Chapter 258 End (22)

But in fact, Lan Jin's behavior is not only not very effective, but also very dangerous.

This is why everyone is so calm and not running around. If the crowd starts running, it will be difficult for her to get up from the ground, and she will be easily stepped on by passers-by, and there are even cases of being stepped to death.

But isn't everyone still at this moment? If everyone hadn't moved, Lan Jin wouldn't have dared to do this.

Ling Jiang looked at her like this and found it very funny. "If you stand up, the shaking won't be so strong anymore."

"No, wait until it stops before I get up."

After a while, when the shaking stopped again, she stood up from the ground nimbly without anyone helping her.

But she hadn't stood there for a moment when the ground began to shake again. This time the shaking was stronger than the previous times, and even the protective shield above her head was shaking with a creaking sound.

Then, a cracking sound came from above.

Seeing Lan Jin about to sit on the ground again, Brother Zhang shouted, "Don't sit on the ground anymore. Something's not right."

As soon as he finished speaking, the collapsed "roof" in the distance quickly cracked open, swallowing up the collapsed house and everything inside it.

The crack quickly moved towards the bottom of the mountain. Seeing the crack getting closer and closer to them, Brother Zhang was shocked and shouted to the people around him: "Don't stand in the middle, move to the sides, quickly, quickly."

After saying that, he carried the elderly Professor Pei and ran to the side.

Lan Jin and the others were standing at the back. Although they didn't understand what was going on, they didn't refute Brother Zhang's words. They followed Brother Zhang's footsteps and moved to a farther place to the side.

When there was no one blocking the way, the crack that was almost split to their feet immediately appeared before their eyes.

"Fuck, how come it cracked like this?" Lao Gao cursed excitedly, but the current situation was so bad that not only Lao Gao but also the people in the base had never encountered such a mess.

Fortunately, the mountain stopped shaking after it cracked almost to the ground. Just when everyone was about to feel relieved, the cracked mountain shook again, but this time it didn't crack, but closed directly back, as if it had never opened.

But the traces of the "top floor" swallowed by the mountain are a regret that can never be erased.

After the mountains merged, both the earthquakes and aftershocks finally stopped.

It's very strange.

The top of the mountain can crack and close at will, just like a human mouth, which opens to eat when hungry and closes again when full. However, when this happens to a mountain, it becomes a little puzzling.

Lan Jin looked at the three people around him and whispered, "What we're saying is, the H City base doesn't seem to be as safe as we thought."

"Yes, although we are from J City, which is a plain area and there are no earthquakes, don't bully me because I am not well educated. How could this earthquake be only a magnitude 5.3? I can't even stand steadily, okay?" Lao Gao said with a look of disbelief. In short, it must be a magnitude 5.3, which is absolutely impossible.

However, this is the difference between locals and outsiders. The staff at the base, the locals, explained to them, "It should be only a 5.3 magnitude. The base's survey data is generally accurate. It's mainly because we are located at the top of the mountain, and the surrounding area is frozen. The earthquake couldn't spread down, so it had to bounce back, which is why we felt it so strongly."

Lan Jin was shocked. Although she was not well-educated, she had never heard of such a fallacy.

But if you think about it carefully, the ice below is indeed frozen very solid, so the shaking of the earthquake cannot be transmitted downwards, and it may even be shaken back. So this idea seems to make sense.

But no matter what, the earthquake is finally over. Except for the supplies on the "top floor", no one was injured. This is the biggest comfort for the base at the moment.

…

Because the situation just now was too horrifying, even though no one was distributing it, everyone just stood there and didn't dare to move.

Brother Zhang stepped forward and took a look at the situation on the top floor and the cracked base shield. He said, "A few of you, come with me up there to check out the situation. The rest of you, stay where you are."

The ground was so dangerous that no one dared to move without Brother Zhang's order. For a moment, the hall was eerily quiet.

After a while, Brother Zhang and others finally came back. Although his expression might not be particularly good, with him back, the people in the hall seemed to have found a backbone, and almost everyone present was waiting for Brother Zhang's next instructions.

"Our base has suffered significant damage this time. The outer protective shields are severely damaged, both front and back, and cannot be repaired. To conserve resources, we'll turn off the heating. I've checked the ground, and it's safe to walk on. Everyone, go back and put on more clothes.

This disaster wasn't devastating for our H City base, but it certainly dealt us a heavy blow. In the coming days, please work with us to slowly restore the base to its original state..."

After saying that, Brother Zhang began to arrange the next work.

Seeing how everyone believed in Brother Zhang, Lan Jin was puzzled. "Why does everyone listen to Brother Zhang? Is Brother Zhang a very high-ranking person?"

Brother Zhang's words and deeds were relatively low-key. According to what he said, the four of them had always thought that Brother Zhang was just the captain of a small team in the base. However, if he was just a small team captain, it would be impossible for him to gain such great prestige in the base. Coupled with Lan Jin's previous speculation about those things, she naturally felt that Brother Zhang's identity was extraordinary.

A staff member behind her looked at the four of them in disbelief and whispered, "No way, you don't know? Don't you all know?"

The four of them looked at the person who had just spoken with gossip, and that person was the staff member at the material exchange office.

Although they hadn't been together for long, they were already old acquaintances. Lao Gao asked curiously, "What do you know? Is it something we should know?"

"When we didn't have superpowers yet, Brother Zhang had a very high reputation in the base because the team he led was very strong and helped the base overcome many difficulties. However, after the emergence of superpowers, Brother Zhang's team was no longer able to perform. Although the superpowers in our base are not as strong as yours, they are still superpowers after all. No matter how weak they are, they are still stronger than ordinary people. Gradually, they..."

Everyone still respected Brother Zhang. Plus, with the base commander away, Brother Zhang was in charge of the base, so he held a high level of authority. But there was a difference between Brother Zhang and Professor Pei. Professor Pei was from Beijing. Because there were too many mutants near our base, he volunteered to come here during the insect plague. Professor Pei and his team have researched a lot of things that are useful to those above them, so he's also very respectable."

(End of this chapter)