Hundreds of tons of cement arrived one after another, and the trucks could only be parked more than 200 meters away from the fire.

Bags, truckloads, and piles of cement had to be carried to the depths of the fire with their shoulders and hands to suppress the flames, and then lay a barrier. It's easier said than done. On one side is a hydrogen peroxide tank that may explode at any time, and on the other side is a raging sea of fire, in the middle of which a safety embankment is built, and the danger and hardship can be imagined.

More than 3,000 officers and men of various armed police units that have already assembled here are divided into seven echelons and take turns to fight. More than 800 officers and soldiers from the six detachments and the Frontier Branch of the Municipal Public Security Bureau formed a human echelon to pass the cement package by bag.

The soldiers at the forefront, who were responsible for sprinkling cement on the flames, could not find the tools to cut the cement bags, so they tore them with their hands and bit them with their mouths, and the heat scorched them so that they stamped their feet and choked them with thick smoke. Some of the soldiers were burned, some were choked, some were pierced by nails, and blood flowed, but none of them retreated, and none of them complained.

It was found that the human-dragon shape passed the cement, and the dragon head had been burned by smoke and fire, and they couldn't stand it, and the danger was also concentrated on them. More than a dozen people have been sacrificed, including two deputy directors of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and the charter does not want more casualties, so he hurriedly said: "Mayor Yang, this is too dangerous, the human dragon must be dispersed, and it will be changed to a group of two and form an echelon!" ”

The fire, which more than 3,000 people at the scene could not extinguish, once it spread, once there was an even more terrible explosion, it would be a burning city, and tens of thousands of people would die.

In the event of such a serious safety accident, Vice Mayor Liu had no way to retreat, gritted his teeth and said: "The scattering of the human dragon will inevitably affect the speed of transportation." I can't care about that much anymore. ”

The political commissar of the armed police force lowered his head. Walk up to just 30 meters from the fire. Holding a loudspeaker, he shouted hoarsely: "Comrades, raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use them for a while!" There is a fire in front, three million people in the back, and in case of danger, who will we not go on? Now follow my orders, six detachments are withdrawn, and seven detachments are on top. Even if you use flesh and blood, you have to block the fire for me! ”

With his order, the second echelon composed of officers and soldiers of the seven detachments of the armed police rushed forward without hesitation, followed by the third echelon and the fourth echelon...... More than 3,000 armed police officers and men risked dying in another explosion at any time to send bags of cement to the depths of the fire, and the isolation zone was also tenaciously and with great difficulty under their desperate efforts......

"Report, the Hong Kong Fire Brigade has arrived."

More and more people participated in the firefighting, and the next command became a big problem, and Vice Mayor Liu quickly looked around. Finally, the wisest decision since arriving at the fire was made.

"Mr. Xing Gong, Jiang Gong, and Mr. Robert, organize a large army to extinguish the fire. You are more experienced than us, and from now on, everyone, including me, will be at your disposal! ”

If there is a big explosion, the real center will also be destroyed, now is not the time to be polite, Xing did not hesitate to take over the command, and said in an unquestionable tone: "Now I give an order in the name of the headquarters, one, please ask all the leaders, including Vice Mayor Liu, to evacuate and set up a second command near the Dongfang Building, if there is anything we need to contact by walkie-talkie and telephone." ”

As soon as he took over the command and drove him away, Vice Mayor Liu was completely stunned.

Several provincial leaders looked at the charter in unison, and the charter said with a sincere face: "Leaders, there can only be one voice here now, and we will only cause chaos to the headquarters if we stay here, please believe Mr. Xing Gong, Jiang Gong and Mr. Robert." ”

"A layman can't command an insider, I agree with Mr. Zhang's opinion."

There are thousands of people who command firefighting in Kuwait, and they cooperate with the world's first-class fire fighting companies, and Director Zheng does not hesitate to stand on the side of the charter.

On the way here, Governor Huang learned about it, and knew that the NB real yàn room had already proposed to the municipal party committee that the Qingshuihe storage and transportation warehouse was a huge safety hazard, and submitted more than a dozen reports to the warehouse management department, the fire department and the municipal government's leaders in charge of fire protection, and specially trained a fire brigade of more than 60 people for this purpose, equipped with two state-of-the-art vortex fire trucks.

If you don't listen to the experts, you will suffer in front of you.

