Chapter 0274 – Avalanche

In the end, Ouyang Jun was not able to wait for Zhuang Rui. After ten days in Xinjiang, finally returned to Beijing, because he also opened a film and television investment company, recently on a few melodramatic drama, usually a lot of things, coupled with Xu big star anxious to go back to filming, it can only be a road back home.

Zhuang Rui does not know in the mountains outside there are people waiting for him, he has been very free this time, mining nature is not to use him to work, every day leisure, see the mine protection team with robbery, Zhuang Rui during the day, pulling the fierce hunting on the mountain, the Kunlun Mountains in the wild goats but he was scourged a lot.

Jade vein mining is going well, five days time, the mine hole has been played in more than ten meters, opened nearly twenty tons of jade, Adira old man said well, the more deep into the depths, the higher the quality of jade, the recent jade mining to a few pieces of jade, the quality of the quality of the middle and upper. It’s worth a lot of money.

But in yesterday a heavy rain, making the river mouth of the water level rose a lot, although not yet to the height of the rock wall mine, but it is not far away, and now the mining team is faced with the problem of rerouting the stream, the past two days Adira have taken Zhao Gong to observe the terrain, ready to use explosives to block this river mouth, and in addition to open up another stream outlet to.

Just this stream usually look at the water is not very deep, only to the human waist, but when the flash flood season, can be spread to the river above the depth of three or four meters, so to cut off the diversion, is not a simple thing.

After examining a few places on the mountainside, Adira decided to use explosives to blow up part of the mountain above the river mouth, so that the debris would roll down and block off this river mouth, and then dig out another ditch to be used for channeling the flash floods.

“Open the mountain and fire the cannons, idle people stay away, open the mountain and fire the cannons now, idle people stay away.”

At a distance of four to five hundred meters away from the mouth of the river, one could hear the voices coming out from within that loud speaker, Zhao Gong led the people to hit more than twenty blasting points thirty meters above the mouth of the river, and if detonated at the same time, those rocks would be enough to block the mouth of the river.

Although this would most likely block all the entrances to the mines, it was something that couldn’t be helped. The terrain at the foot of the mountain was low, and with another rainstorm, I’m afraid that the mine cave would turn into a waterfall cave, and it would be impossible to mine at that time.

“Little Zhuang, here you go, but there’s something good to see later.”

Standing next to Zhuang Rui, Elder Adira casually handed over a high powered military telescope.

“What do I need this for, I can see clearly this close.”

Zhuang Rui was a bit puzzled, with a distance of four to five hundred meters, coupled with the clear weather and high visibility, he could clearly see the people who were planting detonator explosives at several bombing points.

“You’ll know later.” The old man smiled without saying a word.

After more than half an hour or so, a sharp whistle sounded, and the people who were placing the explosives immediately ran from the mountain to the camp side.

“Time’s up, detonate!”

Seeing that the workers had all run back safely, Adira shouted loudly, and after hearing the order, Zhao Gong’s hand, which was holding the remote control, pressed down heavily.

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”

With a very rhythmic and loud explosion, Zhuang Rui only felt that the earth was shaking, and the mountain hundreds of meters away. Like being cut off at the waist in general, countless rocks pouring downward, large and small stones splashing around, a few pieces even fell to Zhuang Rui and others dozens of meters away, this distance if a little closer, I’m afraid that is the end of the head broken and bleeding.

Explosion point is detonated one by one, the sound of the explosion is still coming, Zhuang Rui hastily picked up the hands of the binoculars to the eyes in front of the next look more intuitive, those hard rocks, in the power of the explosives, like tofu general vulnerability, decomposition into a piece of stone of different sizes, all blocked to the mouth of the river.

“One sound, two sounds, three sounds …… twenty sounds, twenty one rings …… Zhao Gong, the explosive points are all detonated, there is no dumb cannon.” Someone beside him was counting the sound of the explosions, and when the explosions disappeared, that person also breathed a sigh of relief and immediately reported to Zhao Gong, who was responsible for this cutoff.

Using explosives to open the mountain is not a joking matter, due to various reasons, the slightest carelessness will be a malfunction of the dumb cannon, and this is the most difficult to rule out, when encountering such a thing, you have to send someone to check it out, but in the process of checking it out, the dumb cannon will often detonate. And naturally, what happens to the person who checks the malfunction is needless to say.

In some places where they ate mountains for a living, the use of explosives was something that was taken for granted, and the number of people who died from dud cannons every year was not small.

Hearing the detonation of all the explosive points, Zhao Gong also relieved a breath of air, this eliminates the work of the dumb cannon, but no one is willing to do, it is carrying the head in the work ah!

