Swallowing the Seas

Chapter 160

Song Ping strode along the rugged mountain road, his flashlight beam swaying with his steps, constantly illuminating the fist-sized gravel at his feet that loosened and fell into the abyss without even an echo. Most of the task force was unable to keep up with his vigorous steps. Secretary Weng was supported by the guards and chased behind him panting: "Old, Old Song, are you sure this method will work?" "It has to work even if it doesn't work.
And Not to mention that it is impossible to determine the precise location of the trapped people, but where can we adjust the water pump in this dark and blizzard? It will take several hours for the most powerful drilling rig to drill down. By the time the rescuer is rescued, everyone will be numb." Song Ping He said with a cold face: "Emergency times are unusual, just leave it to fate! - Lin Gang!"
In the middle of the night ahead, countless flashlight beams swayed and intertwined, and a figure turned around after hearing the sound, it was Lin Gang who was wrapped in wind and snow: "Secretary Weng, Bureau Song!"
"How is the situation?"
"The preliminary drawing measurements should be feasible. It's hard to say the specific situation. We have already found a special policeman who knows how to swim in winter to go into the water to investigate the actual situation." Lin Gang pointed forward, Secretary Weng looked along the beam of light and saw a bottomless, dark mine not far away. It ran through everyone's feet like a crack in a valley, forming a steep cliff. The sound of water could be faintly heard from the bottom.
"Judging from the paper data, this mine numbered N26 was once connected to the abandoned mine where empty water was poured back. However, due to ground subsidence, silt accumulation, water tank blockage and other reasons, the connection between the two should be The flow has been temporarily cut off. Rainwater and groundwater have accumulated at the bottom of the mine, and a natural pool has now been formed - we just found an extremely lucky key during the emergency investigation." Lin Gang pointed to Secretary Weng to look at the drawings with the faint fluorescence of his tablet: " The water level of the water pool is lower than the water outlet under the abandoned mine."
As people walked to higher places, the water flowed to lower places. Secretary Weng responded quickly: "So if this water pool can be reconnected to the mine, the old empty water will flow back. Entering a pool at a lower altitude to lower the water level at the bottom of the well?"
Lin Gang said: "That's what I guessed."
"..." Secretary Weng's blood pressure didn't jump up to 180 immediately because he had good self-control: "Guess?!" "
Yes. Because although the water poured into the mine is considered old kiln water, it is not too old and should not be too scattered, but the edge and shape of the accumulated water are traceless. In other words, the existence of a blasted water pool will not help. Risk. When the surveyors come up later, if it proves that the operation is feasible, I will go down in person immediately and place bombs between the pool and the mine for targeted blasting." "Are you
going down in person?" Secretary Weng asked in shock.
"Well, I'm the only one here with a diving certificate." Lin Gang put away his tablet, his finger joints were red from the cold, but his tone was steady and quick: "I have to try it no matter what. Now I can only treat a dead horse as a living horse." , although I am actually ready in my heart to write a speech at the martyrs' memorial service." "
..."
Secretary Weng stared at Lin Gang's calm face for a long time, and the corner of his mouth twitched for a while: "I thought you were here Yun Dian is engaged in technology, but I didn't expect that this young man's hobby is quite fashionable..." "
You're flattering me, it's not a hobby." Lin Gang smiled bitterly: "These days, the forms of crime are changing. How can we get involved without any skills in this industry? In fact, To be honest, I still have tractor driving and welder second-level certificates."
"Lin Ke! Lin Ke!" Just at this moment, someone stumbled in front: "The surveyors are coming up, the situation is not good!"
Now just listen When the word "bad" came to mind, the entire task force immediately fell ill from top to bottom. Several elderly experts from the Ministry of Public Security immediately touched their arms and took medicine, spraying nitroglycerin, and swallowing Suxiao Jiuxin Pills. Take Suxiao Jiuxin Pill. Secretary Weng barely softened and staggered to hold Song Ping's hand. Song Ping's voice almost broke: "Why is it bad? Why is it bad? The water pool is already open? Still can't make a fixed point? Blast?!"
