Chapter 144 Broken Lightning Rod

The weather center on the 124th floor of Baidi Tower is on the same floor as the observation deck. It is also the lightning detection and defense center.

The manager in charge walked back and forth here, looking at the people who were operating the computers from time to time. He walked to the computer where the data was calculated and asked a little anxiously: "How is it? Are the calculation and comparison results out?"

The technician in front of the computer manipulated the computer skillfully. Hearing the manager's inquiry, he hurriedly replied: "Mr. Manager, we still need to wait for a while. Wait, it has come out. The energy of the third lightning strike is 7.6, and the maximum safety value of the distance defense is 10.0 There is still a long way to go, but the energy value of the first lightning strike has increased by 53.49%, and comparing the values ​​of the three lightning strikes, the energy value shows an increasing trend. Sir, this is a bit unreasonable..."

"I don't care if it's reasonable or not. Nature's thunder and lightning are never reasonable, which means the current danger is still at the green level, right?" the manager said, scratching his well-trimmed beard.

"Yes, Mr. Manager, we are still in the green safety zone, but..." Before the technician could say anything, another technician next to him interrupted him, "The fourth time, the fourth time A lightning strike is coming, Mr. Manager."

"Oh my god, what's going on today? Why are lightning strikes so frequent? Today must be my unlucky day. My beautiful dinner has also come to nothing." The manager scratched his beard with a sad face and asked again. , "Has the energy value come out?"

Today, in order to attend a dinner party, he even trimmed his sexy beard. He originally wanted to have a beautiful encounter, but now everything was ruined.

The technician stared at the screen and said: "It's being generated..., it's coming out, it's still increasing, oh my god... it's 9.8, my god, it's 9.8, it's approaching the maximum safe value, Mr. Manager. " He said and screamed out in surprise at the end.

The manager, who was stroking his beard melancholy just a moment ago, immediately pulled out a few beards when he heard this, but he couldn't care so much. He grinned and looked at the computer next to him, only to see a red color displayed on it. The number 9.8 in the middle is particularly eye-catching.

Before he could say anything, another exclamation from the side interrupted him directly, "The fifth time, the fifth time is here."

The manager was about to cry in an instant. Oh my God, is today really my unlucky day?

"Look at the big screen!"

Someone yelled, and everyone subconsciously looked at the screen in the center of the wall. They saw that the top of the screen was occupied by a lightning chain that ran through the sky and the earth. It seemed to split the screen in half, and the upper end of the lightning chain was connected to In the sky, connected below is the Baidiya Tower.

The people at the lightning detection center seemed to be shocked by this scene. For a while, there was no sound in the center, until a small "beep" sound woke up a technician. He followed the sound and looked at his own body. The computer's eyes almost popped out of its sockets in an instant, and it shouted in a voiceless voice: "Energy... the energy has reached 13! No, it is still increasing, 19, 25, 33, the connection is lost, the detection equipment is lost!!"

Everyone was awakened by his screams and were shocked when they heard his report, and the picture on the big screen scared them out of their wits, because the lightning chain had already rushed towards them with unparalleled power.

"Evacuate! Evacuate! Get out of here." The manager couldn't help but cry. The energy values ​​on the computer and the scene of sparkling glass flying all over the screen frightened him, but at the last moment he was still worthy of his position. Before running, he pressed the high-rise evacuation alarm, and while running, he used a Bluetooth headset to broadcast the evacuation regulations.

But when he ran out, the tourists on the observation deck reacted much faster than him. They were already in chaos. They were also blocked here. In the end, they only saw dazzling lights and roars.

They couldn't see what happened here, but they could see it clearly outside, especially the photographers and reporters who came to take pictures of the lightning. Their lenses faithfully recorded everything that happened.

Originally, they were also happy and excited about taking this rare spectacle, and even thought about becoming famous and getting a raise. Today's lightning was also very flattering, hitting Baidita four times in a row, but the next scene But it scared them silly.

