April 2nd. Monday. In the early hours of the morning, 0:01.

The loud sound of the sky cracking lasted for several minutes, and Zhou Xuan did not dare to open his eyes to see the world, and he did not dare to imagine the terrible scene he would see before he died. However, there was no bitter pain on his body, and there was no tragic appearance of arteries jumping and blood splattering five steps.

It's just that when he tried to stand up, he found that he couldn't move anymore.

God knows how it got to this place. There are Transformers and Doraemon in the window overhead, and naturally there is a children's business to do next to the movie theater. The body is stuck in a heavy cabinet, which is slightly inclined to form a triangle with the wall, like a solid cage. He shouted a few times, and finally heard Churchill's response, and then Luo Haoran came, but he couldn't move the cabinet.

After a few minutes, he saw a group of unfamiliar faces, including a young woman.

After a few seconds, she vanished.

When Zhou Xuan closed his eyes and resigned himself to fate, the cabinet began to shake. In the narrow space, there was a cat-like delicate body, and then a hand was pressed on his knee, and a soft female voice said, "Don't move." ”

There seemed to be a wool tassel rubbing against the top of his feet, and the switch under the cabinet was turned on.

“OK！” The woman's voice came from her feet. Everyone outside worked hard together, and quickly moved the cabinet away and rescued the trapped Zhou Xuan.

He lay on the ground and breathed heavily.

Next to Dora Aemon stood a girl wrapped in a woollen cape, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, with bright eyes under her tousled hair. She reached out to pull him up.

Zhou Xuan didn't reach out to pick it up, but got up on his own, coughed a few times and said, "Thank you." ”

He didn't get close to the group of strangers, and he had long had a sense of insecurity when facing strangers, let alone at the point of life and death. The only thing that can be trusted is Luo Haoran, the owner of this building, who walked up to the person and dog: "What happened?" ”

"All the way up the stairs is blocked." Luo Haoran looked at the dome of the atrium on the ninth floor, "Why is the movie theater placed on the ninth floor?" This is because this floor is the most robust and can accommodate the span of the atrium and multiple cinema halls. Such a steel dome, equivalent to a layer of solid armor, divides the Future Dream Building into two sections. ”

Zhou Xuan still didn't know what was going on above, but Luo Haoran convinced him that at least it was safe here.

The owner of the building is still looking up at the dome, is he concerned about the people who have rushed to the top floor?

The rest of the people were a few steps away from him, and the girl who had just rescued him was even more far away from the shadows.

Luo Haoran didn't look at them again, patted the Labradoodle on the neck, and walked down the escape route. Zhou Xuan followed closely behind, even though there was a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of him.

Escaping from the nineteenth floor to the fourth basement floor, and then from the fourth basement floor to the eighteenth floor, and then going straight down to the ground again, as if turning several times inside and outside the revolving door. I climbed the stairs up and down twice before, and I didn't know the direction and blindly followed, but this time it was much more familiar, like walking up and down at home - do you want to treat this place as your home? Living in the darkness of the earth?

Arriving at the atrium on the ground floor of the Future Dream Mall, Churchill barked again. Zhou Xuan almost fell to his knees. There were piles of corpses all over the ground. In any case, I didn't expect that most of the people who were eager to escape just now had turned into ghosts, leaving only broken bodies, like a pile of garbage.

Looking at the faces of the dead, each of them had smiles and tears, hope and despair, and had hurt or been hurt by others...... Imagine their parents happy for their births, troubled for their upbringing, and miserable for their deaths—if it's not the end of the world out there.

Luo Haoran still had no expression, and his eyes did not change at all. As the owner of this building, encountering such a hellish scene, witnessing so many people dying on their own turf, it is considered strong if you don't go crazy.

At the foot of the wall on the ground floor of the mall, there were several other people lying on the ground or leaning against the wall, all of them seriously injured and not even having the strength to climb the stairs. The only person who seemed to be safe and sound, a middle-aged man with glasses, one of the lenses had been broken, his hair was neatly combed, and his face looked very white, not covered with dirt like the others, probably somewhere to wash his face.

Zhou Xuan felt that this face was a little familiar, and he always felt that when had he seen it - tonight?

Oh, I should say it was last night, and it's the early hours of April 2nd. Just over two hours ago, he walked into the elevator of the Future Dream Hotel and saw an advertisement for a best-selling book on the LCD screen—he has always seen the cover of that book recently, and he vaguely remembers the scholar's name—Wu ...... He couldn't help but scratch his head, he just couldn't remember the name that was so red and purple. He has been planning suicide for two years, and does not care about the apocalyptic topic that the people of Earth are collectively concerned about.

