Chapter 165: Plateau Destruction

While other boats and rafts in the deep water were speeding towards the inner waterfront dock of the giant ship, Shu Fu had already left the interior of the giant ship in the opposite direction, dragging a long string of rafts behind him.

The reverse movement of the shelter attracted some attention, but it was only a moment, and the boats that cast their gazes quickly rushed inside.

The entire water area became somewhat chaotic. The accelerating boats stirred up waves, which collided with the heavy rain, stirring up more water mist. At this time, Shu Fu used the intercom to notify Liu Shuang and asked her to open the protective cover of the shelter.

After the protective shield was opened, the shelter that was originally visible to outsiders quietly lost its presence in the chaos.

Shu Fu left the area where the boats and rafts were speeding, leaving space for the rescue team and the survivors. He then returned to the house from the terrace and made a voice announcement on the function screen: "Attention! This is the first time that an official air raid alert has been issued by a giant ship. A major disaster is expected to occur nearby in a short period of time. Residents on the rafts are requested to temporarily put down their work, pack up easily breakable items around them, find a firm place to sit down, and preferably use soft blankets or other items to cushion yourself..."

Apart from the previous words, the rest were the fixed procedures when the raft encountered a major disaster in the past. The reason why she repeated it in such detail was mainly because there were several new residents on the raft this time, and this should be the first major disaster they encountered after getting on the raft.

Shu Fu didn't know what the disaster was, but with the protective shield and the acceleration card, she could protect the people on the raft under any circumstances.

But at this moment, she still hoped that this disaster would not be too terrible, because there were still many survivors on the northern plateau who had not yet been evacuated.

A moment later, the air raid alarm had not stopped yet, but Shu Fu, who was sitting by the floor-to-ceiling window of the Drifting Island House, felt the vibration of the water surface. It was a familiar feeling of vibration.

She quickly realized it was an earthquake!

Because she was inside the house on the drifting island, the double protection of the protective cover and the house blocked most of the vibrations, so she didn't feel the vibrations clearly. But she could see the changes in the water outside. The vibrations of the earth's crust made the wind and rain more violent, and the water seemed to be boiling.

The hole under the giant ship not far away had not been completely closed yet, because there were still boats and rafts that had not yet entered the interior of the ship and were desperately heading towards the ship.

The earthquake is bound to trigger a tsunami, but we don't know where the center of the earthquake is, from which direction the tsunami will come, and whether it will affect the remaining land on the Northern Plateau.

Shu Fu got up and hurried to the back function screen to equip the satellite network card, and then quickly returned to the cushion next to the French window. There was no new information on the phone because of the connection to the network, probably because this was not Xizhou Province, but the Northland Plateau, which did not officially exist.

The absence of an official means there is no monitoring data station, and even if a disaster occurs, an alarm cannot be issued immediately.

She had no way of knowing the magnitude, depth, epicenter, etc. of the earthquake.

The earthquake lasted about one or two minutes, which was not too long. She opened the door, stood there holding the pillar under the eaves, and took out a telescope to observe the surrounding waters and the situation in the direction of the Northern Plateau in front of her.

But at this moment, the rain on the water was heavier than before. There was a gray mist everywhere around, mixed with howling wind. Visibility was very low. She could not see anything except the tall ships nearby.

On the other side of the giant ship, the bottom of the hull had been sealed, and it seemed that there were no boats left outside on the water. Above the roof of the ship, which she could not see, a huge steel dome was rising rapidly, covering the deck above.

The air raid sirens still did not stop, but changed their frequency, still reminding everyone that the disaster was not over, and an even greater disaster would follow and come soon!

Shu Fu saw that the two huge ships not far away suddenly began to move. Since she arrived at the Northland Plateau with the raft, the two huge ships lying on the water were like two solid islands. No matter whether it was strong winds, heavy rains or occasional thunderstorms, they never moved.

They kept their "mouths" open, allowing boats and rafts to busily go in and out for rescue, like two dormant sea monsters.

But now they are moving!

Is this a preparation to take shelter in the deep sea before a greater disaster strikes?

