A young woman in her twenties with a big belly had anxious eyes and was struggling to move through the crowd. When she saw the miners coming out, she asked. "Have you seen Lin Libing?" "Do you know Lin Libing?"
There were several women of about the same age as her who were also anxiously searching. "Have you seen my brother? His name is Lin Tao..." "Brother, has our family come up?"
A white-haired old woman was holding a cane. She would pull someone along and ask, "Brother, have you seen my third son?"
Although they were heartbroken, they still consciously did not rush in when the police officers stood in front of the cordon. Lin Yufen, deputy magistrate of Huling County, stood at the entrance of the mine. Looking at the scene in front of her, the corners of her eyes were moist, and a crystal tear slipped down her cheek.
What good folks, what 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 pray to God secretly in her heart. If there really is such a powerful master in the dark, he can send the more than 100 lives underground safely home. At this moment, she would kneel down and break her scalp regardless of everything.
However, I don’t know whether it was the ruthlessness of God or the tears of God, but at this time, drizzle actually started to fall in the sky.
Although the common people do not know how to rescue their relatives, they understand that if God makes it rain heavily, it will not do any good to the people underground.
"God, please, please don't let it rain!" With a heartbreaking cry, a man knelt down, and a group of people behind him also knelt down.
Not long after, a dark 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 uneasily and whispered: "County Magistrate Lin, this... so many people are kneeling here, I'm afraid it's inappropriate..."
"I know, I know that even if they kneel down, it won't make any difference. To save people, we have to rely on the party, the government, and our comrades inside. It can be seen that they will not leave without the presence of their loved ones. Yes, even after returning home, the torment in my heart is even worse than kneeling here... "
"County Magistrate Lin, then... what should we do?" Huang Decheng asked, somewhat at a loss. In fact, he knew in his heart that using the police to chase people away at this time would cause public outrage.
But if we can't persuade the people to stand up and have so many people kneeling in front of a row of police officers, what's going on? If someone misunderstood me, I wouldn’t be able to explain clearly even if I was full of words!
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 take off the guard at this time, which is really embarrassing.
Car lights flashed in the distance, and another rescue team came from nowhere.
After thinking about it, Lin Yufen wiped the tears on her cheeks and walked out: "Folks, most of you know me. I am the executive deputy county magistrate of our county, and I am the daughter of our Linjia Village. Mineshaft Below, there are your relatives and mine, but it won’t do much good for us to kneel here in the rain. If it helps, I will kneel with you guys.”
As she spoke, she pointed at the vehicles that had driven outside the crowd at the mine gate: "Folks, it's up to the government to save people, and the rescue teams behind us who are blocking the way. Everyone, get up, ah, Let them go there as soon as possible. If they go in a second earlier, they may have rescued our relatives from the bottom of the well a second earlier... "
The rain is still pouring down, and the rescue work is still running at high speed. The roaring sound of water pumps in the distance came from time to time, making the people waiting outside the door still full of hope.
If you drain the water one minute earlier, you can go down to the well and save people one minute earlier! While ensuring that air is pumped downhole 24 hours a day and harmful underground gases are monitored at all times, the top priority now is drainage, drainage, and drainage again!
In the initial period of the accident, the two original small water pumps in the mine were used to pump water, but this was of no use at all. Because the pumping volume was small, the water level in the wind tunnel remained at the level marked by Zhong Daxiang, without decreasing by one centimeter.
In the simple room of less than 30 square meters in the accident rescue headquarters, various drawings of the Lincun mine tunnels are posted everywhere, and the commanders are giving various instructions in a hurry.
Less than 9 hours after the accident, the water pumps and water pipes transferred from the province by the headquarters were 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 water pumps weighing more than ten tons and pump pipes weighing thousands of kilograms in an almost running posture, running back and forth on a 25-degree slope.
People are running like clockwork, but they still want to go faster. The faster the miners underground will have more hope of life.
By noon on the 24th, the light rain floating in the sky finally stopped, and the drainage equipment responsible for 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 gushed out of the well along the long pipe, people's eyes suddenly lit up.