It is conceivable that ten minutes ago, when someone shouted that the top floor had found a way out, all the living people on the ground floor - as long as they did not have missing arms and legs, they all rushed up excitedly, but this person stayed on the ground floor, and he still had the leisure to tidy up his image, or was he an intellectual, did he not want to escape in the first place? It's like Zhou Xuan wanted to die here?

He heard the miserable cries of several seriously injured people: "What happened just now? Did the outside come to our rescue? ”

Zhou Xuan looked at Luo Haoran, the owner of the building bypassed the injured and walked to the corridor next to the atrium, behind him, in addition to the Labradors, there were also those who escaped upstairs - a young mother holding a child, a man in supermarket overalls, a man in a dusty Dior men's clothes, a white-collar worker in a bandage, a security guard and a female cleaner, and finally a woman wrapped in a cloak. Unexpectedly, the "master" named Wu also followed them.

Entering the corridor, Luo Haoran pushed open a door, and the door said "Non-staff are not allowed to enter".

There is another door inside, and the words "monitoring room" are posted at the door, Luo Haoran pressed his fingerprint on the password door, and entered a set of complex passwords before opening it. He didn't mind a group of people coming behind him, intending to tell everyone what was going on.

The monitoring room is filled with all kinds of high-tech equipment, which is dazzling. Luo Haoran sat in front of a computer and entered a few lines of instructions to divide the large screen into dozens of small screens, but only the lower half was on, and the upper part was displayed as snowflakes, which should be the floors above the cinema.

In addition to the restrooms and locker rooms, there are cameras almost everywhere in the building. However, Zhou Xuan did not find the surveillance screen of the hotel floor, nor the office building, but saw the empty hotel lobby, although it belongs to the ground floor, but on the other side of the building.

Luo Haoran was still expressionless. There were so many eyes behind him that they were watching the surveillance footage - there were many of them, from the movie theater on the ninth floor to the restaurant on the eighth floor, and the shops on the seventh to second floors, some of which were mixed with dummies and were difficult to distinguish. In addition to the cats and dogs that escaped from the pet store, the living people who could still move on the small screen were the seriously injured people left on the ground floor.

"I see them!" Someone screamed, and everyone was startled, and it was the limping female cleaner who spoke.

The security guard reprimanded: "What are you calling! Did you see a ghost? ”

"It's the two kids who saved me with you!" She gestured to the bottom left of the big screen. The text shows a basement floor, and the picture shows a large supermarket, in which there is a young man and a woman. Judging from the dress and hairstyle, there is no doubt that they are born in the 90s, they wander like ghosts in the ruins of the store, the girl is next to the boy, and the boy walks with ease like a leisurely stroll. The girl kept taking the things off the shelves, which seemed to be snacks such as chocolate, as if they were at home, and took them open and put them in her mouth - in the aftermath of the earthquake disaster, this can't be considered a robbery, right?

Luo Haoran entered a line of instructions into the computer again, and the picture of the big screen changed completely, no longer divided into small screens, and directly appeared on the hotel floor - the text was displayed as a corridor on the nineteenth floor.

It was the most familiar place for Zhou Xuan, who had just walked into the hallway two hours earlier, and was about to commit suicide by jumping off the building. However, he noticed a detail that is easy to overlook, the time of the monitoring is displayed in the corner of the screen: 23:55 on April 1.

It was last night dozens of minutes ago - the staff ran up to the top floor of the nineteenth floor, holding various excavation tools, full of hope of escape, but Luo Haoran and Zhou Xuan urgently went downstairs to retreat under Churchill's warning!

Sure enough, in the corridor of the hotel on the nineteenth floor on the big screen, a group of men in work clothes appeared. They opened a small door and found it covered in cement debris, so they began digging with a percussion drill and shovel. Others kept looking back, perhaps wondering why the owner of the building and his pesky dog hadn't come up yet.

No sound could be heard, and the people watching in front of the big screen were silent. In the surveillance footage that is about to escape, the lights in the hotel corridor are bright and dim. Zhou Xuan felt inexplicably frightened, just like a female ghost about to appear in a horror movie. Luo Haoran remained calm—except for the index finger of his right hand that clicked on the mouse, and the fingertips trembled slightly.

Finally, the men in their work clothes in the surveillance screen suddenly threw down the tools in their hands, turned their heads and fled in the direction of the camera, all showing frightened expressions, like little boys who are having nightmares.

What do they see?

Fear is like a plague, through the big screen in the monitoring room, through every pair of eyes that escaped death, through the time distance of tens of minutes, transmitted to the hearts of everyone in this room.

The first thing I can't stand is circumstance. If it weren't for Churchill's madness, he would have rushed up nineteen floors in a frenzy with the poor people, and then reflected his crazy face on crazy cameras and big screens.

