Chapter 108: A Real Crisis

"Don't panic, Sergeant Herman has set aside 4 minutes of spare time, everyone keep up with the line."

Lukka then stepped forward and scolded.

Indeed, although the service life of the gas mask is only about half an hour, considering factors such as accidents and chlorine deposition and diffusion, Gu Ji still has enough time to escape in advance.

After the crowd rushed out of the factory.

The surrounding western-style buildings are deserted, the streets are littered with clothes, shoes, and crashing vehicles, and the occasional dripping of blood on the ground, as if the end has come.

After running for four or five hundred meters in a row, the surrounding chlorine gas gradually thinned.

Gu Ji also heard the noisy discussion in the distance, as well as the snorting sound of water guns spraying water.

He used a flashlight to signal the light in advance.

At the moment when the chlorine gas fog was rushed, everyone saw a group of soldiers in white coats, black rubber boots, and gas masks gathered around the street at the intersection not far away.

At this moment, they are leading the firefighters, holding water spray guns in their hands to wash and disinfect the chlorine mist.

It was the Hans Army's anti-chemical warfare unit summoned by Deputy Mayor Otto.

When the anti-chemical warfare soldiers saw Gu Ji and the others rushing out of the poison gas, they were slightly stunned at first, and only after the captain gave the order did they bring the water over.

"Rinse and disinfect them immediately!"

Seeing this, Gu Jixian gently placed Leer on the ground.

Then under the spray water gun, the gas masks of the two people were removed, and without the masks to cover them, their sight and breathing were obviously much more comfortable.

Only then did Eugen and the others realize that because of long-term exposure to high concentrations of chlorine, the white sheets on their bodies had already turned light yellow-green, as if they had rolled around on the grass.

"All patients whose skin comes into contact with chlorine should immediately take off their coat and rinse the affected area for 15 minutes!"

As he spoke, he helped Leer rinse his face and the corners of his eyes.

Among the many patients, Lehr was the most seriously injured, because the underground gas chamber he went to was the place where the chlorine leak was the strongest, his eyes were bloodshot and swollen, his skin began to crack, a layer of papules similar to hemorrhagic fever appeared on the surface, his chest was coughing uncontrollably, and there were blood streaks in his sputum.

"Leer, open your mouth, bear with me, your poisoning symptoms are very deep, you must immediately lavage your stomach."

Gu Ji pinched Keller's mouth with his hand and asked him to pour water.

This feeling of continuously forcing a large amount of water to drink is no less than that of ancient waterboarding.

Within three or four seconds, Lehr choked and instinctively vomited.

A large amount of yellow-green goo flowed to the ground, and he pulled out a large amount of activated carbon powder from the filter of the brand new gas mask, "Leer, swallow it, it will help you completely suck out the remaining chlorine in your stomach." ”

Lehr had already been tormented by pain and suffocation.

But he still relied on his strong will, and swallowed the black powder according to Gu Ji's order.

Eugen stood aside, and when he saw his old chief become like this, he was distressed and puzzled:

"Why is Chief Leer so desperate, doesn't he know to run out quickly?"

"How can the officers who came out of the Army Academy not know the power of chlorine, Leer just wants to use his ability to protect his compatriots in the empire......"

When Luca explained, he couldn't help but think of the two sentences that Gu Ji said at the military base this morning.

The duty of a soldier is to defend the homeland and the country.

Leer had already gradually lost his fighting spirit on the battlefield of the South and South Outer Islands, and perhaps it was precisely because of this sentence that he rekindled his desire to fight.

"Eugen, help me soak the pill in water."

Gu Ji didn't pay attention to the exchange between the two, but took out a small brown bakelite box from the gas mask jar on his waist.

The box contained auxiliary protective accessories for gas masks, and each Hanse soldier was given anti-poison reagents for skin and weapons to urgently treat skin damage caused by mustard gas, chlorine and other poisonous gases.

These purifying tablets are soaked in water, mixed into a paste and applied to the affected area, and can only be used on the surface of the skin, not on the eyes, mouth or genitals.

