The workshop has a total of three floors. In addition to the internal stairs, there is a rusty iron fire escape on the north side. Due to disrepair, the lower half has been broken, and only the section from the second floor to the third floor is still connected.

The fire on the first floor had just started and hadn't spread to the second floor, but the smoke had already flowed up.It took the fire brigade a quarter of an hour to arrive, and no one knew whether the people trapped inside could last that long, or whether they would be choked to death by the thick smoke first.

The old detective who led the team was afraid that something might happen to the hostages, so he sent a young man to follow Rong Rui, and asked them to climb up the fire escape outside from the north.

Rong Rui was very skilled. He ran faster, grabbed the broken lower end of the fire escape ladder with a light jump, and climbed up lightly.The young man waited for him to go up for a while before catching up, his movements were obviously not as light and fast as his.

At the gate, Xiao Su stared blankly at the burning factory building. After a short period of numbness, he suddenly woke up, and realized that what he said just now was tantamount to letting Rong Rui take risks for himself. , ran to the workshop again.

Fortunately, the north wind was blowing in winter, and the fireworks in the north were relatively small. Xiao Su watched Rongrui climb up to the third floor with trepidation, cleaned the broken window glass with his sleeve pads, and then gestured to the young people below. .

"People are fine, inside." Sun Zhisheng walked to Xiao Su's side at some point and explained to him, "He wants to go in to save people, and let the young man stay outside to meet him."

In a few minutes, the fire on the first floor had already intensified, and a faint orange-red light could be seen on the second floor.Xiao Su was suspicious, looked around, and asked worriedly: "Why is it burning so fast... Will there be any dangerous goods in the workshop? This used to be a chemical factory, are there any chemical reagents stored?"

Sun Zhisheng said: "I have checked with Wang Yulin's cousin, and there are no tables, chairs and cabinets on the first floor, and the second and third floors are empty."

Xiao Su was a little relieved. Without flammable reagents, the cement house could not be burned. It would be almost as soon as the tables and chairs on the first floor were burned.

While speaking, Rong Rui had already come out of the window, carrying a person on his shoulders, wrapped in a gray men's wool coat, but his figure was not tall, more like a woman.

"Mom?!" Xiao Su shouted loudly, but the man lay motionless on Rong Rui's shoulder, as if he had lost consciousness.

how come?The fire has only been up for a while, and the smoke is not too big, how could she pass out?Xiao Su was in doubt, and saw Rongrui handing over the man to the young man below, then turned around and went into the window again.

The young man was carrying a man on his back and climbing down the iron ladder, step by step with heavy footsteps, barely reaching the bottom, when suddenly he heard a "click", the ladder broke in the middle, and two people stumbled and fell down at the same time.

"Mom!" Xiao Su screamed and rushed over, and the people beside him also ran towards him in anger, dragging them to a safe place.

Fortunately, there is a green belt downstairs, and the weeds are not taken care of. They have grown as high as half a person, which has played a good buffer role. The young man is fine, and he just keeps asking: "Where is the hostage? Is the hostage okay? "

Xiao Su shivered and opened the collar of his coat. Sure enough, there was Fang Huici inside, but for some reason she was completely unconscious, and it was extremely difficult for her to even breathe.Xiao Su sniffed her breath, then lay on her chest and listened to her heartbeat, a terrible guess came to mind.

At this moment, the piercing siren sounded suddenly, and the firefighters and first aid arrived at the same time. A large group of firefighters rushed in, and the two first responders asked loudly, "Where are the wounded? Where are the injured?"

"Here!" Xiao Su hurriedly picked Fang Huici up, put her on the stretcher they brought over, and hurriedly said, "She's already unconscious, and she must be allergic to camphor tree pollen! She has severe allergies, and her respiratory tract will swell when exposed to a small amount. causing suffocation..."

"Camphor tree pollen? It's winter now!" the first responder said incredulously, "Are you a family member? Come with us!"

