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Chapter 120: Centipede with Hundreds of Sections

Geng Xuan paused his research on Wanjun Power and looked at Luo Qing and the others.

To be more precise, he was looking at the other middle-aged man who came with Luo Qing, Ding Yong, Teng Yu and Wang Lu.

"Qian Dong?"

Geng Xuan vaguely remembered this person's name, but he was not too sure, and a look of doubt appeared on his face.

If he remembered correctly, among all the members of the Giant Bear Gang, this person, even if not the oldest, was definitely among the top, and was many years older than Luo Qing.

However, his cultivation is not any better than Luo Qing's, and he has no outstanding performance in actual combat.

In terms of cultivation and strength alone, Luo Qing can only be considered mediocre among the more than 30 members of the Giant Bear Gang.

This Qian Dong is naturally even worse.

In addition, he does not have the management and organizational skills like Luo Qing. He is gentle but taciturn. Unless something happens to him, he basically will not express his opinions.

In Geng Xuan's impression, this character is almost like a transparent person.

Although this was also related to the fact that Geng Xuan paid less attention to other people, in addition to Luo Qing, Wang Xun, Ding Yong, Teng Yu, and two old acquaintances Liang Jun and Xu Lin, there were five or six other outstanding people, and he had some impression of them.

Geng Xuan was very curious about the reason why Luo Qing and others brought Qian Dong here alone at this moment.

Luo Qing also saw Geng Xuan's doubts and said directly:
"Boss, Qian Dong used to run a carriage shop for a while, specializing in custom-made carts and horse-drawn carriages.

Because I am not very good at running the business, the store has been lukewarm.

But his real forte was carpentry, which he not only did well but also efficiently, and things that would have required a workshop to do, he could do himself.”

Geng Xuan nodded, suddenly realizing.

These more than 30 members of the Giant Bear Gang were all operators of some industries in Kangle before they hid underground.

For example, he "Su Ruiliang" runs a hostel, Luo Qing runs a teahouse, and the situations of others are similar, except that the specific industries they run are different.

It is normal for someone to run a bicycle shop and be both the owner and the maker.

He looked at Qian Dong and asked curiously, "Do you have a solution?"

Qian Dong nodded and said, "Boss, in fact, this problem can be solved by making some modifications to the carriage."

"How to modify it?"

“The reason why the carriage couldn’t pass through was that it was too wide and too high.

The height problem is easiest to solve by simply cutting off the part that exceeds the tunnel height and moving the cargo that exceeds the height limit down.

The problem of the carriage being too wide can also be solved by shortening the wheelbase.”

Qian Dong, who rarely speaks on weekdays, is not at all nervous when it comes to his professional field.

Even Geng Xuan, a layman, could easily understand his ideas.

"But how much can this carriage hold? Won't it have to be moved back and forth many times?"

Qian Dong said:
“It is also solvable. The problem of reduced loading capacity due to lower height can be solved by lowering the floor of the carriage.

This can easily cause problems when encountering uneven roads in the wild, but although this tunnel has some slopes, the ups and downs are very gentle, so there is no need to worry about being hit by a trailer on the ground.

There will be no problem in lowering the bottom plate. The missing height on top can be made up from the bottom, which can solve a lot of problems.

Shortening the wheelbase will shorten the width of the box accordingly, which will also allow less stuff to be loaded.

But I calculated that after all the carriages were lowered in height and width, there would be a lot of extra wood. With just a little processing, I could assemble this wood into separate carriages.

The only problem is that there are no wheels, but that's not a big deal, just add them in the middle of the modified vehicle.

In this way, the carriages became shorter and narrower, but their number also increased.

Moreover, each carriage is movably connected, so turning is very flexible and convenient.

Taking into account that the extra carriage is supported by the two cars in front and behind and is suspended too long, it is necessary to make reasonable distribution when loading materials.

Silver and other heavy objects were loaded into modified carriages.

As for those herbs that take up a lot of space but are relatively light, they can be placed in this extra compartment first.”

Qian Dong talked eloquently, and Geng Xuan completely understood his ideas for modification.

The carriage was made shorter and narrower, and the wood saved was assembled into a new body, which was hung between the modified vehicles.

After such adjustments, the convoy will become unrecognizable and become a veritable "centipede with a hundred sections", but it can indeed transport all the materials to the other end of Baiyuanji through the underground line at one time.

