I want to be a good minister

Chapter 304
"Is it the sound of water?" An adjutant said hesitantly, and the others followed suit, and the sound of the water became louder and louder, as if it came through the mountains.

"Master Cen, what should we do now?" Li  looked at Cen Xi in a panic, and looked at the situation, even if they arrived at Zhongshi Mountain, it might not be in time.

From Cen Xi looking at Zhongshi Mountain, which was already in front of him, he didn't know how fast Sui Sheng was, and whether he was ready at this moment.

"My lords, even if we turn back at this moment, we are still in danger." Cen Xi glanced at the water flow under his feet, stretched out his hand and tied his robe around his waist, tied his trousers tightly, and pointed at Zhongshi Mountain in front of him.

"When we get there, we may succeed. If we return now, we will fail." Cen Xi said word by word, and in her life, Cen Xi has never failed a second time.

The crowd nodded.

"Okay, how can you be willing if you don't give it a try—" Everyone said, following Cen Xi's example, they all lifted their robes and tied them around their waists, followed Cen Xi's pace, and ran forward.

Although the water flowing under his feet is only ankle deep, Cen Xi knows that more than half of the flood water will reach the cave. If there is a place to go, then the group of them will be swept away by this raging current.

"Here—" Sure enough, it was almost the same as shown on the map. The huge cave was blocked by stones, and the huge stones were tightly blocked.

"Master Cen, if we want to remove the rocks at the entrance of the cave, I'm afraid it won't take a day or two. We have to find another way." Li ∙ looked disappointed.

Originally, according to the speed of the flood they calculated, it would take at least three days to circle from Gengshan, so they would have enough time to gather people to remove the stones at the entrance of the cave day and night, but the flood rushed away. If the hole in Gengshan Mountain is opened, then when the flood comes, there is no need to go around Gengshan Mountain, but to run directly here.

Therefore, I am afraid that if it does not take a day, there will be more and more water, and there will be no place to drain it, so the entrance of the cave must be flooded, or the large plains in the southeast will be flooded.

"There is no other way, Mr. Li, you send someone to check the flood in the cave, calculate the time of the flood, and leave the entrance of the cave to me—" Cen Xi said, and he was already heading towards the entrance of the cave.

"Mr. Cen—" Sui Sheng was already waiting here, and when he saw Cen Xi coming, he nodded.

"Thank you, Mr. Sui." Cen Xi took a deep breath and carefully looked at the stones at the entrance of the cave. Sure enough, he saw that Suisheng had carefully stuffed the flints into different positions. Some of them were based on what she said, while others were in even more perfect positions.

But then comes the most critical moment.

"Master Cen—"

"Master Cen—" Several people followed, and they were sent by Li to help.

"My lords, I don't have time to explain at this time, you take people to find hay and dry branches, the more the better—" Cen Xi turned his head, everyone was stunned, what do you want hay for?
"Let's go, go find—" The leading adjutant immediately turned around, and the people who followed followed quickly, although they were puzzled.

Cen Xi immediately took off his coat, quickly rubbed it into long strips, and immediately looked at Suisheng again.

Seeing this, Suisheng took off his coat and handed it over. Sure enough, he saw that Cen Xi had rolled them into long strips and tied them together.But the ropes were far from enough. Cen Xi looked at the clothes of other people on the mountain. They were ragged and barely covered, but a few disaster victims took them off and took them, but the cloth was damp.

Cen Xi wanted to make a fire primer. To bring out the effects of all the flints, he had to have a very good primer that could explode all the flints at the same time before the flood came, so that the cave could be blasted open.

Cen Xi carefully wrapped the long strips of clothes twisted on top of the two flints, and the higher it went up, the more leads it needed.

Suisheng seemed to have seen what Cen Xi meant, he took off his single clothes without hesitation, and handed it to Cen Xi.

At the same time, several victims quickly lit a fire beside them, dried their clothes, and handed them to Cen Xi.

Cen Xi didn't refuse, and continued to work on the introduction. To make all the flints explode at the same time, it must have a lead of about the same length.

"How is it?" Li came in a hurry, glanced at the entrance of the cave, and was startled.

"This is?" Li  pointed at the black stones at the entrance of the cave, each one the size of a fist, but the young man in front of him looked cautious and moved very cautiously.

"Flint——" Cen Xi said two words, the man was stunned, apparently he had never heard of it.

"Can this open the cave door?"

"It's not opening, it's exploding—" Cen Xi continued, Li, who rushed back, quickly took off his clothes when he saw this, and Cen Xi made the fuse in the same way.

Those who went looking for hay searched for half a day, and only came back with some damp branches, but the robes on their bodies played a key role. When everyone took off their clothes, Flint had already tied them carefully.

"Master Li, when will the flood arrive?"

"I'm afraid it will be here in a while—" Li  said, Cen Xi nodded and glanced at the shirtless crowd.

"There's one last one—" Suisheng glanced at the only single shirt left on Cen Xi's body, and Cen Xi followed the man's gaze back to his body, then shook his head.

"Jing is very afraid of the cold." Cen Xi felt that it was inappropriate to shake his head at this time, so he could only add that the single clothes could not be taken off, once they were taken off, the cloth strips wrapped around the waist and chest would be completely exposed.

Cen Xi saw the weeds and branches he found on the ground, dried them on the fire, picked a few thick vines and carefully wound them into a long rope, and fixed the last flint.

Following the remaining dry grass and twigs, Cen Xi slowly extended five meters backwards along the gathered leads before stopping.

Everyone retreated slowly. Although everyone didn't know what Flint was, they saw that the young man was so cautious and ordered to retreat as far as he could, so they didn't dare to slack off, and their eyes fell on the young man's every move.

"Young Master Cen, I'll do it—" Sui Sheng didn't wait for Cen Xi to reply, he had already taken the burning branch from Cen Xi's hand, Cen Xi nodded without insisting, Sui Sheng knew some martial arts after all.

Cen Xi stepped back, seeing that Suisheng had lit the hay pile, the hay immediately ignited, followed by the flames and rushed towards the entrance of the cave, and quickly climbed onto the fuse.

Immediately afterwards, there was only a deafening loud noise, like a landslide, the rocks splashed from all directions, and fell into the water like a torrential rain.

"boom--"

"boom--"

"Bang—" Cen Xi counted the sounds carefully, nine?Immediately, he frowned and looked at the hole where the smoke was billowing, but he didn't hear the sound of the rocks collapsing that should have appeared.

"The stone cave, no, hasn't it collapsed?" followed by a person who whispered.

When the thick smoke dissipated, he saw that the stones at the entrance of the cave were still well piled up, and Cen Xi couldn't sit still.

Cen Xi: System, what's going on?The Flint you gave is a counterfeit and shoddy product, I want to complain——

System: Only when all ten pieces of flint explode can the cave door be opened, and one piece remains unexploded.

System, you said ten flints, do all ten flints have to explode, or even one less?

Damn, isn't this cheating? !
(End of this chapter)