Xiao Su's heart was split in two, he paused and said resolutely: "Hurry up and take her to the hospital, I'll let my sister's car meet you at the entrance of the town... I still have relatives inside who were not rescued!"

The first responders understood and carried Fang Huici away. While calling Xiao Ran, Xiao Su ran back to the north side of the workshop, looking anxiously at the third floor where the smoke was rising.

The fire escape has been broken, but at least half of it is still connected. If you climb to the bottom and jump off, you should be fine and fall into the haystack... Xiao Su asked Sun Zhisheng nervously: "He hasn't come out yet?"

Before the words were finished, Rong Rui appeared. He helped Lawyer Zhou climb out of the window, let the other party get off first, and shouted loudly: "Old Sun, I made him jump! Please respond!"

Lawyer Zhou climbed down two steps, when a gust of wind suddenly blew, the north wind changed to the south wind, the stuffy fire on the first floor burst out from the north window, instantly ignited the withered grass below, crackling and burning wildly !

Lawyer Zhou couldn't go down, so he could only climb up and return to the window sill, and beat the small flames on his trouser legs.

In this situation, we can only control the fire on the first floor before letting them down. Fortunately, the fire trucks are already in place, and the firefighters are preparing water hoses, which will soon suppress the fire.

"Where's the boss? Is the fire hydrant on? Is there any water in it?" A fireman carrying a hose asked loudly.

Wang Yulin's cousin squatted between the two criminal policemen with a sad face, and said, "No! I haven't started work for half a year, and the tap water has stopped!"

"Damn it!" the firefighter cursed, but the next second, another firefighter said, "Huh? Isn't there water here?"

"Huh?" Wang Yulin's cousin was stunned.

Several firefighters began to connect the water pipes without saying a word, preparing to put out the fire.

Xiao Su stared at the window on the third floor for a moment, clenched his fists tightly, and suddenly felt a tingling pain in his palm.Opening his hand, he saw that he accidentally pinched his palm with his nails, and he didn't know what he caught when he hugged his mother just now, and the wound was red and swollen.

what?Xiao Su sniffed it up to the tip of his nose, and there was an alkaline smell, which seemed to be sodium hydroxide.

Sodium hydroxide is a common raw material in chemical industry, and it is also used in large quantities in making handmade soap, but just now the boss has clearly stated that there is no reagent here... Xiao Su was a little confused, rubbed his fingers, and picked out two small particles between his nails. Small off-white crystals.The outer layer of the crystal had absorbed the sweat from his palm, and most of it had dissolved, exposing the silver-gray hard core inside.

what is this?

钠?

Xiao Su was shocked - this is not industrial sodium hydroxide, but metallic sodium!

Because metal sodium is too active, it is easy to form a white sodium hydroxide skin when exposed to humid air, so he thought it was sodium hydroxide!

Totally wrong!What was found in Lawyer Zhou's car was not sodium hydroxide, but metallic sodium!Xiao Su looked at the grass where Fang Huici landed just now, and there were several large yellow plastic buckets piled up next to them. The buckets were covered with withered grass, and the dry grass was covered with sparse snow.

"Stop! Don't turn on the fire hydrant!" Xiao Su groaned in his head, yelled at the fireman with all his strength, and rushed over at the same time.

Metal sodium will burn violently when it sees water, and it will not be extinguished when it burns, it will only become more and more fierce!

However, it was already too late. The fierce jet of water sprayed towards the burning window on the first floor, suppressing the scurrying flames. The snow melted quickly and flowed through the thin dry grass into the plastic bucket.

"Bang, bang—" There were several muffled sounds, a large amount of gas sprayed out from the plastic bucket, blowing away the dry grass covering it, and then, crazy flames shot out from the bucket, melting the thin and thin air in minutes Plastic bucket walls!

The off-white fragments and unknown liquid in the bucket gushed out, covering the entire lawn in an instant!The water sprayed by the fire hose fell on the debris, and the off-white sodium hydroxide on the surface was quickly dissolved, exposing the silver-white metal sodium inside, and a bright golden flame was released when it saw the water!