"You have a lot of experience in anti-virus."

A short middle-aged anti-chemical warfare soldier suddenly walked behind him, "I'm Franz, the anti-chemical warfare captain of the chemical guard tower in Ludwigshafen, and you are the Sergeant Hermann that the deputy mayor said?" ”

"Hello sir, Lehr now needs urgent treatment, he now has localized alveolar pulmonary edema, which could cause reflex respiratory center depression at any time."

Although Gu Ji relied on "Bacterial Biochemistry and Radiation Crisis Contingency" to deal with Leer's emergency treatment, the damage to his lungs by chlorine gas was already very serious, and if he hadn't been a soldier and knew some experience in covering his mouth and nose with wet clothes, he would have died in the basement long ago.

Franz hurriedly called for two chemical defense soldiers to carry Lehr on a stretcher.

Then he looked at Gu Ji again.

"What's going on inside now?"

"The leak was a chlorine storage tank stored in the basement of the chlorination plant, and the exact cause of the leak is not clear, and the workers said that the pipeline leaked due to the suspected explosion caused by the high temperature, and the plant's safety facilities did not work."

"Lehr risked his life by shutting down the tank's directional wheel valves, but there is still a risk of a secondary leak, and there are still eight or nine workers trapped inside the chlorine plant."

Gu Ji was reporting the situation in the factory to Franz, and when he saw Deputy Mayor Otto and several leaders coming over, he hurriedly asked:

"Deputy Mayor Otto, have you found Goering?"

"Not yet, he's not at home, the servant said he was out on errands, and I've sent someone to find him."

Otto also wore a gas mask.

The group of people spoke as if they were reverberating.

Franz clung his chin.

"Sergeant Herman, based on the data you provided and the situation on the ground, I estimate that at least more than 30 tons of chlorine gas have leaked, and of such a terrifying magnitude, just transferring workers and nearby civilians will already consume a lot of manpower, and it is too difficult to effectively control it......"

The meaning of the second half of his sentence is that these anti-chemical forces alone cannot stop the spread of poison gas at all, and they can only be forced to move civilians out of the city as soon as possible.

Otto shook his head.

"Large-scale relocation of people is not realistic, the train tracks and the port have to pass through the northeast of the BASF plant, which is itself within the range of explosions and poison gases, and if it is transferred by road, the existing urban traffic cannot meet the requirements."

"Deputy Mayor Otto, what happened to the Defence Air Force support I asked you to call earlier?"

Compared with everyone's disappointed looks, Gu Ji did not give up.

The commander of the defense garrison beside Otto spoke:

"We have contacted the air base, and they have promised to send an additional transport plane to support, which will take about 20 minutes, but as far as I know, the carrying capacity of a medium-sized transport plane is only three tons, and even if it is all used to load water, it will not be enough to load the water of the land tanker."

"Sir, you're right, but the advantage of airplanes carrying water is that they can reach places that land vehicles can't reach, such as the leak point: the chimney of the chlorination plant, we can let the transport plane fly over the leaking plant to sprinkle water, and three tons of water will be smashed down, which is enough to absorb a large amount of chlorine, hydrogen chloride, and sulfuric acid mixture, and delay the gas leakage from the source."

When Gu Ji said this, the commander was suddenly stunned.

Not only him, but Otto, the two Inspectors-General, Franz, and even Luca all changed color and were pinned in place, as if the ground was about to crack at his feet.

He narrowed his eyes slightly.

I also know the reason why this group of people was shocked, during World War II, the concept of air rescue and fire extinguishing had not yet been proposed.

In fact, he originally envisioned the most perfect method as "artificial rainfall".

Using rainwater to continuously flush chlorine into the air can solve this crisis in the shortest possible time.

Unfortunately, artificial rainfall was invented in 1946 and was soon used by the Eagle Nation to implement the "Protrusion Eye Project" and use artificial rainfall on a large scale in Southeast Asia.

