Swallowing the Seas

Song Ping strode on the rugged mountain road, and the beam of the flashlight swayed with his steps, constantly showing the fist-sized gravel at his feet loosening and falling into the abyss, without even an echo.No one in most of the task force could keep up with his vigorous footsteps. Secretary Weng was supported by the guards and panted after him: "Old, Lao Song, are you sure this method will work?"

"If you can't do it, you have to do it. Not to mention that it is impossible to determine the exact location of the trapped people. Where can we go to adjust the water pump in this black sky and snowstorm? It will take several hours to drill down with the most powerful drilling rig. It will take hours to rescue people." It's blown." Song Ping said with a cold face: "Extraordinary times, extraordinary practices, resign yourself to fate! ——Lin Fang!"

In the middle of the night ahead, countless flashlight beams swayed and intertwined, and a figure turned around upon hearing the sound. It was Lin Hao who was covered in wind and snow: "Secretary Weng, Bureau Song!"

"How's the situation?"

"Preliminary blueprint measurements should be feasible. It's hard to say the specific situation. I have already found a special police officer who can swim in winter and went into the water to investigate the situation." Lin Hao pointed to the front, and Secretary Weng looked along the beam. A bottomless, deep and dark mine pit runs through the feet of everyone like a valley fissure, forming a steep cliff, with the faint sound of water coming from the bottom.

"According to the information on paper, this mine pit numbered N26 was once connected to the abandoned mine shaft that was flooded with empty water, but later due to ground subsidence, silt accumulation, water tank blockage, etc. The flow has been temporarily cut off. Rainwater and groundwater have accumulated at the bottom of the mine, and a natural pool has formed at present—we found a very lucky key during our emergency investigation just now." Lin Hao pointed to the faint fluorescence of the tablet computer and signaled Secretary Weng to look at the blueprint: " The water level of the water pool is lower than the gushing outlet under the abandoned mine."

People walk to higher places, and water flows to lower places. Secretary Weng responded quickly: "So if this pool can be reconnected with the mine, the old empty water will flow back into the pool at a lower altitude, thereby lowering the water level at the bottom of the well?"

Lin Hao said, "That's my guess."

"..." Secretary Weng's blood pressure didn't jump up to 180 immediately, it's because of his self-cultivation: "Guess?!"

"Yes. Although the water poured into the mine is considered old, and it is not too old, it should not be too scattered, but the edge and shape of the accumulated water are nowhere to be found, which means that there is a risk of blasting the pool to no avail. When the surveyors come up later, if it proves that the operation is feasible, I will go down in person immediately and plant bombs between the water pool and the mine for fixed-point blasting."

"Are you going down in person?" Secretary Weng asked in surprise.

"Well, I'm the only one here who has a diving certificate." Lin Hao put away the tablet, his knuckles were already red with cold, but his tone was steady and quick: "I have to try no matter what, now I can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor." , although I am actually ready to write a speech for the martyr's memorial service in my heart."

"…………"

Secretary Weng stared at Lin Fang's calm face for a long time, and the corners of his mouth twitched for a while, "I thought you were engaged in technology in Yundian, but I didn't expect that young man's hobbies are quite fashionable..."

"It's not your hobby." Lin Hao smiled wryly, "Crime forms are changing all over the place these days. We don't have any skills in this industry. To tell you the truth, I still have a tractor driving and welding certificate."

"Lin Ke! Linke!" At this moment, someone stumbled forward: "The surveyors are here, and the situation is not very good!"

Now as long as they hear the word "bad", the entire task force will immediately fall ill from top to bottom. Swallow Suxiao Jiuxin Pills for Suxiao Jiuxin Pills.Secretary Weng almost didn't give up, and staggered to support Song Ping's hand, only to hear Song Ping's voice almost broke: "Why is it not good? Why is it not good? The pool is already accessible? Still can't make a fixed point blasting?!"

The policeman held his knees and couldn't stop panting: "No, none of them, it can be blasted."

"Why is that?!"

As soon as the policeman raised his head, the hearts of all the people around him thumped, and his face turned pale: "According to the survey, the place where the water pool connects to the mine shaft is not a plane, but an inclined shaft."

"—The narrowest part of the inclined shaft may be less than 30 centimeters."

The surroundings were quiet for a moment, the air seemed to be frozen, and even Lin Hao's expression turned livid.

30 centimeters, just a piece of A4 paper, that is not the width that an adult man can hold his breath and force himself into it, let alone bring scuba, breathing tube, blasting detonator and other equipment!

