Chapter 258 Giant Avalanche
There has never been an avalanche in Bai Niao Lake—at least, it has never happened since it was named Bai Niao Lake and designated as an ecological zone.
Although there is snow on the mountain all year round, the terrain is flat and wide, so there are no conditions for an avalanche. As for the two Bai Niao Peaks on the northwest side, they are too steep to accumulate much snow, so they also do not meet the conditions for an avalanche.
At the beginning, some experts even calculated that even if the Bai Niao Peaks could accumulate a certain amount of snow and an avalanche occurred under certain conditions, it would not affect the area near the ski resort at such a long distance.
After all, an avalanche has a certain range of flow. The ski resort and nearby hotels and guesthouses are all in a safe zone and will not be affected by the avalanche.
But early this morning, people in the hotel and two other nearby guesthouses saw a scene that would never have happened before.
The two locations are so far apart, but the roaring and surging snow makes people feel a strong sense of oppression.
In the short seven or eight seconds when Youxi quickly called the hotel front desk to warn of the large avalanche on Bai Niao Peak, the rumbling sound like thunder had already reached the vicinity.
The hotel has a total of 14 floors, and their room is on the 12th floor, facing the south, and is not directly facing the direction of the avalanche, but it will also suffer a huge impact.
The speed of the avalanche was extremely fast. The lower part was like rolling sea water, and the upper part raised a powdery destructive snow cloud. It was very far away and not very high one second ago, but it had spread to nearby the next second. Its height was no less than the waves raised by a giant tsunami, and it looked to be more than ten stories high.
At this time, it was too late to leave the twelfth floor and continue to run up. Moreover, even if they ran to the top of the highest building of the hotel, if they miscalculated the impact range of the avalanche and were hit by the powdery snow cloud that was twenty times denser than air, there would be nowhere to hide on the empty roof, which would only be more dangerous.
"Everyone go to my room!" Tang Yatong's room is on the southeast side of the lower floor. It is the farthest space from the northwest in the entire room. After closing the room, use the TV cabinet to block the door, and then use the tatami of the big bed to block the south window, and you can form a relatively safe space.
Because there is space, everyone took out a few things to put in the room, just some daily necessities and scattered food, but at this moment there is no time to put these things into the space.
While the other three people blocked the door and covered the window, Youxi took out the [sunscreen spray] and used it once for each person.
A bottle of [sunscreen spray] can only be used eight times. She only brought two bottles with her after waking up in the endless train world, so she would not use it until the critical moment.
[Sunscreen spray] After use, it will form an oxygen isolation film on the whole body, which can resist high and low temperatures, radiation, strong pressure, and vacuum. In other words, even if the building they are in is crushed by an avalanche and they are completely trapped here, as long as their bodies are not hit or punctured, they will be fine. The
roar outside is getting closer and closer, much more deafening than what Youxi had heard in the video materials before, like a huge roar of a monster, like a huge army coming, she always feels that it is not just snow that is pouring and crushing...
At the same time as the roar of the avalanche, there are also the repeated avalanche alarms of the hotel and the panicked and chaotic sounds and movements of other guests.
After all, it was a snowy mountain area, and the necessary alarm systems were equipped, but no one thought that one day this alarm device would be actually used.
"Run up, go to the stairwell! Quickly, the higher the better, if the building collapses, you will definitely die if you stay below!" If you are really buried under a building by an avalanche, there is almost no chance of survival, as suffocation, physical injuries, and hypothermia are all important factors leading to death.
"Don't take anything, don't take anything! Put on your clothes and go! Quick!"
Someone looked out of the south-facing stairwell window and was immediately scared to death: "Oh my God! How can it be so high!"
"Run! That's a powdery snow cloud! The building will collapse! Run!"
"Wuwu, I can't run anymore..."
"Don't push--"
"Save me..."
...
In order to survive, some people burst out with speed and strength far beyond their usual speed, dragging and hugging their families, and desperately rushing upstairs, thinking repeatedly in their hearts that even if they were buried, they would try to be buried on the upper floors, so that they would still have a glimmer of hope when the avalanche passed.
Some people were so frightened by the loud rumbling outside that their legs went limp, they trembled all over and shouted for help in a hoarse voice, but they couldn't get up...
The avalanche came roaring in less than two minutes at a distance of seven or eight kilometers.
The huge impact force was like hundreds of flying cars hitting the wall at the same time, more terrifying than a tsunami or an earthquake. The earth shook, and everything around was as fragile as a cookie, shattered at the first blow.
You Zhenzhen opened the shield and protected the room where the four people were, but in just a few minutes, the shield that could have supported half of the station actually used up all its defense value.
The arc of light from the shield was extinguished, but it also helped them survive the first and strongest wave of avalanche impact.
The room began to collapse, You Xi, Lin Wu and Tang Yatong each propped up a corner of the mattress, propping up a small space while protecting You Zhenzhen in the middle.
Lin Wu turned on his shield, and this time, after You Xi's reminder, he only controlled the size of the shield within the range of the four people propped up with the mattress.
