Path of the Dead Prequel: Wings of Silver

Under the illumination of many large miner's lamps and the mirror lamps we brought, people and objects could hardly distinguish colors in the strong light, showing a miserable white. The deep, bottomless boreholes were intertwined, and the concrete slag that sealed the soil around it cracked under the vibration of the machine, and fell into the dark end, and there was an echo. It's like the gates of hell are open, and it's chilling.

"I really don't understand, why do you have to toss around so blindly, what is the meaning, what is the picture? The scene below is no longer the concept of 40 years ago, and it will be very dangerous to go on rashly. "A fire station steward stood in front of the crowd and yelled at us in a frustrated manner. He picked up a broken brick and smashed it on the ground for us to see, saying: "It is like it under the surface, it crumbles and then crumbles again, and the fire melts the steel supports, and brings with it the surrounding sand and sludge and all that, distorting everything." You have to go down, but you have to be accompanied by professional rescuers, and all the women stay on the ground, if it collapses again, you will have to spend material resources and energy to carry out a second rescue, who will be responsible for this consequence?"

Dixie was furious when she heard this, she and the other work gangs had been excluded, and if her camera was also banned, Channel Nine would not be able to deal with it. When there was nothing to be done, Rosa, who was not dealing with her, stepped forward to help, saying that it would be too bad to drive them away, and it would be very inhumane to not let the brave Sister Di complete the docking shooting. I don't know her true intentions, whether she wants to help her or see her make a fool of herself, she always spits lotus flowers on her tongue, and is affectionate, and finally says that the person in charge has to let her go. In this way, the people who really went down were decided, a total of four, me, Sister Di, Lao Dai and Soul Scythe.

At six o'clock in the evening, all the preparations were in place, even the ambulance was in place, and we were accompanied by two professionals to the deep hole, where we would relive the scene of the mining disaster 40 years ago, and go straight to the bottomless purgatory of the coal yard of the Diming Station.

I swept around, and there weren't many people coming now, except for those who were here at first, and there were also people from nearby towns who had come to join in the fun. Eugene was also nearby, and the black kid kept yelling that he was going to climb the pit, and was whined and cried by a bloody slap from his father, and the father and son couldn't even take care of the oil and gas station, so they closed the door early and ran to occupy the place. There was all the noise at the scene, those who said cool words, laughed, solemn, shook their heads and sighed, mixed together, and the noise made people's ears buzz.

Two professional rescuers went first, and then it was our turn. I followed Sister Di, and my body was only a few meters down the steel cable, when I faintly heard my mobile phone calling. As soon as I wanted to call Krys to help pick it up, I was stopped by Lao Dai, and it was strictly forbidden to make loud noises in the crunchy and broken mining disaster, which was like standing at the mouth of the snow peak and shouting, which was easy to cause an avalanche.

The green pillars of light from the headlamps were filled with falling moles and dust, and floating cotton-wool-like impurities, so that one could only see himself and the people under his feet. Other than that, all the light seemed to be sucked out by the darkness and became hazy. Not long after, Sister Di's figure suddenly turned to the right and disappeared without a trace. I couldn't help but be frightened and rushed to fish, but I was grabbed by an ankle by a pair of strong hands, which were rescuers. He led me to the stone wall, motioned for my feet to step on the iron frame of the fixed platform in the corner, and released the hook.

Following the third and fourth people down to this corner, we began to spread out in all directions, so as not to collapse the platform with no decay, and soon came to the front of the coal cave on the ground floor. Everyone's hooks were unhooked, released upwards and slammed together with a crackling whistle. In this way, the six people successfully entered the pit and stepped on the ground.

The two professionals, Gonzalez from SilverCity and Lewis from Dunn, have been in the industry for more than a decade and have a wealth of experience. Both are Hispanic and have served as firefighters and Marines, respectively. (In the following chapters, Gonzalez is referred to as Agonne and Lewis is referred to as Lao Liu to distinguish between them.) ）

The reinforced platform we stepped on was two meters lower than the thirteen meters marked on the drawings, indicating that the foundation had been completely destroyed and that it could collapse at any time due to external forces. When we get back to the ground, we need to be especially careful about the balance of forces in the corners.

The position where he stands now is probably the same as the port through which coal was transported in the past, so it is still relatively stable. However, after the big explosion, a huge amount of sand and stubborn rocks blocked the entire inclined approach road, and the people who used to dig it for many days never dug through, and finally had to give up and find another shortcut. From this angle, you can still see some iron houses, such as warehouses for distributing labor protection equipment, and storage rooms for collecting tools. Iron handrails are built around it, as well as stairs to go down.

Lao Liu was checking the pictures of his mobile phone at the moment, and saw that five pairs of eyes were staring at him in the dark, he waved his hand and whispered, this is the middle of the floor plan, and the entrance should be in a deeper shipping yard, and the workers put the coal into the car, sent it to that location, and then were towed up. So, there will be more than two tracks, and I'll have to keep going to get there.

