Chapter 45: First Class Warning
On August 31, 1923, late at night, the birthday ball of Princess Marquis Saga's had just reached its climax.
"Brother, are you saying that these are all precursors to an earthquake?"
"When I was a student at Kyoto No. 3 High School, I read books on seismology. These anomalies tonight indicate that there is likely to be a devastating earthquake! ”
Hikari grabbed his arm: "Are you sure?" ”
"I ...... I don't know! ”
Qin Beiyang looked down at Jiu Se blankly and asked the same question.
The town's gravebeast nodded, its eyes unmistakably certain that an earthquake was coming.
You must know that it has been locked up in the White Deer Original Rubik's Cube Necropolis Palace for 1,200 years, and it is extremely sensitive to every subtle change in the underground world.
Qin Beiyang lay on the lawn, let his ears and heart close to the earth, and feel the pulse inside the earth's crust......
Ever since he had entered the White Deer Plain Rubik's Cube Tomb and received an electric shock when he opened the seal, he had been able to perceive all kinds of small changes in heaven and earth, regardless of the eyes, ears, mouth, nose and tongue and other sensory organs. To a certain extent, Qin Beiyang also has a sensitivity similar to that of a tomb beast, just like mice, toads, cats and dogs.
The Hetian warm blood jade pendant on his chest lit up.
When I closed my eyes, I saw a world of shattered sky, thousands of high-rise buildings, and suddenly fell into a raging sea of fire, the hell of millions of people, and the destroyed city of Sodom.
Qin Beiyang turned over and jumped up: "I'm sure!" ”
The electrician has urgently repaired all the circuits, but can't figure out why?
Tonight's female number one, Hikaru Saga carried her skirt, returned to the center of the dance floor, grabbed the microphone of the emcee and said loudly: "Everyone! I'm glad you all came to celebrate my birthday, but I have something important to announce! Every one of your lives is at stake! ”
"Light!"
The Marquis of Saga came up menacingly, snatched his daughter's microphone, dragged her down, and apologized to the guests. This daughter has always been willful, without the demeanor of a noble lady in the court, usually always doing something out of the ordinary, loves fantasy, and talks nonsense in public, sometimes saying that her family is a brothel, and saying that the Japanese Empire will be defeated in the next world war, so that he, an important minister of the court, has lost face.
The daughter snatched the microphone from her father's hand, took off her high heels, climbed onto the piano of the band, and said, "All the anomalies tonight indicate that a major earthquake is about to break out in Tokyo!" Please get out of the room and take shelter in the open area, or every one of you will die! It's going to die! ”
"Crazy!" The Marquis of Saga was almost stunned, and his daughter said such bad things at the birthday party, "The prank is too much!" ”
The guests shook their heads, and although they had all witnessed the electric light accident, rat ramp, the light and atmosphere on the lawn, and other strange signs of earthquakes, no one believed the sixteen-year-old girl's warning. Some people say that Japan has had many earthquakes since ancient times, and even if there are such precursors, it doesn't matter, and they have long been accustomed to it.
At this point, the birthday party broke up unhappily, and the guests left one after another, including the star-studded Crown Prince Hirohito, the future emperor of the Japanese Empire.
Qin Beiyang still wanted to find Fangzi, but found that she had long since disappeared. Haneda Taiki dragged him away quickly, the play just now had made the Marquis of Saga furious, lest the Marquis make up a reason to arrest them all. Jiu Se stood still, and as soon as Qin Beiyang turned around, he found that the mansion was on fire.
The band, servants, and bodyguards fled, and the fire quickly spread from the kitchen to the banquet hall and to the rooms upstairs. Someone turned on the fire faucet on the lawn, but could not control the sudden fire.
Hikaru Saga and his father escaped, and the marquis was burned off half of his hair, embarrassed; There was still a fire burning on the hem of the princess's dress, and the butler managed to extinguish it for her, but the evening dress was burned into a small dress, and her calf and stomach were shallow burned.
