Global Natural Disasters

Si Nan, an office worker, unknowingly does a good deed by saving a girl who is severely injured and hospitalized. During her coma, she experiences recurring nightmares of struggling to survive in v...

Chapter 98

It took Sinan and his team about a week to finish digging the cellar. It was an inverted T-shaped cellar. They first dug a circular well in an empty room on the left side of the first floor. The well mouth was about 70 centimeters and 5 meters deep. Then they dug two storage rooms about 1.8 meters high and 2 meters wide on both sides of the well bottom.

Because there were only two of them digging, even though they had all kinds of power tools at hand, they were still very tired.

After digging the last storage room that morning, Si Nan climbed out of the cellar with a dusty face, shook off the dirt on his head, and said to Cheng Su Ming: "Digging two storage rooms should be enough for our whole family to hide in, right?"

Cheng Suming knew the family she was talking about, including Sheng's mother, Cheng Wei, Si Yufang, Liu Dalin and their families. He counted the number of people and nodded, saying, "If they don't sleep, they can barely squeeze in just sitting. But I think it's best to let them build a cellar at home."

"That's fine. I'll ask Yang Wentao and the others later. If they also want to dig a cellar, I'll lend them the tools."

Si Nan shook off the dirt on his head, felt the sweat on his body, and walked towards the bathroom. "The cellar is finally dug. Today I want to wash off the dirt on my body. I haven't taken a shower for a week. I just wiped my face and neck with water. I feel like I stink."

"Let's take a shower together." Cheng Suming followed her and closed the toilet door.

Si Nan knew what he wanted to do by looking at his expression and pushed him: "Wash them separately, I'm too dirty."

"Washing them separately is a waste of water." Cheng Suming put one arm around her waist and pulled the zipper of her winter coat with the other hand: "In dry weather, it's shameful to waste water."

Si Nan wanted to say something, but he lowered his head and kissed her lips. Only a low whimper remained in her throat.

More than two hours later, Si Nan was exhausted and wrapped in a blanket by Cheng Suming. He carried her out of the bathroom, walked upstairs, and put her on the bed.

Si Nan rolled over on the soft bed, revealing a body covered with kiss marks, and said to Cheng Su Ming tiredly, "Put on my clothes. I'm so tired and don't have the energy to dress myself."

"Are you really going to let me wear it?" Cheng Suming chuckled, stretched out his hand to pick her up, his eyes wandering over her body.

Si Nan covered his eyes with his hands in annoyance. "You did manual labor for half a day this morning, and tortured me in the bathroom for two hours. It's almost two o'clock in the afternoon. Don't you feel tired? I'm tired and hungry. Put on your clothes for me, and let's eat something to fill our stomachs."

"I won't be tired even if I come a few more times. Thank you for your hard work, Mrs. Cheng." Cheng Suming stopped teasing her and stood up to open the wardrobe: "What color clothes do you want to wear?"

Si Nan covered the exposed parts with a blanket: "Red bra, take a camel-colored warm clothing, and wear a light purple coat on the outside."

Cheng Suming found the clothes she wanted to wear, and turned around to help her put them on one by one. It was not known whether he did it on purpose, but his fingers would always linger on her body, making Si Nan feel itchy all over, and he also tickled her.

The two of them laughed and made noises on the bed for a while. Cheng Suming heard Si Nan's stomach growling with hunger, so he stopped and said, "Stop making noises. Eat something first."

"What do you want to eat?" Si Nan asked while sitting in front of the dressing table.

"It's getting late. We won't be cooking at noon today. You can get some prepared food from the space to eat." Cheng Suming said gently while wiping her wet hair with a dry towel.

"I want to eat fried venison with chili peppers, crispy fish with pickled peppers, and some braised chicken feet, duck wings, duck feet, and gizzards. What do you want to eat?"

"I'm fine with either. You can't just eat meat. Take out two cucumbers and make some cucumber salad. It's a combination of meat and vegetables."

Instead of going downstairs, the two of them sat at the small wooden table by the window in the room to eat.

The venison was what they had picked up from a hunting trip to Ke County. Most of the meat from several deer was made into dried venison by Sinan, and she kept some of the tender parts of the breast and thighs. She made some of it into smooth meat and boiled meat to test the taste, and some of it was used to stir-fry chili peppers, which all tasted very good.

Pickled pepper crispy fish was made during the high temperature period five years ago. A whole carp was fried in a pan until golden and crispy, then chopped pickled peppers, bean paste, Sichuan peppercorns and chili powder, chopped green onions and coriander, salt and MSG were added to season and thicken the sauce, then poured over the fish. It tastes sour and spicy, without any fishy smell, and goes very well with rice.

However, Sinan's favorite is spicy braised food. The braised food she makes is very soft and tender, and it falls off the bones when you bite it. It is not difficult to eat. The meat tastes spicy and numb, and the braised food has a super rich aroma. After finishing one, you want to eat the next one.