The policeman held his knees and gasped: "No, none, it can be blasted." "
What's that for?!"
When the policeman raised his head, the hearts of everyone around him skipped a beat, and they saw him. His face turned pale: "According to the survey, the place where the water pool connects to the mine is not a flat surface, but an inclined shaft." "--The
narrowest part of the inclined shaft may be less than 30 centimeters."
The surrounding area was quiet for a moment, and the air seemed to be solidified. He was stunned, and even Lin Gang's expression suddenly turned livid.
30 centimeters is just a piece of A4 paper. It is not the width that an adult man can hold his breath and force himself into, let alone bring scuba, breathing tube, blasting detonator and other equipment!
There was a faint sound of water coming from the bottomless depths of the mine, and the wind howled through the mountains and forests, tearing everyone's face sharply. A large number of police cars were parked not far away, and people were shouting and shouting. However, the small area next to the mine was made extremely silent.
"...What should we do, Old Song?" Secretary Weng's unsteady voice finally sounded in the cold wind for a while, "The forest police helicopter hasn't flown away yet, how about we go down the mountain to urgently recruit water ghosts?" Song Ping said with a sullen face, "
You Do you think it's still too late?"
"Then... Then find a child? Do you have any children who have not graduated from the police academy? A little thinner and smaller..."
Song Ping's face turned even more ugly: "Where can I find him? He has graduated from the police academy. All of them have been trained like wolves and tigers, and if they are thirty centimeters in diameter, they might get stuck halfway through, unless-"
His tone suddenly stopped.
"Old Song?"
"..." Under the gaze of everyone, Song Ping's face turned green and white, his lips trembled slightly, and he suddenly said hoarsely: "But... there may be one." Secretary
Weng was surprised and happy: "Where is it? ?"
Song Ping stared straight at the dark mine ahead, without any reaction for a long time. His weird and stiff expression made everyone around him afraid to speak out. After a long while, the secretary finally suppressed his anxiety and said: "Old Song, what on earth are you..."
Gudong!
On Song Ping's aging neck, the throat bones suddenly slid up and down, as if he had swallowed a sore lump with his saliva, then turned around and strode towards the row of police cars in the distance.
Everyone hurriedly followed him without knowing why. Song Ping waved away the secretary and his men who came forward, walked to a technical investigation vehicle and opened the door with a loud voice. A graceful figure in the back raised his head, and on his shoulders Wearing a military coat, his cheeks, temples, and thin crossed fingers were still stained with blood, and his eyes were moist and red.
It's Song Hui.
The bright car lights illuminated the open space brightly. The father and daughter looked at each other from a distance, and everyone who came in a hurry was stunned.
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Boom -
countless rubbles were covered in the torrent, and the formation was almost like throwing a person into a giant washing machine. Countless blood spurted out from Bu Zhonghua's face, hands and body. As the world was spinning, he had only one thought, which was to hold on to Wu Yu. In the blink of an eye, he was swept away an unknown distance, and bang!
The huge force slapped him on the top of the wall. Bu Zhonghua's eyes turned black, and a mouthful of blood mixed with water spurted out from his nose and mouth!
"Cough cough cough cough!" Bu Zhonghua pressed his back against the wall, choking so much that blood almost came out: "Cough cough cough - Wu, Wu Yu - you cough cough cough..." Even at this time,
he The two of them were still holding each other tightly, and veins popped out on their bloody hands. Wu Yu's whole body couldn't help but tremble, and his index finger and little fingernail were all turned over. He floated on the water and hugged Bu Zhonghua tightly.
"It's okay, don't worry." Wu Yu buried her face in his strong neck and murmured exhaustedly: "It will be okay soon." There was an indescribable
sadness in his words, and his steps were heavy. Hua gasped and looked up, his pupils suddenly tightened, and he understood what it meant--
Above them was the stone roof of the roadway.