Underneath the well, the water under the feet of the rescue team is receding!
In the darkness, Lin Libing and the others could already hear the buzzing sound of the water pump outside, and the water level below them began to drop. From the neck, it has dropped to the point where the shoulders can be exposed...
The trapped miners realized: "People outside are saving us. We must persist in surviving!"
More than 40 hours have passed since taking over at midnight on the 23rd. Before the water and rice came in, they were already thirsty and hungry.
In front of us is a vast pool of water, mixed with cinders and floating oil. Normally, such water would be difficult to swallow. But now in order to survive, they drink it, spit it out, spit it out, drink it again...
They were so hungry that they picked up the fragments of cardboard boxes used to hold explosives underground from the water, encouraged each other, chewed them hard, and swallowed them hard.
During the Red Army's Long March, didn't Commander-in-Chief Zhu eat belts? Didn't a hero of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War survive by eating tree bark and cotton? Although this food has little nutrition and may even contain some harmful toxins, as long as you eat it, your life can be extended.
In order to survive, I don’t care about anything now. Eat, even if you can’t eat anymore!
They are drowsy. The sweater, woolen pants, and cotton-padded jacket on my body were all cold and clinging to my body. The cold water was biting. Once I fell asleep, I was afraid I would never wake up again. Everyone takes turns on duty and calls each other out every once in a while.
In order to save power, more than a dozen people turned off all the miner's lamps above their heads, and only took turns to turn on one when something happened.
The watch on his wrist has long since stopped, and no one knows what time it is now. When the water surface receded to the waist, it seemed to have frozen and would not recede anymore.
"What's going on? Have the people above stopped rescuing? We are still alive, and I am still waiting for you below to rescue us. 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 support themselves.
"Turn on the light...turn on the light, something touched me..." Lin Libing grabbed the thing that hit him with both hands, opened his mouth and screamed with difficulty. The voice was hoarse and hoarse, but it sounded like thunder in the dim mine tunnel.
With a swish sound, almost at the same time, six or seven beams of light shone on Lin Libing.
After seeing clearly what Lin Libing was holding in his hand, many people couldn't help but sigh in disappointment. The mine cart, it was a mine cart, drifted over from nowhere along the current. In addition to the car caught by Lin Libing, there were several other cars in the dark behind.
"Hurry and catch it, why are you still standing there?" This was the most exciting thing for Lin Libing since he was trapped: "Since the mine cart is floating out along the water, it proves that the water is still receding. , it’s just that there is too much water, and when it reaches the waist, it is difficult to go down any further. We can’t feel the water level dropping, so we think that people outside have given up on rescue, but in fact they have not given up... "
"Yes, that must be the case."
"Jump on it, and you might be able to float to the top of the well."
17 workers jumped on four mine cars respectively and boarded "Noah's Ark", finally getting rid of the pain of flooding. However, their joy did not last long. After floating down for a while, the water surface came closer and closer to the top of the tunnel. Slowly, the mine car got stuck there and could no longer float forward.
"Don't be discouraged. We're not far from Feng Alley. I remember that this anchor rod is less than thirty meters away from the alley entrance. This shows that the water is still flowing downward. As long as we hold on, 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 tighter. Saving calories means saving energy..."
On every minecart, everyone seemed to have no distance, and they hugged each other tightly.
Lin Libing didn't know that in another large lane, the auxiliary transportation lane, separated by a wall from them, his fellow workers were also actively looking for ways to escape.
When the flood hit, 30-year-old Jihai Linshan worker Wang Zengtian and several co-workers climbed to a higher surface of several dozen square meters. Afterwards, more and more people gathered here, and after final counting, the number actually reached eighty-four.
In the adjacent Belt Lane, more than a dozen workers blasted open the 4-meter-thick seal between the two lanes. Everyone ran up to dig out pulverized coal and dig out lumps of coal, and a small hole was revealed in the alley wall that was only big enough for one person to drill. Dozens of people crawled over one after another. After reuniting, there were 115 of them in total.
Seeing so many people, everyone is no longer afraid: even if we can't get out, we will die together!