After walking two or three hundred meters forward, he turned a corner. At this time, the water almost reached Li Rui's chest. An Guangmin was short and the water had already reached his neck. However, both of them breathed a sigh of relief and shone forward with the emergency light raised above their heads. The darkness was not the scene of corpses floating on the water surface that was most worried about.

"Secretary Li, look, there is the alley leading to the work surface in front of you." An Guangmin pointed at the front with his feet in the water.

Li Rui shone with an emergency light and saw a tunnel more than 20 meters ahead. At this time, the water surface was only one meter away from the top of the tunnel.

"From this alleyway, about two hundred meters ahead, turn right and about one hundred meters ahead, the working surface is the working surface. Look at the direction of the water flow, the water permeability point should be there." An Guangmin introduced.

When Li Rui heard that this place was only more than 300 meters away from the miner's trapped, he thought for a while and said, "If the water is good, you should be able to swim?"

"No!" An Guangmin and the two miners behind shouted at the same time.

"Secretary Li, you don't know that after passing this alley, the terrain is downward and then upward. When the accident happened, that section must have been filled with water, which made the people inside unable to escape at all, and even the sound could not be transmitted." An Guangmin hurriedly said.

"Is there any other alleyway besides the work surface?" Li Rui asked.

An Guangmin shook his head and said, "No, this alley is also newly opened, so the working surface over there has been more than 100 meters digging."

"If you can't keep the homework, where will they be? Otherwise, someone will definitely be rushed out here." Li Rui said with a puzzled look on his face.

"I also wonder, it should be like this. Are people blocked in completely submerged alleys?"

"It's impossible, so many people, and the water flows so fast, it's impossible that they all are stuck in it. The only explanation is that they must have found a new hiding place inside." Li Rui said.

An Guangmin's eyes lit up, "So they still have hope of survival?" Then he said distressedly: "But where are they now?"

"Then I'm going to ask you, aren't you very familiar with the situation below?" Li Rui glared.

"This work area is newly opened. There is only one on the drawing. And I haven't gone down the well for almost a month during this period. I really don't know the specific situation inside." An Guangmin shook his head bitterly.

Li Rui also shook his head. Private mining management like this has always been very chaotic. Production plans are changed at will, and the drawings do not match the actual mining surface.

"Minister An, there may be...there may be another working face here." One of the miners said with some uncertainty.

"There is another one? Why don't I know!" An Guangmin said hurriedly.

"I just heard that when I was having supper two days ago, I heard Ergouzi mention it, saying that they had been working for a long time today, digging more than 20 meters of coal and not getting out at all. I will dig another place tomorrow." The miner recalled carefully.

"That's right. They must have hid on the temporary excavation but abandoned work surface." Li Rui said excitedly with a high-high.

An Guangmin said regretfully: "It's a pity that Ergouzi and their team were trapped below." He had previously counted the number of trapped miners, so he also knew who was trapped below. Then he asked the miner: "By the way, Ergouzi had mentioned to you the specific location of this temporary excavation work surface."

"He just mentioned this. If you hadn't talked about this with Secretary Li just now, I would have almost forgotten." The miner grabbed his head and said.

"This abandoned working face must be not far from the water permeability point, otherwise they would have no time to hide with such a fierce water situation." An Guangmin thought.

Li Rui looked at the alley that was not completely submerged, thought for a while and pointed at the alley and said unwillingly: "Lao An, after passing this alley, turn right, how much is the distance that is completely submerged now?"

"It looks like thirty or forty meters. Why? Secretary Li, are you still thinking about swimming over? No, no, the water is too fast and the distance is long, which is really too dangerous. And Secretary Li, look at the water rising very quickly, and this alley is at risk of being submerged at any time." An Guangmin hurriedly said.

Li Rui thought that he had a very good water quality. He won the swimming championship at the school sports meet when he was in college. He usually held his breath and swimmers, and could easily swim through a 50-meter standard swimming pool in one breath. Even if the water flow was very fast, he thought he could get through it.

