God-level Miner

Chapter 87 Drilling Through Rock Formation

Jimingshan Coal Mine.

A total of three crawler-type large drilling rigs have been drilling down since the morning of the day before yesterday. It has been two full days now. At the beginning, everything went well. Although they also encountered rocks, there were no hard rock formations.

Since this morning, the three drilling rigs have drilled into the hard rock formation one after another. Hearing the news, Zheng Yan couldn't sit still, and immediately went to the Jimingshan Coal Mine.

Wang Xudong drove his off-road vehicle, took Liu Yu and Zheng Xiaotong, and the three of us also arrived at the coal mine. After Wang Xudong got off the car, he saw that there were many more people here than two days ago.

In the periphery, many family members gathered. These family members, without a doubt, were full of sadness. In the midst of sadness, they were also full of anticipation and hope, hoping that their loved ones would return safely.

In addition to a large number of family members, there are also many reporters. Many news media reporters have set up cameras here, and some TV stations even report live there, and report and release the situation here in the form of news. .

Wang Xudong and the other three walked inside. Once inside, Wang Xudong saw that there were a lot more people here. Except for some commanders, there were more emergency rescuers in professional clothing.

When Wang Xudong arrived, Zheng Yan was asking about the situation, and Mayor Zhao replied: "Secretary Zheng, all three drilling rigs have replaced drill bits, and used drill gates to deal with hard rock formation alloy drill bits, hoping to drill through rock formations."

When drilling vertically like this, if you encounter a hard rock formation in the middle, there is no way to do it. You can only spend some time drilling through the rock formation. What everyone hopes is that the rock formation should not be too thick and it will not take too much time. At this time, time is life.

Time passed little by little.

The entire Jimingshan Coal Mine seemed to gradually become quiet, with only the roar of the three drilling rigs. After replacing the alloy drill bits, the three drilling rigs continued to drill down.

Because there are three different drilling sites, the three drilling rigs are still relatively far apart, and one of the drilling rigs is still on the hillside, drilling vertically from the hillside, because there is a large roadway more than 200 meters vertically down from that position. Drill all the way to the top of that large roadway until you drill through.

There are quite a few people beside each drilling rig, not only the staff, but also rescuers in orange-red professional uniforms. Everyone basically did not speak, watching the drilling rig go down little by little.

Three or four hours passed, and finally, the hard rock formations were drilled through one after another. After passing through the hard rock formations, the speed was significantly faster. Obviously, the hardness under the rock formations was much lower, and the drilling speed of the drilling rig was also much faster.

noon.

One of the fastest drilling rigs has almost drilled through, and will soon drill through to a predetermined roadway.

A lot of people surrounded this drilling rig, all of them looked nervous and full of hope. In the distance, on the periphery, there were some reporters and a large number of family members.

As the top leader of Wujiang City, Zheng Yan has been here as the general commander of the scene. As for Secretary Sun, as the main leader of Jiangnan Province, he is busy with official duties and cannot stay here all the time. He entrusted everything here to Zheng Yan. After being the top leader in Wujiang City, Secretary Sun returned to the provincial capital the day before yesterday.

A reporter, holding a microphone, made a live report to the camera, "Dear audience, the exciting moment is coming soon, the No. [-] drilling rig is about to drill through, and the life channel is about to be opened..."

The family members in the periphery also hung their hearts. Everyone was full of hope and prayed in their hearts to keep their loved ones buried below safe.

Zheng Yan came over, and soon after, he finally drilled through a roadway with a depth of nearly 200 meters below. Suddenly, many people cheered, and the drill pipe began to withdraw slowly. After the drill pipe was withdrawn, it came out. The big hole is presented in front of everyone.

This big hole, which is bigger than a washbasin, is dark and nearly [-] meters deep. It leads to a horizontal roadway below, which is also one of the main roadways in the depths of the Jimingshan Coal Mine.

Everyone cheered, many of the family members waiting outside wept with joy, and the tone of the reporters reporting the news was obviously excited.

Finally successfully drilled through!

Soon, the special camera equipment was lowered slowly, and through the lowered camera equipment, the images below were transmitted back through the data cable.