Although this area is called a deep water area, it is actually only relatively deep compared to ordinary boats and rafts. Given the height of a giant ship, this area is not deep enough for it to completely dive into. It may take some time for it to go to deeper waters to completely enter the water and hide.

However, the huge ship did not go to the deep sea, but slowly sailed towards the Northland Plateau. As it went further, the deep water gradually became shallower. Once such a huge ship ran aground, it would be very difficult to get out of trouble. Shu Fu was guessing the intention of the official move, but he heard another familiar and terrifying voice.

This is the sound of water!

It is the whistling sound caused by the rapid friction and collision of water. The tsunami is coming!

She identified the sound of water and quickly confirmed the direction from which the tsunami was coming: it was from the south!

She walked through the house and went up the stairs to the terrace. At the end of the water behind the raft, the gray water line was rolling at the end of the water, and from a distance it looked like dark clouds.

It appears that the epicenter of this earthquake was in the deep water area, which was once the land of Xiren Province.

The good news is that because the epicenter is not in the Northland Plateau, the abandoned cities in the north will be less affected by the earthquake. The buildings that are already crumbling in the wind and rain will not collapse on a large scale due to this earthquake, nor will they cause more casualties and trouble to the survivors' evacuation operation.

But the bad news is that the tsunami caused by the deep-water earthquake will directly impact the southern land area of ​​the Kitaji Plateau.

When he realized this, Shu Fu ran to the other side of the terrace again and looked towards the direction of the Northland Plateau.

The two huge ships that had just moved have stopped. They must have reached the shallowest area where they can anchor. Although the ships are no longer moving forward, the hulls are still making sounds of engine vibrations. They are adjusting their directions from the vertical direction facing the Northland Plateau to the horizontal direction.

The horizontal length of the two giant ships was much greater than their vertical width. At this moment, they were arranged in a line on the left and the right, like two thick and huge walls, blocking the ruined land behind them and the rescue teams and survivors who were hiding from the disaster in some corners of the land.

Shu Fu suddenly understood what the giant ship was going to do!

Sure enough, after the giant ship adjusted its position, dozens of tiny holes opened up under the hull in an instant. Many metal arm-like brackets stretched out from those holes. They quickly fell into the water, quickly touched the underwater land, and then penetrated into the ground one by one and were firmly fixed.

It is said that the opening is extremely small, but that is only relative to the size of the giant ship. In fact, each metal arm support has a diameter of two or three meters. They extend out quickly like the legs of a spider and quickly fix the two giant ships, allowing them to complete the transformation from giant ships to water-blocking dams in an instant.

But if the hull is fixed in this way, will the giant ship really not be crushed by the pressure of the collision?

The speed of the tsunami was very fast. In a moment, the whistling and noisy sound of water vapor collision was approaching. Shu Fu quickly returned to the house and sat down on the cushion again. At the same time, he checked the direction of the rafts on the map panel again to ensure that the entire row of rafts was facing the direction of the tsunami vertically to reduce the impact of the water pressure.

This was not the first time Shu Fu faced a tsunami, and she knew that it was absolutely safe to stay in the protective shield. But every time, when she heard the sound of the churning water outside, the whistling sound of the wind due to the water pressure and huge waves, and felt the subtle vibration of the drifting island house due to the tsunami, her heart would still beat faster with nervousness.

Natural disasters are so terrible.

She leaned against the French window and looked back with her head tilted. The sky above the water was low and gloomy. The tail of the raft was the direction where the tsunami was coming from. It was not just a point, but a long water line. When this water line came close, it was a towering wall of water.

The intensity of this earthquake was considered medium, but the tsunami it caused still reached a height of eighty or ninety meters.

She watched the towering wall of water crush her raft, and felt the entire row of rafts being hit and dragged by a terrifying force. Then, the wall of water crushed her drifting island house, and the gloomy sky outside the window was instantly replaced by waves of churning water vapor...

**

A few seconds after Shu Fu's raft island was easily swallowed by the tsunami, a towering wall of water crushed the giant ship. The height of the hull was still above the huge waves. The huge hull made a rumbling sound. It did not fight the tsunami with its strong hull as Shu Fu thought, but slowly fell backwards with the impact of the tsunami, and when it tilted to a certain angle, it slowly stood up again because the water pressure was relieved.