The sound of water came faintly from the bottomless depths of the mine, and the wind whizzed through the mountains and forests, sharply tearing everyone's skin.A large number of police cars were parked not far away, and people came and went shouting and shouting, but the square inch of the mine pit was contrasted with an extraordinarily quiet place.

"...What to do about Lao Song," Secretary Weng's unsteady voice finally sounded in the cold wind for a long while, "The forest police helicopter has not flown away yet, why don't we go down the mountain to recruit water ghosts urgently?"

Song Ping said with a gloomy face, "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, who are thinner and smaller..."

Song Ping's face became even more ugly: "Where can I look for it? Everyone who graduated from the police school has trained like a wolf like a tiger. With a diameter of [-] centimeters, you might get stuck there if you walk halfway, unless—"

His tone suddenly stopped.

"Old Song?"

"..." Under the eyes of everyone, Song Ping's face turned blue and pale, his lips trembled slightly, and he suddenly said hoarsely: "But... there may be one."

Secretary Weng was both surprised and delighted: "Where is it?"

Song Ping stared straight at the dark mine ahead, without any response for a long time.His weird and stiff expression forced everyone around him to dare not speak out. After a while, Secretary Weng finally suppressed his anxiety: "Old Song, what are you..."

Gudong!

On Song Ping's aging neck, the larynx suddenly slid up and down, as if he swallowed a sore lump with his saliva, and then turned around and strode towards the row of police cars in the distance.

Everyone hurriedly followed up without knowing why, only to see Song Ping waved back the secretary and his subordinates who were coming forward, walked to a technical investigation vehicle and opened the door, a figure of Wenxiu in the back row raised his head, with a shoulder on his shoulder Wearing a military overcoat, blood was still stained on his cheeks, temple hair, and crossed thin fingers, and his eyes were moist and red.

It's Song Hui.

The bright headlights illuminated the open space, and the father and daughter looked at each other across the air, and everyone who rushed over was stunned.

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boom -

Countless gravel covered the sky with the torrent, and the formation was almost like throwing a person into a giant washing machine.Countless blood gushed out of Bu Chonghua's face, hands, and body. He had only one thought in a whirl, which was to hold Wu Yu tightly, and be swept away in the blink of an eye. Bang Dang!

Juli slapped him on the top of the wall, Bu Chonghua's eyes turned black, and a mouthful of blood mixed with water gushed out from his nose and mouth!

"Cough, cough, cough!" Bu Chonghua leaned his back against the wall, choking until blood came out: "Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough..."

Even at this time, the two of them were still holding each other tightly, and the veins on their bloody hands were bulging.Wu Yu's whole body trembled uncontrollably, his index finger and little fingernails were turned upside down, and he floated on the water and hugged Bu Chonghua tightly.

"It's okay, don't worry." Wu Yu buried his face in his strong neck, and murmured exhaustedly: "It will be all right soon."

There was an indescribable sadness in his words, Bu Chonghua gasped and looked up, his pupils constricted immediately, and he understood what it meant——

Above their heads is the stone roof of the roadway.

If the water level doesn't recede, Gas Lane will be completely submerged in no time, and they will have absolutely, completely nowhere to escape!

The surrounding environment could not be seen clearly in the darkness, and it could only be felt that this was a triangular fork with black walls on both sides.Bu Chonghua exhaled, grabbed the thick cable at the top of the alley with his left hand, and hung the unconscious drug lord between the cables to ensure that he would not sink underwater and drown, and hugged Wu Yulan tightly with his right hand. Beside him, he laughed hoarsely.

"If I had known, leave this ghost alone and handcuff me together with you. After death, we can still float together. If you go east, I will go east. If you go west, I will go west. Quietly head to head, Pretty romantic."

"..." Wu Yu leaned his face against his neck, and said softly and vaguely, "You..."

"What am I?"

Wu Yu didn't answer.

"Ask you something, don't you say I kissed you?"

Wu Yu asked: "What if I tell you that you don't kiss me anymore?"

Bu Chonghua laughed, soaked in the icy cold water, lowered his head and kissed his lips.

The corners of the mouths of both of them were already chapped, but the kiss was gentle and pious, and the blood dripped into each other's lips and teeth, melting into each other's last warmth.

"...'You are an academic who has never been to the ground, an elite who makes people jealous and annoying, and a moral model with a straight face'... That's what I thought when I first saw you." Wu Yu There seemed to be a soft, long sigh, though barely audible: "If only you weren't so good."

