Song Ping strode on the rugged mountain road, and the flashlight beam swayed with the pace, constantly showing that the gravel the size of his fist loosened and fell into the abyss, without even a sound. No one in most of the task force could keep up with his vigorous footsteps. Secretary Weng was supported by the guards and panted and chased behind him: "Old, Lao Song, are you sure this method will work?"
"It's okay, not to mention that it is impossible to determine the exact location of the trapped people now, just say where to adjust the pump in this dark and blizzard? It will take several hours for the most powerful drilling rig to drill down. It's soaked." Song Ping said with a cold face: "It's very practiced in extraordinary times, just let it be! -Lin Fang!"
In the middle of the night ahead, countless flashlight beams swayed and intertwined, and I saw a figure turned back after hearing the sound, it was Lin Fang, who was covered in snow: "Secretary Weng, Bureau Song!"
"How's the situation?"
"Preliminary drawings and measurements should be feasible. It's hard to say the specific situation. We have already found a special police officer who can swim in winter to go into the water to investigate the actual situation." A bottomless, deep and dark mine, like a valley crack, runs through the feet of everyone, forming a steep cliff, and there is a faint sound of water at the bottom.
"From the information on paper, the mine numbered N26 was once connected to the abandoned mine that was flooded with old empty water, but then due to ground subsidence, silt accumulation, water tank blockage, etc., there should be a difference between the two. The current is temporarily cut off. Rainwater and groundwater have accumulated at the bottom of the mine, and a natural water pool has now formed—we found an extremely lucky key during the emergency investigation just now." Lin Fang gestured to Secretary Weng to look at the drawing on the faint fluorescence of the tablet computer: "The water pool The water level is lower than the water gushing under the abandoned mine.”
When people walk up, the water flows down, and Secretary Weng responded quickly: "So if this pool can be reconnected with the mine, the old empty water will be poured into the pool at a lower altitude, thereby lowering the level of the bottom of the well?"
Lin Gang said, "I guessed like this."
"..." Secretary Weng's blood pressure didn't jump to 180 immediately, it was because he was well disciplined: "Guess?!"
"Yes. Because although the water poured into the mine is old kiln water, it is not too old and should not be scattered, but there is no trace of the edge and shape of the water. When the surveyors come up, if the operation proves feasible, I will immediately go down in person and place bombs between the waterhole and the mine for fixed-point blasting."
"You go down in person?" Secretary Weng asked in surprise.
"Well, I'm the only one with a diving certificate here." Lin Fang put away the tablet, his knuckles were red from freezing, but his voice was steady and fast: "No matter what, I have to try, now I can only use a dead horse as a living horse doctor. , although my heart is actually ready to write a memorial service speech for the martyrs."
"..."
Secretary Weng stared at Lin Fang's calm face for a long time, and the corner of his mouth twitched for a while: "I thought you were a techie in Yundian, but I didn't expect that the young man's hobbies are quite fashionable..."
"It's not a hobby for you to win the prize." Lin Fang smiled bitterly: "In these years, the forms of crime have been renovated, and we don't have any skills in this industry. How can we stand by? To be honest, I still have the second-level license for tractor driver and electric welder."
"Lin Ke! Lin Ke!" At this moment, someone stumbled in front of him: "The surveyor has come up, 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. Several elderly experts from the Ministry of Public Security immediately touch the medicine in their arms as if they were electrocuted, spray nitroglycerin, spray nitroglycerin, and swallow Suxiao Jiuxin Pills swallow Suxiao Jiuxin Pills. Secretary Weng almost didn't soften, he stumbled to hold Song Ping's hand, only to hear Song Ping's voice almost broken: "Why not? Why not? The pool is already open? Still can't make a fixed point. blasting?!"
The policeman held onto his knee and couldn't stop panting: "No, not at all, it can be blasted."
"What's that for?!"
As soon as the policeman raised his head, the hearts of everyone around thumped, only to see his face pale: "In terms of investigation, the place where the water pool and the mine are connected 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 Fang's expression turned blue.
30 centimeters, just a piece of A4 paper, that is not the width for an adult man to hold his breath and force himself into it, not to mention the need to bring scuba, breathing tube, blasting detonator and other equipment!
