Chapter 11: Sparks of Fire

An unprecedented fire burned for a whole day and night before it finally ended. When day came, almost all citizens could see the thick black smoke rising from the city center.

　　The black smoke that rose into the sky dozens of meters high was extremely thick and shocking.

　　The fire broke out in a shopping mall located at No. 429 Shachang Road. The entire huge commercial street was burned into a mottled black color. The traces of smoke were like the lines in the depths of hell, which was extremely terrifying.

　　Some people said that when the fire broke out, the entire mall was spewing out huge flames, and the entire world near the mall was plunged into a red panic. No one knew what to do, and it was unrealistic to put out such a big fire.

　　When the fire engulfs the entire shopping mall, it is like a forest fire; it can only be controlled but not extinguished.

　　All the fire department can do is to control the fire and prevent it from spreading.

　　The shopping mall that was once the favorite of Los Angeles residents was reduced to ashes overnight. This happened on the third night of the Lunar New Year, which seemed to be a bad omen for the entire Los Angeles population in the new year.

　　Fortunately, the mall closed at 7 p.m. on the third day of the Chinese New Year, and the fire broke out around 11 p.m. It was also New Year's Eve and there were few pedestrians on the streets, otherwise the consequences would have been disastrous.

　　The government leaders in Luocheng were sweating with fear. If a hundred or eighty people died, their positions would probably have to be replaced by others.

　　Fortunately, nothing happened.

　　Several adjacent streets were under martial law, but some people said that what was strange was that the first department to arrive here last night was the Civil Defense Department.

　　The Ministry of Civil Defense is the abbreviation of the Ministry of Civil Defense Engineering, which is the department that manages what the common people call "air-raid shelters".

　　The air-raid shelters that are now secretly built in some important strategic cities are no longer the simple concepts seen in old movies.

　　Entrances and exits are openings for personnel and equipment to enter and exit. Each civil air defense project has more than two entrances and exits, usually on both sides of the main body. Protective facilities are installed at the entrances and exits, mainly including protective sealing, gas filtration and ventilation, decontamination, nuclear automatic alarm control and dose monitoring and testing facilities, which are the material basis for the effective protection of personnel sheltered in civil air defense projects.

　　The protective enclosed facilities include protective doors, protective enclosed doors, enclosed doors and anti-poison passages. Their function is to prevent contaminated air from entering the civil air defense project through the entrances and exits.

　　Gas filtering and ventilation facilities are generally composed of air inlet wave breaking equipment, dust filters, filter absorbers, air ducts, closed valves and fans.

　　The decontamination facilities include decontamination doors, disinfectants and decontamination equipment, which are used to conduct local or whole-body decontamination on people entering the project to avoid bringing radioactive dust and toxic agents into the civil air defense project, thereby ensuring the safety of people in the project.

　　The nuclear automatic alarm control facility is the nerve center of civil air defense projects to protect against nuclear and chemical weapons attacks. After being attacked by nuclear and chemical weapons, it can automatically sound an alarm, stop fans, and close valves, thereby preventing radioactive dust and toxic agents from entering the civil air defense project.

　　Dose monitoring laboratory facilities are used to identify the pollution of air, food, water, etc. inside and outside civil defense projects.

　　But in fact, all these functions can be summed up in one word: precision.

　　In this era, most people thought that air-raid shelters had become an obsolete product. However, for some reason, this project began to be built again last year, but only in very few places.

　　After the Civil Defense Department arrived, some people speculated that there was an air-raid shelter under the mall. Why hadn't they heard of it before?

　　Last year, there was indeed a road construction going on day and night here with blue colored steel tiles. At that time, the entire road was fenced off very high. What was even more strange was that the intensity of construction at night was much higher than during the day.

　　However, this is only a small detail in this fire. The biggest thing is not even the fire itself, but the fact that some people say that they filmed a video of a person releasing flames out of thin air at night and burning the entire mall!

　　At that time, this person was standing in the middle of the crowd, and many people gathered around to watch. Indeed, in the darkness of last night, a person could release fire by just raising his hand.

　　The scene is definitely this shopping mall. The shot is very clear. The photographer is hiding in a corner, and one can even hear his nervous breathing in the video, as if he has seen something extremely unbelievable.

　　If this video was made, it was too hastily and there was simply not enough time.

　　So when the onlookers saw this video, they chose to believe it.

　　They don't know how this was achieved. Could it be that superpowers really exist?

　　When some things are too far away from people, you will not care whether they exist or not. It seems that it does not matter whether there is Captain America or the Hulk. After all, those things are too far away.

　　However, when the fire happened around them last night, people suddenly realized that these things seemed no longer far away from them overnight.

　　If such a thing really exists, then is it also true that some people have been discussing the videos that were deleted in the past?

　　When something like this happens, some people panic because they don't know how to deal with it, while others are happy because they are used to ordinary days and yearn for a colorful world.

　　Even if that world is dangerous.

　　But in a moment of carelessness, the guy who provided the video suddenly disappeared, and there was no way for everyone to watch the video again.

　　Many people wanted the young man to forward the message to them and post it on their Moments.

　　However, the news about superpowers spread quickly through word of mouth, spreading as fast as sparks that set the prairie on fire.

　　A heavy snowfall this winter suddenly caught fire.

　　Lu Shu was watching the news with Lu Xiaoyu at home. The news only said that it was a fire. The specific cause of the accident was still under investigation. It was suspected that flammable and explosive items were not stored properly inside the mall.

　　If the people at the scene only knew everything through the video, then Lu Shu felt that he was very likely one of the people who knew the truth.

　Even Black Wind Coat and Liang Che did not realize that Lu Shu had already guessed so many things.

　　Lu Shu sensed a hint of uneasiness from the fire. He felt that he was just an ordinary person. Even if he had extraordinary abilities, he would just keep it to himself. What if that world was too dangerous?

　　But for some reason, he always felt that when the bizarre world of the future came, no one would be able to stay out of it.

　　If this is true, then I must master the secrets of my body as soon as possible.

　　Must be as soon as possible.

　　Now the negative emotion income in his hands has reached 2493, which is more than enough to buy a star fruit.

　　Buy two, or buy one and try the lottery for the rest?

　　In addition to wanting to know how the Star Fruit can help him, Lu Shu also wants to know what else the lottery system can produce.