Six Ways of Fumo

Chapter 807 Drilling
Gu Qinglan tapped the iron plate with a Luoyang shovel and said:

"It should be hollow, but because the surrounding yellow sand absorbs the shock wave, the echo inside is not easy to detect."

"It must be hollow. If it were solid, such a thick and long iron pillar would have been impossible to cast in the past." Ji Xiaoxiao also said.

Ding Ermiao nodded and took Ji Xiaoxiao down to the bottom of the pit again.

Seeing Ding Ermiao walking down, Gu Qinglan stepped aside and rested against the wall of the pit.

Ding Ermiao used the flashlight and looked at the iron cover for a long time. Suddenly she turned around and asked Gu Qinglan, "Sister Lan, do you have anything in your preparations that can drill through iron?"

"Drill?" Gu Qinglan was stunned, and then said: "There is a very small hand-operated drill with a diamond head that is fine, but I don't know if it can be used to drill iron plates."

"As long as you have a drill, let's try it first!"

Ding Ermiao was slightly excited, pointed at the iron plate cover, and said:

"Since this iron plate cover is made of Yin-Yang fish, the most likely location of the mechanism is above the fish eyes of Yin-Yang fish. I want to drill two fish eyes and then take a look."

Gu Qinglan nodded and walked out of the sand pit to get the drill.

But Ding Ermiao lay down again, took out the compass, and carefully determined the position of the fish's eye.

When Gu Qinglan took back the drill, Ding Ermiao also marked the position of the fish's eye.

After taking a look at the drill, Ding Ermiao nodded and said, "It should be usable, but the drill bit is not long enough."

The drill bit is as thick as chopsticks, only three inches long.

As he spoke, Ding Ermiao squatted down, started from the fish eye position of Yangyu, pressed the drill bit against the iron plate, and shook the handle.

The drill bit rotates and rubs against the iron plate, making a scratching sound.

Ding Ermiao drilled for a long time. When he lifted the drill bit, he saw that there was only a small concave spot on the iron plate, which could fit a mung bean into.

"Er Miao, you take a rest, I'll come?" Gu Qinglan said.

Ding Ermiao wiped her sweat and said: "Okay, thank you for your hard work, Sister Lan. But if Sister Lan wants to drill, start drilling from the other fish eye. I will do it myself later."

Gu Qinglan felt strange and asked: "Why is this? Wouldn't it be faster for us to start from one place? Wouldn't it be a waste of time to drill another one?"

"Uh..., Sister Lan doesn't know something. This yin-yang fish, as the name suggests, is divided into yin and yang. So I think it's best to drill yin and yang together to comply with the principle of yin and yang." Ding Ermiao explained.

Ji Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes and said: "I understand, Ermiao is Yang, Sister Lan is Yin, you are a man and a woman, and the yin and yang work together to meet the original meaning of yin and yang, right?"

Ding Ermiao nodded approvingly.

Gu Qinglan blushed, stopped talking, squatted down and started drilling from another fish eye.

"Er Miao, the patterns of the yin and yang fish are the same size, and there are no words on them. How do you distinguish the yin and yang? What if there is a yin and yang fish on Sister Lan's side?" Ji Xiaoxiao flashed the flashlight to Gu Qinglan. asked.

"I just made a wild guess. It's not a big deal if yin and yang are confused. Anyway, yin and yang rotate, that's how it is." Ding Ermiao said.

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Another half day passed, and Gu Qinglan's side also made a small concave spot, maintaining the same progress as Ding Ermiao's side.

After doing this for three or five times, it was already getting bright.

Ding Ermiao didn't feel tired, and Ji Xiaoxiao was energetic because she took the toad elixir.

But Gu Qinglan and He Zong Ruixiang were a little trapped and depressed.

Especially Zong Ruixiang, who is a bit older after all. He has not rested all day and night. At this time, he is yawning all the time, and the eye droppings in the corners of his eyes are as big as broad beans.

"Sister Lan, it's dawn now. You can rest for a while. I'll do the drilling work first." Ding Ermiao arranged.

The small hole in the iron plate has been drilled to a depth of more than an inch. Ding Ermiao estimated that a breakthrough was not far away.

"Okay, I'll take a short break."

Gu Qinglan didn't insist. She walked out of the sand pit, spread a plastic sheet on the ground, used a Luoyang shovel handle to hold a coat to block the sun, and lay down on the ground to rest.

Although sleeping in this position is a bit indecent in front of everyone, in the wild, there is not so much care.

In order to avoid suspicion, Zong Ruixiang also walked into the sand pit, and Xiaoxiao went up to rest in the changing season.

In this case, even Ruixiang and Ding Ermiao cannot see what the two beauties are doing up there, so no one will be embarrassed.

Ding Ermiao and Zong Ruixiang sat on the iron cover and ate something.There was still some liquor brought, and the two of them drank a little each to refresh themselves.

After a short rest, Ding Ermiao continued drilling.Fortunately, this drill bit can still be used, and there are backup drill bits.

More than two hours later, Gu Qinglan and Ji Xiaoxiao walked in again, changed Ding Ermiao's shift, and continued working.

Zong Ruixiang came to spoil the fun again and said: "Junior sister, Ding Ermiao, I think this is a useless effort. First of all, our drill bit may not be long enough. Secondly, even if we drill through this iron plate, what can we do? ? Are you absolutely sure that you can open the iron plate?"

"Senior brother, you have nothing to do and go and rest. Don't give us any slack here." Gu Qinglan rolled her eyes at Zong Ruixiang angrily.

Zong Ruixiang smiled, climbed out of the sand pit, and slept on the plastic sheet just now.

Ding Ermiao did not go up, however. Together with Ji Xiaoxiao, they were half leaning on the wall of the sand pit, watching Qinglan drill the hole.

Because he had drunk a little wine and was tired from the night, Ding Ermiao leaned on the slope of the pit wall and gradually became sleepy. He closed his eyes and wanted to squint for a while.

It seemed that he hadn't slept for long when he heard a cheer from Gu Qinglan and Ji Xiaoxiao, and Ding Ermiao suddenly woke up.

"What's wrong, Xiaoxiao, Sister Lan?" Ding Ermiao asked, rubbing his eyes.

"It's drilled through!" Gu Qinglan said excitedly: "Er Miao, it's drilled through!"

Ji Xiaoxiao also smiled and nodded repeatedly.

Ding Ermiao hurriedly rushed forward and bent down to look at the hole drilled by Gu Qinglan.

The hole is so small that only one soybean can be put in.Ding Ermiao shined a flashlight inward, but couldn't see anything.

"You can't see such a small hole." Gu Qinglan said.

Ding Ermiao nodded, tilted his ear to the small hole, and tapped the iron plate cover with an engineer shovel.

bang bang...

A little echo could be heard in the ears, a buzzing sound, short and dull.

"It's hollow." Ding Ermiao raised his head, took the hand drill from Gu Qinglan's hand, and then drilled his own hole.

It was not long before Ding Ermiao felt that all the strength in his hand was gone. The drill bit went down and the iron plate cover had been drilled through!
"Is it clear?" Gu Qinglan asked.

"It's clear." Ding Ermiao nodded, shined a flashlight, and looked down from here.

But the hole was only that big, so Ding Ermiao looked at it for a long time, but still found nothing.

"It's so dark inside, you can't see anything..." Ding Ermiao frowned and said, "However, it seems that there is earth energy gradually rising up."

(End of this chapter)