Chapter 121: Natural Disasters (I)
Hundreds of meters of dust rushed into the sky, 10,000 tons of dirt surged like waves, and the ground that was only slightly shaking just now seemed to instantly become a ship on the sea, bumping and undulating in the storm, and the whole Bell 505 helicopter creaked non-stop, as if it would lose balance and fall down the next moment.
"Quick, take off!"
Karis wanted to shoot the pilot, the idiot had been delayed for too long.
"Good, good ......"
Awakened by Karis's roar, the pilot hurriedly took off.
At this time, regardless of anything else, seeing that the muddy waves were rolling at a rapid speed, any building, road, or tree was torn to pieces in an instant, and the pilot desperately pulled the lever to let the Bell 505 helicopter slowly turn the propeller and begin to rise from the ground.
Usually, I felt that this speed was not slow, but at this time, the pilot Hank felt that the speed was extremely slow, his eyes were bloodshot, and he stared at the waves that were getting closer and closer in front of him.
"Boom ......"
The three-meter-high iron fence was destroyed by the vibrational ripples that hit it, and the extremely hard runway was not much better, cracking into a puddle of rubble in the vibration that spread from it.
The hangar built next to it, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, collapsed and turned into ruins in the blink of an eye, and at the moment when the vibration ripples hit it, the helicopter finally left the ground five or six meters high, and dodged the first wave of attacks under the crackling blow of some rubble.
But that doesn't mean it's safe anymore.
This was only the first wave of the disaster, and in the distance, a hundred meters below the dust at a height of 100 meters, was a wave of hundreds of thousands of tons of earth caused by the subsidence, which was comparable to the passage of a Category 12 hurricane, and the earth swallowed everything in a furious roar. If you don't fly to an altitude of three or four hundred meters in a hurry, it is by no means safe.
"Ahhh......h
Hank didn't know what he was screaming about, all he knew was pulling the lever desperately, desperately destroying the helicopter's engine, trying to raise the helicopter's altitude in an attempt to get ahead of the collapse. Pull the helicopter to a safe flight altitude.
The Arrius 2R turboshaft engine burst out with 504 horsepower in a rage, sending three passengers up to 100 meters in the air. Not enough, not enough, and keep climbing!
The monstrous earth wave has not yet arrived, and the shock wave that hits it surges and rolls up layers of air waves, taking away the ruins that have just collapsed in waves, if the helicopter is still in the position just now, even if it dodges the first wave of blows, it will disintegrate into slag under the shock wave of this air wave.
Cold sweat had already soaked Karis's clothes. He felt the helicopter oscillating in the turbulent air, and he had a terrible feeling that life and death were not in his hands. However, in the face of such a phenomenal natural disaster, human beings are powerless, there is nothing they can do, let alone stop it, even if it is motivated to escape, not necessarily one out of a hundred people will survive and escape.
Horror, horror!
Finally. The subsidence completely overturned this private airport, hundreds of thousands. Millions of tons of dirt poured in like a tumbling dolphin, wave after wave, and the airport, which was shattered to pieces by the blast wave of the air wave, completely disappeared into the rapidly rolling dirt.
And the fourth wave of blows is the most desperate.
In the first three waves of strikes, the nuclear underground cover base may barely survive. However, the earth subsided, which was a bottomless black abyss as far as the eye could see! Karis and the others were already at an altitude of about three hundred meters, and when they looked into the distance, it was as if the earth had disappeared without a trace, and there was nothing left. Everything was gone, only the abyss of nothingness, as if even the sunlight had been swallowed up.
"God, what the hell is going on?"
With a crying voice, Hank's tears couldn't help but remain, and he couldn't stop it at all.
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and go east."
To the west, there seemed to be a sinking of the ground as far as the eye could be, so Karis ordered Hank to fly in a helicopter to the still-intact east.
Heading east is downtown New York, as well as the world-famous Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and more.
Hopefully, this catastrophe will stop there.
The Bell 505 helicopter had a top speed of 144 miles per hour, equivalent to 232 kilometers per hour, which was still more than twice the speed of the subsidence, and soon, the subsidence disappeared in the distance behind them, and gradually, the high-rise buildings of New York City began to appear in front of them.
Obviously, the area affected by the earthquake was very large, and the earthquake was felt quite clearly in New York City, and from the sky down, many citizens came out of the buildings and gathered on both sides of the street. The roads are jammed with traffic, and ticking chirps are heard all over the city.
But people didn't panic much, just from the sense of tremors here, it was only a magnitude four or five earthquake, which is really insignificant for a building with an earthquake resistance of up to seven or eight magnitudes.
New York is not in a seismic zone, but three months ago, a magnitude 5.8 on the Richter scale struck Virginia, and the tremors were felt in both Washington and New York at the time of the quake, but no damage was caused. It's only been three months now, and with the experience of the last time, many people are not panicking at all, but are talking and laughing and using their mobile phones to photograph the numerous traffic jams and evacuating crowds on the street.
"They don't know yet...... We have to remind them. ”
Hank piloted the helicopter through the buildings, watching the crowd on the road below with no sense of refuge, and he shouted, "911...... must be contacted"
"Don't waste your efforts."
Karis glanced at him, "Even if they all knew, would they still have time to escape?" ”
"But ......"
"Don't talk nonsense, be honest with me."
Karis had just lowered the muzzle of his gun and raised it again at Hank, forcing the pilot to shut his mouth.
"So where are we going now?" Hank closed his mouth for a moment, but he couldn't help but ask.
For this question, Caris has thought about it, "Go to Newark Airport. ”
"To the airport?"
"yes, to the airport."
With this helicopter flying only about 600 kilometers with a full tank of fuel, Karis is not at ease, and now the only one who can leave New York as quickly as possible is the international airport.
"But ......"
"Don't be, we're already catching up."
Karis looked back, cold sweat flowing, just in the distant suburbs, the smoke and dust rolled up to a height of thousands of meters, even the people in the city, even if they didn't know what was happening, they could see the smoke and dust rushing into the sky.
By the time the subsidence actually reached the city limits of New York, Caris feared that it would be impossible for him to take off on an international flight.
In fact, he didn't plan to board the plane by normal means now, and he could be given fifteen minutes at most, where would he have time to go through the various formalities.
Xinghan also thought of this, stopped talking, and hurriedly operated the helicopter towards the international airport.
Entering the vicinity of the international airport without permission to fly immediately attracted calls and warnings from the ground station, and Karis was bored with it, turned off his voice, and shouted: "Fly in, fly to the flight building." ”
On Karis's orders, the helicopter flew illegally over the airport and flew along the runway in the direction of the flight building. It can be seen that although the tremor was weak, it was also an earthquake after all, and many flights that were about to take off at the airport were temporarily suspended, and the stranded passengers were evacuated to the outside of the venue.
However, the airport personnel in the distance were rushing over, and they were obviously alarmed by the helicopter.
"Boom ......"
As soon as the helicopter stopped, the muffled sound in the distance in the air made the two of them look different.
"Oh no, we don't have time, hurry up for me!"
Karis jumped out of the helicopter, didn't talk nonsense, and shot two shots at the airport staff who were frightened by the loud noise, which directly brought the staff in the stunned state back to their senses, shocked and then retreated.
Before the airport security personnel arrived, Karis asked Hank to carry Eddie on his back and hurriedly ran towards one of the planes, which was slowly docking and preparing to disembark. (To be continued.) )