He looked back and saw that everyone in the room was silently wide-eyed, and the young mother was tightly covering her son's face. Immediately, everyone reacted violently - the security guard clenched his fist on his chest, the middle-aged female cleaner closed her eyes, the bandaged white-collar worker vomited, the young supermarket employee trembled violently, the rich second generation wearing Dior men's clothes simply fell to the ground, the young mother holding the child took a big step back, the woman who had just saved him screamed sharply, and the "master" who often appeared in various media sighed......

When Zhou turned around and looked at the screen again, it had turned into a snowflake.

For missing the most terrible scene, he said that he was both remorseful and thankful, anyway, he had regarded himself as a dead man.

Luo Haoran turned off the big screen. The black LCD screen vaguely reflected everyone's faces, looking at each other one by one.

The owner of the Future Dream Building summed up in a deep voice: "Everyone, not only the top floor, but also the part above the atrium dome on the ninth floor, including all the hotel rooms and office buildings, have all disappeared in an instant. ”

Zhou Xuan remembered that he later fled down from the eighteenth floor and met a group of people who came up from below. There is no doubt that those who are at odds with themselves have long since been buried in hell from the nineteenth to the tenth floor.

Completely extinguished.

Luo Haoran was right, because there is an atrium and a cinema on the ninth floor, and the dome is particularly strong to withstand the pressure of the collapse above, otherwise this place will also become a tomb.

Suddenly, Zhou Xuan heard a soft cry. The cleaner squatted in the corner and cried, but the girl in the wool cloak hugged her and comforted her.

In an atmosphere of despair, the "master" said something even more desperate: "In my experience, the entire building has sunk deep into the ground, at least more than a hundred meters deep. The planet we live on may have suffered the most devastating earthquake ever experienced by mankind! ”

Zhou Xuan found that everyone knew the "master", but only he still had eyes and did not know Taishan. A young man in supermarket overalls and a young mother with a child nodding frequently, as if the "master" had verified a certain fact they had discovered.

In the corner of the monitoring room, there is a very old book, and on the cover is the "master" in front of him, the title of the book is "Dark Days - The End of the World is Coming", and the author is signed "Wu Hanlei".

Zhou Xuan patted his head, and he remembered. How did you forget the name? The hottest scholars in recent years, there are TV stations and networks reporting on this doomsday prophet every day, stealing all the limelight from the "Hundred Pulpits" in the early years. The reason why this book appears here is probably that the administrator of the monitoring room is reading it, which shows that Luoyang paper has long been expensive, and it has penetrated into every corner.

"No, I don't believe it!" "This is indeed a big earthquake, but it won't be that serious. ”

The white-collar worker with a bandage on his arm replied in place of the professor: "We have measured it with an altimeter in the outdoor shop on the seventh floor, and the seventh floor is 150 meters below sea level, which means that the roof of the building, if there are 19 floors, has been buried 100 meters underground. If we calculate the height of each floor at four meters, the ground floor where we are now is about 170 meters buried in the ground! ”

"Then you think the outside world has also been badly damaged, so no one will come to save us?"

"It's not just the wreaking havoc, even the most optimistic judgment is that humanity is not extinct, it is a regression to the Stone Age." Professor Wu's tone was calm, as if he was giving an academic report, "For earthlings, this is the end of the world. ”

This conclusion made everyone present feel desperate, but it was also consistent with the signs of the last two hours, including the destruction of the tenth floor of the Future Dream Building.

"Are we the last survivors of humanity?" The rich second generation wearing Dior men's clothing was almost crying.

"Yes." Professor Wu Hanlei replied categorically, and then leaned his head against the wall, he didn't want to believe that his prediction had come true.

"Professor, you mean—it's likely that all the people out there are dead?" The young man in supermarket overalls bit his lip as he asked.

"I ...... It's a pity......"

"Mom and Dad......" The young man held his head, choked and fell to his knees, muttering to himself, "No—my hometown is thousands of kilometers away from here, how can it be ......"

"Not to mention thousands of kilometers, even tens of thousands of kilometers are not spared."

This time, Zhou Xuan played the role of a fighter against counterfeiting: "Say the reason!" Don't be sensational! ”

Professor Wu Hanlei was silent for a moment, and explained unhurriedly: "The city where we are located is located in the alluvial plain of China's eastern coast, which has not been an earthquake-prone area since ancient times, and is far away from any earthquake zone, which people with a little common sense know. ”

"That's right." Zhou Xuan, who was born and grew up, nodded slightly. He grew up in the city and never experienced any earthquakes. When I was a child, there was an earthquake warning, and everyone ran to the open field to take refuge, and it was very lively like a holiday, but there were no casualties, and the house was not affected at all. When the Wenchuan earthquake occurred, the whole country felt a clear tremor, he was in a high-rise building, and only felt a slight shaking, when others ran to the stairs to panic and flee for their lives, he confidently searched for earthquake news on the Internet.

