The entire steel fortress shook violently in an instant. Anyone inside the steel fortress could hear the terrible "creaking" sound of the supporting load-bearing steel frames. Not only that, the terrible fire spread rapidly in an instant.

In the control area, various instruments either completely failed or began to spin wildly, emitting sparks. At the same time, the alarm system began to intervene, and red light flashed around. Cold and ruthless electronic synthesized sounds rang out continuously:

"Please note that the fortress has completely lost control. It is recommended that you prepare to abandon the ship!"

"Please note that the fortress has completely lost control. It is recommended that you prepare to abandon the ship!"

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The explosion was so violent that not only Du Yuqi, but even the instigator, Duize, who placed the bomb, did not expect such consequences.

This is also normal, because Duize has placed five time bombs, one of which is placed in the fuel transmission pipeline. The original intention of the design of the Iron Fortress is to integrate mining and processing into a comprehensive platform, which can carry out preliminary refining. Therefore, the main pipeline of fuel transmission will connect three important areas, the mining area, the production area, and the power area!

Under normal operating conditions, after the crystal source liquid is pumped out from underground by the mining area, it is input into the production area, so that the heavy, dirty and smelly source liquid can be immediately processed into clean, light and odorless crystal blocks. At the same time, the engines and generators designed in the power area can directly use the crystal source liquid for energy supply and power generation.

The crystal source liquid is a flammable and explosive substance. After being triggered by Duize's time bomb, it immediately burst into flames and spread in all directions. Even though the main structure of the steel fortress was made of steel, it still couldn't stop the crazy spread of the fire.

At this time, Du Yuqi heard the explosion outside stop slightly, and then he crawled out from under an overturned desk in a very embarrassed manner. He looked smokey and even his hair and eyebrows were curled. Not only that, the skin on his face was black and white, and there were many burns on his body.

It turned out that Du Yuqi himself had underestimated the power of the explosion. He thought that he would be safe as long as the alloy door was dozens of centimeters thick. Unexpectedly, after the explosion, the alloy metal door only lasted for a few seconds before it began to twist and deform. Du Yuqi immediately turned around and fled when he saw this. As a result, less than twenty seconds after he escaped, the alloy door was completely damaged by the high temperature and high pressure, and it was completely destroyed with wrinkles like a rag.

Du Yuqi used the temporary authority of the key on him to close four or five cabin doors at the back in succession, and finally hid on a table in an office. He barely avoided the invasion of the erupting fire wave that followed. Even so, he was covered in dust and dirt. There was also a raging fire outside and thick smoke.

However, Du Yuqi was thinking about one thing at this time. That is, after the clown was locked up in the crystal refining workshop by him, it seemed that something went wrong. Although the alloy door would block the view after closing, there was still a special visual system next to it that could see the situation inside. At the moment of detonating the bomb, Du Yuqi found that a strange light seemed to shine from the clown's body, and then it was engulfed by flames and thick smoke.

"It's impossible for anyone to survive such an explosion." Du Yuqi thought carefully and comforted himself in his mind: "Even a piece of steel would be burned, let alone a flesh and blood body."

After he thought about it this way, he felt relieved, and then he covered his chest and started coughing violently, looking very painful.

As the saying goes, if you kill ten thousand enemies, you will lose three thousand of your own. Du Yuqi's strength was originally inferior to that of the clown. In order to lure him into the trap, he repeatedly used the strategy of self-torture, and was seriously injured. He was already at the end of his strength.

Moreover, although Du Yuqi did hold back his strength in the fight with the clown, the little bit of strength he had left had been completely consumed in the desperate run to avoid the explosion. Now that the enemy was gone, he felt pain all over his body as soon as he relaxed. He could only cheer himself up and grit his teeth as he treated his injuries first.

As for the impending crash of the Iron Fortress, Du Yuqi was not worried yet, because as long as the anti-gravity laboratory was still operating, the Iron Fortress would only be out of control and would not crash. At the same time, the protection around the anti-gravity laboratory was of paramount importance, and the interior of the Iron Fortress also imitated the setting of the watertight compartment of a ship.

Therefore, the worst case scenario will be that as the fire spreads to every corner of the Iron Fortress, the thirteen supply stations distributed in the Iron Fortress will be destroyed one after another. After the energy received by the anti-gravity laboratory is gradually weakened, the anti-gravity effect produced will also gradually weaken. Therefore, although the crash of the Iron Fortress is inevitable, it will not suddenly fall from the air like a weight. There is enough buffer time.

For someone with strong physique like Du Yuqi, as long as the Iron Fortress descends to a certain height, he can save his life by jumping down with a sturdy and durable umbrella in his hand. What's more, he also has a temporary key with the highest authority, so it is not difficult for him to find an escape capsule for safe landing.

Of course, more importantly, Du Yuqi's summoning time may end at any time, and by then he will have successfully returned to the earth. Even if there is the power of a hundred nuclear bombs when it crashes here, it will not have any effect on him.

After Du Yuqi stayed in this office for a while, he found that the fire was spreading. The raging fire made the metal floor hot, so he evacuated to the back.

It is worth mentioning that before Du Yuqi wanted to lure the clown into the ambush, he deliberately fled to the production area because Duize’s bombs were installed there.

