Chapter 178: The Burning Throne (5)
"How many?" Anna pulled the rope and turned her head in the wind and rain to shout.
"What?" Belle struggled to pull a man up, then gritted her teeth and carried it on her shoulder, sweating profusely, "What did you say?" โ
"How many are these?" Anna repeated.
Belle turned her head to look at the survivors who were still hanging from the railing, and shook her head, "I didn't count carefully, there may be dozens!" โ
She carried the man across the entire level, placing the survivor next to Ariana, before turning around and carrying the others again.
The two girls are struggling to save the survivors, and there is no time to rest at all, the fire downstairs is spreading upwards, and at some point, the air begins to fill with smoke, and Anna and Belle feel choked when they breathe...... The smoke was already creeping up, and Anna locked the stairwell door and pulled down the fire curtains, but that only slowed down the spread of the smoke, and it couldn't keep them out.
Rech picked up the survivor who had been put down and handed it to the doctor behind him, "Doctor! Heavy artillery! How's it going? The fire is getting bigger! If you can't hold on, evacuate as soon as possible! โ
Ariana lay on the edge of the building, clutching the rope tightly in both hands, recovering the rope and the lock bit by bit, she was too tired to stand up, and had to rely on her weight to hang the rope.
"It's okay...... We can hold on! โ
"How many survivors are left?" Rech asked.
"There are probably dozens left." Ariana replied, "Soon...... It's going to be done in no time! A little while...... Just a little while! โ
Belle placed a woman beside Ariana, who crawled over and put a safety rope on her, pulled hard to make sure the lock was fastened, and pushed her down. The weight of the moment was exerted on the rope, Anna almost failed to grasp it, the rope fell off her tiger's mouth and flew out, Anna was startled, and quickly reached out and grabbed the rope that flew away, she was dragged forward for some distance, half of her body was outside the building, and she was almost about to fall headlong.
"Doctor beware!" Downstairs, Rehe was shocked, he could see very clearly that Ariana's upper body was hanging in midair, "Danger! โ
Ariana reached for the railing, struggled to pull her body back, and then fell to the floor gasping and coughing, the rain crackling down on her.
"It's okay...... I'm fine, save people...... Save people first. โ
The smoke in the air grew thicker and thicker, and gradually even the air temperature began to rise, and the floor of the building shook slightly, and Belle and Anna both heard a loud rumble under their feet.
It was the fire that destroyed the walls and columns, and the Jin Mao Tower is an earthquake-resistant building that is very strong, but no one knows how long it will last in the midst of a fierce fire.
From downstairs, the entire middle of the building has been covered in thick smoke, and the dark smoke is tumbling up, the reason why Belle and Anna did not suffocate in the thick smoke is because it is an east wind blowing today, and all the smoke is swept to the east by the strong wind, Belle and Anna are on the west side of the building, barely avoiding the most dense smoke.
But if it goes on like this, they won't be able to hold out for long, and the fire is burning more and more fiercely, spreading faster and faster, and there is no sign of abating. Jin Mao Tower must have taken into account the fire protection problem at the beginning of the design, this kind of high-rise building is the most troublesome once it catches fire, the high-pressure water column and ladder of the fire truck can not reach such a high position, so the building is densely packed with smoke alarms, fire sprinklers and fire curtains.
However, these facilities can only deal with small fires, and their role is to extinguish the fire before it spreads, and once the fire has spread to the entire level, it can no longer be suppressed.
Bright tongues of fire erupted from the windows, and the entire 52nd and 53rd floors were burned into empty shells, and the steel frames on the outer walls of the building were melted by the heat, leaving only the sturdy load-bearing structure still supported.
If this continues, sooner or later, the fire will climb up to the floor where Belle and Anna are, and before that, the fire will completely cut off the passage up and down the stairs, and the flames will burn the safety rope, and at that time, the people upstairs will have to sit and die.
Belle and Ariana must evacuate as soon as possible, it will be too late to delay any longer.
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"Iron wall! Iron Wall! The storm roared in the channel, "How long are you going to go!" โ
He couldn't hold it anymore, the infected were already trying to climb the heavy mechs, Storm was too far forward alone, he was a salient in the line, and for this he took on most of the defensive pressure, and the infected were coming at him.
Hell, the track on one side of him was still stuck, and the mech could only spin in place, unable to evacuate, and Storm tried to repair the track while firing his gun.
"Five minutes!" Rech responded, "Five minutes is fine!" โ
"You said the same thing five minutes ago!" The storm roared, and the zombies were still pouring in, "This is the first five minutes!" I'm out of bullets and I'm using my fists against the intested! โ
"Okay, I'm not going to say five minutes anymore." Rehe stood on the steel frame and caught the survivors who were put down above, "The people above haven't been saved yet, you must hold on, this is a death order!" Hear no! It's a death order! โ
Storm listened and wanted to curse, Rehe, bastard!
The upper body of the heavy attack mecha rotated, and the huge fist knocked down all the approaching zombies, the storm had exhausted all the ammunition, and he was relying on the mech to fight hand-to-hand with the zombies, fortunately, the heavy attack mecha was a one-story tall behemoth, it could smash through the wall with one punch, and the infected had nothing to do in front of this big iron bump, and they couldn't bite the machine armor.
Storm is not afraid of zombies when he sits in a mecha, but his mission is to keep the infected out of the defense line, what is the use of not being afraid of zombies alone? The people behind him are afraid of zombies...... The storm is just a reef, but it's trying to hold the tide at bay.
"You'd better fucking hurry!" The storm scolded.
Heavy machine guns on Humvee convoys are firing intermittently, the heavy weapons on the off-road vehicles have been exhausted, and rocket launchers and anti-tank missiles have knocked out the largest wave of corpses. There is a Browning M2 heavy machine gun jammed, several people are busy clearing obstacles, the high-intensity shooting makes these American heirlooms that have been used by the US military for a hundred years unable to hold on, if it weren't for these heavy machine guns, the zombies would have broken through the defense line long ago.
The rescue team was isolated, but according to the original plan they should have had strong fire support, and an entire artillery battalion was their backing.
Now the plan has completely collapsed, the scheduled schedule has long been scrapped, the contact is broken, they can't contact the academy and the artillery, and the artillery does not dare to open fire at will when the situation is unknown, otherwise the shells will fall on their own people.