After confirming that the mine was blocked by falling rocks, Zhou Tai immediately extinguished the oil lamp in his hand. In a closed environment, oxygen is limited, and burning an oil lamp will also burn off oxygen.
When working in a mine, you must bring an oil lamp. Firstly, it is used for lighting. Secondly, once the oil lamp goes out for no reason, you must evacuate immediately. People here only know how to do it, but they don’t know the principle. Zhou Tai knows the reason: oxygen
Insufficient, fatal.
As soon as the lights went out, it was pitch black. Zhou Tai first thought of the earthquake, and then he thought that this world was different. It might be the big move of the immortal cultivator, but he was trapped deep in the mine and could not see the situation outside.
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Although the situation was very dangerous, Zhou Tai slowly adjusted his breathing to calm down first.
Waiting for rescue? This option was eliminated first. Earthquakes are often accompanied by aftershocks. Let’s not mention that these miners are worthless. How could anyone be willing to risk their own lives to save others?
Moreover, there are many tunnels crisscrossing the mines here. I don’t know how many tunnels have been blocked by landslides. Even if there is rescue, how long will it take to reach this remote tunnel? The flesh will be rotten, right?
It is better to rely on others than to rely on yourself, and you can only find ways to save yourself. If you are really ordinary and ordinary, then you can really only wait for death to come.
But Zhou Tai is different, he has strengthening points, and the mining tools in his hand have long been replaced by tools that can be strengthened by strengthening points.
It was originally prepared for the purpose of escaping, but unexpectedly, it has become a hope of survival now.
In my mind, I recalled the trend of the mountain in my memory and the direction when I entered the mine. I tried to use my little geometric knowledge to construct a three-dimensional image of my environment in my mind.
The idea is good, but the brain is not a computer, and there are many directions that are uncertain. I don’t have much confidence in the final conclusion.
The only thing that is certain is that the mines do not go underground, because there is no advanced method of removing groundwater, and the mines continue to extend within the mountain.
I felt that I was probably in the middle of the mountain, which was the worst. In fact, digging back the original way would have the best chance of escaping. After all, it is impossible for all the passages to collapse, but the mine was dark, winding, and dug.
There is no way to guarantee that the tunnel dug is correct.
There is a high possibility that the digging will go astray. Once the digging goes astray, there is really little hope. Zhou Tai’s tendency is to dig upward, after all, the height of the mountain is limited.
It's best to go up diagonally, and it's best to dig it out from halfway up the mountain.
As for how to choose, it all depends on how powerful your mining tools are.
There are two tools for mining, one is a pickaxe for digging ore, and the other is a shovel, both of which can be strengthened.
Without much hesitation, I fumbled around with my hands and determined that the shovel in my hand was a shovel. I directly smashed it with 111 strengthening points and strengthened it to level three.
If it's easy to use, dig upwards. If it's normal, try digging back.
The strengthened shovel shoveled hard into the rock next to it, as if it was inserted into the sand and completely penetrated behind the rock.
Zhou Tai immediately decided to dig up.
Facing the hope of survival, Zhou Tai tried his best to dig in the most efficient way and adjusted his physical strength. After digging for a while, he took a short rest, but he did not dare to take too long. Without food and water, time was of the essence.
While digging the escape tunnel, two small aftershocks occurred. Fortunately, the escape tunnel dug by Zhou Tai did not collapse.
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He didn't know how long he would have to dig in the dark, which was extremely challenging to his perseverance and spirit. Zhou Tai knew he had to persevere and not give up.
He thought about the stories he had seen in his previous life: encountering a snowstorm, getting lost in the wilderness, and when spring began, the ice and snow melted, and the body was only a few meters away from the camp. He didn't want to become a character in stories like this, so he kept persevering.
Later, in order to prevent myself from being affected by my mentality, I thought about things in my mind while digging for a way out.
What I was thinking was, why did I end up in this situation?
After thinking about it for a long time, I concluded that it should be due to my weakness. Being weak is the original sin. If I were strong, how could I possibly mine here?
In the previous life, they were all mortals, and they were still fighting each other, not to mention this world of immortal cultivation. If you can survive, you must work hard to become stronger, and no longer be easily influenced by your destiny.
Being on the verge of death unexpectedly strengthened Zhou Tai's determination to seek immortality and become stronger.
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He forgot how many times he took a short break. He was so tired that his whole body was trembling slightly. At this moment, Zhou Tai was grateful for the strength that the strengthening points had brought to his body. In such a high-intensity and stuffy environment, he did not even appear.
No matter how much you sweat, if you keep sweating, lack of water may be the first threat you will face.
"It would be nice if the tool gave me some strength, but unfortunately there are not enough points. Even if I didn't strengthen the nail, it still wouldn't be enough to get one thousand strengthening points for the fourth time of the shovel."
Zhou Tai has basically confirmed that the fourth enhancement requires a thousand enhancement points, because in the face of a life and death situation at this moment, he added the enhancement points accumulated in the past two years to the shovel again, thinking that it would be good to be a little stronger.