Governor Huang didn't want to make the same mistake, so he agreed: "Comrades, Mr. Zhang is right, there can only be one voice here, let's withdraw." ”

In desperation, Vice Mayor Liu had no choice but to say solemnly: "Then please leave it to the three." ”

It is normal to let professional people do professional things abroad, but it is not easy to do it in China. In the event of such a big accident and such a large number of casualties, if even the credit for extinguishing the fire is gone, how can we explain it to the higher authorities and the people in the future?

Xing An could understand his mood at this moment, if he hadn't been forced to do anything about it, he would never give up command lightly, so he raised his arm and glanced at his watch, and said categorically: "Mayor Yang, I will make a military order for you and the leaders to extinguish the fire before four o'clock in the morning, even if it is more than a minute, you can ask me." ”

For five and a half hours, except for the three of them, no one present dared to play.

Vice Mayor Yang nodded his head, clasped his hand and said, "A gentleman's word." ”

"It's hard to chase a horse!"

Seeing a senior police officer of the Hong Kong Fire Department, he ran over in full gear, and immediately reminded: "Mayor Liu, let's go, we can't influence Xing Gong's command anymore." ”

"Let's go."

At 9:20 p.m., fire trucks from Brother City flashed their lights and rushed to the fire scene with shrill sirens. 5, 10, 20, 40...... A total of more than 80 vehicles came, forming a mighty and majestic rescue and firefighting team.

Except for Vice Mayor Liu, who had to stay in the headquarters, the other leaders all climbed to the rooftop of the Oriental Building together with the charter and Director Zheng to observe the fire extinguishing situation in the distance.

"Leeches, leeches, I'm a jellyfish, please build the No. 1 fire station within half an hour!"

"The god of water, the god of water, concentrate all the water dragons to cool the flammable tanks."

"Water monsters, water monsters. I'm a jellyfish. Twenty-three minutes later, the first vortex synthesis exercise was conducted. Prepare accordingly quickly. ”

The familiar call code came over the intercom, and the charter couldn't help but think of the scene when he was fighting a fire in Kuwait a few years ago, and remembered the legendary firefighter "Red Adair".

In the event of a devastating explosion, the number of dead and injured will never be less than 100,000! There is a big battle ahead, and you must risk your life to fight to the death!

Governor Huang was worried, and finally couldn't help asking: "Mr. Zhang, there are two state-of-the-art turbojet fire trucks in Guishi's room, and there are also two from the Hong Kong Fire Services Department. Why can't you just blow the fire off like you did when you put out the fire in Kuwait? ”

"yes, why not use such advanced equipment?"

Now there are at least 5,000 people in the fire field, and the fire that can't be extinguished by 5,000 people can be done with four pieces of equipment? The charter really didn't know how to answer, and after thinking for a while, he smiled helplessly and said: "Leaders, you only know that the vortex fire-fighting equipment extinguishes the fire quickly, even only a few tens of seconds, but you don't know how long it takes to prepare for this." What's more, the situation in storage and transportation warehouses is different from that of oil wells. Xing Gong: They have to consider all kinds of factors.

For example, they had to make sure that a vertical tank containing hundreds of tons of hydrogen peroxide did not explode. This means that hundreds of water cannons have to be put in, and a large number of water cannons are required to extinguish the fire of the vortex fire truck, otherwise one piece will be blown out and then re-ignited by another, and the whole process is very fast, and the interval may only be tens of seconds. ”

Looking at the fact that everyone seemed to understand or not, he continued: "For example, the geographical conditions of the fire ground, the vortex fire truck not only needs the same water source, but also has a range limit, they must first ensure that the vertical tank does not explode, and at the same time control the fire as much as possible, and then build a fire position with four nest spray fire trucks as the center, calculate the angle and wind direction, and connect all the water pipes required for the equipment before the vortex fire fighting equipment can be activated." ”

"Mr. Zhang, are you saying that the vortex fire truck can either spray and extinguish the fire in one fell swoop?"

"Yes, but there is also the possibility of rekindling, so the preparations must be in place."

At 2:36 a.m., the firefighting position centered on four turbojet fire trucks was built, and after two drills, more than a dozen fire brigades from different cities already knew what they would do after the general battle to comprehensively encircle and suppress the fire demons began.

