Chapter 132: The White Grim Reaper
Mark was taken aback by her actions, and didn't understand why she did it at all, at first he thought it was the heat that caused her to hallucinate, and didn't let go, but Nina's eyes were very determined, she bit her lower lip and shook her head at Mark, adding another force to her hand.
Although he didn't understand her intentions, Mark still chose to believe her, released the accelerator grip in his hand, and pressed the brakes heavily under his feet, and the cable car quickly stopped, but Nina was not enough, and pulled down the emergency brake switch, and a series of sparks rose from the cable above, and the friction sound lengthened into a sharp wail, and soon the cable car stopped in mid-air.
Glancing around, he quickly locked on to a target, and didn't bother to explain anything to Mark, he took his hand and shook the cable car twice to make it swing back and forth, and with the help of inertia, Nina and Mark jumped up, and fell to the ground across a completely suspended distance in the middle.
It's an unmanned observation point, a large tin room with a detector that automatically records changes in the surrounding environment, and observation points like this can be seen everywhere in the drilling well, one every few hundred meters.
After entering the house, Nina quickly closed the door, grabbed the wrench in the emergency kit on the wall, smashed open the chassis in the center of the cabin very roughly, and pulled out the pipe of the cooler inside to connect it to her protective suit, after a while, she gradually eased up, the coolant in the protective suit had long been exhausted, and the cooler in this machine was very bulky, as big as a car battery, but the power was relatively high.
"Are you alright?" Mark asked with concern, "Can't you bear the heat?" ”
He realized that the protective suit he was wearing was not at the same level as Nina's, and the temperature felt by the two people was completely different, and in the high temperature of more than 600 degrees, Mark only felt a little hot.
"Sort of, but it's not that I can't bear this moment, the reason I pulled you down is because of that."
As she spoke, Nina stretched out her hand and pointed to the outside of the house, the door was closed, and there was a small window to see the outside, and the tempered glass covered by the window began to burn red and melt, and the outside world became distorted through it, as if from purgatory.
From this angle, they could also see the cable car they had just ridden, a huge pipe along the rock wall all the way to the ground, and as they spoke, the pipe suddenly began to make a noise, and many bumps appeared on the metal outer wall, and then in less than a few seconds, the pipe wall suddenly tore open, and white smoke was so thick that it could not be dispersed.
The poor, tormented cable car was swallowed up by the hot steam in the blink of an eye, and through the fog-like steam, Mark could see that the trolley was burned red by the steam, which was already more hot than normal in such a high-pressure environment. A large distance in front of the car could not escape, and if Mark hadn't gotten out of the car, it would have been steamed by now.
This is perhaps the most bizarre way to die, and if you are killed by the heat in an instant, will you feel pain? Mark didn't know, and he didn't want to know, and he was glad that he had escaped, but he also began to worry about the way out.
"How did you find out?" Mark asked.
"I heard a strange sound inside the pipe, and the temperature around me started to rise, you may not feel it in that dress, but I noticed that it must be the magma below blocking the mouth of the pipe, and the water in the pipe was quickly evaporated and all sealed inside the pipe...... "At that time, I knew that we would definitely not be able to rush through, so we had to find another way." ”
"But there's hot steam everywhere outside, and we have nowhere to go." Mark scratched his head.
"There's also a walkway behind the hut that's narrow, but it leads to the ground." Nina picked up the bulky coolant and roughly cut through the wall at the back of the hut with an improvised chainsaw: "Keep up!" ”
"Got it!" Mark sighed in his heart, Nina is indeed reliable, if it were someone else, maybe she would have shrunk on the ground trembling at this time and waiting for death, this woman's perseverance and agility are far beyond ordinary people, Mark also survived thanks to her, speaking of which, he owes her a favor again.
The two of them quickly rushed out of the hut, and Nina also had a heart, and put the breach on top with debris, if there was a mountain collapse or something in front of them, this hut could block it again.
Sure enough, as she said, there was a passage not far behind the hut, it must have had an elevator car before, but now I don't know where it went, it probably crashed in the shock, at least the cable is still there, and two people can climb to the ground along the elevator cable.
This is much slower than riding the cable car, Mark's physical strength is not very good, Nina is wearing bulky clothes again, and she is carrying a large cooler, this distance is extremely difficult for them to climb, it feels longer than all the previous distances combined, Mark is panting, feeling that his whole lungs are going to solidify, the blue hexagon of the protective clothing barrier on his face is flashing, sweat is constantly flowing down the skin, converging into a stream on the neck, the muscles are already tense to the limit, even so he still has to climb up desperately...... Once you stop for a second, you don't know if anything will happen.
However, things don't go the way people think, especially when you're unlucky, the more you worry about something, and what happens to happen is the most likely to happen.
At the moment when the two of them were about to touch the exit, a strong vibration came from outside the passage, this time stronger than the previous shock felt by Mark, the previous vibration was like a war drum, thick but distant, making people feel the shock in their hearts, but this time it was very different, this shock was extremely violent, like a heavy punch hitting the chest of a person.
Large cracks spread across the wall, like vines growing wantonly, and the entire passage shattered in a breath, and Mark could clearly see the steel structure inside the wall, his body falling downward, and the cable in his hand was only a broken head.
Mark felt the world spin for a while, and the last thing he saw was Nina falling towards him, the heavy white hazmat suit weighing heavily on him.