——If you weren't so good, you wouldn't have risked your life and waded over here, and you wouldn't have been trapped here facing such a desperate situation.

That way I can at least feel at ease when I go off to another world.

"Do you know what I thought when I first saw you?" Bu Chonghua asked.

"how?"

"This kid's face is really annoying, his reaction is slow and slow, he can't even speak clearly, the only good thing about his whole body is probably his face."

Wu Yu laughed out loud.

"It's just that the face is still pretty, and I couldn't walk when I saw it. Not only did I go to buy a ring obsessively, but I also wanted to add his name to the real estate certificate of my house." Bu Chonghua looked at him softly. , Said: "I'm really superficial. At this time, I'm still so willing."

Wu Yu laughed so hard that he coughed, and said intermittently: "Really? Then if I take a step ahead later on, don't hold me and cry... People's faces don't look good after death. What if it swells up? manage?"

As soon as he smiled, the diaphragm of the chest cavity convulsed rapidly, and blood foam continuously overflowed from the throat to the corner of the mouth.Bu Chonghua hugged him tightly with his right hand, keeping him close to his side, it was almost as hard as trying to integrate each other into the flesh and blood, even life and death were inseparable.

"I'm just kidding, we won't die, the outside must be trying to save us." He pressed his lips against Wu Yu's gray cheek, repeating hoarsely: "They will find a way, we will be saved, we all I won't die... If you persist, we won't die."

At this moment, there was another hollow vibration sound from the depths of the tunnel, boom——!

Another piece of the roof collapsed under the water pressure, and a new torrent rushed to all the lanes in all directions. Bu Chonghua gritted his teeth and hugged Wu Yu, and the two of them were photographed on the stone roof by the rising water level at the same time!

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Whoa- whoa-

The sound of the water is sparkling, bottomless, and emits an unpleasant smell after combining various heavy metal elements from waste mines.Song Hui's chest rose and fell rapidly, and she was standing on the rock in an ill-fitting diving suit, with 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 the instructions of Police Officer Lin, walk [-] meters after entering the inclined shaft, fix the detonator, confirm the equipment, pull the traction rope, and Officer Lin will pull you out of the inclined shaft and bring you back up. All the steps are clearly memorized ?"

Song Hui's voice was very weak: "I remember clearly."

"This is an opportunity for meritorious service that everyone wants. If you weren't thin, such a good thing wouldn't be your turn at all. Do you understand?"

"clear."

Song Ping nodded, although he couldn't see it at the other end of the channel, he said calmly: "Go down." Then he cut off the communication.

Song Hui handed over the walkie-talkie to the special police who followed her as an assistant, took a deep breath, gritted her teeth, and put on the diving goggles.Lin Hao helped her check the sidemount scuba device for the last time, and asked kindly, "I heard from Bureau Song that you swim in winter every year?"

Song Hui's face was pale and blue, probably because of nervousness: "Yes. Because the team likes winter swimming, and I want to cling to him."

Lin Hao is a person who has a clear mind of all the minutiae and trivial matters in the game. Hearing this, he only said softly: "Then after the team is rescued later, he will definitely look at you with admiration."

Unexpectedly, Song Hui held the breathing tube to her mouth and shook her head.

"how?"

"..."

Song Hui stood there, looking down at her palm.For a moment, Lin Hao felt that she was staring at someone in her arms, but then she withdrew her nostalgic gaze, turned her head and smiled at him:

"The person I really want her to see may not be around anymore."

Lin Hao was taken aback.

"But it doesn't matter." Song Hui pressed her heart and whispered, "Everything she gave me will be here forever."

The young policewoman staggered back a step, turned around, bit her breathing tube, closed her eyes and jumped!

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grunt-

Bu Chonghua spit out a series of bubbles at the bottom of the water, tried his best to float up and took a big breath, and then was submerged by the upwelling water, let go of his hands and fell down involuntarily.

Suddenly there was a force coming from his side, it was Wu Yu who was holding his hand tightly, and when the next wave of water came, he used his strength to go upwards, and raised Bu Chonghua to the surface of the water again with a splash!

"Cough, cough, cough, cough——" Bu Chonghua grabbed the cable above his head and kept choking out water, coughing until his eyes went black. In the dimness, he could only feel Wu Yu hugging his neck tightly with his backhand.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." Bu Chonghua hugged Wu Yu's back tightly in severe dizziness and drowsiness, "I haven't left yet, I'm still here, don't be afraid..."

