Ye Qingyan was terrified, her face turning deathly pale. She hadn't cared about twisting her ankle several times along the way; now, her mind was consumed by the thought of survival.
When they finally reached a safe open space outside, the ground was still shaking.
In an instant, the once towering theater collapsed before our eyes, turning into a pile of ruins.
The fact that such sturdy buildings, and not even skyscrapers, were instantly reduced to ashes demonstrates the magnitude of this earthquake.
Ye Qingyan sat on the ground, her ankles throbbing with pain, but she glanced around at the survivors.
Two figures popped into my mind.
"Sweetie, Peach!" Ye Qingyan cried out in despair, "Sweetie, Peach is still at the hotel!"
"Sweetie! Peach!" She couldn't say anything else; her mind was filled with the image of the two of them being pinned downstairs.
This was also Huo Qingming's first time experiencing such a situation. He was still holding Ye Qingyan's hand and felt a lingering fear in his heart.
When he noticed Ye Qingyan's abnormal behavior, he also thought of the two girls in the hotel who were still in the prime of their youth.
Ye Qingyan broke down in tears, her whole body trembling, and she fainted in the blink of an eye.
"Qingyan!"
The last image in Ye Qingyan's mind was of herself being held in Huo Qingming's arms, and then everything went black.
...
Yang Tao was still in contact with media staff when Zhen Tian stopped her.
"Wait, my shoelace is untied." Zhen Tian had only taken two steps out of the door when she felt something was wrong with her high heels. She twisted her ankle and the strap came undone.
"Mm." Yang Tao replied, looking down as she typed the message.
The moment Zhen Tian squatted down, she felt as if she had a sway from low blood sugar, but it didn't feel like she was the one swaying.
"Hey... Sweetie, did you feel it sway a little?"
"You felt it too?" Zhen Tian and Yang Tao exchanged a glance.
Instinct led Zhen Tian to untie the strap on her other foot as well.
As soon as she finished operating the system, the hotel began to shake violently, as if the ground were trembling.
"Holy crap, an earthquake!" Yang Tao cried out, "Run! Run!"
Zhen Tian threw away her high heels and ran barefoot down the corridor.
He ran while shouting and kicking every door he passed: "Earthquake! Run! Earthquake!"
Many people were awakened by Zhen Tian kicking the door, and a large number of people rushed into the corridor. Everyone was in a panic, running around with their heads covered.
"Take the stairs. Hurry." Zhen Tian called to Yang Tao from behind.
Behind them, the chandeliers in the corridor began to fall one by one, the sounds of breaking and the dull thuds as they hit the ground adding to the already tense nerves of the crowd.
Screams were deafening.
The shaking continued, and it seemed to be getting heavier.
Zhen Tian was shaken so badly that she could no longer stand or walk, and could only crawl and roll her way downstairs.
Yang Tao followed behind her, carrying the large bag on her back.
He struggled to keep up with Zhen Tian as they ran down the hill.
Screams and screams echoed throughout the hotel.
It was as terrifying as experiencing some kind of hell.
Zhen Tian didn't have time to think about that. The 28th floor was too high; no matter how hard they ran, they would never reach the end.
"Move to the side, run close to the wall." Zhen Tian turned around, and just then, a large rock fell down behind Yang Tao, hitting her backpack directly. The backpack dropped, and Yang Tao fell there, her head still numb.
"Take your backpack off, take it off!"
Yang Tao's groggy hearing made her hear Zhen Tian's loud shout, an angry shout.
She had never seen the gentle and delicate Zhen Tian like this before.
Zhen Tian gritted her teeth and ran back two steps.
Only then did I notice that Yang Tao's ear had been scraped by a stone, leaving a deep cut with blood and flesh showing.
"Sweetie, I think I can't hear you very well," Yang Tao said after regaining her senses.
Zhen Tian couldn't explain, and didn't have time to explain. She pointed forcefully at the wall: "It's safer to walk close to the wall, hurry!"
The earthquake is still ongoing.
It has even lasted for nearly ten minutes.
They could always hear a rumbling sound in their ears, similar to the sound of an airplane about to land, or the sound of a building exploding.
There was no time to think about it; the further down you went, the smaller the vibration became.
It's even gradually weakening.
By the time the two reached the 12th floor, the building's shaking had stopped.
The two breathed a sigh of relief.
"Run, don't stop." Zhen Tian pulled Yang Tao up from the ground.
She had participated in earthquake drills during her middle school years. Her teacher had told her that no matter how safe a place looked, you must run to an open space during an earthquake, the more open the better.
Yang Tao gritted her teeth, blood and sweat dripping down her clothes.
Zhen Tian's worries were indeed correct.
When the two reached the eighth floor, the shaking started again, this time even more violent than before, the swaying so intense that it threw them into the air and slammed them against the wall.
"Waaah...waaah..." Yang Tao was dizzy from the impact and couldn't control her fear. She cried out, "I can't run anymore..."
"Don't stop, hurry up..." Zhen Tian pulled her hard.
Yang Tao couldn't control herself; it felt like a gaping hole had been torn open in her heart, and panic surged outwards.
"Let's go, let's go!"
Zhen Tian was also exhausted, but she was determined to crawl out.
If you stop, you will die.
She didn't want to die.
"Let's go."
Yang Tao ran two more steps forward with Zhen Tian's help, but a huge crashing sound rang out from above in the stairwell. The two of them looked up at the same time, their pupils shrinking sharply.
An enormous beam, as thick as a thigh, is falling from above, and below the beam is...
"Peach, get out of the way, get out of the way!"
Zhen Tian felt numb all over and shouted loudly.
Yang Tao was so frightened that she couldn't move an inch and could only look up, trembling all over.
"Let's go..."
Zhen Tian rushed back, ripped Yang Tao off, and threw her down the stairs to the next floor.
She wanted to run, but it wasn't fast enough. At the last moment, she turned around.
The beam crashed to the ground, billowing thick smoke. Yang Tao witnessed Zhen Tian being crushed beneath the pillar, and she screamed in terror.
As the smoke cleared, Zhen Tian's figure completely disappeared.
"Sweet! Sweet!" Yang Tao's voice had changed, becoming shrill and piercing.
Zhen Tian was awakened by her sharp voice, but before she could say anything, a huge rumble rang in her ears, and countless pieces of rubble crashed around her. She curled up against the pillar that was pressing down on her legs and hugged her head tightly.
...
The day after Tian Tian left, Ji Yuzhi realized he had caught a cold.
Unlike that delicate girl, he readily took his medicine and then went to take a bath.
I thought it would get better after a good night's sleep, but it turned out to be even worse when I woke up.
He got up and took his temperature; sure enough, he had a fever.
He asked his boss for leave, took some medicine, and slept for a day in a daze.
In the evening, his cell phone rang for a long time by his bedside.
Ji Yuzhi was awakened by the noise. When he got up, he found that he felt much better than in the morning, and he was covered in sweat.
"There's an emergency, assemble immediately."
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