The generator equipment for building the hydropower station was airdropped, but it was impossible for Xia Lei to build the hydropower station for the White Huns tribe himself. In that case, he didn't know how long he would have to stay here before returning home. Regardless of whether he could waste so much time, he couldn't bear the risk of being discovered by the American CIA.
However, with the equipment and the two million US dollars given by Xia Lei, it was easy for the White Huns tribe to build a small hydropower station. In Afghanistan, money can buy even life, let alone relevant technical personnel.
What's more, building a hydropower station only requires digging a side canal, building a dam on the side canal, installing a generator set, and then connecting the side canal to the main canal to divert water. In fact, it is not a complicated matter.
Xia Lei told Xilami about the plan to build a hydropower station beside the pillow. Xilami didn't even bother to think about it and nodded and agreed. There are no words to express, that’s because her little mouth really doesn’t have time to speak...
Early the next morning, Xi Lami led a large group of tribal female warriors to test the guns, while Xia Lei went to the ruins of White Horse Tomorrow City alone. This time he took a horse and brought all the tools he needed.
With the tool of 101 rounds of airdrops, Xia Lei's digging speed has obviously become faster. He dug sideways, leaving part of the soil in the pit and laying it diagonally to create a slope. Excess soil is transported from the slope to the ground and stacked.
On this day, he dug five meters horizontally, and there was a tunnel-like existence in the original large pit, which could accommodate a cat walking in with his waist down. The tunnel he dug was also very particular. It was wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, forming a triangular shape. By digging in this way, the walls on both sides of the tunnel can play a role in supporting the top and prevent collapse.
In the tunnel, Xia Lei put down his shovel, and then used the Luoyang shovel to poke into the earth wall with the flashlight on his helmet. The Luoyang shovel is definitely not as good as an ordinary shovel for digging earth, but it is a very good tool for exploring the soil layer. Otherwise, the Luoyang shovel would not have become an indispensable tool for tomb robbers.
Pulling out the nearly round-shaped Luoyang shovel, Xia Lei's eyes fell on the soil brought out by the Luoyang shovel, and his heart suddenly became excited.
The tail of the soil brought out by the Luoyang shovel is black, but a section of the head is grayish white, and the density is smaller than the black soil at the tail. The gray-white soil is artificial fill, not natural soil, which means that he has dug close to the target!
Xia Lei suppressed the excitement in his heart, put down the Luoyang shovel, looked directly at the earth wall in front of him, his left eye twitched slightly, awakening the ability of perspective.
During these three days of excavation, Xia Lei has actually been using his clairvoyance ability to find underground targets. However, to see through underground targets, his vision needs to penetrate layers of soil and rocks in the soil, which consumes a lot of energy, and clairvoyance The depth can only reach two meters, which is far from enough. Therefore, the method he adopted was to dig through it every time he dug to a certain depth, and then continue digging after no results were obtained.
The results of this fluoroscopy came out quickly. Just in front, about two meters away, there was a stone slab lying across the soil. Xia Lei moved his perspective sideways, and then he saw several other stone slabs. They are placed vertically, one next to another, looking like artificial stone walls of a passage.
"What's in the passage? Where does it lead to?" Xia Lei was curious. Then he tried to see through the stone slab, but this time he failed. The stone slab was exactly two meters away. His vision penetrated the two meters of soil and saw the stone slab, but he could no longer penetrate the stone slab and see the scene behind it.
Xia Lei then finished the fluoroscopy, then picked up the shovel and prepared to dig inside.
"Xia! Where are you?" Sirami's voice came from outside the pit.
"I'm inside." Xia Lei responded, then climbed out. When I came out, I found that the sky was already very dark.
"Did you find anything?"
Xia Lei shook his head, "I didn't dig anything."
"Let's dig again tomorrow. It's getting dark soon. Let's go home for dinner." Sirami said with a smile: "I killed a sheep and stewed it in a pot. You can eat it when you get back."
"Why slaughter a sheep? It's such a luxury."
"You have worked so hard these past few days, so I need to replenish your body. You know, I don't want you to be exhausted." Silami said with a smirk on his face.
Xia Lei knew what she was implying. Such a hint also made his legs feel a little numb and his waist and eyes also felt a little sore. There is an old saying that women are fields and men are cows. There are always only cows that are exhausted and there are no fields that are damaged by plowing. This old saying is a perfect metaphor for his current situation. Facing the fertile treasure field of Xilami, he already feels a little powerless as a cow.
Xia Lei threw the shovel into the tunnel, didn't bother to pick up other tools, and climbed up the earth slope he built.
"Is it okay to put things here?" Xia Lei said.
"No problem, no one will come to this place." Sirami held Xia Lei's arm, "This place is our holy place. If anyone else except you dares to come in, they will be dead."
