Cheng Zhen went down to mine, while Jiang Wan and Yu Fen guarded the entrance. The twins played in the soil nearby, but perhaps due to the soil quality, there wasn't a single crystal to be found.
Jiang Wan told them to stay nearby and not wander off, and then let them be.
The two little ones were digging with great enthusiasm when suddenly Jiang Xiaoxin stopped and called out to Jiang Wan, "Mom! There's a fight outside!"
Just then, Cheng Zhen broke through the ground and his expression turned serious upon hearing this: "Have we been discovered?"
"No way?"
Yu Fen kept a close eye on the situation outside the cave, but he didn't go too far, because once he left Jiang Xiaoshu's protective circle of superpowers, he would inevitably have to fight against the mutated plants, and making a big fuss would inevitably attract attention.
He was about to suggest going out to check if their hidden car had been discovered when Jiang Xiaoxin spoke up again:
"No, we haven't been discovered. It's over there; there are a lot of people strangling the mutated plants."
She pointed in a direction as she spoke.
That's the direction they just came from, not far from the city's protective shield.
"Are the superhumans from Vermilion City out on a mission?" Yu Fen guessed.
"Then we need to be careful on our way back."
"Hmm." Cheng Zhen asked Jiang Wan for a small box and put all the Ω he had dug up into his space.
"Let's go."
Yu Fen was very excited, no, you could say everyone was in high spirits. With such a private mine, they would never have to worry about Omega again!
The location is a bit far, but it's also close to Cinnabar City, which makes it a little troublesome every time I come to mine.
It's alright, Cheng Zhen dug quite a lot today, enough to open two more forest farms, and enough to keep the three major forest farms busy for a while.
The three adults were in high spirits, but the two children looked serious, especially Jiang Xiaoxin, who frowned and hesitated for a while before finally expressing her thoughts:
"Those don't seem to be the city guards of Vermilion City!"
The three of them turned to look at her at the same time.
Jiang Xiaoxin was a little frightened by their stares and shrank back to hide next to Jiang Wan.
Jiang Wan gently stroked her fluffy head: "Don't be afraid, what did you find?"
Jiang Xiaoxin reviewed the thoughts of some of the mutated plants she had overheard and identified the most crucial piece of information:
"They said a lot of people suddenly arrived. They thought they could have a feast, but it turned out that many of these people were extremely powerful superhumans!"
"Many of their companions have died!"
“They are refugees fleeing from war.” Upon hearing this, Cheng Zhen still didn’t think much of it, assuming they were just people from a county town under Xiangcheng.
"Let's go, let's take a detour."
Cheng Zhen dug up a lot of Ω this time, so he returned with a full load. The group returned to the car and was about to head back when they suddenly felt a huge earthquake. Anyone standing on the ground with a weaker constitution would have vomited instantly!
The group was horrified and jumped out of the car at the same time, not understanding what had happened.
Cheng Zhen suddenly stopped in the direction of Xiangcheng, his expression gradually becoming serious, and then abruptly opened the portal to time and space.
The moment the door opened, all that came into view was a scene of ruins and people screaming and fleeing in all directions.
The group was shocked: "What happened?"
Jiang Xiaoxin was the first to focus on the important point: "Was it an earthquake? The ground over there is cracked!!"
Because she was short, she had a different perspective than everyone else. While they were all shocked by the tragic casualties, she was the first to see the root cause of all this!
The ground cracked open?!
Jiang Wan and Yu Fen both looked at Cheng Zhen at the same time; all their comrades-in-arms were in Xiangcheng!
Cheng Zhen pursed his lips, tightened his jaw, and then opened the portal without hesitation. His first priority was to save Old Chen, but a resistance came from the other side, followed by a deep, steady voice that was also breathing heavily:
"Is it safe over there? Don't worry about me, go save others. I'll send everyone here to you right now!"
One characteristic of the portal is that teleporting to a fixed target is easier than teleporting to multiple targets.
Old Chen meant that he would send all the survivors here to Cheng Zhen's place so that he could take advantage of the moment to rescue others!
It turns out that Old Chen is also a hidden superhuman, and his superpower is the portal between time and space!
Cheng Zhen disagreed. Standing on the land of Zhusha City, hundreds of kilometers away, he could feel the strong and continuous tremors, which meant that the danger in Xiangcheng was no less than before!
However, Old Chen did not give him a chance to refuse. He directly opened the portal and threw people out one by one. They were all city guards from the outer city camp, and most of them were superhumans.
His voice came through: "Listen to me, stop dawdling. This is definitely not as simple as a ground fissure. If we wait any longer, none of us here will be able to escape!"
Cheng Zhen had no choice but to obey. He opened the portal to rescue the people of Battalion Commander Wang's side in the second battalion of the outer city. However, it was clear that the ground fissure there was much greater. The entire ground had cracked into a large canyon, and one side of it had even tilted to the distance, like a person with a gash on their body, with flesh flying off.
Cheng Zhen went to find a limited number of people he knew and then asked them to rescue more survivors.
Jiang Wan immediately arranged for the twins to get into the car. As the two portals continuously brought over survivors from the disaster in Xiangcheng, Jiang Xiaoshu took the initiative to expand her purification ability, so that within a radius of one mile, they could be protected from the invasion of mutated plants.
As they opened the portal to transport survivors, Yu Fen built a protective shield for the city on the spot, because the oxygen cylinders they carried could not support so many refugees.
Jiang Wan was responsible for comforting the refugees who had been transported there.
The city guards remained relatively calm, and the men were not particularly panicked, but the elderly, women, and children were terrified and cried out in despair.
"Gods and Gods! What's going on?! First, there was the apocalypse with oxygen deprivation, and now this massive earthquake! Are they trying to drive us to our doom?! We can't live! We can't live!"
"Waaaa, my mom fell down! Help my mom!" A little girl grabbed Jiang Wan's arm, crying uncontrollably.
Families destroyed, wives and children separated...
Jiang Wan couldn't help but be moved.
The rescue operation lasted for more than an hour when suddenly the ground shook violently. Cheng Zhen roared, "Old Chen! You fucking come here!"
He tried his best to pull the person over, but the other side was not cooperating at all. Old Chen continued to move forward in the ruins, opening a time portal to send any survivors he saw, or directly throwing them into the time portal opened by Cheng Zhen.
Yu Fen was also helping to catch people, but he could only catch a child, a city guard or a woman. He just couldn't catch the person he wanted to catch.
At this moment, he couldn't help but roar, "Old Chen! Don't you know your own limitations?! Come here now!"
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