There was a faint sound of water in the depths of the bottomless mine, and the wind whistled through the mountains and forests, tearing everyone's face sharply. A large number of police cars were parked not far away, and people came and went shouting loudly, but this square inch of land beside the mine was contrasted with exceptional silence.
"...What should I do, Lao Song," Secretary Weng's unsteady voice finally sounded in the cold wind for a long time, "the helicopter of the forest police hasn't flown away yet, why don't we go down the mountain to urgently recruit water ghosts?"
Song Ping said with a sullen face: "Do you think it's still too late?"
"Then... Then find a child? Do you have any children who haven't graduated from the police academy, be thinner and smaller... "
Song Ping's face was even more ugly: "Where can I find it? After graduation from the police academy, everyone is trained like a wolf like a tiger. If the diameter of thirty centimeters walks halfway, they will get stuck there, unless—"
His tone stopped abruptly.
"Old Song?"
"..." Under the watchful eyes of the public, Song Ping's face was suddenly blue and white, his lips were trembling slightly, and he suddenly said hoarsely: "But... there may be one."
Secretary Weng was both surprised and delighted: "Where?"
Song Ping stared straight at the dark mine in front of him, but did not respond for a long time. His strange and stiff expression forced the people around him to dare not make a sound. After a long while, Secretary Weng finally suppressed his anxiety: "Old Song, what the hell are you..."
Gudong!
On Song Ping's aging neck, the throat bone suddenly slid up and down, as if he swallowed a sore lump with saliva, and then turned around and strode toward the row of police cars in the distance.
Everyone hurriedly followed, not knowing why, only to see Song Ping waving back the secretary and his subordinates who were approaching him, walked to a technical investigation car and slammed the door open, and a figure of Wenxiu in the back raised his head, with his shoulders on his shoulders. He was wearing a military coat, his cheeks, sideburns and thin fingers crossed were still stained with blood, and his eyes were wet and red.
It's Song Hui.
The bright lights of the car brightened the open space, the father and daughter looked at each other from the air, and everyone who came in a hurry was stunned.
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boom—
Countless rubble covered the sky with the torrent, and the battle was almost like throwing a person into a giant washing machine. Bu Chonghua's face, hands, and body splattered with countless blood. As the world was spinning, he only had one thought, which was to hold on to Wu Yu, and he was washed away in the blink of an eye.
Juli slapped him on the top of the wall, Bu Chonghua's eyes darkened, and a mouthful of blood mixed with water spurted out of his nose and mouth!
"Cough, cough, cough!" Bu Chonghua pressed his back against the wall, choking almost to the point where blood came out: "Cough cough cough—Wu, Wu Yu—you cough cough cough..."
Even at this time, the two of them still held each other tightly, and the veins on their bloody hands burst out. Wu Yu's whole body trembled uncontrollably, his index finger and little fingernail were turned upside down, floating on the water and hugging Bu Chonghua tightly.
"It's alright, don't worry." Wu Yu buried his face in his sturdy neck and muttered exhaustedly, "It will be all right soon."
There was an indescribable sadness in his words, Bu Chonghua panted and looked up, his pupils tightened immediately, and he understood what it meant—
Above them was the stone roof of the roadway.
If the water level does not recede, the Gas Alley will soon be completely submerged, and they will have no way to escape completely, completely!
The darkness can't see the surrounding environment, and can only feel that this is a triangular fork, with black walls on both sides. Bu Chonghua let out a breath, grabbed the thick cable at the top of the road with his left hand, and hung the unconscious drug lord between the cables and cables to ensure that he would not drown under water. He hugged Wu Yulan tightly with his right hand. Beside him, he laughed hoarsely.
"If I had known this, I would have been handcuffed to 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, his voice soft and vague: "You..."
"What am I?"
Wu Yu did not answer.
"What about you, don't you say I kiss you?"
Wu Yu asked: "What if I said, you don't kiss me?"
Bu Chonghua laughed, soaked in the icy cold water, bowed his head and kissed his lips.
The corners of their mouths were already cracked, but the kiss was gentle and devout.
"... 'You're an academic who has never been in the land, an enviable and annoying elite, a moral model with a straight face'... That's what I thought when I first saw you." Wu Yu seemed to be With a soft, long sigh, though barely audible: "If only you weren't so good."
