Chapter 22

"Everything is fine, everything is fine, don't worry. Brother, you guys are okay too? Is everything okay at home?" Jiashu answered loudly on the other end of the phone.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, including Chen Xi.

Although she was not familiar with Gu Jiashu, she felt uncomfortable seeing Uncle Gu worried every day.

Knowing that their family was safe, I finally felt relieved.

"Let your mother answer the phone, quickly!" Gu Zhengchu grabbed the phone and shouted at the other end.

The long-term anxiety made the old man's eyes red.

"Uncle, I'm not with my mom right now... Well, don't worry, my mom is really fine."

After being yelled at by his uncle, Gu Jiashu even stuttered when he spoke.

Through Jiashu's explanation, everyone realized that the earthquake prevention publicity in the city was much more thorough than in the countryside.

In Jiashu's residential complex, the property management directly requisitioned the indoor tennis court in the community as a temporary shelter for the owners.

Outside the tennis court is the central garden of the community, which is completely open-air.

It is convenient to stay inside to avoid wind and rain and run outside when an earthquake occurs.

Because he had received calls from his uncle and cousin's wife in advance, Jiashu also took the earthquake very seriously.

Together with my girlfriend, we packed up our things early and moved into the tennis court with my mother.

Therefore, the impact of this earthquake on Jiashu and others was relatively small.

Even the valuables in the house were packed up in advance, so there was basically no damage.

They have been trying to contact this side for a long time, but the phone call was completely unavailable.

It is said that the earthquake collapsed several mobile base stations, resulting in a large area without signal.

In addition to the fact that cell phones were not working, the water and electricity were also cut off. It was said that the electrical wires and underground pipes were damaged by the earthquake.

"Let them move in with us. The city is in such a mess, and there's no water or electricity. How can we live here in such a hot day? If they move in, everyone will be able to take care of them."

Shen Jianyi sat beside Jiashu and listened to him for a long time. The more he listened, the more his brows furrowed. He couldn't help but make another suggestion.

"No, no, thank you uncle." Jiashu heard it from the other side and replied quickly.

He said: "It probably won't last much longer. They are repairing it now. Isn't the phone usable now? Besides, many roads are blocked now. Cars can't be driven at all. It's not convenient for us to go there."

At this point, he couldn't help but complain again: "Uncle, it's really wise for you not to live in the city. The elevators in the community have stopped working. My brother's house is on the 19th floor. If you really live there, don't go downstairs.

Hey, Tingting’s brother also lives on a high floor, and we haven’t been able to contact him since the earthquake. She was worried and insisted that I accompany her back to check on him.

It took nearly two hours to walk from our house, and later we have to climb fourteen floors!

Oh my God, this is going to kill me!"

He howled wildly on the other end of the phone, and couldn't help laughing as he did so.

Since all the relatives have been contacted and everyone is fine, Jiashu's tense nerves have relaxed and he can't help but become a little talkative.

They must have walked for a long time. Tingting beside him was so out of breath that she couldn't speak, but he was still talking happily.

The people of the Shen family were already very curious about what was happening outside, so when they met someone who was willing to give them a "live broadcast", they all listened with great pleasure.

The phone call has been going on for nearly ten minutes and the person hasn't hung up yet.

The doorbell outside rang again. Seeing that everyone was talking happily and no one moved, Chen Cong stood up and went out to open the door.

Xiaoyu and his mother were still standing at the door.

Seeing Shen Cong, Xiaoyu's mother touched her son's head and said to her with an embarrassed look: "Xiao Shen, I'm going to buy something, and this little rascal insisted on playing with Tongtong and didn't want to go with me. Can I leave him at your house for a while? I'll come and pick him up when I come back."

“Okay, you let it go…” Shen Cong agreed with a smile.

But before she could finish her words, she suddenly heard a very dull sound.

Then I felt as if thousands of troops were suddenly passing by under my feet, and the earth began to shake violently!

Xiaoyu's mother staggered, stumbled into the yard, and fell straight on the threshold!

She screamed in pain.

Xiaoyu was also knocked down by his mother, but fortunately his mother did not forget to hold him tightly in her arms while she fell.

Chen Cong is not much better than them.

The violent shock threw her out! Her head hit the wall a few meters away with a bang, and she saw stars.

The earthquake is coming!

The earthquake actually started in Bac Ninh!

Chen Cong's eyes went dark and his ears were buzzing.

But at this time she couldn't even feel the pain, and these two sentences kept repeating in her mind.

The sudden blow made her extremely desperate!

"The earthquake is coming! Dad! Mom! Run! Run!" She lay on the ground, shouting at the top of her lungs.

The room was in chaos.

Chen Cong gritted his teeth, not caring about the blackness in front of his eyes, and desperately got up from the ground, stumbling towards the door.

But just when she was about to run to the door, she suddenly braked!

She looked at the scene outside the door in disbelief, her pupils constricted and her whole body trembling.

