Chapter 464 Another Storm
Hearing that they might not send people to Jincheng to mine, Sun Qing sighed, "Another wasted trip. It's really not easy to find a mine that can be mined."
Xia Xiaoman pulled the corner of his mouth and said with a smile: "How can we find mines that can be mined every time? If it were that easy, Yu Jie would not have specially formed a fleet."
Her mentality was okay. Although she didn't find any mines that could be mined on this trip, at least she got a submarine.
The two were chatting when the wind and rain suddenly became stronger. Xia Xiaoman wiped the rain off her goggles and looked up at the sky, "Is the storm coming again?"
Sun Qing stared at the sky for a while. "It looks like a storm is coming. It may be even bigger than the last time. We need to find a place to hide, otherwise the boat may be overturned by the storm and waves."
Xia Xiaoman's face darkened when he heard this. The last storm trapped them for several days. This time, they didn't know how long they would be trapped before they could continue to sail back to the floating city.
The wind and rain came quickly and violently. Xia Xiaoman asked people to fold up the sails and asked Ye Xiaojie to find a suitable place to stop the boat.
Ye Xiaojie grew up on a boat and had some knowledge about this. She found a place with support from the mountains and dropped an anchor to stop the boat.
As soon as the boat stopped, a strong gust of wind blew, causing the ship to shake violently. Xia Xiaoman felt like he was riding a pirate ship in an amusement park. His body swayed left and right with the boat and he couldn't stand steadily at all.
"Dragon, tornado!" Su Ran pointed outside the window with his eyes wide open.
Xia Xiaoman looked in the direction of his finger and saw a white line in the distance connecting the water and the sky. The white line was moving quickly, and no one knew if it would come towards them.
Xia Xiaoman's face changed and he shouted, "Notify everyone to put on shielding suits and oxygen masks, take shovels and go down the boat to dig holes in the mountains!"
"Then what about our ship?" Su Ran asked.
Without the boat, even if they managed to escape the tornado, they would likely be trapped and killed in the mountain.
Xia Xiaoman said while wearing an oxygen mask: "Don't worry about the ship. Just follow my instructions and inform the others! Quickly!"
Seeing this, Su Ran turned around and ran to inform the crew. The crew members got off the boat one after another with shovels. After Xia Xiaoman checked the cabin and made sure that there was no one on the boat, he threw the submarine in the ring space into the water, and then put the ship into the ring space.
The ring has limited space, so if you put a submarine in it, you can't put a ship in it. Xia Xiaoman can only throw the submarine into the water and replace it with a ship to put in the space.
After putting the ship into the space, Xia Xiaoman picked up a shovel and went to find Li Yu'e and the others.
Under the leadership of Ye Xiaojie, Li Yu'e and his team found a place that was sheltered from the wind and had soft soil to dig a cave.
The crew members were all very strong, and with a shovel each, they soon dug a cave half a person's height. But if they wanted to accommodate 50 people and a wolf, they needed to continue digging.
In order to prevent being sucked out by the tornado, Li Yu'e and her team dug the entrance to the cave into a figure 7 shape, leaving a small area to block the wind.
Xia Xiaoman looked back at the tornado. The white line was getting thicker and thicker. It was expected to reach them in 20 minutes at the earliest. At the same time, the sky was covered with dark clouds, like night, and occasionally a few white lights could be seen flashing in the dark clouds.
Xia Xiaoman was getting more and more uneasy, and Maodan was also a little anxious. When the people inside dug out space for eight people, Xia Xiaoman and Maodan went in to dig the mud, and the people inside came out to dump the mud.
Maodan can do the work of two people, and with all four claws, he soon threw out a large pile of dirt. Xia Xiaoman was also very fast, digging one shovel after another.
Fortunately, it had been raining during this period, and the soil on the mountain was soft, so it was not that difficult to dig.
The cave was narrow, and for every meter of width, one more person was assigned to dig. In the end, the speed of transporting the soil out could not keep up with the speed of digging the cave, and a large pile of soil was piled up in the cave.
Xia Xiaoman would take time to run over and collect the soil into the Jade Buddha's space. The crew members all knew that she had a space and were no longer surprised.
Suddenly, a huge thunderclap sounded, and then someone screamed, "Holy shit! I was scared to death! I almost lost my life!"
Xia Xiaoman heard the sound, stopped and ran out, "What's wrong? What happened?"
The man was about to explain when a bolt of lightning as thick as a bowl struck the entrance of the cave with a loud bang, and the ground near the cave turned charred in an instant.
Xia Xiaoman's face changed and he shouted, "Everyone step back and don't go near the door." Just as he finished speaking, another bolt of lightning struck down.
Xia Xiaoman recalled the thunderstorm disaster two years ago and said solemnly, "Is everyone in the cave?"
Li Yu'e heard the sound and quickly counted the number of people, "Three people are missing."
Someone said, "Zhang Jiaming and the others are not here. They just went out to look for stones."
"Why are they looking for stones? Who let them run around everywhere?" Xia Xiaoman asked angrily.
The man whispered, "Zhang Jiaming said he wanted to find a rock to block the entrance of the cave, so we don't have to worry about the tornado sucking us out."
Xia Xiaoman was speechless. Could a stone block the suction of a tornado? But now was not the time to ask for censure. She asked, "How long have Zhang Jiaming and the others been out?"
The man thought for a moment and said, "It should be, about two or three minutes."
Xia Xiaoman frowned. There was thunder outside, so it was not realistic to go out to look for someone. Xia Xiaoman said, "Leave one person to guard the door. If you see Zhang Jiaming and the others coming back, tell them not to go out."
After that, she looked at Li Yu'e and asked, "How many people can the cave accommodate now?"
Li Yu'e thought for a moment and said, "If we squeeze together, we should be able to accommodate 35 people. The rest of you should stand at the door."
Standing at the door, you may be sucked out by the tornado. It's not safe. Xia Xiaoman said, "Let the people inside continue digging and throw the excavated soil into the space. Try to make sure everyone can hide inside."
Li Yu'e nodded, bent down and squeezed in to inform Xie Yi and the others.
The sound of wind and thunder became louder and louder. In just a few minutes, the entrance of the cave was struck by lightning as thick as a bowl seven or eight times.
Xia Xiaoman and others worked non-stop to dig a hole, and finally before the tornado came, they dug out a low hole that could barely accommodate fifty people.
After the cave was dug, Xia Xiaoman took some time to walk to the door, "Are Zhang Jiaming and the others not back yet?"
The gatekeeper looked unhappy and shook his head. "No, I stared at the door for a long time and didn't see Zhang Jiaming and the others."
Xia Xiaoman sighed when he heard this. He hasn't come back yet. There is only one possibility, that is, he has died.
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