The mining tunnels under Huanshi City are as dense as a spider web, so they are also called "spider web tunnels".
After stepping over the body of the tauren, Ding Ling and Valei were still the forwards, and the tongs team member with the flashlight was the rear guard. Qin Jiandan walked in the middle to support the front and rear at any time.
There were many forks in the road ahead. Thanks to Valle's keen sense of smell, she was able to track the smell of oysters on the suitcase.
"Uh-huh...go this way!"
When Valle concentrates on using her sense of smell, she will temporarily close her eyes. At this time, she must rely on Ding Ling's night vision ability to detect the enemy ahead.
Rabbits have sharp eyes and become extremely afraid of death after the suppressive drugs wear off during the high period. Overall, they are very suitable for this job.
There was water flowing down the cave wall, and the echo of the water droplets mixed with the sound of everyone's footsteps, making the spider web tunnel seem even quieter.
Qin Jiandan noticed some fluorescent mushrooms appearing on the left side of his vision. They grew on the top of the cave wall and seemed to tremble slightly with the frequency of dripping water.
"I'm a little hungry." Qin Jiandan's stomach growled. "Before I had time to have dinner, there was a big explosion at the oyster shop. If I had known better, I would have eaten more skewers of grilled meatballs."
Valle laughed and scolded: "Then you still won't let me eat the oysters that fell from the sky!"
Ding Ling suddenly felt an extreme desire to express herself. She felt that if she didn't tell the information she knew right away, she would die:
"These, these mushrooms are called "underground fluorescent mushrooms", you must not eat them! I've read in the literature that eating them will make you laugh non-stop and hallucinate! "
In order to embolden himself, a boy from the fire tongs team muttered in a low voice:
""Brother's Fluorescent Mushroom"? What a bad name! Will my brother fluoresce after eating it? "
Qin Jiandan snorted at Ding Ling:
"Do you think that if you provide me with some encyclopedic knowledge, I will be so generous as to let you go? Stop dreaming! The underground tunnels are so dangerous, can you survive if I let you go?"
Ding Ling probably understood the situation at this moment. She bent to Qin Jiandan at a 90-degree angle, and the two rabbit ears on her head drooped:
"I'm sorry! Please forgive me! I've been giving you a lot of trouble these past two days!"
I was so nervous that I mistakenly said "adding trouble" to "adding mushrooms", but the meaning did not change.
Qin Jiandan pointed to the top of the cave wall, where there were at least 20 large and small fluorescent mushrooms trembling:
"I'll forgive you if you eat all these mushrooms!"
Ding Ling shook his head vigorously and walked silently under the mushroom. Valle stared at the mushrooms with interest. If she wasn't on a mission, she might have picked a few to try.
After tracking forward for another five minutes, what Qin Jiandan was most worried about finally happened.
"The smell has faded." Valei wrinkled her nose and sniffed for a long time, but she couldn't decide which way to go:
"The enemy moved away at a speed several times faster than walking. The scent on the suitcase was pulled very thin. I could only roughly estimate the direction."
"What about you?" Qin Jiandan kicked the rock wall beside Ding Ling. Debris fell from the rock wall, making Ding Ling turn pale with fright.
"How are you? I heard that rabbits have a sense of smell as good as that of a police dog. Can you smell it?"
Ding Ling trembled and said: "There is no other way to move quickly in the tunnel. The enemy should have left in a mine cart!"
In fact, Ding Ling didn't think Qin Jiandan's enemies were his enemies, but if he didn't obey what the other party said, he would be beaten.
Qin Jiandan's eyes lit up, as if he had discovered a new world:
"Rabbit, you are worthy of being a member of the Ding family, and you are quite familiar with the spider web tunnel! Then you will lead the way! Didn't you say when you came to interview me that the above and underground routes around Stone City are all in your mind!"
Ding Ling regretted it endlessly:
"That's just to show my professionalism as a reporter! Although the crystal mine is the main business of the Ding family, it has nothing to do with me being an illegitimate son! I have seen the main map of the Spider Web Tunnel in the crystal processing factory, but this is close It’s the edge of the tunnel!”
Qin Jiandan touched his chin and nodded:
"It turns out you've even seen the tunnel map, which is great. I remember that there is a crystal processing factory downstairs of your magazine, right? Help us find the mine cart! Otherwise, don't blame Yelong for raping you first and then killing you!"
Qin Jiandan snapped his fingers, and the five younger brothers smiled ferociously at Ding Ling in unison. Valei in the front smiled the most enthusiastically, and she was worthy of being a female copper.
Ding Ling wiped away her tears: "I, let me give it a try."
Rabbits' night vision and sense of smell are no worse than dogs. It's just that rabbits are too weak to fight, so they are regarded as harmless wastes for humans and animals.
Qin Jiandan ordered two younger brothers to follow Ding Ling to find the mine cart. One younger brother took a flashlight and the other a micro-charger.
With the fluorescent mushrooms that appeared from time to time at the top of the tunnel, the visibility in the vicinity was slightly improved. Qin Jiandan, three other boys and Valei defended the rear.
The three major families in the inner city each have their own divisions of power. The Ding family is mainly responsible for the energy business, the most important of which is the phlogiston crystal mineral in the spider web tunnel.
The main part of the spider web tunnel is directly managed by the Ding family, where the phlogiston crystals are the densest and most pure.
If someone other than the Ding family wants to organize people to mine, they need to pay the Ding family according to time to contract a certain area. After the contracting time is over, 1/3 of the mining income must be handed over to the company.
The mining areas that the Ding family can contract to outsiders are basically on the edge of the spider web tunnel, with almost the same crystal output and various lurking dangers.
