Outside the base, in an abandoned village.
At the moment of dawn, Qiao Qingqing immediately asked her family to get ready, put on their shoes and carry their bags, and collect all the chickens in a few seconds. At this time, the chickens dying after being collected into the space was already a small problem, and Qiao Qingqing had no energy to take care of this.
Only Dabao went crazy the moment daybreak, rushed out of the chicken coop and disappeared.
"Dabao——" Shao Shengfei shouted loudly.
"Don't worry about it, let's go!" Shao Shengfei grabbed his hand.
Everyone rushed out of the house immediately. Before leaving, Qiao Qingqing dropped a loud speaker. While running, the sun irritated her eyes and she kept crying. Qiao Qingqing wiped away her tears vigorously and continued to run forward, leading her family to the open space behind the house.
This should have been the village's farmland, but it was completely abandoned after the natural disaster.
"Qingqing, Qingqing, why are you running so fast?" Shao's mother gasped.
Just now, the daughter-in-law seriously told them to run, and they cleared the house out in a few seconds. The atmosphere was so heavy that Shao's mother thought a disaster was about to happen, and she subconsciously listened to her daughter-in-law.
"I just felt that it was suddenly dawn, and I had a bad feeling." Qiao Qingqing said, looking around vigilantly.
Shao Shengan asked: "Mom, Dad, Big Brother, do you remember what we said before? If we separate——"
Shao Shengfei immediately raised his hand: "Remember! If we separate, we must make a mark in an obvious place on the road. I remember how to draw the mark!"
Qiao Songzhi nodded: "Remember." She looked at her daughter tenderly and firmly, and at her son-in-law and the others. She learned from her daughter that a major earthquake would occur shortly after the end of the Eternal Night, and now every minute and second spent with her family was extremely precious.
Mother Shao quickly added: "If we are separated, I will mark the way to where we leave the base. I will find some conspicuous places to mark the way. I have memorized it as well."
"I remember that, too. I review it every day." Father Shao breathed uneasily, shielding his eyes with his hands and looking up: "I haven't seen the sun for a long time. My eyes are really stinging. What are you calling over there?"
He heard some noise in the direction he was running from. Shao Shengan had just seen his wife's movements and knew that it was a loudspeaker warning of an impending earthquake.
Sure enough, he saw someone start running.
Run! Run faster!
A few alleys away in the village, Lian Junhe heard the sound of a horn.
"There's going to be an earthquake! Evacuate! There's going to be an earthquake! Evacuate!"
That should be the sound of the loudspeaker, the volume turned up to the maximum, and there was a frightening electric sound amid the deafening sound.
"Hurry up, take out the emergency kit, let's go out and take shelter first." Lian Junhe said.
The wife thought it was strange: "I'm going to hang out the clothes, why would I take the emergency bag for no reason? What's there to avoid?"
Lian Junhe was getting more and more uneasy, his heart was beating wildly, and he couldn't help shouting, "There's going to be an earthquake! Run away! Why are you drying your clothes? Didn't you hear the horn?"
In the sea more than a thousand kilometers away, the water surface that had retreated five or six kilometers suddenly continued to retreat. The calm sea surface seemed to be installed with a huge and powerful water pump. The water level dropped sharply, and the aquatic creatures jumped wildly. A fish jumped out of the water three or four meters and then fell heavily again.
"Pah!" The fish's tail splashed a large amount of water, and then it seemed to be sucked away with great force and disappeared in an instant.
From the depths of the ocean came the distant whistling of the wind, like a wail from ancient times.
Then, the next moment, the earth shook.
The moment the ground shook, Qiao Qingqing's whole body and mind tensed up. She saw with her own eyes that the house where her family had temporarily lived for more than 20 days collapsed in the blink of an eye.
I could hear the screams of Shao's father and his friends. The dilapidated house in front of me collapsed like a domino, raising thick dust. Many people ran out of it and rushed to the open space behind the village based on their experience in the earthquake disaster prevention drill. Some were pressed under the wall, some fell to the ground, and some rushed out of the thick dust and fell heavily in the air.
These scenes happened very quickly, and the world changed in an instant.
"Oh my God!" Qiao Songzhi's eyes widened. The ground was shaking. She squatted down to keep her balance. "Qingqing!"
Qiao Qingqing was also half squatting. She withdrew her gaze from the village and looked at the ground vigilantly.
Various noises mixed together in her ears, and Qiao Qingqing's eyes kept blinking, not missing any changes. She saw with her own eyes a crack trembling under her feet. She didn't know how she shouted, nor did she know what she shouted. She only remembered that her family started running again.
“Run!”
It took only a few seconds for the crack to appear and grow bigger. It appeared under Qiao Qingqing's feet. She threw herself to the left. The ground under her feet was sinking. She got up and continued to run. After running more than ten meters, she looked back and saw that the crack had expanded to about ten meters. With that crack as the center, more cracks appeared, spreading radially in all directions and expanding continuously.
In this unreasonable world, without any warning, their family was separated on both sides of the crack, facing each other across the fissure.
"Sister, run!"
Someone called her, and someone grabbed her hand and started running. Qiao Qingqing was still reluctant to look away. She saw Shao Shengan's face looking at her anxiously and worriedly, looking behind her, then waving at her, turning around and pulling Shao's mother, who was shouting, to run.
“Qingqing!”
