Steel steam and flame

It has only been less than ten minutes since eight support pillars of the mining machinery broke. No matter how hard the steel building was, it was all deformed and twisted under the torrent of power. The arms smugglers gathered inside, as well as the student groups who survived by chance, will soon be buried together with such behemoths in the dark cavity of the mine, until their bodies rot and their bones rot. Maybe no one will come here again.

Cassia and the others were each holding bright flashlights and speeding in the direction of Floss's workshop in the darkness. The spider building overhead had begun to emit long tongues of flame over a large area, and the lighting system completely lost its function shortly after the explosion. The power system connected to the giant steam drill may have been completely destroyed in the explosion. They were only five or six kilometers away from the mining center, but the huge sound of metal friction could no longer reach their ears.

While running, Cassia took advantage of this short period of time to look up. The spider building was already covered with dots of flames. Some steel components began to break away from the splicing of bolts and rivets, and pieces fell off from high in the sky. Falling in the area of ​​the low ridge.

At a moment without warning, it was like a sun in its prime suddenly rising in the dark night. A light blue light lit up in the mine tunnel space, accompanied by a conductive sound similar to the "sizzling" of a radio. Suddenly, Cassia's cross-shaped pupils flashed when she raised her head.

Kara and the others also raised their heads at this time, and their eyes also reflected the strange scene in the sky.

This is not an explosion, nor is it a burning flame. It is just a light blue electric arc light. It has no shape or size. It is a group of coiled snakes, moving from the bottom of the spider building at an extreme speed visible to the naked eye. , instantly covered the entire huge mining machinery body. Just like vines that have absorbed enough rain in spring, they have been taken care of by the sun at this time. The spreading branches have wrapped the entire spider building in the light blue network. The moist water vapor in the air has also become the best conductor of electricity. The dendritic arcs spread in the dark sky, as if they were rooted in the void. They hurriedly grew in the void, and hurriedly grew again. The ground disappears in the blink of an eye in the extremely distant black air, a scene that comes over and over again. Cassia's eyes were chasing this strange scene intently, tirelessly, and there were countless blue lights dancing in their pupils.

"Did the Fa tube explode?" Cassia murmured. Only the energy stored in the Fa tube can produce such a magnificent discharge phenomenon. But there is another possibility, that is, somewhere in the spider building, there is an unknown limestone mine in Nolida, which is a few units. Now they encounter a large amount of water, and a violent reaction and energy release begin at this moment.

Cassia prefers the second idea. In his eyes, the blue arcs of electricity have not stopped, but they are becoming more and more intense. Under the arc light, the spider building completely turned into a huge luminous body, and countless steam was spurting out from its central part. Like a tsunami, the milky white inside roared with blue arcs that kept shining, pressing against the surrounding darkness. The air there retreated, and the darkness stopped in front of it, making concessions faster and faster.

Water splashes began to appear in the white steam and on the structure in the center of the spider building. This is the water in Moon Lake. It can be imagined that the core of the steam furnace has completely turned into a piece of red scrap iron due to the discharge reaction of the limestone just now. The valves that have no follow-up power to close are causing the water in Moon Lake to pour in crazily through several huge pipes. The pressure of hundreds of millions of tons of water can squeeze and ravage extremely hard steel like ordinary humans kneading dough.

There is no living life inside the mining machinery. Flesh is the best conductor of electricity, and the power of the arc can penetrate everyone's body in an instant. Death occurs just when the arms smugglers and student groups are in a state of panic. Like a giant scythe that cuts wheat, one swing can complete the task.

The top-down water flow from the Moon Lake broke through the spider machine's last line of defense with great impact. Countless steel pillars inserted into the rock formations fell off at this time, and also took away large pieces of hard rock.

The entire mining machinery began to accelerate under the influence of gravity, and the air below felt a huge pressure very early on. A new pressure range was formed there, and the strong wind suddenly swept towards the surroundings with the giant mine as the center, forming countless small tornadoes in the mine space. The dry dust on the ground replaced the darkness at this time, and from the ground It rose up and enveloped the entire central area of ​​the mining area.

Cassia and the others put on masks in advance to prevent their lungs from inhaling too much dust. In the darkness behind them, there was a shining star, emitting a light blue arc and falling at an ever-increasing speed. It drags a long tail, which is a mixture of smoke and milky white steam produced by combustion, and there is also a violent discharge phenomenon in it. The mining machinery turned into stars and after less than ten seconds of sublimation, it crashed to the ground. Like a downed propeller plane, dragging black smoke on its tail, it flew in circles and crashed into the enemy warship with the aerial bomb on the belly of the fuselage, completing the last display of its life.

The vibrations were transmitted through the earth's veins to Cassia and the others, who were already more than ten kilometers away. The amplitude of the ground shaking reached its maximum at this moment. They had to stop running and lower their center of gravity to maintain the balance of their bodies. The ground beneath my feet also began to burst, and the air wave behind me hit the ground immediately, arriving on time, with the momentum of ink rendering clear water, mixed with strong dust, which had the smell of burning, lubricating oil, and gunpowder smoke. There is also a heat wave with a special smell as the human body is charred by electric current.

The stars hit the earth, leaving a lot of light and heat. On the sky dome, where the spider lay prone, there were countless exposed rocks, which were already pitted, and some torn and broken steel columns could still be seen. In the very center of the rock is a hollow cylindrical cavity, and on the side is an exposed power chamber half-embedded in the rock formation. It is the core of the steam furnace, a mass of rich red, the unique color texture of steel when it is melted. , smoke cannot cover up the penetrating light unique to that color.

Soon, maybe less than ten seconds later, Kara and the others had turned their heads and continued running wildly in the darkness and dust, but fresher flames appeared on the sky. It was a large-scale explosion, and the flames even formed several rings there, like a blooming red flower, extremely lush and fresh. Cassia and the others, who noticed the movement, looked over and seemed to be able to smell the fragrance of that flower in the surrounding air, the smell of gunpowder and gunpowder smoke.

The power of the explosion caused countless cracks to appear on the fragile rocks in the sky, and they expanded one by one. The rock pieces fell off from above, and the all-pervasive water began to seep in through the cracks. The rocks also began to rub against each other. It was a sound different from the friction of metal. If the sound of metal friction only made Cassia's eardrums vibrate together, then the sound of friction of countless large rocks made their hearts and even meninges tremble together.

Their scalps were numb, and their cross pupils had already shrunk to the extreme due to observing the situation there.

"Speed ​​up, the situation won't last more than a minute." Carla could see more clearly through the sniper rifle scope than Cassia and the others. "The rock structure there has been completely destroyed and can no longer resist the pressure of the water in the Moon Lake. It is only a matter of time before the mine tunnel space is filled and submerged by the water in the Moon Lake. Moreover, this time will definitely be earlier than when we arrive at the entrance of Flos. It will be several times faster.”

Most of the mine tunnel cavity is under Moon Lake. You can imagine what will happen when a gap appears in such a solid enclosed space for the huge and unventilable pressure at the bottom of Moon Lake. . An unlimited amount of water will be injected into the mining area in a jet state under its own pressure and the power of the rapids in the water, and the gap will continue to expand with the impact of the water flow until the entire area is under the Moon Lake. The mine space will all shatter and collapse, and this will be the end. By that time, every tiny crack in the cavity had been submerged in water.