Perfect Feast

Chapter 48: Endless Life

A young woman in her twenties with a big belly looked anxiously as she struggled through the crowd and asked when she saw a miner coming out of it. "Have you seen Lin Libing?" "Do you know Lin Libing?"

There are also several women around her age who are also anxiously searching. "Did you see my brother? His name is Lin Tao..." "Brother, is our guy here?"

A white-haired old lady was leaning on a walking stick, and she pulled anyone she saw and asked, "Brother, have you seen my third son?"

Although they were worried, they still consciously did not rush in before the cordon where the policemen stood in a row of people. Lin Yufen, deputy magistrate of Huling County, stood at the gate of the mine. Looking at the scene in front of her, the corners of her eyes were moist, and a crystal teardrop unconsciously slipped down her cheek.

What a good folks, what a good people? God, just open your eyes and bless their husbands and sons to come up safely!

Lin Yufen, who has always believed in atheism, couldn't help but secretly pray to God in her heart, if there really is such a powerful ruler in the dark, who can send the more than one hundred lives in the well back home safely, At this moment, she would kneel down and smash her scalp desperately.

However, I don't know whether it is God's ruthlessness or God's tears. At this time, there is a drizzle in the sky.

Although the common people don't know how to rescue their relatives, they understand that if God makes it rain heavily, it will not benefit the people in the well at all.

"God, please, please don't let it rain!" With a piercing cry, one person knelt down, and a group of people behind him also knelt down.

Not long after, a black group of people knelt at the mine gate.

Looking at the dark group of people in front of him, Huang Decheng walked up to Lin Yufen a little uneasy, and said in a low voice, "County Lin, this... so many people are kneeling here, I'm afraid it's inappropriate..."

"I know, I know that even if their knees are broken, it won't do much. To save people, we have to rely on the party, the government, and our comrades inside. They won't leave without seeing their loved ones. Yes, even after returning home, the torment in my heart is more uncomfortable than kneeling here..."

"County Lin, then... what should we do?" Huang Decheng asked a little at a loss. In fact, he also knew in his heart that using the police to drive people out at this time would cause public outrage.

But if the common people can't be persuaded, so many people are kneeling in front of a row of policemen, what's the matter? In case someone misunderstood him, he wouldn't be able to speak clearly even if he was covered in mouths!

However, whether it is for the safety of the central, provincial and municipal leaders inside, or to ensure the smooth progress of the rescue mission, he dare not remove the alert at this time, which is really embarrassing.

Car lights flickered in the distance, and another rescue team came from nowhere.

After thinking about it, Lin Yufen wiped the tears off her cheeks and walked out: "Folks, most of you here know me. I am the executive deputy county magistrate of our county, and I am also the daughter of our Lin family village who has gone out. Mine Below, there are your relatives and mine, but it won’t help if we kneel here and soak in the rain. If it’s useful, I’ll kneel with you guys.”

While talking, she pointed to the vehicles that had already driven outside the crowd at the mine gate: "Folks, we have to rely on the government to save lives, and those rescue teams behind us who blocked our way. Everyone, get up, ah, Let them go there as soon as possible, if they go in one second earlier, they may rescue our relatives from the well one second earlier..."

The rain is still pattering, and the rescue work is still running at high speed. The sound of roaring water pumps in the distance came from time to time, making the hearts of those waiting outside the door full of hope.

One minute earlier to drain the water, one minute earlier to go down the well to save lives! While ensuring 24-hour downhole air pressure and constant monitoring of harmful gases downhole, the most important thing now is drainage, drainage, and drainage!

At the initial stage of the accident, the two small water pumps on the mine were used to pump water, but this was of no avail at all, because the water pumped was small, and the water level in the wind lane remained at the water level marked by Zhong Daxiang, not decreasing by a single centimeter.

In the simple room of less than 30 square meters in the accident emergency rescue headquarters, various drawings of the roadways of Lincun Mine were pasted everywhere, and the commanders gave various instructions in a hurry.

Less than 9 hours after the accident, the water pumps and water pipes transferred by the headquarters from the province were already in place.

They are racing against time at an almost impossible speed. It usually takes a month to install a large water pump. But here, it only takes one day.

They carried more than ten tons of water pumps and pump pipes weighing several kilograms in a running posture, and ran back and forth on a 25-degree slope.

People are running like clockwork, but they can't wait to go faster. A little faster and the miners in the mine will have more hope of life.

At noon on the 24th, the light rain floating in the sky finally stopped, and the drainage equipment in charge of Renzhou Mining was put into trial operation.

