They all got out of the car and looked across the valley at the seismic shakers parked near the fault cliffs.

Liu Zhan wholeheartedly hoped that this time, he would be able to see the surface shift and crack. Please, God give me an earthquake, okay?

The truck roared, and the ground began to tremble slightly, and a puff of sand and dust was raised, and the vibration lasted for a full minute, not half a minute, but the earthquake didn't happen, he just waited longer, and the end result was still disappointing.

When the noise was gone, he said, "It's not going to work, is it?"

Ren Lian glared at her, she turned to Liu Zhan and said, "Can you adjust the frequency of the vibrator?"

"Yes. Liu Zhan said, "Now we are setting the middle value, so we need to adjust it up or down a little bit, what's wrong?"

"There are theories that frequency may be an important factor, and we all know that the earth's crust is vibrating slightly all the time, so why doesn't it keep earthquakes? Maybe it's because the vibrations have to be at the right frequency to cause the fault to shift, and you know that playing a note in a certain way can shatter glass, right?"

"I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I've only seen it in cartoons, but I know what you mean, it's true, and when I see them doing seismic surveys with vibrators, they adjust the vibration frequency in a seven-second vibration time. ”

"Really?" Ren Lian showed curiosity, "Why?"

"I don't know, maybe it's easier for them to read on the geophone, but anyway, I don't think we need to, so we didn't choose that mode, but we could still adjust it. ”

"Then let's try. ”

"Okay, but we've got to hurry, it's past two and five by now. "

They jumped into the car, and Wu Ming drove very fast, flying through the dusty desert.

Liu Zhan readjusted the control panel of the vibrator, set the frequency to gradually increase, and set the time to sixty seconds, and when they hurried back to the observation point, he looked at the table below.

"Two and fifteen," he said, "is our last chance." ”

"Don't worry," Ren Lian said, "I'm out of options, and if that doesn't work, I'll give up." ”

Wu Ming stopped the car, and they got out of the car again.

Liu Zhan felt extremely depressed at the thought that he might drive all the way back to the village empty-handed, and he felt that if this was the case, he might as well drive the truck to pieces on the highway and settle all this.

"What are you waiting for, press that damn button!" Ren Lian still urged Liu Zhan in an impatient tone.

Liu Zhan pressed the button.

As before, the ground trembled, and a puff of dust rose around the vibrator, and it started with a deep rumble of the precursor, then a rising pitch.

And then, the earthquake came.

The ground beneath Liu Zhan's feet began to rise and fall like a choppy sea.

Then, he felt his center of gravity unstable, as if someone had grabbed his leg and flipped him to the ground.

He slammed his back down on the ground, and he couldn't breathe for a moment.

Feng Feng and Ren Lian screamed at the same time, Ren Lian let out a high-pitched scream, and Feng Feng let out a roar mixed with shock and fear.

Liu Zhan saw that both of them had fallen, Ren Lian fell beside him, and Feng Feng fell a few steps away.

Wu Ming stumbled and stood on his heels, but eventually collapsed.

Liu Zhan panicked silently, I succeeded, the earthquake came, and I was going to die.

There was a cacophony of noise, as if an express train was whizzing nearby, and dust was raised on the ground, small stones were flying in the air, and large boulders were tumbling in various ways.

The surface was still moving, as if someone was pulling on one end of a blanket, and it was a bewildering feeling, and the whole world, which was so hard to describe, suddenly became a completely strange place.

Liu Zhan gasped and struggled to sit up on his knees, and then, as he tried to stand up with one foot support, Ren Lian grabbed his arm and pulled him down again.

He yelled at her, "Let go of me, you idiot!"

But he couldn't hear himself, and the ground began to rise, causing him to roll down the hill, farther and farther away from his private car.

Ren Lian fell on top of him, and he thought the car might flip over and crush both of them to death.

He tried to get out of the path of the car, but he couldn't see the style, and he couldn't see Wu Ming.

A bush of thorns flew over and hit him in the face, scratching at his skin, the dust drifted into his eyes, he was blind for a moment, he lost all sense of direction, he curled up in a ball, covered his face with his arms, and waited for death.

Oh my God, if I'm going to die this time, I want to die with amorous.

The earthquake stopped suddenly, as abruptly as it had come, and he didn't know that after a few moments, the noise had disappeared.

Liu Zhan rubbed the dust from his eyes and stood up.

His sight slowly recovered, and he saw Ren Lian fall at his feet, so he reached out and pulled her up. "Are you okay?" He asked.

"I think it's okay. She replied with a trembling voice.

The sand and dust in the air was not so thick, and he saw Wu Ming standing up tremblingly.

Where's the style? At this time, he saw her a few paces away.

She was lying on her back on the ground, her eyes closed, his heart tightened, don't die, God, please, don't let her die.

He knelt down beside her and said, "Amorous! He exclaimed, "Are you alright?"

She opened her eyes, "Oh my God," she said, "it's so thrilling!"

She grinned, and he restrained Lieutenant's tears and pulled his feet to his feet.

"It's nice that we're all alive. He said.

The dust soon dispersed, and there was a crack in the ground, in the middle of the valley, looking north and south to a scale that he could not see.

"I can't believe it," he said calmly, "look there,"

"It worked. Ren Lian said.

"We did it," Wu Ming said, "and we in Donglong actually created an earthquake!"

