Chapter 56: The Earthquake

With a little embarrassment and embarrassment, Zuo Youzhimen and Qiu Mingli, as well as the female Foreign Ministry escort, hurriedly walked out of the door.

"Bang!" With this loud bang, the door of the courtyard closed tightly.

"Whew!" Zuo Youzhimen and Qiu Mingli breathed a sigh of relief, and their tense mood eased slightly.

Both of them underestimated Fang Mingyuan too much, thinking that Fang Mingyuan would be like the vast majority of Chinese people in this era, as soon as he heard that international diplomatic relations were involved, he would be frightened and sore. Therefore, the two of them thought about this matter too easily, and they both thought that they were accompanied by each other, and the two sides put pressure on each other Mingyuan, and Fang Mingyuan, who was in a difficult situation at home and abroad, could only obediently bow his head and admit his mistake.

Where did they think of it, not to mention Fang Mingyuan's decades of knowledge in his previous life, just in this life and this life, he has already seen many big people, he has seen all the emirs of Kuwait, and he can still be afraid of a petty official like the deputy counselor of culture. As for Qiu Mingli, the director in the capital can be said to be everywhere, even if it is from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is also the director!

Fang Mingyuan didn't take the two of them to heart at all, now that it's January 20th, the Hanshin earthquake can happen at any time, and after the earthquake, the Japanese still want to make trouble, and they don't have that spirit anymore. Thousands of people died, tens of thousands were injured, hundreds of thousands were left homeless, direct economic losses exceeded 100 billion US dollars, and nearly 2% of Japan's GDP disappeared in an instant, even compared to the Great Kanto Earthquake of that year. Such a tragic result is unbearable even for Japan, the second largest economic country.

Now his spirit is all on the final exam. The disturbances of the outside world, the pressure from all directions, just let it go! Anyway, just drag it out for a few more days......

At 11:35 p.m. on January 23, 1995, this will be a day that the Japanese in the Kobe area will remember in the future.

"Those who love spring are pure in heart, like violet flowers, my friends. People who love summer are strong-willed people, like waves crashing against rocks, my father ......" Sakaji Jiro hummed a Japanese folk song and helped two drunken colleagues out of the roadside tavern. Today, after a long period of hard work, their insurance company has made a big deal, and everyone is happy, so they decide to come to the tavern to celebrate. He just joined the company last year, and he is a small person among these people, so he can still drink less and still maintain a basic sobriety. And the rest of them are now drunk to the point that their tongues are bigger. Poor him, he had to put these people in the taxi one by one before he could go home.

It's winter, and it's close to midnight, but as a modern city with a population of more than a million, the streets of Kobe are still crowded with pedestrians and vehicles.

"Hanji...... Jun, listen...... Did you say that? That one...... Fang Fang, there is no ...... at all Didn't put our country, that and that...... ...... of these groups Protest, take it to heart! The one on the left-hand side stammered drunkenly.

"Hi Yi, Senior Longtian, I heard about it!" Hanji Jiro hurriedly replied. This matter has spread widely in Japan, and the accusations against "Fang" in the media can be described as overwhelming. According to the Chinese people, that is what thousands of people refer to, and tens of thousands of people scold it.

Now that there are eight days left until the end of January, many Japanese are waiting to see how that "Fang" will end on February 1st!

Of course, people are also more concerned about how much his shares and copyrights are worth! This is the core topic of discussion when everyone talks about it.

For "Fang", Jiro Sakajiro, who walked out of school for less than two years, is his favorite comic author, and he bought all the comics of "Fang" without pulling an episode. And those games of "Fang" are also his favorites. Especially the "Great Voyage Series", which made him completely addicted to it back then, and almost failed in his first year of college.

So when TV Tokyo aired that episode of the interview, Jiro Sakaji really made some preparations, but fortunately he wasn't a Kobe native and lived here alone, so there was nothing old to talk about. It's just that the next development was greatly unexpected by Sakaji Jiro.

The strong reaction of many Japanese people, as well as the accusations in the media, made Sakaji Jiro also very painful, although he said that he had the heart to defend "Fang" a few words, but he is a fledgling hairy boy, who will pay attention to what he says? Instead, it could attract a lot of blame. Nowadays, it is not easy to find a suitable job in Japan, and if you don't have a good relationship with your colleagues, especially with your seniors, how can you stay in the company? So Hanji Jiro could only listen helplessly, nodding against his will.

