Chapter 480: Ground Subsidence
The tremors became stronger and stronger, and there were constant sounds of objects falling and hitting the ground. For a moment, Xia Xiaoman felt that the underground city would completely collapse into ruins. Maodan, who had never been afraid, trembled uncontrollably at this moment.
It seemed like a century had passed. Xia Xiaoman felt his legs were numb from squatting, and the shaking of the underground city gradually stopped.
Xia Xiaoman slowly raised her head and looked around. The entire underground city was plunged into darkness, without a single light. After an unknown amount of time, she heard the rustling sound of survivors crawling up from a distance.
Xia Xiaoman took out a flashlight from the space. When she turned on the flashlight, she realized that her hands were shaking slightly.
Faced with an unknown and potentially fatal disaster, no matter how strong her heart is, she will involuntarily feel afraid.
Forcing herself to calm down, Xia Xiaoman shone the flashlight at Maodan's family of five, "Maodan, are you okay?"
"Awoo~Awoo~" Maodan's eyes were a little moist. What had just happened really scared him. Although the underground city did not collapse, Maodan could clearly feel that the movement just now was more terrifying than the big earthquake a few years ago.
Maodan, who had recovered, stood up and shook off his fur, then lowered his head and licked Nini to comfort her, and then looked at the three wolf cubs. After making sure that Nini and the wolf cubs were fine, he protected Nini and Xia Xiaoman behind him and observed the situation around him.
Xia Xiaoman shone a flashlight around and found that the screen on the ceiling had completely gone out. Some panels had fallen off the ceiling, some were half-hanging on the ceiling, and some had fallen down. Several panels had hit the survivors who were trying to escape.
The roadside signboards and taller green plants were all tilted, and some even fell to the ground.
A few minutes later, a group of security guards appeared with flashlights, treating the wounded and settling the survivors. Xia Xiaoman walked up to a security guard and asked, "Brother, why did the underground city shake so violently just now? Did something happen outside?"
As soon as he finished speaking, several survivors around him also asked questions, "Is it still habitable when the underground city collapses like this? Will we die here?"
"Is it an earthquake? Otherwise, why would the underground city shake so violently?"
"Can we leave the dungeon now? I want to leave the dungeon. Even if I die, I don't want to die here."
The survivors asked the security guard all at once, and the security guard shouted, "Don't worry, the dungeon will never collapse. The ceiling fell down because the dungeon was shaking too much, but it won't have much impact on the dungeon."
"The outer shell of the dungeon is made of fine steel. As long as the outer shell is not squeezed and deformed, everyone will be fine."
"Then tell me, what happened outside and why the underground city was shaking so violently?" someone asked.
The security guard looked embarrassed. "We don't know what happened outside yet. Because of the vibration, there was a problem with the underground city's wiring, which caused a power outage in the underground city. We can't contact the headquarters."
"But don't worry, we have arranged for professionals to repair it. Once the power supply is restored, everyone will know the current situation of the underground city."
The security guard kept speaking to comfort the survivors, and Xia Xiaoman summarized several key pieces of information from what he said.
First, the underground city is currently without power, and the sixth level cannot communicate with other levels, nor can it know the situation outside;
Second, although the sixth-level area cannot be connected with other areas, because the sixth-level area belongs to the center of the dungeon, the dragon skeleton of the dungeon is in the sixth-level area.
The security guard has sent someone to check the keel, and it is not damaged. It can be basically confirmed that the dungeon has not suffered too much damage. After repairs, the dungeon can operate normally.
Third, survivors living in the sixth-floor area can go home on their own. Survivors who do not live in the sixth-floor area can go to the official supermarket and wait until the underground city is powered on and the elevator can operate normally, and then take the elevator back to their homes.
Fourth, because of the lack of manpower to build the water world, some of the security guards from various levels were transferred to build the water world, resulting in a shortage of security guards now.
Survivors can sign up to participate in the repair work. When the dungeon is running normally, they will help the survivors who participated in the repair work apply for rewards.
Xia Xiaoman did not go to the official supermarket or participate in the repair work, but chose to stay in the science museum and work with the museum staff to accommodate the frightened animals.
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Unable to leave the sixth floor and unable to contact the outside world, Xia Xiaoman took Maodan and lived directly in the science museum.
This made Maodan very happy. He stayed with Nini 24 hours a day, or took the three little wolf cubs out to play, and completely forgot about Xia Xiaoman.
With Maodan around, Director Hou was not afraid that Nini and the wolf cubs would bite people, so he opened the wild park and let the family of five roam around the science museum.
After staying in the science museum for nearly ten days, the pitch-black ceiling restarted and the simulated azure sky reappeared.
When Xia Xiaoman saw that the sixth floor had electricity, he wanted to take Maodan and Nini home. When he reached the elevator, the maintenance staff said that the elevator was not repaired yet and he had to wait for another two days.
Xia Xiaoman took Maodan and Nini back to the science museum with a disappointed look on her face. Halfway there, she heard someone excitedly shouting that there was a cell phone signal, so she immediately took out her cell phone.
As soon as she turned on her phone, a bunch of messages came in. Some were from Li Yu'e, and some were from Sun Qing, Ye Xiaojie, and others. Most of them were worried that she hadn't been on the eighth floor for a while and whether she had been injured by an accident.
Xia Xiaoman sent a group message to Li Yu'e and the others, and then clicked on the message from Lu Lanshan.
The tremor that occurred more than ten days ago was not an earthquake, but a landslide.
The ozone layer is destroyed, and the glaciers at the poles have all melted after being exposed to ultraviolet rays for a long time. The sea level is rising rapidly, and the desert has truly turned into an ocean.
Some lands with fewer rocks and more soil will experience large-scale ground subsidence after being soaked in water for a long time.
The shaking of the underground city more than ten days ago was due to the loosening of the surrounding soil layer that fixed the underground city, causing the underground city to sink hundreds of meters.
The only thing to be thankful for is that there are no hard rocks around the dungeon, including underground, so the outer shell of the dungeon was not damaged.
But because the underground city sank, all the original exits were blocked by mud. If they wanted to return to the surface, they needed to dig through the mud blocking the entrance.
Digging mud and drilling holes is not a difficult task. They are used to digging when building underground cities. But the question is where to put the excavated mud?
There is not much space in the underground city. If all the soil is piled up in the underground city, it will definitely affect people's normal life.
Lu Lanshan sent a message to Xia Xiaoman, hoping to borrow her jade Buddha and ring space to help transport the soil.
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