The city was broken
A black curtain of water, nearly touching the sky, slowly rose as far as the eye could see, sweeping towards the territory with overwhelming force. In that instant, the world seemed to be plunged into the depths of the ocean. The sky and earth were gloomy, drowning out even the shrill cries of the people.
People had never felt so insignificant. In fact, it was not until the team members shouted "Run" at the dazed people on the ground that everyone reacted and scattered.
Their physiological functions, including reaction speed, which they usually take pride in, seem to slow down in the face of sudden disasters.
"The tsunami is coming! The tsunami is coming!"
"Old Yuan! Stop being dazed! Run!"
"Sister, where are you!"
Screams and calls that almost turned into roars rang out from all directions. The city gate, which had been in order just now, became a picture of hell. Several people fell down and were trampled under the feet of other panicked people.
The person in charge was only a clerk and had no idea what to do when a tsunami came. He quickly thought of a way and shouted, "Run to higher places!" The team members next to him rushed around to pull up the people who had fallen.
"Run to higher ground!"
"Yes! Let's go to the plateau! That's the highest place!"
"It's too late, the city walls can't hold!"
Before the water wall as big as Mount Everest approached, countless lower waves had already crashed into the wall.
The sound of the light screen indicating that the city wall was losing blood became the supporting role of someone's crow's mouth saying "the city wall can't hold on". In the roaring waves, everyone heard the sound of something breaking, and then several parts of the city wall were shattered, and waves gushed in through the gaps.
Too fast, they didn't have time to run.
At this rate, it would only take a few seconds for all of them to be killed without a burial place.
A feeling of powerless despair spread in everyone's heart.
"Mom..." One man, having given up all hope of survival, hugged a nearby electric pole and sobbed, "I'm finally coming to see you."
"Fortunately, my mother went up first." The other woman was not talking about going to heaven, but going to the space station.
Her words seemed to give everyone a surge of courage. The Hungry Hungry Space Station prioritized the elderly and young children with limited mobility, leaving these young adults behind for the final farewell. If they died here, what would happen to their families up there? How heartbreaking it would be to see the young die before the old.
"Run!" Before anyone could shout, everyone started running as fast as they could.
However, how could human speed compare to the speed of water? The formed wave broke through the waterproof wall that everyone had worked so hard to build, like a brave giant beast, swallowing the last few people into its belly.
Several consecutive screams rang out. There was no way for the crowd to turn back or mourn their compatriots. They had to keep running forward. If there was still a chance of survival—
"sister!"
Zhang Yanan always thought she was a very strong person until she was knocked down by the waves. She instinctively shouted, and then she saw her sister looking back. She immediately regretted it and ignored the water choking her throat, "Run! Run!"
However, the moment Zhang Yanan sank into the water, she saw her sister turning around and coming towards her.
Go! Leave her alone and live!
Thinking of her sister's smile, Zhang Yanan's eyes were filled with tears or sea water. She tried her best to float upwards, and her sister's voice rang in her ears like a hallucination.
No, it wasn't her sister's voice, Zhang Yanan thought desperately, it was the sound of endless waves - the water was too heavy, she couldn't swim up, she couldn't do it.
She was going to die, and everything was over. Zhang Yanan, who had always felt fully prepared after the apocalypse and had never complained about the world, was now filled with hatred for the first time.
Sister, I'm so scared... When Zhang Yanan just closed her eyes, she felt that she touched the ground. The wave that was like the god of death just now surged past her and finally turned into a pool of shallow water.
Zhang Yanan: “?” She coughed violently a few times, like a fish stranded on the beach.
Her sister arrived in time and grabbed her hand.
"The wall's been repaired!" she heard someone shout.
As expected, the water stopped coming in. Zhang Yanan could feel her sister's skin, cooled by the seawater. She pulled herself up and stumbled in one direction.
Zhang Yanan glanced behind him intently.
The city wall, which originally had several large holes, was now intact. The sturdy wall was even twice as high as before. The metal triangular supports supported the wall, withstanding at least the next wave of waves.