Governor Huang and other provincial and municipal leaders didn't know whether they were really worried or wanted to open their eyes, ignoring their previous promises, they rushed to the fire with the charter and Director Zheng.

When they approached the general headquarters, Xing An just took out his signal gun and fired a red signal flare with a "bang", and the deafening roar of the aircraft engine was heard in the distance.

Four "exhaust-water mist" two-phase jets shot into the flames at extremely high speed from four directions, and suddenly they were so white that they couldn't see anything clearly. Just when they guessed whether it would work, the roar stopped abruptly, hundreds of ten water jets erupted at the same time, and the fire that was burning more than ten seconds ago in the storage and transportation warehouse was miraculously extinguished!

The fires in the timber warehouse and in the mountains and forests were only temporarily isolated and not effectively controlled, and to ensure that nothing went wrong, the warehouses were still foaming, water was flying, and cement was spilled.

The danger of a large explosion was ruled out, and the three of Xing An could calmly dispatch firefighting forces to deal with those "normal" fires.

Under their orderly command, teams of firefighters, teams of armed police officers and soldiers, and fire trucks withdrew from the warehouse, leaving only about 20 fire trucks and a vortex fire truck behind.

That little "small fire" SAR fire brigade can solve it by itself, Vice Mayor Liu was excited, and clutched the charter and said: "Mr. Zhang, thank you so much, if it weren't for your help, I really don't know how strict the consequences would be." ”

The charter glanced back at the huge hydrogen peroxide vertical tanks and the rows of storage tanks filled with natural gas, and said with palpitations: "Mayor Liu, if those canisters really burst, we can't keep the center, this is what we should do, you better go and say hello to the firefighters in Hong Kong." ”

"Yes, yes, Mr. Zhang reminded you right, you wait a minute, I'll come when I go."

As the executive vice mayor who presided over the work of the city, Vice Mayor Liu said that he would thank him for everything.

The fire is extinguished, and the next thing to do is to investigate the cause of the accident and hold those responsible for the accident accountable.

The charter doesn't want to join in the fun. Say hello to the three hard-working commanders. Together with Director Zheng, he got into the car driven by Lian Yuangao and Gao Yang.

A catastrophe that burned the city was averted. Zheng Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He did a lot of outrageous things today, a lot of things he shouldn't have done, but he didn't regret it, and he had enough reasons to do so. Because the SEZs were developed by old men under tremendous pressure, there must be no mistakes in this window of China to the outside world and this experimental field of reform and opening up.

Just when he was pondering whether to call the old man and report his safety. The charter suddenly asked: "Director Zheng, the visiting delegation is located in the Linhai Hotel in Longkou Industrial Zone, do you want to go to the real yàn center with me, or go to the Linhai Hotel to meet them?" ”

Zheng Ming did not answer this question, but asked with interest: "What about the researchers at the Shi Yàn Center?" ”

"Some went to Hong Kong, some went to the new factory area of security, and they were all properly resettled, and now there are a few security guards in the center."

Zheng Ming couldn't help but quip: "Mr. Zhang, there is a danger that he only cares about his own people to withdraw, but does not notify others to withdraw." You're not doing this properly. ”

"It's not that I don't notice, it's that I can't not. Once a panic is caused, even extinguishing the fire will be affected. Besides, I don't have the power, if I really do that, I won't be deducted by others to spread rumors? ”

It's so dangerous that the city of millions of people was almost destroyed.

Director Zheng sighed lightly, shook his head and said, "There has been such a big safety accident, and you have warned many times in advance, alas! Secretary Chang couldn't hide this time. ”

The topic was too heavy, and the charter simply quipped: "Director Zheng, if I were the leader of the municipal party committee, I would definitely not welcome you to come to the SAR again, because you are like a plague god, and every time you come, nothing good happens." ”

The last time I came to coincide with the "8.10" incident, thousands of people surrounded the city government, and this time I caught up with the explosion of the Qingshuihe storage and transportation warehouse. ”

"You haven't said where you're going?"

"There are only a few hours left until dawn, let's go to the real yàn center with you."

"Okay."

