23. It is my duty to recast the glory of suspense!
As the old saying goes, the so-called assembly line routine is probably:
When I was in Novice Village, I was hitting crabs with a wooden stick;
In the World of Warcraft Forest, I was using the Cold Iron Wooden Rod to fight wind-type crabs;
When I was at Urban College, I was beating rich second-generation crabs with an enchanted wooden stick;
At the ancient ruins, I was using a large blessing stick to kill the undead crab;
When I rushed to the God Realm, I was using a 13 Dark Moon Mythical Wooden Stick (orange quality) to hit the Nine-Winged Holy Crab.
There won't be any "scares" in the whole process. After three chapters, you'll feel a little bit happy, and after five chapters, you'll feel really happy.
Well, in comparison, the suspense-type structure of "a grass snake has a gray thread, and it stretches thousands of miles" is really making people lose their hair.
Anyway, how do you say that sentence?
It is our duty to re-create the glory of suspense!
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Time: About 5 o'clock in the morning.
Location: Off the southwest coast of the Kingdom of Spain, on an island, in a lake deep in the forest.
Looking down from a high place, you can see that there is a conspicuous large pit on the ground in a corner by the lake.
The slope of the pit is at an angle of about 55 degrees, and protective supports are built with many wooden boards and battens to prevent the upper layer of soil from sliding downward and keep the space in the pit usable.
And on the outer edge of the pit, there are more than a dozen simple pulley blocks and wooden stakes erected for up and down transportation.
In civil engineering, this is ‘slope excavation’ and ‘foundation pit support’.
For a full 10 hours, with three teams taking turns to take breaks, with 82 Sleif laborers as the core and 100 people who were recruited for corvee labor as the auxiliary, the excavation team dug the original "small hill" into a "big pit"
.
Of course, Li Jia Shu had no intention of digging out all the underground ruins:
Crazy, you have to dig until the end of the Year of the Monkey and the day lilies are cold.
The plan is two-pronged,
The soil layer needs to be dug, buckets need to be dug, ah, dungeons need to be built at the same time.
The warriors of Xieling paved a safe escape route, and the captain of the Golden Army bravely explored the underground ruins.
Ahem, the specific situation is this,
After getting some information from Binxi the afternoon before yesterday, Li Jia Shu used a Luoyang shovel to explore the soil layer at the lakeside yesterday afternoon and found that the situation was not good.
It does not refer to water seepage or the like.
Rather, it means that the shallow underground soil in this area is natural and original and has not been disturbed by external forces.
What's the meaning?
In other words, if there were any underground structures under the ground here, they would certainly not have been built here.
Give an example that is easy for Terran Blue Star people to understand.
To build a subway, build it from point A to point C.
Groundbreaking begins at site a, a shield machine is installed, digging all the way through site b, and finally stopping at site c to break ground.
The location of Linzhong Lake where Li Jia Shu and others are now is at Land B.
Under the hollow trunk of the big dead tree that was originally on the small hill, there was an old stone-walled well (Li Jiasu checked it, it was similar to the style of a water well), extending all the way down from the top of the hill.
Well, the devil chose to move mountains and dig a big hole to see.
The official approach is like this, push straight forward without any twists and turns with you.
Anyway, in this world, the lord does not need to consider any "protective excavation" strategy, he can just do it.
"Okay, stop!" the devil shouted from outside the pit, then went down to the pit, squatted on the ground, and inspected the top bricks of the outer layer of the tunnel that had just emerged from the soil.
(The appearance of the stone wall well and the corridor in the big pit can be regarded as an inverted T shape)
It's okay, it's not some earthly black technology iron wall, nor is it protected by any mysterious magical power, it's just ordinary masonry.
The kind that can be exploded bit by bit with gunpowder.
After calling the guard Hamo, Li Jiasu ordered: "I will mark several places on the top floor of the corridor later."
"After I and the other two go down, almost an hour later, you direct the soldiers and laborers to place gunpowder at the position I have circled."
"Don't put too much at once! Explode slowly and repeatedly until a hole 2 people wide is enough."
