Chapter 425 Black Storm

The snowmobile continued to move forward, and there was nothing along the way except the endless snowfield.

The snowmobile that Hu Yiyang and his friends were riding was a 7-seater tracked snowmobile, which could only accommodate 6 people in addition to the driver.

However, Jiang Yan and Mo Shiyao were thin, and there were no violations in the end-of-the-world environment, so with Song Haitao, Song Qian, Ye Qing, and Sun Jingtao, 8 people squeezed in.

On the way, Song Haitao, Hu Yiyang, Song Qian and others talked about the changes in the base during this period.

Sun Jingtao, Ye Qing, Mo Shiyao and others would interject from time to time.

Jiang Yan was the most relaxed in the car, and she closed her eyes and chose to rest.

Gradually, everyone found something wrong.

Ye Qing glanced out the window casually, "Has everyone noticed that the sky is a little strange now?"

Song Haitao took off his snow goggles, looked up at the sky, and frowned, "Yes, a little bit. I remember that before we set off in the morning, the sky was still bright, but now it looks a lot darker."

Hu Yiyang picked up the telescope and glanced into the distance, and told the driver, "Zhu Ming, while ensuring safety, try to drive faster."

"Yes." Zhu Ming, who was driving, held the steering wheel tightly with both hands and stepped on the accelerator hard, "It is easy to sway forward when driving fast in the snow, everyone try to find a place to hold on."

Everyone's expression was stern: "Okay."

Their car was the lead car, and the speed was fast, and the remaining cars also accelerated to catch up.

Sun Jingtao thought of something, "By the way, the last time we went to the Yaoben base, we still took the underground tunnel. This time, do we have to go underground first when we go back?"

"No, there is a special secret main tunnel, you will know in a while." After Hu Yiyang finished speaking, he picked up the telescope and glanced out the window.

Song Haitao silently counted the days, "Could it be, another natural disaster?"

Since the extreme cold weather, the environment outside has been stable for a while.

There is no specific pattern for the appearance of new natural disasters, and everyone can only pray silently that nothing will happen before returning to the base smoothly.

The convoy drove for a while, and Zhu Ming, who had been concentrating on driving, said, "Everyone, we will be at the entrance of the underground tunnel of the base in a few minutes."

Everyone looked forward and saw a continuous mountain stretching in front of them.

However, the mountain was covered with snow all over, and there was no trace of any tunnel.

Just when everyone was relieved, there was a sharp "squeak" sound of skidding behind them.

Jiang Yan, who was sleeping with her eyes closed, suddenly opened her eyes and turned her head to see that a snowmobile following closely behind had skidded.

I don't know if it was because of the driving skills of the soldiers or the performance of the car. The car quickly returned to the right track the moment it was thrown out.

Just when she looked back, Jiang Yan, who had excellent eyesight, suddenly shrank her pupils, "What is that?"

Ye Qing: "Where?"

Jiang Yan: "Behind us."

The moment everyone turned their heads, Zhu Ming glanced at the rearview mirror, "Damn, this can't be a sandstorm!!!"

Behind everyone, a black wall as high as the sky appeared on the endless white snowfield.

The black wall rolled up the overwhelming snow and chased everyone at a high speed.

Several cars behind them also obviously noticed something was wrong.

In the car following closely behind, Zhao Yougong opened the window and asked in a tearing voice, "Doctor, is the black blizzard coming again?!"

"It's the black storm!! Tell everyone to get back to the base as soon as possible!!" Song Haitao's mind was spinning rapidly. After a second of shock, he quickly opened some of the car windows and reminded loudly behind him:

"Pass it on, everyone wear masks if you have them, and cover your mouth and nose if you don't have masks!"

The moment the window opened, everyone felt a cold wind, like a sharp blade, quickly slashing towards the faces of several people.

Song Haitao quickly closed the window, "Quick, let's put on masks or scarves too!" As he said that, he pulled the scarf over his face.

The car was very crowded, Jiang Yan twisted her body to take off her backpack, and took out a few protective masks from it and distributed them to everyone in the car.

"Wow! Miss Jiang, your equipment is so complete!" Zhu Ming concentrated on driving the car and did not dare to slow down at all. It was Song Qian in the back seat who helped him put on the mask.