If Shu Fu could see at this time, he would be surprised. Those spider-leg-like mechanical arm brackets are actually equipped with huge telescopic springs. They can make the giant wheel fall like a tumbler, but it will never really fall down.

Not only that, all the functional compartments and material compartments inside the giant ship are equipped with anti-tilt brackets, so that all movable objects can be fixed, even small boats and people.

The main purpose of these designs is to deal with certain special disaster situations.

Things that are too rigid are prone to breakage. The devastating tsunami tragedy that occurred in Muzhou Province destroyed the water-blocking dams, allowing the designers and builders of giant ships to learn various lessons.

Because from the official perspective, they don’t know whether the disaster will stop. If the rain continues to fall, it is very likely that even the Fengshang Plateau will not be able to be preserved. Therefore, these giant ships were designed with the future in mind.

If in the future, this planet really loses even the last piece of land, the giant ship will become the last shelter for mankind. Therefore, it not only needs a stronger hull, but also a clever design that can cope with various disasters.

The tsunami caused by this earthquake came twice. The second time the wave was much lower, about 40 to 50 meters high.

After the tsunami was completely over, the ship returned to its original position, reopened the dock, and began rescue work. Although the huge ship blocked a lot of the land behind it when the tsunami hit, a tsunami of this magnitude would cause the sea water to rush to the land for a long distance, and many people would still be swept away by the waves.

Some are missing, some are dead, some are injured...

The original rescue work became increasingly arduous. After nightfall, the searchlights on the huge ship were turned on to illuminate the nearby waters.

Shu Fu, who was carried around by the tsunami waves in the nearby waters, also dragged the raft back here, closed the protective cover outside the shelter again, and searched for tsunami survivors at the nearby land and water boundary.

The semicircular shelter was like a scoop. Under Shu Fu's operation, it "salvaged" survivors everywhere. When the shelter was almost full, it "unloaded" the people into the giant ship.

That night, not only did the rescue team and the psychics not rest, but even Shu Fu stayed up all night.

Liu Shuang can still take a break because Shu Fu can take over her job, but no one else can take over Shu Fu's job.

The next day, when the rescue work for the nearby tsunami was almost completed, everyone did not take a rest and went back to the work of transferring and relocating the survivors.

Shu Fu prepared a large glass of iced American coffee for herself to refresh herself. It was rare for her to stay up late, but she felt okay. The main thing was that rescuing the tsunami survivors was urgent, and she wanted to save as many people as possible. She planned to wait until the peak of the rescue during the day was over and then rest at night.

Yesterday's tsunami collapsed some urban buildings along the south coast, turning the already dilapidated buildings into ruins, which also made today's work of migrating survivors much more difficult.

Fortunately, most of the survivors in these southern cities have been evacuated, and the tsunami waters receded last night, without causing too many casualties afterwards.

When she connected to the Internet again in the afternoon, she found a disaster notification popped up on her mobile phone. This was a real-time notice of the Northern Plateau disaster issued temporarily by the official on the giant ship. Any communication device that could connect to the Internet would receive this notification.

In addition to the disaster report of yesterday's earthquake and tsunami, there are also predictions and warnings of disasters, which are the coordination and predictions based on the data sent back by the unmanned probe released by the giant ship last night.

Officials said that the crustal data in the two areas east and south of the North Plateau are very unstable. It is expected that a large-scale shallow-source earthquake will occur again within four to six days, and the intensity of the earthquake is conservatively estimated to reach above magnitude 8.

The shallow source earthquake plus the large area of ​​deep water on the planet today, plus the intensity of 8, is simply a triple bad luck buff, which may trigger a tsunami twice as strong as yesterday's.

A bigger disaster is coming, and they have to transfer all the remaining survivors on the Northern Plateau to the giant ship safely before the next disaster comes.

**

Three days later, heavy rain came.

Next to a half-collapsed building somewhere in Zhangcheng, several people were working hard to move heavy building debris in the heavy rain. There were also a dozen people standing around, both young and old, and they all looked confused and anxious.