The previously powerful waves entered the huge lake and lost their subsequent support. They had no time to wreak havoc before they scattered and turned into stagnant water on the ground.
"Someone is here to rescue us!" someone shouted.
In the distance, several large trucks were approaching. Ye Miaomiao was waving from the window. The sky and the earth were dark, and they were as miserable as drowned rats. Just when they thought they were doomed, the truck appeared, carrying the dawn.
At this moment, everyone's sense of security reached its peak. They almost cried after surviving a disaster, like a child who was bullied at school and finally saw his parents.
"Great! The Lord is here!"
“We’re here!”
"There are people injured!"
Cries for help rang out one after another, and Ye Miaomiao breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that most people were still alive and kicking.
The disaster struck so swiftly that by the time the space station detected the earthquake, the situation was already dire. She hurried over, but luckily she was able to catch the moment before the seawater completely broke through the city wall and covered it with a more advanced wall.
“Get in the car!”
Before the car even stopped, Ye Miaomiao pushed the door open and jumped out of the car in one go. She grabbed the conspicuous person in charge and asked anxiously, "How many more people are there!"
"You're finally here..." the person in charge said with tears in his eyes, "Five hundred people, all here!"
Ye Miaomiao took a quick look and found that there was enough space to sit down.
Without a word, she immediately waved to the team members to organize people to get on the bus, but unexpectedly, the person in charge grabbed her hand, "No, no," Ye Miaomiao looked over in confusion. He was panting anxiously, "It will take more than an hour to get five cars of people on board. It's too late!"
It took Ye Miaomiao a while to understand what he meant.
She smiled and said, "It's too late to get to the elevator. The tsunami is approaching. Even if we take a spaceship to escape now, it's too late." Seeing the person in charge's face gradually turn pale, Ye Miaomiao did not hide it -
"So we're going to the Atlantis II territory, where a deep-sea submarine is kept."
"What...what does this mean?"
Tsunamis originate from ocean earthquakes, which are the result of vertical energy transmission. This is also the reason why waves can defy normal behavior and rise vertically. The force of waves decreases as the square of their depth, making the deep sea far from the coast safer.
People who can swim will probably learn this naturally because when they dive underwater, they can hardly feel the waves on the surface.
Ye Miaomiao planned to dive into the deep sea when the tsunami came to avoid the most violent waves.
After a few words of explanation, she said, "Get in the car first, and get everyone ready."
The person in charge widened his eyes, blaming him for his poor physics. In his opinion, this was simply going to the tiger mountain even though he knew there was a tiger there. He couldn't say which was more terrifying, diving into the deep sea or facing a tsunami, but he felt his legs trembling as he followed Ye Miaomiao.
It’s better to just die and not to do those death scenes that are so shocking that if your body is luckily preserved, future generations will laugh at your expression management!
It’s very difficult, boss!
After several vehicles were quickly loaded with people, they drove towards Atlantis at the fastest speed.
To delay time, Ye Miaomiao kept her eyes on the screen and continuously poured materials and points into the city wall to ensure that it would stand. Thanks to her good sense of stockpiling, the warehouse could still hold up despite such a large outpouring of resources.
No one around dared to disturb her. The person in charge kept pacing around and finally, when they were getting on the boat, they couldn't help but ask, "Lord, can't we hide on the plateau?"
Ye Miaomiao reloaded her supplies one last time and prepared to close the gate and set off. Hearing this, she patted the young man's shoulder and said, "If you can, you'll definitely go." The implication was that even the plateau wasn't completely safe.
This wasn't Ye Miaomiao's nonsense; it was the analysis of several experts on the space station. Ye Miaomiao dared to go deep into the ocean because she had mastered several materials technologies that guaranteed the submarine's ability to withstand pressure. Otherwise, she couldn't imagine any safe place under such circumstances.
The person in charge boarded the boat in a daze, not thinking about anything else.
