Looking at the chaos on the highway, Chen Zhou felt very impatient with Xu Rong's extremely inappropriate and unclear orders. He tugged at his collar rudely and didn't want to listen to Xu Rong's nagging at all.
But the other party was still chattering in his ear.
Chen Zhou frowned and grew impatient. "If it weren't for you refusing to come back to my hometown for a while, repeatedly putting it off, how could we have waited until now to go back and pay our respects to our ancestors? Now that something like this has happened, you blame me. Don't you think you're being too much? ... What's more, it was such a big earthquake? The highway collapsed. Do you think your house wouldn't collapse if you stayed home? If we were still home now, the house would have already collapsed and buried you. So you should be thanking me now!"
"What?! You dare to curse me? You said I should be buried by the earthquake?!" Xu Rong became even more emotionally unstable and screamed.
"What do you mean by burying you? Stop being so unreasonable, okay?" Chen Zhou's face looked extremely ugly.
"Didn't you just say that? You said that if I lived at home, the house would have collapsed and buried me. Wasn't it you who just said that?! You still don't admit it? Do you really want me and my child to die together?! How can you be so cruel!" Xu Rong was even more angry.
"Why do you always exaggerate and make such a fuss?! I'm just stating a fact! With such a severe earthquake, many houses in Yunhai City will surely collapse! Besides, is now the time to argue? Don't pick a fight with me!"
The couple was arguing in the car, but the crowd in front of them screamed in fear again. It seemed that the road ahead had collapsed again.
“Dongdongdong——”
There was a sudden knock on the car window. A middle-aged man in a black leather jacket knocked on the window of the two people. He frowned and said to the couple in the car, "Alright, stop arguing. Let's get out of the car quickly... I just looked ahead and the road collapse is getting worse. If we don't get out of the car, what if the whole road collapses here? It will be difficult to get off the highway. Let's just step over the guardrail next to us and leave."
As he spoke, the middle-aged man pointed to a highway guardrail that had been torn open nearby. Many people on the highway had abandoned their cars and were walking towards the torn guardrail.
This middle-aged man was none other than Xu Xiangguo, Xu's father, who had been following Chen Zhou and Xu Rong in another car.
Normally, Xu Rong's parents didn't need to be present when she went to the Chen family to worship her ancestors, but Xu Rong was pregnant now, and her father and mother were worried, so they came along.
"Dad, what should we do with the things in the car? These were specially bought for ancestor worship." Chen Zhou got out of the car with a frown. In fact, compared to the things in the car, he wanted to ask what to do with his car?
He'd only bought this car a few months earlier! He'd spent nearly 800,000 yuan on it, and it was just abandoned on the highway. It felt like a knife was stabbing at his heart, but he couldn't bring himself to say this in front of his father-in-law, so he turned the conversation to the things in the car.
"If something is lost, it's lost. Nothing is more important than life. I want to take Rongrong and the others away from here. If you want to stay here, then you can stay here. Rongrong and the others can go with me..."
Xu Xiangguo glanced at Chen Zhou and saw that his son-in-law was staring at the car he had just bought with a grim expression. He immediately knew what Chen Zhou was thinking at the moment. He frowned and felt a little impatient with Chen Zhou's pettiness.
Isn't it just a car? Is it really necessary to be like this?
In such a life-threatening situation, the first thing he thought about was not his own life, but the car. He is simply confused and mentally ill! You can get money, but you also need to be alive to spend it!
Xu Xiangguo thought so, but his face did not show it. He just raised his hand to open the car door and helped his daughter out of the car, "Rongrong, let's go now. If something happens to you as a pregnant woman, what will your parents do?"
"Yes, let's leave here quickly!" Xu's mother, who was following behind Xu Xiangguo, also said hurriedly.
"Okay, I'll get out now." Xu Rong, now six months pregnant and almost seven months pregnant, was already quite large. She supported her belly as she followed her parents out of the car. She had grown up in a wealthy family. She didn't care about the two cars at all. Losing them was losing them. Her life was more important. As for the food and nutritional supplements in the cars, she didn't care at all. She didn't even want the cars anymore. Who would care about the food?
Xu Rong followed her parents' footsteps and walked out of the highway, completely forgetting Chen Zhou, with whom she had just quarreled.
When she was with Chen Zhou, he was always the one to coax her. This time, he actually dared to argue with her without caring about the child in her belly. It was simply too much! She absolutely could not tolerate it!
His father-in-law, mother-in-law and wife all abandoned the car and left. Even though Chen Zhou was heartbroken, he had no choice but to compromise and follow the three of them out of the guardrail of the highway, leaving the highway that was constantly collapsing.
"Mom and Dad...what should we do now? Walk home?" Xu Rong nervously grabbed her father's hand. They left the highway and stood on the hillside next to it. Looking back at the highway, all she saw was the devastation and the rear-end collision and collapse scene with deafening cries. It was even more frightening than what she saw on the highway.