The horsepower of the thirty-six horses can be fully utilized.

Geng Xuan couldn't even think of a better transfer plan than this.

but--

"There are more than ninety carriages here. How long will it take to modify them according to your intention?

The efficiency of the team has indeed improved, but it is not advisable to spend too much time in the early stage. "

Qian Dong glanced at the nearly 100 carriages parked neatly and said, "If everyone can cooperate with me and follow my instructions, I can complete all the modifications within two hours."

"Within two hours? How is this possible!"

This time it was Geng Xuan who was dumbfounded.

Within two hours, count it as two full hours.

Four hours, two hundred and forty minutes, and a total of ninety-six carriages, that means it takes an average of two and a half minutes, or one hundred and fifty seconds, to successfully convert one carriage.

Qian Dong did not argue with Geng Xuan. Instead, he took a quick look and chose the carriage that was used exclusively for Zang Zigao's daily life and had the least stuff in it.

He said to Geng Xuan, "Boss, I can show you this."

Geng Xuan nodded in agreement.

"I need a few more people to cooperate with me."

"No problem, as long as I can do it, I will obey your orders!"

Qian Dong nodded and jumped onto the shaft of the cart. He took out an iron spike-like tool from his waist and poked hard at the roof and the four corners of the carriage. Four wooden wedges that looked like nails were pushed out.

Then he lifted the roof cover and removed it completely.

Then, he pulled out the wooden boards that formed the four walls of the carriage one by one with his bare hands.

The speed was very fast, especially when he called a few other people to do the same as him and draw in four directions at the same time.

With the cooperation of four people, it took less than a minute to completely dismantle the part above the floor of the carriage.

Then, it took them about a minute to remove the entire floorboard of the carriage.

Geng Xuan then came to his senses. Although the strength of these Giant Bear Gang members was low, that was relative to those in the Bone Refining Realm and the Marrow Refining Realm.

But in fact, if they are viewed from the perspective of ordinary people, they who have the strength of the Blood Refining Realm are also superhuman.

With precise control of strength, hundreds of kilograms of force can be exerted with just a wave of his hand.

In addition, the production of horse-drawn carriages obviously has strict regulations, so there is no secret for Qian Dong, who also runs a carriage shop.

The carriage, which was entirely connected with mortise and tenon structures, could be easily dismantled by them with their bare hands.

When Geng Xuan came to his senses, Qian Dong was already squatting on the ground reassembling the carriage.

Except for some wood that was cut with sharp tools or some new holes were dug, more than 90% of the wood remained unchanged.

But when Qian Dong put the pieces of wood together again between the two wheels, a carriage that was much narrower than the original one and had a much lower bottom plate, which was only ten centimeters away from touching the ground, or to be more precise, a "cart" was formed.

Because no corners were cut in the main structure, savings were made wherever possible in other places.

The bottom plate is not completely solid, and the wooden boards around it can be reduced as much as possible, so it can only serve as a railing to prevent the goods from rolling off.

As for the top cover, there is none at all.

Ugly.

If it were placed in Changpingfang, no one would necessarily want it even if it was given away for free.

But at this moment, Geng Xuan's eyes were shining.

Although it definitely took Qian Dong more than 150 seconds from dismantling the car to completely reassembling it, he was able to accomplish this by himself with more than 80% of the work done!

If other people could dismantle each carriage in advance, and let others do the cutting and re-dig, and he only needed to do the final assembly, then the efficiency would definitely be extremely high!

After putting the last piece of wood together and reinserting the wedge for final fixation, Qian Dong looked at Geng Xuan.

Geng Xuan nodded heavily and said:
"Okay, let's do as you say.

Now, including me, we all obey your orders! "

Qian Dong smiled and nodded:

"Well, now please take everything out of the car."

As he spoke, he had already walked to another carriage nearby, poked open the four wedges on the roof, then opened the roof of the carriage and threw it aside.

He continued walking to the next car and repeated the same action. He said, "Empty one and dismantle it. Because the size and specifications of each car may be different, so when you dismantle it, be sure not to mix up the materials of different vehicles, otherwise it will be difficult to install them."

