The sun rises and sets, the moon rises and the moon sets, and the day passes.

The red roots of the tree burrowed deep into the ground like drill bits, and the mud sanded wherever they passed.

In Hudu, No. 4 House on Honggang Road in the Industrial Zone, the chimney of the factory stabbed into the sky, continuously spewing thick black smoke.

The black smoke was blown by the wind and flew into the distance.

Workers under the black smoke rushed in, signing one by one at the sign desk at the gate of the steel mill.

The security guard at the check-in desk shook the fox ears on his head, his job was to secure and recognize his face to ensure that no suspicious people had infiltrated the steel mill.

Because of the nature of the security guard's work, the security guard Camilla usually has no holidays and can't go out for a walk, so he secretly chats a few words while others are at work to sign in.

"Richards, I heard that the army sealed off all the residential areas yesterday, what is the army investigating?" The security guard asked curiously.

"That's a panic." An old middle-aged man shook his head after signing it, and was not in a very good mood.

"What's the alarm?"

"Spy, there are spies in our residential area, and the military has turned the residential area upside down, but no spy has been found."

The security guard was surprised, "Rummaging through every corner?" ”

"Not so fast, mainly because the army is understaffed, and it takes two days to dig through every corner of the residential area." The old middle-aged man shook his head, his expression was a little constipated, and it seemed that the military's strong search caused him dissatisfaction.

"What if the spy runs away and hides in another area?"

"It's possible, so people in other urban areas have also checked it. But you know, our Fox Country is at war with the Kingdom of Tomorrow, and the soldiers have gone to the front line to fight, how can there be so many manpower. The old middle-aged man clapped his hands and went to work.

The security guard also thought it made sense, but he just loved to gossip, so he asked the next sign-in.

The sign-ins are all employees in the factory, seventy percent are old faces, and three percent are new faces, and the security guards silently remember the appearance of the new faces in their hearts.

The old middle-aged worker walked to his post to work and monitor the operation of the steam engine.

The steel mill has not yet undergone industrial upgrading, and the power source used in the factory is still a steam engine, and it is an old-fashioned steam engine.

He was about to add coal to the boiler when he suddenly heard a small rustling sound under his feet.

Richards looked down and saw a crack suddenly crack in the solid concrete surface under his feet, the color of the crack was not black, but white.

Because the ground itself is not very clean, and there is a lot of coal dust, the ground is generally dark, and at this moment there is suddenly a clean white gap, which instantly attracts the attention of the old and middle-aged.

His fox ears twitched, listening intently to the movement under his feet.

There was a click, a subtle sound, as if something was crawling underground, and the sound of something cracking.

"What is this?"

Richards leaned down and wiped his fingers through the white slit to reach a hand of white powder.

The powder was fine, refracting a shimmering glow in the air, which reminded him of pure white quartz sand, and he didn't know what the difference was between the two.

Rustle.

The sound of sand under his feet grew again, and the crevices increased, spreading under the base of the steam engine boiler.

He watched as the pure white crack stretched to the boiler of the steam engine, and immediately stopped spreading, as if it were not its spreading area.

Richards didn't feel good and didn't know what was going on, so he approached and touched the white crack with his finger, and once again touched the white powder in his hand.

Click, click, there was another white crack under his feet, and it was so dazzling on the black ground that it was hard not to see it.

"Director, director, come and take a look, the ground is cracked here." Richards shouted.

The director was next door, walking slowly, not realizing the seriousness of the matter, and by the time he walked to the steam boiler, the white cracks had increased to twelve.

"What is this?" The director looked down and saw a very conspicuous white crack, and watched in amazement as the cracks on the ground continued to increase.

Fifteen, twenty, thirty white marks, more and more white marks, giving people a feeling of not seconds.

"Director, I think it's dangerous here, don't stand here."

Richards heard the rustling of his feet getting louder and louder, as if a large net was laid out under his feet, surrounding them.

The director frowned, bent down and touched the white marks, and also touched a hand of white powder.

"It's ......"

The director felt familiar, but now was not the time to think about such a thing, and his fox ears heard a click, very loud, right at his feet.

"Run!" The director's and Richards' faces changed dramatically and they ran back.

Dozens of white marks appeared out of thin air on the ground beneath his feet, and with the clicking sound, the white marks increased dramatically, and hundreds of cracks spread to the base of the steam boiler.

The solid concrete surface collapsed with a bang, and the orcs ran out of the collapse area ahead of time when they heard the sound, but the large steam engine was not so lucky, and the whole machine fell in.

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The entrance of the steel mill.

An old orc ran out of the factory, screaming loudly, because the panting was so loud that the security guard couldn't hear what he was shouting.

"Richards, what are you shouting?"

"Oh no, no, factory, factory...... poured. His tail trembled violently, and his fox ears stood straight, as if he had seen something incredible.

"Something falls, you make it clear."

"yes, what's down in the factory." The orcs who were queuing up to sign in also shouted, and the fox ears leaned in Richards' direction, and his curiosity was aroused by him.

"The foundation is crumbling." Before Richards could finish speaking, there was a bang behind him, like the sound of thunder.

Bang!

The sound of the collapse was heard from the ironworks, and even the orcs from a few hundred meters away heard the loud noise.

A few seconds later, the orcs outside the factory saw a gray and yellow smoke fly out of the factory gate, and the smoke continued to expand, forming a raging sandstorm in the blink of an eye, covering the gate and both sides of the street.

When the orcs outside the factory saw the sandstorm, they quickly fled in the opposite direction, running on their legs alternately at a speed far greater than the previous frequency, running as fast as they could.

It was not clear to outsiders what was going on inside the steel mill, and it was not until half a minute later that the security department of the next building called the head of the industrial department to report the loud noise and sandstorm incident.

"Urgent report, this is the security department of No. 5 Honggang Road in the industrial zone, and there is a suspected explosion at the No. 4 steelmaking plant on Honggang Road next door, and the sandstorm has washed out of the factory."

A calm voice came from the other side of the phone: "Roger." ”

Ten minutes later, the army came outside the steel mill.

The entire building of the steel mill had collapsed, the steel bars were warped, and huge earth and rocks were stuck in a pile of sand.

The soldiers set up a cordon and sent people into the factory to rescue people, carrying stone slabs to save people.

Doctors and nurses from the hospital also arrived on bicycles to set up a makeshift emergency center for the wounded.