The water was rising, and he had never been more clearly and inescapably aware of it than now.

The water level was approaching the stone roof of the tunnel inch by inch, centimeter by centimeter, and the space they could enter was very small, and the oxygen was rapidly depleted, and even the tip of their nose was almost attached to the rock.

"...Look at me..." Wu Yu panted with slack eyes, "Bu Chonghua, look at me..."

He was really at the last moment. With his right hand trembling violently, he tore off a thin chain from his neck. On the chain was a pair of wedding rings, and then put it on his left ring finger tremblingly, because he couldn't focus his eyes. After failing to go in several times, Bu Chonghua helped him put his ring finger in with his red eyes.

"...I swear to love Bu Chonghua forever, whether sick or healthy, rich or poor, adversity or prosperity, happiness or sorrow..."

Every word was like a sharp knife piercing into the heart, and then pulled out bloody, Bu Chonghua's throat convulsed and he could not make a sound.

"I will love him, cherish him, and be loyal to him..."

Wu Yu's ring-wearing hand intersected Bu Chonghua's tightly, holding the protrusion of the other's phalanx tightly, even to the point of pain.

"Accept him as my lifelong partner, support each other, and possess each other..." Wu Yu tried his best to see the amber eyes in front of him clearly, and said with difficulty: "Forever."

He really couldn't see clearly anymore, otherwise he would have seen the tears gushing out of Bu Chonghua's eyes, falling drop by drop into the water under them, but the voice was still so gentle and steady, without any choking:

"You are also my life partner, forever and ever."

The water buried their necks and throats one by one, Wu Yu smiled in a trance, even though he only touched the corners of his scarred lips slightly, then pressed his forehead against Bu Chonghua's, and asked in a low voice:

"are you ready?"

"--are you ready?!"

It was pitch black under the pool, only the miner's lamp vaguely illuminated Lin Hao's vigorous gestures.Song Hui was dizzy and couldn't see clearly, she nodded desperately reflexively, and was kicked hard by Lin Hao into the inclined shaft, which meant to go down!Get off!

There was a burst of blisters, and Song Hui almost choked on the water. She danced and was slammed into the mouth of the well by Lin Hao. She quickly crawled on the bricks and crawled into the inclined well. Due to the narrow space, the side-mounted gas cylinder had to jingle and hit the wall of the well. But she couldn't actually hear anything.

The suffocating darkness and the stench engulfed her, the terrible underwater claustrophobia like a coffin.In the overwhelming fear of being buried alive, only the traction rope around her waist was tightened, giving her a clear and real pain.

12.8 m.

Such a long, difficult, and life-or-death well is actually only a short distance of ten steps.

As long as she walks ten steps forward, she can put on the clothes and have a clear conscience, and she can save her dying brothers and comrades in arms!

--thump!

Song Hui hit half of her body against the wall of the well, and the gas cylinder got stuck between the bricks, realizing that she had reached the narrowest joint.She inhaled hard to hold her breath, couldn't squeeze in from the front at all, and squeezed in from various angles sideways, but still couldn't squeeze in, suppressing the desire to cry and groping all over her body, touched Lin Hao's diving knife, and pulled it out. Come out and dig hard into the bricks on the wall of the well, and pry them with all your might!

Keng!

The water rushed in all directions with the movement, the cracked bricks showed gaps, and Song Hui's tears welled up in the diving goggles.

Keng!

The water seemed to shake. In the mine, Bu Chonghua also pressed Wu Yu's forehead hard, and said hoarsely, "I'm ready."

Keng! !

Half a piece of broken brick was thrown down the water, and the reaction force forced Song Hui into the well with a thud!

The blood vessels in the eyeballs shot straight out, Song Hui's legs were as soft as noodles, and she couldn't stand up. She took out the detonator from the equipment trembling, fixed it under the mud, and took a step back in a daze.

Then she raised her hand tremblingly, just like the order that the older female detective gave to the little female intern on the stormy river beach, just like what the senior did to the younger generation for the last time before rushing to the dangerous situation, like facing the void. A certain self said goodbye completely, and made two familiar gestures——

Keep quiet, stay in ambush—

Then she gritted her teeth and turned her head resolutely, squeezed out of the well, pulled the traction rope hard, and was pulled out of the inclined well by Lin Hao who was waiting outside in the next second!

There was a splash of water, and Song Hui almost lost consciousness. She was quickly pushed to the edge of the pool by Lin Hao in a trance, and then pulled up by countless hands.

