Chapter 265

The ground was pockmarked with shell craters everywhere.

The natural gas blowout was several times larger!

Everyone was stunned!

This not only failed to extinguish the fire, but made it burn even fiercer.

Such an outcome was unacceptable not only to them, but even to Brigade Commander Cui.

That single shell cost a lot of money!

All this wasted a huge amount of military supplies.

Yet under these circumstances, instead of solving the problem, it only made things worse.

What was most infuriating was that he had no solution at all.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at Fang Yang.

He noticed that Fang Yang had been watching the show from start to finish without saying a word.

In his impression, Fang Yang was the type of person with a quick mind and many ideas.

At a time like this, perhaps he might have some brilliant ideas.

Immediately, he walked straight toward him in front of everyone.

This scene left many people completely confused.

Fang Yang looked at Brigade Commander Cui with an awkward expression.

"Fang Yang, I knew such a commotion must have been caused by you!"

"Don't go there! This time it really wasn't me. If you don't believe me, ask them!"

However, the people around him looked at him with amused expressions.

Fang Yang immediately got agitated: "Captain Wang, you tell them! Was it those oil thieves who did this? It has nothing to do with me! Right?"

"Ahem..." Captain Wang also felt a bit awkward, his expression unnatural: "Fang Yang, you should know that if you hadn't been here, perhaps this incident wouldn't have happened!"

Upon hearing this, Fang Yang's eyes widened: "What do you mean? So as long as I'm somewhere, any trouble that happens there is my fault? I'm even more wronged than Dou E!"

Seeing Fang Yang's expression and attitude, even the people familiar with him couldn't help but laugh in such a serious setting.

Brigade Commander Cui smiled and patted his shoulder: "You usually have plenty of ideas and a quick mind! Why haven't you said anything this time? Do you have any good plans?"

These words completely baffled the oil field station master standing nearby.

He had been stationed in the wild for years and didn't know Fang Yang. Seeing an officer treat an excavator driver so well was already full of mystery and shocking to him.

But now he was actually asking him if he had any good suggestions. Wasn't this a joke?

What solution could an excavator driver possibly have?

He immediately stepped forward and said: "Just now, we had another plan: drill down to the natural gas layer and inject water inside, attempting to extinguish the fire from the root. The technicians are already drilling at full speed. If we ignore the consequences, we'll reach the bottom in no time!"

Fang Yang smiled awkwardly; he had almost revealed his own plan just now.

But since there is still another way, let's wait a bit longer. It's not too late to discuss it if the fire really can't be put out.

Brigade Commander Cui frowned, said nothing, and instead stood beside Fang Yang, chatting casually with him now and then.

This made the people around them extremely envious.

Who wouldn't want to get close to an officer who commands tanks and artillery?

With such a connection, one could walk around Xihai City with impunity.

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—— 【So satisfying! Those cannons booming! Much more thrilling than on TV, and dozens of rounds fired in succession. If they fired at a building like that, it would probably collapse already. Yet even with this, the fire won't go out. Is this the Samadhi True Fire from Laozi's alchemy furnace? I can't figure out how to extinguish it. I feel the station master's method won't work either.】

—— 【Something's off. Today Fang Yang seems unusually silent. Isn't he usually the most attentive? Could he be holding back a big move? For some reason, I feel the fire will only be extinguished when Fang Yang steps in, because every time he digs something up, it seems he has to solve it himself!】

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—— 【Something is indeed off. When the brigade commander asked him just now, I felt he wanted to say something, but that idiot station master interrupted. To be honest, I really can't think of how to put out the fire. Should we dig up all the soil for several kilometers and release all the natural gas inside? That seems impossible too!】

—— 【Think about what? If all those high-level officials can't figure it out, how could we? If you don't have that intelligence, just watch the livestream quietly. I believe Fang Yang definitely has a solution. Just wait; I guess the station master's method won't work, and eventually we'll have to watch Fang Yang perform.】

Time passed, second by second.

The drilling continued for several hours at a depth of over 2,000 meters underground.

When the instruments showed they had reached the natural gas layer, everyone cheered and hurried to install a casing pipe into the well.

The fire brigade immediately grabbed dozens of hoses and started spraying water inside.

