"The building collapsed! Sister, the building collapsed!"
Along with Yu Guo's exclamation, tall buildings in the distance collapsed one after another, and dust and sand made the already gray sky even darker.
The alarm sounded, a long, shrill sound mixed with people's screams.
Cars in the distance honked their horns until they were crushed by the collapsed building and the sound was completely silenced.
The shadow of death loomed over the entire city, and the black clouds gradually spread as if they had life.
As the earthquake grew in magnitude, cracks began to appear on the once stable roads, and sections of the viaduct that had hovered over the city for years collapsed, burying the cars and pedestrians on the bridge deep underground.
A second before the bridge collapsed, Su Man was about to reach the other side of the road. At the moment of collapse, half of the rear wheel of the car was still left outside.
It was so thrilling that Yu Liangping was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat and subconsciously hugged Yu Guo.
Su Man's palms were sweating as she gripped the steering wheel, but the collapse continued. She didn't dare stop for a moment. Her foot on the accelerator was so tense that even her calves were cramping.
But she still couldn't stop, not even to relax, because behind her, the ground was crumbling, like a gaping maw, swallowing everything in the city.
When Yu Liangping saw this scene through the rear window, his heart almost jumped out of his throat.
He didn't dare make any sound, for fear that he would disturb Suman who was driving.
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A few kilometers away, Huang Yaqin was standing at the door of the supermarket, looking anxiously in the direction where Su Man left.
This place is some distance away from the epicenter of the earthquake, and you can clearly see the buildings in the distance disappearing one after another.
Rupert looked at his watch. "We need to activate the security settings, otherwise this place will become a ruin."
"Can't!"
Huang Yaqin refused without hesitation, "Xiaoman and the others haven't come back yet."
Her eyes were red, but she tried hard not to let the tears fall, as if only by doing so, Suman and the others would come back.
"Xiao Man promised me that she would come back and bring Liang Ping and Guo Er with her."
Rupert frowned. After his calculations, he found that the probability of Su Man returning was only 23.5%. Huang Yaqin's claim that she would definitely return without even calculating the probability was clearly unrealistic.
As the amplitude of the earthquake grew stronger, the ground beneath their feet began to shake. Seeing that the earthquake was about to spread to them, Huang Yaqin made a decision.
"Child, go in. I'll wait for them here alone."
Rupert was puzzled. “If you wait here, the earthquake will come and you will die.”
"Yes, Auntie knows."
Huang Yaqin closed her eyes and suppressed the tightness in her throat. "But Auntie is afraid that they can't find their way home, so I want to wait for them here. You are still young, and Auntie doesn't want to get you into trouble. Please go in."
Can't find your way home?
Rupert couldn't understand the deep meaning behind Huang Yaqin's words, "You, really don't want to go in with me?"
"No."
Huang Yaqin helped Rupert straighten his collar and said, "Good boy, go live your life."
For no reason, Rupert felt a strange feeling in his heart, a little warm and a little sour.
Just as he was about to say something, a sharp car horn pierced the air.
“Beep—”
Amidst the black smoke, an off-road vehicle suddenly appeared, walking on the snow.
"Xiao Man!"
Huang Yaqin was very excited when she saw the three people running towards her.
"Go in quickly."
Several residential buildings nearby had collapsed. At the moment the building fell towards them, Su Man, who came in last, leaned against the door with her body.
Without her saying anything, Rupert had already activated the security device, and the iron plate was like a Transformer, protecting the entire house.
However, the intensity of the vibration was so great that the people in the house could not stand. The shelves were shaking and bricks and lime fell from the roof.
"Bang...Bang...Boom..."
One muffled thud after another hit their heads, all blocked by the steel plates.
Although preparations have been made, natural disasters are ruthless and no one knows whether the house can survive.
After an unknown amount of time, the earth slowly returned to peace.
Without the noise, Su Man, who had been looking up at the roof, breathed a sigh of relief.
When she lowered her aching neck to rub it, she found that both her hands were being pulled.
On the left is Yu Guo and on the right is Rupert.
Humans are social animals, and this is an instinctive reaction in an emergency, so it’s nothing.
But when Rupert discovered this, he explained seriously, "The limbic brain activity that just controlled my nervous emotions caused my body to react this way. It doesn't represent my true feelings or subjective intentions."
"I see."
Su Man raised their clasped hands and asked, "So what is this now?"
"Right now, the neocortex, which is supposed to suppress fear, hasn't kicked in yet, so my body is still being controlled by my limbic brain."
"Speak human language!"
"My legs haven't recovered yet."
"Okay."
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It's not just Rupert, but also Yu Liangping and Huang Yaqin.
Rupert didn't let go of Suman's hand until the vibration completely disappeared.
Huang Yaqin threw herself directly into Yu Liangping's arms. Now she didn't have to suppress her emotions and could finally burst into tears. "You scared me to death. I thought you guys would never come back."
Although he was still frightened, Yu Liangping chose to comfort Huang Yaqin first, "Okay, okay, you're back now, why are you crying?"
"You know, I almost wanted to go with you guys just now."
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