The chaos did not last long. The city guards at both ends blocked it for only a few minutes. The brightening sky suddenly flashed with white light, scaring away those who wanted to poke their heads to see what was going on outside the cave.
"Everyone, hold your head and squat on the ground. If you can't squat safely, get on all fours. Don't lie down. Keep your chest and back off the ground!"
This section has been trained in recent days, and the coordinators of each community also helped shout, and everyone squatted down.
There are still many people who can't help but look outside the cave.
The white flash has disappeared. Looking out from the tunnel, it is the color of sunset again!
Without giving them much time to explore, the entire tunnel started to move.
It is obviously a stone, but with the naked eye, it seems that a wave passes through the tunnel instantly from the tunnel head.
Immediately there were several more waves, accompanied by the rattling of rocks throughout the tunnel.
Everyone was very scared, afraid that the tunnel would collapse and someone would want to leave.
Not surprisingly, they were blocked by the city defense army.
"Don't leave the tunnel, it's safer inside!"
"It's going to collapse, can't you see it!?"
"The sharp blade of Dog Day, we want to live!"
The Mandarin spoken by the people in Xincheng is still very poor, and Sharp Blade can't understand them at all. Even if a few officers who have been blessed with language knowledge can understand them, they will not pay attention to them.
The position of the city defense army is much more dangerous than the people in the tunnel, but there is no way, the king's order must be carried out.
"Crossing the cordon is treated as an attack on the military camp. If your hands and feet are broken, don't blame us for not warning you!"
After all, they had conducted evacuation drills and discussed some possible scenarios in the past two days. The panic has not turned into a military-civilian conflict for the time being, but people deep in the tunnel are also trying to squeeze out, and they don't even care about the things they have moved. .
The Manu brothers were more shrewd and asked their assistants and younger brothers and sisters to help them squeeze their group closer to the cave wall. Get out of the way and don't move anyway.
They believed that the Phoenix King did not organize such a large-scale battle to trap all the people to death in the tunnel. If he wanted to kill them all, he would have massacred them all in Red Rock City.
The crowd was squeezing and squeezing, but before there was much movement, the real earthquake came.
"Everyone squat down, try to get as close to the wall and railway embankment as possible, don't cling to the ground or wall, and get up immediately if you fall!"
The human voice played no role in the earthquake sound, but there were mages at both ends to help amplify the sound, and with the advantage of the tunnel's sound transmission, people deep in the tunnel could barely hear it.
Most people were obedient, but some panicked people tried to climb onto the railway embankment and run away.
There's an earthquake!
If you can run away safely, you can directly join the garrison and become an officer!
These people fell down before they could reach the entrance of the cave, and almost half of them never got up again once they fell.
Normally, you only have to bear your own weight when you fall, but it is not that easy to survive when Dadi jumps up and kisses your chest.
"Ignore those who are down for now, protect yourself!" the officers at both ends were still shouting.
Seeing that the people who rushed onto the roadbed seemed to have died after falling down, the others finally did not dare to mess around. They followed the drill and silently prayed to the gods they believed in to protect their lives.
The earthquake did not last long. Although there were cracks in the tunnel and some ash and small stones fell, most people were intact.
"Has it... passed?"
The officer himself was a little panicked: "It's not over yet. The people at the entrance retreated into the tunnel to make room for the city defense troops."
Only then did the bastards notice that most of the city defense troops were facing outwards and holding shields!
Fortunately, the earthquake stopped, and people could still stand on the roadbed after falling, and they managed to get the city defense troops in.
The place usually feels quite spacious, but when something happens, it is so crowded that there is no room to move.
The outside of the cave was still red, and the people in the tunnel didn't know what happened. The city defense army didn't explain. Only a small number of people stared at the citizens, and most of them formed a formation to face the outside world.
The human area was quiet, waiting for something to happen.
Suddenly, sand and rocks flew outside the cave, and the stone defense line built outside the tunnel collapsed instantly. Most of them flew to the south, and a few of them knocked down several city defenders.
The city defense troops did not move, and only pulled the wounded behind to let the mage deal with them.
The crowd didn't dare to move, not knowing if there was anyone more powerful.
After waiting for a while, everyone was a little nervous when a loud rumbling sound came from the distance. However, the tunnel itself did not move, there was just a dry sound, but it was not as scary as it was at the beginning.
I don’t know why I feel it’s a little difficult to breathe, but after enduring it, it seems to be getting better again.
The city defenders lowered their shields and stood up, and everyone's hearts dropped.
"Finished?"
The city defense army retreated outside the cave and shouted: "Everyone return to the refuge, count the casualties, report to your supervisor, and wait for the next order."
"You survived?" Some people still didn't believe it.
Although there were some twists and turns, it seemed to pass easily.
But if you are a little smarter, think about what you would have faced if you were outside just now... you can't think of it.
The wait was longer this time.
The civilians were ignorant, and the city defense troops at the northwest entrance of the tunnel could clearly see that the royal city was closer to the incident, and they didn't know if they could still send orders over.
We can only follow the prior arrangements to remove the stones on the railway first, and send two teams of 100 people to investigate along the railway line in the direction of Nanzhen to summarize the damage to the railway. Only those pressed by stones must be removed on the spot, and the section from Xincheng to the tunnel will be There is an inspection of the southern pass.
It was almost dawn, but the red light in the north had not completely disappeared. What was waiting was not a train, but a garrison on foot to deliver the order.
"The evacuation has come to an end, and all cities and towns are ordered to collect statistics on personnel and building losses, and assess the manpower and time required for repairs. People in cities and towns will not withdraw for the time being. They will rely on shelters to stay temporarily and allow citizens to move outside the shelters, waiting for subsequent administrative orders. .”
"Is Wang Ting okay?" The person who received the order was a little worried.
"It's very good. It's much better than yours." The herald felt that these people were overly concerned. After all, it was the city where the artifacts given by the Great Mother grew up. It was not so easy for things to go wrong.
"That's good, that's good."
The evacuation came to an end. They didn't know if it was over or not, but they soon knew it.
The next afternoon, black flakes began to fall from the sky, which were actually black snow from volcanic ash.
On the third day, blood-red rain fell from the sky!
Although most of the citizens of Xincheng were slaves and had little knowledge, they knew that the rain of blood was not good, so no wonder it was just a stage.
It rained blood for two days, and the sky turned... black.
It was obviously daytime, but the sky was darker than cloudy, like a sudden heavy rain, but it didn't rain.
On this day, the railway was opened to traffic again, and new supplies were distributed along the railway.
Following the administrative order sent by the railway, people returned to various towns and activities returned to normal. Red Rock City did its best to receive the subsequent refugees.
Also coming were military orders to expand the city defense forces of Hongshi City and Xincheng.
The residents in the tunnel returned to the new city and finally knew what it was like outside.
Half of the buildings in the city collapsed. Most of the buildings that survived were made of a mixture of stone and wood, with clay added to bind the stone. However, there were also many cracks and wall damage, but the basic shape of the building was preserved.
Some people in Xincheng took refuge at the Xincheng Railway Station and in the tunnel under the Nanjing Pass. They had already started rebuilding their homes, but the progress was quite slow.
At this time, the streets were full of stones and broken wood and branches blown from unknown sources. The amount was so large that it took nearly ten thousand people a week to clean it up, and house repairs had not even begun.
A lot of things have to be started from scratch, but at least people have survived. The number of dead can be said to be insignificant in the face of such a catastrophe.
