Chapter 0342: The End of the Tunnel
The generator set equipment for the construction of the hydropower station was airdropped, but Xia Lei could not have built the hydropower station for the White Xiongnu tribe by himself, in that case, he did not know how long he would have to stay here before returning to China. Putting aside whether he could waste so much time, he couldn't afford the risk of being discovered by the CIA alone.
However, with the equipment and the two million dollars given by Xia Lei, it was very easy for the White Huns tribe to build a small hydroelectric power station. In Afghanistan, money can buy even a life, let alone a technician.
What's more, to build a hydropower station, you only need to dig a side canal, build a dam on the side canal, install a generator set, and then open up the side canal and the main canal, and bring water over, in fact, it is not a complicated matter.
Xia Lei told Sirami the plan to build a hydropower station by the pillow, and Sirami didn't even bother to think about it, nodded and agreed. There is no language to express, and that's because her little mouth really doesn't have time to speak......
Early the next morning, Sirami led a large group of female tribal warriors to test their guns, and Xia Lei went alone to the ruins of Tomorrow City on White Horse. This time he led a horse and brought all the tools he needed.
With the tool of the 101 round airdrop, Xia Lei's mining speed is significantly faster. He dug horizontally, he left part of the soil in the pit, laid the mat diagonally, and built a slope. The excess soil is transported from the slope to the ground for stacking.
On this day, he dug five meters horizontally, and there was a tunnel-like existence in the original large earth pit, which could accommodate the cat to walk in. The tunnel he dug was also very particular, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, in a triangular shape. In this way, the walls on both sides of the tunnel can play a role in supporting the top and avoid collapse.
In the tunnel, Xia Lei put down the shovel, and then the flashlight light on the helmet stabbed the soil wall with a Luoyang shovel. Luoyang shovel excavation is certainly not as good as an ordinary shovel, but exploring the soil layer is a good tool. Otherwise, the Luoyang shovel would not have become an indispensable tool for tomb robbers.
Pulling out the almost round Luoyang shovel, Xia Lei's eyes fell on the soil brought out by the Luoyang shovel, and his heart suddenly became excited.
The tail of the soil brought out by the Luoyang shovel is black, but there is a section of the head that is grayish-white, and the density is smaller than that of the black soil at the tail. The gray-white soil is artificial fill, not a natural layer, which means that he has dug close to the target!
Xia Lei endured the excitement in his heart, put down the Luoyang shovel, looked directly at the soil wall in front of him, and his left eye jumped slightly, awakening the ability to see.
In the past three days of excavation, Xia Lei has actually been using his perspective ability to find underground targets, but to see through underground targets, his vision needs to penetrate layers of soil, as well as rocks in the soil, which consumes a lot of energy, and the depth of perspective can only reach two meters, which is far from enough. Therefore, the method he uses is to dig at a certain depth and continue digging after no result.
The results of this perspective soon came out, and just ahead, about two meters away, a stone slab lay across the dirt. Xia Lei shifted his perspective horizontally, and then he saw several other stone slabs. They are placed vertically, one next to the other, and look like artificial stone walls of a passageway.
"What's in the passage, where does it lead?" was a curiosity in Xia Lei's heart, and then he tried to see through the slate, but this time he couldn't. The slate was just two meters away, and his vision saw through the two-meter thick dirt to see the slate, but he could no longer see through the slab to see the scene behind.
Xia Lei followed to finish the perspective, and then picked up the shovel and prepared to dig inside.
"Natsu, where are you?" said Sirami's voice from outside the pit.
"I'm in there. Xia Lei answered, and then crawled out. When I came out, I found that it was already very dark.
"Did you dig anything?"
Xia Lei shook his head, "Nothing was dug up." ”
"Let's dig again tomorrow, it's getting dark, go home for dinner." Sirami smiled and said, "I slaughtered a sheep and stewed it in a pot, so that I can eat it when I go back." ”
"Why are you slaughtering sheep? ”
"You've worked so hard these days, so I'll make up for you. You know, I don't want you to be tired. Sirami smirked.
Xia Lei knew what she was hinting at, and this hint also made his legs a little hairy, and his waist and eyes also felt a little pantothenic. There is an old saying that women are fields, men are oxen, and there are never tired oxen, no ploughed fields. This old saying is a perfect metaphor for his current situation, facing the fertile treasure field of Sirami, his cow is already a little powerless.
Charley threw the shovel into the tunnel, and did not bother to gather other tools, but climbed up the dirt slope he had built.
"It's okay to put things here, right?" said Charleigh.