The production area is where small crystals are produced. In terms of value, small crystals already have very wide applications on the continent of Arad - so the actual significance here is similar to that of a banknote printing factory. It stands to reason that a very strict entry and exit system must be implemented.

From the perspective of confidentiality, the production method of small crystal blocks cannot be leaked, otherwise it will inevitably cause an uproar. Precisely because of this two-pronged reason, the production area is actually a relatively closed area. For the convenience of management, no matter how complicated the passages in the production area are, how vast the area is, or how complex the staff working inside are, there is only one gate for people to enter and exit.

Du Yuqi wanted to leave the production area at this time, so he had to escape from this gate, otherwise there would be no way out. However, the raging fire had already covered the only passage, and the thick smoke filled the air. The smell of burning was particularly pungent. If it were an ordinary person, he would be almost fainted by the toxic smoke before he even got close to the fire.

Seeing this situation, Du Yuqi had no choice but to take out a prepared thick piece of clothing from the dimensional ring on her finger and put it on, then wrapped her head and face with a scarf, and finally took out a bottle of Nongfu Spring water and poured it on herself from head to toe. After pouring three buckets of water in a row, she felt that her clothes had absorbed enough water, so she put on a pair of swimming goggles to protect her eyes, and rushed towards the fire.

As soon as he entered the fire scene, he was immediately covered by raging flames. Fortunately, it was not like the furnace full of flames. There were fires in some places and no fire in some places. Du Yuqi relied on the protection of his eyes with swimming goggles to move through the fire scene and quickly approached the exit of the production area.

The exit of the production area is divided into three sub-channels. When the production area is operating at full capacity, people going to and from get off work every day have to line up in turn to pass the scanning of the sub-channel instruments to ensure that no contraband is brought in or out, otherwise they will be locked outside.

The fire had already spread here, and the door to the passageway was out of order, so if Du Yuqi wanted to get out, he had to break the transparent plastic-steel glass door in front of him. But just as he was about to do so, he suddenly discovered that there was a hole on the plastic-steel glass door of the passageway next to him, and the hole was big enough for someone to get out.

Seeing the hole, Du Yuqi's heart was suddenly startled! He immediately ignored the blazing fire behind him and went to check, because the switch failure happened only a few minutes ago. Before that, if the other workers in the production area noticed the explosion and wanted to escape, they all had identity verification, so how could they need to use violence?

At the same time, if you want to break the plastic steel door in such a raging fire, it is definitely not something that an ordinary person can do. After Du Yuqi went up to check it out, his face became even gloomier. After the plastic steel door was broken, its edges were very rugged and jagged, so if you drilled in a hurry, it would inevitably be scratched.

Du Yuqi found a piece of torn clothing and a lot of blood and flesh at the edge of the plastic steel door where it was broken like wolf teeth. It was obvious that when passing through the damaged plastic steel door, this guy was not careful and was deeply scratched. Du Yuqi was not able to identify the owner of the blood with the naked eye, but he recognized the piece of clothing. It was the fabric of the light yellow pants worn by the clown! !

Although Du Yuqi didn't know how the clown escaped from the terrible explosion, there was no doubt that there was a very high chance that this guy was not dead!

"Asshole..." The muscles on Du Yuqi's face trembled. After identifying the direction, he suddenly found a few spots of blood on the ground. They should be the blood that flowed down from the scratches caused by the clown when he fled in a panic. He immediately chased after him.

After Du Yuqi had chased the man out for only thirty or forty meters, he immediately discovered half a bloody handprint on the door next to him. Du Yuqi walked into the room and took a look. He immediately discovered an overturned cup on the table in the room, and next to the cup was a ball of bloody vomit.

Seeing this, Du Yuqi immediately reconstructed what happened at the scene. It should be that the clown saw water on the table in the room through the transparent porthole outside. He had just escaped from the fire and must have been very thirsty, so he pushed the door in to drink water. As a result, due to excessive physical exertion/serious injuries, he drank too much water and vomited directly.

Du Yuqi then chased forward, because the clown did not have the temporary key with the highest authority like him, so he could not enter many passages, and his escape routes were actually quite limited. In addition, the clown should be seriously injured, and he had to rest for a while by holding on to the wall every time he walked a certain distance. Du Yuqi followed the bloody handprints and bloodstains on the ground so as not to lose him.

Of course, more importantly, Du Yuqi is a man who plans before he acts. He would not act rashly if he is not sure and has no trump card. The last trump card Du Yuqi relies on is the top-level alchemical potion he carries with him at this time. It is said that this is a rare medicine that has touched the rules of the world, Remi's Aid.

As the saying goes, before thinking about victory, think about defeat first. Du Yuqi felt that even if he couldn't defeat the clown, he could still survive with this trump card in hand.

Du Yuqi had probably chased the clown about four or five hundred meters away when he saw the limping figure in front of him. Du Yuqi looked very embarrassed at the moment, but the clown looked even more embarrassed than him. How to put it, it was like a rooster that had been thrown into a furnace and roasted for five or six minutes without any feathers plucked. Most of its body was charred black, and even its hair was mostly burnt, which looked very funny.

However, no matter who it was, seeing the clown gritting his teeth and moving forward step by step, they would definitely not laugh, because they could see the determination and tenacity revealed in his dull and clumsy movements, the kind of stubbornness that would never give up unless it meant death! ! That desire and persistence for life even made Du Yuqi feel in awe!