If the water level does not recede, Gas Alley will soon be completely submerged, and they will have absolutely no way to escape!
The darkness made it difficult to see the surrounding environment clearly, and he could only feel that it was a triangular intersection with black walls on both sides. Bu Zhonghua exhaled, holding on to the thick cable at the top of the alley with his left hand, and hung the unconscious drug lord between the wires and cables to ensure that he would not sink under the water and drown. He held Wu Yulan tightly with his right hand. Beside him, he laughed hoarsely.
"If I had known better, I would have left this ghost alone and handcuffed you and me together. We can still float together after death. If you go east, I will go east, if you go west, I will go west, quietly touching our heads. It's quite romantic."
"..." Wu Yu leaned her face into the crook of his neck, her voice soft and vague: "You..."
"What am I?"
Wu Yu didn't answer.
"I'm asking you, didn't
you tell me that I kissed you?" Wu Yu asked, "What if I told you that you didn't kiss me?"
Bu Zhonghua laughed, soaked in the cold and biting water, lowered his head and kissed his lips .
The corners of their mouths were already chapped, but the kiss was gentle and pious, with traces of blood dripping into each other's lips and teeth, melting into each other's last body temperature.
"...'You are an academic who has never been to the ground, an elite who is envied and hated, and a moral pacesetter with a straight face'... That's what I thought when I first met you." Wu Yu It seemed to be a soft, long sigh, although it was almost inaudible: "It would be better if you were not so good." - If you were not so
good, you would not risk your life to wade over, nor I won't be trapped here facing this desperate situation of no life or death.
This way, when I go to another world, I can at least feel at ease.
"Do you know what I thought when I first met you?" Bu Zhonghua asked.
"What?"
"This kid has such a cowardly look on his face that I'm really irritated. His reactions are slow and sluggish, and he can't even speak clearly. The only good thing about him is probably his face." Wu Yu burst out laughing
. .
"It's just that he has a pretty face, but I can't walk after looking at it. Not only am I obsessed with buying a ring, but I also want to add his name to my property certificate." Bu Zhonghua looked at him softly. , said: "I'm really superficial, and I'm still so willing at this point."
Wu Yu choked with laughter and said intermittently: "Really? Then if I take the first step later, you must not hug me I cried... Faces don't look good after death. What if they swell up?"
As long as he smiled, his chest diaphragm would spasm rapidly, and blood foam would continuously overflow from his throat to the corners of his mouth. Bu Zhonghua hugged him tightly with his right hand, keeping him close to his side. It was almost as if they were melting into their bones and blood, and they were inseparable even in life and death.
"I'm kidding, none of us will die. There must be ways to save us outside." He put his lips to Wu Yu's gray cheek and repeated hoarsely over and over again: "They will find a way, we will be saved, we are all We won't die... If we hold on a little longer, we won't die."
At this moment, there was a hollow concussion sound coming from deep in the tunnel again, boom -!
Another roof collapsed under the pressure of the water, and new torrents rushed into the alleys in all directions. Bu Zhonghua gritted his teeth and hugged Wu Yu. The two of them were photographed on the top of the stone by the rising water level at the same time!
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Crash--wash--
the water was sparkling, bottomless, and emitted an unpleasant smell that was combined with heavy metal elements from various waste mines. Song Hui's chest rose and fell rapidly. She was standing on the rock wearing an ill-fitting diving suit, a diving goggles on her head, and a single gas cylinder hanging by her side. Song Ping's steady and calm voice came from the walkie-talkie: "After we go down later, Follow Officer Lin's instructions. After entering the inclined shaft, walk 12.8 meters, secure the detonator, confirm the equipment, and pull the traction rope. Officer Lin will pull you out of the inclined shaft and bring you up. All steps are clearly memorized. "?"
