Steel steam and flame

Those who can escape from the mining machinery in the sky have already disappeared into the dark air. Everyone who is still in the spider building now becomes part of the plan. Not only the arms smugglers who were hostile to Nolida, but also his own men. Those people he had long ago defined as abandoned children, things that he would throw away after using them. They are just decoys, or illusions. As long as his own men are still in the spider building, he can naturally create the illusion that he is still hiding somewhere in the mining machinery.

The fire outside the window illuminated the entire dark world. Nolida's months of preparation and the power of a large number of explosives when they exploded together, although it could not completely explode the huge torso of the support column from the middle in an instant. But the huge flame cloud rising halfway up the support column in front of him was enough to illustrate the power of this explosion.

The eight support pillars were wrapped in flames, and the cold white light began to extinguish layer by layer. The broken steam pipe mouth spewed out rich white steam, which was quickly drawn into the flames that were still sweeping and swaying in the air.

Cassia stopped at this moment, and the glass on the edge of the corridor was shaking violently due to the impact of the explosion. Even though there was a thick steel wall, the strange flames reflected in his eyes still made Cassia feel the scorching temperature and amazing power contained there.

In his fiery red cross pupils, a gap almost like a full moon was revealed in the center of the supporting pillar building. The only lift shaft going down was destroyed, and they had no way out.

At the same time, when the impact of the explosion reached Cassia, the entire spider building body sank suddenly, and the steel plates joined by bolts and rivets began to groan in pain. The huge load-bearing shafts also began to collapse on a large scale because of the stress flowing in the steel. The internal structural chains began to collapse on a large scale, and cracks and twists covered their dark bodies in the blink of an eye. The spider building itself is used to offset its own gravity, and the countless steel columns driven into the upper rock cannot support it for long. The supporting columns bear most of the weight of the building.

"What should we do? Is there any other way?" Cassia stopped. Now there was no need to wait for him to notify Kara and the others. The sound of the explosion was enough to make everyone realize the seriousness of the situation.

"A parachute is needed. As long as the materials are available, a simple parachute is not impossible to make." The first thing that comes to Cassia's mind is of course the parachute, which is the most suitable tool now. But what about the materials? There were no curtains on the surrounding windows, and the leaflet tablecloths were completely unqualified for parachute materials. And they are surgeons. People with abnormal body shapes look similar to ordinary people, but their weight is about two or three times that of ordinary people. Correspondingly, ordinary parachutes don't have much cushioning effect on them. The sight of rising flames on the glass kept squeezing Cassia's last nerves. The sinking spider building caused countless steel plates and shafts around it to twist and deform.

Cracks began to appear in the thick glass on the windows. The slightly deformed window frames were unable to withstand the huge force, and spider web-like patterns burst out. Then with the sound of broken glass falling to the ground, several windows around Cassia shattered one after another. The dry and hot wind rushed in the next moment, submerging him with the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke.

The flames began to dissipate after rising in the air. Thick smoke billowed up with the disappearance of the explosion flames. The wind direction in the high altitude was even affected by the hot air flow, making it completely chaotic. Gray-black smoke obscured half of the spider building and was spreading toward the center of the body.

The ceiling in the corridor began to fall off piece by piece, and the steel floor was warping and buckling. Under the influence of gravity, countless stresses flowing in the steel are concentrated and erupted everywhere. Compared with the rust caused by various reasons, the power existing in the steel itself is their biggest enemy.

At this moment, the red copper pipes also fell off piece by piece, and the air flow valve was damaged. A slight gap allowed the hot, high-pressure steam to begin to erupt, and the dry air seemed to have regained its proper humidity.

Cassia turned around and ran back. He wanted to go to the main control room to make something more. Although I don't know if the people at Sunault School have really completely cracked the difference engine array, but this matter is no longer important now. He decided to take a gamble, maybe there would be hope of survival.

The incandescent lights in the main control room are flashing constantly, and various alarm lights and countless buzzers have completely exploded here. The numbers on various machines are changing crazily. Even if he doesn't know what they mean, Cassia knows that it must be a bad number.