There was a pungent gasoline smell in the air. It turned out that the sodium metal was soaked in petroleum ether!As soon as the petroleum ether saw the fire, it completely burned up, igniting the weeds half a person's height around, and the flame, which was only one or two meters high, immediately shot up into the sky and burned to the top of the second floor!

"Turn off the water!" Xiao Su hissed and rushed to the fire hydrant desperately, pushing the fireman to close the valve.

The firefighters were also stunned, and the leader lost his voice: "Damn it! It's fucking sodium! Sodium metal!"

Everyone turned pale with fright, the old criminal policeman told his subordinates to back off, and the captain of the fire brigade asked people to remove the water hose and adjust the dry powder to put out the fire... However, metal fires are so rare that even the most senior firefighters are only practicing I have seen it before, but I have no actual combat experience at all, and I haven't been able to suppress the fire after tossing for a long time.

It will take at least three or four hours to burn all the sodium metal so much, but this building is dilapidated and old, and it cannot withstand such a burning at all. I am afraid that if it continues to burn, it will crumble... The fire extinguisher, staring at the window on the third floor, Rongrui never showed up, and lawyer Zhou was also pulled in by him. For such a long time, no one knew how the two of them were doing, whether they were burned or not.

If you don't save him, what are you?How is it any different from a murderer?Xiao Su is going crazy, he has never done such a thing that he regrets in his 27 years of life.

Suddenly, a flash of light flashed in my mind—at the gate of the factory just now, I seemed to see a few sand trucks parked?

Use sand!The covering effect of sand is no worse than that of dry powder. Several truckloads of sand are poured over, which should be able to suppress the fire at least two or three meters away!

Xiao Su threw away the dry powder fire extinguisher, took off his coat, and ran to tell the firefighters his plan.The fire chief was at a loss, and immediately asked someone to drive the sand truck with him.

Fortunately, there was someone on duty on the battlefield, because they saw the fire here, everyone stood up to watch the excitement, and three of them were drivers.Thanks a lot, Xiao Su took the keys and two firefighters drove out three large trucks and rushed into the gate of the soap factory.

It wasn't until he dumped all the sand that he realized that he didn't have an A license and couldn't drive a truck at all.

But at this time, even if the traffic police want to detain him, it doesn't matter.

Three carts of sand fell down, covering most of the sodium metal, the air was blocked, and the fire suddenly extinguished.Xiao Su was covered in sweat and dirt, and even his glasses were covered with soot. He wiped them off a couple of times in a hurry, and shouted: "Rong Rui! Rong Rui!"

Rong Rui didn't know what to cover his mouth and nose with, and poked his head out of the window, his movements were very smooth, so he probably wasn't injured.Xiao Su heaved a sigh of relief, his voice broke: "Are you okay? Where's Lawyer Zhou?"

Rong Rui shook his head and looked outside at the fire escape.Xiao Su followed his line of sight, and his heart sank—the iron ladder was burned and deformed, and the lower end was red, so it could not be used at all.

"Jump down!" Xiao Su yelled to him, "The bottom is full of sand, if you drag it down, it will be troublesome if the fire starts again!"

Three truckloads of sand fell down, and the pile was almost as tall as a person. Now jumping down from the third floor, it is equivalent to only four or five meters from the ground, and the sand is soft and has a cushioning effect. With Rongrui's skill, it must be no problem.

Sure enough, Rong Rui gave him an "OK" gesture, turned around and said something inside, and then jumped out of the window first.

The moment Xiao Su saw him fall into the sand, Xiao Su almost cried, disregarding persuasion, he scrambled into the sand and dragged him out.

"I'm fine, I'm fine, don't cry." Rong Rui staggered and stood firm, grinning, revealing eight white teeth on his pitch-black face.Xiao Su's eyes were sore and sore. After wiping them, he realized that he really cried just now, not just thinking about it.

