Chapter 48: The Sinking of Japan

When the disaster came, it happened to be noon on Planet Six.

From Tokyo City to Kanagawa Prefecture, there is a lot of traffic along Tokyo Bay, crossing several rivers. Nihonbashi is bustling with people coming out of Tokyo Station and entering the shops of Ginza. Housewives lit charcoal fires to cook, and business in the restaurant was thriving.

At 11:58 p.m., at the Akasaka Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Hirohito, the crown prince and regent of the Japanese Empire, was holding a grand state banquet. When he remembered the birthday banquet at the Marquis Saga's mansion last night, the sixteen-year-old Saga's nonsense, there was a loud thunderous noise under his feet, the earth trembled violently, the tableware in the banquet hall shattered, the chandelier fell, and the envoys of various countries let out piercing screams. Crown Prince Hirohito staggered to the garden outside the palace, his eyes glazed back as he watched the earth shatter and collapse......

Twenty years later, during World War II, as Emperor Showa, he would witness it a second time.

All the buildings in Tokyo and Yokohama began to shake at the same moment, tiles fell, walls collapsed, and houses collapsed, as if there was an unprecedented bombardment. The twelve-story Tokyo Tower is broken in two like matchsticks. The ground was like a rough sea, cracking countless huge cracks, and thousands of people fell into the bottomless pit, only to be swallowed up by the closed cracks. People feel as if they are on a small boat. The sparks of midday kitchen cooking splashed and lit tatami mats and cardboard walls, and the wooden Japanese house was set on fire. All the tall buildings disappear, and Tokyo becomes an empty wilderness of ruins.

Japan is about to sink.

Qin Beiyang is still alive.

The Far Eastern Temple of the Craftsman Alliance, the murderous mansion by the Nihonbashi has completely collapsed. Qin Beiyang, Jiuse, and the gatekeeper Schmidt, they ran dozens of meters in the secret passage, rushing out of the second exit on the other side of the river, covered in dust and debris, their temples turned into frost, and their hair turned into snow. Schmidt's right leg was broken by a stone, but fortunately Qin Beiyang dragged him away in time, otherwise he would have been buried in the ground forever.

Take a deep breath and see the sun again. Tokyo is in flames, screams and cries are filled, and the heat is rolling in like a volcanic eruption. Cracks cracked underfoot, and the asphalt turned into serpentine shards, nearly engulfing him in the Netherworld. The Japanese Bridge has not collapsed yet, and the bronze unicorn with wings at the head of the bridge is gazing majestically at the Qin Beiyang.

On the other side of the bridge, dozens of embarrassed Westerners are all members of the Artisan Alliance, and they belong to the ones who escaped from death quickly. Many of them were bleeding from their heads, broken hands and feet, and fell to the ground whimpering in pain. The rest died under the ruins of the Great Temple of the Far East.

Fortunately, a few minutes before the earthquake erupted, the Great Venerable gave the order to retreat decisively.

A ridiculous world conference, the topics discussed and the content of the negotiations, all about how to beat the water dogs, completely eliminate the Assassin Alliance, and end the history of human secret warfare for more than 600 years, but the conference itself almost wiped out the Artisan Alliance!

The three white-robed archdeacons were still alive, they stumbled, their faces were covered with blood, and they seemed to have just experienced the tragedy of destroying the door, and they happened to see Qin Beiyang on the other side of the bridge, and they gave out a hungry wolf-like gaze.

Then, he saw Hikaru Saga.

The Japanese girl who had just passed her sixteenth birthday stepped across the Nihonbashi with a fearless face and rushed towards Qin Beiyang, with a panting Haneda Taiki behind her.

Light pounded Qin Beiyang's chest with his small fist: "Brother! I've been waiting for you so much! ”

Schmidt, who had a broken leg, snorted and chirped: "Qin, hurry up!" They're coming to get you! ”

At noon after the earthquake, the nine colors could not transform into a battle. Qin Beiyang grabbed Saga's hand, turned around and rushed into the flaming streets of Tokyo......