"Not bad." After Jiang Yan finished speaking, she turned her head and glanced at the cars behind.

Now it was a race against time with the black storm behind, and she could not take care of so many people in the cars behind.

Ye Qing in the passenger seat put on the mask and glanced in the rearview mirror, "Doctor, what is a black storm? How come I have never heard of this word."

The black wall they saw before seemed to be much higher than before.

It should be because of the snowflakes that the color has a touch of gray.

But even if its color has become lighter, everyone dare not take it lightly.

"After the meteorite landed, we encountered a black blizzard. But the black blizzard fell from top to bottom, and it was just because there was a little dust in it." Song Haitao reached out and grabbed a handle tightly. He paused and continued:

"The black storm can be understood as an enhanced version of the sandstorm. Generally speaking, strong winds of level 8 and above will roll a lot of dust and other fine particles into the sky, forming a rolling wind wall as high as 500-3000 meters. The dust carried by the storm rolls forward and can float thousands of kilometers or even 10,000 kilometers away in the sky."

"The previous black blizzard, at most, hindered your breathing and vision, but now, you can understand it as a high-speed wind belt with gravel and dust, sweeping towards you."

Everyone's heart sank suddenly.

Dust is okay, they have protective glasses and protective masks.

Gravel at high speed is comparable to some sharp weapons.

"Oh my god, I was saying that I was lucky recently and there weren't any natural disasters, but I didn't expect that—" Zhu Ming looked at the black storm getting closer in the rearview mirror and couldn't help but curse, "It really never ends!"

"I will blow up that natural disaster simulation lab sooner or later!" He said angrily while stepping on the accelerator.

Sun Jingtao's brows instantly wrinkled into a "川" shape: "I've seen such a scene in a wasteland movie before. Once a car and a person are involved, the probability of survival is almost zero." He was very worried about Su Dai in the car behind.

If it weren't for the limited seats in the car and Song Qian asking him to communicate and understand some things in advance while on the way back, he would not have separated from Su Dai.

At this moment, Sun Jingtao was very regretful.

He clenched his fists, and a trace of uneasiness began to emerge in his heart. "Comrade Zhu, how long will it take us to reach the entrance of the base tunnel?"

Zhu Ming looked at a "品"-shaped sentry tower not far away and replied, "Five minutes."

"Five minutes?" Hu Yiyang was stunned. "Didn't we see the entrance mountain just now? Why does it take so long?"

Zhu Ming's tone was full of self-blame. "Sorry, Captain, I was driving too fast just now and misjudged a sentry tower. I have to take a short detour."

Everyone was a little surprised, but they couldn't say anything.

To be honest, it is not easy to identify the route with the naked eye alone.

Hu Yiyang was slightly stunned, but he didn't mean to blame him. "Don't blame you, now concentrate on driving, don't take the wrong detour again."

As usual, someone would be arranged to help the driver check the route.

Today, there are not enough people, and he can only rely on himself. It is already very good to be able to drive like this at such a fast speed.

"Yes." Zhu Ming pursed his lips.

Sun Jingtao was worried about Su Dai, and couldn't help saying, "If I had known, we should have come back later."

Song Haitao took a deep breath, "It's useless. Wherever the black storm passes, no grass will grow. Those houses will probably be swept away."

Even if they hide in the underground seed bank, the area more than ten meters above is completely buried in gravel and dust, which is not much different from entering the tomb of the living dead.

Song Haitao's words made everyone's heart sink again. If

the houses built of reinforced concrete can be swept away,

then the cars they are riding in and the soldiers in the sentry towers

will feel that the remaining two minutes are a race against death.

The car suddenly fell into silence.

After a few seconds, Mo Shiyao broke the silence:

"I'm a little curious. Since the world is frozen now, and ice and snow are everywhere, where do these gravel and dust come from?"

"Where did this black storm come from out of nothing?"

"The world we are in now can't be simulated, right?"

"Or, in other words, there are higher-dimensional creatures besides us humans."

Her last two words shocked everyone's heart.

They all knew that the natural disasters they were experiencing now all came from the natural disaster simulation laboratory.

But even if the scientific and technological power behind the people who developed this laboratory was advanced enough, some things were obviously contrary to common sense.