But for him, it's worth it.

"Lawyer Zhou! Come down, it's okay, the sand is soft!" Rong Rui raised his head and shouted angrily to the third floor.

Lawyer Zhou's figure appeared at the window, and he looked down with his head, hesitating.After all, he is almost fifty, this height is nothing to Rongrui, but rather scary to an ordinary person like him.

"Uncle Zhou, jump!" Xiao Su yelled, "The fire will burn up!" Although the metal fire outside was temporarily suppressed, the fire inside was still burning wildly, and because it couldn't be extinguished with water , it will only get bigger and bigger in the short term.

If it burns to the third floor, it will be troublesome.

Lawyer Zhou hesitated again and again, finally gritted his teeth and climbed onto the window sill.

At this moment, with a "boom", the wall on the second floor suddenly cracked, and the burnt bricks collapsed.The floor slab of the third floor also collapsed, crashing down together with the windows.

Lawyer Zhou had already jumped up and fell into the sand, but before Xiao Su and Rong Rui could go up and drag him out, the collapsed bricks and rubble fell one after another, burying him inside.

"Zhou..." Xiao Su opened his mouth, but failed to shout out, his legs gave way and almost fell down.Rong Rui hugged him: "Brother!?"

Xiao Su woke up quickly after a brief shock, took a deep breath of the burnt air, shook his head: "No, it's nothing, hurry, save Uncle Zhou..."

"Save people!" The firefighters had already swarmed up, using various tools to clean up the ruins that were pressing down on Lawyer Zhou.

Xiao Su breathed a sigh of relief, rushed over and began to help them pick up bricks and cement blocks, his fingers were dripping with blood, but he felt no pain at all.

At this moment, his cell phone rang suddenly, and it was his younger sister Xiao Ran on the other end of the phone.

"Brother?" Xiao Ran's voice was choked with sobs, "Where are you?"

"I, I'm at the scene... I'm still dealing with some things." Xiao Su suppressed his breath as much as possible to keep his tone steady, "Where are you? Where's your mother? How's she doing?"

"I, I'm in the hospital." Xiao Ran said with tears, "Mom was sent to the emergency room just now, and they asked me to sign the critical illness notice...Brother, I'm so scared, I dare not sign...Brother, where are you ? Come to the hospital quickly!"

Xiao Su's throat was so choked that he could hardly speak, he tried his best to stabilize his emotions, and said sharply, "Sign it immediately! Whatever treatment you need, what surgery you need, all you need to do is listen to the doctor, and you can sign as soon as they ask you to. Don't delay Mom's treatment. Do you understand?"

Xiao Ran whimpered and began to cry: "Brother, I'm so scared, they say that my mother's camphor tree pollen is poisoned...why is it like this?"

Camphor tree pollen... Hearing this word, Xiao Su's confused brain suddenly cleared up—Fang Huici was severely allergic to camphor tree pollen, but there were almost no camphor trees in Jingchuan, so after so many years, very few people knew about it .

Reminiscent of the metal sodium that should not appear outside the workshop, and the fire hydrant that had been abandoned for half a year but suddenly filled with water, he faintly realized that such a sophisticated conspiracy could not be a person who was scared by Rongrui's bombardment. Stupid Wang Yulin can figure it out.

He looked at Wang Yulin, who was squatting in the far corner, and his cousin. The two of them looked at the collapsed factory building and the skyrocketing fire like idiots, like a duck being strangled by the throat, and they were even more shocked than his client. .

Who, who the hell?

Ding Tianyi?

How did he know that his mother was allergic to camphor tree pollen?Even Xiao Ran didn't know about this!

No, not him.

A face with doubts for a long time appeared in front of his eyes. Looking at the raging fire, Xiao Su suddenly remembered the woman he saw by the Longshui River that day.

Hong Ying.

In the blink of an eye, he suddenly understood why she felt familiar.

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like