The overwhelming fear made her throat feel so tight that she couldn't even scream.

What a tragic situation this is!

She stared at the ground not far from her feet, watching a huge cut appear there with a creepy cracking sound!

The hole looked like a devil opening its mouth, terrifying and eerie.

It was constantly expanding, getting bigger and bigger, madly and greedily devouring everything on the ground.

They are not satisfied with this and are still waiting for people to jump in.

My heavy heart is about to jump out!

"The ground is cracking! The ground is cracking! Don't come out! Go back! Go back! Go to the toilet, go to the toilet!"

She suddenly screamed loudly, her voice was shrill, filled with fear and panic she had never felt before!

This voice seemed to have such penetrating power that it hit everyone's heart hard!

All the Shen family members who had already run to the door stopped in their tracks.

Don’t they know what’s happening outside?

It must be a huge thing that could make Chen Cong so panicked!

No one hesitated, everyone turned around and ran back, fleeing to the safest place they could find as fast as possible.

The earth was like the sea under a strong wind, twisting and breaking.

The buildings could not bear such a heavy load and collapsed one after another.

In the face of truly huge natural disasters, humans become insignificant.

I have no control over my own destiny and can only accept what God has arranged.

They ran madly under the sky, screaming and struggling hopelessly.

Fall down again and again, and try hard to get up again and again.

Everyone is tossed around by those invisible forces, stumbling and falling, and once they fall, they may never get up again.

But everyone is still fighting with all their might!

The open security door hit the wall, making a harsh thumping sound;

With bursts of shattering sounds, the glass of all the windows in the building was shattered into small pieces.

Chen Cong was thrown to the ground again.

This time she fell on her back, her whole body hitting the concrete floor. She groaned in pain and felt like she was about to faint.

But the pain also calmed her down, allowing her to quickly assess the situation in an instant.

You definitely can't go outside. It's impossible to jump over such a big crack in the ground.

If there is no way to escape death, it is better to stay at home.

The houses at home have been reinforced. As long as the ground crack does not affect here, there may be a glimmer of hope.

"Come into the house with me!" She shouted at Xiaoyu's mother, who was lying on the ground and was obviously frightened.

Then she gritted her teeth, stood up, grabbed Xiaoyu beside her, held him under her armpit and ran into the house.

At this time, Gu Kai also rushed out of the house.

He rushed towards Chen Cong in panic and held her hand tightly.

"Hold!"

Chen Cong stuffed the child into his arms without hesitation, then turned around to pull Xiaoyu's mother who had struggled to get up.

The three of them helped each other and ran into the Shen family's bathroom.

This bathroom is not big, only three or four square meters at most, and it doesn’t even have a window.

But it is the most solid place in the whole house.

Because of its small area, the presence of beams, and the fact that two walls are load-bearing walls, it is particularly suitable for disaster shelter during earthquakes.

When the house was renovated, everyone took into consideration that this place might be used in the worst-case scenario, so they specially reinforced the house.

In order to avoid causing unnecessary harm, Shen's father even made a special trip to have the mirrors and shower rooms in the house removed.

So after determining that it was more dangerous outside, Chen Cong's first reaction was to hide here.

The bathroom was very small, with ten people squeezed tightly together, one next to the other.

After the initial collapse of the earth and sky, the aftershocks continued.

One wave follows another, each with considerable force.

Everyone felt like they were floating on a rough sea, being tossed around, with no control over their bodies.

Being hit and knocked down again and again.

The table fell over, the antique shelf fell over, and the pots, bowls, and vases were broken all over the floor...

With another aftershock——

Suddenly there was a loud noise outside, followed by the sound of something heavy falling to the ground, shaking the whole house!

A huge fear swept over them, and everyone had an idea at that moment -

It’s over, the house is going to collapse!

"Ah! Ah! Ah!" The children were the first to scream.

Then there was a burst of hoarse, terrified crying.

The adults tried their best to protect them in the center.

Everyone gathered together, shoulders on shoulders, and tried to straighten their backs, ready to use their backs to support the children as the last barrier.

With a click, the light that had been lingering on until now finally went out, and the whole room fell into darkness...

I don't know how long it took, but the continuous vibrations seemed to stop.

Chen Cong reached out and pushed her husband who was holding her tightly, and moved her body to indicate that she wanted to go out.

Following her actions, everyone came back to their senses and slowly loosened their hands.

After stretching his stiff body, Chen Cong walked in front and led the group tentatively out of the door.

The earthquakes have stopped.

The sky was bright red, presenting a strange color.

It was not completely dark yet, and the feeling outside was like four or five o'clock in the afternoon in winter, dim, gray and cold.

The yard is in such a mess that it's unbearable to look at.

But no one cared at this time.

Everyone walked across the yard and pushed open the security door that was broken and stuck diagonally on the door frame. Even though they were mentally prepared, everyone couldn't help but gasp!

Right in front of the Shen family's yard, no more than three meters away, a huge chasm appeared as if falling from the sky!

