When all these natural disasters happened, Si Nan pulled Cheng Suming to hide in his own cellar without any hesitation.
The moment they hid inside, a bolt of lightning as thick as a bucket fell from the sky and hit the roof directly. The house instantly disintegrated and collapsed with a loud bang.
From the cellar came the sound of Dahei's barking, Mao Pingzhen and her daughter's screams, and Cheng Wei's crying.
The three natural disasters happened too quickly. Si Nan called Mao Pingzhen, Si Yufang and their families, and they obediently ran to Si Nan's house.
Liu Dalin, Zheng Jian and his wife, and Sheng Youbin were quarantined at their workplaces and could not go home. Yang Wentao and Sheng Youqing were fetching water in the East District and could not get back in a short time. Except for Cheng Suming, the basement was filled with women, children and young children.
"Oh my God!" Mao Pingzhen held her granddaughter in her arms. When she heard the earth-shaking thunder and bombing outside, she covered her granddaughter's ears with her hands and cried, "What's wrong with this world? Won't God give us a way out?"
"Yang Wentao..." Cheng Wei, who was frightened by the loud thunder and whose tears kept flowing, crawled from the storage room on the left side of the cellar to the entrance of the cellar with trembling hands and feet, and pushed a large wooden board covering the entrance.
The typhoon outside was so strong that the wooden boards at the entrance made them creak, and it was possible that the cellar boards would be lifted at any time.
Si Nan took some thick nylon ropes and tied up the wooden boards. She and Cheng Su Ming were at the bottom of the cellar, pulling the nylon ropes hard against the strong wind blowing outside the cellar. They were determined to hold the wooden boards to prevent the strong wind from blowing them away and heavy rain from falling into the cellar.
Seeing Cheng Wei crawling over crying and pushing the board, Cheng Suming scolded: "What are you crazy about? There are thunder and lightning tornadoes everywhere outside, are you going out to die?"
"Yang Wentao is still outside!" Cheng Wei cried, "I want to go find him!"
"Cheng Wei, calm down!" Si Nan pulled the wooden rope hard, and shouted to her amid the rumbling thunder: "Yang Wentao is not a fool. He will hide if the weather outside is not right. You are powerless and can't even protect yourself. What can you do if you go out?!"
Having said that, it was almost as if she would either die or become a burden if she went out.
Cheng Wei understood what she meant and burst into tears, "Sister-in-law, what should we do..."
"Let's wait until the tornado and thunderstorm calm down before we go out." Sinan told her calmly, "You have to understand that with all three types of weather outside, we are not 100% safe hiding in the cellar. We might be struck by lightning, or there might be a heavy rain that floods this place. What we have to do is protect ourselves first!"
When Cheng Suming heard her words, he looked at her with an indescribable look, silently stretched the rope in his hand, and called her: "Anan, take out two important things from the space and tie the rope on them."
Simon:......
She just said it casually.
Worried that what she said would come true, she took out several large blocks of ice from the space, tied all the ropes to the ice, and let the ice pull the wooden board. She and Cheng Suming pulled the depressed Cheng Wei, bent down and walked into the storage room on the left, just in time to see Sheng's mother leaning against the earth wall, her face as white as a piece of paper, and her pupils began to dilate.
Si Nan was shocked and rushed over to touch Mother Sheng's hand: "Aunt Sheng, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me!"
"It should be that the thunder was too loud and triggered her heart attack." Cheng Suming looked down and saw that Mother Sheng's heart was barely beating. He immediately laid her flat on the ground and performed CPR on her. At the same time, he called Sinan, "Get two quick-acting heart pills and put them in her mouth."
Si Nan took out a heart-saving pill from the space as instructed and hurriedly stuffed it into Sheng's mother's mouth, but no matter how she stuffed it, Sheng's mother's mouth remained tightly closed.
The decadent look of Sheng's mother was very similar to that of Si Nan's mother who died of illness when he was young.
Si Nan panicked and shouted anxiously, "Aunt Sheng, open your mouth. Think about Youqing and Youbin. Can you bear to leave them behind?"
I don’t know if she heard what she said, but Mother Sheng opened her mouth slightly and her dilated pupils began to focus.
Si Nan hurriedly stuffed the medicine into her mouth, but heard her mouth opening and closing slightly, as if she was saying something.
There was a rumble of thunder outside, and the earth was shaking. Si Nan couldn't hear what she was saying, so he could only lie down beside her mouth and hear her say intermittently: "Xiao, Xiao Nan, You Qing... You Bin... I'm counting on you..."
She repeated this several times in a discontinuous manner, and Si Nan's tears fell. He nodded and said, "Aunt Sheng, don't worry. I will do my best to take good care of Youqing and her brother."
