Chapter 467 The Disaster
On February 18th, a very ordinary Tuesday morning, Li You and Chen Runji went to Daegu together.
Daegu is also the fourth largest city in South Korea after Seoul, Busan and Incheon on the Korean Peninsula, and Li You has attached great importance to it.
Its geographical environment is not very good. It is surrounded by mountains and is also known as the furnace of the Korean Peninsula.
However, Daegu is bordered by the bay city of Pohang to the east and Busan to the south, making it an important hub.
Daegu has been quite popular recently. Even the next generation of mobile phones are selling very well in Daegu. This is because Daegu hosted four games in last year's Korea-Japan World Cup. The city's propaganda department also seized the opportunity to hold various activities during the World Cup, including art festivals, fashion festivals, art expositions, etc.
Of course, Li You went there for other reasons. Now that he had obtained the shares of Shunyang Commodities from Li Mingxue, he did not openly start the merger, but was quietly proceeding from those small industries.
For example, Chen Yangzhe left a baseball team and an entire home stadium to Chen Yajun. Chen Yajun had no interest in baseball. When Li You proposed to exchange them for a small portion of Shunyang Securities' shares, Chen Yajun happily agreed.
Li You is very optimistic about this baseball team with a lion as its logo, so he plans to come and inspect it in person.
In the next ten years, investing in sports, entertainment, and real estate on the Korean Peninsula will definitely not be a loss.
"How long?"
Jeon Jae-joon, who was driving himself, glanced at the time in the car and said, "We'll be there in an hour, around ten o'clock."
Li You nodded slightly. A small place has its advantages. It is quick to get anywhere.
The current time is ten past nine.
In Daegu City, at 9:20, a sloppy middle-aged man walked out of his house.
The man was wearing a dark blue sports suit with many yellow stains and dirt caked on it.
He carried a huge black handbag, which was bulging. However, despite its large size, it did not look very heavy. The sloppy man carried it casually and even swung it back and forth.
He hailed a taxi on the side of the road, threw his handbag into the trunk, and then squeezed in.
"Sir, where are you going?" The driver was about the same age as him, and his clothes were covered with stickers of national World Cup teams.
The man scratched his dirty hair and threw him some money. "Song Clam Station."
The taxi quickly took him to the station, but the man did not go directly into the station. Instead, he carried his handbag to the gas station near the station.
The man opened his handbag, took out two plastic buckets, bought two barrels of gasoline, filled them up, and then walked towards the station with a somewhat unsteady gait.
The subways on the Korean Peninsula are unmanned, and there are no security inspectors to check the belongings carried by passengers.
The man carried the two large barrels of gasoline, which had become heavy, and successfully entered the subway station.
After waiting for a while, the subway stopped in front of him. It was Train No. 1079. He boarded the train and began to observe, then sat down in carriage No. 3.
It was 9:40 at this time, the morning rush hour had passed, the carriage was not very crowded and relatively quiet.
However, the man was inexplicably nervous. He kept looking at the passengers in the car. He put one hand in his trouser pocket and rubbed his lighter, while the other hand tightly grasped the handbag on the ground.
Some people noticed him, but most thought that the sloppy man had something precious in his handbag.
At around 9:50, the train had begun to slow down and the subway broadcast began to announce that they were about to arrive at Central Road Station.
The man took a deep breath and stood up suddenly.
He quickly opened his handbag and took out a plastic bucket. After unscrewing the lid, a pungent smell wafted out.
An old man nearby smelled something, frowned, looked over, and saw the sloppy man took out a lighter.
The old man yelled, "What are you doing? Don't play with fire in the subway! Put away your cigarette."
Before he could reach out to stop him, the man had already lit the fire.
The sloppy man kicked over two oil drums, and gasoline instantly began to spread throughout the car.
The old man stared in amazement as the sloppy man threw the lighter to the ground. When the flame hit the gasoline, it instantly turned into a blazing fire.
The flames instantly flowed to the ground along with the spreading gasoline, forming a sea of fire.
Many passengers screamed in fear. The old man reached out to grab him, and two university students who had no classes and were out playing also came over to grab him, but the fire was beyond their ability to put out.
At this time, the driver was unaware of the fire and he stopped the train steadily next to the platform.
As soon as the door opened, the passengers in this carriage rushed out.