The stronger you are, the faster you can dig out the way.
At a certain moment, Zhou Tai suddenly thought that it would be great if the strengthening points could be withdrawn.
Unexpectedly, as soon as this idea appeared, a system prompt appeared in front of me: "Are you sure you want to withdraw the added strengthening points?"
This phenomenon made Zhou Tai sigh with emotion, but he didn't have time to think too much. He immediately canceled the strengthening points he had added to his body and planned to upgrade his shovel to a lower level.
However, as soon as he canceled some of the strengthening points added to his body, Zhou Tai's expression changed and he quickly added the strengthening points back to his body.
As soon as he removed the strengthening points from his body, a feeling of suffocation spread from his lungs. Zhou Tai was so frightened that he immediately added back the points to his body, and his lungs returned to normal.
At this moment, Zhou Tai realized that the oxygen in the channel had almost been exhausted, and his fully strengthened body was so strong that he could actually breathe internally when there was insufficient oxygen.
In order to prove his conjecture, Zhou Tai lit the oil lamp with a fire stick. After the oil lamp lit up, it quickly went out.
As the cave fell into darkness again, Zhou Tai also confirmed his suspicion.
Momo took out the nail that had been strengthened three times, withdrew the strengthening points added to it, and put the nail on his body again. At this moment, every object that could strengthen the strengthening points was precious.
Although the strengthening points are still not enough, having the points with you is the most secure thing, and carrying the strengthened items with you is also a hidden danger, so it is much better.
It can still be withdrawn? This point-adding system suddenly became too powerful. Since there was no need to care about the oxygen content, Zhou Tai took a while to rest.
Although he could not strengthen the shovel for the fourth time, Zhou Tai was not disappointed at all. On the contrary, his confidence in cultivating immortality was stronger than ever before. Every day he gained one more strengthening point. After three hundred years of cultivating immortality, he had 100,000 strengthening points in hand.
Although I know nothing about the world of immortality here, it really doesn't affect my confidence.
In the past, a bright future was far away, but now a bright future is beckoning. How could you die here silently?
Thinking of this, Zhou Tai started digging again.
Finally, after experiencing countless rests and sufferings, he pushed the shovel down, and felt a sense of penetration. Zhou Tai quickly expanded the hole with force, and then got out of the hole he dug.
The surroundings were still dark and nothing could be seen. Zhou Tai carefully tried to light the oil lamp. When the oil lamp came on, it did not go out immediately. Zhou Tai breathed a sigh of relief. If there was oxygen, it meant there was an exit. Then he observed the surroundings. Soon
I found this to be a stone chamber.
After Zhou Tai found out that this was a stone room, he calmed down first. He felt lucky that he was brave enough and could stay calm.
Digging a hole in the ground along the way and then entering the stone chamber gives you a feeling of tomb robbing.
Soon Zhou Tai thought of another possibility. Could this be the cave of a senior cultivator? This was still very possible. How difficult would it have been to discover such a secret stone chamber in the mountains if he hadn't accidentally stumbled upon it?
Thinking of this, the little fear in my heart disappeared instantly, and my heart became hot.
Worried that some formations were prohibited, Zhou Tai first threw stones around. When he saw no response, he began to search slowly. He saw a thick layer of dust on the ground and thought that even if there were formations, it might be possible.
It has expired over time.
With this thought in mind, I searched even more carefully, not missing an inch of the ground, for fear that there would be a hidden secret room that would be missed.
After careful search, it was confirmed that there were three stone rooms, but except for a bed and a table in one stone room, and a book on the table, there was nothing in the other two stone rooms.
Moreover, Zhou Tai discovered that the passage outside the stone chamber was sealed. He didn't know whether it was the previous owner of the stone chamber who sealed the entrance, or whether it was the earthquake that blocked the exit.
Zhou Tai was not satisfied at all with the harvest of only one book. He searched again in detail, but still found nothing, so he had to dig three feet deep.
In line with the mentality that harvesting a book is also a harvest, it might be a secret book on cultivating immortals. Zhou Tai found the exit direction of the stone chamber and quickly cleared a safe passage with a reinforced shovel.
When he left the stone chamber and breathed the fresh air outside, Zhou Tai felt like he had been reborn.
It was dark at the moment. Zhou Tai looked carefully and found that he was no longer in the mine, but had dug it out from another direction on the top of the mountain.
This was like escaping and ascending to heaven! By the time the punishment system was reinstated in the mine due to the earthquake, I was already far away.
This is the safest way to leave. Even if the mine finds that he is not there, he will just think that he is trapped somewhere in the mine waiting to die.
In the end, most of the people who died due to the earthquake in the mine were turned into withered bones when they were discovered. Who can tell who is who?
Think about these reasons clearly in a short period of time, and then leave here immediately. This means you have escaped and ascended to heaven. If you are caught again, it is really just a matter of luck.