Thinking that he would be going back to Hong Kong tomorrow to conduct his research, Director Zheng suddenly asked: "Mr. Zhang, there is one thing I have not been able to understand, Iraq is under United Nations sanctions, how do you contract power plants and power grid repair projects?" ”

A lot of things can be said, and a lot of things can't be said. The charter didn't want to make trouble for himself, so he smiled casually: "Director Zheng, I don't care about those business things, what do you care about those things?" ”

"Some time ago, the old man mentioned it at the dinner table, and when they put out the fire just now, I thought of Kuwait and Iraq, and I remembered this thing."

"I really don't know exactly how to operate, if you have the opportunity, you can ask Mr. Wu."

Zheng Ming also didn't want to care about the big mess of Chinese-funded companies abroad, shook his head and smiled: "Forget it, I'll just ask casually." ”

The charter suddenly said in a low voice: "Director Zheng, I won't tell you anything, the scheduled Z bomb of the Qingshuihe Storage and Transportation Warehouse has always worried me very much, and now that it has exploded, I have nothing to worry about." In the next few years, I will devote myself to research, and I will no longer ask about anything other than academics, and I don't want to be disturbed anymore. Maybe in Hong Kong, maybe to Germany, maybe even to the United States, in the future, the company and the real yàn room will also ask you to take care of it, especially the real yàn center. ”

He did almost everything he had to do, he could do.

How could Director Zheng refuse this request, which was not a request at all, nodded and smiled: "Don't worry, as long as I can do it, I will never sit idly by." What's more, you have made such a great effort to bid for the Olympic Games, even if I don't take care of it, no one will find trouble with your company and your real room. ”

To his surprise, the charter actually smiled bitterly: "I'm worried that those boys will make trouble for others." ”

"What do you mean?"

The charter touched his nose and explained with a wry smile: "People change the environment, and the environment can also change people, with the efforts of the academic committee, the real room has developed a very serious academic attitude, whether it is a researcher, a graduate student or a real member, as long as you enter the door of the real room, your eyes will naturally not tolerate sand."

The year before last, anti-pseudoscience, this year bombarded health care products that deceived the dead and did not pay for their lives, God knows what trouble will be caused next year? As the founder and largest funder of the Real Yàn Room, I can't help but worry about this, because maybe one day someone will emerge who doesn't know how thick the sky will come out and target you at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and then make you embarrassed on both sides. ”

There is no mixing in politics, but there is no room for academics.

Thinking that not only those graduate students and real members were not happy, but even he had cleanly won the harmful essence of Clenbuterol this year, Director Zheng couldn't help but laugh and said, "Mr. Zhang, from the perspective of academic and scientific development, this is not a bad thing. The last time you broke the danger of Clenbuterol, the Ministry of Education and the Chinese Academy of Sciences also held a meeting to study the problem of academic misconduct, and you don't need to worry about it at all. ”

"Really?"

"Really, science and technology are the primary productive forces, which are related to the future development of the country, and the central government cannot tolerate sand in the eyes of the central government on the issue of academic and study style. It's just that due to various reasons such as the system and academic level, the construction of academic ethics and style of study has been lagging behind. ”

Thinking of the guys who don't learn and mislead people, they are likely to become the target of graduate students and real members in the real yàn room in the future, and the charter can't help but smile: "Director Zheng, with your words, then I will rest assured." However, you should also be mentally prepared, because from next year, we will recruit more graduate students and real students in various universities in China, and the first thing they will do after entering the real yàn room is to read their papers.

Looking at the domestic ones first, and then looking at the foreign ones, and doing a series of real things to verify, it is not only possible to identify some plagiarism, but also find some low-quality or even no academic value papers. ”

In addition to the guidance of the masters of the Faculty of Basic Studies, the graduate students of the NB Real Office can also consult with professors from universities in Hong Kong and abroad who have a cooperative relationship with the Real Yearn Room.

Director Zheng thought that the papers published by domestic universities and research institutions would be picked by them one by one in the future, and hurriedly said: "Mr. Zhang, this is a good thing, but we must also pay attention to the impact, especially the international influence. I can't be the master on the Ministry of Education, but we can cooperate with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

If there are really those academic misconducts, you can make a list for us, attach the plagiarized original text, or indicate the low quality and worthless basis, and let us the Academic Ethics Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences deal with it, don't poke it out at every turn and make it known to everyone. ”

"No problem, I'll say hello to our academic committee when I get back."

"I will also say hello to you from the Ministry of Education, it is best to carry out all-round cooperation and rectify the style of study." (To be continued......)