The ear-piercing alarm and the fire that rose to the sky soon alerted the workers of the Chemical Factory.
“Fire!” “Quick, call the police ah!” “Oh my God, is there an explosion over there?” The screams that were mixed with chaotic footsteps sounded in the corridor.
Ke Shaobin was sweating profusely in a hurry, and quickly typed in the chat channel: “Are you guys okay? Are there any injuries?!”
Qin Miao, who had always been calm, also asked anxiously, “Xiao Lu, have you guys come out?”
The wind just rose at night, and the tongues of fire and smoke swept up behind them with the wind. The heat in the air almost burned them, Qin Lu continued to use her Plate Movement to take everyone away from the fire before she typed in horror: “We’re out, everyone is fine. Unfortunately, the bodies and evidence were all destroyed…”
Jiang Pingce said with a calm face: “It seems that the murderer found us, so he wanted to destroy the body.”
Yue Xingwen spread out his palm, and what he was holding in his hand was the half-corroded jade. He looked at Jiang Pingce and said in a low voice, “There is only this left, but unfortunately, this jade pendant alone can’t explain anything.”
Everyone’s faces were a little ugly. Just now, they escaped from death and the situation was critical. They simply did not have time to bring out so many corpses. Xin Yan frowned and said, “The firefighting should come over soon, if this fire can be extinguished in time, it will expose those corpses. Ordinary flames can only scorch the human body, but they can’t burn the bones into ashes.”
Liu Zhaoqing was stunned, and suddenly came back to his senses. “That’s right! The human body has to be cremated in a high-temperature furnace before it burns into ashes, and as long as the flames can be extinguished in time, when the firefighters are cleaning up the scene, they will be able to discover the human bones buried here.”
Jiang Pingce said, “You guys think too simply. There was a sudden explosion here, the murderer was obviously prepared. There was a large number of flammable and explosive gasses in the wastewater workshop. He should have prepared a fire source in advance, and when he realized that we had found the body, he immediately ignited the fire source. When the employees see the fire, they will surely call the police, and my guess is that, at this very moment, the fire escape of the factory has been blocked.”
Yue Xingwen was silent for a few seconds and sighed helplessly. “It only takes one truck to block the fire escape.”
There were many examples in reality, because the fire escape was blocked, the fire truck could not drive into the fire scene in time, resulting in the fire getting bigger and larger, and ultimately failing to successfully save the people trapped in the fire scene.
The explosion of the Chemical Factory involved the reaction of a large number of dangerous chemicals. At this time, there were many flammable and explosive gasses in the air, spreading with the wind. There were also many flammable chemicals in other production workshops near the wastewater workshop, and it was not far from the warehouse, which was full of more chemicals that were too many to count!
Once the fire continued to spread with the wind, not to mention the wastewater workshop, the entire Chemical Factory might be detonated, instantly turning into a purgatory on Earth!
Ordinary water could not extinguish this kind of fire, even if Yue Xingwen now opened the ‘Torrential Rain’ skill, it was useless. Firefighters must take professional fire extinguishing measures to extinguish the fire.
And once the fire trucks were blocked, this fire… how could it be controlled?
Thinking of this, Yue Xingwen immediately made a decision. “Everyone in the dormitory area immediately goes downstairs to join us! Qin Lu will come to meet you, we must stay away from the fire as soon as possible.”
Ke Shaobin said nervously: “Isn’t it the start of the escape mode? This is also too pitted, we haven’t solved the case yet!”
Xin Yan said solemnly: “Listen to Xingwen, go downstairs immediately!”
Ke Shaobin typed ‘Roger’, then opened the door and ran downstairs.
At this time, many people in the Chemical Factory did not realize the crisis, because the dormitory area was hundreds of meters away from the wastewater workshop, and some people might think that the fire could not burn the dormitory. They just opened the window and stuck their heads out, maintaining a wait-and-see attitude.
Ke Shaobin had no time to worry about so many employees. He rushed downstairs as fast as he could, and on the way he met senior sister Lan, Qin Miao, as well as Zhuo Feng, Xu Yishen, Zhang Xiaonian who came down from the stairs.
Everyone looked at each other without saying much and quickly came downstairs.
At this time, Qin Lu had quickly switched places downstairs to receive them, and everyone tacitly stood around Qin Lu. Qin Lu quickly tapped the globe and brought everyone all the way to the gate of the factory.
A familiar mechanical voice sounded in their ears: “During the exam, those who leave the examination room without permission will be judged as failing.”
Liu Zhaoqing couldn’t help but curse, “Shit, this means they want us to stay in the fire and watch the factory being burned to ashes?!”
Ke Shaobin whispered, “You mean that the entire factory is going to explode?”
Xin Yan looked at the fire source in the distance with a serious face. “I’m afraid so. Have you ever heard of ‘boom combustion’ in buildings? When the upper temperature reaches 400~600 degrees, it will instantly detonate all the combustible materials around, so that the fire develops faster and faster. The temperature will continue to rise, causing a chain effect with the wind…”
Xu Yishen thought about it and said, “This is also the reason why it’s difficult to extinguish the fire in forests, building complexes and other places, right? The temperature in the air is so high that even without a flame, many things that can burn catch fire, creating a vicious cycle.”
Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses and complained, “The air temperature is 400 degrees, then aren’t we going to be steamed? We can’t go out and need to stay here to wait for the fire truck to come and put out the fire. Will we be able to make it past the first seven days of our lives?”
Everyone: “...”