Although the fire was fierce, there were almost no people with mobility problems in this carriage. Seeing this, the two young men left the sloppy man behind and helped the old man escape.
The sloppy man was also frightened by the fire. He got up from the ground and ran out regardless of the flames on his body.
Although the sloppy man was almost tripped and stopped by the automatically closing door when exiting the subway, he finally escaped.
The train driver soon discovered that the carriage was on fire, and ran to the door of carriage No. 3 with a fire extinguisher, trying to put out the fire. However, in order to be more comfortable, the subway seats in Daegu were all covered with flammable velvet. He tried hard to use the fire extinguisher, but the fire was already out of control.
The fire in this carriage quickly spread to other carriages, and the seats and floors in the carriages began to emit a lot of smoke after the fire.
The entire subway station was filled with smoke and passengers fled in all directions.
The driver saw that he could not put out the fire, and turned around to see that the cockpit behind him was also on fire. He could not rush in to inform the subway control center, so he could only flee the station and start looking for staff from outside.
The whole process only takes five minutes.
At 9:55, the driver on the previous shift rushed to the control center and informed the staff at the control center. Only then did he receive the news from the control center that there was a fire in the station.
But it was too late.
After the door opened automatically, thick smoke from the station began to seep into the carriage. In order to avoid being choked to death, he was forced to close the door and wanted to start the car immediately and leave the station.
The fire grew more and more intense and began to spread throughout the entire subway station, and a subway train No. 1080 heading in the opposite direction also arrived at the station.
As the driver drove the subway into the station, he was stunned by the scene before him.
But an even more terrible situation occurred. The fire automatically cut off the power supply in the station and the train could no longer run.
The radio on the subway was still broadcasting slowly.
"There is a fire in the station. Passengers are requested to wait patiently for rescue."
The bewildered passengers could only stay in the carriage as the burning death approached step by step.
Even with the doors closed, the subway is not completely sealed, so the smoke spreading in the subway station eventually diffused into the train, and it spread faster and faster.
The passengers were so smoked that their noses and tears were running and they couldn't stop coughing.
The flames have spread throughout the subway station and thick smoke has spread out from the ground.
When the driver saw that the train could not start and the power had been cut off, he used emergency tools to break open the door and escaped.
The fire quickly spread into the train.
Passengers tried every means to open car doors and smash windows.
At ten o'clock, Kinmen's convoy arrived in Daegu.
As soon as they got closer to the city center, they saw billowing smoke and fire trucks and ambulances passing by on the road.
"Chairman," Jeon Jae-jun slowed down the car and turned back with a frown, "It seems that there is a traffic control ahead."
Li You narrowed his eyes and was about to say something when Li Youmo, who was standing next to him, patted Li You's shoulder with a look of shock and handed him the phone.
Thanks to Future Generation, what happened in Daegu has spread all over the internet.
Just a few minutes ago, hundreds of distress messages were posted on the Internet. A fire broke out at the Daegu subway station, and an entire train with more than 300 people were trapped in the subway station.
"President, have you arrived in Daegu? How is the situation?" Chen Daojun also called, "Should we impose information control? The situation is a bit serious."
Li You frowned and looked at the billowing black smoke in the distance, "Spread the word."
Inside the train, some people called their relatives in tears, saying that the subway was on fire and they couldn't get out. Some people were sending text messages, and the whole carriage was filled with crying.
In the midst of the panic, there was a retired old train driver in carriage number four. He saw the fire and the driver closed the door. He suddenly felt dizzy and knew that he had encountered a newbie.
Fortunately, he knew where the emergency switch was, and he immediately rushed to the seat under the door and turned on the emergency switch.
The lights in the car had been turned off long ago. He shouted loudly and was almost choked by the thick smoke. Then he used the dim light of the emergency lights in the car to quickly open the door and escape. The sixty or so passengers in the car heard his shouts and ran out as well.
But the station had three underground floors, and the platform was on the bottom floor. After they ran out of the train, they climbed over the narrow gate, saw the stairs leading to the second underground floor in the light of the fire, and quickly ran up. Some of the weak people had already fallen behind.
Due to power outage in the station, the second floor was completely dark.
The area was filled with smoke and visibility was extremely poor.
The old driver turned on the flashlight function on his mobile phone and almost groped his way step by step before he led everyone to the first floor, where they were carried up by the rescue team.
(End of this chapter)
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