"Mao Mao...... The hair is not ...... It's not all right, little fart kids, too...... Dare to ...... too," the Japanese on the other side said.

Jiro Sakaji waved his hand, and a taxi stopped on the side of the road.

"Longtian seniors, Murakami seniors, the car is coming, hurry up and get in the car!" Jiro Sakaji hurriedly interrupted him.

helped the two of them into the car, explained the whereabouts to the driver again, paid the fare in advance, and watched the taxi move slowly, and Hanji Jiro breathed a sigh of relief.

Just as he turned around and was about to turn back, there were still four drunks in this tavern, Sakaji Jiro suddenly felt a sudden shaking under his feet, and before he could react, whether the ground was moving or his feet were soft, Sakaji Jiro was shocked to find that the buildings on both sides of the street began to shake, and the pedestrians on the road let out a burst of exclamations!

Then, the shaking became more pronounced, and Sakaji Jiro felt that he was not standing on the smooth ground, but on the deck of the rough sea. His feet went limp, and he sat on the ground.

At the moment of sitting down, Hanji Jiro also noticed that he didn't know when a crack opened on the road, and the taxi carrying the two colleagues couldn't dodge, and the front of the car had been planted in, and then, there was a strong shaking, and the glass on the buildings on both sides of the street broke one after another, spilling a piece of glass slag, and Hanji Jiro hurriedly shrank his neck and hugged his head, and when he looked at the taxi again, only one trunk was still outside the crack, and then he fell headlong and made a dull loud noise.

The chasm was rapidly expanding, and the vehicles on both sides could not dodge, and several of them were also planted, and many more were smashed into a mess, completely blocking the road, and the people on board jumped in panic.

"Boom!" Suddenly there was a loud bang in the crack, and then a huge ball of fire erupted!

"Great earthquake!" When Jiro Sakajiro's mind was neutral, he reacted, and the big earthquake happened!

The shaking of the ground became more and more obvious, and the hard ground seemed to become a waterbed on which children liked to jump, and Sakaji Jiro could see that buildings were already collapsing in the distant block, and a series of sparks appeared from time to time. Everywhere there were figures of people running, screams and screams everywhere.

With a series ......of explosions, the street lights on both sides of the road went out.

Although this series of events is long, but in fact, it is only a few breaths of time, Hanji Jiro wants to get up from the ground, but first, the ground shakes too much, and second, he has drunk a lot of alcohol after all, although it is not yet to the point of getting drunk, but this hand and foot are still not as dexterous as usual. Several times I tried to stand up, I sat down again, but I fell and my butt hurt.

The tavern he had just come out of had already exploded by this time, because the building shook violently, not only the dust on the roof had fallen, but some of the pendants that were not strong enough to be nailed had also fallen down, and the lights inside and outside the house had been extinguished, and the people in the tavern no longer dared to stay in it, and they all ran away from the door, and the anxious people, who had more or less drunk, stumbled in the dark space to the place where they thought they were exiting.

I don't know how many people actually ran in the wrong direction, and I don't know how many times they were in pain because they hit various decorations in the store, or tripped over something messy on the floor. Fortunately, the Japanese have always been prepared for danger in times of peace, and from childhood to adulthood, I don't know how many times I have experienced this emergency drill, so although they all drank alcohol, they still had some instinctive reactions. So most of the people still found the exit and poured out.

Sakaji Jiro, who finally got up, was rushed by the crowd that broke out of the door and fell directly into the middle of the road. Fortunately, at this time, the road has long been blocked by various vehicles, but there is no need to worry about the collision of vehicles coming and going, but he hit the trunk of a car headlong and broke the bleeding flow.

Dizzy, Jiro Sakaji wiped the blood from his forehead and struggled to get up, this was not a safe place, he had to quickly find a shelter to hide. But as soon as he looked up, his eyes immediately opened as wide as brass bells—the tavern where they drank was the first floor of a six-story building, but now, the six-story building, like the same wall, slowly tilted and slapped down on the street!

Jiro Sakaji immediately jumped into the back seat of the car, closed the door, and then curled up with his head in his hands, huddled in the car, and prayed in his heart that he would escape this time.

Listening to the screams that resounded in the sky outside the car, "It's over, this time the company is going bankrupt!" This was an idea from Jiro Hanji Zuihou......