As a meteorological weapon, continuous artificial rainstorm can cause a large number of geological disasters such as flash floods and mudslides, and cause devastating blows to railways, bridges, highways and dams within the range.

That's right.

The invention of any science and technology is always accompanied by war.

The reason why Franz was so shocked was nothing more than that the method mentioned by Gu Ji could be applied to the battlefield and used to quickly destroy the enemy's poison gas attack.

"God, you're such a genius, I'll immediately ask the command to contact the pilot to drop water bombs!!"

The commander of the garrison was so excited that he rubbed the soles of his shoes.

After he left, Gu Ji continued:

"As long as the chlorine leakage can be solved, the next step is to prevent the spread, Deputy Mayor Otto, you also said that the northeast part of BASF's production site is a railway track and a port, or the entire east and north sides of Ludwigshafen are wrapped in the Rhine River, and water is a natural gas blocking wall."

"So we just need to figure out the current wind direction and strengthen the defense downwind, even if there are fewer people, we can still contain the spread of toxic gases, and the only thing we need to pay attention to is the recovery and centralized treatment of this flushing water, and the interception and drainage of the Rhine."

"I, I'll arrange for someone to do it now!"

Otto could no longer describe the talent displayed by Gu Ji in words, so he simply stumbled.

Gu Ji looked back at the poisonous gas mass that "swallowed the sky and ate the earth".

The most difficult thing to do now is how to save the trapped workers in the factory, seeing that the chlorine concentration is getting higher and higher, even if the gas mask can be replaced, the clothing to protect the skin is not so easy to solve.

Professional-grade protective clothing has not yet been developed......

Just as he was deep in thought, there was a rumbling of engines, and it was a motorized unit coming to deliver logistics.

Because of the poison gas leak, panic broke out in the city.

All civilians are busy fleeing, and the roads are full of people and vehicles, and military vehicles are not as large as motorcycles.

Gu Ji saw the protective coat worn by the motorized infantryman, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

He remembers the early days of World War II, as motorcycle crews were constantly in harsh conditions to resist wind, rain and cold waves.

In order to facilitate the driver to better perform the task, Hans Logistics has developed a special jacket for motorized infantry, which has a rubber protective coating on the outside to prevent wind and rain.

Similarly, chlorine protection is also possible!

"Motorized infantry overcoat! The outer layer of this thing is coated with rubber to prevent chlorine from entering the skin! ”

Gu Ji pointed to the motorcycle in the distance and shouted.

Franz looked back, instantly understood what he meant, and requisitioned rubber overcoats from the motorized infantry.

Gu Ji tied the hem of his clothes with rope and stuffed them into high-barrel leather boots.

Everyone learned from him to reorganize, this time with the addition of anti-chemical soldiers, the chief construction inspector also found the layout of the factory building, which can be said to have greatly improved the rescue efficiency of the team.

"Everyone, get out of here, stop the machines!"

In the eastern area of the production base, after Gu Ji rescued the last group of people from the chlorine plant one after another, he turned around and began to rescue the trapped workers around.

"Eugen, come here and carry this wounded man out!"

"Yes!"

Eugen just rushed over and took a closer look, only to find that the worker's face was a little wrong, "Sir, this worker is not from Hans!" ”

Gu Ji looked back when he heard the sound and saw a white-skinned worker coughing for help, speaking in a language he didn't understand.

He had also saved one at the scene of the explosion before, and it seemed that he was a Ukrainian.

"Don't care who he is, carry him out first!"

"Sir, since you said that the duty of a soldier is to defend the country, and we should save our compatriots first, why should we pay attention to such outsiders?"

Eugen looked reluctant, staring at the foreign workers on the ground in disgust, as if he were looking at a pile of garbage.

Gu Ji's eyes were instantly gloomy.

"Everyone is the same in the face of disaster, I'll let you carry him out!"

"Lift it, Eugen."