"Then you can send two or three soldiers down, place torches, and stay back to meet us."
"Ask the person who is responding to you not to move around!"
"After these things are done, before Binxi and I return, you can instruct the laborers and bondmen to continue digging downwards, do not touch the tunnel, and clear the outside soil as much as possible."
"If I don't come back 12 hours after I go down..."
"Well, just go back and bring a message to Chuyang and tell him..."
The devil thought for a while and said: "'Your family's broken island really has a problem, and the problem is huge, so you should take care of it yourself!'"
Hammer was stunned for a moment, then nodded and continued to manage the soldiers.
Ten minutes later.
The workers cleaned up the soil outside the top floor of the corridor. Li Jiasu did a mental calculation and then drew circles at several locations for subsequent gunpowder blasting.
Finally, Li Jiasu called Binxi.
"Are you ready?"
The latter had already put on chainmail, had a machete and rope hanging from his waist, and was carrying a bulging cowhide backpack.
Binxi said: "I have made all preparations. Uh, sir, where is your luggage?"
The devil snorted coldly: "I prepared all the equipment and materials needed last night and stored them in one of my magic equipment."
"So I don't need a backpack."
Binsi: "......"
It turns out to be a space storage type of magic equipment! It’s so hidden!
You know, in the big cities of the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of France, the cheapest space storage type magic equipment that can be put up for auction costs 500 gold coins, and it is often expensive but not marketable!
The guest of the local lord is so terrifying!
At this time, Li Jiasu returned to the ground and found Scarface and his friend, (Silent Bread) Menlavayev in the tent where the workers were resting.
"Ac Master Li." Seeing Li Jiasu's arrival, Kapuschkin Lozovsky stood up and bowed.
"Well, how is your friend's rest?" Li Jiasu asked.
Menlavaev, who was taciturn, said in a low voice: "My mental state and physical fitness have been adjusted to the best, sir."
Li Jia Shu waved his hand, "Well, let's get ready to go."
"Take the goose."
"Yes, sir." Menlavayev replied.
The Sleif man hugged Scarface, then picked up a wooden barrel with a rope from the ground nearby and carried it behind his back.
Then, he hung a big hammer on his waist.
There is a reason why we chose this man to go to the dungeon together.
But the specific reasons will be discussed next time.
Li Kashu and Menlavayev walked out of the tent and went down to the foundation pit.
The tall devil borrowed Menlavaev's big hammer and smashed it a few times, creating a large gap in the stone wall of the well, enough for two adults to drill in side by side.
Binxi was about to take the lead in entering, but was stopped by Li Jiasu.
"At the end before going down to the dungeon, let me pay my respects to the legendary adventurers in my hometown of Seris. I hope they can bless us and make this trip safe and smooth in saving people."
The devil ordered a few soldiers to bring a wooden table and put some fruits and three candles on it.
Binsi looked confused, unable to understand what the devil was trying to do.
However, the silent Menlavayev understood a little more and helped Li Jiasu light the candle with a flint piece.
The Slay people, whose hometown is in the northern ice fields, have similar "ancestral spirit worship" in their culture, so Menlavayev could understand that this was a ritual.
Standing in front of the wooden table, Li Jiasu picked up a shovel and thrust it hard.
The metal shovel surface is deeply immersed in the soil, making the shovel stand firmly on the ground.
Then he picked up the three candles that had been lit on the wooden table,
Li Jia Shu stood in front of the tribute table and shovel and bowed seriously.
"The descendant of Seris, Axelaret Li, pays his respects here——"
"Welcome to the ancient hero, Cao Cao!"
"Bearing down, legendary poet, he sings all over the world!"
"Thank you, the unparalleled national scholar, Sicheng Liang!"
"——Young newbie, going to the dungeon for the first time. I just hope that there will be no dangers along the way and you can save people smoothly."
Pick up a shovel, blow out the three candles, and stuff them into the dimensional bag.
Then, he waved to Menlavayev and Binsi, and amid the clouds in the early morning,
The three of them climbed down the rope and entered the interior of the corridor.