"Lao An, at the current rate of water rising, it will take at least an hour to completely flood the alley. My water quality is good. I believe that not only can I swim, but even if I don't find anyone, I can swim back before the flooding." Li Rui said. In fact, he is a stubborn person at heart, which is related to more than 40 lives. He thinks it is worth taking this risk.

An Guangmin wanted to persuade him again, but Li Rui interrupted him without any doubt: "Old An, this matter is settled. Who, do you see if the rope we brought is enough?"

"Secretary Li, my name is Li Xiaoshuan. The ropes we brought were only about 500 meters, but there are still many tools there, so we can pick them up." The young miner said hurriedly.

"This is best. If you pull a rope, it is safer. Once you find them, the rope will become the lifeline for us to contact them. Li Xiaoshuan, hurry up and ask them to find the rope and connect it. Lao An, you will go up later. The rescue team probably has arrived at this time. You can explain the situation below to them. The most important thing now is to speed up the drainage speed."

Seeing that Li Rui's attitude was very firm, An Guangmin had to say, "Secretary Li, then be careful. If you really can't get through, come back immediately."

"Okay! I understand. Lao An, there was such a big accident today, and we were actually tied to a rope and grasshoppers. As long as we could rescue people, everything would be fine. If there was anything, then you would just wait to lie in prison. I would have to roll the bed and get out of here. No one would have a good result. And if so many people died, would you still sleep at night?"

An Guangmin nodded sadly and followed Li Xiaoshuan back with one foot and one foot. When Li Xiaoshuan came back, the water rose by about ten centimeters, and the water had already spread to Li Rui's neck. Li Xiaoshuan and another miner were short and had to retreat twenty meters.

Li Xiaoshuan tied the mine rope tightly to Li Rui's waist and said worriedly: "Secretary Li, be careful. Brother Dazhu and I are both landslides, so we can only guard here. If you can't hold on, just pull the rope hard and we will drag you back."

Li Ruize smiled and said, "It's okay, don't worry. Once I find them, I won't come back. I will fix this end of the rope there. As long as you wait until the water overflows the top of the alley, pull the rope hard. If the rope cannot be pulled, it means I have found them."

"Yes, Secretary Li. We believe you will succeed." Li Xiaoshuan and Dazhu looked at Li Rui with admiration.

Outside, the rescue team of the Coal Management Bureau has already been in place. County Mayor Yang Liqing, Executive Deputy County Mayor Su Zhiqiang and Du Jinsong, who are in charge of coal mines and production safety, have also arrived together and are listening to reports from Jiang Liansheng and Ma Xuejun on the specific situation.

Yang Liqing's face turned pale. He is now at a critical moment. The county party secretary Ji Faling's term will be at most one year. If nothing unexpected happens, he will become the top leader of Nanqiao County after Ji Faling is transferred. But at this critical moment, such a big accident occurred, and forty-six people. If all of them were killed, as the county magistrate, he would probably have to recite a serious warning at the very least. Not to mention the county party secretary, it is still a matter of whether the county magistrate can be kept!

When he heard that Chen Taizhong, the owner of Changshan Coal Mine, might have run away, he was furious: "If there is such a big accident, you dare to run away? I will notify the Public Security Bureau immediately and I will be warned of Chen Taizhong immediately. I must not let him run away. I also need to quickly find out the cause of the accident and rescue the trapped miner at all costs."

"County magistrate, Comrade Li Rui from the Coal Management Bureau and An Guangmin, the deputy miner in the mine, have taken four miners to the mine to check the reason. It has been almost an hour since it went down, and new news is probably coming soon." Jiang Liansheng said.

"Li Rui?" Yang Liqing still remembers this name fresh.

Du Jinsong, who was standing beside him, hurriedly said: "I informed Li Rui as soon as possible after receiving the news of the accident. He and Ma Xuejun from our bureau's safety production department rushed over first."

Yang Liqing nodded slightly. Li Rui's reaction was quite fast, and he dared to lead the team down to find out the situation in person. It seemed that he underestimated this young man who showed his strength.
Chapter completed!