Siheyuan: Starting from a Truck Driver

The entrance was originally concealed by canvas, but this had now been torn away and scattered on the ground.

The collapse point is more than ten meters away from the entrance.

The rescue team members were busy setting up equipment. Li Aiguo walked through the crowd and came to the collapse site.

It is a narrow area, like a throat.

The entire passage has been filled with stones of varying sizes, blocking the entrance.

He looked up and down for a moment, his brows furrowed.

Normally, collapse is uncommon in this area because the pressure on the top rock is relatively small.

No wonder the old cat had doubts about this accident.

After frowning and looking around the rocks, he did not get any more clues because his throat was blocked by rocks, so he had to retreat out of the cave.

The exploration and rescue equipment was assembled and the rescue workers carried out the final calibration and debugging. Seeing this scene, Li Aiguo couldn't help laughing. The so-called exploration and rescue equipment is actually just a large drill head fixed horizontally on the power unit, which is not as sophisticated and efficient as the modern shield machine.

"Report, the test is over!"

After receiving the report, Commander Zhang gave the order without hesitation: "Start the operation and rescue the trapped comrades."

"Boom boom boom~~~" The exploration and rescue excavation equipment made a deafening sound, and the drill bit rotated rapidly, approaching the collapsed rock.

When the drill bit touched the rock, a sharp sound was heard in the cave, accompanied by clouds of dust.

Toxic gas, which the workers called "wolf poison smoke," emerged from the caves, and people would fall into a coma after inhaling it for just half a minute.

The rescue team members took out the gas masks they carried with them and put them on.

Li Aiguo was not aware of such protective equipment. Seeing the smoke rolling in, he was about to take shelter temporarily. "Go on." He said, and before he finished speaking, someone threw a gas mask to him.

Yan Zi found a gas mask from somewhere and threw it to Li Aiguo at high speed. The air was already choking, and he quickly put it on his face after taking the mask, and was barely able to breathe normally.

The exploration and rescue tunneling machine was moving at a very fast speed, advancing about three or four meters in just half an hour. But seeing that it still could not break through the collapsed area, Commander-in-Chief Zhang frowned.

After all, this equipment is mainly designed to deal with short-distance collapse situations. Once the collapse length exceeds the preset range, more serious consequences may occur during the excavation process.

"Evacuate! Evacuate immediately!" Before he could stop thinking, he saw Li Aiguo jumping off the rock and running towards the operator of the tunnel boring machine.

The operator was concentrating on driving and was completely unaware of the changes in the surrounding environment. The signalman closest to him noticed Li Aiguo and tried to stop him from unconsciously raising his hand to signal.

Although he didn't understand why, Commander Zhang realized the seriousness of the situation and shouted, "Zhang Lanshan, get out of the way!" However, his shout was instantly drowned out by the rumbling sound of the drill cutting through the rock wall.

Crisis! Really dangerous!

Commander Zhang rushed towards the tunnel boring machine out of instinct, but he stopped after taking two steps because he saw Li Aiguo push away the signalman's arm, rush to the tunnel boring machine, and fiercely kick the operator away.

Leaping into the cabin, he grabbed the joystick, causing the drill to stop turning immediately and the tunneling machine to reverse violently.

The whole action was completed in a flash, as if flowing water. When the rescue team noticed the abnormality, the tunnel boring machine had already retreated five meters away.

"What are you doing?" The team members who were working on the operation took out their pistols and pointed the guns at Li Aiguo, but he did not show any fear. Instead, he stared calmly at the deep pit he had dug.

The team members followed Li Aiguo's gaze and looked over. The cave was filled with dust and they could not see clearly. At this time, the team leader's cold words were interrupted, and only the sound of small stones falling more and more frequently could be heard in the cave.

The team leader's face suddenly changed, and he remained silent. The other team members also sensed something was wrong, their expressions were gloomy, and their eyes were fixed on the cave entrance. The sound of falling rocks became louder and louder.

Finally, with a loud bang, the rocks on the top and walls collapsed one after another, and the exposed ground was buried again. Thick dust gushed out like an angry beast, but they did not retreat.

The scene fell into silence, and everyone seemed to be frozen in time. Commander Zhang was terrified that if Li Aiguo had not acted a little later, the precious exploration and rescue tunneling equipment would have been buried deep under the rock, along with...

...the irreparable losses and unforeseen tragedies.

"What a great young driver! He's quite observant."

The first to break the silence were the swallows.

"Put your hatchet back!"

"If I catch you using that hatchet against our investigation team..."

"I'll send you directly to the southern island to guard the post!"

She strode down the rock wall, grabbed the rescuer's lighting equipment, took it off and threw it on the ground.

Then he walked quickly to Li Aiguo, his eyes wide open, "Driver, tell me, how did you notice that there was a sign of collapse on the top of the cave?"

When Commander-in-Chief Zhang Ye heard this, he also looked at Li Aiguo, his heart full of questions.