—If you weren't so good, you wouldn't risk your life wading over, and you wouldn't be trapped here facing this desperate situation.
That way, when I go to another world, I can at least feel at ease.
"Do you know what I thought when I first saw you?" Bu Chonghua asked.
"how?"
"This kid's face is really irritating, his reaction is slow and slow, and he can't even speak clearly. The only advantage of the whole body is probably this face."
Wu Yu burst out laughing.
"It's just that his face is very good-looking, so I can't walk if I see it. Not only do I go to buy a ring, but I also want to add his name to my house property certificate." Bu Chonghua looked at him softly. , said: "I'm really superficial. At this time, I'm still so willing."
Wu Yu laughed until he coughed, and said intermittently, "Really? If I take a step ahead later, don't hug me and cry... After a person dies, his face doesn't look good. What if it swells up? ?"
As long as he smiled, the thoracic diaphragm spasmed rapidly, and blood foam continued to overflow from the throat to the corners of his mouth. Bu Chonghua hugged him tightly with his right hand and made him close to his side, that was almost the strength to integrate each other's bones and blood, and even life and death were inseparable.
"I'm joking, we're not going to die, there must be a way to save us outside." His lips pressed against Wu Yu's pale cheeks, and he repeated hoarsely: "They will find a way, we will be saved, we are all Won't die... Hold on, we won't die."
At this moment, a hollow concussion sound came from the depths of the tunnel again, boom!
Another piece of the roof collapsed under the water pressure, and new torrents rushed to the lanes in all directions. Bu Chonghua gritted his teeth and hugged Wu Yu, and the two of them were photographed on the top of the stone by the rising water level at the same time!
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Whoa - whoa -
The sound of water is shimmering and bottomless, and it emits an unpleasant smell after the fusion of various waste mine heavy metal elements. Song Hui's chest rose and fell rapidly, standing on a rock in an ill-fitting diving suit, with diving goggles on her head, and a single gas bottle hanging by her side, Song Ping's steady and calm voice came from the walkie-talkie: "After a while, Follow Officer Lin's instructions, walk 12.8 meters after entering the inclined shaft, fix the detonator, confirm the equipment, and pull the traction rope. Officer Lin will pull you out of the inclined shaft and bring you to the surface. All steps are clearly memorized. ?"
Song Hui's voice was very weak: "I remember it clearly."
"This is an opportunity for meritorious service that everyone wants. If you weren't thin, such a good thing would never be your turn, understand?"
"clear."
Song Ping nodded, although he couldn't see it on the other end of the channel, he said lightly: "Go on." Then he cut off the communication.
Song Hui handed over the walkie-talkie to the SWAT police who came down to assist, took a deep breath, gritted her teeth to death, and put on diving goggles. Lin Fang helped her check the side-mounted scuba device for the last time, and asked kindly, "I heard from Bureau Song that you swim every winter?"
Song Hui's face was pale and blue, probably because of nervousness: "Well. Because the team likes winter swimming, and I want to stick to him."
This person, Lin Fang, has a clear mind about all the trivial matters in the bureau. Hearing this, he only said gently: "Then he will definitely look at you with admiration after the team is rescued."
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 Fang felt as if 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 there anymore."
Lin Fang was stunned.
"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 and took a step back, turned around, bit her breathing tube, and jumped with her eyes closed!
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Gollum —
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, then he was submerged by the rising water, and he involuntarily let go and fell down.
Suddenly, there was a force from his side. It was Wu Yu who was holding his hand tightly. When the next wave of water came in, he was on the verge of death and raised Bu Chonghua back to the surface!
"Cough, cough, cough, cough—" Bu Chonghua grabbed the cable above his head and kept choking out the water, coughing until his eyes darkened. In the dimness, he could only feel Wu Yu's backhand hugging his neck tightly.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." Bu Chonghua hugged Wu Yu's back in the violent dizziness and dizziness, "I haven't left yet, I'm still here, don't be afraid..."
The water was rising, and he had never been so clearly and inescapably aware of it.
The water level was approaching the top of the tunnel stone one inch after another, centimeter after centimeter. The space for them to enter was already very small, and the oxygen was quickly exhausted, and even the nose was almost stuck on the rock.