At this time, Luca came forward and shouted, and patted Gu Ji's shoulder, "Eugen is still just an eighteen-year-old child, we have to pay attention to the way we speak." ”

Gu Ji's eyelids jumped.

Listening to the second half of the sentence that was deliberately strengthened, he reacted that Lukka was reminding him not to say the wrong thing.

About an hour passed.

Suddenly, there was a low roar of engines in the sky, and it was the support of the Wehrmacht Air Force transport planes.

Gu Ji quickly ordered everyone to stay away from the chlorine plant.

In the blink of an eye, the sound of crackling water resounded in the production base, as if a heavy rainstorm had suddenly fallen, and the water flowed down the cracks in the road, and soon spread to the feet of several people, and the color of the poisonous gas became much lighter.

[Goal: Prevent the spread of accidents and disasters from leaving the port!] 】

【Please choose your reward!】 】

【Risk Judgment Improvement (M)】OR [Endurance Improvement (S)]

Done so quickly?

Come to think of it, the chlorine leakage point has been solved by Leer and him, so the residual chlorine gas in the air is equivalent to rootless water, and it can't make any waves.

Gu Ji chose Reward One.

Blue [Risk Judgment Improvement (Medium)]: Improve the ability to identify environmental risks by 31%, improve the awareness of risk monitoring by 23%, and shorten the time for formulating response plans by 42%.

This is simply a miracle of crisis management.

The moment the blue mark fell, through the yellow lens of the gas mask, Gu Ji's eyes swept over the chlorine factory not far away, and he couldn't help but find a crack on the top of the chimney.

"Everyone stay farther away, the chimney is at risk of collapsing when it is flooded!"

As soon as the words were finished.

System text followed.

[Secondary goal: to investigate the follow-up risk of the accident!] 】

[The ultimate goal: to solve the accident disaster at BASF's factory and control the accident death toll to 70!] 】

Check the follow-up risk of the accident?

Gu Ji raised his eyebrows.

Haven't all the storage tanks been closed by Leer, and the leaks have basically been discharged, are there other chemical hazards in the factory?

He glanced at the task progress bar in the lower left corner.

[Follow-up risk of the accident: not investigated]

[Current death toll: 53/70]

The death toll is so low?

It's not that Gu Ji hopes that more people will die, or that he is complacent that he will save himself in time.

Rather, according to the situation at the scene and the accident assessment criteria, the death toll of such a huge explosion and poison gas leakage accident should be at least in the hundreds.

Return from the production base outside the cordon.

Seeing that the poisonous gas gradually dissipated, indicating that the method of sprinkling water in the air was very effective, Otto could finally breathe a sigh of relief, looking at Gu Ji and the others who were coming towards him, his eyes were full of appreciation and gratitude.

If it weren't for this young man's whim, the accident might not have been solved so smoothly.

Just as he was thinking about how to thank Gu Ji, a black police car stopped near the temporary accident handling team.

The door opened, and the police stepped down with a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes.

It's Goering.

Finally caught this guy!

Without waiting for Otto's thousands of questions, Gu Ji dodged and pounced, grabbed Goering's neckline, and forced his gaze:

"Why weren't you on the scene when there was such a big accident? Do you know what a lot of casualties are caused by the lack of a safe escape map and the lack of a person in charge to cut off the power and cut off the pipeline in time! ”

"Hey! Hey! I've got something important to attend to today, okay? Rude man, please let go! ”

Although Goering pretended to be calm on the surface, his eyes were very flustered.

Gu Ji let go of his hand.

"Now it's the gas inventory data of the East District plant, and the number of employees."

"There is no need to worry about the number of employees, it is now in the off-season of sales and production, except for ensuring the operation of the factory foundation, there are no unnecessary unrelated personnel, and most of these workers are migrant workers, so there is no need to pay attention."

Goering straightened the tie at his collar and calmly opened his mouth, as if the employees trapped and killed in the accident had nothing to do with him.

"I want a specific number of people!"

