Chapter Seventy-Eight: A City Shrouded in Black
"Running at dawn......" The sudden ringtone of the mobile phone woke Yun Jiu from his dream. In a daze, Yun Jiu touched his phone and glanced at the time.
"At three o'clock in the morning, who is ......" Yun Jiu reluctantly answered the phone.
"Miss! Luang Nam, a chemical plant in Luang Nam! An anxious voice came from the other end of the line. What is leaking from the Luangnan chemical plant is not sulfur trioxide exhaust gas! β
Yun Jiu rubbed his sour eyes, but didn't react. "No, it's not, what's wrong?"
"What leaked from the Luangnan Chemical Plant is what you have been looking for! Diegor toxin blend! β
"Diegor toxin!" The moment he heard these five words, Yun Jiu suddenly bounced up and shouted, "Say it again!" β
"What leaked from the Luangnan Chemical Plant was not sulfur trioxide exhaust gas, but Diegor toxin mixing reagent!"
"Lu Qianfan!" Yun Jiu rolled over and got out of bed. She didn't care about her image, and broke into Lu Qianfan's room in three steps and two steps. "Hurry up, something big is wrong!"
The sleeping Lu Qianfan was suddenly pulled up by Yun Jiu, and he couldn't react for a while. Yun Jiu was only wearing a white lace suspender pajamas, two smooth and slender white legs were exposed, and a large piece of spring light was exposed on his chest, and Lu Qianfan's eyes suddenly straightened.
"Miss Yun, are you going to attack at night?"
"Lu Qianfan, don't make trouble! Diegor toxin mixing reagent! Chemical plant in Luang Nam! β
"Diegor Toxin" was like a boulder, smashing into Lu Qianfan's chest, making him sober up instantly! Lu Qianfan lifted the quilt and shouted, "Go and call Tang Jie and Zou Kun, move fast!" β
"Ahh The moment Lu Qianfan lifted the quilt, Yun Jiu screamed and covered his eyes violently.
"What are you doing in a daze?"
"You put on your clothes first!"
Lu Qianfan then remembered that he was wearing only one piece of clothing on his body. He hurriedly took his clothes and put them on his body, and said, "Okay, you can go back and get dressed quickly!" I'm going to call Zou Kun and Tang Jie. β
It's good that Lu Qianfan didn't say this, but as soon as he said this, Yun Jiu remembered what he looked like before he went to sleep. She scolded Lu Qianfan as a "pervert", turned her head and ran back to her room.
"Can't you feel a little nervous!" Lu Qianfan couldn't help but smack Yun Jiu, but the suffocating feeling in his chest was reduced a lot.
Fifteen minutes later, Lu Qianfan, who was frowning, stood in the living room, staring at the TV screen on the wall, his fists clenched.
"Sokoru has set up the Atlas node." Tang Jie walked down from upstairs and said, "Lu Qianfan, let's go." β
"Hmm."
On the high-speed transport plane of the Yunshen Consortium, Yun Jiu said: "My family's plane can freely cross the border, and I have notified the cross-border trade department to handle other procedures." β
"Thank you for your hard work." Lu Qianfan looked at the sleepy Zou Kun and Tang Jie and said, "Hurry up and rest, and recuperate." β
Yun Jiu leaned over to Lu Qianfan's side and gently held his trembling palm. Lu Qianfan looked at Yun Jiu and did not speak.
After everyone on the plane fell asleep, Lu Qianfan quietly took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Le Ningyue. "The ruins of Shenshan Castle, is it a bug? Why does the world have Russian? β
"Inside the ruins is the legacy of Lemon's attempt to create other independent worlds. In order to avoid the chaos of the main axis of the world, merge with this world. If you have to characterize it, you can think of it as the product of a bug. β
"And this bug, do I have the ability to fix it now?"
"The product of a bug is not the same as the bug itself. The product of a bug does not need to be fixed, it can be avoided and remedied by human efforts on its own. β
"Thank you." Lu Qianfan ended the conversation, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Lu Qianfan didn't know how long he had been asleep. By the time he woke up, he was standing in the middle of a strange city. He stared blankly into the air, and the black crystal sand slowly drifted down like snowflakes from hell. Dead silence envelops the city.
"I'm still ...... I don't want to die......" A cracked hand suddenly came out of the black sand and grabbed Lu Qianfan's ankle like a zombie! On the withered face, the eye sockets are deep. The moment he met those eyes, Lu Qianfan felt that he was suddenly dragged into the abyss of despair!
The endless sense of falling made Lu Qianfan wake up suddenly! He gasped for air and looked around. "Dreaming?"
Yun Jiu beside him woke up slowly. She rubbed her eyes, looked at Lu Qianfan, who was covered in sweat, and asked softly, "Qianfan, are you having a nightmare?" β
Lu Qianfan shook his head and signaled that he was fine. He looked at Tang Jie and Zou Kun, who were sleeping soundly on the cabin floor, and said to Yun Jiu: "I'm sorry, I'm noisy for you." β
"It doesn't matter, it's almost time to refresh." Yun Jiu yawned a lot, like a kitten. She looked at her watch and said, "Thirty minutes to go, we're going to land." β
"Hmm." Lu Qianfan nodded and looked out the window, wanting to dilute the tiredness of the nightmare with the early morning daylight.
The height of the transport plane has dropped below the clouds, and the buildings of the city are faintly visible. Outside the window, a little bit of crystal sand has fallen.