At this time the original low-lying river mouth, like instantly built into a dam, the water flowing down from the mountain, all intercepted, but Zhuang Rui some puzzlement, this is hemlock thirst ah! Wait until the water level on the mountain becomes high, full of those rocks, not the same will flow down it!

However, this situation is obviously in Adira’s expectations, in the first round of explosions just stopped after three or four minutes, Zhao Gong and pressed the button of a remote control in his left hand, at once, deafening explosions came out again, this time the bombing point of the burial, but was a long dragon. From the foot of the mountain up to fifty or sixty meters a line of downward explosion.

Binoculars in the situation and just now is different, this time the bombing point sold relatively shallow, Zhuang Rui only see the bombing point through the place, the land as if plowed generally, have to the sides of the flip, a deep chasm appeared in the line of sight.

“Xiao Zhuang, look up there.” The words of Elder Adira came from the side.

“Above?”

Zhuang Rui raised his binoculars with some uncertainty, and at this glance, his entire body was stunned.

At the place where Zhuang Rui and the others camped, it was already located at a height of more than three thousand meters, and the peak in front of them. More than five thousand meters above sea level, at the top of the mountain year-round snow does not melt, even in the summer, but also just half of the mountainside snow in the slow melting, flowing to the wild ox ditch.

“Avalanche?!”

Zhuang Rui saw within the binoculars, almost towering halfway up the mountainside, those frozen as hard as iron ice and snow, a crack appeared.

Zhuang Rui ears seem to be able to hear the ice layer break issued by the “click” sound, followed by a huge snow body began to slide, snow body in the process of sliding downward, quickly gained speed, so the avalanche body into an almost straight down the white snow dragons, clouds, whistling and powerful to the mountain rushed down.

The snow layer breaks, white, layered snow blocks, snowboards should rise …… as if the god of the mountain suddenly launched the internal force shook off a white robe, but also as if a white snow dragon riding in the clouds, whistling down the mountain, like a white beast, devouring all the things that can be seen in the eyes of Zhuang Rui.

“Wild goat?”

In Zhuang Rui’s line of sight, he suddenly saw a group of wild goats that were running wildly for their lives, only that their speed was far less than the snow, and after just a few seconds, the dozen or so wild goats disappeared in Zhuang Rui’s eyes.

The avalanche has lasted for more than half an hour, until after the mountain slowed down, the speed of snow pouring down only eased down, but the original half of the mountainside at the bushes, have disappeared, all covered by thick snow, I believe that after a few days, all of these snow will be turned into snow water flowing down.

The principle of avalanche Zhuang Rui know a little bit, in the snowy mountains, have been carrying out a kind of contest: gravity must pull the snow downward, while the cohesion of the snow hopes to keep the snow in place, when this contest reaches a climax, even a little bit of outside forces. For example, the running of an animal, a rolling stone, a blowing wind, a slight tremor, or even a shout down the valley, is enough to trigger a catastrophic avalanche if the pressure exceeds the cohesive force that holds the snow grains together in a ball.

For example, if the wind is blowing, the wind will not only cause a large accumulation of snow, but will also cause the snow particles to condense and form a hard, brittle layer of snow, resulting in an avalanche in which the snow layer above can slide along the snow layer below.

And this avalanche, obviously is a man-made disaster, a huge explosion far more than the cohesion of the snow particles, so that the mountain snow can not withstand the pressure, the avalanche.

The power of nature, let Zhuang Rui in dumbfounded at the same time, also deeply feel a kind of powerlessness, human beings in this kind of natural power in front of, appears to be so small, life here, appears to be so helpless.

“Work, clean up the rocks at the mouth of the mine, several of you, follow me up the mountain.”

An hour later, there was no more debris falling down, Zhao Gong organized people to open up the mountain and got busy, this time the explosion was very successful, the original mouth of the river, has been completely blocked, and in the right side of the more than ten meters far away, there is another opening, the snow water that has begun to dissolve on the mountain turns into a stream, and runs down from this.

The water in the stream was even cooler, Zhuang Rui reached out and put his hand in the water, and actually felt a piercing chill, and from time to time, there were ice cubes the size of a millstone, rushing down from the mouth of the new channel.

The original mouth of the mine, now has all been blocked by debris, but clean up these rocks, to be much easier than the excavation of the mine, to the next day at noon, the outside of the mine was cleaned up, and deafening sound of the diamond machine, and began to echo in the canyon.

Today is the day to prepare to return back, Zhuang Rui and the others have been in the mountains for half a month, the jade vein has been identified and mined, Adira decided to first bring back the mined jade, in addition to sending some more manpower over, after all, the current working people are only seven or eight, the progress of mining is too slow.

Apart from the donkeys that transported the jade, all the rest of the tools and supplies stayed behind, as the chief person in charge of this mining site, Zhao Gong also stayed behind, while Zhuang Rui followed the Jade Prince out of the mountain.