Li Du was just making a random guess, but he did not expect his guess to be right.
There might be a snake nest around the mine. Meme told him that when they were digging the mine, they also found venomous snakes after a certain distance. Due to carelessness, one of the miners was bitten by a venomous snake.
"Luckily, we were able to save him in time and the mine prepared a serum. Otherwise, the situation would have been very bad," Meme said. "As we continued to dig, we encountered more and more snakes."
After discovering a large number of snakes, the miners became resistant to the mine and did not want to continue digging. All of them had families and children, so they were worried about accidents.
There were no traces of gemstone veins in the cave, so Meme decided to backfill the cave and stop digging. Therefore, the cave turned out to be what Li Du and the others saw. They only dug half of the cave before they stopped.
After the introduction, Meme asked carefully, "This is common in all mines. I didn't trick you, did I? I didn't mean to hide any negative information, right? "
Li Du's fight with Blanchett was a warning to them. Meme believed that he was not as capable as Blanchett and could not defeat Li Du, so he did not dare to provoke him.
Hearing the fear in his words, Li Du laughed. "Oh, of course not. I'm just asking you to understand the situation back then. Now, we've also encountered a lot of snakes, including venomous snakes."
Meme advised, "Listen to me, bro. Forget about this mine. It's normal to have one or two snakes, but why are there so many? Obviously, it's a snake nest. "
There were quite a number of snake nests in Australia. If they dug up a lot of snakes or found a snake tunnel, people would usually think of a snake nest and give up on digging.
However, Li Du could not give up. The mine was connected to a black opal vein, which contained at least a few million dollars worth of gemstones.
He had to thank the venomous snakes for stopping Meme and the miners. Otherwise, they would have found the gemstone vein.
It was not difficult to chase the snakes away. All they had to do was sprinkle some strong snake repellent powder. If not, Li Du could seal the mine with cement and see where the snakes came from.
He was a little confused. When he checked the mine earlier, he did not see a single snake. Why did the snakes appear as soon as they started digging?
Controlling the little bug to return to the mine, Li Du carefully examined the surroundings and gradually made a guess.
The snakes did not live in or near the mine, so he did not see them when he used the little bug to check. They only appeared after the mine was dug.
After they appeared, they tried to gather at the end of the mine, as if something was attracting them.
All Li Du could think of was that the black opal was attracting them. These snakes might have wanted to get closer, but the mine was blocked, and there were no holes or crevices for them to get close to as the mine was surrounded by solid rock formations.
There were holes and crevices around the mine. After the ore was dug up and backfilled, they might have returned to the mine through the crevices.
If his guess was correct, it meant that the snake was related to the black opal vein, just as some miners had said.
However, this point could not be established. This speculation had appeared long ago. People had done experiments and had not found any connection between snakes and black opals. In other words, they had not found much interest in black opals.
With a head full of fog, Li Du continued to work.
Brother Wolf went to town and bought two large buckets of snake repellent powder. He first sprinkled some around the wooden house, then put on his glasses and mask and went into the mine to sprinkle some.
If possible, Li Du did not want to use this thing. The snake repellent powder was highly irritating, and Ah Meow, Ah Ow, Crispy Noodles, and Ali did not like it.
The snake repellent powder was very effective. As it was sprinkled, the snakes in the mine began to disperse, wriggling away through the crevices around the mine.
After using the snake repellent powder twice, all the snakes in the mine were dispersed, so that Li Du and the others could continue to work.
This made the work even more difficult. The mine was full of dust, and they could not use an exhaust fan. Otherwise, the snake repellent powder would fly around and stick to their bodies.
The mine was already humid and stuffy, and it was torture to stay down there without using an exhaust fan.
Fortunately, Brother Wolf and Godzilla, who were hardworking and obedient, did not complain and continued to work while wearing masks.
After the mine was dug, the next step was to go deeper. This time, they had to use tools such as a crusher.
Because of the addition of the snake repellent powder, digging this mine was more difficult than digging a new mine at the number 115 mine. The main reason was that the people down there suffered.
This was why the miners gave up when they found that there were snakes in the mine. Using the snake repellent powder could drive away the snakes, but it was too torturous.
Li Du could endure the torture because he had a specific goal. If he did not know if there were gems ahead, he would not have been able to persist.
The sharpness of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold.
The words left behind by the ancestors were indeed reasonable. After some torture, they finally entered the mine and dug out the ore containing black opal.
Li Du gave Godzilla and Brother Wolf a bonus of 100,000 dollars each.
After receiving the money, the two of them did not mind the suffering anymore. It began to rain in late May, and they had to continue to work.
Among his subordinates, Li Du liked the two of them the most. Both of them had the character of "if you treat me like a scholar, I will repay you like a scholar."
Li Du gave them money, not to feed their appetite, but to win their gratitude and love. The two of them would work harder to repay him.
However, the autumn rain continued, and for safety's sake, Li Du suspended the mining work.
Brother Wolf suggested, "There are cracks in the underground ore, and the rain will flow in. In this way, the snake repellent powder will soon be washed away by the rain, and then the snakes will come back."
Li Du shook his head and said, "Then when the weather is good, we will sprinkle the snake repellent powder again. We must not go on like this. Brother, you can see that the water has seeped into the mine. This kind of mine is dangerous."
Although the geology around Lightning Ridge was relatively good, with many solid rock formations, it was not easy for the mine to collapse. It was not easy to happen, but it did not mean that it would not happen.
The autumn rain continued for two days, and the next night it suddenly became a rainstorm.
On the morning of the third day, Li Du went to catch crayfish in the rain and came back to make a large pot of spicy crayfish to go with beer.
Just as the crayfish came out of the pot, the pot suddenly shook, and then there was a muffled sound. "Boom!"
Ah Meow and the other three little ones, who were lying on the ground, jumped up at the same time and looked to the west with panic in their eyes.
Li Du subconsciously joked, "This thunder is really loud. Even the pot jumped up from the shock. I thought the crayfish was alive."
Brother Wolf said with a serious face, "No, boss, a mine has collapsed!"
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