Today was the scheduled evacuation time for Zhangcheng. When they passed by here, they did not expect that the nearby buildings would suddenly tilt and then collapse the bridge deck next to them.

Some people dodged in time, but a few people did not have time to escape and were crushed under the debris.

After the people outside shouted, they confirmed that the three people inside were alive. They were lucky because there was a supported space underneath. However, after moving and digging for a while, they were stuck by a huge piece of building debris.

Although there were many teammates on the side, they had no tools and it was difficult to find a fulcrum, so they were unable to move the heavy debris. The heavy rain kept falling, and rainwater was accumulating little by little in the small space inside.

In the anxious moment, someone saw three cars slowly approaching from another direction and a group of people following the cars.

A man rushed forward and waved to stop a car. The leading car was a shabby modified jeep. Resources were scarce in the northern plateau, and these modified jeeps were usually equipped with complete tools and equipment. They wanted a car to be able to go into the sky and into the ground, and there must be tools that could help move the huge debris.

He wanted the other party to stop and help so that he could work with them to rescue the three people below.

However, just as he waved his hand and opened his mouth to ask for help, someone pulled him back and motioned him to look at an icon spray-painted on the hood of the car.

It was a red icon that looked like a dragon and also like a flame.

At the collapsed area nearby, someone also saw the mark on the hood of the car clearly, approached a man covered in mud, and said to him in a deep voice: "Boss, it's the Fire Dragon Team!"

**

In Zhangcheng, there are more than a dozen teams, big and small. Although the big teams are not harmonious with each other, they always have some intersections due to things like transactions, and the relationship is always acceptable. Especially this time, they decided to unanimously ask for official help, and many teams resolved their previous grievances.

The only difference is that the Ice Dragon Team, which is digging for their teammates at this moment, and the Fire Dragon Team, which was stopped here on its way to the boarding point, can be said to be incompatible. Usually, whenever they meet in a certain situation, they will definitely quarrel within three sentences, sometimes swearing at each other, and sometimes directly fighting.

You can tell just by listening to the names. One is called the Fire Dragon Team, and the other team is called the Ice Dragon Team, which means they want to go against each other.

Looking back, it was a long time ago. At that time, the official had just announced the existence of psychics. The Fire Dragon Team was very interested in psychics and wanted to invite one to join the team.

At that time, the situation in the northern plateau was not as bad as it is now, and Zhangcheng was far away from Lucheng, which was first attacked by the amphibious man-eating jumping fish. The team had abundant supplies and was quite powerful in Zhangcheng.

Perhaps because of this, when a man later claimed to be a superpower and expressed his desire to join the team, the people in the Fire Dragon team did not have much doubt. They always felt that with the strength of their team, they were worthy of the superpower's joining them.

As a result, not long after, the team was cheated by this psychic. That person was indeed a psychic, but he just wanted to steal some supplies, and planned to secretly swallow them and run away.

He had done similar things before in other towns and was a repeat offender. Perhaps because he succeeded and escaped successfully every time, he relaxed a little this time. As a result, he was discovered by the Fire Dragon Team when he was swallowing supplies.

When the man was escaping, he ran into another team that had just settled in Zhangcheng a few days ago. He unexpectedly discovered that his brother who had lost contact while working in another city was actually the deputy captain of this team. When the brothers reunited, the other party found that his brother was being chased by a group of people, with a bruised face and bleeding, and naturally he was furious.

The psychic quickly said that the people of the Fire Dragon Team knew his identity, so they wanted to force him into the team and falsely accused him of stealing.

On one side is the elder brother who just found his younger brother and is determined to protect him, and on the other side is the Fire Dragon Team who is shouting for war and killing. At that time, the Ice Dragon Team had just arrived and wanted to stay in Zhangcheng temporarily. They happened to meet the deputy captain's younger brother, who turned out to be a superpower. Naturally, the captain of the Ice Dragon Team felt that he could not be bullied by the local tyrants as soon as he arrived.

After the confrontation, they started quarreling. Both sides couldn't explain themselves clearly, and they didn't trust each other, so they finally started fighting.