"...Look at me..." Wu Yu gasped, his eyes scattered, "Bu Chonghua, look at me..."
He was really at the last moment, his right hand trembled violently and pulled off a thin chain from his neck. The matching wedding ring was hanging on the chain, and then he put it on the ring finger of his left hand, because he couldn't focus his vision. He didn't go in several times, but Bu Zhonghuatong helped him forcefully insert his ring finger with red eyes.
“…I swear to love and rejuvenate forever, whether sick or healthy, rich or poor, adversity or prosperity, happiness or sorrow...”
Every word was like a sharp blade stabbed 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, be loyal to him..."
Wu Yu's ring-wearing hand intersected with Bu Chonghua tightly, grasping the bulge of the other's phalanx, even to the point of pain.
"Accept him as my life partner, support each other, have each other..." Wu Yu tried his best to see the amber eyes in front of him, and said with difficulty, "Forever."
He really couldn't see clearly, otherwise he would see the surging tears from Bu Chonghua's eyes, drop by drop into the water below them, but the voice was still so gentle and stable, and he couldn't hear the slightest choking:
"You are also my life partner, forever."
The water buried their necks and throats one by one. Wu Yu smiled in a trance, although he only slightly touched the corners of his scarred lips, and then pressed his forehead against Bu Chonghua's forehead and asked in a low voice:
"are you ready?"
"-are you ready?!"
It was pitch black under the pool, and only the miner's lamp faintly showed Lin Fang's vigorous gesture. Song Hui was dizzy and couldn't see clearly. She nodded desperately in a conditioned reflex, and was kicked heavily into the inclined well by Lin Fang. Get off!
After blisters, Song Hui almost choked on the water. Lin Fang shoved her into the wellhead while dancing, and quickly crawled on the bricks to the inclined well. Due to the narrow space, the gas cylinder that had to be hung on the side tinkled against the wall of the well. But she couldn't hear anything.
The suffocating darkness accompanied by the stench engulfed her, and the terrifying underwater claustrophobic space was like a coffin. In the overwhelming terror of being buried alive, only the leash around her waist was tightly restrained, giving her a clear and real pain.
12.8 meters.
Such a long, difficult, and life-and-death well-way is actually only ten steps away.
As long as she walks this ten steps forward, she will be able to put on that dress and have a clear conscience, and she will be able to rescue her dying brothers and comrades in desperation!
-thump!
Half of Song Hui's body hit the wall of the well, and the gas cylinder got stuck between the bricks, realizing that she had come to the narrowest section. She inhaled hard and closed her breath, but she couldn't squeeze in from the front at all. She turned to squeeze from various angles, but still couldn't squeeze in. She resisted the desire to cry and touched her body up and down. She touched Lin Fang's diving knife and pulled it out. Come out and dig into the bricks on the wall of the well, and use the force of milk to pry!
Keng!
The water flowed in all directions with the movement, the cracked bricks showed gaps, and Song Hui's tears welled up in the diving glasses.
Keng!
The water seemed to shake, and in the mine, Bu Chonghua also pressed Wu Yu's forehead hard, and said hoarsely, "I'm ready."
Keng! !
Half of the broken brick was thrown along the water, and the reaction force pushed Song Hui into the well!
The blood vessels in the eyeballs shot straight, and Song Hui's legs were so soft that she couldn't stand up like noodles. She took out the detonator from the equipment, fixed it under the mud, and took a step back.
Then she raised her hand tremblingly, just like the order that the older female detective gave to the little girl intern on the rainy beach, just like what the senior did to the junior for the last time before going to danger, like the order in the void One of himself said goodbye completely and made two familiar gestures—
Keep quiet, stay put—
Then she gritted her teeth and turned her head, squeezed out of the shaft, and pulled the traction rope forcefully. The next second, Lin Fang, who was waiting outside, pulled her out of the inclined well!
With a splash of water, Song Hui almost lost consciousness. In a trance, Lin Fang quickly pushed him to the edge of the pool, and was then pulled up by countless hands.
