“Aiyo, this little brat dares to lay your hands on your Big Grandfather now?” When faced with Hong Dali’s mischievous hands, Hong Tu avoided it as he said, “I’ve kept this mustache for a long time, I’ll count on it for the rest of my life!”
“I’m just kidding.” Hong Dali giggled and said, “Then, Big Grandfather, I’ll get going soon. I’ll come again if I’m free in the future. Speaking of which, the environment here is not too bad, heh heh, I love Nature the most!”
“Go, you little brat.” Hong Tu roared with laughter. “When you come the next time, bring me another surprise. Oh right, Wang Daoming, Geezer Wang will stay for a few more days here to catch up with me. I’ll return him to you a few days later.”
“Oh, sure.” Geezer Wang was of the same generation as Big Grandfather. Thus, he naturally wouldn’t be able to stop them from getting close to each other. Hong Dali sat in the car and then waved to Hong Tu. “In that case, I’ll get going, Big Grandfather. Oh right, what surprise do you want?”
“Quickly get lost, quickly get lost, I get angry just by looking at you.” Hong Tu was immediately angered to the point of amusement. “This little brat, he still doesn’t know about anything from yesterday…”
Wang Mingyu gradually stepped onto the accelerator and helplessly said, “This carefree state of mind of Young Master Dali is truly to be envied.”
Hong Dali sniffled as he said rightfully, “Of course, the happiness index of carefree people is high! Let’s go, let’s go, let’s get going to save big turtle first!”
Upon exiting the estate along the main road, three Prayer Angels, one Soaring Angel, with the addition of Lin Chuyin’s black colored super cool sports car, five cars traveled along the outer loop main road and went directly towards the outer area of Tianjing Mountain
“Ah, it’s still the best over here! Haha!” Once he got down from the car, Hong Dali violently sniffled. “This is the air of freedom! I love Nature! Wahahahaha!”
Speaking of which, the air here was indeed much better than the air filled with dust from the city.
That feeling was especially strong for Hong Dali, who had already gotten the title of Nature’s Little Prodigal.
They then went in the direction of the underground cave. Eventually, once they reached the entrance of the cave, Hong Dali was instantly dazed.
It wasn’t because that retard Zhao Zhuren was there, it was because the entire scene outside had greatly transformed.
On the ground were a few sets of excavating machines that were smoothing out the road. At times, there were large and heavy trucks pulling over some mud and sandstones—it was obvious that they were setting up a road here. Meanwhile, the person in command of these road engineering works was the sunglass man, Brother Turn Back.
“Brother Turn Back, what’s going on now?” He’d seen him just last night and again today, which made Hong Dali feel that this was indeed amazing. He hurriedly went forward and asked, “I remember that you were very busy…”
“Ah, it’s like that.” Mu Huishou smiled and said, “Initially, this place had already been sold to you, so we shouldn’t interfere. However, as you know, that thing has a huge impact, so our Boss’ intention is to present you with a gift for the first meeting. In the future, there will be a road constructed here so that it would be more convenient for you to develop this place. En, look at that, we haven’t touched all the trees over here the slightest bit, and we’ve constructed it totally according to the topography. It hasn’t ruined the surroundings, has it?”
“Heh heh, this is truly not bad.” This road construction had helped him save quite a lot of money, so Hong Dali was rather satisfied. “Thank you for being so considerate towards me.” Then, he exposed his fangs. “Say it, I’m listening to any requests you have. You do know that the construction of this road really doesn’t mean much to me…”
Mu Huishou almost stumbled to the ground. This Hong Dali is really direct… But I like it!
Mu Huishou thought for a while, then slowly said, “Heh heh, it’s just so easy to speak to Young Master Dali. Our boss says that that the impact of that thing extremely huge, and if it were to be directly seen by the people, it may easily cause unnecessary chaos. Thus, hopefully, when the time comes where it’s rescued out, our men would be allowed to follow and protect it along the way. This will then be able to effectively appease the emotions of the public. If it cannot be rescued, then we can set up some constructions over here to explain that this thing will not harm people or whatnot.”
What he meant was, there would not be a problem if that thing wanted to appear in front of the public’s eyes. However, it was necessary to do it through the country’s authentication and testification, to avoid any of those superstitious rumors from the public that may cause unnecessary fear.
Why would Hong Dali object to such a request? Anyway, that thing currently belonged to him, and he totally didn’t care about other things. Thus, he directly nodded. “If it’s like that, okay. En, we’ll get going now, then?”
“Okay!” Since Hong Dali had agreed, that naturally wasn’t a problem.
Hong Dali went along with Li Nianwei, Tang Muxin, Lin Chuyin, Wang Mingyu, and the other lackeys, while Mu Huishou brought four of his colleagues, and the group immediately set out. In no time, the group reached the place of the small cave where they’d previously failed to get through.
The cave that initially did not allow people to enter was now already expanded by quite a fair bit by the professional engineering team. Now, it looked like it was already enough for one person to crawl into it. Mu Huishou smiled and said, “This stone overhead is actually stacked up. The engineer said that for the time being, it cannot be expanded any further. He’s currently exploring further into this, and we have to wait till the results are out to see whether we can continue broadening it. Or else, to do that out of impulse will easily cause the mountain to collapse. However, for now, it’s actually just a little inconvenient, but it’s still not a problem for someone to enter.”
