Qiu Dao and Wang Jin fought from the cave wall to the cart, making a loud bang. After a while of punches and kicks, they fought back to the cave wall. Wang Jin grabbed Qiu Dao's collar and pressed him against the wall.
Liu Junjie and his men still looked as if they were used to it, and continued to rest against the cave wall. Lan Yu was a little frightened when she heard the muffled sounds of punches and kicks, so she poked Lu Rankong and asked, "The fight is quite intense, do you want to pull them apart?"
Liu Junjie said over there: "Brother Qiao, Brother Bao, don't worry, they even fought each other with shovels last time. Even though they looked fierce, both sides knew what was going on."
"Do you know? I don't know. I'm going to beat this bastard to death today." Wang Jin roared and raised his fist.
Qiu Dao also shouted: "Hammer, you son of a bitch, if you have the ability, you can collapse this mine."
Lu Rankong suddenly laughed at this moment. Lan Yu looked at him coldly, and he stopped laughing again.
Bang!
Wang Jin threw a heavy punch, but Qiu Dao tilted his head and the punch hit the cave wall directly, making a dull sound.
"He used all his strength because he knew Qiu Dao could dodge it." Seeing Lan Yu staring at that side without blinking, Liu Junjie hurriedly explained.
Seeing Wang Jin's face flushed and he raised his fist again, Qiu Dao quickly shouted, "Liu Junjie, shut the fuck up."
There was another loud thump of a fist hitting the cave wall. Qiu Dao squatted down in embarrassment, dodging and begging for mercy: "Grandpa, ancestor, I was wrong, please forgive me. If you hit me again, the mine will be destroyed by you."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lan Yu heard a rustling sound and her foot was touched by something.
He looked down and saw a small rolling stone.
Lan Yu kicked the pebble with her foot and looked up in confusion. Then, I felt the entire mine begin to shake, and a large amount of sand and rocks began to fall.
Earthquake?
Before he could ask, he heard Lu Rankong suddenly yell, "Oh no, the cave is going to collapse."
There were rumbling sounds coming from everywhere in the mine, and sand and rocks began to fall from the top. The thick wooden beams supporting the top were shaking, making a terrifying sound of wood breaking, and it seemed like a landslide could happen at any time.
Wang Jin was still holding Qiu Dao's collar with one hand and holding his fist with the other. Seeing this, he opened his mouth in astonishment and muttered, "I smashed the cave down."
Lan Yu stood there without moving. A gas lamp on the wall of the cave fell down and rolled to her feet.
"Brother Bao, Brother Qiao, what should we do? The cave is about to collapse..." Liu Junjie and the other two held their heads in their hands and asked Lan Yu and Lu Rankong in panic.
"Everyone go under the mining machine!" Lu Rankong yelled, pulled Lan Yu beside him and rushed towards the mining machine.
Lan Yu staggered when he pulled her, and hurriedly covered her head with her hands, bent down and ran after her.
There were two mining machines at both ends. The others were closer to the one on the left. Chen Zheng had already jumped under the machine body, and Qiu Dao also dragged the still stupid Wang Jin in.
Lan Yu was running when he was suddenly dragged by Lu Rankong. He staggered back half a step and a big rock fell in front of him.
The two of them didn't hesitate and jumped over the stone and continued forward. Just as the sound of wood breaking completely was heard above their heads, Qi Qi leaped forward and pounced under the belly of the mining machine on the right.
After a few loud bangs, the roof of the cave collapsed, the sound of rocks rolling down continued, and the excavator made a sound of being hit.
Lan Yu fell to the ground, buried her face in her arms, listening to the noises around her, feeling as if the end of the world was coming.
Someone beside him was moving slightly, and he subconsciously reached out his hand, which was held tightly in the palm of a dry hand.
"Don't be afraid, this mining machine is very sturdy. It can withstand several thousand kilograms of weight and will not collapse." It was Lu Rankong's voice.
As soon as he finished speaking, the mining machine above his head creaked under the heavy load and its steel belly sank suddenly.
"Ah——" the two screamed at the same time.
Fortunately, the mining machine finally stabilized and stopped just a few inches above their heads without continuing to fall. After holding their breath and waiting for a moment, the two finally let out a long sigh.
"Are you okay?" Lu Rankong held Lan Yu's hand and squeezed it.