Song Hui's voice was very thin: "Remember it clearly."
"This is the opportunity that everyone wants to make a contribution. If you hadn't been thin, such a good thing would never have happened to you. Do you understand?" "I understand?
" ."
Song Ping nodded, even though he couldn't see it at the other end of the channel, he said calmly: "Go down." Then he pressed the communication button.
Song Hui handed the walkie-talkie to the special police officer who came down to provide assistance. She took a deep breath, gritted her teeth, and put on her diving goggles. Lin Gang helped her check the side-mounted scuba device for the last time and asked kindly: "I heard from Director Song that you swim in winter every year?"
Song Hui's face turned pale and blue, probably because of nervousness: "Yeah. Because the team likes winter swimming, and I want to stick to him."
Lin Gang is a person who knows all the details of the game. Hearing this, he only said gently: "Then after the team is rescued, he will definitely look at you with admiration."
Unexpectedly, Song Hui held the breathing tube to her mouth and shook her head.
"What?"
"..."
Song Hui stood there, looking down at her palm. For a moment, Lin Gang felt that she seemed to be staring at someone in her arms, but then she withdrew her nostalgic gaze and turned to smile at him: "The
person I really want her to see may be gone. ."
Lin Gang was stunned.
"But it doesn't matter." Song Hui pressed her heart and whispered: "Everything she gave me will always be here." The
young policewoman staggered back, turned around, and bit Put on the breathing tube, close your eyes and jump!
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Gulululu--
Bu Zhonghua spit out a series of bubbles at the bottom of the water, tried his best to rise up and took a big breath, then was submerged by the rising water, and involuntarily let go and fell downwards.
Suddenly, there was a force coming from his side. It was Wu Yu who was holding his hand tightly. When the next wave of water came, he used the force to push Bu Zhonghua upwards, and with a crash, he lifted Bu Zhonghua out of the water again!
"Cough cough cough, cough cough cough -" Bu Zhonghua grabbed the cable above his head and kept choking out water. He coughed until his vision turned black. In the hazy state, he only felt Wu Yu hugging his neck tightly with his backhand.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." Bu Zhonghua hugged Wu Yu's back in the midst of severe dizziness and drowsiness, "I haven't left yet, I'm still here, don't be afraid..." The water level is rising, and he has never been like
this Now it is so clearly and inescapably realized.
The water level was approaching the top of the tunnel inch by inch, centimeter by centimeter. The space for them to get in was very small. The oxygen was quickly depleted, and even the tip of their nose was almost touching the rock.
"...Look at me..." Wu Yu gasped with distracted eyes, "Bu Zhonghua, look at me..."
He was really at the last moment, and his right hand trembled violently and pulled off a thin chain from his neck. The matching wedding ring hung clearly on the chain, and he put it on the ring finger of his left hand tremblingly. He put it on several times without being able to focus because he couldn't focus. Bu Zhonghua's eyes were red and he helped him put it on the ring finger.
"...I swear to love Bu Zhonghua forever, regardless of illness or health, rich or poor, adversity or prosperity, happiness or sorrow..." Every word is like a sharp knife stabbing into the heart, and then being pulled out bloody,
Bu Zhonghua Hua's throat spasmed and she couldn't make a sound.
"I will love him, cherish him, and be loyal to him..."
Wu Yu's ring-wearing hand intersected with Bu Zhonghua's tightly, squeezing the protrusions of each other's phalanges, even to the point of pain.
"Accept him as my lifelong partner, support each other, own each other..." Wu Yu tried his best to see the amber eyes in front of him clearly, and said with difficulty: "Forever."
He indeed could no longer see clearly, otherwise he would have seen The tears welling up in Bu Zhonghua's eyes fell drop by drop into the water beneath them. However, his voice was still so gentle and steady, with no trace of choking: "You are also my lifelong
partner, forever."
