled voice, patting him hard with his big hand.
"Yes, listen to Songzi. If you give me a baby two months earlier, I will have more brains if I eat two months more. Ah, this..."
Halfway through Gao Keming's words, he realized what Shao Gang had done to him. He wiped off the dark dirt on the back of his clothes and said angrily:
"I, Cao Nima, whose surname is Yang, wiped my clothes with my nose, I will fight with you today."
Shao Gangjian smiled and ran away, Gao Keming shouted to follow, causing Shen Rusong to shout "Don't be seen by the instructor", but the two of them disappeared in an instant, leaving Shen Rusong alone. land.
Shen Rusong smiled and shook his head. However, when he wanted to put the cigarette in his hand to his lips, he didn't expect that the cigarette in his palm had already been squeezed out of shape.
He looked at the busy workers coming and going, his heart swaying like a swaying steel cable.
A piece of steel broke free from the cable for some unknown reason and was dangling in the air. It almost hit the truck on the platform, startling the nearby people and ducking to hide. In a matter of a few heartbeats, someone who looked like a squad leader immediately shouted out. , people no longer evaded, but instead gathered together, working together to grab the steel material that may weigh more than ten tons, and would cause chest cracks and fractures with just a slight bump.
Someone desperately picked up the rope head and jumped on the steel beam to fix it. More and more people, including the nearby cadets, joined the team to stabilize the steel, grabbing the front straps, sleeves and even hair.
When the supervisor arrived, the steel was already fixed. The supervisor wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and began to instruct people to move the steel to the predetermined position as much as possible so that the crane could work. Just use your bare hands and use your palms to grasp the rough steel surface. Watch as the screws are inserted into the correct position one by one, and then lifted away.
People immediately returned to their previous appearance and didn't think it was any big deal.
There are more and more lifting platforms blocked due to the failure of the raw material platform. There is no way, it just got stuck at the intersection of the upward track. Shen Rusong glanced at his watch and thought that the stopping time was almost the same as the forward time. .
Eight out of ten cadets took off their gas masks, took out supplies and started eating. Compared with the instructor's slap, the suffocation of breathing was obviously more uncomfortable.
As they were eating, the ends of their hair were suddenly blown up by the wind. When they realized it, a maglev vertical lift had stopped far above their heads.
"Good guy, magnetic levitation platform." Everyone was in an uproar.
People looked up and saw that the magnetic levitation platform had no contact with the lift shaft at all, and the Renaissance Army gear shield badge at the bottom was shining brightly.
"Damn it, wasn't it already banned by a law that consumes electricity like the magnetic levitation platform?" Gao Keming scratched his head after being beaten back.
Shen Rusong took out the small monocular telescope from the secret bag and saw the magnetic levitation platform moving to the exit of the lift shaft. He turned up the magnification and saw dozens of soldiers wearing strange transparent camouflage clothes passing quickly.
"Show me." Shen Rusong handed the telescope to Gao Keming, who was eager to try it. The latter looked at it for a while and said:
"We didn't even use magnetic levitation during the emergency evacuation of wounded soldiers. Darling, these people have a lot of background. Which army is so awesome?"
Shao Gang sneered: "Does this let you know exactly? How many combat battalions there are are classified."
Gao Keming, who had suffered a loss, did not answer the conversation, returned the telescope to Shen Rusong, and said:
"I guess it's from the Xiaobailong Special Forces, or from the Military Police Special Service Team of the General Headquarters?"
The special forces of the Fuxing Army are the most prestigious of these two forces. Only those who came out of the Special Warfare Academy or have served for more than three years are eligible to sign up for the election, so Shen Rusong is not very concerned about it, and people You can be lazy, but you can't talk nonsense, so Shen Rusong casually said "hmm" and said: "Who cares, stand still, the signal light is on in front, we have to leave."
Indeed, after the raw material platform was repaired, the maintenance workers quickly cleared away the coal dumped on the track for subsequent platforms to pass by. It is still impractical for this behemoth to rely on its own power. Shen Rusong guessed that a special The hauler came to haul it away, but it had nothing to do with him.
The lift finally moved forward again, and after being blocked for more than two hours, it finally connected to the corresponding exit.