Sinan first filled his stomach, then turned on the TV. While watching TV, he slowly ate chicken feet, duck feet and the like.

After chewing for a while, she felt her mouth was a little dry, so she took out the hot milk tea she bought before the end of the world from the space, drank two sips of the sweet milk tea to relieve the dryness, and her life became very happy.

Cheng Su Ming waited until she had almost finished eating, cleared the dishes on the table, and was about to go downstairs when he suddenly heard a news report interrupt the TV station that was broadcasting an old, melodramatic family ethics drama.

"Emergency message. The Capital Meteorological Observatory captured the track of a super typhoon in the coastal areas ten minutes ago, accompanied by a forecast of heavy thunderstorms. Since most of the meteorological detectors in the coastal areas have been destroyed, it is impossible to accurately estimate the speed of the typhoon. Please make disaster preparations if you see this message or receive the radio broadcast channel in the coastal areas..."

Cheng Suming paused and turned his head to look at the sky outside the window. The sun was still shining brightly with blue sky and white clouds.

It is now the New Year month of the sixth year of the apocalypse. Shishan, located in the southwest, is still in the spring and winter climate. The daytime temperature is between 5-15 degrees, and it seems no different from the weather in the previous few months.

However, while he was staying, the blue sky and white clouds gradually disappeared, and large black clouds slowly gathered, and he had a sense of foreboding in his heart.

Si Nan also noticed the change in the weather outside. He opened the window and looked out and said, "The news that the TV station just broadcast was about the weather in the coastal areas. It's at least a thousand kilometers away from here. A typhoon won't be so weird as to appear inland, right?"

Cheng Suming's eyelids twitched and he tilted his head to look at Si Nan.

Si Nan met his gaze, and his heart skipped a beat. "I was just saying it casually."

Cheng Suming stopped washing the dishes and immediately contacted Cheng Wei and Yang Wentao: "Cheng Wei, come to our house immediately. Yang Wentao, are you fetching water in the East District? Don't do it, the next natural disaster is coming, hurry back, hurry up!"

After he hung up the phone, he immediately called Yan Hongyi and Brigade Commander Zhou: "We just saw an urgent news report on the TV station, saying that a super typhoon and thunderstorms and heavy rain are moving along the coastal areas. Has your military received the news?"

"received."

Yan Hongyi and Brigade Commander Zhou were in the military conference room at the moment. In front of them was a large screen that was displaying weather map images received by satellite. It showed dozens of super-powerful typhoon vortices moving around on the blue earth.

Everyone was terrified. An officer in charge of the military's satellite survey said, "It has only been ten minutes since we received the news, and the two typhoon vortices on the Asian map have turned into fifteen. There are at least five on our coastal areas, and they are rushing inland from the coast at an extremely fast speed we have never seen before. It is expected to reach our Shishan in an hour at the latest. Commander Ye, what should we do now?"

Commander Ye sat at the top and thought for a moment before saying, "The situation is urgent. Open the Dashishan military base and let the people take shelter in the mountains."

"No!" The chief of staff sitting below him immediately objected: "Our military base located halfway up the Dashi Mountain is originally a key reserve point for our military. The key points built inside can only accommodate 500,000 people at a time. There are currently nearly 3 million people in the Shishan base, of which at least 1.5 million have contracted the N79 infectious disease and are in hospital isolation or home quarantine. We cannot accommodate so many people at the same time and allow the infectious disease to cross-infect again."

"Chief of Staff, I can't just watch the civilians in the base die," Brigade Commander Zhou interrupted.

"I don't mean to abandon the people." The chief of staff said, "What I mean is that in the face of a major disaster, we will give priority to the families of soldiers, technicians from all walks of life and their families to go to the Dashishan Military Cave Key Point for shelter. These people alone have already filled up the military key point, and the rest of the base can only be unsealed and isolated, and remind everyone to take shelter nearby. We will leave some soldiers behind to maintain continuity and help the people."

How is this different from abandoning the people? Brigade Commander Zhou was speechless.

He actually knew in his heart that before a major disaster, no matter their occupational status, everyone was very vulnerable to nature and could die at any time. The chief of staff resorted to this desperate measure in order to preserve the strength of the entire military.

Division Commander Ye frowned, thought for a moment and said, "Do as the Chief of Staff said. Sound the alarm, evacuate if possible, save yourself if possible, and leave the rest to fate."

So the people at the Shishan base heard the long-lost air raid alarm.

The siren's long wailing sound resounded through the sky, startling people and making them look out the window: "What happened? Is this an air raid siren?"

"Oh my god, it's been years since I last heard an air raid sirens. It gave me goose bumps!"

"There's an air raid alarm at the Shishan base? Why hasn't it been sounded in the past few years? Why is it suddenly sounded today? What's going to happen?"