Lan Yu shook his head, realizing that it was dark and he couldn't see his movements, and he hummed in a hoarse voice.
Lu Rankong continued to ask in the darkness: "Where are the others? Say something..."
"Pah, pah, pah, I'm fine." Liu Junjie's voice came through the cracks in the rocks, and he was still spitting out the mud and sand in his mouth.
"Lin Lin and I are fine."
"Wang Jin and I are safe too."
"Morning fight for safety..."
Everyone present reported that they were safe.
The stones continued to roll down, and only stopped after a while, and the mine gradually became quiet.
"I'm finally safe. Thanks to God, I'm finally alive." In the darkness, Liu Junjie's voice was filled with tears.
Qiao Fei also trembled and said: "I thought I was dead, but I didn't expect to be alive."
Lu Rankong found a gas lamp under the mine car and tried to press the switch.
Fortunately, the gas lamp was not broken, and a ray of light broke through the darkness.
Lan Yu raised her head and looked out from under the belly of the mining machine in the light. She saw that the surrounding area was full of large rocks and all the exits were blocked.
Lu Rankong saw a small open space to the left of the mining machine, so he moved his body and slowly crawled out.
He squatted down again and pulled Lan Yu out.
Lu Rankong held the gas lamp and looked around.
The collapse in the direction from which it came was the most serious, and it was filled with huge rocks and blocked tightly. He stepped forward and pushed, but the stones did not move at all.
Lan Yu looked at the huge rocks and felt a chill in her heart. She fell back to the bottom from the joy of surviving the disaster.
"Do you have any light over there? Find a gas lamp and see if we can get out." Lu Rankong said to Shi Tou.
There was a rustling sound over there, and then someone said, "Brother Bao, I found the light."
"So how's it going over there?"
"No, it's blocked by rocks. They are all huge rocks weighing hundreds or thousands of pounds."
Lu Rankong was silent for a moment, then said, "Then let's all rest first, conserve our energy, and wait for the prison to rescue us."
After saying that, he sat down with his back against the big rock, patted the empty space beside him and said to Lan Yu: "Don't stand there, come and sit down."
"Did the entire mine collapse, or just Cave A?" Lin Lin asked.
Qiao Fei said: "I don't know. I don't know if the prison will come and dig us out."
"Don't worry, the prison will definitely rescue him. All we have to do is bring hundreds of prisoners here. The key is how long it will take to get out, and whether he will die of thirst or starvation in there." Liu Junjie sighed anxiously.
Lin Lin comforted him, "As long as there is air circulation, it will be fine if we can hold on for a few days."
Lan Yu sat down next to Lu Rankong without saying a word.
Although he didn't say anything, Lu Rankong still whispered to comfort him: "Don't panic, it's okay."
"I'm not panicking..." Lan Yu said calmly, secretly tugging at her trouser legs.
The two sat in silence for a while, and Lan Yu raised her hand to rub her nose.
The dust in the air made his nasal cavity a little itchy. He rubbed it a few times, took a breath, and suddenly smelled a strange smell.
It smells like the smell of rotting fish and shrimp, and also like the aftertaste of ash after burning grass stems. It's a wisp of scent, mixed with the smell of earth and dust, and is not easy to capture.
He twitched his nose and sniffed around, then moved closer to Lu Rankong and sniffed a few more times.
"What are you doing? Do you care whether I smell like sweat at this time?" Lu Rankong asked in confusion.
Lan Yu ignored him and continued to look for the smell in the air. She stood up and walked to some large rocks nearby.
He leaned in and smelled it, and the smell was coming from the soil.
This pile of rocks fell from the top of the cave. It didn't look anything special, except that the soil on it was different from that elsewhere. Some small pieces looked very wet and black.
This cave has always been dry, how come there is moist soil?
"Li Baozi, come and see what this is."
Lu Rankong walked to Lan Yu, looked at the pile of stones, stared at the black soil on it, and frowned.
"Do you smell it? This soil smells strange and its color is different from other soils," said Lan Yu.
Lu Rankong stretched out his index finger and was about to pick up the soil.
Lan Yu grabbed his hand in mid-air and said sternly, "You know what this is, but you're touching it. If it contains corrosive substances, your fingers will rot. And then you have to put it on your nose and smell it, right? If you get closer, you can smell it. Even if there is no corrosive substance in it, it is very dirty."