The effect of [Sunscreen Spray] is comparable to that of a space suit, plus it comes with its own oxygen supply, they only need to ensure that they are not hit or stabbed by the collapsed building debris. Fortunately, the characteristics of avalanches are that they come quickly and go quickly.
In just five or six minutes, the bombing and roaring outside stopped.
The hotel building was fairly solid and had not collapsed completely, but the doors and windows were all broken, and most of the walls were cracked. A large amount of snow and rubble rushed into the hotel from the broken doors and windows and walls, especially the northwest side of the building, which was hit head-on and had a corner completely collapsed.
With the help of shields and strength several times greater than that of ordinary people, the four people from Youxi only took more than ten minutes to open a way out of the damaged building, and rescued several tourists who were still alive along the way.
They were basically all injured, but luckily they survived.
Above the building was a snow layer. To prevent the snow from collapsing again, they dug holes upwards at an angle and found that the surrounding snow layer was mixed with a large amount of rock fragments.
These were not fragments of the hotel building, but real rocks. Youxi estimated that they were carried along with the avalanche from Bai Niao Peak. No wonder she felt that there was more than just snow in the sound of the avalanche.
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Five or six minutes later, a group of people finally climbed out from under the snow.
The heavy snow that had been falling for several days and nights had stopped at some point, and it was even clear outside, with a clear sky.
They stood on the snow, not feeling the cold, but a blinding light all around them. They quickly took out some sunglasses and put them on.
The surroundings were a pure white world. Except for the building they were in, which was taller and had part of the top floor exposed, the other buildings in the hotel area, the nearby hotels, and the ski resort were all buried under the ice and snow because they were lower.
The entire top of the mountain was raised by more than ten floors. They stood on the ice and snow, and for a moment they could not tell the directions of east, west, south, north, and the way down the mountain.
When Lin Wu, who had the best sense of direction, barely identified the location, he found that the building they lived in was likely pushed more than ten meters southeast by the avalanche. It is conceivable that if tourists still stayed on the lower floors when the avalanche hit, there would be basically no chance of survival.
On the side, several survivors who were rescued by them wrapped their down jackets tightly and cried on the snow.
They thought of their family and friends buried under the ice, and they knew very well how low their chances of survival were under such a huge avalanche.
The four people from Youxi did not buy a mobile phone for this station, because they could not use it, so at this moment they had no way to call for help.
Fortunately, one tourist's mobile phone was not dropped, and he found the mobile phone from his handbag. After searching for the signal several times, he finally got through to the rescue phone.
"Will anyone come to rescue them?" You Zhenzhen knew in her heart that these tourists crying in front of her might just be NPCs of the site, and they would reappear when the site was reopened after being overwhelmed.
But everything around was too real, disaster, blood, sorrow... It was impossible to regard them as game characters.
Lin Wu replied: "It should be. After all, this is not an isolated island, and although the avalanche is terrible, it is not a comprehensive disaster. There will be rescue, but..."
It's just that sudden disasters like this usually cause a large number of casualties because rescue cannot arrive in time and the subsequent search and rescue is difficult.
The surrounding snow layers all look the same, and people standing on them have no idea which ice layer to knock open to find survivors.
Even though they now know that there must be a large number of survivors in the hotel waiting to be rescued, they have not received professional training and do not have professional tools. Digging one or two layers down may be feasible.
But if they go deeper, they have to consider the load-bearing and pressure problems of the collapsed building. If they act rashly, it is possible that the trapped people who were originally alive will die immediately.
An hour later, two rescue helicopters arrived in advance and began emergency rescue work.
During this hour, some people broke out from under the ice layer one after another.
Most of these people are tourists. After all, they have strong physical fitness and various skills and props. Some tourists still have consciences. When they flee, they will take the survivors they see with them, like the four people in Youxi.
Some tourists did not regard the indigenous people at the station as living people at all. Not only did they escape for their own safety, but they also threw people away when they asked for help.
Youxi and his team took out the multi-functional shovel and dug a floor downwards from the position where they came out, and rescued several survivors again.
They did not dare to continue digging downwards, fearing that the lower building would collapse.
Some other tourists saw their behavior, some sighed, climbed up again, and started digging downwards on the snow layer where they came out.
Some snorted disdainfully, packed up themselves and found a way down the mountain.
In the entire Bainiao Lake Park, only the mountain suffered this major disaster. After the pouring avalanche submerged the ski resort, it stopped halfway down the hillside.
Therefore, the only real disaster-stricken area is the area on the top of the mountain.
At this moment, many tourists in various villas at the lakeside at the foot of the mountain came out to observe the situation on the mountain because of the movement on the mountain.
When they found that a large avalanche had occurred on the mountain, their faces changed. It was not known whether they were glad that they had not been arranged to live on the mountain before, or sympathized with the plight of the tourists on the mountain. Many people began to help call for rescue.
Those tourists who disdainfully snorted moved away and left the avalanche area.
The remaining tourists who were willing to help received a task prompt on their mobile phones after repeating the same digging action for fifteen minutes.
The four people in Youxi also received the task prompt.
Congratulations: Snow treasure hunting mode has been turned on!
Tips: Please actively find and dig for treasures and respond to challenges. Pass the challenge and you will get a treasure reward.
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