Mother Sheng seemed to be waiting for her to say this, and after hearing her finish, she closed her eyes peacefully.
"Aunt Sheng!"
Si Nan's crying sound came from the cellar.
The combination of the three natural disasters caused terrible natural disasters. All the houses, buildings and trees on the ground of the Stone Mountain Base were destroyed by huge tornadoes and typhoons. The sky and the earth were filled with flying construction waste, which was smashed to pieces by the lightning that roamed everywhere.
The Dashi Mountain and Xiaoshi Mountains in the distance were also swept by three kinds of natural disasters. Large areas of mountains were struck by lightning. Under the strong wind, the already dry forests were struck by lightning and turned into lightning fires. The mountains were burning fiercely, illuminating the groups of soldiers, their families, and other teams who were climbing the mountain road against the wind and heading to the military stronghold halfway up the Dashi Mountain.
All the soldiers spontaneously formed a circle, surrounding the officers, family members, and technical personnel in the middle. The soldiers went against the wind to reduce wind resistance and allow everyone to climb up as quickly as possible.
As the military cave was approaching, purple lightning fell from the sky, directly killing the rows of soldiers in front. As those soldiers screamed, three huge tornadoes flew over at the same time, sweeping away all the rocks and mud on the mountain road and rushing straight towards the humans.
People screamed and ran away, but they could not outrun the speed of the tornado.
The team of nearly half a million people was broken up, and people were swept into the sky by the tornado.
"Shit! Help!"
"Mom, I'm so scared—"
"Damn it! This damn weather, is it going to kill us?"
"Beibei, hold on to mom's hand tightly, don't be afraid, we are just turning into Superman and flying in the air, we will fall to the ground soon, don't be afraid..."
The sounds of people shouting in fear, children crying, soldiers roaring, and the powerless and desperate screams and calls for comfort from family members and women were endless.
Commander Ye was tightly guarded by a group of guards at a notch on the mountain path. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but tear up and whispered, "Don't worry about the end of the world. There's no chance..."
After Yang Wentao and Sheng Youqing received Cheng Suming's call and saw the shocking doomsday scene in front of them, Yang Wentao made a prompt decision and said to several staff members who were traveling with him: "It's too late to run, go to the sewer, quickly!"
The tornado was right behind them, sweeping across everything with its fangs and claws. Lightning struck everywhere on the road. Several staff members were frightened and their minds went blank. When they heard Yang Wentao's words, they reacted reflexively and went to pull away the manhole covers and iron railings built on the road surface.
"boom!"
A deafening thunder roared, and two fellow staff members who were two meters away from Sheng Youqing were directly struck into charcoal by lightning. Sheng Youqing was so scared that he screamed, "Ah——!"
She wanted to run reflexively, but Yang Wentao happened to open a manhole cover. Hearing her scream, he turned around, grabbed her tightly, and dragged her directly into the sewer.
Yang Wentao also dragged a government worker in his forties down there. The three of them were squeezed into a narrow waterway well that was about two meters wide and three meters deep. They heard the howling wind outside, blowing the well cover around on the street, making a clanging sound, and the roaring and flashing thunder and lightning, and the sound of countless people screaming and wailing. Yang Wentao and the other two were terrified, and their hearts were beating wildly.
Sheng Youqing couldn't hold back her tears and said, "How could this happen? What on earth does God want to do? My mother, my brother, and the others..."
Three natural disasters occurred and destroyed all communication equipment on the ground. They had mobile phones, but there was no signal and no network. They could not know each other's situation, let alone whether each other was alive or dead.
"They will be fine." Yang Wentao said with absolute certainty: "Cheng Wei will be fine too. With Brother Cheng and Si Nan here, they will protect them."
When four tornadoes hit at the same time and the Shishan Hospital building was destroyed like tofu dregs, Xu Xiao found Sheng Youbin as soon as possible.
The typhoon outside had reached level twelve. When everyone was unable to move due to the strong wind, Xu Xiao relied on his fat body to protect Sheng Youbin behind him, holding his only arm tightly with one hand. Under the surprised gaze of everyone, the two of them braved the hurricane and moved step by step with difficulty to the underground morgue opposite the Shishan Clinic.
"Xu Xiao, you are so awesome." Sheng Youbin felt that his arm was about to be broken by Xu Xiao, but he still praised Xu Xiao with a smile.
Xu Xiao blushed and said proudly, "This is the first time I feel that gaining weight is good for me. At least I won't be blown away by the wind."
Sheng Youbin grinned, revealing his white teeth. He was about to say something when he suddenly saw several thick lightning bolts flashing at the entrance. He shouted, "Be careful!"
