"This year''s snow is really big. Last time I heard that it was caused by the gradual popularization of coal-fired and obsidian products. The place where we live is covered with a glass cover. If the temperature inside the glass cover is getting higher and higher...", the worker in old cotton clothes took out a match, talked about the hem of cotton clothes and scratched on the dry waist. With a sniff, the match was lit with a little choking smoke.


    What they hold in their hands are their own rolled cigarettes. It won''t be long before they walk from here to a prosperous big city, but the consumption in that city is not what they can imagine. They''d better honestly use a box of 105 matches to light these cigarettes rolled with their own planted tobacco leaves.


    More than 20 people sit at the construction site of the eastern mountains. The support structure like a huge tunnel built with wood and steel as the main body on their heads can well block the stones falling from both sides of the canyon. Whenever they encounter stones that cannot be removed manually, they need to be blasted, which will continuously crack both sides of the manually driven canyon, Large and small stones can easily hurt people when they fall. Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of workers and a stable working environment, the joint construction workers have made an almost closed rectangular structure channel in the opened canyon.


    At this time, it was the workers'' turn to rest. The United construction workers provided three times the daily salary for these workers who did not go home in the new year until January 15. This bonus is very attractive. Many people choose to stay. If they do it at the end of the month, they will work for one month but get two months'' salary, which is very tempting for the workers.


    With a violent explosion, the stone walls of the canyon that have been leveled on both sides vibrated slightly, and pieces of cracked stones fell from above and hit the support, causing a slight distortion sound to the support.


    This kind of thing happens many times every day, and we have long been used to it. Before long, the construction machinery will clean up the stones accumulated on the support to ensure that the weight on the support does not exceed the maximum bearing capacity of the support itself. Then the workers would climb out on ladders and work on the cliffs.


    A dirty woman, also wrapped in old cotton padded clothes and wearing a hood, pushed in the dining car. In addition to some beef and wheat kernels, there were also many cheap spirits and some hot drinks. This was the basic guarantee required by Otis city hall when the joint construction workers signed the contract. They must provide workers with heating places and food in winter.


    One by one, the exhausted workers silently took back their lunch boxes from the dining car, drinking hot and bitter pot washing water and eating food. This is the happiest time of the day. There is no more comfortable time than this when you can fill your stomach and have a rest without working.


    There are forty or fifty similar rest points in the whole project. One such rest point will be established every time a section of mountain is cut. In addition to the vertical construction, there are also horizontal construction needs them to do. Although the construction machinery is very powerful, not everything can be done.


    As for the worker who wanted to show off what he didn''t have in his stomach, he also lost his mind to show off under the temptation of food. There was only the sound of swallowing in the quiet space.


    Suddenly, a worker raised his head and looked back and forth. "Do you hear me? There seems to be a sound."


    "What can I do?" the worker beside him muttered, "eat your food quickly, and you can sleep for an hour after dinner. If you don''t want to sleep, I''ll report it if you''re lazy at work in the afternoon." he is the foreman of this project section, and his main job is to lead everyone to construct the stone walls on both sides of the canyon that have been blasted and slightly cleaned, At the same time, record who does well and who doesn''t.


    The joint construction workers from the Federation are more aware of the role of internal competitiveness and role models under the group effect than some capitalists in the Empire. Three people in each section will get an extra dollar reward every day, which is enough to stimulate everyone''s work enthusiasm, especially after they have formulated more reward rules and punishment rules, Everyone is working hard, and few people choose to be lazy.


    Every morning, engineers come to spray paint. The places where the green paint is sprayed should be reinforced and the places where the red paint is sprayed should be knocked off. The three shifts work continuously day and night, which has pushed the work process to the extreme.


    At the beginning, the man was a little worried. He picked up the lunch box and went to the support point used to support the ceiling. There was a layer of iron wire and steel bar entangled outside their thick wood, which not only had a certain hardness, but also had enough seismic capacity.


    He had just walked into one of the support pillars and had not had time to look carefully. Suddenly, a piece of sawdust flew to his face with a whew, which hurt his face. He looked down at the sawdust jumping out of the lunch box. Suddenly, there was an unspeakable fear spreading rapidly in his inner world, Like the restless animals before the earthquake and the violent birds before the storm.