"No problem, no one will come to this place. Sirami took Xia Lei's arm, "This place is our holy place, if anyone dares to enter except you, it will be dead." ”
"Okay, then I'll leave all the tools here, I'm too lazy to get it again tomorrow, trouble." Charlei and Sirami walked and talked, and gradually moved away.
Just as Shareh and Sirami left the ruins, a figure crept out of a grove of trees. She wears a black hood on her head and a black tights on her body. Her body curves are convex and backward, her height and legs are long, and she is very sexy. Her face was nowhere to be seen, but judging by her height and figure, she was not an Afghan woman, but a Western or Eastern European woman.
The woman cautiously approached the pit, glanced back in the direction where Charlei and Sirami had left, and then slipped into the pit that Charlei had dug to rummage through something. After rummaging for a while, she sighed in disappointment and said into a miniature communicator, "No, the compass is not here, he took it." ”
A man's voice came from the communicator, "Just take it away, come back, don't stay long." Take care to clear your traces, he is ripe and he will find out. ”
The woman smiled bitterly, "I told you that he wouldn't put the compass there, and he's not a child. ”
"By the way, how far did he dig?" the man's voice said.
The woman said: "The big pit dug vertically is three meters deep, and there are ...... tunnels dug horizontally" The woman leaned over to the mouth of the tunnel and shone a flashlight, and said: "The tunnel is five meters deep, but there is nothing, I don't know how deep I have to dig." I think he's struggling himself. ”
"Okay, I see, come back. "The man cut off the communication.
The woman didn't leave immediately, she pulled out a pocket camera and took a few pictures of the tunnel that Xia Lei had dug, and then she retreated to the surface to take a few more pictures of the pit and its surroundings. After taking the photo, she carefully cleaned up all the traces she had left before disappearing into the night.
In the tribe, Xia Lei also took a camera provided by the 101 Bureau to take pictures of ancient books.
"What are you filming it for? A broken book. Sirami grinned, "Just give it to you if you like." ”
"Really?" said Charleigh was excited. Although he already knew the contents of this ancient book, he wanted to bring the contents of the ancient book back to Tranquility, Tranquility was an expert in this area, and he might be able to sort out any important clues that he didn't know, so he took pictures of the ancient book. Sirami was going to give him the ancient book, and of course he was happy, and it was certainly much better to study the real thing than to study the photograph.
"What's really fake about this? Even I am yours in this room, am I reluctant to have a book that no one reads?"
Xia Lei smiled, "Then I'll take it, and I'll send it back to you after I've finished researching." ”
"Whatever you want, you take a picture of me. ”
"Take a picture of you?"
"yes, I haven't taken a picture yet. Sirami winked at Xia Lei with wide eyes, "Take me that kind of bad picture, you have to take it too, I'll keep it." ”
Charleigh, "......"
The handmade pajamas on Sirami's body slipped silently on the ground inlaid with wooden boards, with a childish face, a snow-white, natural stunner.
Click, in the exotic wooden house, the lights of the camera flickered non-stop, and Sirami's posture kept changing......
Early the next morning, Xia Lei rode his horse to the ruins of Tomorrow City on the White Horse. Before coming to the dirt pit, he jumped off the horse, and then subconsciously rubbed his sore waist and eyes, and his face was full of wry smiles, "I hope it will be done today, if I stay here any longer, I will probably die of exhaustion, she is simply a juicer." ”
Charley tied his horse to a stone and went down the pit. Just as he was about to enter the tunnel, his gaze suddenly stopped on a piece of ground next to the tunnel.
There was a faint mark on the ground that looked like footprints left by some animal.
Xia Lei's heart was full of vigilance, his left eye jumped slightly, and the traces left on the ground were suddenly magnified by him and became extremely clear.
In the microscopic mode, his left eye not only saw the trace, but even the gap between the grains of sand clearly entered his field of vision.
He quickly ended the microscopic pattern of his left eye, and his mood became heavy, "This is mostly a person's footprints, and they have been deliberately erased, but they have not been erased completely. Sirami didn't come down to the pit yesterday, so who came? Could it be someone else from the tribe? If it was a tribe, there must have been footprints on the slope, why not?"
Thinking about it, he couldn't make a final judgment, so Xia Lei put it aside for the time being. He burrowed into the tunnel and dug with a shovel.
Although he no longer thought about the footprints, the mutilated and vague footprints also aroused his vigilance. Every time he carried dirt onto the pit, he used his farsighted ability to probe the surrounding area in all directions. However, he found nothing.
Two hours later, the last two meters of the tunnel were also dug through, and a stone slab appeared at the end of the tunnel.
What's behind the slate?
Xia Lei leaned in front of the stone slab, and the sight of his left eye silently penetrated the past......
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