Qiao Qingqing turned back suddenly, meeting her mother's worried gaze and Shao Shengfei's pure fearful eyes. She bit her tongue and said, "Let's go!"
During the bumpy ride, Qiao Qingqing tightly grasped Shao Shengfei's hand, then grabbed Qiao Songzhi's hand, and the three of them ran for their lives.
There were new cracks under their feet, and Qiao Qingqing and the others ran with fear every step. Qiao Songzhi took a look at the cracks and was immediately terrified. If you fell into such a deep crack, you would definitely not survive!
Shao Shengfei was in very good physical condition. He only breathed a little after running for such a long time. At the end, Qiao Songzhi was carried by Qiao Qingqing and Shao Shengfei.
"Be careful! Big brother, jump to the left!" Qiao Qingqing shouted.
Shao Shengfei shouted, and almost lifted up Qiao Songzhi, leaping over the newly formed gully and jumping to the other side. Qiao Qingqing followed closely behind, and the dirt under her feet rolled down when she landed, and the crack suddenly widened by three feet. At this moment, Qiao Songzhi was terrified: "Qingqing!"
Qiao Qingqing staggered and almost fell backwards, but she managed to quickly adjust her angle with a stable center of gravity and lie forward.
"Sister, hold on to my hand!" Shao Shengfei crawled over and grabbed her hand. Qiao Qingqing kicked the soil hard to make a hole. After stepping on the hole, she used the force to hold Shao Shengfei's hand and jumped up.
While sitting on the ground, Qiao Qingqing felt grateful for having survived the disaster.
"Qingqing ah..." Qiao Songzhi hugged her, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Mom, let's leave here. It's not safe here." Without time to be sad, Qiao Qingqing hugged her mother tightly and pulled Qiao Songzhi up.
I don't know how long or how far I ran. Qiao Qingqing's vision kept shaking, and her vision was shaking very seriously, as if her soul was shaken apart. She felt the sun shining on her, and there were people running all around her. They were running for their lives, and no one dared to stop.
Step by step, meter by meter, Qiao Qingqing felt like she was stepping over her own corpse in her previous life and she survived.
After an unknown amount of time, the horrific vibration finally stopped. Qiao Qingqing and the other two also stopped and squatted on the ground to catch their breath. A man in front of them collapsed to the ground, not caring about the ground being rough.
"Stop, stop?" Qiao Songzhi asked breathlessly.
Shao Shengfei also felt a little tired. He sat next to Qiao Songzhi, lying on the ground like a child, listening with shining eyes: "Stop! Stop moving!"
"It should have stopped. Let's take a break."
Qiao Qingqing also sat down and leaned against her mother. She stretched out her hand to Shao Shengfei: "Brother, get up. The floor is dirty."
Shao Shengfei held her hand, sat up, took off his backpack and got some water to drink.
All three of them replenished some water. After the intense exercise, they didn't dare to drink too much.
Looking around, there weren't many people nearby, at least there were less than ten people as far as Qiao Qingqing could see.
This is the outskirts of the base, with a small population, and the earthquake killed many people, so it is normal that there are not many people. Looking at the surrounding environment, there are broken walls and ruins everywhere, and almost no standing buildings can be seen.
Qiao Qingqing estimated that the earthquake was not over yet and there would definitely be aftershocks, so resting and replenishing energy was very necessary. She took out energy bars for Qiao Songzhi and Shao Shengfei to eat, and took the time to replenish energy.
The spring sun was warm on her body, and Qiao Qingqing felt herself sweating. The wind brought the smell of broken cement blocks in the air, with the smell of blood in between.
"Let's go to the other side." After eating, Qiao Qingqing helped Qiao Songzhi up, and the three of them moved to another position.
"Save me, save me...save me..."
After sitting down in a place sheltered from the wind, Qiao Qingqing heard someone calling for help.
"Okay, it seems to be there--" Qiao Songzhi said, pointing to a ruin.
"I'll go and take a look."
The place was not far away, about three or four meters away, just under the half wall at the back. Qiao Qingqing quickly walked over, moved away the old bricks and rotten beams, and her cries for help became louder.
"Sister, let me do it!" Shao Sheng flew over to help move. With his help, the trapped people were quickly dug out.
"My feet hurt so much, they hurt so much that I can't get out." The man kept crying, "Save me, please save me."
"Don't get excited, we are rescuing you." Qiao Qingqing and Shao Shengfei each moved one end of a wall block with steel bars in it. It took them a long time and their fingers were worn out before they finally moved the wall block away.
"Save me, save me..." One of the man's feet was exposed. He was sitting and being pressed down. At this moment, the shoeless foot was covered in blood and was trembling and shaking.
"Don't worry—"
Before she finished speaking, Qiao Qingqing felt her vision tremble. An aftershock was coming! She looked up and saw that the remaining half of the wall was shaking and about to fall down, and the direction of the landing was their side.
The man screamed hoarsely: "Save me!"
"Qingqing! Feifei!" Qiao Songzhi screamed.
"Sister——" Shao Shengfei's hand was grabbed by the man, and he looked at Qiao Qingqing helplessly. Qiao Qingqing didn't have time to think about anything, she opened the man's hand, dragged Shao Shengfei and rushed out.
Half of the wall fell to the ground with a loud bang, raising a pile of rubble.
There was no time to look back, no time to feel sad, Qiao Qingqing and the other two set out on their journey to escape again.
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