Water. Burying their necks and throats one by one, Wu Yu smiled in a daze, even though it only slightly touched the corners of his scarred lips, then pressed his forehead against Bu Zhonghua's and asked in a low voice: "Are you ready
? ?"
"--Are you ready?!"
It was pitch black under the pool, and only the miner's lamp vaguely illuminated Lin Gang's vigorous gestures. Song Hui was dizzy and couldn't see clearly. She nodded desperately as a reflex and was kicked hard into the inclined shaft by Lin Gang. That meant down! Get off quickly!
There was a burst of blisters, and Song Hui almost choked on the water. She danced and was violently thrown into the wellhead by Lin Gang. She quickly crawled down the inclined well on the bricks. Due to the narrow space, the gas cylinder that had to be hung on the side clinked against the wall of the well. But she actually heard nothing.
The suffocating darkness and stench engulfed her, and the terrifying underwater claustrophobic space was like a coffin. Amid the overwhelming fear of being buried alive, only the tight traction rope around her waist gave her a clear and real sense of pain.
12.8 meters.
Such a long, difficult shaft, separated by life and death, is actually only a short distance of ten steps.
As long as she walks these ten steps forward, she can put on those clothes with a clear conscience and save her brothers and comrades who are dying in a desperate situation!
--thump!
Half of Song Hui's body hit the well wall, and the gas bottle got stuck between the bricks. She realized that she had reached the narrowest joint. She inhaled hard and closed her breath. She couldn't squeeze in from the front at all. She turned sideways and squeezed at various angles, but still couldn't squeeze in. She suppressed the desire to cry and touched her whole body. She touched Lin Gang's diving knife and pulled it out. Come out and dig into the bricks on the well wall hard, and pry them with all your strength!
Keng!
The water flowed in all directions with the movement, and the cracked bricks showed gaps. Song Hui's tears burst out of her eyes in the diving goggles.
Keng!
The water flow seemed to shake. In the mine, Bu Zhonghua pressed Wu Yu's forehead with the same force and said hoarsely: "I'm ready."
Keng! !
Half a broken brick was thrown along the water, and the reaction force pushed Song Hui into the shaft!
Venus burst out from the blood vessels in her eyeballs. Song Hui's legs were as weak as noodles and she couldn't stand up. She shivered and took out the detonator from her equipment, fixed it under the mud, and took a step back in dizziness.
Then she raised her hand tremblingly, just like the older female detective gave the order to the young female intern on the rainstorm river beach, just like the senior did to the junior for the last time before running into danger, just like to the void A certain self said goodbye completely and made two familiar gestures -
keep quiet and ambush in place -
then she gritted her teeth and turned back decisively, squeezed out of the shaft, pulled the traction rope hard, and the next second she was pulled hard by Lin Gang who was waiting outside. Get out of the inclined well!
There was a splash of water, and Song Hui almost lost consciousness. In a daze, she was quickly pushed to the edge of the pool by Lin Gang, and then was pulled up by countless hands.
"How's it going?" "Has it been put in?! Is it fixed?!" "Is he okay? Is he okay?!"... "Detonate immediately! Prepare for rescue!" Lin Gang's fierce roar sounded in her ears
. It was hazy as if separated by a layer of water. "The survey team is going to observe the water level in the well! Are rescue preparations in place? Hurry!" There was a loud voice, chaotic
footsteps, and countless figures walking around in the bright car lights. Go, and then from deep in the pool behind you, there is a sudden sound -
bang!
The muffled sound was like a hammer falling on the drum surface. There was no movement for the first few seconds, and then an increasingly louder hissing sound came from the depths of the black pool, and the roar was like a dragon roaring, straight up. Mountain stream!
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--There is movement.
It took several seconds before Bu Zhonghua's fuzzy mind slowly felt it.
The water beside him seemed to be moving, one wave after another, and the turmoil was getting bigger and bigger. At first he thought the final break was coming, but when he desperately grabbed Wu Yu's cold hand and prepared to welcome it, he suddenly found that the water was flowing back!