When crossing the corridor bridge, Shen Rusong glanced down. Looking at the dispatch hub at the bottom from his position was even more exaggerated than when he stood on the rooftop of the six-story teaching building of the Non-Commissioned Officer Academy and looked at the manhole cover on the first floor. Just a distant glow.
The lighter tonnage pure personnel transport platform still has to travel a certain distance to the high point exit. Countless huge mouths swallow up and spit out lift platforms of different sizes. People can't help but think, have we really hollowed out Longshan?
The lift platform turns to the docking gate. The checkpoint in front of it is not the small highway guard box at the connection of the underground city area, but a permanent bunker equipped with tank positions, small artillery, and wartime transportation trenches. The sentry on guard is holding A fully loaded gun.
"Name, ID number and security number." The gate officer looked at Shen Rusong's ID, raised his head and looked at Shen Rusong carefully, comparing whether the ID photo matched the person's.
Shen Rusong reported truthfully. Not only their batch of fledglings who had just risen to the surface would be carefully inspected, but anyone who did not have a special pass and crossed the red line would have to queue up for inspection.
"Is Luoshi District going to be demolished soon?" the officer asked, looking through the documents.
"We said it would be demolished ten years ago," Shen Rusong replied. "But the central area has been expanded to the sixth ring road, so it is impossible to demolish it. Last year, a roller skating rink was built near my home."
The officer stared at Shen Rusong's face and hummed: "Why hasn't my area been repaired? Let's go!"
With a "dong" sound, the officer stamped a steel seal on Shen Rusong's ID photo and let him out of the checkpoint.
Shen Rusong trotted to follow the team. It was another long tunnel, but it was now a flat road.
The red light of the emergency light jumped over the brim of the soldiers' helmets, the steel guns hit the rubber raincoats, the military boots clicked, and Shen Rusong ran and disappeared in the dim light on the other side of the tunnel.
At first, he felt that the soldiers running in unison were gently shaking the tunnel wall. He reached out his hand and stroked the cold and smooth wall. The deep throbbing was closer than ever before, making his heart shine brightly with the faint light. And enthusiastically.
So when he walked out, the radiance of the soaring dome almost made him unable to open his eyes. He held on to the railings, and everyone was trembling.
He saw the river, a big silver river.
The sight glass of the gas mask was covered with water mist, and he could not see clearly no matter how hard he wiped it. He smelled a condensed smell coming from the bone marrow. He immediately thought that this was the smell of dust!
Suddenly, the young cadets suddenly forgot to move forward. They stopped in front of the next iron ladder. Some of them took off their masks, but immediately started coughing painfully.
With just one glance, he knew that the river that was more than a kilometer wide was not water, but it was also another kind of blood that maintained the lives of the people in the underground city.
coal.
The endless black turbulence is glowing with silver spots, which are the surface of the coal wetted by the water gun. After the silver light spots fade away, you can see the larger surface snow mining chain forming the background of the turbulent flow, replenishing water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide for this huge underground city with a total population of more than 14 million.
Heavy-duty trains drive in from afar without stopping. Dozens of railways are erected in the air on ladder conveyors. At the same time, more than a dozen carriages filled with ore are caught by the dumper, dumping the raw materials onto the conveyor, and they gather into That black river.
He understood what was shaking his soul, it was the violent sound of the waves crashing at the bottom of the cliff. Raw coal is black, but burning is fiery red. So, there was a waterfall, a black waterfall hanging underground.
Shen Rusong raised his head slightly, and the cold wind blew away the breath of the world. Scarlet red and earthy yellow dust adhered to the front of his mask.
He saw those abyss-like conveyors, those heavy-duty trains, and the iron-colored plank roads under extremely high domes that accumulated heavy rain.
The crowds are surging, the fire is like a sea, and the main entrance of the underground city blends into the mountain as far as the eye can see.
That slogan that people have said and shouted countless times is still engraved on the door. You look at it, and it looks at you, waiting for you, looking forward to you.
The door is slightly open, and the ray of light that shines through is no longer the dawn, but the blazing white light of the high sun at noon, calling people to step out of the underground and onto the black soil!