At present, there was no explosion as Xin Yan said, nor had it produced a chain effect. The fire was still limited to the scope of the wastewater workshop, the closest to the wastewater treatment place was workshop no. 5, for the packaging of drugs, production date printing, etc. It was the last part of Chemical Factory production.
Liu Zhaoqing quickly realized that something was wrong. “Workshop no. 5 is for packaging drugs, and a large amount of printing paper and packaging boxes are piled up. If the flames spread over, it will be bad.”
Zhuo Feng calmly said, “With the strength of a few of us, there is no way to control the fire in the Chemical Factory. We don’t have a firewall to physically isolate it, we don’t have fire extinguishing equipment, and you can see the wind direction!”
No need for Zhuo Feng to remind them, the wind had brought the smoke in the air to everyone. Many students had been choked by the smoke, and they believed that it wouldn’t take too long for the wind to bring the fire to other locations…
Triggering a chain reaction.
The entire Chemical Factory would turn into a sea of fire!
Jiang Pingce’s gaze swept over his teammates, quickly went through everyone’s skills in his mind, and said in a low voice, “There is no time to think about anything else now, it’s important to save our life. Although my coordinate system can send everyone to the sky, the usage can only be maintained for half an hour, and the fire will definitely not be extinguished within half an hour, and by then, the coordinate system skill will be interrupted, and everyone will still burn to death if we fall down. We can’t leave the confines of the Chemical Factory, so since we can’t go up, we’ll have to go underground.”
Zhang Xiaonian’s eyes lit up and asked, “What senior brother means is for me to dig a hole in the ground now?”
Yue Xingwen gently patted Zhang Xiaonian’s shoulder and said, “We can only hide underground, so hurry up.” He looked around carefully and said, “We can’t dig at the gate, so let’s find another place.”
Jiang Pingce opened his mobile phone and looked at the factory plan map, and quickly made a decision, “Qin Lu, 15 degrees on the right, 200 meters, let’s go to the southwest corner of the factory.”
Qin Lu nodded and switched places again according to Jiang Pingce’s data.
In the distance, a blazing fire lit up the night sky. Thick smokes and tongues of fire spread with the wind, which soon ignited workshop no. 5!
With a loud ‘boom’, there was an explosion in workshop no. 5!
Ear piercing screams came from the dormitory building further away, and many employees finally realized the seriousness of the problem and began to run wildly, rushing frantically towards the factory entrance, only the reach the gate and find that——
THe big iron gate of the factory was actually locked, and the security guard on the night shift was not inside.
Someone banged the gate and shouted, “Where’s the security guard? Open the gate ah!”
“It’s dangerous here, we have to escape!”
“Call Mr. Zhang…”
“Can’t get through!”
“Find a ladder, find a ladder and climb out!”
The screams in the crowd were deafening, mixed with cursing and crying. Yue Xingwen was overwhelmed, and of course could not help these innocent employees.
Zhang Xiaonian summoned an excavator and directly dug a hole more than ten meters deep to ensure that the hole was deep enough not to be affected by the flames. Xin Yan suggested, “Seal the hole in the ground with a steel reinforced concrete mix from the Architecture Department and don’t leave any gaps. Otherwise, a large amount of smoke will enter the hole in the ground, causing carbon monoxide poisoning for us. The polluted air in the basement can be purified by senior sister Manluo’s Purification Tree, should be enough to last us for a dozen hours.”
Lin Manluo said, “I understand, just like when we hid in a hole in the ground in the Faculty of Environment, with my green tree and Xin Yan’s distillation bottle, air and water sources are not a problem.”
Zhang Xiaonian nodded, stretched out his right hand, quickly blocking the hole in the ground with a concrete wall made of reinforced concrete. Reinforced concrete did not burn, even if the fire spread here, it would not burn underground.
After completing the construction of the underground fortress, Qin Lu once again took out her globe, and switched places to teleport everyone into the closed basement, and then Lin Manluo summoned the green tree and turned on range fresh air purification.
The pungent smoke disappeared into thin air and the fresh air allowed everyone to finally breathe normally.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
There was a loud ‘boom’ coming from outside, obviously, as Jiang Pingce expected, the entire Chemical Factory building was detonated one after another, and the Chemical Factory had turned into a large sea of fire.
If the big iron gate could not be opened in time, maybe…
The employees of this Chemical Factory would die.
Hundreds of people would die here, and there would be countless scorched black corpses, so even if the bones of the wastewater workshop were found after the fire was extinguished by the firefighters, it was difficult to trace the origin and find out the truth of their deaths.
Ke Shaobin exhaled softly, looked at Yue Xingwen and said, “It was the murderer who did it, right? This person is simply mad, he directly ignited the factory where there are many flammable and explosive hazardous materials. Did he want the entire Chemical Factory to die in this fire?!”
Yue Xingwen’s face was serious. “Don’t forget that Zhou Jianan also died in a fire back then.”
Upon hearing this, everyone’s spirits shook at the same time.
Zhou Jianan died in the fire, if the murderer was really Zhou Jianan’s relatives to come to take revenge. Under the twisted state of mind, it was indeed possible to make a crazy move of ‘setting fire to the Chemical Factory and burning all the people’.
Well, the murderer was definitely not in the Chemical Factory at this time.
Jiang Pingce looked at Yue Xingwen and asked, “Do you have a candidate for the murderer in mind?”
Yue Xingwen took a deep breath and nodded. “Yes, someone we’ve overlooked.”
The two looked at each other and said at the same time, “The person in the same office as ours… Team Leader Xiao Wenhui?”
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