Luo Qing and others immediately organized more than 30 people. They first got into the car as Qian Dong had arranged, picked up huge medicine bags weighing at least 100 to 200 kilograms and passed them to their companions under the car, asking them to pile them on the ground according to their weight.

But soon, someone reacted.

Since the car is going to be dismantled anyway, what difference does it make whether it is dismantled first or later?
Of course, do it in the most convenient and quickest way.

It is obviously more efficient to empty the walls of the carriage first and then move the goods.

Everyone doesn't have to crowd at the door of the car. They can move things from four directions at the same time. With seven or eight people working together, the car can be emptied quickly.

Then remove the bottom plate.

Just like that, including Hong Quan, Cheng Hui, Xie Hang, and Geng Xuan, a total of thirty-six people took action.

With the cooperation of many people, the carriages were quickly dismantled and emptied.

After dismantling one car, Qian Dong immediately directed several other skillful helpers to quickly reprocess some of the wood.

He explained as he was doing it, and they were all very simple tasks, either cutting wood into certain lengths with a sharp tool, or drilling holes in certain wood.

This is a very simple thing for everyone.

When Qian Dong began to assemble it skillfully again, they had already gone to the next disassembled carriage to do the same work.

In this way, the interior of the cave became a bustling labor scene.

Geng Xuan also worked for a while. After all the carriages were dismantled and the supplies inside were moved out and placed aside in different categories, he found that there was nothing else he needed to help with.

Even for the assembly work that requires the highest level of skills, many people gradually grasped the essence of the skills after carefully observing Qian Dong assembling seven or eight vehicles, and tried to assemble them themselves.

Although the efficiency of one person is much slower than Qian Dong's, five or six people cannot compete with five or six carriages at the same time.

After correcting some details for these people, Qian Dong began to lead people to re-process the wood saved after the modification was completed, and then assemble it into new carriages.

It is called a carriage, but in fact it is just a sufficiently strong base plate with a circle of wooden railings, and a design that can be flexibly connected to other modified vehicles at the front and back.

……

Just then, Geng Xuan saw that one of the "trophies" showed signs of waking up.

Geng Xuan called Wang Xi, who was standing nearby, and said, "Arrange a few people to inquire about their situation."

Soon, four gang members who were not good at carpentry but were very good at playing pranks on people each picked up one and walked to different corners.

In order to prevent leaving difficult-to-handle traces, they thoughtfully laid a layer of leather blanket before putting the people down. These were the things the team used for overnight stays.

Soon, screams one after another rang out in the cave.

Except for Hong Quan, Cheng Hui and Xie Hang who had some reaction, the others acted as if they didn't hear anything and their actions didn't pause at all.

Perhaps it was because their questioning skills were sophisticated enough, or perhaps it was because these four people were not strong-willed people, and they soon told Geng Xuan everything he wanted to know.

Geng Xuan didn't let them suffer any more. He condensed his tremendous strength into cone-shaped energy at his fingertips and shot it into the eyebrows of several people, ending their lives instantly.

After refining the four balls of residual energy and gaining a total of 73 points of good luck and 6 points of black luck, Geng Xuan immersed all his attention in the various information he had just gained.

Among these four people, three have been hiding in this underground tunnel for a long time, doing some illegal activities.

Geng Xuan did not get any valuable information from them, but only slightly improved the information collection on Baiyuanji.

The last guy caught, who was entering the underground tunnel from the ground, brought Geng Xuan a lot of useful information.

He was thinking of hiding down there temporarily because the atmosphere on the ground was becoming more and more dangerous, and his home just happened to have a passage leading to an underground tunnel, so as to avoid being drawn into the dangerous vortex.

However, he was unlucky. Before the danger above broke out, he took the initiative to put himself into the tiger's mouth.

Through what this person saw and heard during his last period of time at Baiyuanji on the ground, Geng Xuan already knew that Baiyuanji on the ground was like a volcano that was about to erupt.

However, due to the constraints of various forces, the volcano is only becoming more and more agitated, but it has not erupted recklessly.

If nothing unexpected happens, this volcano will erupt completely after the strong entry of Anleji's forces.

Baiyuanji, which already has many internal conflicts, will quickly "explode".

Geng Xuan waved and called Hong Quan, who had also been listening attentively for a long time, to his side and said:
"Do you think that, given Baiyuanji's current situation, we still need to divert the trouble?"