Cross pupils looked around the spacious room, and what he was looking for appeared inside.

It was a combination console, a machine that controlled countless steam pipes and valves. There were also rows of complicated instruction buttons on it, and the blood-like red light was flashing in front of Cassia's eyes.

The main power switch has been pressed, and the steam power core in the entire spider building is already in full operation. It seems that the difference engine has been cracked by people from Sunault School. Cassia's tense face showed a trace of relief, and she breathed out, "I didn't expect to be rescued by the enemy in the end. Nolida and Flos had been planning for so long, but they were killed by several people from Sunault School who joined in the middle. The students unintentionally destroyed everything, and this will definitely be something they couldn’t have imagined while they were celebrating!”

As long as the timing and situation coincide, the enemy can also become his helper, and maybe even do him a big favor.

Under the swaying light, Cassia pressed countless buttons one by one. Although there were many illegal operations, he did not understand these machines very well. The warning light kept flashing above his head, and the buzzer sounded like The cicadas in the windless and sultry summer once again made Cassia feel irritable.

When he pressed the last button, the warning light and buzzer lost their power for an instant, just like water flowing out of a hole punched in a plastic bag, power flowed out from the core of their machine.

Cassia shut down the power systems on all side lines, whether it was the steam in the red copper pipes or the current in the rubber copper core lines. Except for the only lighting system, all the energy was concentrated on the most important components of the mining machinery. Then A giant steam drill.

"Reading more books is still useful. Knowing how to use a gun is no match for those who hold power." Cassia wiped the sweat from his forehead and sighed. The whole building was still sinking, and the weapons that were driven into the rock formations The steel pillars can no longer hold up for much longer. He adjusted the energy output in the phoenix tube to maximum, and the steam output rate was the same. This will most likely destroy the core of the furnace, but who cares?

When the entire mining machinery suddenly dropped a lot again, there was no trace of Cassia in the main control room. His body with full rejection reaction left here at extreme speed and went to manage the steam drill. That floor was the only place where they could truly come into contact with the entity of the steam drill, and that would be their path to salvation.

At the same time, when Cassia pressed the last button, all the panicked people in the building stopped because the surrounding environment became quiet at that moment. The sound of alarms, the "sizzling" sound of sparks sputtering from the lines, and the sharp sound of steam releasing from pipes and valves all disappeared from people's hearing at the same time. As a result, the panicked people also stopped in their tracks. They didn't know what was going on, but they had reached a point where could something better happen?

There must not be, they thought. Then the sound returned after being hidden for more than ten seconds. It was like a sound made by steel tracks running on a metal road. It was nothing special. It was the simplest sound of metal friction, like the intersection of swords and the bite of gears. But the sound at this time was too loud, as if the roaring seawater was sweeping over and gathering into a huge wave that covered the sky, hitting people's eardrums the next moment. The air began to vibrate deeply due to the penetration of the sound. It ignored the dozens of layers of steel walls and truly spread to everyone's body. It was like the vibration on the ground felt when standing next to each other when standing next to each other.

The shaking of the entire spider building also became obvious, because the behemoth woke up, and the transmission of huge power on the gears made the shafts that had not rotated for decades "creep", and all kinds of forces turned into invisible torrents in the steel. Fleeing. The start of the steam drill accelerated the time it took for the spider building to completely fall off the rock formation above.

"Go to the bottom floor first. Cassia is still there. The situation here is not good, it's terrible." Kara had discarded all the equipment except the sniper rifle. She, Gustin, Lee and the others were now on the spiral staircase to the bottom next to the elevator. The lift has been scrapped for many reasons. When the light of the explosion caught their eyes, the search plan was called off. After they met in a very short time, they entered the spiral spiral staircase, spread out their cross pupils from the top floor of the building, and rushed towards the bottom floor.

When they arrived at the center of the spiral staircase, multiple slight knocks echoing in the vertical spiral staircase reached their ears. In less than four or five seconds, the sound became loud and clanking. It was the sound of heavy objects stepping on the steel plate, mixed with the sound of the steel being twisted.

"Someone is coming up below!" Several people made judgments at the same time.