The hole is very deep, nearly 200 meters deep. From the images sent back by the camera equipment, it can be seen that there is basically no stone except for a relatively thick rock formation. Very thick rock formation, which is also the main reason for drilling through so quickly.

The situation in the horizontal alley was reported back. When everyone saw the situation below, their faces gradually became serious, because it can be seen from the image that this horizontal alley also collapsed seriously, and many places were blocked.

Everyone was silent for a while, and they were full of hope at first, but now their hopes were shattered, and everyone's mood suddenly became heavy.

"Secretary Zheng, do you want to send someone down to take a look?"

Zheng Yan shook her head slowly, "The situation below is already clear, and it's useless to send people down. We can only hope for the other two drilling rigs."

The family members who were waiting for the news probably also heard about the situation, and suddenly, there was a cry of crying...

Although this drilling rig drilled through the main roadway, it was basically useless and ended in failure, because the main roadway collapsed severely and no signs of life were found.

There are also two drilling rigs, and everyone will pin their hopes on these two drilling rigs.

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More than 200 meters deep underground.

This is a large-scale refuge, because it is not far from all the excavation faces. When the disaster happened, the miners ran here desperately. All 43 miners miraculously arrived here, and everyone has been waiting for rescue.

Two days and two nights passed.

The leading miner was a middle-aged man named Tan Xiaohai, a monitor of the excavation team. Tan Xiaohai looked at his watch and thought to himself, at this time, it should be in the afternoon. I wonder if people outside can come to rescue him. .

Although this is the biggest refuge, the situation is not optimistic. There is very little food, just some expired biscuits or instant noodles. Everyone ate some, and now everyone is very hungry.

Water is often more important than food. If there is water, a normal person can persist for at least ten days, but if there is no water, even if there is food, it can only persist for three to five days.

There is not much water in this shelter, only two or three boxes of mineral water, which is not enough for each person.

Tan Xiaohai looked at his watch, and then licked his chapped lips. For two days and two nights, he only drank a few sips of water. Tan Xiaohai was very thirsty, but there was no way. I only took a few sips, but I have already drank more than a dozen bottles, almost half of the mineral water.

Precious water was limited and, to make matters worse, several miners were injured, one of them seriously, with an inflamed wound and a high fever.

Tan Xiaohai looked at everyone and knew that it was time to distribute food and mineral water. Tan Xiaohai opened the cabinet containing food and mineral water. Without Tan Xiaohai shouting, everyone spontaneously gathered around and looked at Tan Xiaohai eagerly.

One of them said: "Old Tang, everyone is extremely thirsty, can everyone drink a little more water this time, if this continues, we will probably die of thirst before the people above come to rescue us."

Tan Xiaohai sighed softly, nodded, took out the disposable cups, everyone spontaneously lined up, Tan Xiaohai began to pour water, after half a cup of water, after thinking about it, he poured a little more in, and poured more than half of it The shape of the cup.

Obviously, this half glass of water was a bit more than last time. Everyone lined up and came up to drink water one by one, and everyone got half a glass. As for the sick patients, Tan Xiaohai poured a full glass for each of them. Take special care of these injured people.

Tan Xiaohai was the last one to drink water. After everyone finished drinking and distributing everyone's food, Tan Xiaohai poured water for himself. After pouring half a glass, he hesitated and didn't pour any more. , Tan Xiaohai is obviously a little less.

A piece of biscuit, half a glass of water, this is Tan Xiaohai's lunch, and he didn't eat anything in the morning, everyone only drank half a glass of water.

Even with such savings, there is not much mineral water left, only a few bottles, and it is estimated that the water will be divided once at night. There will be no more water, and there will not be much food. It is estimated that it can be divided into two more at most.

In order to save energy, after drinking water and eating something, everyone either lay down or sat, and basically seldom moved around, and not many people even talked.

The time passed minute by minute, and several hours passed.

Tan Xiaohai looked at the time, it was already evening, and he thought in his heart, at this time, the sun is about to set, and the sky is about to get dark.

At this time, Tan Xiaohai strongly desires to see the sun, even for a minute, but this is just a luxury, completely impossible.

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(End of this chapter)