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Thunderous rumbling.
One, two, heave-ho.
Ratatat.
Four days had passed.
Last night, news came from below the mountain: a miner's family had managed to get through to a miner's phone underground, but all they heard was coughing before the call dropped, and it couldn't be reconnected.
This message, whether true or a lie concocted by the families afraid that the Command would give up the rescue, was invigorating.
So, to the continuous sounds of blasting, laborer's chants, and drilling, the mountain formed from the landslide on the gully became increasingly hollowed out.
Fang Huai felt like he had become Sakai Tadamatsu from "My Chief and My Regiment", carving out holes of various sizes in the mountain, then going in to explore them himself.
Now, it seemed that mountain excavation wasn't easy at all.
The accumulated depth of the earth and stones had reached over 40 meters, and the geological conditions were extremely complex, much tougher than imagined.