Chapter 67 Tsunami and Typhoon
"Haicheng is just ahead." Tu Jing said affirmatively, comparing it with the map in his hand.
Gu Nian rode on Da Jin, and a city appeared in her field of vision. She looked through the telescope and saw a crowd of people in the city. It was Haicheng.
The Golden Feather Falcon carried them to a stop outside Haicheng.
The original highway toll gate has been transformed into a passage into Haicheng. People line up to be reviewed for entry into the city.
The examiners of Haicheng require outsiders to pay five spirit crystals before they can enter the city. After entering the city, they are temporary residents and can only stay for fifteen days. If they want to live long-term and become formal residents of Haicheng, they need to pay more materials. Under natural disasters, the resources consumed to maintain the operation of a city are extremely terrifying. Many city bases can only give priority to local residents. Outsiders who want to join must pay materials.
Despite this, the refugees still have to join the city base. They may have lived in the countryside when the natural disaster occurred, or they may have become refugees because the city they originally lived in was destroyed. In today's world, these refugees who were originally just ordinary people can't live in the wilderness at all. They can only find ways to save supplies and join a city base to seek a glimmer of hope.
Gu Nian and his group paid the spiritual crystals for entering the city. The staff of Haicheng gave each of them an identity chip and a phone card. After the natural disaster, there was no telephone communication network covering the whole country or even the world. Large urban bases could still build their own telephones and other instant signal bases, but they could only cover the entire city.
In this way, Gu Nian and others entered the interior of Haicheng.
Haicheng is a coastal city in the south of Longguo. It has beautiful scenery and was a famous tourist destination before the natural disaster. After the natural disaster, Haicheng built a large shelter on the ground in time to survive the cold wave and heat wave. It is now the largest urban base in the south.
The buildings in Haicheng are well preserved. As a seaside tourist city, the buildings in Haicheng are full of Western style. With the blue sky and white clouds at that time, it is a long-lost romantic style in the era of natural disasters. Many beautiful hotels have been built in the city and continued to operate after the natural disaster.
When entering the city, Tu Jing had already inquired about the hotels in the city, so she suggested to Gu Nian that they stay in a local B&B, where they could rent a single-family villa as their accommodation. Gu Nian shook her head and told her to find a five-star hotel in the city center, but not too high, preferably around the 15th floor. The room they stayed in should be booked at least on the 10th floor.
This request puzzled Tu Jing. Their team had a total of 20 people, and renting a B&B villa was the best choice for both convenience and privacy. If Gu Nian felt that the B&B service was not good, it was understandable that she wanted to stay in a five-star hotel, but five-star hotels are usually more than 20 floors. Why did she have to choose a shorter five-star hotel? She could stay in a high-rise building?
Although Tu Jing was puzzled, she did not dare to question Gu Nian's decision, and immediately went to ask the locals. She soon found a suitable hotel. The Wanyue Hotel was 15 stories high, and Gu Nian and his group were arranged on the 14th floor. Each room was equipped with a wide open-air balcony, just right for the Golden Falcon to rest.
After the group checked in, Gu Nian planned to go out to find out more about the situation, and Yue Jian accompanied her.
Like Jiangcheng, Haicheng also opened many material stores. Yuejian dragged a cart with one hand, and the boxes on it were full of materials for mutant beasts. On the way to Haicheng this time, they also ran into many mutant beasts along the way, and the Aurora team shot them down. The valuable materials such as fur, scales, bone spurs and venom on the mutant beasts were all stored in these boxes.
Gu Nian asked about the price, found a store that was suitable, and planned to sell all the materials. They came to Haicheng for something, and it was inconvenient to bring these materials with them, so it was better to deal with them on the spot.
"A total of 3,000 spirit crystals. Do you want to give them to you or exchange them for Haicheng credit points?" the shop owner asked. This was a big deal. However, the girl who brought a large amount of materials was obviously very knowledgeable about the price, so the boss could not fool her and gave a suitable price.
Gu Nian was quite satisfied with the price offered by the boss, which was about the same as the price in Jiangcheng. She asked, "Boss, can I exchange food for you?"
This time when they came to Haicheng, each member of the Aurora team brought 20 cans of food, and consumed half of them on the road. In addition, they also brought four folding space boxes filled with various supplies. Gu Nian did not plan to use these supplies, but planned to keep them for emergency use, so that he could buy food locally when he was in Haicheng.
The fat boss's eyes lit up and he said eagerly, "Yes! I own the food store next door!"
