“…… The public's disgust with the alliance's oil refining facilities and chemical facilities is largely due to the continuous attacks of the ACA in the past hundred years, each of which will cause a large number of casualties and pollution, so when the technology of maritime cities matured in the thirties of the twenty-second century, the first batch to be relocated to the sea were petrochemical facilities, and the alliance's move was also to protect these important industrial facilities, but half a century has passed, and most of the chemical cities have the problem of aging and improper design. In addition, a large number of industrial cities are also contracted to local governments to manage these important strategic facilities in order to reduce operating costs......

-- Analysis of League Weekend, The Decline of the Alliance's Industrial Lifeline, No. 3

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"Are you scared?"

Just as Ling Yu was squatting on the roof of the car, staring at the smoke and fire that covered the sky in front of him, Captain Qiao, who was lying on the railing outside the cab, laughed softly.

"Sort of." Ling Yu nodded, being reckless was not his style, and the young man who smiled lightly was trying to filter out the sense of danger brought about by super perception at this moment, otherwise once he was attacked by the enemy, he might not be able to accurately judge and react.

"How do you know I've dealt with this fire?" Captain Qiao looked up and smiled, there was no trace of panic on his face, not even Yan Sù.

"Probably a soldier's intuition." Ling Yu returned a smile, did not answer positively, raised his hand and pointed his head, "I am more confident in perception. ”

"Superman." Captain Qiao made a good-natured joke, and then looked ahead again, Ling Yu and the others had already entered the tank farm, and some fire trucks and firefighters who were cooling the oil storage tanks appeared here and there, and these peripheral oil storage tanks were just baked by the high temperature smoke, so the temperature did not rise very quickly. There aren't a lot of people needed to cool down.

But the closer to the inside, the more severe the problem, although many of the flowing fires spreading in the middle of the tank are blocked by the flame-retardant quick-drying cement pier, but because there is constantly the replenishment of refined oil, so it is impossible to extinguish, and the main energy of a large number of firefighters is still focused on cooling the tank. Only when the fire is about to approach the cement pier is the fire is pushed back a little by the fire extinguishing foam.

Ling Yu probably understood Captain Qiao's words a little - if the flames of the oil storage tank itself were a fortress that could not be attacked, then these flowing fires were the cavalry that kept attacking and sneaking up in the fortress, if it was just a building on fire, it really couldn't be extinguished, as long as the fuel source was cut off and the fire no longer spread, it could be called "the fire has been controlled", but the existence of the flowing fire made the firefighters extremely tired physically and mentally - these viper-like flames floated on the water, flowing everywhere along the terrain. There is a risk that these firefighters will be surrounded at any time, and the vehicles will be burned and cause casualties, so the firefighters will have to devote valuable personnel and energy to ensure their own way back.

To make matters worse, the water used to cool the tank raised the height of the fuel, and the fuel floating on top of the stagnant water lightly climbed over some obstacles that could have been obstacles, which made it even more difficult to defend.

Ling Yu looked at the movements that had been deformed, sitting or lying. But with the last of his strength, he tried to raise the water cannon and let the icy water wash over the high oil storage tank. I sighed in my heart - high-pressure water guns are not so easy to control, each water gun needs two or three strong firefighters to control the direction of shooting, this kind of long-term, hopeless, unilateral suppression of the flames of the battle, so that these firefighters both physically and mentally have been tired to a limit.

And. It's going to get dark. (Note 1)

"Drop everything! I want this car to be empty! ”

Although Herris struggled to combat jamming devices and try to restore the work of the radio, he could barely maintain the communication between each squad and the command center, and the communication between the team members still had to rely on the most traditional communication methods.

Hear the command. The firefighters standing in the fire truck opened the back door and kept dropping the boxes with fire-fighting foam out of the car - the car where Ling Yu was located could not be regarded as a fire truck strictly speaking, because it was not equipped with a high-pressure water cannon, and the water tank had also been converted into a cargo cabin, which could only be regarded as a "fire material delivery vehicle".

However, at this moment, a violent explosion came from not far away, and the violent explosion made the entire No. 4 city tremble, and the firefighters were even more stunned, and even the fire truck where Ling Yu was was almost overturned because of the violent vibration.

It was the sound of the explosion of tank No. 154, and as Captain Joe expected, the No. 154 oil storage tank exploded when it was still seventy degrees away from the design temperature, fortunately the personnel were evacuated in advance, otherwise the already overstretched firefighters would have lost their combat effectiveness due to casualties.

And No. 153, which was adjacent to No. 154 oil storage tank, exploded as early as when Ling Yu and the others had just encountered the fire truck, and because No. 154 happened to be in a protrusion, the temperature of No. 154 was also rising faster than other oil storage tanks.

"Thank you!"

Captain Qiao looked up and said thank you to Ling Yu, the moment of the explosion just now, the driver boy slammed the steering wheel, almost throwing out Captain Qiao who was lying on the side of the door, and Ling Yu, who was quick-eyed, grabbed him so that he was not injured.

"I really want to ask you...... Why do you have the confidence to say that you will be able to keep the chemical area? Ling Yu turned his head to look at the debris that had fallen near the vehicle, and the concrete blocks that had been blown away had landed on the roof of the vehicle, clanging with the metal impact.

"I don't have self-confidence."

Unexpectedly, Captain Joe shook his head, "I just know that if the entire tank farm is lost and the chemical area is completely surrounded by flames, then even if all of our manpower is in the chemical area, there is nothing we can do." ”

“…… This ......" Ling Yu was stunned for a moment by this statement, he wanted to refute, but he couldn't find a reason.

