Chapter 260 Earthquake 2
The ground was shaking violently. Although the distance between them was only five or six meters, Xia Xiaoman had no idea how many times he fell before he ran out of the crack in the ground with Maodan and came to Chen Peiqiong.
Xia Xiaoman opened her mouth to say something, but when she looked up, she found that everything she saw had turned into ruins. The villa where she lived and the villa where Sun Haiyun lived had all collapsed. The high-rise buildings in the community in the distance were blocked by the gray fog, so Xia Xiaoman couldn't see anything, but she guessed that those high-rise buildings would be the first to collapse.
Most of the houses in the floating city had been soaked by floods, exposed to extreme heat, and frozen by extreme cold. The houses had long since become fragile and collapsed one after another at the slightest shaking of the ground.
This earthquake lasted for more than six minutes, but for the citizens of the floating city who were in the earthquake, it felt like half a century had passed.
After the earthquake subsided, all the houses in the floating city became ruins, including those that were said to be able to withstand an 8.0 magnitude earthquake. In addition, the underground city that was under construction also collapsed completely.
In the ruins, Xia Xiaoman knelt on the ground holding Maodan and Chen Peiqiong. He didn't know how long he waited. The buzzing sound in his ears gradually disappeared, and the world seemed to be quiet, without any sound at all.
Xia Xiaoman blinked and tried to open her eyes. As soon as she opened them, the dust and sand attached to her eyelids and eyelashes fell into her eyes, irritating her and causing her to ooze out saline solution.
Tears flowed from the corners of his eyes, wetting the dust on his face and leaving two gray traces of skin color.
Xia Xiaoman wanted to wipe her eyes with the back of her hand, but when she raised her hand, she found that the back of her hand was injured at some point. The wound was covered with dust and blood, so she couldn't see the extent of the injury clearly.
In desperation, she took off her T-shirt and wiped the dust off her face and around her eyes. After wiping them clean, she put her clothes back on.
Only after wiping the area around his eyes clean could Xia Xiaoman open his eyes completely and look around.
There were ruins all around, and not far away, on the ground, there were several people of the same color as the ground. Some of them had not recovered yet, and were lying on the ground with their heads in their hands, shivering. Some of them had recovered, and were sitting or standing, wiping the dirt off their faces, and staring blankly around.
Chen Peiqiong beside her also imitated Xia Xiaoman by taking off her top and turning it over to wipe the stains off her face. Now the people around her probably had no interest in looking at her naked body, and even if they did, it didn't matter, because she wasn't naked, she still had a piece of underwear on.
After wiping the dirt off her face and putting on her clothes, she spat twice to the side, spitting out the dirt and gravel in her mouth, and then asked in a hoarse voice: "Xiao Man, are you hurt?"
Xia Xiaoman came back to her senses and shook her head slowly, "I'm fine, just scratches."
As soon as she opened her mouth, she realized that her voice was hoarse and dry, and there was some sand and dust in her mouth.
After spitting out the sand and gravel in his mouth, Xia Xiaoman looked down at Maodan who was still lying on the ground, "Maodan, how are you? Stand up, I'll check if you're injured."
Maodan lay listlessly on the ground and refused to get up, with his two front paws wrapped around Xia Xiaoman's legs, obviously not yet recovered from the earthquake.
Seeing this, Chen Peiqiong said, "You and Maodan stay here. I'll go find Sun Haiyun."
Hearing this, Xia Xiaoman said disapprovingly: "The earthquake just ended, and no one knows if there will be aftershocks. You wait here first. If there are no aftershocks, then go find Sun Haiyun."
"Besides, there's so much dust right now that you can't see anything clearly. If you go to the ruins to look for someone with poor visibility, you might even lose your life if you step in the wrong place."
Chen Peiqiong stared at the direction of Sun Haiyun's villa for a long time, sighed and said, "You are right, let's wait a while!"
The two of them sat cross-legged on the ground, with a hairy egg between them. The hairy egg was probably so frightened that it didn't notice Chen Peiqiong touching its back.
While combing the hair on Maodan's back, Chen Peiqiong murmured, "Our Fucheng is not at the junction of the Blue Star Plate. How could such a big earthquake happen? This earthquake must be at least a magnitude nine!"
Xia Xiaoman said, "The geomagnetic field can change, so it's normal for earthquakes to occur in our floating city."
Then she sighed and said, "It's my fault for not thinking of this. Maodan has been very anxious these days, and my rabbits and chickens are also very excited. I thought they had seen so many locusts, so they had these changes. I didn't expect that they were reminding me that an earthquake was coming."
Chen Peiqiong shook her head. "It's not your fault. Who would have thought there would be an earthquake in Fucheng? And the earthquake happened to coincide with a locust plague."
"Today, when I saw the locusts stranded in the floating city flying around, I felt something was wrong. I thought there might be a fifth batch of locusts coming, and I also thought there might be heavy rain, but I never thought there would be an earthquake."
At this point, she sighed heavily, "What happened to Blue Planet? There are so many disasters, leaving no way for us humans to survive. The locust plague just passed, and such a big earthquake happened. How are we going to survive in the future?"
Xia Xiaoman patted her shoulder and comforted her: "It will be fine. As long as the country is still there, everything will be fine."
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After waiting for about half an hour, the ground began to shake again. But this time, the earthquake was nothing compared to the previous ones. After shaking for less than two minutes, the ground returned to calm again.
Xia Xiaoman and Chen Peiqiong waited for a while, and when they saw that the dust and fog around them had faded a little, they got up and went to look for Sun Haiyun in the ruins.
There were many people like them searching through the ruins. Some were looking for relatives and friends buried underground, while others were looking for supplies in the ruins.
Xia Xiaoman and Chen Peiqiong would occasionally hear the sound of people breaking down and crying, but neither of them looked back. It wasn't that they were indifferent, but at such times, they should not watch those tragedies, otherwise, no matter how strong their mentality was, they would be affected by it.
Because of Maodan's presence, Xia Xiaoman and the others quickly located the location where Sun Haiyun was buried.
The three-story villa collapsed and Sun Haiyun was buried very deep. Xia Xiaoman and Chen Peiqiong searched for a long time but still couldn't get to the bottom.
Suddenly, Maodan growled in one direction. Xia Xiaoman and Chen Peiqiong heard the sound and looked over, and saw four or five people staring at Maodan with ill intentions.
Xia Xiaoman's face turned cold, he took off the axe from his waist, stared at those people and said coldly: "Get out or die, choose one yourself!"
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