Chapter 234: Looking for a needle in a haystack
Nipp ran on the broken and cracked road, and he couldn't tell if it was a road under his feet, or maybe a relatively gentle platform left behind by the collapse of a certain building, shattered into a ribbon by successive aftershocks. The torrential rain of steel has not stopped, although the density is much smaller, but from time to time there will still be metal falling from the sky, and the slightest carelessness will be smashed into meat sludge.
He also kept the call with Jinna and didn't hang up, the two didn't talk much, Jinna couldn't see the situation on her side clearly, so she couldn't help much, she had been trapped for a long time and had no physical strength, if it wasn't for being too excited, she would have been speechless, and the few words she said to Nipu used up all her strength, and after that she only felt weak, exhausted, and would fall asleep at any time. Nipu had to keep the communication, talking to her from time to time to keep Jinna awake, it was very troublesome to fall asleep at this time, not to mention the changes that could happen at any time, and lowering the body temperature in such a harsh environment was dangerous in itself.
"Jinna, can you still hear me?"
"Hmm...... I want to sleep, I'm sleepy, my legs hurt......" Jinna let out a tired gasp.
"Don't sleep, I'll find you soon! You wait a minute! Wait a minute...... "Nip found a small ball cart, not fast, but better than on foot, and more tolerant of bad road conditions than a normal car.
"Go back, I don't even know where I am...... How could you possibly find me. Kinna was reluctant to give up hope, but she knew how slim it was.
"I'll find you! I said yes! You don't think so much. Nip clung to the steering wheel, in fact just slamming around on the broken earth, and he couldn't find his way at all, although he was extremely anxious, but it was a needle in a haystack.
Nip thought desperately, trying to get a useful clue from the messy information, his mind was as chaotic and shattered as the ruins under his feet, and the urgency of the situation made him unable to calm down, Nip stepped on the gas pedal and searched around the ruins, but to no avail.
Suddenly, there was a violent noise under the cart, Nip only felt upside down, and his whole body flew into the air, his cart seemed to have hit some obstacle, due to the relatively small size and unstable center of gravity, so it flipped all at once, when Nipu landed again, he only felt a heavy force on his shoulder, and the impact spread along the bones into the internal organs, and the sudden blow made the heart pressurize violently, and Nipu felt that his heart almost exploded.
"Damn it......" Nip propped himself up on the ground, the ground around him was still shaking, Nip had gradually adapted to the shaking around him, which was not a good thing, if the amplitude of the earthquake became stronger and stronger, he would not be able to detect it because he felt paralyzed.
When he got up again, Nip's hands were black, this was a factory before, and after the destruction, a lot of graphite materials were leaked, Nipu looked at the black on his hands and fell into deep thought, Jinna had told him before that there was a burning smell in the place where she was......
Coke.
The black on Nip's hand was not coke, but he quickly thought of that material, he had been exposed to coke in his previous work and knew a lot about it, the use of coke in this era was very small, the traditional thermal power generation had long been eliminated, most of the energy in Star City was provided through controlled fusion furnaces, and part of it was by collecting methane fuel on Ganyme, the poor calorific value of coke was not worth building a power station, and another important use was ironmaking, However, several major changes have already taken place in the field of metallurgical technology, and coke ironmaking has long been obsolete with more advanced and environmentally friendly nanocatalysts instead of coke.
So...... Where else can coke occur? Nip picked up the large boulders from the ruins, pushed the moving cart out, and rode it quickly in one direction, this time instead of looking for a needle in a haystack, he finally found his way......
From those old forbidden books, coke was originally a by-product of fossil material mining, but there is no fossil energy to mine in Star City, it is a lonely castle floating in space, and there is only one source of coke, that is, the gas mine of Ganymede, which produces a large number of by-products when purifying the collected gas raw materials, coke is one of them, and its use is only one, that is, it is used to prepare a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons, Although it has few uses, this gas, commonly known as water gas, still has applications in some fields, and the rest of the coke will only have a place to go! Gas Mine Recovery and Treatment Plant!
"Wait for me...... Wait for me, I'll be there soon. Nip kept shouting into the communicator, but there was no response, he didn't know if Kina was asleep or the communication signal was interrupted, he was getting faster and faster, and the wheels of the cart made a piercing whin.
If the structure of each industrial zone is similar...... Then he must be in the right direction, Nipu still has a map of the industrial area in his mind, although the roads and buildings have long been destroyed by the aftershocks and the steel rainstorm, but he can still see the general outline, faster, faster, he keeps urging himself, his eyes scanning, desperately trying to find some clues from the ruins.
"Jinna!" Nipu saw black marks on the ground, a pungent scorching temperature came, and he confirmed his judgment even more, this should be the place where Jinna was trapped, but this area is not small, it doesn't take him a moment to look for her all the way, shouting her name, and the deeper he goes, the more difficult things become......
Nipu took out the filter mask from his backpack and put it on, and almost all the buildings in the factory collapsed, leaking a large amount of coke and carbon monoxide, which are raw materials, and these toxic gases weigh more than air and will settle down...... Jinna is still buried underneath, and it will become more and more dangerous over time, and even if she is not injured, the poisonous gases that continue to seep down are a deadly threat.
"Jinna!" Nip shouted with all his might, and this time he was pleasantly surprised to find a faint shout coming from his phone, which made him ecstatic that he had come to Jinna.
Relying on the sound of the mobile phone as a distance basis, Nipu got closer to the place where Jinna was trapped, and after digging two wrong places, he finally found the right place, which was not only heavy with the smell of charcoal but also with a smell of blood, and Jinna had said before that there were many people killed next to her......