When Paulkin Walker took Chen Yan to the Leprosy Lane market, he realized that the second-hand goods market in Xiacheng District had become unimaginably prosperous——

The huge ruin-like unfinished building has five floors from top to bottom. Each floor is the size of an entire racecourse. It is filled with second-hand vendors wearing various costumes of different ethnic groups and speaking various languages.

According to Paulkin Walker, many of these vendors are illegal immigrants who smuggled themselves into the customs through various means. They didn’t understand the language when they first arrived, and their money was drained by black agents. They could only sell valuables that they carried with them until they arrived in Asia.

Until I find a job in Nanshi.

The more vendors gathered here are speculators who obtain strange and strange goods through various channels. No one knows where the goods on their stalls come from, or even what those goods are.

When Chen Yan saw miners' equipment exactly like the one in his bedroom in a "small room" surrounded by a wooden fence, he fell silent.

These miners' equipment looks very old and has obviously been used for a long time. Some of them have holes in them and can no longer be used at first sight, but some are still in good condition and even look new - these goods that are different from old to new are just right.

It represents the characteristic that all second-hand goods cannot guarantee the quality.

Chen Yan knew without asking that these mining equipment should be old goods processed internally by Sparrow Industries. Perhaps these old goods should have been scrapped and destroyed, but they were transported out by some people through some channels and sold to second-hand dealers.

Made extra money.

In other words, this second-hand dealer is likely to know people within Sparrow Industries.

Chen Yan silently took note of this man's characteristics, maybe he would look for him again in the future.

Paulkin Walker told Chen Yan that these things are black goods and you cannot ask for their origins when buying them. Otherwise, you will break the rules. Not only will you not be able to complete the transaction, you will also be kicked out of the market. The rules are for second-hand merchants here.

The rules they maintain together represent their common interests.

Chen Yan even saw a vague "Sparrow Industries" rubber logo on a certain miner's uniform.

After seeing this logo, the stall owner made an excuse and took away the miner's uniform with the logo in his hand, and promised to give him a discount on his next purchase.

A set of equipment includes miner's uniform, gloves, miner boots, miner's pickaxe, helmet with searchlight, gas mask...

Chen Yan and Paulkin Walker carefully selected equipment that seemed to be usable, but the quality of some items could not be verified, such as the searchlight on the helmet that uses snake-snout rock as its energy source, such as the searchlight that must be used when being exposed to toxic gases.

The effectiveness of the gas mask can only be verified in a polluted environment.

Chen Yan could only judge the integrity of the filter element in the gas mask from its appearance.

Jack Baldo, Paulkin Walker, Webb, Swam, 4 sets of mining equipment, only sold for two shillings in total.

Chen Yan knew that he had made a profit, and he also knew that the second-hand dealer must not have lost money.

The thermal weapons and the four sets of equipment they bought before could not be carried back by two people. Fortunately, they could easily buy a trolley at the flea market, so Chen Yan and Paulkin Walker moved the purchased items to the trolley.

, covered it with a layer of rags, bought more than twenty pounds of rotten cabbage that was frozen and smelly, covered it, and pushed the cart back to the apartment.

When we arrived at the apartment, it was already six o'clock in the afternoon.

After calling Swam to come over and try out the equipment, Chen Yan went out to buy food. A group of people had dinner as if they were at war. It was already half past seven in the evening.

The children haven't arrived home yet. Chen Yan was worried about their safety, so he left a note for his wish:

"We are going to the underground mine tonight. We will come back tomorrow morning at the latest and help me take care of the children.

I have prepared three fried chickens for you, all to the left of the fireplace.

To the right of the fireplace is Marina's supper. Remember to remind her to eat it...but it's best not to scare her. She seems a little sensitive recently.

Thank you very much!》

He left the note next to his pillow and returned to the first floor. After explaining the precautions for the mine to his team members, he glanced at his watch and saw that the time was already eight o'clock in the evening.

The children didn't come back, and the wish didn't come, but Chen Yan couldn't wait any longer.

Chen Yan came to the almost renovated kitchen, opened the box that sealed the basement, and saw the shrimp man George Lebster waiting eagerly underneath.

"Tonight is a good opportunity. It's calm underground and there are no tides!"

George Lebster was quite happy at first, but when he saw figures one after another appearing behind Chen Yan, his happiness froze on that shrimp face.

Until all the team members gathered by Chen Yan gathered in the basement of the apartment, Shrimpman felt a little broken.

"Didn't we agree that you are the only one?"

The shrimp man looked at the spherical Tunguska sticking out of Jack Baldo's backpack and collapsed again:

"Why are there still rats?"

Chen Yan shamelessly changed the topic:

"As long as you can come back safely today, I will install the oxygen pump for you tomorrow!"

