stonecrandall Chapter 68, page 61, let's add another chapter!
Chapter 68, page 61, let's add another chapter!
Chapter 68 It's Children's Day, let's add an extra chapter!
"Don't rush, let me test the water spray force of this nozzle first."
Batu Nan jumped into the pit and used his face to feel the splashing water.
"That's right, the impact force is definitely from a high-altitude waterway."
The pit was quickly filled, and the water overflowed.
It flows down the hillside towards the dried-up riverbed.
"Did you find the spring so quickly?"
Broly and the others heard the commotion and came over to ask what was going on.
Those around them knew they were the financial backers of the event, and they readily gave up their seats.
"This is a water vein at a high elevation, but whether it can serve as a new spring for the Kathisi River is still uncertain. We need to continue digging to determine the water volume and the stability of the underground water vein's flow."
If only this part of the water vein is at a high elevation, but the overall underground water vein is still relatively low, then it is possible that after some groundwater flows out, the elevation of the underground water vein will decrease.
And this place will only become an ordinary well, not a spring…”
Batu Nan called on everyone to start digging the water outlet. The well diggers who were hired all carried professional tools. They were professionals who had dug deep wells, and each of them had the ability to work underwater.
As the water pit was enlarged and the outlet was deepened, the people took turns going down into the water to breathe. This continued from noon until the afternoon. When they could no longer dig the outlet, the group stopped and sat down on the ground to rest.
"Looks like it's another disappointment."
Looking at the puddle where the water flow had completely calmed down, someone sighed.
It has been more than four hours since the water was first dredged, and the flowing water has not even completely wetted the riverbed within a 500-meter stretch.
Although water is still overflowing from the puddles and flowing down the hillside into the riverbed, the amount of overflowing water is visibly decreasing.
Such an outlet cannot become a new spring. Even if a special slope is dug for it to flow, it may run out of water after a few days.
It might moisten the nearby riverbed, but compared to the goal of reviving the Kathisi River, it's a drop in the ocean.
"Sell the location of the water outlet here to people in the surrounding area, recoup some funds, and then move to another location."
"There are many Oasis Christians in the surrounding area, so business at the smuggling site isn't very good. If the Oasis Christians find out and start harassing us, we'll be in trouble."
The enactment of the law prohibiting private well digging had a significant impact on these well diggers. However, the well digging business continued, and some villages that could not afford daily water due to its high price would hire them to dig private wells.
Although being caught doing this could result in being hanged, those who lack water pay more, and generally no one betrays them, so their lives are still manageable.
Until the rise of the Oasis Cult, which believed that the people of this land had over-dug the ground, causing divine punishment, they also condemned the well diggers as the culprits and heretics who caused the divine punishment.
This led to fewer and fewer people hiring them to dig private wells, forcing the well diggers to rely on secretly dug wells to transport water from them and sell it for a living.
This practice is called the illegal water trade in the Kathi region. The water sold by well diggers is cheaper than the regular water, but it is easily suppressed by the authorities.
The business of directly selling water outlets is called the illegal water outlet business. Compared to the illegal water business, this business is riskier and more likely to be reported by believers in areas with a large number of followers of the Kathisi Oasis God.
After discussing it for a while, Batunan and the others came to ask Broly for his opinion. Strictly speaking, this outlet belongs to Broly, the financial backer, but the current laws of the Katish region do not recognize such a thing.
"Why are you going to sell this drain outlet?"
Broly was somewhat puzzled.
"The water output is too low to become a new spring. Selling it will at least make up for the losses."
Batu Nan explained that the people who came to dig today were all paid to do so.
"The water flow isn't great, can't you just make the opening bigger?"
Broly still didn't understand, and it was only today that he had witnessed that digging into the ground could actually yield water.
"It's not that simple. Places that can store water at high altitudes usually have relatively hard geology. Like here, there are large, hard rocks underground. Even the water outlet over there, we dug down to the hard rock below and had to stop when we couldn't dig any further."
The technology in this world is both advanced and backward. It is advanced in the sense that people here were able to create humanoid Imperial Arms or even Gundam-like Imperial Arms a thousand years ago. It is backward in the sense that most people are still using primitive tools for production a thousand years later.
Take this group of well diggers, for example. They have fairly professional digging tools, but the motivation for digging comes mainly from human labor.
Humans are helpless against the huge rocks underground unless they can find more powerful digging tools or underwater explosives; otherwise, they have no choice but to give up.
Someone had already dug up the surrounding soil around the rock at the bottom of the puddle, trying to lift it up, but the result was that there was no end in sight.
Some experienced craftsmen believe that the rock may be connected to the mountain below, making it very difficult to demolish even if large tools were made.
Even if the site is forcibly demolished, whether the underlying water veins can transform the outlet into a new spring remains an open question.
"So, it's just that you can't dig any further, not that you can't dig down to the water outlet, right?"
Broly asked.
"Stopping the digging is the best way to cut our losses. Continuing to dig could lead to a situation where we incur huge costs but gain nothing. That's our assessment."
Batunan reported earnestly to his superiors. He was quite responsible towards Broly, the financial backer who was willing to support his spring-digging project. He believed that money should not be wasted. However, Batunan wished he could split the funds in half to spend. More than 20 million seemed like a lot, but in reality, it was just so-so.
"Since you're not digging anymore, then let me continue digging, okay?"
Broly then asked, explaining that he didn't consider himself a professional spring digger, which was why he hadn't gotten involved.
But now that the professionals have given up, it's time for him, a non-professional, to give it a try.
If possible, Broly would like to learn how to dig a well so that he can dig his own well when he returns to Wampa.
If there is water underground on Planet Wampa...
"Well, that's fine, but how exactly do you plan to dig?"
Batu Nan asked, "Although the boy is strong and has a strange strength, what use is such physical strength in front of the huge underground boulder blocking the way?"
"Okay, you all run away."
Broly thought for a moment and decided to use the same method he used to dig a house on Wampa to dig the outlet, but before that, he needed to get the people on the hillside to leave.
"What's wrong? Why do you suddenly want us to go further away?"
Mine was a little confused; she was still chopping vegetables.
"Let's grab the ingredients and get out of here. Big Brother probably plans to blast this little mound to smithereens."
Akame was carrying a pot, Kurome was holding a bowl, and the other children were also carrying things.
They put them on the carriage and then drove off.
"What little mound? Isn't this a hillside?"
Mine was a little confused, but she still followed the group. Esdeath and Melard followed as well, both of them somewhat puzzled.
Until they were at the foot of the mountain, they saw a sudden burst of green light on the mountain, followed by a loud bang and a violent tremor in the ground. After they stopped, they stared wide-eyed at the mountain that had been halved.
"Is this something a human being could do?"
Not far away, Batu Nan and other well diggers who had also come to the foot of the mountain watched this scene, and some of them began to mutter to themselves.
"Splash..."
With half of the mountain gone, the huge opening allowed the underground water inside to gush out, instantly irrigating the dried-up riverbed several kilometers below.
Happy Children's Day to both minors and adults!
(End of this chapter)