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Chapter 19

More than two hours later, the sky had not yet revealed its white belly, and the sound of roosters began to crow outside the capital. When the first rooster crow came, the temperature suddenly dropped several degrees in the Jinxiushanhe Construction Site on the East Fourth Ring Road. The workers who stayed here overnight couldn't help but curled up in their sleep. In late June, it was already the time to turn on the air conditioner. However, the workers who had fallen asleep had not felt this abnormality. Yuheng, the fifth star of the Beidou, suddenly lit up a few times.

After dawn, some people woke up one after another around seven in the morning. The sneezing sounded several times in a dormitory. A worker rubbed his nose and said, "It's summer, I'm going to catch a cold? Oh, don't you feel the weather seems a little cold?"

The person next to him looked up at Tian and said, "I didn't say it was raining today, but the sky was a little cloudy, so it was about to fall, right? There were too many times when the weather forecast was not serious, so it was normal."

The workers didn't care, and started work one after another. The construction period of this construction site was quite tight. Basically, they started working in the morning and were busy until ninety o'clock in the evening.

It was almost noon, and everything was going on in an orderly manner on the construction site. However, people who came to the construction site from outside would inexplicably feel that the temperature seemed to be a little lower than outside, and they had goose bumps on their bodies wearing short-sleeved sleeves.

At noon, under the business building on the 33rd floor, the foreman held the walkie-talkie and raised his head to shout at the tower crane: "Hem, hem, put down the steel cable, send this batch of materials to the fifteenth floor, wait for the quicker side, it's tight to urge you. After you have delivered this material, come down and have dinner soon."

"I understand!" The driver of the tower crane on the intercom replied.

After a while, more than two tons of building materials were lifted up by the tower crane and hugged them to the fifteenth floor under construction.

"Cruff, Cruff" The tower crane turned the swinging arm and lifted the material up. When the height rose to the thirteenth floor, it suddenly paused, and the tensioned wire rope shaking left and right.

The foreman quickly shouted at the intercom, "What's going on?"

"I don't know, maybe it's a motor problem..." Before the intercom could finish the reply, the cargo in the air suddenly poured out, and more than two tons of building materials were smashed down from the thirteen-story high in an instant.

"Boom" In the blink of an eye, all cement steel bars and other materials hit the ground. People who were close to each other rolled and crawled around, and a piece of dust was raised on the ground. Fortunately, no one stood there, otherwise they would have been smashed into mud.

After a brief silence, the foreman wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, picked up the intercom tremblingly and said, "Come down, come down quickly, let the repairman go up and see what's going on. Didn't the tower crane be inspected only last month? Why did something go wrong?"

"How do I know that these guys must have made corners when checking," the tower crane driver cursed for a few words, and was about to push open the door and get out of it. But unexpectedly, as soon as he stood up from his seat, a few screws in the middle of the tower crane were slammed out with a "bang". Then the tower body, which was connected and fixed, appeared slightly inclined. The driver was stunned on the spot. The people below watched the tower crane tens of meters high tilt from the upper half toward the building. After only a few seconds, the tower body "boomed" and hit the stairs. After sliding down for a distance, the tower crane carriage above was stuck on a raised building and did not slide down.

"Gudu" The tower crane driver was stunned for a long time and swallowed his saliva, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, feeling that his throat was full of fire and he couldn't even jump out a word.

Less than five minutes after the problem broke out, the project supervisor and the general manager rushed over. A middle-aged man in his fifties asked with an ugly face: "Why is there a problem with the crane?"

"Mr. Huang probably had a fault. Maybe it was because some link was not detected during the interim repair," explained the foreman.

"Are there any casualties?"

"No, the driver is still trapped on it, but we saw that the tower crane would not fall down. Someone has already gone upstairs to organize the rescue."

Mr. Huang's face was a little better. The construction site was most afraid of accidents. No casualties were just a problem with tower cranes, so it was easier to deal with.

"Hurry up and organize the rescue, then troubleshoot the fault, and resume work immediately in the afternoon!" Mr. Huang said with a frown.

"Okay, okay, let's arrange it right away." The foreman nodded quickly. Not long after, the tower crane driver trapped above was rescued. When the person reached the ground, his legs were trembling when he walked. It was obvious that the accident just now made his shadow not recover.

Immediately afterwards, the maintenance staff began to inspect the projects at other construction sites as usual. Although the collapse of tower cranes may not be seen once in a few years, it is not too unfamiliar. After a false alarm, they all returned to normal.

"Don't watch here, go to have a meal first, hurry up and work after dinner..." The foreman greeted the workers and went to dinner.

People in the business building retreated one after another. After more than ten minutes, when everyone was walking towards the cafeteria, a violent tremor suddenly occurred in the business building behind. Everyone turned around in shock and heard a loud roar. After a loud bang, the ground trembled a little, and a large area of ​​dust rolling smoke surged out from all directions.

The dust lasted for a quarter of an hour before it was cleared. The people on the construction site rushed into the building in a daze. After a while, a shocking and unbelievable situation was confirmed.

"The supermarkets and shopping malls on the basement of the business building, as well as the basement of the second and basement of the parking lots on the basement of the third floor have collapsed. The originally built underground floor has become a big hole and it has collapsed."

Half an hour later, the project supervisor, construction manager, deputy general manager of Jinxiu Shanhe Real Estate, and the quality supervision department directly held a meeting on site to determine the cause of the problem.

The person in charge of the quality supervision department pulled Mr. Huang aside, frowned and said, "Tell me if you cut corners?"

Mr. Huang shook his head with confidence and said, "How is this possible? This building is mainly built by our company and will be rented out in the future. He has no intention of selling it. In other words, you will cut corners for the house you built in your own home? What are you talking about? Is the company crazy doing this?"

"It's easy to say that the quality is fine. It may be that there is a problem with the construction drawings during construction."

Mr. Huang frowned and said, "This is even more impossible. You know the qualifications of our company. In five years, we have built at least twelve buildings in six cities. We have never had any collapse problems. We have very rich experience and there will be no problems in construction."

"Then tell me, what's going on?" The quality supervisor pointed to the collapsed business building behind him and said, "God is joking with you? Or are we all hallucinating? Immediately, I will take out a report and find out what the problem is. The leader in charge of urban construction and our bureau have called me, and we must see the investigation report tomorrow."
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