The old man Campbell on the ground also verified Lao Liu's statement through the walkie-talkie, and said that when we pass an upward slope, we will see a group of dilapidated houses, which are the inspection ports for calculating the number of shipments, as well as the financial room. At that time, miners were paid one day a day, so accounting was set up behind the ramp. When we found it, we could see the crane and the mine elevator going down. However, those old goods were damaged forty years ago, and they just used the mixed steel skeleton as a support point back then.

A short distance we did see a neatly lined trolley clearing, and beside it was a dilapidated house that had been almost crushed, and the fang-like keels barbed down and pierced through the entire office, and were burned black by the fire. A few pieces of broken glass were turned up between the muddy floors, and the words "FinanceOffice" were burned on them, and the location of the so-called financial station was found.

"Do you want to go in and take a look? The drawings issued by the people of Burning Sky Heavy Industry are not as detailed as those picked up by netizens, and it is inevitable that mistakes will be made. Lao Dai looked indoors, saw that there was a section at the end of the house that had not been engulfed by the flames, leaned close to Agon's ear, and asked: "Since they are piece-rated, then the miners who went down on May 3 will definitely have a list and number of people, and if they find them, don't you know how many others are missing?"

The old man Campbell in the walkie-talkie felt that he could give it a try, in the past, because the fire was still raging, they only hurried through the first-order search, and did not pay attention to those small corners, now that they are back at the scene, it is better to simply search thoroughly.

I said hello, took out the parrot ruler and came to the door to tinker, and removed the rusty lock by dividing it by two. Lao Liu arched his body, clinging to the ground, and drilled into it like a loach. Soul Scythe pointed at himself, saying that he was afraid that Lao Liu would be trapped, and he was the shortest of all of them, and his figure was even slimmer than Sister Di, and he followed without waiting for Ah Gang to reply. Only the chatter and murmur could be heard, and after a few minutes, a faint green head light appeared at the end of the room, and the two arrived at their location.

I waited for the rest of us to gather at the edge of Agan to watch the small frequency screen, which was recorded by the camera, received through the terrestrial computer, and then transmitted back to us. The dilemma of the 50s is not comparable to modern times, and it has truly achieved three-dimensional monitoring, and all aspects can be found. Only the porch was destroyed in this dilapidated house, and a wooden table and cabinet in the second half have been preserved. Soul Scythe pulls out a dagger and pries open the rotten lock, starting to flip upside down, then giving a thumbs-up to the camera to indicate that he has made a discovery.

Five minutes later, the two of them crawled out of the dilapidated house and returned to the dirt road, where Eupicio gave his backpack to Argon, told him to run and return the relics to the surface, and then asked Lao Liu to put the plate on the minecart and motioned for us to look.

This is a schedule for the 3rd, the time of the mining accident is 2:40 p.m., and there is a chain explosion at about 3:10 p.m., and there are 45 people working underground that day, including handymen, stevedores and accountants. Twenty people escaped, and the bones of the whole body were 19, in other words, there are still six dead people still buried deep underground. With this detailed list, with the capabilities of cable stations and CNNs, it will be completed in less than a day. Over the intercom, I heard thunderous applause on the ground. This shows that the crowd of onlookers at the scene affirmed our meticulous spirit.

"Wait a minute, don't worry, according to my observation," Seeing that Lao Liu was about to tell the specific number of the steward who commanded the tent, the soul sickle pressed his hand and said with a solemn expression: "It's not six, it should be seven." "

As the crowd was about to ask him where he got the data, Ebizio pulled out a cigarette case from his trouser pocket, which was a Chesterfield short filter, and an Evans flat kerosene lighter. This cigarette is the brand that the old money demon bought when he was stunned, and even now, I and a few others have it in their bags. Lao Dai took the cigarette case from the soul sickle, and pulled out the inner core of the lighter to look, only to see that the metal shell was marked with 24K, and instantly understood the meaning of the soul sickle. Lao Liu is a rough man, he doesn't understand the eyes that these two people are exchanging with each other, and when he saw Ah Gang coming back from the borehole, he asked if he could still leave, what are they all doing here?

I walked with Sister Di at the end of the crowd, she leaned sideways and whispered to me, and the demon fragrance immediately penetrated, which made me feel uplifted. She said that the discovery of the dwarf man's suitability was important, indicating that on the day of the accident, a person from outside the mine had come to the accounting room and had not been able to leave. In the event of a mining accident, it will not be possible to immediately harm the first order in a short period of time, and this person will still have enough time to escape. It didn't matter if the cigarette case was pulled down, but this lighter was pure gold, and it was left in place to be incomprehensible, it was just the effort of probing your hands.

"So, is this the extra one?" I pondered for a moment, and said, "If I have to say that, there is another possibility, this man has been here, but he is busy with other things, and he can't wait to come back, and the mine disaster happened at that time." "

"Of course, they're just making assumptions. However, it is unusual to have an open fire under the mine, and everyone must follow the rules. But this person smokes but is unrestrained, he must be a man with a background, and he is very rich, and something as small as a lighter is also made of pure gold. Today, this old antique can sell for at least more than 5,000. "

As we spoke, our group climbed up to the crane, and the elevator shaft described by Campbell was found. Its original envelope had fallen to the bottom of the valley, submerged in the deepest depths, and now only the skeleton of mixed steel remained. On the steel plate, you can still see the round holes laid by the rescuers in the past, which are used to set up steel ropes to fish. The manager of the headquarters turned on the walkie-talkie, and repeatedly told people not to go all at once, but to be pulled one by one, because the appearance of the machinery was highly oxidized, and individual angle steels were melted, which was extremely unstable.

