In the dark cave, Wang Qianqian and the others did not know Zhao Qian's situation.
After crying for a while, Wang Qianqian cheered up again under Liu Yun's comfort and began to cooperate with Liu Yun to think about how to save herself.
"The most important thing at the moment is to connect the outside and let the air in." Liu Yun said: "As long as there is enough air and relying on the army ants, we will one day go out."
"I also know this truth, but the speed of army ants is too slow, and it takes a long time to open a channel." Wang Qianqian said.
"Open a passage?"
Liu Yun frowned at first, then seemed to understand something and asked: "Qianqian, did you let the army ants dig holes directly in the rocks?"
Wang Qianqian nodded and said: "Yes!"
"wrong!"
Liu Yun shook her head and continued: "The most important thing now is to let the air flow in, and the purpose of drilling holes is to rescue us. The two are not the same."
Wang Qianqian asked: "What's the difference?"
Liu Yun replied: "The purpose of drilling a hole is to penetrate all the rocks in a straight line, but to allow the air to flow in, as long as there are gaps...and the rocks blocking the cave cannot be tightly sealed, there will always be a gap between the rocks.
There will be gaps, and you can just ignore such places... Therefore, the workload of letting the air flow in is much less than the workload of drilling holes."
Wang Qianqian still couldn't understand it at first, but after Liu Yun reminded her, she also woke up.
Immediately, she hurriedly conveyed her meaning to the queen ant. After the queen understood it, she began to vibrate her wings and pass on the order.
At this moment, outside the cave, hundreds of thousands of army ants are digging holes in the rocks.
In fact, even if the army ants in this world were stronger, they would not be able to dig holes in the rocks with their large jaws... They would first rely on formic acid to reduce the hardness of the rocks, and then dig.
However, although this method worked, the hole drilling speed was very slow.
Three days have passed since the beginning, and hundreds of thousands of army ants have dug less than ten centimeters. At this rate, they will dig up to about one meter a month.
And it will take at least several years to create a channel.
At this moment, the busy army ants suddenly stopped. They all pointed their heads in the direction of the queen, and the antennae on their heads kept swaying, as if they were receiving signals.
After a while, the army ants no longer dug holes, but entered the cave one after another through the gaps between the rocks.
Inside the cave...
Wang Qianqian communicated with the queen ant, and a smile gradually appeared on her face.
"Xiaoyun, your method is really feasible. In just a short time, the army ants have advanced five meters. If nothing goes wrong, it will take half a day for the air to flow in."
"Um!"
Liu Yun looked at the happy Wang Qianqian and nodded in agreement, but in her heart, she said the words 'I hope'.
Obviously, unlike Wang Qianqian, she is not so optimistic.
Because she knows that the fundamental reason why the army ants can be so fast in the early stage is that they have not encountered obstacles yet. Once they encounter obstacles, their speed will slow down.
What is certain is that there must be obstacles, otherwise, they would not suffer from hypoxia.
"Should you tell Zhao Qian this good news?" Wang Qianqian suddenly suggested as if she had forgotten her previous grudges.
"Are you not angry with him anymore?" Liu Yun asked without comment and changed the question.
"Of course I'm angry with him."
The smile on Wang Qianqian's face disappeared, and she pouted and said, "I didn't provoke him. He was obviously upset, so why did he yell at me so loudly?"
Liu Yun asked: "If that's the case, why do you still need to tell him?"
Wang Qianqian thought for a while and replied: "I was really angry just now, but then I thought, maybe he was anxious when he was facing death... Who has a bad temper? You can't ignore him just because he yelled at me.
He took great care of us during this time.”
Liu Yun saw Wang Qianqian, who had been wronged, speaking for Zhao Qian, shook her head and sighed: "Qianqian, sometimes you have a too good temper."
Wang Qianqian said unconvinced: "Who said I have a good temper? I am fierce."
"Yeah?"
Liu Yun asked back, and before Wang Qianqian could refute, she continued: "The year before last, an 18th-tier male star worked with you in a movie, but after the filming, he started to slander you online, and the company sent him a lawyer's letter.
, how did you do it?”
Wang Qianqian thought for a while and said: "He called me and explained, saying that it was all a misunderstanding. Since it was a misunderstanding, why not just ask him to issue an apology statement."
Liu Yun said speechlessly: "He is taking advantage of your popularity. You don't know that since he slandered you, his traffic has increased significantly. During that time, he was invited to several dramas...and..."
Liu Yun, who usually talks very little, seemed to have started talking now and couldn't stop at all.
However, this also proves from the side that Yun is really good to Wang Qianqian and is not willing to let Wang Qianqian suffer a little loss.
"Stop, stop, stop!"
Wang Qianqian quickly interrupted Liu Yun and said: "I'm afraid of you. If you let me go, I will go. If you don't let me go, I won't go. Is that okay?"
Liu Yun said: "That's not what I meant, I just hope you will be more careful in the future."
"You mean I'm careless now?"
What is your understanding ability?
Is that what I mean?
Liu Yun was speechless. She opened her mouth to say something, but in the end nothing came out.
Wang Qianqian blinked her eyes a few times, scratched her head and wondered, "Are Xiaoyun saying that I'm heartless? Should I go and tell Zhao Qian the good news? Why did I stop talking all of a sudden?"
The army ants were very fast, and it took less than half an hour to advance ten meters.
At this location, what Liu Yun was worried about happened. Rocks and soil blocked the cave together... The gaps between the rocks were blocked by soil, and air could not enter at all.
In this situation, Wang Qianqian could only order the army ants to dig into the soil. It took the army ants a day to open a passage that could ensure air circulation within a distance of just a few dozen centimeters.
However, several people deep in the cave still felt stuffy, and it was obvious that the air could not circulate.
It can also be inferred that there may be more than one completely blocked part.
Next, the army ants continued to clear the area, and encountered completely blocked sections at 25 meters, 38 meters, and 43 meters respectively.
Fortunately, the difficulty of clearing these three blocked sections was very low, and it only took a total of two days to clear them completely.
Now, we are less than ten meters away from complete dredging, and there is still one day left. According to the previous dredging speed, there will still be enough time even if the blockage is encountered again.