There are corpses everywhere, and people fleeing with broken homes. Many watched in amazement as their homes lay in ruins, their families digging with bloody hands under the wooden bricks, or sat back in amazement. A few minutes after the earthquake, a wave erupted in Tokyo Bay, and the tide hit the docks and factories along the coast. On one side is the sea, and on the other is the flames. This is the Shura field on earth, this is the purgatory of the twentieth century, this is a small dessert between the murderous feasts of the two world wars.

Taiki Haneda, who is in his thirties, cried as he walked......

He saw a car crash into the ground and its occupants crushed into discus and meatloaf. Some of the ground cracks are like fountains splashing the water of Tokyo Bay brought by the tsunami, washing the corpses into the air and shattering them. Sea water poured into the streets, and the pavement caved into sinkholes tens of meters wide, blocking their path. The hills of western Tokyo slide out to sea, carrying with you vast expanses of ruins and corpses. Countless people who fled for their lives collided with each other, and there was a terrible collective stampede in the square, and hundreds of people were suffocated and collapsed to death in an instant. People screamed in the flames, and the flames swept through the bustles of Tokyo and Yokohama like the kisses of death. The shock waves of the earthquake brought violent winds, and the fires doubled and burned, and shops, houses, schools, and factories ...... The fire brigade was also helpless because the fire hoses were all damaged by the earthquake. Many people jumped into the sea to escape the fire, but because of the fuel leak, the sea also caught fire, and countless people were burned alive in the sea.

Qin Beiyang and Guang passed by Tokyo Station, the big clock was fixed at 11:58, the rails and trains had already been twisted and deformed, and the square in front of the station was crowded with people escaping. Walking through the streets after the earthquake is like walking through the trenches of the Imperial Palace, bypassing the moat of the Imperial Palace, and arriving at the Marquis of Saga's residence.

Everyone in the Marquis's Mansion was safe and sound, and when the earthquake struck, everyone was on the lawn, hiding in tents to rest, and escaped this great catastrophe.

The fire that Hikaru Saga set at his birthday party actually saved the lives of his father and these people.

She saw her father unharmed from afar, and finally let go of her hanging heart, since the earthquake happened, her father would not send her to the juvenile correctional center.

"Hikari, hurry back to Daddy! The Marquis of Saga must be worried about you. ”

"Brother, you have saved their lives, I will continue to follow you, we will save more people!"

"How do you know I'm going to save people? Is it ......?"

Before Qin Beiyang's words were finished, Sagaguang waved his hand to the marquis and shouted, "Dad! It's okay with the light! Don't worry! ”

"Light!" When the marquis saw that his daughter was still alive, he was surprised and delighted, "Come back quickly!" I won't scold you anymore! You saved everyone! You're a good girl! ”

"Daddy, I'll be back!"

After that, she grabbed Qin Beiyang's hand and flew into the streets of Tokyo in flames......

At 11:58:44 a.m. on September 1, 1923, a massive earthquake measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale occurred at a depth of 100 meters under the seabed of Sagami Bay. The Philippine Sea plate, which moves beneath the Japanese mainland, collided with the Japanese archipelago, releasing a huge amount of energy that had been accumulated for a long time, equivalent to detonating 8 million tons of TNT explosives – the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima 22 years later was only 1 in 800 percent of the Great Kanto Earthquake.

The fires caused by the earthquake burned for three days and three nights, and countless people were burned alive under the rubble. More than 30,000 refugees gathered in a factory, but they were surrounded by fire, and none of them survived. The total number of victims and missing persons in the Great Kanto Earthquake has been counted in the aftermath, and millions more have been left homeless.

Qin Beiyang and Guang ran towards the neighborhood where the house had collapsed badly, and Jiuse was like a bloodhound that could detect life, it knew where the living were buried underneath. The town's grave beast is not afraid of dangerous houses, and it has repeatedly burrowed into the depths of the ruins to rescue the moribund Japanese. Even if there is a second collapse, the rescue object will be crushed to death, and the nine-colored steel and iron bones can escape unscathed.

From the afternoon until dusk, they rescued at least a hundred living people.