Chapter 452 Return to the Dungeon
Qin Shuyan is good at swimming, and after her body evolved, she can hold her breath in water for more than ten minutes.
In such turbulent water, she is the most suitable person to enter the water. If there is any accident and the oxygen tank is washed away by the rapids, she can also find a way to swim to the surface to save herself.
Xia Xiaoman thought for a long time and agreed to Qin Shuyan's plan.
"When the wind and rain subside a little, Qin Shuyan will go into the water to contact the people in the underground city."
There was no other way. The supplies on the ship were running out. If we didn't want to starve, we had to take the risk and go into the water.
When the storm became smaller, Qin Shuyan put on her diving equipment and jumped into the water. Xia Xiaoman and others waited on the boat for seven or eight minutes, and felt the safety rope being pulled by Qin Shuyan, so they immediately pulled the rope up quickly.
Qin Shuyan, who surfaced, shook her head and said, "The entrance to the underground city is not here. We need to sail around nearby."
Xia Xiaoman pulled Qin Shuyan onto the boat and asked someone to drive the boat around. After diving five or six times, Qin Shuyan finally found the entrance to the underground city.
Qin Shuyan found a waterproof camera and kept making sign language in front of it, trying to tell the person behind the camera to send someone to pick them up.
After practicing for a long time and seeing that the oxygen cylinder was almost exhausted, Qin Shuyan pulled the safety rope on her body and asked her companions to pull her up.
After Qin Shuyan returned to the surface, Xia Xiaoman walked to the guardrail every few minutes to check the surrounding water conditions. The underground city had not sent anyone out to help, and even the supply packages had not been delivered.
Xia Xiaoman stared at the water surface with worry. Suddenly, large bubbles appeared on the rolling water surface, and soon, a black cylindrical iron lump popped out of the water.
After the iron lump stabilized its body, it slowly approached the ship. When the iron lump floated in front of the ship, a window suddenly opened on the top, and the people inside came out of the window, holding a loudspeaker and shouting at Xia Xiaoman and the others: "Is this the team going out to Baicheng to look for mines?"
Xia Xiaoman recognized Lu Lanshan's voice and shouted, "It's us. I'm Xia Xiaoman. Are you going to take us into the underground city?"
Lu Lanshan responded: "Yes, we will take you back to the underground city now. Put down the life ladder and let me go up!"
Upon hearing this, Xia Xiaoman immediately had someone lower the life ladder. Lv Lanshan, with the help of another staff member, stumbled and grabbed the life ladder to climb up.
After climbing aboard, he panted and told Xia Xiaoman: "This submarine is a mini version, very small, and can only accommodate five people at most. In addition to the pilot and co-pilot, only three people can sit."
"You arrange for the crew to get off the submarine one after another, and the staff will send them back to the underground city."
"Have all the people been arranged to return to the underground city?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
Lu Lanshan nodded. Seeing this, Xia Xiaoman asked again: "What about this ship? And the things on it."
"Everything that can be taken away from the ship will be taken away in batches by you. Once everything on the ship has been taken away, I will arrange for someone to tow the ship back to the underground city."
The cabins of ships are all equipped with sealed doors. If the doors are closed and locked, water will not enter the ship.
However, if the items in the cabin are not taken away, they may hit the hull or some switches during the process of leaving the ship, causing damage to the ship. Therefore, any items that can be taken away from the ship, even a needle, must be taken away to prevent accidents.
Xia Xiaoman arranged for the personnel to evacuate one after another. After everyone evacuated back to the underground city, she used the Jade Buddha Space to collect the things on the ship in batches and transported them back and forth into the underground city.
After collecting the supplies for the last time, Lu Lanshan carefully checked the cabin three times to make sure that there was nothing in the cabin that could be taken away before closing the sealed door and arranging personnel to prepare for towing.
On the other side, after Xia Xiaoman returned to the dungeon, he was taken to Yu Jie's office without even having time to rest.
"How's it going? Did you find the mine?"
Xia Xiaoman nodded and said, "Found it. This is the ore we dug from the mine. You can take it and test whether there are any metal components in it." As she spoke, she took out a piece of ore from the Jade Buddha space.
Yu Jie took the ore and looked at it. She was basically sure that the stone contained a certain amount of metal. The ore was heavier than ordinary stones, and its color was different from that of ordinary stones. People who had seen ore could easily tell them apart.
Yu Jie smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Once the composition of this stone is determined, I will ask Lu Lanshan to add points to your account."
She opened the drawer and took out a bunch of keys. "This is the house I promised to rent to you. I'll give you the keys. You can move in anytime."
Xia Xiaoman took the key with a smile, and then reported to Yu Jie everything that happened on the way to Baicheng.
When Yu Jie heard that they had returned and someone had sent out a rescue signal flare, her expression was a little subtle and she did not immediately arrange for anyone to go for the rescue.
Xia Xiaoman didn't ask any more questions and took out the black fruit that Fu Baiwei gave her. "This fruit was obtained from a mutant. She wanted us to help her remove the nanochip in her body. As a reward, she will tell us where the fruit grew."
Yu Jie raised her eyebrows, "What is the use of this fruit?"
Xia Xiaoman answered truthfully, "She said that after eating this fruit, she can breathe normally outside without an oxygen tank."
Yu Jie's eyes lit up when she heard this, "This is a good thing."
What Blue Star lacks most now is oxygen. If it is confirmed that eating this fruit can reduce the amount of oxygen humans breathe without affecting their normal life, then the value of this fruit will be more precious than minerals.
Yu Jie put the fruit away. As for helping the mutant to remove the chip, she did not express her opinion because she was not sure whether the mutant's request to remove the nanochip was true or whether the mutant wanted to break into the underground city.
Normally, only people who enter the underground city will be injected with nanochips. The reason why these mutants mutate is mostly because they cannot enter the underground city and are exposed to black meteorites for a long time.
And now a mutant injected with a nanochip suddenly appeared. Yu Jie felt very suspicious and worried that the other party had some conspiracy.
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After explaining to Yu Jie what happened when he went out to Baicheng, Xia Xiaoman took the keys and went to find Li Yu'e and Sun Qing to move.
The people that Sun Qing brought with her joined the fleet, so they moved together. However, Li Yu'e encountered some troubles when moving.
Those who had joined the Lingxu Gang but left after entering the underground city, when they saw Li Yu'e and her group were going to move to the eighth floor to live in a large flat, all had distorted faces of jealousy, and they eagerly stepped forward to stop Li Yu'e and her group, asking if the fleet needed any more people.
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