In fact, before starting to dig the hole, they set up a reconnaissance team of five members to prevent any unexpected situations.

Each scout has received special training and has superior hearing and vision to ordinary people. They have avoided many dangerous accidents in the team by relying on their intuition many times.

Their main responsibility is to monitor the cave roof and issue an immediate warning if there is any abnormality.

As a result, this time, a small driver took the lead.

After this series of actions, Li Aiguo's forehead was already sweating. He reached out to wipe off the sweat and said with a smile: "Thanks to my parents for giving me such a pair of eyes that can see the smallest details."

Upon hearing this, Yan Zi was speechless, Commander-in-Chief Zhang was also silent, and the team members fell into deep thought.

The sudden collapse of the cave temporarily put the rescue operation at a standstill.

Commander-in-Chief Zhang immediately ordered to stop the excavation and led the team leaders and several experts back to the big tent to discuss the rescue plan again.

Because of Li Aiguo's outstanding performance, Commander-in-Chief Zhang specially asked him to participate in the plan-making process.

The big tent was filled with smoke, and every team leader looked gloomy.

"Commander-in-chief, according to the operating manual of the rescue excavation equipment by Soviet diplomatic experts, this device can only dig five-meter-deep and collapsed caves. Beyond this limit, the rock is easy to loosen and may cause a second collapse." A rescue team leader wearing glasses and looking like an engineer proposed the cause of the disaster after flipping through a thick Russian book.

“This has already been analyzed.”

Another person stood up and said with a serious face: "However, when the original plan was made, we did not foresee that the internal collapse would reach such a deep range of more than five meters."

Another researcher who looked like an old scholar thought:

"This type of geological cave is usually formed in the underground structure of basalt, which is a basic rock with a Mohs hardness of up to 7. We have made a stress map of the cave roof. According to the existing data, even if there is an 8-magnitude earthquake here, the cave will not collapse on a large scale."

Li Aiguo, who was sitting at the entrance of the tent, listened to their conversation quietly. He seemed to see that the rescue team had predicted the second landslide, but they did not expect it to be so large. This naturally formed geological cave is closely related to crustal activity.

The existence of caves can be traced back millions of years and has undergone many changes.

How could it collapse so easily?

Li Aiguo silently kept this information in mind and was about to stand up.

Commander Zhang of the headquarters waved his hand and said, "The investigation into the cause of the collapse is not the responsibility of our search and rescue team. The top priority right now is to prevent another collapse and rescue the rock observation team as soon as possible."

"Now, they have been trapped for six days, and the food and water supply can only sustain them for ten days."

Having said that, his words revealed helplessness and worry.

If the plan fails, the tragedy that may result is enough to make people feel cold.

If the situation is as their superiors speculated, and the rock observation team really has clues to the new oil field, then they will undoubtedly become sinners of the nation.

All team members and researchers understood this consequence.

They were willing to risk their lives just to save those experts.

however,

In this era of lack of detection tools, no one can accurately determine the depth of the cave collapse.

Any rash action will undoubtedly only worsen the situation rather than resolve it.

The atmosphere in the tent suddenly became heavy, and the noisy buzzing of insects became even more piercing.

A light cough broke the deadlock.

Everyone turned their heads and looked at Li Aiguo.

After experiencing the train reversal and rapid cave rescue, the captains realized that this taciturn train driver might not be an ordinary person.

They have put aside their previous contempt.

Commander Zhang smiled at Li Aiguo and said, "Comrade train driver, what do you think?"

"Commander," Li Aiguo stood up and responded slowly, "I am a train driver. I am not familiar with conventional rescue operations, but I know how to dig tunnels.

When our railway soldiers encounter collapsed areas, they will take protective measures when constructing tunnels, using concrete, steel mesh, steel arches and anchor cables to build tunnel linings, and then use a five-center circle structure to optimize the force transmission path. "

A team leader frowned and said, "Comrade driver, that makes sense, but our team members don't have relevant experience."

"The railway troops are experienced and they can do it. How about asking them to carry out this project?" Li Aiguo smiled slightly.

At this moment, a railway soldier who was walking in the market suddenly felt an unknown chill and couldn't help sneezing.

Commander Zhang's eyes widened, he slapped his legs and announced excitedly: "Oh! I didn't even think about it! There is a group of railway soldiers stationed outside the county. We can ask them for support."

This is an era when the whole country focuses on energy. Everything is done to find oil, and the level of the search and rescue team is also impressive.

He picked up the red leather phone on the table, shook it vigorously, and contacted the higher authorities through the dedicated line.

Night falls.

Deep in the vast Gobi Desert,

From afar came the roar of wheels hitting the rails, and bright rays of light pierced through the shadows of dusk and rushed towards us.

Looking at it with the help of dim light, Li Aiguo was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth: there were two big flags hanging at the front of the train.