"This year's snow is really not small, the last time I heard others say that it was caused by the gradual popularization of coal burning and obsidian products, and the place where we live is covered with a glass cover, if the temperature inside the glass cover is getting higher and higher, it will be ......," said the worker in a shabby cotton coat, taking out a match and chatting about the hem of the cotton coat and scratching it on the dry waistband of his pants. There was a snort accompanied by a somewhat choking smoke, and the match was lit.

They are holding their own cigarettes, and it won't be long before they can walk from here to a bustling big city, but the consumption in that city is not what they can imagine, and they still honestly use a box of one hundred and five matches to light these cigarettes rolled up with their own tobacco leaves.

More than 20 people sit at the construction site of the eastern mountain range, the overhead with wood and steel as the main body to build a huge tunnel like a bracket structure can well block the stones falling from both sides of the canyon, whenever encountering artificial stones that can not be removed, they need to be blasted, blasting will make the canyon open by artificial people on both sides of the continuous cracking, large and small stones fall down is easy to hurt people, so in order to ensure the safety of workers, and have a stable working environment, they made an almost closed rectangular structure passage in this opened canyon。

At this time, it was the turn of these workers to rest, and the United Construction Department provided three times the daily salary of these workers who did not return home for New Year's Eve, until the end of January 15. This bonus is very attractive, many people choose to stay, if it is done at the end of the month, it is equivalent to working for a month and getting two months' salary, which is very tempting for workers.

With a violent explosion, the rock walls of the canyon that had been leveled on both sides shook slightly, and pieces of cracked stones fell from above and smashed on the support, causing the support to twist slightly.

This kind of thing happens many, many times a day, everyone has long been accustomed to it, and it won't be long before the construction machinery will clean up the stones piled up on the bracket to ensure that the weight on the bracket does not exceed the maximum bearing capacity of the bracket itself. The workers then climb out on ladders and work on the cliffs.

A dirty woman in a shabby cotton coat and a hood walked in with a food cart containing some beef and wheat kernels, as well as a lot of cheap liquor and some hot drinks, which were the basic guarantees that the city hall of Otis had to provide the workers with a place to heat and food in the winter.

One by one, the exhausted workers silently retrieved their lunch boxes from the dining car, drinking the hot and bitter pot water, while eating the food, which was the happiest time of the day. There's no better time to feel comfortable than not having to work, filling your stomach and resting for a while.

There were forty or fifty similar rest points throughout the project, and one of them was established every time a section of the mountain was drilled. In addition to the longitudinal construction, there are also horizontal construction that they need to do, although the construction machinery is very powerful, but not everything can be done.

As for the worker who wanted to show off what he didn't have in his stomach, he also lost his mind to show off under the temptation of food, and the only sound of swallowing was in the quiet space.

Suddenly, a worker looked up and looked back and forth, "Did you hear that? ”

"What can it be?", muttered the worker beside him, "Hurry up and eat your stuff, you can sleep for an hour after eating, if you don't want to sleep I will report if you are lazy in the afternoon." He is the foreman of this engineering section, and his main job is to lead everyone to carry out the construction of the rock walls on both sides of the canyon that have been blown up and slightly cleaned, and at the same time record who did well and who did not.

The joint builders from the Federation know better than some of the capitalists in the empire the role of the two special things of internal competitiveness and role model under the group effect, and three people will get an extra dollar reward every day for each section, which is enough to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm for work, especially after they have also formulated more reward rules and punishment rules, everyone is working hard, and few people choose to be lazy.

Every morning, there will be engineers to spray paint, the place where the green paint is sprayed should be reinforced, and the place where the red paint is sprayed should be knocked out.

At first, the man who spoke was a little inexplicably worried, he picked up the lunch box and walked to the bracket point used to support the ceiling, and there was a layer of iron wire and steel bars entangled in the thick wood of the two, which not only had a certain hardness, but also had enough earthquake resistance.

He had just walked into one of the support pillars and before he had time to take a closer look, suddenly a piece of sawdust flew into his face, and his face was painful, and he looked down at the sawdust that popped out of the lunch box, and suddenly there was an indescribable fear in his inner world that was spreading rapidly, like the restless animals before the earthquake and the birds that ran wild before the storm.

