Chapter 131: Fault Rupture

As soon as Nina spoke, Mark clearly felt a scorching wind coming from below, even though he was wearing a protective suit from Alliance Technology, Mark still felt a burning sensation on his face, and the wind seemed to be burning, exuding his own formidable heat wave in the air in circles.

The ethereal and distant drum sound in his ears became more real, and at this time Mark realized that it was not coming from above, but from his own feet, the fractured rock formation released unimaginable high temperature and pressure, and the huge tremors spread up along the root of the crater, and the drill hole itself was a large horn at the bottom and wide at the top, and the vibrations were constantly amplified in it, so it sounded like it was coming from above, but it was not a good thing...... Being able to hear the source of the sound proves that the source of the vibration is close to them.

A year ago, this active volcano had an earth-shattering eruption, the power of the eruption changed the underground structure, and melted half of Antarctica's glaciers.

"How so?" Mark was a little puzzled: "Formations that have not been explored? That sounds like a low-level error. ”

"It's not like that, you can only think you're unlucky when this happens." Nina sighed deeply, "I said it...... It's ironic that this drilling is a futuristic project, because we've crossed the distance of hundreds of light-years now, and we still don't know anything about what's underground, and that's what happens in the event of an accident, just like the first time humans faced the explosion of a nuclear power plant, and we've been crossing the river by feeling the stones, and there is bound to be such a risk. ”

"Project from the future......" Mark muttered and looked down, the roaring heat rushing against the shell of the cable car, and the already sharp cable friction sound became even more squeaky and harsh: "What we have to face is also far beyond the current level, from the future disaster." ”

'There's going to be a cooling down and we have to take that opportunity, and that's probably the last chance.' Nina gritted her teeth and reached out to grasp the metal handle of the cable car.

"What the hell did you dig through? What's unleashed below? Mark asked with a wry smile.

"Who knows, maybe it's going to hell." Nina said quietly.

The fiery wind from below was terrible and harsh, along the loudspeaker-like mountain wall all the way to the ground above, really like a cry from hell, and remembering the story Nina had told, Mark felt a sense of foreboding in his heart.

The speed of the cable car is getting faster and faster, and under Mark's skillful driving control, it barely holds steady, and the strong wind makes the car shake badly, and Mark has to keep making it deviate slightly in the opposite direction, otherwise the whole thing will be blown over by the wind.

After a while, as Nina just said, the temperature around it gradually dropped, but the wind from below became stronger, and the cable car ran more crumblingly, Mark had to reduce its speed to stabilize it, it had not gone through the cooling process of the previous station, and it was overloaded for so long, and I am afraid that the cable will overheat and break if it accelerates.

"Did you stop?" Mark suddenly felt the roar in his ears disappear, and the center was glad that the disaster didn't seem to spread.

But Nina's expression was very solemn, she was an expert in geology, although she had never faced such a disaster, she could still guess the approximation, her long brown hair was completely scattered, and through the helmet of the isolation suit, she could see that her hair was glued to her body.

"What's wrong? The voice below seems to have disappeared, is it okay? Mark asked again, but there was still no response, only the screams of the cable still lingering in his ears.

It took half a minute before Nina responded: "No, it didn't disappear, but it got more serious, I just said that it would cool down, but I expected the current situation...... The cracks in the ground continued to spread, a large amount of magma seeped out, destroying the structure below, and after the high-pressure water pipe broke, a large amount of impact water was injected into the ground, and this water became a coolant, so the temperature began to drop, but it was not a good thing. ”

"Why?" Mark was a little confused.

"You'll know in a moment, now run for your life."

It seems that the two of them were the only ones stranded in the depths of the well, and Mark found no trace of anyone else along the way, but there were at least a thousand workers in the shallow part of the well, and tens of thousands of people in the entire facility, not to mention the area around the well, there were several towns built on the basis of the drilling work, and many more people lived in them, and if the volcano erupted again, everyone would suffer...... The evacuation is urgent!

A large amount of cooling water brings not only cooling, but also pressure, after contact with magma, the cooling water is quickly boiled into high-pressure steam, although there are vents in the drilling, but for such a large amount of steam is a drop in the bucket, the pressure in the drilling channel will rise sharply, the crater is composed of loose and porous volcanic rock structure, although there are four reinforced support towers and other reinforcement structures around, but in the face of the majestic power of nature, it is simply a mantis arm as a car, before the magma erupts, the first to come must be a landslide, The high-pressure steam will crack the mountain wall and the entire drilling structure will explode like an over-inflated can!

After sprinting for half an hour in such a tense atmosphere, Mark was finally able to see the platform above, the top personnel had been evacuated, and the two of them became the last two ants to run in the fire, compared to the crater was much larger than the house of a human in the eyes of ants.

"Just hold on a little longer!" Mark was engrossed in driving the cable car, but saw that something was not quite right with Nina: "Are you okay...... It feels like your face isn't looking good. ”

"It's just a little bit of a cold burn." Nina coughed twice, both cheeks were flushed, but her lips were white, Mark didn't feel it in the alliance technology suit, the temperature around her had risen sharply, even in places close to the crater, it had reached a high temperature of more than six hundred degrees, and the skin of a person who stayed in an environment of more than fifty degrees for a long time would also have a reaction similar to a burn, and Nina's bulky isolation suit was as hot as a small stove, and the sweat that flowed down was accumulating in the trouser tube and was about to flood her knees.

"We're out soon!" Mark was in a hurry to speed up to the fastest, trying to break out of this hot hell one last time.

"Stop!"

At the critical moment, less than a kilometer away from the platform above, Nina suddenly held Mark's wrist weakly.