The ground shaking became more and more intense. The dilapidated buildings on the surface of the Jiangnan City base and the entire area of Building F all collapsed. Many people who were packing their things inside and did not retreat were crushed under the rubble or fell into the deep ditch. .
There was a sudden burst of wailing and screaming, but as the dust and the dust raised by the ground cracked became louder and louder, all the sounds were swallowed up.
At this moment, the people who had retreated outside Area B were almost all powerful people in the underground base. Under the protection of the soldiers, they quickly moved towards the location of the granary.
Wang Hexing originally kept moving forward under the protection of the soldiers, but stopped after hearing a faint cry for help behind him.
"Chief, leave quickly. If you don't leave, you will die when the ground cracks spread!"
"No! There are still many people in the base who have not come out, and there are also many people on the ground. If we just leave like this, they will definitely die."
"leader!"
"Team A will follow me and divide into two teams to go around and rescue people from both sides of the crack!"
"yes!"
The soldiers knew that as long as they turned back and got into the dust in the sky, their lives would no longer be their own. But they were unwilling to disobey Wang Hexing's order.
"Boom!"
A loud noise came again, and a crack appeared at the feet of the person who was about to go back for rescue. The crack became larger as the intensity of the earthquake increased, like a beast slowly opening its huge mouth, trying to devour All of them.
Wang Hexing sighed, "Forget it, everyone returns to the team and continues to the south granary."
As a superior, he wanted to save more survivors, but he became powerless. He would not choose to sacrifice more people to save others.
Wang Ling saw his grandfather gathering a team of soldiers and rushed over. After seeing the ground cracking in front of him, a trace of sadness appeared on his face. "Grandpa, let's go. This earthquake is much stronger than before. We will come back after the earthquake is over. Don't make unnecessary sacrifices."
Wang Hexing took a deep breath and left with Wang Ling's support. But after Wang Ling turned around, he still turned his head and glanced behind him.
I haven't seen Su Mi since just now. I wonder if she was among the crowd of survivors and retreated to the granary.
At this time, Su Mi was extremely depressed in the space. These three damn vines actually surrounded the position before she entered the space in the air.
The three giant towers seemed to have joined together out of thin air and rolled up into a giant twist shape, but only Su Mi knew that they were waiting for her to go out. As soon as she goes out, they will wrap around her and strangle her to death.
At this time, there was a cave about a thousand meters below the ground crack, with obvious traces of artificial digging. There were ten people in the cave, four of them were still lying on the ground, their faces were gray, and their lips were bloodless. From time to time, they looked at the light outside the cave, and then slightly raised the corners of their mouths, thinking they had smiled today.
Six others, one of them a woman, were cooking in a round metal pot on a campfire. After they fell into the abyss from the flat ground in Shao'an City, they did not fall directly to death. Instead, they were blocked by the long grass and vines below and fell into the underground river below.
It was Qin Hao who woke up first and picked them all up from various places in the river and put them on the shore for rescue.
There were thirty-two of them in the group, and now only ten of them were left.
Every day, Qin Hao would take Zhang Yanni and Wu Lei, who were in good health, out to look for edible things and supplies, and Qin Hao himself would come back much later than the other two people every day.
This pot was the only aircraft accessory they found near the wreckage of the transport plane in the abyss that could be used for cooking. The ram air turbine they placed at the entrance of the cave was also moved back and placed at the entrance of the cave to prevent wild beasts from invading at night.
It's like an isolated world. It's calm and uncontested. You can see a sliver of sky above, hear the rushing sound of the underground river below, and the return wind that only exists in mountain streams. If you are accidentally scratched, you can easily be carried into the cracked air in the ground, and then fall directly.
Qin Hao once encountered such a wind while going out and was swept into the air. Fortunately, it happened to fall into the long grass when it fell, and only two ribs were broken.
Zhang Yanni is a military doctor. Although her medical skills are good, due to the lack of medical equipment and drugs, Qin Hao can only rely on lying down to heal his bones.
Everyone thought that Qin Hao's ribs had not recovered yet, but only Qin Hao himself knew that his injury would be healed on the third day. It was so miraculous that he even frightened himself. Although there was still a dull pain from the broken ribs on his chest, he knew what the broken ribs were like, and he could roughly judge whether it was good or bad.
So after that, he continued to go out every day, looking for food and searching further afield. Everyone knew that it was Su Mi he was looking for so desperately.
After a month, there was no sign of Su Mi at all. Instead, the bodies of missing soldiers were found one after another. Some of them were complete bodies, and they were judged to have died when they fell.
Some bodies were incomplete, with teeth marks of wild beasts on them, and their abdomens had been torn open and hollowed out.
The night not long ago, they heard the howling of wolves in the distance in the cave.
In order to find a way out, they descended into the deepest part of the underground canal and explored some dangerous caves, but there was no way out.
The four soldiers who were lying in the cave recovering from their injuries drank the slurry made from plant grass juice and just lay down when the ground shook.
The shaking on the ground had been felt frequently within this month, and they were all used to it. But this time it's different. The vibrations on the ground were accompanied by a hissing insect-like roar outside the cave. This had to make the ten people in the cave vigilant.
Not long after, the gravel in the cave began to fall down as the ground shaking intensified. Several people blocked the door of the cave and pushed it open, and then ran to an open space outside.
At this moment, several people suddenly fell from the rock wall above the ravine. Some fell to death on the spot, and some were lucky enough to fall into the underground river but were washed away by the water.
In an emergency, they have to take care of their own safety and not others.
Because a greater crisis is coming now.
Whether it was the underground river, the long grass, or the flat ground where they were at this time, there were cracks in the ground. Qin Hao and others thought that the ground was cracking again and quickly ran away. Unexpectedly, a piece of tender green vines emerged from the ground like countless tiny tentacles.
Qin Hao and others were all tense, especially Qin Hao. Su Mi had reminded him about the three vines when they were on the plane. This whole area of small vines is almost as dense as the long grass next to it, but they start to grow crazily as soon as they emerge from the ground.
Qin Hao tried to get closer, but a thin vine did not attack him. Instead, like a curious baby, he bent his small green body close to Qin Hao's hand.
The thin vines gently wrapped around Qin Hao's fingertips, gently tickling his palms.
At this moment, Qin Hao suddenly froze on the spot. There was a familiar smell on this tiny vine. After getting closer and smelling it, he discovered that it was very similar to the smell of the bottle of water Su Mi gave him.
The thin vines grew longer and longer, and now they were no longer above the heads of Qin Hao and others. It blocked the sky and prevented them from seeing the sky above.
Second update, my friends finally hit the road after a month
But there are only ten of the thirty people left on the mission.
(End of chapter)