The fat boss took Gu Nian and Yue Jian directly to the warehouse of the food store. They were obviously big customers. With a thousand spirit crystals in hand, Gu Nian began to purchase. This place is close to the sea, and the most stored in the food warehouse is seafood, arm-long lobsters, king crabs, various marine fish, abalone, oysters, squids, sea oysters, conchs, dozens of hundreds of seafood filled the entire warehouse. Gu Nian understood at once why Haicheng could become the first base in the south after the natural disaster. It was because when other bases were short of food due to natural disasters, Haicheng could catch seafood, and ordinary residents could also go to the sea and find something to eat.
Gu Nian had never lacked food when she was in Jiangcheng, but she mostly ate red meat and rarely had seafood. Seeing so much seafood now, she was very hungry. She waved her hand and directly picked out the varieties and bought 500 kilograms of seafood. The Aurora team are all superpowers, and their bodies need more energy than ordinary people. They need at least three kilograms of meat every day, not counting the staple food. In addition to human rations, mutant beasts also need to be considered. The Golden Wing Falcon flew all the way to Haicheng and was exhausted. In addition to the animal food she brought with her, Gu Nian planned to leave some seafood for the Golden Wing Falcon to taste. In this way, these 500 kilograms of seafood will probably be consumed in a week at most.
In addition to seafood, Gu Nian also took a fancy to the fruits in the warehouse. Fruits are rare nowadays and are hard to buy in Jiangcheng. However, Haicheng is rich in fruits, such as pomegranates, mangoes, mangosteens, bananas, dragon fruits, grapefruits... There are a wide variety of fruits. Gu Nian also bought 100 kilograms in one go.
The purchasing power of spirit crystals is quite good. They bought a lot of food, and the boss also gave Gu Nian 2,300 spirit crystals. Gu Nian took them and bought five inflatable boats, manual air pumps, paddles and repair tools from the equipment store next door, and then bought fifty life jackets.
The fat boss Yuejian borrowed a car and took the things that Gu Nian bought back directly, while Gu Nian walked towards the main road.
Before leaving, Yu Ziqiu gave Gu Nian the contact information of a good friend. Yu Ziqiu's friend was named Tian Mingyue, a senior staff member of the Haicheng Noah Research Institute, who could help Gu Nian find the whereabouts of Imir. Yu Ziqiu did not contact the official institutions in Haicheng directly. After all, the Bethida sect had a deep foundation, and there might be believers in the official institutions. If he contacted them directly, the news would easily leak out, and it would inevitably alert the enemy.
The Noah Research Institute in Haicheng is located in a financial building. This financial building was originally occupied by several banks, so the security design was extremely strict. After the natural disaster, the bank went bankrupt completely, and the building was allocated to Noah as a residence.
Across the street, Gu Nian found a secluded alley and sent a message to Tian Mingyue: "I'm in Haicheng, in the alley at the right intersection."
Not long after, a tall woman walked into the alley. She was tall, about 1.8 meters tall, wearing a black uniform, and had a very imposing manner. She looked around for a while and walked towards Gu Nian. "Hello, I'm Tian Mingyue."
Gu Nian extended her hand: "Hello, I'm Gu Nian."
Tian Mingyue has short hair, a capable appearance, and a cheerful personality like Yu Ziqiu. "Ziqiu has already told me about you," she said first. "I have already started searching for the man named Yimier in Haicheng. However, I checked all the records of entering the city and could not find him."
"Is it possible that the entry records could be destroyed?" Gu Nian asked.
Tian Mingyue shook her head and explained the situation to her: "All records of entry into the city are supervised by three parties, and the supervision system was created by Noah. If the other party wants to destroy the records, there is no way I can't find out."
Gu Nian heard this and thought about it carefully. Haicheng had no record of Ymir entering the city. Either Ymir did not go to Haicheng, or he changed his appearance to enter Haicheng. The evolvers mastered various superpowers, and some of them had the ability to change their appearance. Maybe Ymir also had it.
Gu Nian told Tian Mingyue about his guess.
Tian Mingyue told her: "Ymir escaped from Yangcheng last Wednesday. I have found a list of all the people who came to Haicheng after last Wednesday and sent people to monitor him. If this Ymir is really an alien, his words and deeds must be strange. Based on this feature, we can narrow down the scope. As long as he enters Haicheng, we will be able to find him."
"I'll contact you when there's news." Tian Mingyue nodded to Gu Nian and left.
Gu Nian understood what Tian Mingyue meant. Tian Mingyue would screen them all according to this method, but if she couldn't find any, it would mean that Imir had never entered Haicheng. Tian Mingyue could only help up to this point.
Gu Nian returned to the hotel. She stayed in a large executive suite. From the balcony, she could see the sea outside the city. Looking at the sea outside, Gu Nian felt a little uneasy. The system reminded her that the wind spirit would appear here. Would the appearance of this spirit bring peace? Or would it be accompanied by disaster?
Gu Nian's intuition told him that things would not be that simple. There might be a storm brewing beneath the calm sea.