For example, Jiang Yan's storage artifact that they had never seen before, and those snow wolves that mutated at any time, etc.

As the scientist with the most say in the car, Song Haitao was also secretly shocked for a second by Mo Shiyao's last whimsical words.

In his view, humans were originally a drop in the ocean in the vast universe.

Every day they live now can be regarded as a simulation of a certain life trajectory.

However, as someone with his identity, he naturally couldn't say such words.

"This natural disaster simulation laboratory is not an exaggeration to say that it is the ninth wonder of the world."

Jiang Yan pursed her lips, thinking about Mo Shiyao's speculation in her mind.

It's not impossible.

After all, she has been reborn, and the world has ended. What else can she not dare to think about.

The chatter of several people did not lighten the atmosphere in the car, but made it more depressing and heavy.

The car fell into silence again.

After a while, Hu Yiyang said, "Zhu Ming, how long do you expect it will take to reach the tunnel entrance?"

Zhu Ming had been concentrating on the steering wheel, and his whole body was tense. "Captain, it's estimated to take one minute."

Everyone felt relieved.

However, the black storm behind them was getting closer and closer to them.

As Song Haitao said, wherever the black storm went, it not only stirred up the wind and snow, but also blew away a lot of the ice deposited below.

There were also a few scattered black figures, who rolled twice and disappeared without a trace.

The dark and thick wall as high as the sky was like a hungry bloody mouth, trying to swallow up several beetle-like snowmobiles with people and things.

Zhu Ming's speed was getting faster and faster, and the car drifted directly on the slippery ice.

Everyone held the handrails tightly, and under their leather gloves, there was a layer of sticky cold sweat.

The car was shaking so much that Mo Shiyao almost vomited.

Zhu Ming's forehead and arms were already exposed with blue veins.

Of the eight people in the car, Song Haitao, who was the oldest and looked the weakest, was in the best condition.

After all, drifting was just an appetizer for him who had been to the sky several times.

Except for Jiang Yan and Ye Qing, almost everyone gritted their teeth.

Then Song Haitao said,

"Fortunately, this black storm is chasing us from behind."

"At least we can still escape to the base. If it came head-on, we would probably be dead."

"So, we are still lucky." Ye Qing echoed and comforted everyone.

Although he said so, Sun Jingtao's heart still rose to his throat when he looked at the black storm behind him and the snowmobile that was also swinging back and forth.

Seeing the black storm getting closer and closer, Jiang Yan told Hua Bao in her mind:

"Hua Bao, if we can't enter the base before the black storm comes, see if there is any way to prevent the storm from blowing the car away."

After she finished speaking, she opened the car window a tiny gap.

"Okay, mom." Hua Bao said, and crawled out through the gap.

It jumped flexibly between several snowmobiles, looked around for places where it could wrap around with vines, and made up its mind.

"We're here!" Zhu Ming's eyes lit up, and he turned on the lights and began to frantically signal the front.

After the high and low beams flashed for a few seconds, there was a loud bang, and two white snow doors moved horizontally to the left and right on the originally snow-white mountain in front.

A dark tunnel with extremely dim lights appeared at the end of the road.

The tunnel was very short, and it looked like there was a black door behind it.

Jiang Yan was secretly shocked, "Is the snow on the mountain fake snow?"

"Some are real and some are fake, but you can't tell if you don't look carefully." Hu Yiyang pinched the tiger's mouth hard, resisted the urge to vomit, and explained to her.

Zhu Ming slowed down a little. He reached out and took out a black sign from the side and handed it to Ye Qing, who was sitting in the passenger seat:

"Ye Qing, help put it in front of the window. They need to sense it."

"Okay." A few seconds after Ye Qing put up the sign, the black door in the tunnel opened, and the passage seemed to be extended.

Jiang Yan had good eyesight and could clearly see that the tunnel was still not very long.

It seems that the tunnel exposed above is only a section, and it is likely to go down.

While thinking, "whoosh!", the snowmobile received a strong push and rushed into the tunnel with a pile of snow.

Jiang Yan only felt a strong push on her back, which was obviously caused by external force.

The snowmobile behind followed closely and drove in.

At this moment, the sky has completely darkened.

Or rather, the black storm has come close.