Chapter 44 Digging Through the Underground
After saying that, Xiaolan jumped down and leaped to the door of the shelter in a few cat steps. Although the shelter was made of stone, the gate was made of alloy.
The old-fashioned mechanical door requires a password to open from the outside and a fingerprint to open from the inside. 007 helped Qin Zhiyu and Xiaolan enter their fingerprints, making it more convenient when going out.
Xiao Lan stood at the door of the shelter, and Qin Zhiyu and 007 followed her out.
“Meow!”
Qin Zhiyu felt that there seemed to be some changes in Xiaolan's cry this time. What changes?
Xiaolan has his own power now, yes, power.
Xiao Lan, who was standing in front of the shelter door, suddenly had a different aura.
When they were playing, their chirping was soft and intimate, but now they look serious and their chirping is deep and penetrating, making people completely ignore Xiaolan's size.
“Chichichichi——”
A swarm of rats came out from the grass around the shelter, squeezing and bumping into each other. People with trypophobia must have felt very uncomfortable seeing this scene.
"There are at least a few hundred rats here. We can't let them dig out of the shelter!"
This thought flashed through Qin Zhiyu's mind. Even if so many rats were controlled after entering the shelter, a bite from one rat would definitely destroy his shelter.
"Let's go to the cave!" Qin Zhiyu waved his hand, signaling Xiaolan to control the mice and take them to the back mountain!
"Meow!" Xiao Lan gave an order, and all the mice turned around and followed it to the back mountain.
It is a rare sight to see hundreds of mice following a cat.
"007, come with us and measure the direction of the hole." Qin Zhiyu said as he closed the door of the shelter.
007: Good master.
As soon as Qin Zhiyu and 007 arrived at the back mountain, they saw a half-meter-deep pit in the center of the cave. Xiao Lan commanded the mouse army to dig the hole in just a few minutes, which was quite efficient.
It stands at the entrance of the cave, majestically controlling the situation. If a mouse gets out of control, it will shake its whiskers and glance at it, and the mouse will instantly become obedient.
Qin Zhiyu watched the mice divide into two teams in an orderly manner. One team dug holes, and the other team pushed the soil out of the cave. Occasionally, the two teams switched the order of working when digging holes and transporting soil.
The hole must not only be large enough for people to pass through, but also must be able to transport materials. The hole must be one and a half meters wide, otherwise not even one cubic meter of material can pass through.
007: Master Zhiyu, the soil brought out by the mice can eventually be used as raw material for sealing the door.
"Is the soil not strong enough?" Qin Zhiyu said after a slight hesitation.
007: There are two bags of cement in the warehouse, which can be mixed with the cement to seal the door.
"Okay, just cover the outside of the cave with a layer of soil and it will be almost done." Qin Zhiyu said.
She wanted to seal the entrance of the cave, and naturally it had to be more covert. If she just sealed it with cement, it would be too obvious, so she had to leave a mud wall outside, about half a meter thick.
While she was thinking, 007 had already calculated the position and dug a hole two meters deep into the cave. The hole was two meters deep underground.
The passage to the shelter warehouse is one meter deep, with a total distance of nine meters.
After all the mice entered the hole, Qin Zhiyu also lent a hand and helped transport the soil at the entrance out. As for entering the hole and digging with the mice, she was absolutely unwilling to do so.
Seeing that the construction was proceeding in an orderly manner, Supervisor 007 went back to the shelter to cook and take over the warehouse.
"Are you struggling, Xiaolan?"
Qin Zhiyu shoveled out a handful of soil and continued.
"If you're tired, just take a break and continue digging tomorrow. There's no need to rush."
"Master, I'm not tired. I feel so majestic. I've never felt so happy before. I want to be the king in the future!" Xiao Lan licked his paws and said, his determined eyes already showing the demeanor of the king of beasts.
"Okay! I believe Xiaolan can do it." Qin Zhiyu smiled brightly.
She had to support him. She had always been worried that Xiaolan would lose his wildness, but now it seemed that Xiaolan had found his own direction.
If one day she is not with Xiaolan, she also believes that Xiaolan can stand on her own.
By sunset, the rats had cleared a path to the base of the shelter's warehouse.
In front of me is a thick stone wall, which is the foundation of the shelter.
Qin Zhiyu asked 007 whether drilling a hole in the foundation would affect the stability of the shelter.
After calculation, 007 chose this safe location. The shelter only has one floor, so the impact is not significant.
"Let's take a break and eat something, and give some food to the mice as well." Qin Zhiyu said as he took out the hot rice brought by 007. The fresh and fragrant omelet rice was tender and yellow and tempting.
There was also fresh-cut beef for Xiaolan. She and 007 had never given Xiaolan human food made with various seasonings.
Xiao Lan doesn't like to eat it and it's hard for her to digest after eating it.
Finally, Qin Zhiyu did not forget the army of rats who had worked hard for several hours, and 007 also prepared two buckets of 200 kilograms of miscellaneous minced meat for them to eat.
You will have more energy to work if you are full!
However, during the meal, Qin Zhiyu and Xiaolan stayed in a place where they could not see the mice.
The main reason was that it was too far away for Xiaolan to control the mouse, so he did not go back to the shelter.
Eating with mice can be avoided, but there is no need to force them to get together. Qin Zhiyu is uncomfortable, and the mice are probably also trembling with fear.
After eating, Qin Zhiyu thought about how to dig a hole in the stone. Relying on mice was too difficult and too slow.
After much deliberation, Qin Zhiyu decided to use the ancient method. He first found a sharp and strong hollow tube and aimed it at the center area where he wanted to drill the hole. The operation method was similar to drilling wood to make fire.
Qin Zhiyu first dug a few small holes and left the rest to the rats to gnaw on. At this time, she dug the soil from inside the shelter.
Fortunately, the shelter is not a huge stone shell, otherwise Qin Zhiyu’s workload would be even greater.
After storing the excavated soil into the storage device, Qin Zhiyu met Xiao Lan and the others outside the stone cave in less than an hour.
With the force from both sides, the entrance to the cave quickly opened up.
At this point, the entire cave excavation came to an end. Qin Zhiyu told Xiaolan to let the mice go, and she could complete the remaining finishing work by herself.
The main task is to pave the cave passages and roads, as well as seal the cave entrances to avoid leaving a large hole in the shelter.
Qin Zhiyu laid the cement concrete as he walked. The floor was made of stone slabs cut by 007, and he just had to place the whole piece on the ground.
At this thought, she had an idea. She could cut more of these stone slabs and use them to pave the road around the shelter. It would be great because it would be low-cost, strong, and not afraid of wind and rain.
Qin Zhiyu was paving the way in front, Xiaolan was jumping and skipping behind, and 007 also followed and gave some pointers from time to time.
When he arrived at the entrance of the cave, Qin Zhiyu simply threw down two stones to block the entrance and filled the gap with concrete.
(End of this chapter)
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