Therefore, we are still like when we hung at first, first let Lao Liu down, and then slide in according to their respective weights. In this way, it was difficult to descend to the second deep hole in the ground. From here, it is more than 20 meters deep, the smell is unpleasant, and there are more and more cotton-wool-like substances in the turbid air, which are scratched on the face and scratched with hands, dry and loose, and then turned into powder-like crumbs, I really don't know what this is. However, the roadbed was completely destroyed, and we could not climb to the deep hole, so we had to find a gap between the boulders and barely fall down to the second order.

Because of the collapse, the south is high and the north is low, and most of the area is blocked by mud and rocks, and people have to turn sideways or bend down to barely pass. When the ground command platform saw this hellish scene, it immediately contacted us and reminded us to be cautious, and you can go up after almost touching a circle, and don't continue to play with your life. Because the footage recorded by the camera shows that the stratum has been completely destroyed, any slight movement will cause a secondary collapse, and if the chaos is not calculated, it is estimated that the entire hillside will collapse as a result.

At first glance, this mine was very different from what I had imagined in my mind earlier. In the past, when we watched TV, when we talked about mines, they would be roughly cramped walkways, with reinforcement strips at both ends, and light bulbs dragged in with one or more strands of wire, which could only be as wide as two people side by side. But it's not here, it's not so much a pit as an underground valley, with several bottomless fissures running through it, and it's a completely natural rugged landscape. Aside from the handrails that can still be seen on one side of the corner, there is hardly any sign of man-made.

Sister Di staggered, her center of gravity was unstable and she fell to the ground, she struggled to get up, looking at her dark gloves, her mouth was wide open, as if she had been thrown stupidly. Seeing this, everyone hurriedly stepped forward to help her, but unexpectedly, the woman waved her hand again and again, and crawled away alone into a broken ruin without waiting for explanation. Lao Dai jumped to his feet in a hurry, but he didn't dare to shout loudly, so I immediately dragged her back, daring that the air pressure was too low to make Sister Di hallucinate, or claustrophobia exploded, and she fell into extreme confusion all of a sudden.

"Damn bitch, I said I shouldn't have brought her down. Agang yelled at me Nunu and said, "You are acquaintances, she may listen to you, and when you find her, you will take someone out immediately, and you two will leave the rest alone." The remaining two are very experienced and should not make any mistakes. Stay safe and stay on the phone. "

After the four of them finished speaking, they began to detour in two directions, and when I saw them crawling away, I stared, and bent down into the ruins, and at the same time distracted thoughts, trying to hook her up with the gold thread to find the location. As soon as the electrocardiogram was removed, it was like a steel knife piercing the cerebral cortex, which made people feel so painful that a Buddha was born in Nirvana. I fell on my stomach in the rubble, trying to hold back the discomfort that had surged up my throat, and I couldn't get up for a long time.

"What is she running blindly?" With a steady breath, I recalled the scene of Shicai, and I felt that Sister Di's expression was not like surprise, but had a purpose, she must have seen indescribable strange things, and thought of something. I just lay down like this for half a minute, I felt a hot breath in my lower body, and before I could look closely, I was twisted by a pair of claws to my ankles, and the opponent's strength was infinite, and I was quickly dragged away by it like a cotton blanket with a long goyin. My ass and back were scraped by the sharp slag of the knife, and my arm hurt from dancing, and I reached into my trouser pocket and pulled out a short knife and held it tightly.

More than ten seconds later, I was pulled to the gap by this force, and the man fell down hard, and touched the smooth road covered with sand and gravel with my hand. After a moment's hesitation, a black shadow pounced on me, and I was shocked to sweat, and stabbed with a knife, and only a few inches away from the body of the thing did I see that it was a green face under the headlamp, and I hurriedly gathered my body, and fell to the ground gasping for breath.

Seeing that I was angry and anxious to cry out, he rode up and pressed me down with his body, and covered my mouth with its paws. Suddenly, the smell of demon sweat filled my nose, and when I got so close, I realized that she was not a monster, but the missing Dixie

"What are you doing?" I was about to ask, but she silenced me and asked me to listen. There was a murmur of small stones and dust falling all around the site, indicating that the geological structure was very unstable.

Being pressed like this by a beautiful woman, although it is very heavy, but it feels really wonderful, I don't know what she is dragging me here, I can't help but feel a little uneasy, and my hands can't help but hug her shoulders and back. Sister Di instantly changed color, slapped her face, and whispered Don't you want to be crooked, then took my hand, knelt and crawled in one direction familiarly, zigzag around a few sections of the wall, and she led me to an inexplicable place.