Chapter 48 Torrential Rain and Extreme Cold? 6

Chapter Forty-Eight

When Lin Xia felt the weight on her body stop increasing and the rumbling in her ears quieted down, she didn't know how much time had passed.

The area where she was located formed a triangular zone, providing her with temporary shelter. Liquid was flowing down her cheeks; Lin Xia touched it and found it was blood. She couldn't hear anything; she had just felt the earth shake violently, but she didn't know if it was lightning striking the houses and causing them to collapse or if it was a real earthquake.

But even if there's an earthquake, you can't go outside. There's lightning everywhere outside, and you'll either get hit or struck dead. It happens too fast; you have no choice.

Lin Xia projected her mental energy and saw the scene outside. Few buildings were intact; most had either collapsed or been split in half. All the people were inside the buildings; from the outside, only black ash and mangled remains were visible...

And getting out of where she was wouldn't be easy; it would definitely cause a collapse. The lightning continued unabated, striking down from time to time.

Most importantly, it started raining again. If she really went out, it wouldn't be easy to hide. There was no way she could be faster than lightning. She put the loudspeaker back into her space.

Lin Xia opened the group chat and saw that there were quite a few messages inside.

Ji Wei: "There was a sudden, widespread thunderstorm just now, which almost cut off all communications. There were fires on the mountains here, but thankfully, it was all ice, and the fires went out after a while. Are you all alright?"

Xie Cheng: "They hid in a cave at the last moment."

Comrade 1: "Luckily, we were eating inside the building, so the building didn't collapse."

Comrade 2: "He was crushed underneath, his arm might have been broken."

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Lin Xia: "I was trapped in the ruins, but I wasn't injured."

Ji Wei: "Seventh Sister, you finally spoke! I was so worried about you."

Lin Xia: "Was there an earthquake?"

Ji Wei: "There was no earthquake."

Xie Cheng: "But the kind of super thunderstorm that we just witnessed, which is impossible to see in reality, could very well cause earthquakes and volcanic activity."

Volcanoes... Lin Xia's heart skipped a beat. M City has a group of volcanoes that have been dormant for a long time. This apocalypse can't be that bad, can it?

Xie Cheng: "This is just in theory; it may not actually happen."

Comrade 2: "In this kind of game world, we should prepare for the worst."

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Unable to walk on the ground, Lin Xia turned her attention underground, but the ground was all ice, and so much debris was frozen inside. She would have to dig through the ice layer to reach the underground, but if there was an earthquake, wouldn't she be buried alive in such deep ice?

Lin Xia looked at the backup area. She had backed up a few things while traveling, but she hadn't looked at them carefully.

Backup successful: Backup of Medium Protection Shield *1, requires 1000 Survival Points

[Intermediate Protection Shield Card: 360° surround protection for your safety, lasting 30 minutes.]

Backup successful: Weapon Mastery - Firearms, requires 500 Survival Points

[Weapon Mastery - Firearms: This skill will familiarize you with various firearms; your accuracy depends on your own efforts.]

Backup successful: Backup and invite friends*1, survival points required: 500

[Invite Friends: Locate players within a 100-meter radius and find your friends.]

Backup successful: Backup of sound camouflage *1, requires 10 survival points.

[Voice Disguise: Freely change your voice. Limit: 3 times.]

Backup successful: Backing up your portable music. Survival points required: 100

[Portable Music: Become a player with your own background music, super hype!]

Lin Xia was speechless. What was all this? The [Intermediate Protective Shield] seemed very useful, but she couldn't very well exchange for one to test whether it could withstand a lightning strike. But she would exchange for one anyway.

It's only been three days. We must find a place where we can better ensure our survival. Lin Xia thought for a while and remembered the tools she had caught while fishing in the real world: wooden planks and rubber. These are non-conductive materials. Could we make use of them?

She first used her mental power to scan the outside and discovered that the upper half of the high-rise next door had been split off and crashed into her building. After examining it for a while, she figured out a way out: exiting from the corner behind her wall, which was a relatively short route.

She dared not use a long knife to dig, fearing that the metal would attract lightning strikes. Using only wooden planks and her bare hands, she dug for a full five hours, finding three corpses before finally creating a path out of the ruins.

When her hands hurt so badly she couldn't stand it anymore, she would get some treatment. When she was hungry, she would eat compressed biscuits. When she dug up a corpse, Lin Xia would walk around it. She was truly grateful that she was still alive.

Now that she could see outside, Lin Xia took a wooden board to block the exit. She looked around and saw that the area was completely sealed off without any gaps. So she took out the wooden board and a knife and shaved out a lot of wooden nails.

Then, using his mental power, he manipulated the space, nailing wooden planks to the rubber with wooden nails, one layer of wooden planks, two layers of rubber, and then another layer of wooden planks inside, making a rectangular box that could fit her whole body inside.

They also made two long hand supports inside using wooden boards, so that people could hold the whole box up with their hands.

Severely exhausted, she curled up and slept for a while before recovering. She checked the time and it was already 5 p.m. She ate some compressed biscuits and drank some water, feeling that she had almost fully recovered.

After exchanging for 10 Spirit Power, 10 Constitution, and 10 Speed, Lin Xia felt like he was instantly fully revived.

Looking at the box in the space, it looked exactly like a coffin. As soon as she finished thinking that, Lin Xia quickly spat twice.

She couldn't hear now, but she really didn't want to get her ears treated. Her hearing was too good, and those thunderstorms were a terrifying torment for her. But the world was really too dangerous. With a sigh, Lin Xia still treated her ears.

Once my ear was healed, all the surrounding noise came through: the creaking of the swaying buildings, the rumbling of thunder and the crackling of lightning outside, and the painful groans and cries of people...

Lin Xia observed the route outside, instantly appeared at the door, slipped out, put the wooden box on her head, and with a burst of speed, rushed toward the building she had chosen.

She made it into the building without any major incidents, and the people inside looked at her with somewhat numb eyes.

Lin Xia moved away from them and, as usual, chose a corner to stretch her body.

She took out her phone and opened the offline map. She was actually already in the suburbs. The buildings ahead were getting fewer and fewer and farther away. Unfortunately, she couldn't see the road conditions, and there was nowhere to hide in the open space.

She extended her mental energy, using the wooden box as a cover to run along the well-planned route, and things went relatively smoothly.

Why is that voice no longer guiding us?

"How can we guide it? There's lightning everywhere, so many houses have collapsed, we can't get out at all, who knows where it will strike?"

"Yes, that thunderstorm must have killed a lot of people. It's hard to say whether that person is still alive."

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Lin Xia kept running forward. She really had no other choice, so in the end, everyone could only rely on themselves. She really couldn't do this kind of thing again.