At this time, Tu Jing knocked on Gu Nian's door and told her that everything Yue Jian brought back had been collected. Gu Nian nodded and asked Tu Jing to find the hotel to process and cook some seafood for everyone to taste.
Not long after, Tu Jing brought the waiter to deliver Gu Nian's seafood feast.
There was a table and chairs on the balcony of the suite. Gu Nian enjoyed the seafood meal leisurely on the balcony. The taste of fresh seafood near the sea is incomparable to that inland. In a blink of an eye, the plate was piled high with oyster shells, abalone shells, crab shells and lobster shells.
When the seafood on the table was almost eaten up, the sea surface in the distance gradually changed.
The originally azure sea surface turned gloomy, the clouds pressed down, there were faint flashes of lightning, and the sunlight was completely blocked. It was still afternoon, but it felt like night. The sea surface was already surging, and the waves were getting more and more violent.
In just ten minutes, the waves had gathered together to form a huge waterline with no end in sight, rushing towards the city!
Gu Nian walked out of the room and ran into Tu Jing who came looking for her.
Tu Jing's face turned pale: "Boss, the tsunami is coming!" She was horrified. Who could have thought that they would encounter a tsunami right after arriving in Haicheng? Tu Jing was thankful that she did not choose to stay in a villa, but in a five-star hotel. Otherwise, the low-rise villa would be completely submerged by the tsunami!
Gu Nian said, "Yes. Go and inform everyone, everyone should get ready and enter emergency status. Be prepared to leave at any time. Find a few people to guard the area where we live, so that if the hotel becomes chaotic, outsiders will not be able to take advantage of it."
Tu Jing went to greet the Aurora team members, while Gu Nian went to the observation deck on the fourteenth floor.
From here, you can see that the waves that converged in this line are moving towards the city at high speed. The tsunami hit and invaded the edge of the city. At the moment of encounter, the low-rise buildings on the edge of the city were directly submerged in the surging waves.
The waves continued to move towards the city center, and some fragile buildings collapsed directly. As the waves drifted, these buildings would become deadly killers in the waves. If humans were caught in the waves and hit the high-speed moving building debris, they would almost die immediately. The cars parked on both sides of the road were like toys, floating helplessly in the waves.
The city was filled with cries and screams. It was a romantic scene when I entered the city in the morning, but now Haicheng has become a hell.
Gu Nian closed her eyes reluctantly. As early as when the system reminded her that the Wind Spirit might appear in Haicheng, Gu Nian guessed that Haicheng might be hit by a natural disaster, but when the natural disaster really appeared before her eyes, she still felt pain. Perhaps this is the empathy of being a human being.
Faced with the ruthlessness of natural disasters, humans can only helplessly bear their fate. No matter how many times she has seen it, Gu Nian's heart will still feel desolate. She took a deep breath and calmed down. Instead of indulging in useless emotions, it is better to think about how to complete the system's tasks. Perhaps completing this main task will give her a chance to stop all natural disasters.
The waves finally reached the city center, and the hotel where Gu Nian stayed was not spared. Gu Nian looked at the surrounding buildings and roughly estimated that at least four floors of the hotel had been submerged. The loudspeaker next to him also belatedly announced: "Dear guests, the tsunami has hit, the tsunami has hit, please stay in your room and do not go out..."
Yuejian came over and told her the situation. "The first four floors of the hotel were flooded. Fortunately, no one lives on the first four floors. But now the residents of the fifth and sixth floors, which are adjacent to each other, are asking to change rooms and must live upstairs."
This is when the benefits of a five-star hotel come into play. The first four floors are public places such as restaurants and entertainment halls, and no guests are staying there. Otherwise, simply transferring guests would easily cause trouble.
However, as long as the tsunami continues, the hotel will be in chaos sooner or later.
Yue Jian walked to Gu Nian and observed with her on the observation deck. They were all evolvers, so they didn't have to worry about the wind and rain outside. If they were ordinary people, they would have to rush into the room to take shelter.
The seawater pouring into the city center turned from gray to black, and white bodies began to float on the water. More and more buildings collapsed under the strong waves. It was not until dark that the waves gradually calmed down. The city was still turbulent, but there were no new waves outside the island. This wave of tsunami seemed to have stopped.
Have the disasters ceased? Has human suffering ended?
The clouds in the sky were getting lower and lower, and a storm was brewing. It was a typhoon. Under the abnormal weather, a typhoon was born.
Gu Nian's mind was moved. Typhoon. Could this kind of storm disaster be related to the wind spirit?
Even at this distance, Gu Nian could still feel the shocking storm. She quickly opened the main quest board, and on the system map, the light of the wind spirit was no longer faint, but became clearer and clearer, and began to emit a dazzling light.
"The Spirit of Wind has appeared." Gu Nian's face was serious.
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