Chapter 69: The Earth Moves
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It was a momentary effort, and after the loud bang, the ground suddenly shook violently, and the surface of the cement floor, which had been hard, seemed to soften all of a sudden, turning into a carpet that could be writhed at will. Everything on the ground, the shelves, the goods, including the people who shopped, were all jolting up and down, and the huge supermarket was instantly filled with hoarse screams.
The screams were accompanied by the sound of the ground cracking, the sound of the shelves collapsing, the sound of breaking glass, and it was like a nightmare. My heart tightened suddenly, and I choked in my throat with an exclamation, and I wanted to scream but couldn't. The lights in the room dimmed all at once, the wires sparked bursts of electric sparks, and the screams of the crowd began to turn into screams and wails.
Earthquakes? One such thought crossed my mind. But the thought was fleeting, for there was no more time for me to think—the ceiling and concrete floor above and under my feet suddenly crumbled, and my body tilted, and I lost my balance in an instant, and I stumbled in.
Realizing that the building was collapsing, I quickly shrank down and put my head in my hands. In times of crisis, human senses seem to become extraordinarily sensitive, and I saw the father next to me in a panic as he pulled his son over, curled up vigorously, and tried to protect him under his body, ready to bear the falling cement blocks and boulders on his back. I saw the faces of the men in formal clothes behind me distorted with horror, and the appearance of the old woman screaming in a weakened voice.
With a bang, the crumbling mud and rocks above our heads fell straight down towards us.
It all happened so fast that I didn't even have time to be afraid. My body was still in a state of unbalanced fall, and the ornament hanging from my neck had flown out of the collar of my shirt and flying upwards as a result of the fall.
In the darkness around me, the ornament suddenly emitted a strong green light, enveloping my entire body in a soft halo.
Everything slowed down suddenly, and my body was still in a state of imbalance in the fall, but the fall suddenly became extremely slow. I saw the people around me staggering with me, and their movements all turned into slow motion.
The green light formed a protective barrier around my body, and the falling rocks hit the light screen as if it had hit something elastic and slowly bounced out. At this time, I saw the source of the green light, which turned out to be the green jade peace buckle that Liqing gave me and I had been hanging around my neck.
Ever since he wore it by his side, he hadn't shown any unusual performance except for one time when he was playing a prank on the flowers. I didn't expect it to come in handy this time.
Liqing, did you save me again?
I saw that the people were still around me, and I tried to communicate with the source of the green light with my consciousness.
"Can you save a few more people? Even one or two more would be fine......" I pleaded.
I didn't make an unrealistic request to "protect the whole building" because I had a sense of the limits of the object's power. I have a certain inner expectation of what it can do, and I can judge what is possible and what is not.
I'm just not sure if it will respond to my heart's desire.
The green light flickered, and suddenly doubled in range, enveloping several people around me.
In my consciousness, it felt like the fall lasted about a minute, but in reality, it was about a few seconds. Anyway, when my perception returned to normal, I was already in a completely different space.
The green light vanished, and it was pitch black. Not only is it dark, but it is also very cramped, and even if you can't see it, you can feel the oppression caused by the small space.
I found myself half-lying and half-sitting on the ground, leaning on something behind me, my back and butt aching. Something very irritating got into my nose and I couldn't help but cough violently.
I coughed and reached into my pants pocket, but luckily, my phone was still there.
I pressed the phone on, and when I looked, the signal was gone. I found the flashlight app, and the light of my phone's flashlight filled the space around me.
I was amazed to find that it was as if I was trapped in a very small "cave", surrounded by a mess of rocks and powdered earth and stones, and I just choked on the powder.
I still have a lot of slippery things in my hand, and the smell of fish is strong, as if it is the seafood from the seafood stall I was buying before, it is wet and fishy, and it makes people feel very uncomfortable.
Next to it, there are several people lying horizontally and vertically, almost filling the entire small space.
It was in this moment that they seemed to begin to breathe again, and when they resumed breathing, they began to cough again and again.
I made the basic judgment - it should have been an earthquake, and the supermarket we were in had collapsed, and it should have been completely shaken into ruins. I was on the second floor of the supermarket, and it was in the lobby, which was in the most unsafe place. If it hadn't been for the safety buckle that Liqing gave me that played a role in protecting me when the building collapsed, I would have been smashed into a pile of flesh by now.
But now, I must have been buried somewhere under the building, and under the effect of the safety buckle, these collapsed earth and stones were intertwined, leaving less than five or six square meters of space, and locked me inside.
Practice has proved that the safety buckle that Liqing gave me can indeed have a certain degree of connection with my consciousness, and the few people who stood with me just now were all protected into this small space, and they were not hit or injured by earth and stones.
These people include the old woman who taught me how to choose an octopus, the supermarket waiter, the outspoken "urban elite", and the father and son who were watching the fish. Now, they lay on their backs on the ground, coughing violently and moaning lowly.
How could there be an earthquake?
In my common sense, the city where I am now, or even this province and this region, is not in the earthquake zone at all. There has never been an earthquake here, not since ancient times, at least never in recorded history. And if it were an earthquake today, what a terrifying magnitude would it have to be to turn a supermarket built of reinforced concrete into a rubble wasteland in an instant?
I'm afraid the state of the whole city will be very bad, right? How big will this earthquake be?
Everything was abnormal, without any warning, and it happened suddenly. In my mind, I couldn't help but think of the shadow of the huge blood-dripping full moon, which was also a lunar eclipse that happened without warning.