"I know, I know." Lu Rankong retracted his fingers, bent down and got closer to smell it.
Lan Yu blocked him again, "Don't get too close..."
"Strange..." Lu Rankong sniffed, his brows furrowed even tighter, and his expression became serious.
When the other people heard the noise, they stopped talking, held their breath and listened attentively.
"Brother Bao, is there anything in the soil?" Liu Junjie asked.
Lu Rankong looked up at Lan Yu and said solemnly, "There is corrosive oil in here."
"What?"
"Yes, it's what you think, oil erosion." He affirmed, with a fierce look on his face that had never appeared before.
Lan Yu was shocked and asked, "There's actually...are you sure?"
Lu Rankong nodded slowly.
Although Lan Yu had never heard of edible oil, he couldn't ask blindly. Considering the current scene and Lu Rankong's expression, he knew that he just needed to show shock at this moment.
——This is the instinct of being a movie star.
"Corrosive oil? The kind of oil that can corrode rocks?" Liu Junjie asked for him.
Lu Rankong did not hide it and replied: "Yes..."
He guessed that others didn't know, so he explained: "There is an interstellar beast called the Erosion Beast on the planet Diku. Their blood and secretions are highly corrosive. A small drop of refined Erosion Oil mixed with water can dissolve the bones of an elephant. Look at the diluent on this stone--"
Lan Yu knocked away his finger that was reaching towards the stone without hesitation.
"It can corrode the entire cave ceiling." Lu Rankong continued.
Lin Lin asked: "But why is there oil here?"
Lu Rankong was silent for a moment and then said, "Someone must have painted it on purpose."
"It was deliberately smeared there... But who would smear that on the cave ceiling? Is it a prank?" Qiao Fei asked the others, "Who of you smeared it there just now?"
"I don't……"
"Neither have I. I've never even heard of it."
"Are you sick? Are you harming yourself?"
“Wuwuwu…” Behind the stone, Wang Jin, who had been silent all this time, suddenly burst into tears. He covered his face, and his tall and strong body trembled. “Wuwuwu, it turns out that I wasn’t the one who broke it.”
Qiu Dao held him in his arms and comforted him, "How could it be you who caused it to collapse? Someone smeared corrosive oil on the top of the cave. It has nothing to do with you."
"Wow, I'm so scared." Wang Jin punched him hard on the shoulder and leaned his head forward.
Lu Rankong said: "This is corrosive oil mixed with water. According to the concentration and the changes in the stones, it is not applied to the cave ceiling today."
"Not today? Then when?" Liu Junjie asked.
The cave became quiet, and Wang Jin stopped sobbing. He raised his head from Qiu Dao's shoulder, with a few tears still hanging on his beard.
Lu Rankong stretched out his foot again to move the stone, but was kicked away by Lan Yu. He bent his legs to ease the awkwardness, then pulled his legs back and said, "It was yesterday..."
"Yesterday..." Everyone fell into memories again.
Lan Yu asked coldly: "What were you doing when Li Baozi was smoking with me yesterday?"
Lu Rankong glanced at him.
"We were all chatting." Lin Lin replied.
Lan Yu asked: "Who were the people chatting? Did anyone leave during the conversation? How long did they leave? Who was left here at that time?"
"The four of us have never left the sight of others, so it's impossible for us to get any oil here," said Liu Junjie.
Lin Lin added: "I, Qiao Fei, and Liu Junjie were chatting, and Chen Zheng was sitting next to us. During the conversation, only you, Brother Bao, Brother Qiu, and Brother Wang left. Brother Qiu and the others were gone for more than 40 minutes, and you two were gone for less than half an hour. The four of us were waiting for you at the time and didn't move."
After hearing this, Qiu Dao turned to look at Wang Jin, with a hint of pride on his face.
Yesterday they went in and out of the cave together, and no one stayed alone. Since she couldn't get anything out of the question, Lan Yu stopped asking.
"It must be the people in the other cells who want to harm us." Lin Lin said angrily, "They want to smash us to death in there."
Lu Rankong said: "It is true that someone wants to kill us, but they may not be from other cells. The prison may not come to rescue us, and even if they do, we don't know when we can get out. We have to find a way to save ourselves."
He walked a few steps deeper into the mine, moved a stone, looked in the light for a while, and said, "The back is not blocked, we can go to the back."