The strange sound in his ears seemed to be louder and louder, and with another bang, a piece of wood the size of a palm burst out and flew to the ground against his body.

He suddenly turned his head to look into the depths as black as the tunnel, and a breeze blew quickly, and it took two or three seconds before a dull explosion sounded in his ears! The lights hanging on the tunnel wall dimmed several times in succession, and everything that happened here was no different from five minutes ago, except for the crumbling debris.

Meanwhile, at the Union Builders' headquarters in the Federation, an overly drunk engineer wakes up from a hangover, and when he opens the window to see the snow, he just has a blast of praise and praise for the snow. In the next second, a strong palpitation made his whole body tremble, and he immediately pounced on the phone next to the bed, dialed the dial with trembling fingers, and called the Federal Meteorological Institute.

"Is it snowing heavily over there in the Empire too?"

The answer was a slightly magnetic middle-aged man's voice, which was half-joking, "Don't you know about the Ernier phenomenon? My answer is 'yes', the Shining Star Empire is covered in ice and snow north of Raeder, and there is heavy snow and even blizzard in the central region. What's wrong? Do you have relatives over there? Ah, I forgot, your company is working over there......"

The engineer shuddered, hung up the phone and quickly dialed the international telephone line switch, only to hear a busy tone in the receiver of the phone about seven minutes later. He waited anxiously for five or six minutes before the call was answered.

Before the other party could say anything, he almost roared and shouted, "Evacuate all the workers in the mountain operation immediately, immediately!"

A lot of things happened in this short period of time, but the worker standing in front of the pillar didn't know it, and before he knew it, the lunch box in his hand had fallen to the ground, and the food that was still slightly hot was emitting a faint steam while cooling down quickly. The co-workers behind him stopped eating and looked at him strangely.

He gently stroked the pillar with one hand, turned his head sideways, and looked at the worker behind him, "I think this pillar can't bear it......"

In the next second, there was a cracking sound from Beng, the sound of the wire being violently straightened, and a twisted steel spirit suddenly burst out from the top of the tunnel, whining and flying into his body at a strange angle, and shot out of the side of his thigh, inserting it into the ground. The steel bar didn't stop him from falling down immediately, and he didn't even feel pain. He lowered his head and touched the unconscious half of his body, then glanced at the exposed steel bars that had pierced his thighs.

Everyone was shocked by the sudden and great change, they stood up in horror and rushed towards him, and some of them threw themselves at the alarm bell on the cliff, but more steel bars shot down from the roof with the sound of twisting and cracking, and the wooden parts of the pillars began to break significantly, and the steel and wire were twisting and wailing.

A shadow covers everyone's mind, and everyone's first action is to look at the mouth of the tunnel like a needle's eye in the distance, and then pull their legs and run!

After a sound that was not weaker than a blast appeared, the latest seismograph in the research room of the earthquake-related research group of the Imperial Research Institute found that there was a small-scale earthquake in the southeast of the empire, and the intensity was not high, and the tremor was not even felt, so the researcher in charge of the duty at this time only recorded this matter in a notebook used for daily information collection, and did not report it to his superiors.

Fifteen minutes later, Dulin, who was chatting with a local celebrity and businessman who had come to visit him, took a confession, stood up and walked aside, and picked up the phone. It only took a few seconds for his face to go from a smile to a gloomy horror, and after a moment he hung up the phone and walked to the center of the room, "I'm very sorry, gentlemen, ladies, I have some very urgent business and need to get back to Otis City. I'm sorry for this, but I solemnly invite everyone to visit Otis if you have time. ”

"I'm sorry!"

As he walked out, he asked Jose to call Thomas and ask him to send a speedboat to send him to meet Otis, this time something big happened!

The main body of the project collapsed completely, and at least no less than 700 people were buried in the canyon, and it is possible that this number will increase even more, because some temporary workers came to the New Year's raise, and they were not registered in the list of workers.

Durin didn't believe in what those people said about waiting for rescue, there was no doubt that the vast majority of these people should have died, and more than a thousand people died at once, which was definitely the worst safety accident in the history of the Empire!

He had to get to the scene as soon as possible!