Suddenly, Lu Qianfan frowned, noticing a hint of abnormality. He hurriedly woke up Zou Kun and Tang Jie and said, "Come and see, the situation seems to be a little wrong!" β
Zou Kun lay on the window, looked down with sleepy eyes, and said: "This black crystal sand is caused by the leakage of Diegor's toxin mixing reagent, which means that we are not in the wrong place?" Isn't it just a traffic jam, the morning rush hour...... No, what's the smoke up there? β
Tang Jie still didn't look awake. He was tidying up his clothes, and when he suddenly heard Zou Kun say that he was stuck in traffic, he was suddenly stunned. He hurriedly opened the tablet, and after a quick search, he said, "Lu Qianfan, the evacuation announcement of the Luangnan government was only issued three minutes ago!" β
"What!" Lu Qianfan was taken aback! He asked: "The leak accident happened at about 10 a.m. yesterday, and it was confirmed that the Diegor toxin leak was around 2 a.m. at the latest, so why was the evacuation notice issued only three minutes ago!" β
Yun Jiu hung up the phone and said, "After confirming that it was the leakage of Diegor's toxin mixing reagent, the Yunshen Consortium had already transmitted the hazard report to the Lao authorities as soon as possible, but they didn't seem to be the same thing at all. β
"Damn it!" Lu Qianfan slammed his fist on the chair, looking extremely nervous. "It's still a step slow! Yun Jiu, how much time do you have left? β
"Twenty minutes to the airport, but about an hour's drive to the city."
"Can't wait! We skydive right here and get ready to land in the city! Lu Qianfan put the umbrella bag on the transport plane on his back and said, "Genius, you don't have the protection of magic armor, follow me." β
Yun Jiu hurriedly grabbed Lu Qianfan and said, "Wait a minute! This is an emergency landing umbrella that can only be used in open areas such as the sea and grassland. If you skydive in the city, it's easy to crash into a building! β
Zou Kun also hurriedly said: "Lao Lu, you know better! Parachuting in a city full of high-rise buildings is a search for death! β
"Summon the Demon Armor, follow me to adjust the angle, I'll make sure you're okay!" After speaking, Lu Qianfan pushed Yun Jiu away, opened the cabin door without saying anything, and jumped from the sky!
"Let's go." Tang Jie followed behind Lu Qianfan with an indifferent face, and also jumped down with an umbrella bag on his back. Yun Jiu hesitated for a moment, and also jumped into the wind. Zou Kun faced the strong wind and looked at the three black dots that were getting smaller and smaller in the air, his face was like dead ashes. He carried an umbrella bag on his back and scolded, "Lao Lu, I'll go to you!" And then jumped down!
Lu Qianfan and Tang Jie landed in the middle of the crossroads. Lu Qianfan untied the parachute, and after making sure that Yun Jiu and Zou Kun had landed without danger by relying on the protection of the magic armor, he looked around. The scene in front of him suddenly reminded him of the worst industrial chemical accident in human history - the Bhopal disaster.
Pitch-black snowflakes fall from the sky, dyeing the city with ominous colors. A faint mist drifted through the air, and unlike the dead silence of the dream, the scene in front of us was more chaotic and more desperate.
Every minute, pedestrians who fled in a panic fell to the ground, gradually losing their lives. Out-of-control vehicles crashed into the side of the road, sending up puffs of smoke from the fire.
Cries spread in the ears, and whispers for help rang out in all corners of the city.
"Save me......" A cracked palm that was exactly the same as in the dream suddenly stretched out towards Lu Qianfan, making him instinctively want to catch that hand, but the moment the fingertips touched, the palm fell to the ground weakly. The owner of the palm of the hand has no life to speak of.
Many years later, every time he recalled this scene, Lu Qianfan's heart was full of shock and fear.
In his memoirs, Lu Qianfan wrote: "Whenever I think back to Luangnan, I will undoubtedly remember such a picture: every minute and every second, people die due to the erosion of toxins, their bodies are randomly discarded on the side of the road, and then gradually buried by the black crystal sand falling from the sky, like their graves, shocking. It wasn't until late that night that their bodies were recovered. In the afterglow of the setting sun, the flames of burning corpses burned brightly, but they could not break through the dark sand and dust that shrouded the city. The door of the house in the street is not locked, but the owner of the room is not visible; Those who are still fleeing have dull eyes, and they don't even know how to express the pain in their hearts; There was an atmosphere of fear in the air and the stench of dead bodies. This was my first impression of the Luang Nam disaster, and it is still indelible to this day. β
Chaos has been part of the disaster since the very beginning. People are just running for their lives in panic, and they don't care about the lives of others. The driver could die at any time, and the out-of-control cars were one after another, completely blocking the road. People who could not escape fell to their knees and wept bitterly, and some even smashed shop windows and looted and set fire to cities in order to vent their dissatisfaction......
A scene recorded in the Bhopal disaster was played out before Lu Qianfan's eyesβthe city was devastated, countless people were killed, and everything was shrouded in darkness of despair.
"What should we do?" Yun Jiu was also frightened by the chaos in front of him, and felt at a loss for a while.
Tang Jie was equally shocked, but his brain was still functioning normally. He put away the detector and asked Lu Qianfan to take out the gas mask.
Tang Jie said: "The concentration of Diegor's toxin and magic energy in the air is far greater than that of the relics. The composition of the volatile reagent differed from that of the reagent samples in the relics, and the effects of Diegor toxin on the human body were greatly increased. The reagents I developed are no longer able to deal with them effectively. The top priority is to rush to the chemical plant at the source of the accident, collect samples of the leaked reagents as soon as possible, and adjust the response reagents. β
"And can this gas mask be useful?" Zou Kun asked.
"It's better than nothing."
Lu Qianfan said: "In other words, we have less and less time left. Hurry up, we can't afford to be slow! β
Without hesitation, the four of them turned their backs to the direction of the crowd and became retrograde in the city.