Lan Yu walked forward and took a look. She could vaguely see the back through the cracks in the stone, and it seemed to be empty.
"Let's move it..." Lu Rankong put down the gas lamp and started moving the stones.
Lan Yu also rolled up her sleeves and helped move.
"Brother Qiao, Brother Bao, what are you doing?" someone asked from the other side of the cave.
Lu Rankong replied: "Our side is not blocked. Let's go to the back and see if we can find a way out."
Qiu Dao said, "There are several forked roads behind, but they end after a short walk. I have never found other roads."
Lu Rankong threw away the stone in his hand and said loudly, "Just because you can't find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just wait patiently. As soon as Brother Bao goes out, he will bring people to dig you out from this side."
"Then Brother Bao and Brother Qiao, you two should be careful."
"knew……"
After moving stones for a while, they finally cleared a gap. The two men turned sideways and squeezed through carefully.
This section of the mine did not collapse and is still intact, with only some rubble scattered on the ground.
Lan Yu followed Lu Rankong for a while, then turned around and said, "Let's take this opportunity to check out that small hole and see where it leads to."
"Are we going to see if we can get out of that hole?" Lan Yu asked.
"If you can go out, of course you can. If you can't go out, we have to find out clearly." Lu Rankong said.
Seeing that he didn't seem to be anxious about the situation, Lan Yu asked, "If we really can't get out, then won't we be trapped here?"
"What are you thinking?" Lu Rankong glanced at him. "Even if other people think we are prisoners, it doesn't matter whether we get out or not. Can the warden bear this responsibility? I tell you, he is so anxious now that he will send everyone in the prison to dig us out."
Lan Yu asked suspiciously: "Really?"
Lu Rankong promised: "Believe me, it will be fine. I just scared them. Of course, it would be best if they can find a way out."
Soon, the two arrived at the small cave they discovered yesterday.
After moving the iron cart that was blocking the entrance, the dark entrance was revealed. Before people got close, they could feel a chill.
Lu Rankong looked around, picked up a thick rope, and tied the gas lamp to his back.
"It's very narrow inside, we can only crawl. I'll go in first and you follow me." After he said this to Lan Yu, he crawled into the cave.
Lan Yu didn't care about the dirt anymore and followed in.
This cave seemed to be formed naturally, with no signs of the use of tools. Gusts of wind blew towards me, bringing with them cold and damp air.
Lu Rankong crawled in front of him with a gas lamp on his back, carefully checking the terrain as he crawled.
He was tall but very agile. Lan Yu was smaller than him, but she had a harder time climbing than him.
"Are you a lizard spirit?" Lan Yu complained, "Can you crawl slower?"
"I'm already going very slowly. I always stop to wait for you." Lu Rankong slowed down a little.
As she crawled, Lan Yu started laughing again.
"What are you laughing at?" Lu Rankong stopped, turned his head curiously, and reached out to pull his clothes down.
Lan Yu saw his movements and said angrily, "Do you think I'm looking at your butt? Do you think your butt is something pretty?"
"Then what are you laughing at?"
Lan Yu pointed at the reflection on the cave wall with her chin and said, "I'm laughing at you carrying a gas lamp on your back. Your shadow looks like a turtle."
Lu Rankong glanced at his own shadow and paused, but said nothing more. He turned around and continued to crawl forward.
Lan Yu quickly followed.
As he crawled, his eyes unconsciously fell on the butt of the person in front of him.
He had never paid any attention to Lu Rankong's butt before, but after what happened just now, his eyes seemed to be out of control and kept looking there.
Lu Rankong has a good-shaped buttocks. When he moves, you can see that the lines are smooth and the shape is full. Lan Yu had seen many alphas with outstanding looks when filming, but when it came to body shape, none of them could compare to this guy.
If he wore tight pants and walked on the beach, he would definitely attract a lot of attention.
Lan Yu was climbing while thinking about something else and didn't notice that the person in front of her had stopped and almost bumped into him.
Then a finger pressed against my head and slowly pushed it away. Then, he met Lu Rankong's eyes that were full of understanding.
Lu Rankong said calmly: "You still say you haven't seen it? My eyes are almost glued to it."
Lan Yu was speechless for a moment. Lu Rankong retracted the finger that was against his forehead, pointed at him in the air, then turned around and continued to crawl forward.
He chuckled as he turned around, looking somewhat smug.
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