"In fact, the body bag is not needed, if it is really blown up, there must be no bones left, this is the law of nature, and those who fight with nature must first obey the laws of nature." Captain Qiao touched his beard and shook his head, "Don't care, it's just some inexplicable words." ”

"I do understand a little," Ling Yu pondered for a moment and shook his head gently. "On the battlefield, it is true that the enemy who poses the greatest threat to you should be given priority, but if the situation does not allow it, blindly pursuing this goal will lead to failure, and sometimes it may be necessary to treat it the same as other enemies. That's probably what it means. ”

"Kind of interesting, boy." Captain Qiao smiled lightly, then raised his head and looked at Ling Yu, "I have a feeling that the situation inside may be worse than you think. ”

"It's nothing more than high temperature and molten iron," Ling Yu moved his fingers wrapped in heat-insulated gloves, "I'm mentally prepared." ”

"Don't underestimate the flames." Captain Joe shook his head slightly, "However, flames are just flames, and they may be your enemies or your allies. ”

"Understood, thank you." Ling Yu nodded, chewing on this sentence from the experience of professionals repeatedly, and then saw a wall of fire.

"Is it reinforcement?!"

The fire truck dragged a long brake trail on the ground to a halt. In front of Ling Yu, the road to the chemical area had been blocked by a wall of fire. Several firefighters around were laboriously shoveling up the fire sand with shovels, slowly advancing.

"Is there a bubble?! We've run out of foam! Now the people of the 87 and 22 fire stations are blocked inside! ”

A firefighter yelled at Joe, who jumped out of the car, looked at the exhausted firefighter in front of him, turned his head and shouted, "Get on the foam." Make a way! Don't delay here! ”

"You guys, I'll leave you a car and a cart of foam, you plug this gap, this road is the most important, and there is absolutely no room for error. You know?!! ”

Qiao grabbed the shoulder of the young firefighter in front of him and shook it, Ling Yu could already see that it was the flowing fire that had overflowed the trench dug in advance, and the firefighter who was shaken by Qiao nodded vigorously, and then turned back to beckon his teammates to block it.

Ling Yu and his party, together with a total of six foam trucks from another fire station, opened fire at the same time, and soon opened a road out of the fire wall, and then the five cars entered the dangerous goods area.

The situation in the dangerous goods area was actually very critical, even Ling Yu could see that two of the original three trenches had been flooded, the third was half full, and the fourth was only half dug up.

"It's pretty much what I thought." Captain Qiao was still not too surprised, just patted the glass to tell the driver to stop the car, and then looked up at Ling Yu and said, "Let your men come over, I probably know what to do." ”

"Hmm." Ling Yu looked at the direction of the flames, if he remembered correctly, what he was going to was the location of the center of the tank wreckage behind the fire field about a hundred meters later.

However, there should not be such a large flame in the center of the tank wreckage, otherwise the opponent's TF would not be able to survive there.

"These fires spread later, there shouldn't be such a big flame in the center of the tank," Sure enough, when Ling Yu and the others were all gathered around Captain Qiao, he touched his beard and made his own judgment, "It's okay, it's better than I thought, if it's only more than a hundred meters, you can rush through." ”

"How?" Luo Gen hugged his helmet and glanced at Ling Yu - when you encounter a fire, you must not be confident that you can pass through the fire, otherwise you will die.

"With this car," Old Joe patted the transport truck they were sitting in when they came, which had been basically emptied, "the body was covered with a layer of foam, and then only one foot of oil was left, and rushed through here in one go, the fire truck itself is more resistant to burning, and it is no problem to go farther, rush through the fire, and you will directly hit the head over there, see no, the concrete wall over there, and then enter it through the windshield." ”

"Ling Yu, I've finally found someone crazier than you......" Rogan was already in a completely stunned state, although TF's body element could still withstand such a toss, but this plan was indeed crazy enough.

Before Logan could come back to his senses, Helis in metal boots had already jumped up with a boost and kicked the front windshield of the fire truck, and the girl's boots were covered with heat insulation, which also had a heat insulation effect, but basically emptied the propellant.

"There's no other way." Ling Yu nodded and waved at Luo Gan, "Get in the car, we're ready to go, Captain Qiao, you help us drain the oil." ”

"No problem," Captain Qiao nodded, beckoning the firefighters on the side to start draining the oil, the fire truck does not use fusion batteries, because although fusion batteries are not easy to burn, once they explode, the effect is much more gorgeous than gasoline.

"By the way, remember to remind everyone to always wear their seatbelts." Before leaving, the uncle still pulled Ling Yu and admonished him.

"Joe, speaking of which." Ling Yu glanced at the other people who had climbed into the car, and before putting on his helmet, he glanced at Uncle Beard, "You just said that it's okay to go a little further...... Have you ever used this method? ”

"I wish I hadn't used it in my life." Qiao hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled, then patted Ling Yu's shoulder, "Go ahead, boy, it's up to you whether you can save these people or not." ”

Ling Yu nodded, took his eyes off the back that was outlined by the firelight like an oil painting, climbed into the car, and patted the shoulder of Helis who was holding the steering wheel, "Get ready, let's go." ”

Helis nodded, poked Ling Yu's neck, signaling that he didn't have a helmet on, Ling Yu originally planned to go in and tie the button again to save a little oxygen, but he still chose to buckle it.

"Ready, let's go!"

Ling Yu glanced at the front window without a windshield, then sat down in his seat, buckled his seatbelt, looked back at the other people's seat belts, and nodded.

"Let's go!"

(Note 1: It was already dark in the Atlantic Ocean when Neptune fired the missile, but there was a time difference of almost two hours between Newport and the Atlantic, so it was still the last hour of dusk.) (To be continued......)