"Okay, then I'll leave all the tools here. I'm too lazy to pick them up again tomorrow, please." Xia Lei and Xi Lami chatted as they walked away.
Just after Xia Lei and Xilami left the ruins, a figure quietly walked out of a forest. She wore a black hood on her head and a black tights on her body. Her body curves are curved forward and backward, and she is tall and has long legs, which is very sexy. Her face is not visible, but judging from her height and figure, she is not an Afghan woman, but a Western or Eastern European woman.
The woman approached the pit cautiously, looked back at the direction Xia Lei and Xi Lami had left, and then slipped into the pit dug by Xia Lei to rummage around. After rummaging for a while, she sighed in disappointment and said to a micro communicator: "No, the compass is not here, he took it away."
A man's voice came from the communicator, "Just take it away and come back. Don't stay too long. Pay attention to clearing your traces. He has matured and he will find out."
The woman smiled bitterly, "I told you before, he would not put the compass there, and he is not a careless child."
"By the way, how far did he dig?" a man's voice.
The woman said: "The vertical pit is three meters deep, and the horizontal tunnel is..." The woman came to the tunnel entrance and shined a flashlight on it, and then said: "The tunnel is five meters deep, but there is nothing. I don't know what else." Dig as deep as you can. I think he's in trouble himself."
"Okay, I understand, come back." The man cut off the communication.
The woman did not leave immediately. She took out a pocket camera and took a few photos of the tunnel dug by Xia Lei. Then she returned to the ground and took a few more photos of the pit and the surrounding environment. After taking photos, she carefully cleaned up all the traces she left before disappearing into the night.
In the tribe, Xia Lei also took a camera provided by Bureau 101 to take pictures of ancient books.
"Why take pictures of it? It's a broken book." Silami said carelessly: "You can just give it to you if you like."
"Really?" Xia Lei was very excited. Although he already knew the contents of this ancient book, he wanted to take the contents back to Jingjing for a look. Jingjing was an expert in this field and might be able to tease out some important clues that he didn't know, so he Photographing ancient books. Of course he was happy that Sirami wanted to give him the ancient book. It would definitely be much better to study real objects than photos.
"What's so true about this? Even I in this room belong to you, why can't I bear to part with a book that no one reads?" Sirami's tone was a complete waste of money.
Xia Lei smiled and said, "Then I'll accept it. I'll send it back to you after I've finished studying it."
"Whatever you want, take pictures for me."
"Taking pictures of you?"
"That's right, I haven't taken any photos in my life." Xi Lami winked at Xia Lei, "Take some bad photos for me. You have to take them too, and I'll keep them for you to look at."
Xia Lei, "..."
The handmade pajamas on Sirami's body slipped silently to the floor inlaid with wooden boards. She has a childlike face, dressed in snow-white, and is a natural beauty.
Click, click, click, in the exotic wooden house, the camera lights kept flashing, and Sirami's posture kept changing...
Early the next morning, Xia Lei rode to the ruins of White Horse Tomorrow City again. When he came to the pit, he jumped off the horse, then subconsciously rubbed his sore waist and eyes, with a wry smile on his face, "I hope it can be done today. If I stay here any longer, I will probably be tired." Damn it, she’s just a juicer.”
Xia Lei tied the horse to a stone and got into the pit. Just as he was about to get into the tunnel, his eyes suddenly stopped on a piece of ground next to the tunnel.
There was a faint mark on the ground, which looked like the footprints of some animal.
Xia Lei's heart was full of vigilance. His left eye twitched slightly, and the traces left on the ground were immediately magnified by him and became extremely clear.
In the microscopic mode, his left eye not only took in all the traces, but even the gaps between the sand grains clearly entered his field of vision.
He quickly ended the microscopic pattern in his left eye, and his mood became heavy, "These are probably a person's footprints, and they were deliberately erased, but not completely." Sirami yesterday He didn’t go down into the pit, so who had been there? Could it be someone else from the tribe? If it was someone from the tribe, then there would definitely be footprints left on the slope, so why not?”
Unable to make a final judgment after much deliberation, Xia Lei put it aside for the time being. He got into the tunnel and dug into the earth with his shovel.
Although he no longer thought about the footprints, the incomplete and blurry footprints also aroused his vigilance. Every time he moved soil to the pit, he would use his far-sighted ability to detect the surrounding area in all directions. However, he found nothing.
Two hours later, the last two meters of the tunnel were dug through, and a stone slab appeared at the end of the tunnel.
What's behind the slate
Xia Lei came closer to the stone slab, and his left eye penetrated through it quietly...
ps: Thanks to book friend 16072675 for the tip, thank you!