The final answer made everyone, except for Ye Qing, as white as a sheet of paper. The thinnest part of the cave from the top of the mountain was still 70 meters thick.
This was granite. Even if a hammer hit it, sparks would fly.
How were they going to rescue them?
The situation at the scene was transmitted to the county, and the county informed the experts who came to rescue them.
The experts held a conference call in the car to urgently discuss rescue methods.
According to the preliminary results of the experts' discussion, it was impossible to enter the cave through the entrance. There was bound to be a thick layer of sand under the water, and there were stones at the entrance.
At the moment, there was only one solution that could be used.
That was to borrow Monster Industries' aircraft and transport the exploration team's drilling machine bit by bit. Then, they would find the thinnest part of the mountain and the cave and use the drilling machine to slowly drill the hole down.
After the hole was drilled through, they would be able to use it to transport oxygen and liquid food into the cave.
After setting up the equipment and drilling 70 meters deep, it would take at least two to three days. Fortunately, they had Monster Industries' aircraft. Otherwise, it would be difficult to bring a few shovels into the vast mountain.
There was no way to save the nine university students alive. If a miracle happened, there might be one or two students with good physical fitness who survived.
At the scene of Hunchback Mountain, the deputy county head was using a satellite phone to communicate with the county. He and the county head were discussing how to appease the families of the students who had just gained great hope, as well as the media who were on steroids.
While he was on the phone, the Nighthawks returned.
This time, the aircraft had brought a few chainsaws.
The pilot asked the search team members to each take a chainsaw and asked a few confused members to saw the trees.
"Sawing trees …" Wang Chailong looked at the chainsaw in his hand. Sawing trees was his specialty. Their forest fire fighting team practiced building fireproof belts every year, and sawing trees was an indispensable part of it.
After the call, the deputy county head walked to Ye Qing with a sad face. There was no news of a suitable rescue plan. He couldn't hide it from Monster Industries. Besides, the drilling team still needed Monster Industries to help transport the drilling equipment.
"Tell the experts to stop messing around and wasting time."
Ye Qing waved his hand and looked around the murky lake. "I just asked the company's construction department about the storage of engineering equipment in Sichuan."
"There's a suitable piece of equipment over there."
"What … what equipment?"
"A very large piece of equipment."
The deputy county magistrate was just about to ask how the large equipment would be transported in when the satellite phone in his hand rang.
The caller was the county magistrate. He sounded angry and anxious. "Hurry up, what's the situation over there?"
"I just got the news that the bullsh * t Tencent News Reporter Team has chartered a helicopter from the city. They are going to take the helicopter to the Hunchback Mountain to film the scene."
"Don't leak any information from your side. Let them know that they won't be able to rescue these students in a short time."
The deputy county head's face turned even uglier than the turbid lake below. He asked when the helicopter would arrive.
"One hour at most."
…
45 minutes later.
The Tencent News reporter team took the Robinson R44 helicopter, which was provided by the municipal civil aviation department, and flew to the top of the scenic area.
The cabin of this car was designed so that four people could sit in the helicopter. Other than the pilot, there were also three reporters.
The Robinson R44 was a light helicopter. Flying on rainy days was not a big problem, but its wind resistance was relatively weak. The pilot was very careful and tried his best to fly behind the ridge.
The reporters in the front row and the cameramen in the back row had their eyes glued to the porthole, trying to look down.
According to the news, the search team and the people from Monster Industries should be on the Hunchback Mountain now. As long as they could find them, they would be able to find the location of the nine trapped students.
Whoever could get to the rescue scene first would be able to get the first-hand exclusive news.
It was really a tense headline race. It was said that there were now several large media companies looking for ways to rent helicopters.
"Hey, hey ~"
"The helicopter in front, don't swerve. Quickly lower your altitude and make way."
At this moment, a somewhat impatient urging voice suddenly came from the public radio of the Robinson R44 helicopter.
The radio was on speaker mode. The pilot and the reporters blinked in surprise.
The pilot's first reaction was that other media companies were trying to steal the news. "Who are you? We are flying a helicopter, not a car. The sky is so big, isn't it enough for you to fly?"
Of course, they couldn't make way. If they were late, there would be no red packets.
The pilot was about to speed up, but the urging voice came again from the radio.
"I ask you to turn the helicopter around and see."
"After seeing it, you can decide whether to make way or not. If you don't make way, we don't care. Just treat it as an extra pendant on our legs. "
"Crazy." The pilot muttered. Of course, he had to turn the helicopter around and see. He wanted to see which peer's tone was that even the sky couldn't tolerate him.
A flexible aircraft turned around.
"…"
The pilot's movements froze.
The three members of the reporter group also froze.
In the airspace more than a thousand meters in front of them, there were five huge shadows that were silently pressing towards them.
These five huge shadows formed a triangular formation. Below their abdomens were many steel cables that had been tempered thousands of times. At the end of the steel cables, there was a giant orange-yellow machine that was larger than a single Banshee aircraft hanging in the sky.
It seemed to be a small mountain, a small mountain made entirely of steel.
Three Banshee aircraft hung it in a triangular formation, and the other two kept parallel to it on the left and right. Under their abdomens, there were two orange-yellow mechanical arms that seemed to have just been removed from a Transformer.
For example, just based on the amazing size of the mechanical arm, if it grabbed the Robinson R44 helicopter under their butts, the helicopter would be like an egg that was grabbed by a boxer and would instantly shatter into pieces.
The vast sky, the boundless sky.
But in the eyes of the few people in the helicopter, there was only the square formation of the five aircraft left in the sky.
Together with the giant machine, they looked like a flying mountain giant.
They were as motionless as the helicopter, and their hearts were shocked to the point of no return.
Until the urging voice came from the public radio again.
"Still, not, making way?"
The helicopter was in an uproar.
"God, what did I see?"
"This is … This is … God, hurry up and take a picture of it."
At this moment, the pilot wished that the rudder could be longer. He finally understood the other party's words, "We don't care, just treat it as an extra pendant on our legs."
Their tone was not big at all. If they were swept by the machine they were hanging, his helicopter could fly without fuel.
When they flew by the side of the helicopter, the helicopter became a small boat in the sea, swaying up and down uncontrollably.
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