Chapter 465 Double Disaster
It was pitch black outside, like the night. A huge wind and thunder were approaching, and a huge thunder struck, making Xia Xiaoman feel as if the mountain was shaking.
The newly dug hole was dropping mud as thunder roared. Li Yu'e and her colleagues expanded the hole while looking up and pressing down the top of the hole with shovels to prevent mud from falling from it.
Xia Xiaoman stood near the cave entrance and could clearly feel the suction force outward from the cave entrance becoming more and more obvious, indicating that the tornado was already approaching, but Zhang Jiaming and the others had not returned yet.
Xia Xiaoman no longer hesitated. She took out the soil that had just been stored in the space and asked someone to help her seal the entrance of the cave.
After quickly sealing the first hole, Xia Xiaoman led his men back inside and blocked the front half of the 7-shaped corridor. Before the corridor was blocked, the hole that had just been sealed was sucked away by the huge suction of the tornado, leaving a big hole.
Seeing this, Xia Xiaoman didn't care about blocking the corridor and shouted inside: "Push back, everyone push back! Hold hands, and those who are close to the wall hold onto the wall!"
As soon as he finished speaking, all the dirt at the cave entrance was blown away by the tornado, and even the mud wall in front of him that had just been half-built began to shake.
Xia Xiaoman felt a suction force pulling her out, but perhaps because of the half wall, the suction force was not as strong as she imagined. The next second, half of the wall collapsed, and the fine soil was sucked into the air and floated away. Xia Xiaoman also clearly felt the suction force increase.
Xia Xiaoman took a deep breath, held her teammates' hands tightly, and looked at the dark door with a firm gaze.
After an unknown amount of time, the roaring wind gradually subsided, while the explosions of thunder and lightning became louder and louder. When Xia Xiaoman felt that there was no suction force, he slowly let go of his teammate's hand.
"It's okay, the tornado has passed!"
Hearing Xia Xiaoman's voice, the team members seemed to be suddenly awakened and made sounds one after another.
Xia Xiaoman took out a flashlight and shone it around. When she saw footprints about five or six centimeters long on the ground, she realized that they had been sucked away a little by the suction of the tornado.
If there were no 7-shaped corridor blocking them, they would have been flying in the sky now.
Xia Xiaoman moved the joints of his hands and was about to go in to look for the eggs when he saw several people walking cautiously towards the cave entrance.
Xia Xiaoman frowned and asked, "What are you doing?"
One of them explained: "The tornado has passed, and we want to go out and look for Zhang Jiaming and the others."
Xia Xiaoman's face darkened. "Don't you want to live? The lightning is still striking outside. If you go out, you will die. And given the situation just now, how many lives do you think Zhang Jiaming and the others can survive?"
"Well, at least we have to find the bodies of Zhang Jiaming and the others! Zhang Jiaming's wife and children are waiting for him to return..."
Xia Xiaoman exhaled a breath of foul air and said, "Wait until the thunder and lightning stop, and then we'll go out and look for it together. Now just stay in the cave and no one is allowed to go out!"
The huge sound of thunderstorm is still going on. If you go out now, even if you are very lucky, you can't guarantee that you will not be struck by lightning.
After waiting in the cave for two hours, the thunderstorm outside gradually disappeared, but the sky was still as dark as night. Xia Xiaoman looked at Maodan's reaction and saw that Maodan was staring outside vigilantly and did not seem to want to go out, so he did not allow anyone to go out.
Sure enough, less than half an hour later, there was another intensive thunderstorm and rain outside. Judging from the sound of the rain hitting the ground, this rain could be compared to the rain during the flood.
Someone complained quietly, "Damn, why are we so unlucky on this trip? The mine we found cannot be mined, we were chased by monsters, and now we are facing such extreme weather. Is it because we didn't worship the Dragon King before we went out?"
"This is inland, if we want to worship, we should worship the river god, not the Dragon King of the Sea."
"It's already this time, and you're still so superstitious."
"You are not superstitious. If you are not superstitious, why do you wear red shorts when you go out? You can't find the red shorts and you are still yelling at your wife."
"Tsk, how can you eavesdrop? You have no manners at all."
“…”
Everyone was both relieved and depressed. They were relieved that they had escaped, but they were also very depressed when they knew their teammates might have died.
I don’t know how long they waited. Xia Xiaoman and the others were already starving, but the thunder and lightning outside still didn’t stop.
The oxygen in the cave was thin, and they couldn't eat normally without taking off the oxygen masks. Xia Xiaoman took out the multi-grain cakes prepared in advance from the Jade Buddha Space and distributed them to everyone, asking them to break the multi-grain cakes into pieces, take a bite of the multi-grain cake, and immediately put on the oxygen mask. After eating the cake in their mouths, they could take off the oxygen mask and eat another bite.
Eating and drinking water are easy to solve, but if you are in a hurry, it will be more troublesome.
It's not because there are too many people in the cave, but because they are wearing one-piece shielding suits. If they take them off, they don't know if their bodies will have problems due to radiation.
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On the sixth hour of hiding in the cave, the dark sky outside gradually began to brighten, the dark clouds were dispersed by the light, and the lightning disappeared without a trace.
Xia Xiaoman looked at Maodan's reaction and saw Maodan walking towards the cave entrance tentatively, so he followed him.
The outside of the cave was a mess, with gravel, water plants, corpses of aquatic creatures, some small wooden sticks and plastic garbage that could not be dissolved naturally.
Xia Xiaoman followed Maodan out. The wind outside was very strong, but compared with a tornado, it was nothing.
She squinted her eyes and looked up at the sky. When she was sure that there would be no more tornadoes or thunderstorms, she took out the ship from the ring space and placed it on a relatively flat ground.
"Those of you who need to go to the toilet can go back to the ship. If you don't want to go to the toilet, come with me to find Zhang Jiaming and the others."
The top of the mountain that emerged from the water was not very big. Xia Xiaoman and his men walked across the entire mountain in twenty minutes, but they did not find the bodies of Zhang Jiaming and others. Not to mention bodies, they didn't even see any human tissue.
The crew members who were close to Zhang Jiaming were very disappointed. Since they didn't find the body, they didn't know how to face Zhang Jiaming and his family.
Xia Xiaoman said, "Look towards the shore again. If you still can't find it, you can only give up."
It was impossible to ask her to drive the boat out to look for bodies. The gasoline on the boat was limited, and it was impossible to waste it on looking for a few bodies, even if those bodies were once her teammates.
Xia Xiaoman led his men to search again, but only found half of the oxygen mask that was burned by lightning. Seeing that there was really no body to be found, Xia Xiaoman led his men back.
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