"There are more than 200 people in the East Side factory? I can't remember exactly, there are a lot of laborers who are not recorded, and I was kind enough to provide them with jobs. ”

Seeing that Gu Ji's tone turned cold, Goering didn't dare to harden it, so he had to answer truthfully.

The so-called unrecorded labor should be black labor.

During the wartime, all kinds of illegal and forced laborers were common, and many of them were foreigners from the occupied areas, and they were not treated well in the Hans country, and no one cared about their life or death.

This can be seen from Eugen's attitude just now.

"Factory gas stocks! I warn you, if you dare to hide this matter, it is likely to plunge the whole city into disaster again! ”

"This ......"

Goering hesitated, seeing that the Inspector General of Labor had no intention of speaking for him, so he had to take two steps back, "The chlorine produced by the chlorine plant is stored in liquid form in a tank in the basement, with a storage capacity of 75% ......"

"Damn, doesn't the technical manual say that the safe storage amount is fifty percent!"

Gu Ji was so angry that he grabbed Goering's collar again.

Lukka hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, "Herman, listen to him first!" ”

"75% stock, about 45 tons."

Goering finally broke free from Gu Ji's shackles and hid directly behind the labor inspectorate.

Gu Ji retracted the fierce color in his eyes and continued to ask.

"Are there any other spare canisters?"

"We have three tanks in the basement and the remaining two...... Also 75%. ”

"Two more? That is, there are still 90 tons of liquid chlorine in the plant? ”

Hearing this, Otto's head "buzzed" and he almost fainted from anger.

Frans also stiffened in place.

A leak in just one tank was enough to put the whole city in danger, and if the other two were to leak, it would be possible to attack the whole of the Rhine, and even the state of Vichy Gaul on the other side of the river.

"Damn! What are you making so much chlorine gas for? ”

This time, it was the labor inspector general who scolded first, "Come on, take Goering to the police station and control him, don't let him escape!" ”

Suddenly, the two policemen returned Goering to the police car.

Gu Ji didn't have the heart to care about Goering's charges at this time.

The most important thing at the moment is how to solve these two large tanks of liquid chlorine, and there must be no mistakes, the current number of manpower and material preparation can no longer withstand the toss.

Calm down, be sure to be calm.

His brain was running fast, and thanks to the shortened time for making plans brought by the imprint, a solution that was not a way suddenly appeared in front of Gu Ji's eyes!

"We need to get these two tanks of liquid chlorine safe as soon as possible!"

"The key is how to handle it safely?"

Franz, as an expert in chemical defense, is well aware of the difficulty, "Not to mention the difficulty of the transfer of 90 tons of liquid chlorine, the explosion of the synthetic rubber plant has not been dealt with until now, in case of leakage in the process of transshipment, you and I cannot afford this responsibility!" ”

"No need to transfer, we'll handle it in the factory!"

Gu Ji raised his head, and his tone was quite firm.

From the beginning, he suspected the cause of the chlorine leak.

It stands to reason that leakage is different from explosion, there is reaction time, workers should start the emergency shutdown at the first time when they find the leakage, and open the exhaust system to guide the toxic gas into the decontamination tower, combustion tower and other treatment devices for treatment.

Even if the gas leaks from the chimney at the end, there is a sprinkler to stop it.

But during the incident, it was as if the three devices were completely out of order, and none of them were triggered.

Gu Ji thought it was a failure of the equipment.

The number of fatalities in the accident can be combined, as well as the number of workers that Goering has just reported.

Let him draw a conclusion:

The staffing of the production base is insufficient!

With more than 200 people, it is difficult enough to meet the basic operation of the factory in the eastern district, let alone have the energy to manage the safety and emergency equipment.

After the explosion, the workers lacked experience in dealing with disaster emergencies, so they only cared about running around with their heads bored, and no one started the equipment, so the chlorine gas erupted and leaked from the chimney without hindrance.

After he explained the conclusions of his analysis.

Franz pondered for a moment.

"The method is doable, but again, the risk is too great, what if a leak occurs during the decontamination process?"

(End of chapter)