The chasm was at least ten meters wide, bottomless, and extended infinitely to both sides.

No one knows how long this ditch is, but at least as far as the eye can see, there is no end in sight!

On the other side of the chasm, all that could be seen at the moment was just rubble.

The house is gone, the garage is gone, and there is no one...

Xiaoyu's mother's legs went limp and she fell to her knees. She then couldn't help but burst into tears.

Her family lives right across from the Shen family, with a driveway separating the two houses.

At this point her entire home was gone.

A nice villa just disappeared without a trace.

No one could tell whether it had fallen into a crack or had collapsed completely.

But everyone knows that if she hadn't happened to take her child to the Shen family when the earthquake happened, at this moment -

The consequences are disastrous!

Xiaoyu's mother burst into tears.

Everyone felt the same way.

Everyone looked at the tragic scene outside the door and were numb for a moment, completely unable to think.

Even if I saw it with my own eyes, I couldn't believe it. I just felt that everything in front of me was just like a nightmare.

There was silence for about ten minutes before Xiaoyu's mother reacted.

She got up from the ground and rushed towards the chasm like mad.

"What are you doing!" Cheng Ru quickly stopped her.

"I want to go find Xiaoyu's father. We have lost our home and everything. If we don't find him, how are Xiaoyu and I going to survive?" As she spoke, she started crying again.

"How do you find it?" Chen Cong looked outside and asked without turning his head.

Xiaoyu's mother had a look of despair in her eyes, and she couldn't answer at all except crying.

Yeah, how is she going to find it?

Chen Cong ignored her.

She herself was in such a mess at the moment that she had no intention of comforting others.

Because of his rebirth and the memory of the end of the world, Chen Cong has actually always been quite confident.

She felt that she had the ability to take precautions in advance and lead her family through the difficult times.

But this sudden and premature earthquake shattered all her confidence.

She clearly remembered that in her previous life the earthquake started in a coastal city and occurred a week later.

Bac Ninh has never experienced a ground fissure of this magnitude from the beginning to the end. This villa area and the nearby Linshui Village were not destroyed at all.

This is also the reason why her first choice after her rebirth was to settle down here.

But now, everything has changed.

The ground fissure that was supposed to occur in Xishan turned into a small earthquake in Linxian, and Beining took the heavy damage instead.

This time, their family luckily escaped the disaster, but what about the future?

Will there be more disasters in the future that she cannot predict?

What should I do when that time comes?

Can she and her family get through this together?

An indescribable fear rose from the bottom of my heart.

The whole family looked miserable and stood at the door, looking at a loss as to what to do.

Looking at my wife again, although she didn't move, her whole body seemed to be filled with tension.

Gu Kai sighed with concern.

He took a step forward, put his arm around Chen Cong's shoulders, and protected her cold body in his arms, then said to everyone, "It's getting dark, and it's too dangerous outside. Let's go back to the house first. We can discuss anything when we get back."

Everyone nodded.

Cheng Ru held Xiaoyu's mother tightly and pulled her and the child back home.

Gu Kai held his wife tightly from beginning to end and gave her silent support.

When he was almost at the door of his house, Shen Cong stopped and said, "You go in first, I'll go to the backyard to take a look."

Gu Kai followed and said, "I'll go with you."

The situation in the backyard was even worse.

The two steel-frame houses that had been built previously were completely overturned. One of them collapsed completely on the open space, and the other collapsed in half, as if someone had cut it in the middle, splitting the entire house into two.

The house had only been built for a week and it ended up like this.

To say that I don't feel sad is simply not true.

But compared to the discomfort, Chencong felt more fear in his heart, the deep fear brought by the unknown.

She stood in the corridor, motionless, staring at the mess for a long time, unable to utter a word.

Gu Kai shook her hand vigorously and took the initiative to step forward to check.

Then he came back and said to Shen Chong, "It's not a big problem. There aren't many damaged parts of the steel frame. When things are stable, call Lao Zheng and ask them to send someone to fix it. It's not a big deal."

Shen Cong glanced at her husband, pursed her lips and said nothing.

She knew in her heart that he was comforting herself!

No one knows what will happen in the future.

It is not known whether we can find Lao Zheng, let alone ask him to come to our house for repair.

Knowing that his wife could see through his thoughts, Gu Kai did not avoid it.

He simply took Chen Cong for a walk in the backyard, and then said to her: "Look, the basement is basically not damaged, and the wall is also good. After all, our family only lost these two houses, and it is still possible to repair them. Compared with others, aren't we lucky enough?"

As he spoke, he lowered his head and kissed his wife's hair, and comforted her gently: "Congcong, you are a human, not a god, don't take all the responsibilities on yourself.

You still have me, your parents, and your sister... We are a family, and if there are difficulties, we will just carry them together.

Don’t be afraid, it will all pass.”

Her tears suddenly flowed out and she lay on her husband for a long time, unwilling to get up.

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