According to the suggestion that Hong Quan initially gave in order to save his life, in order to disrupt Anleji's sight and delay the possibility of being tracked, they could take advantage of the conflict between Grand Master Feng Yu and Anleji, divert the trouble away, and use Grand Master Feng's body to hold off Anleji for a while.

But now, given the situation in Baiyuanji on the ground, there is no need to take any extra actions. After the Anleji people arrived at Baiyuanji with furious emotions, the first thing they had to do was to sort out the situation in Baiyuanji, which was the basis for them to carry out subsequent tracking.

Without Baiyuanji's cooperation, they would have no idea what to do and could only be furious.

Hong Quan was thinking in his heart, wasn't the current situation of Baiyuanji caused by you alone?

This disaster has already been brought to you!
Thinking of the tragic situation that Baiyuanji was about to face, Hong Quan felt a surge of pity in his heart.

He thought about it seriously, bowed to the ground, and said:
"Please help save Bai Yuanji!"

Geng Xuan was surprised and asked, "Save Bai Yuanji? Me? Are you crazy?"

Hong Quan said:
"Given the current situation, if the people from Anleji come here in anger, coupled with the instigation of those traitors, it will surely cause a bloody storm, and many innocent people will be involved."

"Are you blaming me?" Geng Xuan glanced at him.

"I dare not, I am just stating a fact."

"and then?"

"Time is too short. The only solution I can think of is to have Master Feng lead his men to withdraw from Baiyuanji immediately before Anleji arrives!"

"Give up Baiyuanji and give it all to Anleji?"

"Well, in this case, An Le Ji naturally has no reason to kill people indiscriminately."

"But the key is, are Master Feng and the others willing?
The reason they have been able to hold out until now despite Anleji's infiltration is that they are either stubborn or they are reluctant to leave this position and become homeless.

How can we retreat just like that?"

"As long as their last bit of luck is cut off, they will realize what is happening.

...A stubborn person who is truly ignorant of current affairs will never reach a high position!"

"How to cut it off?"

Hong Quan did not answer immediately, but looked at the thirty or forty corpses neatly piled up on a huge leather rug next to him.

Cao Duo, Wu Yue and Zang Zigao are at the top.

Hong Quan said softly, "You don't mind the trouble of moving so many corpses around. You actually have similar thoughts in mind, right?"

Geng Xuan's mouth corners slightly curved, as if he was puzzled, and asked as if he was testing him:

"Why? What good will this do for me? ... Anleji and I are now mortal enemies. If I help them easily take over Baiyuanji and expand their territory, isn't this adding wings to the tiger?"

"If Master Feng can escape from Baiyuanji before the people from Anleji arrive, it will be of the greatest benefit to you!

Before getting rid of him, Anleji would not be able to spare too much attention to track the whereabouts of the convoy.

This way, you will have more time to digest your gains!"

Geng Xuan nodded slightly, and it was unclear whether he agreed with Hong Quan's statement or was considering it carefully.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Geng Xuan did not continue to communicate with Hong Quan. He sat quietly aside, lowering his head slightly, as if he was thinking about something seriously.

Until Luo Qing stepped forward and reported: "Boss, it's done."

Geng Xuan finally came to his senses again. He turned his head and saw that the bustling scene of car dismantling and car assembling had disappeared.

The inside of the cave has completely changed into another appearance.

The original convoy has disappeared.

Instead, a series of short and narrow carriages are connected in series.

The goods that were originally unloaded on the ground were neatly stacked. Every five or six carriages, a blindfolded horse was fixed between the front and rear carriages.

Thirty-six fine horses connected more than two hundred carriages in series. Due to the large number of them, they had to coil in circles to fully spread out the carriages in the not-so-large cave.

Geng Xuan stood up and said to Hong Quan beside him, "We can talk about other things after this is done."

As he spoke, he walked straight to the driver's seat of the first carriage in the front, sat down, and gently whipped the horsewhip.

"lets go."

Soon, the first horse began to exert its strength and slowly moved the several carriages behind it.

Then the second one, the third one...

As more and more horses began to move, more and more carriages followed suit.

From the moment Geng Xuan drove the first horse into the tunnel, horses and carriages followed one after another. From a whole to see, it looked like a huge strange living creature.

(End of this chapter)