"How is it?" "Have you put it in?! Is it fixed?!" "Are you all right?!"...

"Detonate immediately! Prepare for rescue!" Lin Hao's snarl sounded indistinct as if a layer of water had separated her ears. "The survey team is going to observe the water level in the well! Is the rescue preparation in place? Hurry up!"

There was a lot of voices, footsteps were chaotic, and countless figures walked back and forth in the bright headlights. Then, from the depths of the pool behind him, there was a sudden sound——

Bang!

The muffled sound was like a hammer falling on the drum, and there was no movement for a few seconds, and then there was a louder and louder hissing sound from the depths of the black pool, roaring like a giant dragon roaring, straight up mountain stream!

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——There is movement.

It took several seconds before Bu Chonghua's ambiguous mind felt it slowly.

The water flow beside him seemed to be moving, one wave after another, the turbulence was getting bigger and bigger.At first he thought that the final breach of the embankment was about to come, but when he desperately grasped Wu Yu's cold hand to welcome it, he suddenly found that the water was rushing back!

The water is moving in the direction it came in just now, and it is quickly retreating!

If there is a drone camera, it should be able to capture this amazing scene: Hundreds of tons of silt and dust burst out of the drainage well at the bottom of the pool, and the well exploded, opening up the goaf mine that had been abandoned for many years; Lianglao Kongshui finally found the breach of the embankment, spurted out desperately, and even swallowed the mouth of the pool.

At the same time, the bottom of the mine tunnel.The water level stopped suddenly just before it was about to be completely submerged, and then frantically surged back from countless gas alleys in all directions, sending out a majestic roar, and the deadly water level dropped sharply!

"...Wu Yu," Bu Chonghua 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 scream in the empty alleyway, but Wu Yu remained motionless.Bu Chonghua could no longer feel any strength coming from his hand, so he could only clasp Wu Yu's five fingers tightly, protecting him with his body in vain.

Gravels, pieces of wood and gravel hit him on the head and body with the receding torrent, but Bu Chonghua's consciousness and pain became more and more trance.

We're going to be rescued, he thought.

I beg you to persevere, as long as you persevere, we can return to the ground hand in hand.

"Team!" "Officer Wu!" "Bu Chonghua!"...

Liao Gang's roar and sharp whistle could be faintly heard in the distance, the lights of miner's lamps flickered alternately, and countless footsteps stepped on the knee-deep water.

"Officer Wu!" "Where are you!"...

Bu Chonghua closed his eyes, and with the last bit of consciousness left, he could feel that he was still clasping Wu Yu's hand stiffly, and then it seemed as if he had fallen into the boundless darkness, and the soft light gradually covered his face.

He seemed to have become very small, and turned back to the nine-year-old child who was awakened suddenly in the middle of the night. When he opened his eyes, he saw the stars in the sky. The young parents stood by the bed and looked at him with smiles, their eyes full of nostalgia and love.

There was also a thin young man covering his mouth with one hand, and put his index finger on his lips with the other hand: "Shh, don't make a sound."

There are car lights and footsteps of drug dealers outside the house, who are about to break into the house.

—Is it that dream?he thought vaguely.

Do you want to repeat the bloody dream that the whole family wiped out in the middle of the night?

But what he didn't expect was that this time was different. He was not pushed into the closet hastily by the teenager, nor was his parents blocked by the drug dealer's gun in the outhouse; Quickly jumped out of the house from the window sill, and waved under the starry sky: "Quick, come with me!"

His father pulled his mother, and his mother pulled him, her expression full of gentle and familiar encouragement: "I've been waiting for you for a long time, come with us!"

...Where are you taking me?

Bu Chonghua closed his eyes and heard the wind whistling in his ears, and the roar of artillery and machine guns came from the distant border.He was held by his parents all the time, through the flames of war and billowing gunpowder smoke, and when he opened his eyes again, he found that the scene had suddenly changed, and he was standing in a half-collapsed, dust-filled tunnel.

The sound of gunfire outside vibrated faintly, shaking the surrounding walls and ground.In the corner of the tunnel in the distance, there are two figures leaning on each other. One is soaked in blood and is on the verge of death. The other is a young man kneeling on the ground, only showing a familiar back, exuding the pain of a trapped animal that seems to tear his internal organs apart. crying.

Bu Chonghua had never experienced this scene in his life, but he suddenly understood what it was——

It is the Hongshan torture chamber.

The origin of all intertwined truths and twisted fates ten years ago.