16. THE HUGE PIT

 

Everyone raised their heads to look at the sky.

“did you see that colorful lights flashing across the sky?”

“I saw it, it looks like a rainbow.”

“It can’t be a rainbow, the rainbow won’t just disappear after a moment.”

Bao Ye squinted his eyes when he heard everyone’s discussion Eyes, if things were the same thirty years later, the seven-color clouds just now should represent upper god coming to the lower world.

He had no way of knowing which god it is, and what is their purpose for coming down here.

Bao Ye stared at the sky for a while, then drove the garbage truck aimlessly around the construction site again.

The slaves in the construction site were either digging, or transporting rock and soil. There was not even a valuable thing in the huge pit, as if they are working here purely for fun.

Out of curiosity, Bao Ye drove the car and followed the slaves who were carrying the debris: “hey brothers, are you thirsty? Would you like some water?”

He took out a bottle and a cup in the car and gave them water to drink, and when they had drunk enough, he asked: “I see that you are digging the earth every day, is there something buried in the ground?”

One of the slaves looked around and made sure that the deacon was not nearby before he dared to speak: “We have been digging this pit for three years, and it’s now hundreds of meters deep, ten kilometers long, and two kilometers wide, but nothing can be found except stones.”

Bao Ye was surprised: ” The hole you dug is that big? But I can see from the surface that the hole you dug is not that long.”

“The big pit is inside the hole, so of course you can’t see it from the surface.”

“You have been here for three years, Haven’t heard of what are you digging?”

“We only heard that there is a big treasure down there, but we don’t know what kind of treasure it is.”

“Then do you know how long it will take to dig?”

The slaves shook their heads: “The deacon didn’t tell us, ah, the deacon is here, let’s go back to work.”

Bao Ye looked back at the deacon, wearing a red T shirt, who is staring at them sternly, because Bao Ye was a member of the department of Health, the deacon did not punish him, but only told him to drive away, don’t stay here and hinder the slaves from working.

Bao Ye drove the car to the edge of the big pit, looked at the slaves who were as diligent as ants, and murmured: “After three years of digging, the big pit is hundreds of meters deep, ten kilometers long, and two kilometers wide…”

He remembered that his adoptive father once told him that there was such a big pit in the lower world, and about the treasure buried in it…

Bao Ye’s eyes flashed with excitement when he thought of this.

He quickly started the car, made a big circle around the pit, and waited until noon before going back to the department of Health for dinner.

Seeing him coming back, Lao Liu immediately told him the notice sent by the deacon: “The deacon said that there will be distinguished guests visiting our construction site in the coming days. We need to satisfy the guests or we will be punished.”

Hearing the word honored guest, Bao Ye immediately thought of the seven-colored clouds he had seen before: “Did the deacon say what kind of honored guest it is?”

Nian Gao sneered, “How Is it important? Anyway, they are people we can’t afford to offend, eat quickly, and clean up as soon as possible after eating.”

After lunch, the four of them worked together to clean the building, but the distinguished guest mentioned by the deacon only came four days later.