LRAB Chapter 029 We've dug it up!
Chapter 029 We've dug it up!
"Like tomb raiding."
"Yeah?"
Yu's slightly teasing remark brought Lu Chen's thoughts back to the present.
Turning to the side at the sound, I saw Yu smile mischievously: "Like grave robbers digging up coffins?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Chen shook his head with a wry smile, feeling quite bewildered.
—Isn't that right?
A rectangular box containing a 'person' was dug out from the ground...
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"How did you get the hibernation pod that was dug out out?"
After a brief moment of sighing, Lu Chen quickly regained his composure and refocused his attention on the present moment.
Then Yu took a deep breath, seemingly still shaken, and pointed to the cave entrance where the two had crawled in.
"That opening was dug out according to the cross-sectional size of the hibernation pod."
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"It took nearly five days just to dig the entire cave."
"After digging the cave and extracting your hibernation chamber, I went back to the city."
"Prepare the chains, then spend another 20 days cutting in line to leave the city, return here, chain the hibernation chamber, and forcibly pull it out of the cave by vehicle."
"Since they couldn't even move the cargo boxes, they dragged them all the way back to the city using chains."
As she spoke, Yu's face fell again, as if that arduous journey was still vivid in her mind.
Lu Chen slowly nodded, observing the pit in front of him and the entire interior of the cave.
—Going all the way in from the entrance, turn a right angle at the deepest point, and you will find the pit where the hibernation chamber was dug out.
With this bend in the wall, you could practically drag the hibernation pod by car...
"My hibernation chamber is only one meter deep, which is why it was possible to pull it out of the hole by a car."
"Zhao Jie's hibernation chamber must be more than four meters deep."
"That scavenger was most likely not forcibly dragged."
Yu Wen nodded gently: "His right arm is a mechanical prosthesis."
"They must have used brute force to pull out the hole, and then used a vehicle to pull it out of the hole."
Upon hearing this, Lu Chen was taken aback.
robotic arm?
How come I didn't notice it outside the recovery center that day...?
After a moment's recollection, Lu Chen remembered that on that day, number 3994 had been wearing gloves the entire time.
It's normal that you can't see her arms because they're covered by clothes.
"Prosthetic limbs..."
"If you run into him, you can handle it?"
The question asked softly, but Yu Man shrugged confidently.
"Mechanical limbs are just stronger."
"Correspondingly, the flexibility will be much worse."
"Moreover, the connection between the mechanical limb and the body is an extremely fatal weakness."
"I can handle it."
Yu spoke calmly and casually, showing no sign of seriousness on his face.
Lu Chen felt a little relieved and looked at the pit in front of him again, which was more than four meters deep.
After thinking for a long time, he said, "If we continue digging from here, even if we find the hibernation chamber, it will be seven or eight meters deep."
"We don't have prosthetic limbs, so we can't pull them out at all."
As he spoke, Lu Chen slowly turned his body and looked around the cave.
"Ideally, we could find a shallower-buried hibernation chamber in another location on the side wall..."
While looking at it, he couldn't help but ask, "How did you find my hibernation pod?"
"Or rather, how did you discover that there are hibernation pods in this area?"
Without hesitation, Yu replied, "Metal detector."
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"This was originally the metal area I had just discovered."
"We were originally exploring for metal, but we ended up digging up reinforced concrete near a small hill."
"Thus, this metal area was transformed into a 'building ruins area'."
"Architectural ruins are always the best resource areas. Although they are difficult to excavate, you can often find a lot of good stuff."
"This includes hibernation pods."
As she spoke, Yu, who had been kneeling, sat down and shone the flashlight into the pit on the side wall again.
"After excavating the cavern, I used a metal detector to test all the walls of the cavern."
"This is where the metallic scent is strongest."
At this point, Yu turned her head slightly and gave Lu Chen a teasing smile.
"I originally thought I could dig out some metal."
"I never expected that I would dig you out."
The sarcastic remark made Lu Chen feel inexplicably uncomfortable again.
He simply smiled and then nodded thoughtfully.
"Therefore, hibernation pods can also be detected by metal detectors."
Yu nodded heavily.
Having roughly grasped the situation, Lu Chen had a plan in mind.
Just as he was about to speak, he saw that Yu, who had just sat down on the ground, had now knelt up again.
Then, he handed the flashlight to Lu Chen.
"We should be thinking the same thing."
"—Dig another layer along the side wall of the cave, and then use a metal detector."
"Ideally, we can find a hibernation chamber that is about one meter deep, and at most two meters deep, and then tow it out by vehicle."
Lu Chen nodded slightly, then looked at the flashlight that Yu had handed him with some confusion.
Then his jade-like face became slightly solemn.
"We can't dig together."
"Someone must stand guard outside the cave entrance."
"You dig first, I'll go keep watch."
"Change it every 15 minutes."
Upon hearing this, Lu Chen understood Yu's intention. After hesitating for a long time, he finally nodded slowly.
In terms of efficiency, it is definitely faster and more time-saving for two people to dig together.
However, Yu places great emphasis on risk and safety, and Lu Chen does not think there is anything wrong with that.
Taking turns digging and resting helps conserve energy to deal with potential dangers.
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With the division of labor complete, the next step is to take action.
—For his first shovel strike, Lu Chen chose the opposite side of the pit wall.
It wasn't completely dug out either.
Instead, they dug out a hole about the size of a head, big enough to accommodate a metal detector.
They dug about half a meter deep and put the probe in—but there was no response, so they decided to move to another location.
They kept digging, exploring, changing locations, and changing personnel.
They started digging at the entrance of the cave at less than 3 a.m. and continued until 7 a.m.
Lu Chen and Yu were so exhausted from digging that they could barely straighten their arms and their eyes were bloodshot from exhaustion.
The walls of the entire cavern were so badly damaged that they resembled honeycomb briquettes.
Finally, in a lower section of the cave near the entrance, the metal detector inserted into the cave emitted a faint beeping sound.
"here?"
"—The cave entrance??"
Having found the place, Lu Chen and Yu Shao exchanged glances.
They turned their heads to the side in unison, looking into the cave interior, at the pitted and uneven cave walls.
He shook his head and smiled, and then Lu Chen continued digging down the tunnel.
While digging, they also widened the exploratory tunnel a little.
After digging to a depth of about two meters, a dull thud was heard from the tip of the entrenching tool.
"We found it!"
Unable to contain his excitement, Lu Chen called out and immediately summoned Yu from outside the cave.
He stretched his neck and glanced at the hole in front of the entrenching tool, then eagerly and excitedly crawled out of the hole.
"Keep digging!"
"I'll keep watch outside!"
"Completely excavate the hibernation pod, then drive the car over!"
Yu Yu's tone was full of excitement, and Lu Chen was also full of energy, as if he had been injected with chicken blood!
Lu Chen even flung sparks from the entrenching tool in his hand—it actually sparked when it collided with the outside of the hibernation pod!
Another nearly hour-long excavation took place, with the two taking turns several times;
Outside the cave entrance, the sky was already beginning to lighten.
After digging nearly two meters down the cave wall, the "treasure" beneath the loess finally revealed itself.
"hiss……"
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"two?"