Chapter 530: The Road to Survival
Looking at the freight elevator where the only elevator cargo warehouse was still there, Zhao Lingjun was ruthless and walked in with a fire tong.
Huo Ling tugged at the corner of his clothes behind his back and asked timidly, "Uncle, is there no other way?" ”
Zhao Lingjun glanced at Huo Ling, and then at the people behind her who still had a little hope in their eyes, and said with some bitterness: "I'm afraid this is the last resort, we can't wait for death here." I'm afraid it won't be long before this place tilts, and it won't take long for it to collapse, not to mention that those people on the ground are already preparing for directional blasting. ”
"This elevator is already our last hope, and I hope it will take me to the lower floors so that I can cross the fire belt."
A middle-aged man with eyes in the crowd interjected: "This is not an elevator ride at all, this is completely a fall." The smudges on his face made him look a little embarrassed, and the suit on his body was torn in many places. In fact, none of the people present were still glamorous and energetic, even Zhao Lingjun, a professional firefighter, was full of exhaustion.
Zhao Lingjun stood at the entrance of the elevator, knocked on the wall with scissors and said: "The elevator will have a brake lock every 10 floors, once the slide occurs, it will automatically lock, we are now on the 68th floor, as long as there is a brake lock can operate normally, we can survive." ”
The middle-aged man who had just spoken continued to ask, "What if the elevator happens to stop at the fire floor?" ”
Zhao Lingjun smiled lightly and said, "Then we can only gamble." "The eyebrows are full of freedom and determination.
In this way, 23 people who coexisted with despair and hope stepped on this "death freight ladder" together. After Zhao Lingjun instructed everyone to stand against the wall, he took a human ladder to climb to the top of the elevator from the middle of the elevator, lifted the roof, and cut it down against the steel cable.
There was a shaking, the elevator did not fall directly, Zhao Lingjun did not directly cut all the slings, but only cut off the auxiliary steel cable, there was no auxiliary steel cable, as long as the freight elevator received a large impact, the main steel cable was easy to derail.
Standing carefully on the ground of the freight elevator and grabbing the handrail on one side, Zhao Lingjun looked around and said, "Are you ready?" Listen to me when you're ready, 3, 2, 1, jump! ”
More than 20 people worked together, although the jump was not high, but the impact was still not small, only three times, the main steel cable derailed with a bang. The elevator suddenly began to accelerate and fall, and the piercing friction sound was accompanied by hysterical screams, and no matter how big the heart was, it was a little unbearable at the moment.
The reading of the floor mark on the elevator kept jumping, and the few people who could still maintain consciousness were staring at the flying number in a cold sweat. 68...67...65...61...55
With a clatter, accompanied by a high-frequency tooth-aching grinding sound, the elevator slowly stopped.
A kind of joy for the rest of the life after the catastrophe suddenly made everyone cheer, and the anti-fall braking device was still successful!
However, after only a few seconds, all the cheerers seemed to be pulled back, and they could no longer laugh, and their eyes were filled with panic.
From the gap in the elevator, you can vaguely see the flickering and jumping fire, and the temperature inside the elevator has begun to rise rapidly. Compared with the floors with layers of partitions, the elevator shaft that runs from top to bottom is indeed very suitable for the spread of fire.
"Fire, fire! Fire!! ”
The crowd who were still cheering just now instantly began to cry again, and the scene was suddenly chaotic. The sweat on Zhao Lingjun's head kept dripping, but this time it was not a cold sweat.
When people are in a panic, their brains are often prone to crashing, and for people who are relatively calm, their brains are undoubtedly rebooted faster. Zhao Lingjun instantly remembered how everyone came down just now, and he didn't care about anything else, and shouted: "Jump, jump!" ”
This time, without any other command, everyone remembered the scene just now, crying, fearing, and began to jump again and again.
The insurance level of the linkage speed limiter and the safety gear is very high, especially in the skyscraper like the Hengguang Building, the elevator anti-fall protection measures are absolutely very tight, in peacetime, only with these 20 people, it is absolutely impossible to destroy the safety gear of the elevator, especially this kind of freight elevator, because of the large size, the size of the safety gear is also increased.
But on the verge of life and death, I don't know whether to say that they are lucky or unlucky, because of the previous fire and explosion, many structures of the entire building were damaged, and the elevator shaft was no exception.
Finally, I don't know how many times we jumped together, and even the rubber soles of the leather shoes had softened and began to show signs of melting, when the elevator shook again and began to fall again.
This time, the elevator fell extremely fast, and everyone was on a roller coaster. Everyone didn't care that the handrails had been roasted and hot, and they were desperately holding on, just like a person on the edge of a cliff grasping a thorny straw, although it was prickly, it was the only hope for survival.
In the eyes of everyone's hope, the freight elevator did not stop soon this time, due to the speed is too fast, the fall is too fierce, and there are several safety gear damaged, the number of floors where everyone is located has soared, and the elevator has broken through one by one safety gear without the slightest blockage.
40...30...20...10...7...6...7...
Boom! The huge impact caused everyone to collapse to the ground, and the elevator stopped! And this time it didn't stop at the fire floor.
The people who were shaken to the ground helped each other to get up from the ground, and Zhao Lingjun and several young men struggled to open the gate of the freight elevator. At this moment, the temperature in the elevator is still not low, and everyone's faces can't tell whether it is sweat or tears.
There was no time to celebrate, and when they looked inside the dimly lit building, all they saw was light......
The position where the elevator stopped was exactly the middle of the seventh floor and the sixth floor, there was no space enough to go down to the sixth floor, thinking that the seventh floor was also nearly 2 meters high, except for Zhao Lingjun, only a few people could climb up with their own strength, so everyone joined hands again, the first person to climb up pulled up, and the person below was sent up, just like that, the old, weak, sick and disabled were sent up first.
In this way, a group of people who fought to the death for a rescue place on the tarmac learned to unite and cooperate after experiencing the test of life and death together.
Although Huo Ling also belongs to the "old and weak women and children", after experiencing this series of changes, she suddenly became tenacious and stubborn, and refused to go up first, and must stay with Zhao Lingjun to help others first.
Zhao Lingjun, as a firefighter himself, naturally has the responsibility to help everyone get out of trouble, but Huo Ling's little girl is really nonsense. But he also knew that the situation was critical at the moment, and it was not the time to waste time, and he didn't want to fight with her, so he better save people first.
took the initiative to stay in the freight elevator to help save people, in addition to Huo Ling and Zhao Lingjun, there was also the middle-aged man in the suit before, although he was also full of tears, but at the moment his face was full of fortitude, perhaps, disasters will make people grow.
Just when everyone else had been rescued and Zhao Lingjun was sending Huo Ling up with the man in the suit, the elevator suddenly shook, and Huo Ling, who had climbed halfway, fell down again. Zhao Lingjun didn't think about it with the man in the suit, so he shook it hard and threw Huo Ling directly.
Fortunately, Huo Ling didn't weigh much, and this throw successfully threw Huo Ling up, but it was this delay that the elevator slid down again, and the exposed gap gradually narrowed.
Huo Ling saw that Zhao Lingjun was slowly decreasing in her sight, until she disappeared, and frantically reached out to grab Zhao Lingjun's hand, but fortunately, the people behind hugged Huo Ling in time, otherwise the falling elevator would definitely cut off her hand directly.
Howling, screaming, the elevator began to fall again.
During the fall, Zhao Lingjun saw a trace of relief in the eyes of the elevator man opposite.
Are you going to die? Can the car buffer in the pit still be used? There may still be hope......