Time passed slowly, and the clock struck midnight on the 20th. The main shock of the first day had finally passed, and Lin Ruo was finally relieved.
The main transverse wave of the earthquake only occurred on the first day; the remaining two days were filled with aftershocks. Although these aftershocks were still of high magnitude, the fortress was fully capable of withstanding them, and she did not need to intervene further.
Nevertheless, Lin Ruo dared not slacken in the slightest, and still dared not remove the fine ice net under the fortress, firmly gripping the ground.
The prolonged earthquake caused numerous cracks and collapses in the ground, and fine cracks also appeared around the fortress. However, the fortress's foundation was very wide, and with the addition of horizontal bars and the ice net made by Lin Ruo, spanning hundreds of meters, these cracks did not damage the fortress, but only made it slightly tilted.
After the main shock subsided, A-Liu put Lin Ruo down. The seawater outside was still flowing, but the amplitude had decreased a lot. Waves crashed against the fortress again and again, and Lin Ruo did not clean the silt off the protective shield.
Lin Ruo extended his mental energy, and the seawater was now more than halfway up the fortress, which was over 20 meters high.
Lin Ruo withdrew her mental energy, and A Liu then put A Fu and A Shou on the ground. The moment A Fu and A Shou's feet touched the ground, they felt the shaking of the ground decrease and felt relieved. They ran to Lin Ruo for comfort, saying they were terrified just now.
Lin Ruo gently patted the heads of the two giant puppies and said to A Liu beside her, "A Liu is great, she can already protect us."
Ah Liu's willow branches stretched out and swayed back and forth, the entire canopy rustling, clearly indicating that she was very happy.
They hadn't eaten or drunk anything all day. Now that the main shock had passed, and only aftershocks were coming, they could finally eat something and rest.
Lin Ruo first prepared a basin of lake water for them. To prevent them from feeling the tremors of the earthquake, A Liu held them in mid-air. Lin Ruo patted its trunk, poured double the amount of lake water on it, and prepared a whole level 2 mutated animal to replenish its energy.
Ah Liu eagerly stuck her willow branch into the mutated beast's body. Time to eat! It was the least affected of the three, and its appetite was not affected at all.
After Afu and Ashou finished drinking their water, Lin Ruo took out a large food bowl to prepare "breakfast" for them. The food was the meat of the mutated leopard that Afu had brought back last time, along with a lot of fruit grown in the space.
Now that the earthquake has stopped, Afu and Ashou's appetites have finally returned, and they are eating meat with gusto, their mouths dripping with blood.
Once the mutated beast next to A-Liu was reduced to just a thin skin, Lin Ruo took out five large watermelons, each weighing ten pounds, from her spatial storage, placed them next to it, and patted A-Liu's willow branch, saying, "Eat up."
Ah Liu's willow branches sprouted with joy; today was truly a happy day!
Lin Ruo returned to the fortress, took out a box of fried rice from her spatial storage and ate it. Then she took out Afu and Ashou's nest and her own bed from her spatial storage. She hadn't slept all night and needed to get a good night's sleep.
While Afu and Ashou went to sleep, Lin Ruo took out a few crystal cores to replenish all the superpowers she had consumed that day. Looking at the mountain of crystal cores, she realized that she had consumed 80,000 level-one crystal cores when she upgraded her spatial superpowers.
Lin Ruo's spatial ability upgrade was from level 6 to level 7, which required the energy of a level 7 crystal core. It took the energy of nearly 80,000 level 1 crystal cores to fill the gap.
Upgrading to level eight would require hundreds of thousands of pills! That's an astronomical number!
Based on this calculation, it seems that the crystal cores stored in her space won't last long before they're used up.
I originally thought that so many crystal cores would last a long time, but now it seems that I still need to continue mining more crystal cores. Unfortunately, the large-scale beast tide is over, and I can only mine more high-level crystal cores to fill the gap in quantity.
While Lin Ruo and the others were resting, the ground was still trembling slightly. This was an aftershock of the major earthquake. The aftershock was not enough to shake the fortress, so Lin Ruo and the others slept peacefully.
Two days later, the tremors finally disappeared completely, and the seawater outside the protective shield receded completely after a whole day. Only then did Lin Ruo bring the outer protective shield back into the fortress.
The area outside the fortress was now covered with withered branches and leaves, as well as thick silt. The seawater had filled and covered the cracks with the silt from below when it flowed.
Lin Ruo sighed and looked around. The silvery-white world she had seen before was gone, and the withered trees not far away had been uprooted and disappeared. She wondered which building they were now stuck in or whether they had been taken hundreds of kilometers away.
How powerful nature is! How insignificant humanity is in the face of such power! Yet humanity always tries to change nature, only to be punished by nature in the end.
She turned back to the fortress, where Afu and Ashou had already come out and were squatting on the platform. A-Liu's willow branches were firmly embedded in the soil, just like Lin Ruo's, protecting the fortress and preventing it from tilting.
Lin Ruo chuckled, "It's all over now. We're safe for the time being. There's thick mud outside, and the cracks are filled with silt. It will freeze into ice in a few hours, and then you can go out and take a look."
A-Liu's willow branches stretched out from the ground and then drooped back to the ground. A-Fu and A-Shou stayed obediently on the platform of the fortress. They were still in fear of the earthquake and would probably need to recover for a while.
Lin Ruo shook her head, prepared breakfast for them, turned on the TV, and then turned to walk towards the training room, not forgetting to remind A Liu, who was still watching TV.
"Ah Liu remembers to turn off the TV in an hour."
Ah Liu's willow branch touched the air briefly before retracting back to continue watching TV.
Lin Ruo walked into the training room, took out the equipment from the space and arranged it again before starting to exercise.
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