"Not only that, within a radius of 500 kilometers from the city as the center, no major earthquake has ever been recorded in history, and the highest record occurred during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, which was only 4.8 on the Richter scale." "And the magnitude of this earthquake was able to shake a 19-story building more than 100 meters underground, and according to my years of research on various natural disasters, the local earthquake magnitude is at least 10 on the Richter scale!" The earthquake in Japan was only 9 on the Richter scale. It is important to know that for each increase in the magnitude of an earthquake, the energy released increases by a factor of thirty-two. ”

"What?" The young security guard's jaw was about to drop.

"That's right." The mother who was holding the child spoke, and it turned out to be Japanese, "I have personally experienced the Great Japanese Earthquake, and I feel that it is much worse now than it was then. ”

"Yes, the earthquake we are experiencing now is at least 30 times more powerful than the Great Earthquake in Japan! But don't think that this earthquake is only a magnitude 10 – "Professor Wu is like a computer, calmly analyzing everything that happened, "as we all know just now, there has never been an earthquake of magnitude 4.8 or higher in the city and its vicinity for hundreds of kilometers. Then the epicenter of such a violent earthquake must be thousands of miles away, and it is most likely Japan-"

Professor Wu glanced at the Japanese mother and son, and the young mother lowered her head and silently accepted this desperate fact.

"Still, I can't tell where. In addition to Japan, the epicenter may also be in the Philippines, Indonesia, or even California on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. If an earthquake that occurred on the West Coast of North America was transmitted to China on the Richter scale, how big would the earthquake be in the United States? Even God can't imagine it! If this earthquake were to be of this magnitude, in fact I am convinced, what would become of the entire planet? For example, it detonated a * buried 10,000 meters underground! ”

Everyone shuddered when they heard the professor's analysis, and many people shed tears, both for themselves who survived and for their families outside.

Suddenly, Zhou Xuan remembered the moment before the earthquake, when he opened the window to commit suicide by jumping off the building, he saw the dazzling nuclear explosion-like light at the end of the horizon...... He changed his attitude just now: "Professor, please tell me more about the specific situation. ”

"First of all, the United States must have been completely destroyed, the North American continent may disappear from the face of the earth, and the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean will become one ocean, and the situation will definitely be more tragic than the movie "2012"; Second, earthquakes will affect every corner of the earth, and when the other side of the earth reaches this level, no country or nation will escape this catastrophe; Thirdly, because the West Coast Fault Zone of North America is located next to the Pacific Ocean, it will produce the most terrifying tsunami in human history, head-on through the widest part of the Pacific Ocean, hitting the eastern coast of China. ”

The white-collar worker with a bandage on his arm became excited: "Professor, you mean - half of China has been submerged by the sea?" ”

"Not yet, tsunami transmission takes time, and Pacific tsunamis propagate more than two hundred to a thousand kilometers per hour – we have to calculate to the highest standards, and will most likely exceed that speed. The straight-line distance from the east coast of China to the west coast of the United States is about 12,000 kilometers, which is eight hours at a speed of 1,500 kilometers per hour! It's amazing, much faster than flying, but that's science! ”

"Eight hours later? No, it's six hours, even if a tsunami warning has been issued, how can so many people and families, such a big city, be evacuated? ”

"Yes, by early this morning, chances are we'll all be part of the Pacific Ocean above our heads!" Professor Wu took off his glasses with a broken lens and combed his hair that had been messed up, "The Great Flood era in the ancient history of mankind has come back to us today. It's just that this time the disaster is even more serious, under the influence of such violent crustal movements, many huge active volcanoes around the world, especially in the Pacific Rim, will be active and even erupt violently, I wonder if Mt. Fuji will be——"

"Please don't say it!" The young Japanese mom hugged the baby tightly and retreated to the corner of the monitoring room.

"I'm sorry, I'm just speculating on the worst-case scenario. However, from the current situation, this possibility has reached more than 90 percent. I am afraid that only herders living in tents on the Tibetan Plateau will be able to escape. Otherwise, you will either drown, crush, or be poisoned in the next various nuclear leaks, chemical leaks, heavy metal leaks. ”

"It seems that it still makes a lot of sense in the movie, but we can't get on the boat!" The rich second generation who wore Dior beat his chest and feet.

When everyone was in a mess, Zhou Xuan noticed that Luo Haoran, the owner of the Future Dream Mansion, was always standing quietly by the surveillance computer, looking at Professor Wu quietly, listening to those terrible analyses or facts.

Suddenly, Luo Haoran's voice interrupted everyone's discussion-

"Well, I believe in the judgment of science, the outside world has been completely destroyed, and it is impossible for anyone to save us anymore, and the people who are still alive in this edifice are the last survivors of mankind."