At 12:15 pm on the 24th, the drainage system began to operate normally. This is the first large-scale drainage system formed by the rescue team. When the black water mixed with soot spewed out of the well along the long pipe, people's eyes lit up.

Down the well, the water under the rescue team's feet is receding!

In the darkness, Lin Libing and the others could already hear the humming of the water pump outside, and the water level under them began to drop. From the neck, it has fallen back to the point where the shoulders can be exposed...

The trapped miner realized: "This is someone outside saving us, we must persevere to live!"

More than 40 hours have passed since taking over at zero o'clock on the 23rd. They have not had any water or rice, and they are already thirsty and hungry.

In front of you is a watery pool, mixed with cinders and floating with oil. If you put it in normal times, this kind of water is hard to swallow no matter what. But now, in order to survive, they drink it, spit it out, spit it out, drink it again...

Hungry, they picked up the fragments of cardboard boxes used to hold explosives in the well from the surface of the water, encouraged each other, chewed hard, and swallowed hard.

During the Long March of the Red Army, didn't Commander-in-Chief Zhu eat belts? Didn't a hero of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League survive by eating bark and cotton? Although this food does not have any nutrition, and may even contain some harmful toxins in it, as long as you eat it, your life can be extended a little.

In order to survive, I can't care about anything now. Eat it, eat it if you can't eat it!

They are lethargic. The sweater, woolen trousers, and cotton jacket on his body were all icy cold against his body, and the cold water was biting. Once he fell asleep, he was afraid that he would never wake up again. Everyone takes turns to be on duty, calling each other every once in a while.

In order to save power, more than a dozen people turned off all the miner's lamps on their heads, and only turned on one lamp in turn when they had something to do.

The watch on the wrist has long since stopped, and no one knows what time it is. When the water surface receded to the waist, it seemed to freeze, and it would not retreat any more.

"What's going on? Have the people above stopped rescue? We're still alive, and I'm still waiting for you to rescue us below. You must not stop!"

In the darkness, people's emotions were almost on the verge of collapse. From full of expectations to despair, people who are tired, thirsty and hungry can no longer hold on.

"Turn on the light...turn on the light, something hit me..." Lin Libing firmly grasped the thing that hit him just now with both hands, opened his mouth and let out a cry with difficulty. The voice was hoarse and hoarse, but it sounded like thunder in the dark mine tunnel.

With a bang, almost at the same time, six or seven beams of light shone on Lin Libing's body.

After seeing clearly what Lin Libing was holding in his hand, many people couldn't help but sighed in disappointment. A mine cart, a mine cart, drifted along the current from nowhere. Apart from the one caught by Lin Libing, there were several other cars in the dark.

"Catch it quickly, what are you still doing?" This is the most exciting thing for Lin Libing since he was trapped: "Since the mine cart floated out along the water, it proves that the water is still going down. , It’s just that there is too much water, and it’s hard to go down when it retreats to the waist. We can’t feel the water level drop, and we feel that the people outside gave up the rescue, but in fact they didn’t give up..."

"Yes, it must be so."

"Jump on it, maybe you can float to the mouth of the well."

17 workers jumped onto four mine carts and boarded the "Noah's Ark", and finally got rid of the suffering of flooding. However, their joy did not last long. After drifting down for a certain distance, the water surface was getting closer and closer to the top of the roadway. Slowly, the mine cart was stuck there and could no longer float forward.

"Don't be discouraged, this place is not far from the wind alley. I remember that this anchor is less than 30 meters away from the entrance of the alley. This shows that the water is still flowing down. As long as we persevere, we will definitely be able to get out." Lin Libing While encouraging everyone, he curled up into a ball: "Come on, let's hug each other tightly. Saving calories means saving energy..."

In every mine car, everyone seems to have no distance, and they hug each other tightly.

Lin Libing didn't know that his fellow workers were also actively looking for ways to escape in another large alley, auxiliary transportation alley, which was separated by a wall from them.

When the flood hit, Wang Zengtian, a 30-year-old worker from Linshan, Jihai, and several other workers climbed onto a higher surface of tens of square meters. Afterwards, more and more people gathered here, and after a final count, it actually reached eighty-four people.

In the adjacent belt alley, more than a dozen workers blasted the 4-meter-thick seal between the two alleyways. Everyone ran up to dig coal powder and plan coal blocks, and a small hole was exposed on the wall of the alley, which was only big enough for one person to drill. Dozens of people crawled over one after another, and there were a total of 115 of them after the rendezvous.

Seeing so many people, everyone is not afraid: even if they can't get out, they will die together!

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