The water is quickly retreating in the direction it came from just now!
If there was a drone camera, this amazing scene should be captured: hundreds of tons of silt and dust were erupted from the drainage well at the bottom of the pool, and the shaft exploded, opening up the mine that had been abandoned for many years; huge amounts of water accumulated in the pit Liang Lao Kongshui finally found the breach of the embankment, and poured out desperately, even engulfing the mouth of the pool.
At the same time, at the bottom of the mine tunnel. The water level suddenly stopped just before it was completely submerged, and then rushed back crazily from countless gas alleys in all directions, making a majestic roar, and the fatal water level dropped sharply!
"...Wu Yu," Bu Zhonghua murmured in disbelief, and then let out an inaudible roar amidst the loud noise: "Wake up! Wu Yu!" The air flowed back quickly, making a whistle-like sharp sound in the empty alley
. Howl, but Wu Yu remained motionless. Bu Zhonghua could no longer feel any strength coming from his hands, and could only hold Wu Yu's fingers tightly, trying in vain to protect him with his body.
Gravels, wood blocks and gravel hit his head and body with the receding torrent, but Bu Zhonghua's consciousness and pain sensation became increasingly blurred.
We are going to be rescued, he thought.
Please hold on a little longer, as long as we hold on a little longer, we can return to the ground hand in hand.
"Team!" "Officer Wu!" "Bu Chonghua!"...
Liao Gang's roar and sharp whistle were faintly heard in the distance, the light of the miner's lamp flashed alternately, and countless footsteps stepped on the knee-deep water.
"Officer Wu!" "Where are you!"...
Bu Zhonghua closed his eyes. With the last bit of consciousness left in him, he could feel that he was still holding Wu Yu's hand stiffly, and then he seemed to have fallen into boundless darkness. Soft light gradually covered his face.
He seemed to have become very small and turned back into the nine-year-old child he was. He was suddenly awakened that night. When he opened his eyes, he saw the sky full of stars. His young parents were watching him with smiles and watching him by the bedside, their eyes full of nostalgia. and love.
There was also a thin young man who covered his mouth with one hand and put his index finger to his lips with the other hand: "Shh, don't make a sound." The
drug dealer's car lights and footsteps came from outside the house, and they were about to break into the house.
--Is it that dream? he thought vaguely.
Are you going to repeat the bloody late-night dream of killing your whole family again?
But what he didn't expect was that this time was different. He was not pushed into the closet by the boy in a hurry, and his parents were not blocked in the outhouse by the drug dealer's gun. Bu Zhonghua felt like he was falling into a dream, feeling that he was being pulled up in ignorance, and the boy He jumped out of the window nimbly and waved under the starry sky: "Quick, come with me!"
His father pulled his mother, and her mother pulled him, her expression full of gentle and familiar encouragement: "I have been waiting for you for a long time, come with us! "
...Where are you taking me? "
Bu Zhonghua closed his eyes and heard the wind whistling in his ears, and the roar of artillery and machine guns coming from the distant border. His hands were held by his parents all the time, and he walked through the flames of war and billowing smoke. When he opened his eyes again, he found that the scene had suddenly changed, and he was standing in a semi-collapsed tunnel filled with dust and smoke.
The sound of gunfire outside was faintly vibrating, shaking the surrounding walls and ground. There are two figures leaning on each other in the corner of the tunnel in the distance. One is covered in blood and is already on the verge of death. There is also a young man kneeling on the ground, only showing a familiar back, and he is uttering pain like a trapped animal that seems to tear apart the internal organs. wailing.
Bu Zhonghua had never experienced this scene in his life, but he suddenly understood where this place was -
it was the Hongshan torture chamber.
The starting point where all the truths intertwined and fate was twisted ten years ago.

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This for some reason says it's Chapter 161 dunno why