As people were in a panic, many people looked up and found that a large number of crows and other flocks of birds suddenly appeared in the sky, circling and flying densely in all parts of the sky. The crows kept cawed, which was creepy to hear.

"Why are there so many crows? I've never seen so many birds even in the drought before."

"When there are strange signs in the sky, there must be something fishy going on. There are crows and the air raid sirens are going off. I have a bad feeling that something big is going to happen."

"Stop having premonitions and look at the horizon!"

Dark clouds gathered rapidly on the horizon, forming thick layers of dark clouds that appeared in the sky layer by layer.

The sky seemed unable to bear the weight of the clouds, which hung low in front of people's eyes. People could clearly see the purple lightning moving in the black clouds, which made people feel suffocated and oppressive visually.

"Is it going to rain?" Someone was very happy: "Rain is the best, then we don't have to worry about having no water to drink, and we can soak our bodies in water to get those damn guinea worms out of our bodies!"

However, the man's joy did not last long as he felt a gust of wind blowing, almost blowing the thin man to the ground.

When he finally managed to steady himself and looked up, he saw a horrifying scene.

The few lightning bolts that were originally wandering in the dark clouds suddenly became more numerous and thicker. The sky, which was blocked by the dark clouds and became very dark, became so eye-piercing under the shining of these lightning nets that intertwined in the sky like snakes, that people could not help but close their eyes to block out the dazzling bright sky.

The huge roar of thunder was like the neighing of thousands of horses at the same time, shaking the tiles of the house and the ground at the same time. The child was frightened and cried loudly, covering his ears but still could not cover up the huge thunder that continued to roar.

The adults' hearts also started pounding because of the thunder. Some of those with heart disease were even frightened to the point of cardiac arrest, causing their family members to cry out.

At this time, a group of soldiers and government workers holding loudspeakers appeared on the streets, running quickly in the streets and alleys, shouting to people: "The typhoon and thunderstorm are coming, everyone go home immediately! Don't wander outside, find a place to take shelter nearby..."

At the same time, the iron doors of the Shishan Hospital and the Military Hospital, which had been closed for a long time, were opened, and the people who had been isolated inside for four or five months rushed out of the hospital. Before they could be happy, they were shocked by the scene before them.

Under the dazzling sky, an electric grid formed by countless purple lightning bolts, huge tornadoes, like huge wind dragons, fell from the sky and appeared in the sky from all directions. From a thin gust of wind, they gradually expanded and turned into huge vortexes that made people feel scared when viewed from a distance.

From a long distance, under the illumination of continuous lightning, everyone could clearly see the tornadoes destroying trees, houses, cars, and all kinds of things they encountered along the way with a devastating force, and sucking them into the vortex.

Those things that were sucked in were suspended in the air dozens of meters high, spinning up and down inside the vortex at an extremely fast speed.

Along with the sudden appearance of those tornadoes, the wind speed gradually increased.

The wind was howling, and the electric wires on the streets and alleys of Shishan were blown into the air like skipping ropes. The crops and trees that had lost their water and had been dry for a long time had their branches broken and even uprooted by the wind. The sound of tiles from houses being blown to the ground with crackling sounds could be heard everywhere.

"Swish!" A long, thick bolt of lightning flashed down from the sky and hit a house on the roadside. With a huge electric shock, the roof instantly caught fire and a corner collapsed.

At the same time, the lightning circling in the sky struck down from the sky in various forms, and houses, trees, and all living things were struck by the dazzling lightning everywhere.

There were dense flashes of light between the sky and the earth, as if the judge had come to judge all living things on the blue planet with extremely bad weather.

Fear was spreading, people were screaming and running wildly, but the gradually gathering force of the typhoon blew them back again and again, making them unable to move forward.

Many people were malnourished and thin, and could not withstand the typhoon's wind force. They did not hold onto electric poles, door handles, or the like, and were blown to the ground by the strong wind.

Before they could get up, they were either struck by the ubiquitous lightning and electrocuted to death on the spot, or they were sucked into the vortex of the gradually gathering tornado, and they were directly thrown up and down in it, spinning and colliding with all the garbage in it, and their screams turned into screams, and finally gradually lost their voices.

All human beings in the world are facing an unprecedented catastrophe. The three natural disasters of typhoon, lightning and tornado come together to form an omnipresent weapon, sweeping away all the tiny humans on the ground, leaving them nowhere to escape.

Some people cannot escape, so they just accept their fate and go with the flow.

Some people struggled desperately and ran around with all their might, but they still could not escape death from the three disasters.

Some people were in despair and fear, knowing that they had no way to escape, so they simply stood in the strong wind, opened their arms, faced death calmly, and laughed: "Damn God, he won't give us any chance to live! Let's perish together! Hahaha——"

The next moment, he was struck by a thick lightning bolt and turned into charcoal, but he still stood with his arms outstretched, scaring several families nearby who witnessed the scene into screaming.