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Contract mining owners are naturally even more inhumane, and they try their best to exploit the miners obtained through various illegal channels. It is normal for several people to die every day.
In Ringstone City, "selling you for mining" is the most vicious curse second only to "turning you into a brain machine".
Ding Ling looked for the mine cart with a death wish, while Qin Jiandan was still making sarcastic remarks from behind:
"You Ding family members never come to the edge mining area, right? I'll let you see it today!"
Ding Ling whined: "I am already a marginalized member of the Ding family!"
A philosopher in the Earth Age once said: "People are forced out." Ding Ling also showed his potential under the threat of death, and it didn't take long to find a set of mine carts abandoned in a remote cave.
Although the walls of the Spider Web Tunnel are full of potholes, the road surface is relatively smooth. This is due to the use of an angle grinder to smooth the ground.
Special mine carts can move on flat ground. This four-wheel dump-type mine cart is adapted to the small space in the tunnel and has a compact appearance. One cart head of the same size can pull 5 mine carts. Because the front of the train has an automatic path-finding function, there is no need to lay additional rails.
"Can it be driven?" Qin Jiandan, with the help of his younger brother, righted the entire train of mine cars.
Valei hung Wei Chong around his neck and wanted to help, but Qin Jiandan refused.
A mistress is not suitable for rough work.
Ding Ling squatted on the right side of the front of the car to check the energy furnace. The entire mine car was covered in dust, which inevitably rubbed his cheeks:
"It can barely be opened. There are crystal residues left from burning inside. It can still be opened for a while by turning on the fire manually. But there will be phlogiston ashes coming out. If there is no air filter..."
"Why are you so squeamish!" Qin Jiandan grabbed Ding Ling's rabbit ears and lifted her up. "Tell me how to start a fire. If you delay any longer, the enemy will run away!"
Ding Ling's rabbit ears were almost crushed, and she desperately begged for mercy:
"Be merciful! Isn't there a metal crank on the front of the car! Just shake it hard and it will start a fire!"
Qin Jiandan threw Ding Ling aside and began to rotate the front crank rod. Sure enough, he heard the sound of the energy furnace starting up soon after.
One locomotive pulls five mine cars, like a small train for children in a large shopping mall, except it is narrower and does not even have a roof.
Valei quickly jumped into the first mine cart tipping bucket. She patted the front of Hanhan who was breathing heavily in front of her, and her tone was full of novelty: new
"Sister, I haven't played this before! Burning the phlogiston crystal directly as firewood is so crude and wasteful! The front of the car is a sealed iron lump, and there is no steering wheel. How should we control the path?"
Qin Jiandan: "Didn't Ding Ling explain it just now? The front of the car has an automatic path-finding function. It can only drive to the mining area contracted by the mine owner, and then go back and forth between the exit and the mining area. I guess you can go to the nearest mining area by car."
Every time Qin Jiandan mentioned his name, Ding Ling's rabbit tail felt like it had been electrified, fearing that he would be treated roughly again.
The younger brother who was previously considered mature by Qin Jiandan and assigned a revolver said:
"What the young master probably means is that since Nian can move around in a mine cart, they might have a temporary base in the nearby mining area. Even if the path of this mine cart is wrong, we won't suffer much loss if we jump out of the mine cart midway."
This guy thinks a lot. Not only is he mature in appearance but also mature in thought. I didn't even think of this! It turns out that after becoming a leader, as long as he gives instructions casually, his subordinates will guess out of thin air that there must be a deeper meaning?
Qin Jiandan concealed his embarrassment calmly:
"Yes, that's it. After you get in the car, Valei and Ding Ling always check whether the smell has completely disappeared. If it disappears, jump out of the car immediately!"
Everyone climbed into the mine cart tipping bucket. The only button on the front of the car was the start button. Valei pressed hard on the rough and old dark yellow round button.
"哐啷哐哷哐啷——"
Along with the heat emitted by the energy furnace and the dust falling from the car body, a train of mine cars started slowly and gradually accelerated to 10 times the speed of walking.
The cave walls, moss, and fluorescent mushrooms all moved backwards quickly, and even mutated rats gnashing their teeth occasionally appeared.
Qin Jiandan heard that the subway in the earth age is a very necessary means of transportation. On the subway, everyone listens to music and sings songs. When they arrive at the workplace, they can drink coffee at will. When they are tired from work, they can take a nap. It is very romantic.
Some people also say that fried chicken and beer are provided for free 24 hours a day on the subway. I don’t know if it is true or not.
But just like the situation before us, the "subway" around Stone City is not a fun thing. The miners will be transported away in dumpers like livestock, and they will be forced to work after they arrive at the location.
The "miners" in the spider web tunnel are actually the abbreviation of "mining slave workers". Mining slave workers must be put on slave collars by their masters. If they run out of the specified area, they will die in the explosion.
Generally speaking, there is only one mining slave in a minecart bucket, but the mining slaves have additional mining equipment. If there isn't that much equipment, two people can barely get in by squeezing into a tipping bucket.
Five boys occupied the three buckets at the back. The fat one occupied one alone, and the thin ones worked in pairs.
Qin Jiandan thought about squeezing into a tipping bucket with Valei and letting Valei sit on top of him. But in order to make it easier to fight, he still resisted the urge and took a seat, letting Valei and Ding Ling squeeze together.
Valei did not object to being crowded together with girls. When she chose a suitable position for Weichong to set up the gun, she took advantage of Ding Ling several times, and Ding Ling was too embarrassed to speak out.
Qin Jiandan suddenly felt that Valei, the shadow leader of the tongs group, seemed to have a special advantage in torturing female prisoners?