“Oh, no problem.” Anyway, with reference to the image captured by that small device, Hong Dali had gotten more familiar with the topography here. Thus, he directly said, “Let’s go in first and talk later!”
Everybody instantly crawled forward, with Mu Huishou taking the lead, followed by Wang Mingyu, and then Hong Dali, Lin Chuyin and the rest followed. By this time, it was no longer a concern of the group whether their clothes were dirty. Everything could be discussed after they had entered.
After passing by the small and squeezy tunnel, it became more spacious in no time. The group crawled first, then squatted down, then bent their waists, and then finally stood straight. After about 20 minutes, they finally entered the huge underground cave where the alligator snapping turtle was.
As they got near, when the gentle ray of light in their hands lighted the way up, Hong Dali and the rest were greatly shaken once again.
The image recorded by the small device was still not very clear since it was taken from too far a distance. However, now that everyone stood directly in front of it, they knew how exaggerating the big fellow in front of them was.
In order to take care of the eyes of the alligator snapping turtle, the lighting equipment used by everyone was that of the weakest illuminant. The light intensity was the type that could barely allow them to see the outline of the alligator snapping turtle.
Once the light shone, the first thing that Hong Dali saw was the enormous head of the turtle(Hong Dali expresses his great liking towards this phrase…), and its size was actually as big as more than half of Hong Dali’s body. And that was only referring to the width…
Just those two eyes of the turtle alone were almost as large as Hong Dali’s head, and the entire turtlehead(This phrase is really naughty) had pricks growing on it all over. It was currently cuddling up and lying down there, which looked comical yet scary at the same time.
Its huge shell looked like it was around 3.5 meters long, with a height of 2 meters, added with those four huge legs that were all almost as thick as an elephant’s leg. The weight of the whole alligator snapping turtle was probably at least five thousand kilograms and above.
Even so many people present probably could not move it by the slightest. The key was that after it had grown to such a huge size, if it was flipped sidewards, its shell would easily crush its leg, and that would definitely not be a good omen.
“Dali, what do we do?” Tang Muxin asked, “We’ve come in now, but what should we do to flip it over?”
“Such a huge fellow, what can I do?” Hong Dali said gloomily. “If we flip it sideways, its legs would probably be crushed. We probably can’t even use a jack. The problem is that cranes cannot be brought here.”
“Yes.” Mu Huishou nodded and said, “We’d calculated the model previously, and should this alligator snapping turtle just directly be flipped around like that, that will definitely break its legs. Most importantly, it has probably lain down here for some time, so there isn’t much water left in its body. And without its muscles to support it, that will definitely not work out. So…” Mu Huishou looked at Hong Dali. “Young Master Dali, you’ve always been witty, we can only rely on you now…”
The problem now was very obvious.
The entrance of the cave here was too small. Thus, large machinery would not be able to enter.
The jacks could not be used, because the big turtle’s legs would easily be crushed once it was flipped over.
Human power was definitely not enough.
Thus, Hong Dali could only helplessly pat its big turtle head. “Big turtle, Big turtle, for now, we have no choice but to leave you down here first. I have to think properly about how to flip you over…”
Strange enough, when the alligator snapping turtle heard Hong Dali’s words, it slowly closed its eyes, and thereafter, opened its mouth to let up a humph. “Hulu…”
“Dali, it looks like it understood what you said!” Tang Muxin exclaimed in surprise.
Isn’t it obvious? I have the Animal’s Best Friend title!
Nevertheless, the biggest problem now was how to flip it over.
Hong Dali helplessly looked around his surroundings, then he took his lighting equipment and walked around the alligator snapping turtle. At last, he stopped and said, “Everyone, don’t be anxious first. Let’s go to other places to look at the topography and surroundings, then we’ll think of a way again.”
Roar… The huge turtle actually gave a reply.
After it had lived for so many years, though its intelligence still differed from that of humans, it could at least understand that Hong Dali meant well, and it was just that there wasn’t a good solution for now. Thus, they could only stop trying for now.
As the saying goes, the right time, the right place, and the right people were necessary. Now, both the time and the people were right, they lacked only the place. Hong Dali naturally would not forget that he had faintly seen a small cave in this large cave. Thus, the group instantly continued further in, and not long after they had advanced forward, there was indeed a small-sized cave about 30 meters behind the huge turtle.
That small cave was about six meters, with about four meters of breadth. After they’d entered the cave, there was a way leading up, and judging from the terrain, it might lead near the foot of the mountain.
As expected, after the group had walked for another 100 meters and above approximately, at last, they came to a much smaller cave than the previous one.
The interior of the cave was rather dry. However, Hong Dali very quickly discovered something peculiar—a few claw marks on the ground that were about half an inch deep into the ground.
“Heh heh, so that’s the case. Heh heh heh heh, hahaha, I know how to save Big turtle now!” Hong Dali laughed loudly.