Once a fight breaks out, casualties are inevitable. Once casualties occur, even if there was no hatred originally, there will be hatred.

The deputy captain did not believe the other party's words from beginning to end, and tried his best to protect his younger brother. This deputy captain was promoted by the captain. The captain trusted him very much because he was saved by the other party. He also knew that the captain had been looking for his brother, so he would naturally not ignore him.

After the two sides started fighting, the Fire Dragon Team began to suspect that the whole thing was planned and it was a conspiracy of the other team, just to trick them so that they could quickly gain a foothold in Zhangcheng.

The two sides were equally strong and after a fight, both sides suffered casualties. Finally, the weather changed and a violent storm hit, making it impossible for people to even stand steadily, so they naturally stopped fighting and dispersed.

The Fire Dragon Team was invincible and suffered a great loss, so they were naturally angry. When the weather improved a little, they went after the opponent again. After fighting a few times, the hatred became a dead end and could no longer be resolved.

The opposing team gradually gained a foothold in Zhangcheng. Because the younger brother of the newly joined deputy captain was a person with special abilities, it was particularly convenient for them to cross the flooded area to other towns to exchange supplies, and they were not afraid of wind and waves.

In addition, the deputy captain himself could enter his brother's raft cabin, which made the team leaders feel more at ease - although they did not trust the new members very much, the deputy captain had saved several people in the team, and everyone trusted him.

With him around, they don't have to worry about his brother causing trouble by relying on his status as a superpower.

However, in Zhangcheng, the Fire Dragon Team should not be underestimated. They secretly inflicted losses on the opposing team several times. After that, the opposing team changed the name of the team to the Ice Dragon Team, meaning that they were going to compete with the Fire Dragon Team.

For the next six months, the two sides continued to fight each other.

In fact, neither team is particularly strong. The Ice Dragon team had a slight victory before because there was a person with special abilities in the team, and the raft cabin could go to other towns in time to exchange for the necessary supplies, and then sell them in Zhangcheng at a high price.

But in February of this year, this situation changed. A raft owned by a supernatural being appeared in Zhangcheng. It not only carried passengers for free, but was also safe and fast, and could take anyone to any place they wanted to go.

Ordinary people can also obtain the necessary supplies through this method, and no longer have to buy high-priced supplies from the city’s team due to expensive shipping fees.

The Fire Dragon Team also began to frequently go to other towns to negotiate exchanges. Their captain was a smart man and after several months of operation, their strength had surpassed that of the Ice Dragon Team.

More than half a month ago, the water level on the Northland Plateau was getting higher and higher. Before the Ice Dragon Team could plan how to rely on the only psychic raft in the team and the few two vehicles to take the entire team to Xizhou Province, their deputy captain and the psychic disappeared together.

Also missing were most of the team's fuel, the best modified car, gold, medicines, water and a large amount of other supplies.

Later, someone I knew brought news from another city, saying that the psychic in their team had already defected to a powerful team in another abandoned city and had already embarked on a land migration journey.

There were two other people with special abilities in that team, and they had abundant supplies, so they would naturally not refuse a person with special abilities who wanted to join them.

The Ice Dragon Team was tricked, and it was a big trick. The news of this incident later spread throughout Zhangcheng. They were very depressed at that time, and they especially didn't want to see the people from the Fire Dragon Team, for fear of seeing the other side's mocking eyes.

Looking back at the past six months, the two teams have been fighting for so long, and I don’t know why...

After this backstabbing incident, the members of the Ice Dragon team began to doubt their captain, because he was the one who appointed the vice-captain, and he had always supported the vice-captain and his brother in the conflict with the Fire Dragon team.

With the strength of their team, it was already difficult for them to transfer on their own. Now they were attacked by an internal thief, and the plan ended before it even began.

Once people's morale is dispersed, it is impossible to bring them back. In the past half month, many capable people in the Ice Dragon team have left the team one by one to join other strong teams. In the end, there are only 20 to 30 people left in the team, and half of them are old and young family members. The team is less than one-third of the number in its heyday.

After waiting for a long time, we finally got good news and official rescue, and were about to board the ship, but such an accident happened at this moment.