"How is it?" "Did you put it in?! Is it fixed?!" "Are people okay?!"…
"Immediately detonate! Prepare for rescue!" Lin Fang's stern roar was indistinct in her ears as if there was a layer of water in her ears. "The survey team is going to observe the water level in the well! Are rescue preparations in place? Hurry up!"
The voices were full of people, the footsteps were messy, and countless figures were walking around in the bright lights. Then, in the depths of the pool behind them, there was a sudden sound—
Bang!
The muffled sound was as if a mallet had landed on the drum. There was no movement for the first few seconds, and then a hissing sound that became louder and louder came from the depths of the black pool. Mountain stream!
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- There is movement.
After a few seconds, Bu Chonghua's vague mind was dulled.
The water flow beside him seemed to be moving, wave after wave, the turbulence was getting bigger and bigger. At first, he thought that the final burst of the dyke was coming, but when he desperately grabbed Wu Yu's cold hand to meet him, he suddenly found that the water was surging back!
The water is moving back quickly in the direction from which it came just now!
If there is a drone camera, it should be able to capture this amazing scene: the drainage well at the bottom of the water pool exploded with hundreds of tons of silt and dust, and the shaft burst with a bang, opening up the goaf that has been abandoned for many years; Liang Lao Kongshui finally found the mouth of the dyke, and poured out desperately, even engulfing the mouth of the pool.
At the same time, the bottom of the mine roadway. The water level suddenly stopped at the moment before it was about to be completely submerged, and then madly surged back from countless gas alleys in all directions, making a majestic whistling, and the fatal water level dropped sharply!
"...Wu Yu," Bu Chonghua murmured in disbelief, and then let out an inaudible roar amid the loud noise: "Wake up! Wu Yu!"
The air returned rapidly, whistling like a whistle in the empty alley, but Wu Yu remained motionless. Bu Chonghua could no longer feel any strength in his hands, so he could only clasp Wu Yu's five fingers tightly and use his body to protect him in vain.
With the receding torrent, the gravel, wood and gravel pounded on his head and body, but Bu Chonghua's consciousness and pain sensation became more and more dazed.
We're going to be rescued, he thought.
I beg you to hold on a little longer, just hold on a little longer and we can get back to the ground hand in hand.
"Step team!" "Officer Wu!" "Bu Chonghua!"…
Liao Gang's roar and sharp whistle could be heard vaguely in the distance, the lights of the miner's lamp flickered alternately, and countless footsteps stepped on the knee-deep water.
"Officer Wu!" "Where are you!"…
Bu Chonghua closed his eyes, the last bit of consciousness he had left could feel that he was still clasping Wu Yu's hand stiffly, and then he seemed to fall into the boundless darkness, and the soft light gradually covered him.
He seemed to have grown very young, and turned back to the nine-year-old child who was then suddenly woken up in the middle of the night. When he opened his eyes, he saw the sky full of stars. The young parents smiled and watched him by the side of the bed, their eyes filled with nostalgia. and love.
Another thin teenager covered his mouth with one hand and put his index finger on his lips with the other: "Shh, don't make a sound."
The lights and footsteps of the drug dealers came from outside the house, and they were about to break into the house.
- Is that the dream? he thought vaguely.
Are you going to repeat the bloody late-night dream of the family extermination
But what he didn't expect was that this time was different. He was not pushed into the closet in a hurry by the teenager, and his parents were not blocked in the outhouse by the guns of drug dealers; Quickly jumped out of the house from the windowsill and waved under the stars: "Quick, come with me!"
His father pulled his mother, and his mother pulled him, his 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 sound of cannons and machine guns came from the distant border. His hands have been held by his parents, walking through the swirling flames of war and billowing gunpowder. When he opened his eyes again, he found that the scene had suddenly changed, and he was standing in a half-collapsed, dusty tunnel.
The sound of gunfire outside shook faintly, shaking the surrounding walls and ground. In the far corner of the tunnel, there were two figures leaning against each other. One was blood-soaked and was on the verge of death. Another young man was kneeling on the ground, revealing only a familiar back, exuding a beast-like pain that seemed to tear his internal organs apart. cry.
Bu Chonghua had never experienced this scene in his life, but he suddenly understood what this place was—
It is the Hongshan torture chamber.
Ten years ago, the origin of all the intertwined truths and the twisted fate.