The shrimp man reluctantly accepted this condition and said distressedly:

"It will be very dangerous for you guys... The underground is inherently dangerous, and there are so many of you..."

Chen Yan asked:

"I've been on your ship before, and it's no problem for five people!"

The shrimp man grabbed the tentacles on his head in pain, which made him even more painful:

"Normally, it's no problem to sail on the lake! But we have to go underground and pass through many rapid underground rivers. If the waterline is too low, the boat may capsize!"

Chen Yan frowned:

"Is there such a thing?"

For safety reasons, if such a situation really happened, he might have to think of other ways.

At this time, Swam suddenly spoke:

"I am very light, the old man is also very light, and the mouse is also very light. Together we will not be very heavy, and the waterline will not be too low."

As soon as the words came out, everyone present was more or less surprised.

Chen Yan said: "Let's try it first."

Several people boarded the boat one after another, and at the same time discovered that when Swarm and Weber boarded the boat, the waterline of the boat had hardly dropped - at most it had dropped by 1 millimeter.

Weber's body has undergone bacterial transformation and weighs less. This is easy to understand.

But what's going on with Swam? Why does his body weigh almost nothing?

This involved Swam's identity, so when he was asked, he always kept silent.

Chen Yan felt the small bell in his pocket that could cause Swarm to go into shock and gave up questioning.

As the rope tied to the bow of the boat was untied, shrimp man George Lebster rowed the oar, and the boat headed towards the large cave where the Sparrow Industrial office building was located.

The cold wind in the cave brought thick water vapor. If it weren't for the thick miners' clothes, several of them would have been soaked by the water vapor in the cold wind.

The ship did not leave the area where the waterway forked. Instead, it turned at a branch of the waterway and entered a fork in the road that Chen Yan didn't recognize at all.

At this time, the surroundings gradually became dark. The people on the boat turned on the searchlight above their heads. Before boarding the boat, they used the shrimp man's bucket of snake-nosed rock to replenish the power of the searchlight. According to the shrimp man, if the searchlight does not happen,

If it is bumped or damaged, it can be used for at least 48 hours.

Chen Yan felt that it didn't need to take that long. They didn't even bring food supplies for this trip. They originally planned to complete the exploration in a short time and return to the ground.

During the voyage, shrimp man George Lebster explained in a low voice:

"The other route we take this time can directly bypass the Alpha sector and enter the Beta sector."

"The Alpha sector is 50 to 800 meters below the ground. The entire sector is in the same space. If we want to cross such a large distance, we need to pass through more than a dozen very rapid downdrafts."

"Before entering the sewer, I will issue a reminder. You must lower your body and crawl on the bottom of the boat."

As we go deeper into the fork of the waterway, the space above our heads becomes narrower and narrower. The tallest Swam has to bend down to ensure that his head does not hit the stalactites above his head.

The flow speed of the water below the boat has also gradually accelerated. Chen Yan estimated that it is now at least about 30 yards, which has caught up with the speed of a bicycle moving forward steadily.

This place has been deserted for an unknown period of time, and the cave area has been occupied by all kinds of small things. Chen Yan found at least ten different kinds of bugs among the stalactites above his head, except for three of them that can be

Apart from the definition of biology, Chen Yan had never seen anything else in textbooks.

He silently took out his mobile phone, turned on the camera, switched to recording mode, and started recording everything he saw around him.

About three minutes later, George Lebster whispered:

"The first sinkhole has arrived! Hold on to the hull!"

Everyone lowered their bodies, and after waiting nervously for a few seconds, the feeling of weightlessness suddenly appeared.

Chen Yan looked at the dark empty space in front of him, feeling the weightlessness that appeared without warning and would almost make ordinary people incontinent, and cursed in his heart:

Damn it! Where is the waterway here?!

This is a waterfall!

The sudden weightlessness made everyone almost leave the ship. Chen Yan clung to the beam in the middle of the ship, but the sudden weightlessness still made him feel a huge sense of powerlessness - he felt like he was about to fly out!

Fortunately, this process only lasted three short seconds.

Three seconds later, the boat landed on the water, causing a large splash.

"Successful landing!"

George Lebster said excitedly:

"We used to play here a lot when we were kids! It's so exciting!"

Everyone on the boat was so upset that no one was in the mood to talk nonsense with him.

"There are still about 3 minutes left before the next descent channel... seize the time to rest!"

George Lebster said to himself:

"There are only two such vertical water channels. The other water channels are just steeper. Otherwise, I wouldn't dare to bring you here."

"By the way, don't look into the water."

Chen Yan was the first to recover and asked:

"What's the meaning?"

George Lebster squeaked:

"The saying passed down by the older generation seems to be that this water area is protected by [Aliu Brother]. [Aliu Brother] likes our ethnic groups, but does not like humans. Therefore, when humans look at the water, he

It will pull people into the water."
Chapter completed!