"Let's find the nearest village to rest and see what the situation is like over there. The earthquake just now was so severe. I estimate that all the roads in this area have been destroyed. Even if we have a car now, it will not be easy for us to drive back. You guys stand here and wait. I'll make a phone call to see the situation in other places..." After leaving the collapsed highway, Xu Xiangguo felt a little more relaxed.
Even though the highway below was in chaos, he had now left the most dangerous collapsed area, so naturally he had the mind to think about other things. When Xu Xiangguo took out his cell phone, the first thing he thought of was the number of the Public Security Bureau.
However……
After just two or three minutes, Xu Xiangguo's face turned ugly. He had just made five or six calls in a row, from the Public Security Bureau to the Fire Department, then to the government office and the TV station. No one answered any of the calls, and his phone was full of busy tones.
No matter who he called, no one answered.
Xu Xiangguo frowned and looked down at the signal on his mobile phone.
Only then did he realize that the signal on his mobile phone was blank. He took his wife and daughter's mobile phones and saw the same thing. This made Xu Xiangguo's face even gloomier.
Chen Zhou, who was following behind, had caught up at this time. He originally wanted to call the police, but as soon as he turned on his phone, he found that there was no signal on his phone either. There was not even a signal, so Chen Zhou had to give up calling the police.
"Father-in-law, since we are already here, if you don't plan to stand here waiting for the police to come, why not just follow me back to the village... Our hometown is not far ahead, and it will take more than two hours to walk there... If we go back to Yunhai City, according to our pace, we may not be able to get home even after walking for a whole day and a night." Chen Zhou looked around and looked around carefully for a while, and recognized a landmark building.
It was winter vacation, and Chen Zhou's father, Chen Jihong, a teacher at Yunhai No. 3 Middle School, was naturally on break along with the rest of the students. Liang Ping had retired from her job several years earlier, so the couple, with little else to do at home, returned to the Chen family's old house in Lixi Village two days early to prepare for the incense burning ceremony.
The old house was built ten years ago, and it is not known whether it can withstand the earthquake. Chen Zhou frowned and thought worriedly that he should go home quickly to see his parents. Only when he saw that his parents were safe could he feel relieved.
"In that case, let's go to your parents' place first." Xu Xiangguo looked at the road in front of him, which seemed like a highway to hell, and nodded.
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Countless cities were destroyed by the earthquake, and various high-rise buildings collapsed one after another.
Compared to the highway's current state, the city was a true purgatory. Countless once-splendid skyscrapers collapsed into ruins due to the earthquake! Countless streets and railway tracks were suddenly twisted by the sudden earthquake!
The cries and wails rose and fell, resounding through the sky.
Countless screams of agony and woe sounded like the blood-curdling cuckoo's cry.
In the rubble, those who had lost their loved ones wailed in agony. Those hit by the rubble were covered in blood. The elderly, children, and adults, all those who had once been alive, were instantly transformed into corpses...
It was just a few minutes.
Earth-shaking changes have taken place on the entire earth!
Whether it is the Eurasian Plate or the African Plate, whether it is the American Plate or the Pacific Plate, even the most remote Antarctic Plate, they have experienced violent shocks in the past few minutes. Countless buildings in the city have collapsed, and crisscrossing cracks on the ground are all over the earth. Looking from the sky, there are hundreds or thousands of surface fractures caused by the earthquake, some of which even stretch for dozens of kilometers!
Countless landslides caused by the earthquake have led to one tragedy after another...
The ground sank, roads broke, houses collapsed, jungles were destroyed, mountains collapsed, volcanoes erupted, and tsunamis occurred.
At this moment, both humans and animals felt the catastrophe that belonged to all living things on the earth!
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The entire earthquake lasted only three to five minutes, but the subsequent problems caused by the earthquake were the most serious disaster of this earthquake.
Feeling that the ground had finally stopped shaking, Qin Suyun closed the door of her yard and hurried to the village. The closer she got to the center of the village where everyone was, the more she could hear bursts of crying and shouting from the village.
Wanxi Village was in ruins. Everywhere you looked, there were vast tracts of collapsed buildings and rubble. Dust billowing from the ground threatened to envelop the entire village. Even the sky seemed tinged with a bleak hue.
Because the earthquake happened during the day, everyone was awake, so even though the earthquake came very suddenly, most of the villagers still escaped the disaster. Only a few people who did not react and did not have time to escape were buried under the houses.
To be honest, this is mainly because the houses in the village are relatively short, unlike the houses in the city, which are often more than ten stories high, so there is nowhere to escape if you want to.
Most of the houses in Wanxi Village are only two or three stories high.
They live on the second and third floors, so except for resting, few people go up to the second and third floors during the day. Most of them stay on the first floor or in their own courtyards, busy with various things.
Especially during lunch time on weekdays, many people like to take a small stool and sit in the yard to eat while chatting with other neighbors.
The earthquake occurred at noon, which allowed most villagers to escape. Even fewer villagers were injured by collapsed houses.
However, even so, there are still many villagers buried underground...
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