199 Arson
However, Hou Xianglin and his partners, who had arrived at the door at this time, did not pay attention to these, and the brothers just pointed to everyone in the cab with the V-word, indicating that the construction of the bulldozer was going well, and then the three bulldozers turned around on the spot again, and turned to advance to the south again, this time, the three bulldozers expanded the width of this isolation zone to more than 30 meters.
When the three bulldozers returned to the cave gate for the second time, the exposed road was already more than 40 meters wide.
From half past four in the morning to now, five hours have passed, and a long open field with an area of nearly a dozen acres has been formed outside the cave, however, there are still a large number of mosquitoes flying in the sky above this open land.
The bulldozer's operation did not stop, but continued to follow the foot of the mountain to the right of the cave gate, turned due west, and roared towards the west bank of the Moon River.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, the three men, who were becoming more familiar with bulldozer work, opened a new 10-meter-wide isolation belt, which extended from the entrance of the cave to the west bank of the Moon River, and thus the first phase of construction was officially completed.
When the bulldozer returned to the cave gate, it widened the barrier again to the south and turned due west at the end of the open field two hundred meters away.
So when the bulldozer fleet headed for the east bank of the Moon River again, the burners began to move.
The plastic buckets filled with gasoline were carried to the middle of the open space outside the cave gate, because there was no grass here, so the moths and mosquitoes here were much thinner, and of course, no matter how thin they were, they could take off the protective hood.
Over the past two days, a lot of drinks have been consumed, leaving a lot of empty plastic bottles, which are now being collected and about to come in handy.
More than 300 plastic beverage bottles, almost a quarter of which were filled with gasoline, were carried by each of the wasteland burners after tightening the caps.
At this time, the three bulldozers driven by Hou Liren had been working continuously for most of the morning, and the brothers were familiar with it a lot, and soon, the two ten-meter-wide isolation belts that extended all the way to the east bank of the Moon River were completed.
When the bulldozer team returned to the gate of the cave again, Hou Xianglin gave an order, and everyone began to act in groups of three, braving the mosquitoes flying all over the sky, along the fire isolation zone, every more than ten meters to throw a bottle into the depths of the grass, as far as they could.
Throughout the morning, the burners threw more than 200 plastic bottles filled with gasoline into the grass back and forth along the fence.
After all this work was done, everyone withdrew to the cave, closed the door of the cave---- lunch time came, and the food was sent to the cave by Sun Lao and the ladies.
After being tired, everyone was really hungry, less than half an hour to finish lunch, they were eating, while discussing the progress of the construction, according to Lao Wang Lao Zhu's suggestion, the time of setting fire should start before the sun sets in the afternoon, when the insects in the grass are the most dense, and the killing effect of burning is the best.
In order to set the fire before the sun set, Hou Xianglin, Li Sanduo and Ren Ke only took 20 minutes to finish their lunch, they took a few bottles of drinks, climbed onto their respective bulldozers, started the machine, and suddenly opened out of the cave.
They were only halfway done, and they were to continue south into the open field to the planned creek.
Hou Xianglin and his family plan are to complete the construction of four fireproof isolation belts with a total length of about 600 meters before 5 p.m., so that they can set fire to two pieces of land from three directions at the same time in the evening, and burn the grass of about 100 acres clean and thoroughly.
Fortunately, this area outside the cave belongs to the alluvial fan with flat terrain, and there is a lot of experience, and there is also a certain psychological resistance to the mosquitoes outside the car window, so the construction of the bulldozer is very smooth in the afternoon.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, in addition to completing the passage directly to the creek, a total of three east-west, 10-meter-wide fire isolation zones were opened up and all the way to the east bank of the Moon River.
Now, from the bank of the Moon River to the gate of the cave, four isolation belts and an earthen wall about half a meter high pushed out by a bulldozer divide and enclose the rectangular plot of about 100 acres south of the gate of the cave and east of the Moon River into two square plots.
Subsequently, the burners threw more than 100 plastic bottles into the grass, using up all the drink bottles that everyone had drunk in the past two days.
When the three bulldozers turned back to the cave entrance, the burning operation began.
"Let's go on fire!"
"Set it on fire!"
"Finally able to set fire!"
"Brothers, hurry up and get the gasoline cans!"
Excitedly holding lighters and carrying plastic gasoline barrels, the burners set off along the passage in four directions, first pouring buckets of gasoline into the grass behind the ridge, and then pouring them all the way down from the gate of the cave to the vicinity of the creek in the south, and then to the river on the east bank of the Moon River.
After completing this operation, the members of the burning team lined up along the isolation zone, and heard an order on the walkie-talkie, more than 50 lit torches were thrown into the grass behind the ridge poured with gasoline, with a bang, the flames almost simultaneously broke out on the section of more than 1,000 meters along the way, and with a pungent smell of gasoline and thick smoke, the smoke and flames suddenly filled the sky over this grassland.
Gradually, the fire grew bigger.
The thick smoke danced with the wind, scattered in all directions, and drifted into the distance, when a sea breeze blew, and the fire took advantage of the wind, and in several places there were fires that rose into the sky.
The fire took advantage of the wind and finally began to slowly spread into the grass.
It turns out that the plastic bottles of gasoline that everyone threw into the grass beforehand played a key role in fueling the fire.
Because whenever the flame burns to the plastic bottle thrown into the grass, the high-temperature melted gasoline plastic bottle will explode like ***, so although the grass is hot and humid in summer, it obviously can't stand the baking of gasoline burning, and wherever the flame goes, there will be such a small explosion in the grass from time to time, and every such explosion will greatly contribute to the fire.
At this moment, the members of the burning team are very satisfied with this scene, and it is foreseeable that under the three-sided attack of the fire, the insects and animals in this more than 100 acres of grass and grass are bound to face the catastrophe of everything being burned.
However, at this moment, there was a sudden movement in the depths of the dense grass that was half human-high, and after only a few moments, several unknown and colorful snakes suddenly appeared on the ridge of the fire barrier, and these snakes crawled over the ridge and began to cross the barrier directly!
At this time, several high school students who were admiring their own masterpiece of arson also suddenly discovered this terrible scene a few meters away from them.
"Holy!"
"Vipers!"
"Get out of the way!"
However, the snakes only quickly swam past the feet of the panicked people, and then quickly disappeared into the grass on the other side of the barrier, with no intention of attacking the people around them.
At this time, several team members who were setting fire to the Moon River suddenly found a saltwater crocodile staggering out of the side of the fire barrier, and after seeing the crowd, they turned back and sank into the water of the Moon River, and everyone suddenly found that there was more than one crocodile in the grass, which scared the brothers and immediately turned around and ran, but just ran halfway down the road, a small animal that looked like a pangolin suddenly ran over the earthen wall, and hit someone's calf headfirst, in the exclamation, and at the same time scared both sides to retreat and dodge... …