However, half an hour passed, and there was no sign that the fire was about to be extinguished.

The water carried by the vehicles was completely used up, and there was no water source nearby.

Most importantly, there was no hope. Even if they brought another truckload of water, what would be the point?

At this moment, everyone's faces were filled with despair and helplessness.

Fang Yang sighed and looked at Brigade Commander Cui beside him.

"Leader, I have a suggestion. Don't scold me when I say it!"

Hearing this, Brigade Commander Cui was shocked, then laughed: "You finally decided to speak up!"

Fang Yang smiled awkwardly: "Um... I suggest using a nuclear bomb to blast out the fire!"

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The moment Fang Yang said this, a commotion erupted among the crowd.

If anyone else had said it, it would just be taken as a joke.

But since it was Fang Yang who said it, it was different!

Brigade Commander Cui looked at Fang Yang with shock and disbelief: "You... aren't joking, are you?"

Not only him, but everyone else wanted to ask that question.

Even the cameraman, who was glued to him day and night, was startled by this remark.

Fang Yang nodded solemnly: "No joke! You just saw it; ordinary explosives cannot get close, and burying them too far would render the blast ineffective. Only a nuclear bomb will work!"

"My suggestion is to drill another hole beside this vent, over 1,500 meters underground, place the nuclear bomb nearby, and detonate it. It doesn't need to be large; a yield of 30,000 tons is enough!"

"The detonation isn't meant to collapse the vent itself, but the instant of explosion will generate intense heat, turning all surrounding soil into sand. This will immediately destroy the vent pipes below."

"To put it simply: originally, the gas shoots straight up. The blast will alter the underground rock structure, causing severe deformation and blockage in the pipes below. This seals the gas outlet. Moreover, the soil that has been subjected to the nuclear blast will crystallize upon cooling, forming a glass-like material that completely plugs the vent!"

After hearing Fang Yang's explanation, everyone's heads were buzzing.

Though they didn't understand nuclear bombs, Fang Yang's explanation sounded very reasonable.

But this is a nuclear bomb!

It is something everyone fears upon seeing.

They say a yield of 30,000 tons isn't large.

Yet, the Little Boy dropped on Guangdao back then had a yield of just over 10,000 tons.

That single nuclear bomb caused more than 70,000 deaths at the time!

In the instant of the explosion, the central pressure reached hundreds of thousands of atmospheres, triggering an extremely powerful shockwave and blast wave.

The wind speed at the explosion's center was about 440 m/s, ten times the wind speed of a Category 12 typhoon. Supersonic winds and the shockwave spread outward together, sweeping away ordinary buildings.

The shockwave caused organs and viscera of nearby people to be blown directly out of their bodies.

The wind pressure at the blast center reached 35 atm, equivalent to placing 350 tons of weight on a single square meter. Even within a radius of 1 km, the wind pressure reached 10 atm.

Within this range, everything except reinforced concrete structures was utterly destroyed. Within 2 km, the wind pressure was about 3 atm, and all wooden houses in this area were demolished.

The nuclear explosion released approximately 0.22 MJ of infrared radiation, emitted in large quantities within three seconds after the blast.

Many people might not understand what this data means.

Put most plainly, the energy received by the ground at that time was equivalent to 1,000 times normal sunlight exposure.

The temperature at the explosion's center reached as high as 6,000°C. Roof tiles and other materials on houses near the blast center bubbled up, and wooden houses reached their ignition point and spontaneously combusted.

The massive infrared and radiation emitted by the atomic bomb caused everyone within 1 km of the blast center to suffer fifth-degree severe burns, with their skin completely carbonized.

The range of infrared radiation extended to 3.5 km. Ninety percent of those within 1 km of the blast center who were outdoors died within seven days.

The mushroom cloud generated after the explosion contained massive amounts of nuclear fallout.

This fallout mixed with water vapor in the clouds, forming black rain.

This rain was highly radioactive, thus contaminating rivers. Refugees who, out of thirst, inadvertently drank this rainwater mostly died within a few days.

Even without drinking, people would be infected by the massive radiation emitted during the explosion, causing numerous deaths or a lifetime of suffering from illness.

This was merely the terrifying consequence brought by the explosion of a nuclear bomb with a yield of just over 12,000 tons.