He pinned Xu Xiao down, and lightning struck the wall of the underground morgue fiercely. The morgue collapsed, and Xu Xiao's panicked cry could be heard: "Youbin!"
After the thunder and lightning continued for nearly two hours, it finally subsided and stopped, but the rain started falling two hours ago. The sky was like a flood, and heavy rain kept falling like a waterfall.
There was no illumination from thunder and lightning. Under the dark sky, the ground had been reduced to ruins. No moving people or animals could be seen. The whole world was as quiet as a ghost town. The only sound was the sound of heavy rain falling.
**
The heavy rain lasted for nearly half a year before it stopped. As the water level continued to rise, most of the land disappeared and turned into a vast ocean.
In a certain sea area of Country Z, a cargo ship was floating alone.
That was the boat moved out of Sinan's space.
After experiencing the devastating natural disaster half a year ago, when the water level continued to rise and a large number of people around him died, Si Nan climbed out of the flooded cellar, found his surviving relatives and friends, and moved the cargo ship that he had purchased before the end of the world out.
The natural disaster caused the death of Sheng's mother, Zheng Jian and his wife, and the husbands of sisters Liu Ming and Liu Yue. The rest of the people were injured to varying degrees, but miraculously they all survived and reunited with Si Nan and the others.
The dead are gone, and after crying bitterly, the living must continue to live.
They set up tents and awnings on the wide deck of the cargo ship. Sinan took out most of the things stored in the space and asked everyone to grow vegetables and raise chickens, ducks and geese on the boat. He also asked everyone to use diving suits to go into the water, fish and hunt, and collect a lot of garbage materials floating on the sea as fuel. They also made a set of seawater desalination equipment to desalinate seawater for drinking. They survived by floating on the sea for half a year.
At the beginning, no one was used to it because the boat was so small and there were nearly twenty people living in it. Eating, drinking, defecating and urinating were all crowded together, making it inconvenient to move around.
However, compared to the tragic situation of those survivors who had no boats and had to rely on various floating objects to drift around on the sea and struggle to survive, they felt that they were much luckier.
In the first two months, many survivors saw Si Nan's cargo ship and swam to the side of the ship, asking to get on board, but Si Nan refused without hesitation.
Her boat was not big to begin with, and there were only so many supplies in the space. It was not enough to support her relatives and friends. She also had to take care of herself by growing vegetables and fishing to supplement the food. How could she be so kind as to agree to rescue others on board? She had to take all kinds of precautions, which made her very tired.
During this period, she also met many survivors who formed a group and wanted to rob her ship.
This ship is the last home for Sinan and his relatives and friends. They must hold on to their last position no matter what.
All the relatives and friends united as one, without any mercy or hesitation, and joined forces to kill those who wanted to rob their boat one after another. They drove the boat away from places where there were many survivors, and came to this sea area located in the west of our country, heading towards the Himalayas.
Given my country's nature of preparing for a rainy day, Sinan believed that the ark that my country secretly built in the Himalayas must have been completed before the three devastating natural disasters occurred.
The supplies in the Sinan Space will eventually run out, and they must find the Ark and board it before the cargo ship runs out of fuel, and wait with the survivors on the Ark for the day when the water recedes and they can start a new life.
The sun rose from the water, the red sunlight spread all over the sea, and some large marine fish jumped out of the water, making the scene look peaceful.
Si Nan stared at the fish swimming in the water and suddenly felt a little sad.
Natural disasters continued one after another, land creatures on Earth were close to extinction, and the surviving humans were just barely surviving.
She has experienced so many natural disasters and is still alive and well. I don’t know whether it is God’s kindness or cruelty to her.
"Anan, what are you thinking about?" Cheng Suming stood up from the bed in the cockpit, put his arms around her, and asked with concern.
"I'm wondering, after experiencing so many natural disasters, is it a good thing or a bad thing for us to be alive? Can the oil and supplies on the ship support us until the day we find the ark? Will there be new natural disasters after the water recedes? If we experience natural disasters in an endless cycle, what is the meaning of living?"
"Don't worry too much. Believe me, no matter how cruel nature is, it will give all land creatures a ray of hope. We will find the ark, and the natural disasters will stop one day. One day, we will build a new home. During this period, whether in life or death, I will always be with you. You are not alone."
Si Nan looked up at Cheng Su Ming's thinner but still handsome face and smiled at him: "Well, you are right, I believe you."
The sun gradually rose higher, and the sunlight shone on the cargo ship floating on the water, emitting colorful light.
A new day comes again.
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This article ends here. Thank you to all the little angels for your support along the way. In a few days, I will finish another unfinished apocalyptic novel "One Person in a Different World". Friends who are interested can collect it and take a look.
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