As the submarine gradually sank into the deep sea, the sea water broke through the city wall and destroyed all the remaining buildings in the blink of an eye. It was hard to imagine what the consequences would be if everyone had stayed where they were.
Even before that, more territories had been broken through by the tsunami and completely fallen.
On the space station, Li Yihan looked at the weather map nervously. Although she couldn't understand it at all, it didn't affect her worry about Ye Miaomiao on the ground.
"Why don't you persuade him a little?" Li Yihan went to bring some milk tea and disappeared.
"The earthquake came too quickly. It's too late." Fang Yan said, and seeing Li Yihan's shoulders slump, he continued, "She brought a small team with her. She'll be fine."
However, no one dared to believe this completely. The game screen could not be used in space, and Hungry Hungry's own screen had not yet started mass production, so people in the space station could not contact Ye Miaomiao.
No one knows what is happening to Ye Miaomiao and the others now, whether they are alive or dead.
"The photos are coming!" The technician on the side suddenly called out in surprise, and several people hurriedly gathered around.
This was an image sent back by a satellite launched not long ago. The picture on the screen froze for a while before it became clear. Everyone squinted their eyes, looking left and right, not daring to recognize it.
"Are you sure this is our territory?" Li Yihan asked in disbelief.
It's no exaggeration to call this a sea of death. Trash cluttered the filthy surface, and there was no sign of a single living person or even a living creature. If it weren't for a line connecting the sky to a flat surface, Li Yihan would barely be able to recognize it as a broken section of a space elevator. She wouldn't have believed this was the place where Hunger Hunger once was.
The scientist next to him rolled his glasses. "It's worse than expected. It seems the rain over the past two days has affected our observations. The data needs to be adjusted upwards."
Li Yihan rubbed his forehead and asked impatiently: "Where are they?"
"There's no one on the plateau. They must have followed my advice and gone to sea. They're either still on the seabed, or..." the scientist said calmly, "the wreckage has floated up and mixed in with the garbage."
Li Yihan: "..." She instinctively searched the photo carefully, trying to find her friend's body, but then stopped immediately. What if she really found it?
"The tsunami just passed, and the water level should drop tonight. Xiao Zhang, keep recording the data." After answering the question, the researcher went aside to continue his work.
The people who stayed behind looked at each other in surprise. The technician took the initiative to retrieve the remaining photos, which were photos sent back by satellites launched to other places.
The first one is a friendly territory of hungry hungry hungry.
The same debris and garbage as on Hung Hung Hung, and the small patch of flat land, only with a lot more people. On the shore, many people were lying down to rest or helping out, setting up makeshift beds and tents, hanging clothes out to dry. Some were still swimming upstream, fishing.
However, the majority were motionless. Near the shore, a small pile of people had been piled up, their limbs tangled together. Some, too late to be pulled back, were still floating on the surface, drifting away with the current.
Hell on earth.
"I can't even tell which territory this is." The technician quickly made up a lame excuse and flipped through a photo, trying to find a relatively good territory.
But the tsunami does not understand people's expectations. It destroys everything equally, leaving behind a mess.
The more they looked, the more silent they became, until they came to the picture of Noah's Ark.
The magnificent buildings on the plateau were still standing, with some windows shattered but otherwise unharmed. Since most people had already moved into their buildings, there were very few people outside.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
"There's bad news." Just as everyone was about to relax, the scientist behind them said quietly, "Have you heard of the Younger Dryas event?"
Because they were illiterate and did not understand the situation, the crowd looked at each other in silence and shook their heads.
Of course, the scientist wasn't just telling them this. He looked at Fang Yan and said, "This is a paleoclimate change. Based on it, I predicted that during global warming, there would be a sudden temperature drop. Now the data transmitted back by satellite shows that this is very likely to happen."
He said seriously, "We have to bring the lord back. She's needed here. Because you need to know that when I say the temperature drops sharply, I don't mean a few degrees or even dozens of degrees, but nearly 100 degrees."
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