    The strange sound in his ear seemed to be louder. With another whew, a piece of wood with the size of his palm burst out and flew to the ground against his body.


    He suddenly turned his head and looked at the dark depth like a tunnel. A breeze blew quickly. After two or three seconds, there was a dull explosion in his ear! The lights hanging on the tunnel wall went dark for several times. What happened here is no different from that five minutes ago, except for the flying debris.


    At the same time, at the federal headquarters of United Construction Engineering, a drunk engineer woke up from a hangover. When he opened the window and saw the heavy snow, there was just a language in his heart that wanted to praise the snow scene. The next second, a strong palpitation made him tremble. He immediately jumped to the phone by the bed, dialed the number dial with trembling fingers, and called the Federal Institute of meteorology.


    "Is it snowing heavily on the other side of the Empire?"


    He was answered by a slightly magnetic middle-aged man''s voice, which was half joking: "Don''t you know the ernier phenomenon? My answer is'' yes''. Yaoxing Empire has been covered with ice and snow to the north of Randall, and there is heavy snow or even blizzard in the central region. What''s the matter? Do you have relatives over there? Ah, I forgot, your company is working over there..."


    The whole engineer trembled. He hung up the phone and quickly dialed the international telephone line transfer. After about seven minutes, a busy tone rang in the receiver. He waited anxiously for five or six minutes before the phone was picked up.


    Without waiting for the other party to say anything, he almost roared and shouted, "evacuate all the workers in the mountain operation immediately, immediately!"


    Many things happened in this short time, but the worker standing in front of the pillar didn''t know it. Unknowingly, the lunch box in his hand had fallen to the ground, and the slightly hot food was cooling rapidly while emitting weak steam. The workers behind him stopped eating and looked at him strangely.


    He gently touched the pillar with one hand, turned his head sideways and looked at the workmate behind him, "I think this pillar can''t bear it..."


    The next second, Bang''s crack was the sound of the steel wire being violently straightened. A twisted steel rod suddenly burst out from the top of the tunnel, whistling and flying, inserted into his body at a strange angle, and shot out from one side of his thigh and inserted on the ground. The steel rod didn''t fall down immediately, and he didn''t even feel pain. He lowered his head His head touched half of his unconscious body, and then looked at the exposed steel bar that pierced his thigh.


    Everyone was shocked by the sudden great changes. They stood up in horror and rushed to him. Others rushed to the alarm bell on the cliff, but more steel bars were shot down from the ceiling in the sound of continuous distortion and burst. The wooden part of the pillar began to break obviously, and the steel bars and iron wires were twisting and whining.


    A layer of shadow covers everyone''s mind. Everyone''s first action is to look at the tunnel mouth in the distance like a needle eye, and then run!


    After a sound no weaker than that of blasting appeared, the latest seismograph in the research room of the earthquake related research group of imperial Research Institute found that there was a small-scale earthquake in the southeast of the Empire, with low intensity and no sense of earthquake. Therefore, the researcher in charge of duty only recorded it in the book used for daily information collection and did not report it to the superior Newspaper.


    Fifteen minutes later, Du Lin, who was chatting with local celebrities and businessmen who came to visit him, pleaded guilty, stood up, walked aside and answered the phone. His face changed from smiling to gloomy and terrible in a few seconds. A moment later, he hung up the phone and went to the middle of the room, "I''m very sorry, gentlemen and ladies. I have encountered some very urgent things and need to return to Otis. I''m deeply sorry for this. I solemnly invite you to come to Otis if you have time."


    "Sorry!"


    As he walked out, he asked Jose to call Thomas and ask him to send a speedboat to send him to Otis. Something big happened this time!


    The auxiliary body of the project collapsed in an all-round way, and at least 700 people were buried in the canyon. It is possible that this number will increase further, because some temporary workers came for the new year''s salary increase, and they were not registered in the list of workers.


    Durin totally didn''t believe what those people said about waiting for rescue. There was no doubt that the vast majority of these people should have died, and more than 1000 people might have died at once. This was definitely the most serious safety accident in the history of the Empire!


    He must get to the scene as soon as possible!