Liu Zhan grinned at everyone. "There was a real earthquake. He said.

He kissed the style, and then kissed Ren Lian's cheek, which was a friendly greeting from the West.

They were all laughing, and then Liu Zhan was dancing, and he was dancing an Indian war dance, right in the middle of that devastated valley, his boots kicking the newly settled dust.

Feng also joined in, followed by Ren Lian and Wu Ming, the four of them gathered in a circle, kept spinning, they shouted loudly, laughed heartily, until tears welled up in their eyes.

This Friday was the worst weekend of Zhu's career at the FBI, and she was on her way home.

She couldn't figure out what she had done wrong to end up like this.

Well, she did yell at her boss, but he was the one who put her in the little shoes first, so there must have been some other reason. Yesterday, she did everything she could to maintain the image of the Bureau of Investigation in the state capital, trying to make an impression of being competent, but somehow she left the impression of being confused and incompetent.

She felt annoyed and frustrated, since the meeting with Zhu Wu, nothing good had happened.

She's been calling seismology professors, asking questions and she'll ask, are they looking at the location of key pressure points on the fault line, and if yes then who has access to their data? Are any of these people linked to terrorist organizations?

Seismologists didn't help her, and most of the academics today were students in the '70s, when the FBI infiltrated all corners of the campus to spy on the protests, but that was many years ago, but for them the mediation bureau was the enemy.

Zhu Yuting understands their hatred, but she hopes that when the agents are busy in the public interest, they will not be so uncooperative, not so aggressive.

The deadline set by the House of Earth is today, and there are no earthquakes yet.

She was relieved, even if it meant that it was over.

Today the weather is fine, and while the sun is shining, she wants to stir-fry a few home-cooked dishes before opening a bottle of red wine.

Tomorrow, she'd go to the supermarket with her father, and she'd drive along the coast to the beach, where she would sit by the sea and read a book like everyone else would.

By Monday, she'll be offered a new job, and maybe she'll be able to start over.

She didn't know whether to call her best friend Chen Qian to see if she wanted to go to the beach.

Chen Qian is her longest-known friend, the daughter of a police officer, the same age as Zhu Yuting, and the sales director of a security company, but Zhu Yuting realizes that she doesn't need the company of a female friend, if only she could lie on the beach with a man with thick legs and a low voice.

It's been a year since she broke up with William Wong, and this is her longest window period since she was a teenager.

When she was in college, she was a little wild, wild to the point of promiscuity, and while she was working at an Au Pair insurance company, she had a relationship with her boss, and then she lived with a guy named Steve for seven years, and they were both getting married.

She often thought of Steve, who was charismatic, very intelligent, very nice, maybe someone was so nice, that in the end, she began to think that he was weak, that she was too demanding.

Perhaps all considerate men are cowardly, and all strong men, such as William Wong, will eventually get involved with their secretaries.

Her car phone rings, she doesn't need to pick up the handset, it rings twice, and then it automatically switches to hands-free mode, "Hello," she said.

"Zhu Yuting, I'm your father. ”

"Hi Dad, are you coming home for dinner in the evening? We can eat..."

He interrupted her, "Turn on your car radio, hurry." He said, "Tune in to the San Francisco special channel." ”

Oh my God, what's going on?

She flipped the power switch, and the radio came out with the sound of a rock station, and she pressed the preset button, and she switched to San Francisco Radio, which was playing a special live broadcast.

For a moment, the nasal voice of the presenter Verus began to echo in the car.

He spoke in a consistently dull and pretentious tone, as if to suggest that what he said was important and capable of shaking the world.

"Seismologists from the state government have confirmed that an earthquake occurred today, and the date coincides with the deadline announced by Earth House. The earthquake occurred at 2:20 p.m. in the Owens Valley, just as Earth House had said when it called the program hotline a few minutes earlier. ”

Oh my God, they did.

Zhu Yuting's whole person was stimulated, she forgot her frustration, the frustration in her heart disappeared, and she felt that she was rejuvenated.

"But the state seismologist also denied that the terrorist group was able to create the earthquake, and he believes that the terrorists could not create any earthquakes," the host Verus said. ”

Is that really the case? Zhu Yuting must investigate clearly.

What do other seismologists think? She had to make a few phone calls. At this time, she heard Verus say, "Later, we will show you a recording of a message from the House of Earth. ”

They even left the tapes!

This could be a big mistake on the part of the terrorists who won't realize it, but the FBI is able to analyze a lot of information from the audio tapes.

Then, there was an advertisement about a furniture warehouse in the program, and Zhu Yuting turned it to mute. "You haven't hung up yet, have you, Daddy?" Of course not. ”

"They did it, didn't they?"

"Of course it seems. ”

She didn't know if he was really unsure, or if he was just cautious. "What's your intuition?"

He gave her another ambiguous answer: "My gut feeling is that these people are dangerous. ”

Zhu Yuting tried to calm her pounding heart, and instead thought about what to do next. "I'd better give Zhu Wu a call. ”

"What are you going to tell him?"

"Tell him the news... Wait" Daddy has a point, I shouldn't have called him.

"You either don't call, or if you do, you have to tell him what you can't hear on the radio. ”

"You're right. Zhu Yuting began to calm down a little, "I feel like I have to go back to work." She turned the steering wheel to the right.