The fifth ray of lightning arrived as expected, but it did not dissipate after hitting the Baidi Tower. Instead, it seemed to be stuck to the tower. They could even see the thunder and lightning in the sky continuing. Sending energy downward is like the Rainbow Bridge blasting from Asgard to the Earth in the movie, sending a Thor to the Earth!

Immediately afterwards, the thunder beam that hit the top of the Baidi Tower quickly went downwards. All the electronic equipment and glass curtain walls along the way were blown up. The lights that were lit from top to bottom because the dark clouds blocked the sun were also extinguished layer by layer. .

Until the lightning beam rushed to the location of the observation deck and exploded instantly, and the burst lightning arc spread rapidly in all directions in the form of shock waves, eventually shattering all the glass within a radius of 200 meters of the observation deck, and incidentally destroying the entire building. The building's electrical system was also destroyed.

And this last blow seemed to have exhausted the lightning in the sky, and the lightning beam was reluctantly taken back into the sky. Before leaving, it used the last bit of energy to strike the lightning rod on the top of the Baidita Tower. There was no other way. , who asked you to build it so high?

This last strike of lightning became the last straw that broke the camel's back. The lightning rod, which had been damaged by several lightning strikes, finally no longer reached straight to the sky, but tilted to the side for more than 40 degrees, and was finally crushed by the base. It got stuck without falling, but it probably wouldn't last long because it was a giant lightning rod weighing several tons.

The lightning was retracted, the rumbling thunder disappeared, the rain stopped falling, and the dark clouds in the sky showed signs of dissipating. At this time, there was a strange silence in this area, and other sounds seemed to have disappeared, leaving only a large number of glass fragments." "Crash!" a falling sound.

It was not until a few seconds later that the backup power of the Baidiya Tower was activated and the lights on the dozens of floors below turned on again, that the world seemed to have regained its vitality, and the sounds of cars, voices, sirens, and shouts were also heard. in the ears.

"Oh, my God, what on earth did you post three times!"

"Call an ambulance quickly. There must be many injured in the building."

“Oh my god, it’s like the end of the world!”

"Hurry up and evacuate the people below. A lot of glass fragments are falling. It's too dangerous."

"I think that lightning rod is also dangerous. The people below must be evacuated."

"God, bless those who are suffering."

"Hey, get out of there quickly, it's dangerous there!"

"Did you take the photo? I was so frightened that my camera fell to the ground. Damn it!"

"I got it, no problem, we're going to be famous, haha, thanks for this apocalyptic scene."

"Hey, what are you doing, are you gloating about the disaster!"

"It is God who is sending down his power to punish those who are greedy."

At this time, Sun Hao, who was having a meeting in the conference room of the Sail Hotel, didn't know what was happening outside. Because the window of this conference room happened to face the Baidita Tower, everyone in the meeting only knew that it was raining and there was some lightning. , but they didn’t hear anything in the very well-soundproofed conference room, and it didn’t have any impact on them.

Suddenly, the door of the conference room was pushed open, and Sun Hao's chief assistant, Xiao Liu, rushed in. Sun Hao saw that it was Xiao Liu who came in. He was about to reprimand, but saw Xiao Liu running directly towards him. He came over and said anxiously in his ear: "Oh no, Baidita was struck by lightning and seriously damaged. The chairman will go up there in the morning!"

When he suddenly heard this, Sun Hao, who was usually very calm and confident, shouted out in the confused eyes of many participants, "What??!!"

"I sent the chairman out of the hotel in the morning. He said he was going to the observation deck of Baidiya Tower. Just now, the observation deck was struck by lightning and the damage was determined to be serious. The chairman's phone and the bodyguard's phone have been unreachable." Xiao Liu continued to whisper anxiously.

Hearing this, Sun Hao didn't care about the meeting anymore. He hurriedly said "dismissal" and walked out quickly with Xiao Liu.