The Marquis roared in a rage: "Light! I'm going to send you to a juvenile correctional facility!" ”
It turned out that this fire was actually set by Hikaru Saga.
"Father, if I don't set this fire, dozens of people in my family will die in the earthquake and have no place to be buried. I don't want you to die! I want to save everyone's lives! ”
Light also took care of the housekeepers, maids, and servants who ran to the lawn for refuge, so that they should not go anywhere, just rest on the lawn for the night, anyway, the weather will not freeze tonight, and do not look for a house to stay!
By this time, the fire engine had roared in, the water cannon could no longer save the luxurious building, the beams of the house collapsed with a roar, the flames rushed into the sky, the sparks seemed to splash on the moon, and the nearby Japanese Imperial Palace was illuminated...... It's really "seeing him rise up a tall building, seeing him feasting guests, and seeing his building collapse." ”
Tonight is the weekend, and it's close to midnight, so many people can't find a hotel anymore. The Marquis of Saga was forced to order a tent to be set up on the lawn for the night, while trying to save the property in the ruins of the fire.
The Marquis was so furious that he decided to send his daughter to the police station, even to punish the mad princess for arson, but when he turned back, the light was gone.
Hundreds of meters away, the sixteen-year-old Sagaguang had fled to the dark street, rushed into Qin Beiyang's arms, looked back at the fiery marquis's mansion, and said loudly: "I am light!" ”
"Your light is a little brighter!" Qin Beiyang said a Chinese sentence with a smile and a Japanese sentence, "Your Royal Highness Princess, you are too willful!" I only said that I found the signs of a major earthquake, but I didn't tell you to burn down your house! ”
"But if I don't burn down the house, how can I get those people out?"
"There's such a wicked girl as you! I now begin to understand the pain of Marquis Saga. Qin Beiyang grabbed her thin arm, "Hurry up and go back to your father." ”
"Eh!" Hikari shook his head and bit his lip, "I can't go back, my dad said I committed a serious arson crime and wanted to send me to a juvenile correctional facility." ”
"Don't lie to me!"
Qin Beiyang recalled the winter in Kyoto four years ago, and he fell in love with this little girl.
"I didn't lie to you!" The tears of light came down again, and he begged Haneda Taiki next to him, "Mr. Haneda, please, take me away!" ”
"Princess Light, today is your birthday, can't cry!" Haneda Taiki still put his little hand in Qin Beiyang's hands, "Beiyang, you can't get rid of her!" ”
Qin Beiyang patted his forehead, and then looked at the light and hugged the nine-colored head, as if this small town tomb beast had become her pet.
"Wrongdoer!"
Three people and one beast, submerged in the dark night of Tokyo.
Along the way, armies of rats rampaged through the streets, birds and bats fled the city, and flying creatures under the moonlit night were constantly swept by the black press. Strange mist rises on the ground, sometimes even with the effect of dry ice, plus an eerie and magnificent light. Qin Beiyang believes that Jiu Se's judgment is right - a devastating earthquake is just around the corner, like a sword of Damocles hanging overhead, but he doesn't know when it will be chopped down?
They did not dare to go back to the hotel, so they had to wander the streets of Tokyo, avoiding all kinds of buildings and walking only in the open field by the river. Daiki Haneda called newspapers, radio stations, the Meteorological Bureau, and even the police station...... Unfortunately, in the middle of the night, no one could find it. If an earthquake were to occur in the middle of the night, it would be devastating.
Hikaru Saga, dressed in a charred evening dress, sat on the bank of the Nihonbashi River, held her chin and said, "Shall I go and burn these houses down again?" Get the sleeping people out! ”
"Yaga!" Haneda Taiki really wanted to slap her, "Your Royal Highness, the earthquake hasn't come yet, and the Tokyo fire will kill hundreds of thousands of people." ”
"Oh......"
The light retracted weakly, holding the pitiful appearance of the nine colors depending on each other. Qin Beiyang took off the Cartier diamond necklace on her chest, and walked in the night wearing this valuable guy, if it wasn't for his protection, she would be robbed or even kidnapped in the next minute.