Chapter 183: Heavenly Damnation Warning
The earthquake lasted all night.
After the initial strong earthquake, the subsequent aftershocks did not have the devastating momentum of the beginning, but the shock wave continued to wreak havoc in Twilight City.
What's worse is that it is raining heavily, and the water almost floods people's ankles, and if you are not careful, you will slip.
In the city, a large number of houses have collapsed, turning them into the most primitive building materials, and some mutilated limbs can still be seen in the ruins, apparently people who did not escape in time.
Twilight City has fallen, and there are no powerful foreign enemies, no terrible weapons, and it is only an earthquake that will completely capture it.
In the face of the forces of nature, the creatures of a city are smaller than ants, and all people can do is hug their families, clasp their hands and pray to the gods.
In terms of disaster relief, with the assistance of soldiers, civilians have begun to evacuate from their homes and go to higher shelters.
The 200,000 civilians of Twilight City scattered and gathered into dozens of long lines, slowly navigating through the rubble after the earthquake.
At first, everyone was still comforting each other, thinking that the disaster would soon pass, and some people even organized singing to make everyone's mood more relaxed.
But when wave after wave of aftershocks hit, the sky collapsed, the earth shook, people lost their partners, parents, children, friends... For a time, there was a lot of mourning, and there were desperate cries everywhere.
What is even more distressing is that many people found their dead relatives in the rubble, and they fell to the ground crying bitterly, holding the body alive and dead, crying in the dark.
The growing collapse of the crowd, coupled with the looting of young people, made the evacuation work a hindrance.
Fortunately, the military commander Baiza had tough methods, and when he encountered someone who took advantage of the chaos to rob or disrupt order, he was not arrested, and he was directly hacked to death.
Baixa also met a local nobleman whose father was said to have worked as a military assistant in the governor's palace at Fengyunguan, and this nobleman had to take off his coat because he had escaped from the house wearing too little clothing.
When the civilians refused to give it, he ordered his attendants to rob him, causing a panic.
Baiza didn't say a word, it doesn't matter whose son you are, kill Liwei on the spot.
In the face of an iron fist, order was finally maintained, and the evacuation began to become orderly.
I have to say that the commander of Baixa is very skillful, he is a man with a full sense of justice and responsibility, and the soldiers he brought out are the same, desperate in the face of disasters.
The soldiers offered to give their horses to the old and the young, and the whole army, including Baixa himself, walked on foot.
There are also soldiers who take off their uniforms and drape them over children, preferring that their lips turn purple from the cold than that their children will be cold.
What's more, they even took off their waterproof leather military boots and put them on for those in need, letting their feet walk bloodily on the jagged ruins without complaint.
In this way, until the early morning, 200,000 civilians were transferred to 12 shelters in batches.
The rain tents were erected in patches, and the civilians held the ginger soup they had shared, and some drank it in large gulps to keep out the cold and fell asleep.
Some held the bowl and wept silently, grieving for their relatives who died in the earthquake, and they couldn't drink a sip.
At this time, Baixa was leading the people to transfer the last group of civilians, and as he passed by a ruin, he suddenly heard a cry for help.
"Help! Please help us..."
On the side, a dangerous building is crumbling, and a father and daughter are trapped on the balcony of the top floor.
When Baisa looked at the structure of the building, his heart suddenly cooled.
Although the building did not collapse, the stairs were collapsed, all the escape routes were blocked by the rubble, and the continuous aftershocks hit them, so they had no place to escape, so they had to run to the top floor and wait for death.
Baixa turned back and shouted, "Quick! Go get the engineering team here! The others will dig the stones with my bare hands first! β
"Boom..."
Before the soldiers could get up, another wave of aftershocks struck, and the dangerous building tilted again, and the young girl was so frightened that her throat was hoarse from crying.
The father hugged his daughter tightly and looked at the ground from the edge of the building, and in the wordless silence, his eyes became more and more resolute...
Baixa realized something and hissed and shouted, "Don't jump!! Wait for us to save you!! β
Father glanced at the collapsing floor behind him, death was getting closer and closer, and there was no time... With a sad smile, he left his last words as a father: "Take care of my daughter!" β
After speaking, he made a backward posture with his back down, and jumped out of the top floor with his daughter in his arms, which was to use his body as a meat pad to protect the daughter in his arms to escape.
Under the desperate gaze of Baixa and the others, the two of them got closer and closer to the ground...
The father closed his eyes in fear, hugged his crying daughter in his arms, and muttered, "I want to live..."
Without warning, he suddenly felt a strong force enveloping his body, and then, a strong feeling of overweight came, but there was no pain.
The wind, too, seems to have stopped...
He subconsciously opened his eyes and saw that he was only a stone's throw from the ground, but he had completely stopped, and the surging invisible tide was wrapped around him, saving him and his daughter's lives.
Baixa and the others looked up and saw a reassuring figure.
Chino unloaded his mind and let the father and daughter land safely.
"Thank you, Administrator! Thank you! The father wept profusely, hugged his daughter and bowed in thanks, and joined the evacuation team under the guidance of the soldiers.
After Chino landed, Baixa and the others surrounded him.
It can be seen that Chino was not idle this night, and his whole body was already soaked, as if he had just been fished out of the water, and he should be going around to help the soldiers deal with the situation that was difficult for mortals to deal with just now.
[Respect from Baixa Hujer: 104]
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Chino: "Is this the last batch?" β
"The last group, most of the civilians, has been relocated in batches in 12 shelters, and the casualties are not counted at this time," Baiza reported. β
Chino: "First settle the people in the shelter, and then send the search and rescue team out to find the survivors in the rubble, how many can be saved." β
"Yes!" Baizar was ordered to leave.
At this moment, a call came from behind Chino: "Administrator." β
Chino turned around and saw Lu Yutian, who was soaking wet, and she entered the evacuation team with a dozen civilians, and it seemed that she had been helping with the disaster relief.
Lu Yu leaned over at Chino and said faintly: "I told you that there will be seven calamities in the Heavenly Curse of the Seven Stars Alignment, and the first one is an earthquake. β
As soon as the little black cat on Chino's shoulder saw Lu Yutian, he immediately bared out his tiger teeth and sighed fiercely.
Chino tapped the little black cat's head, signaling quiet, and also signaling that the assassination operation would be canceled first, and then said silently: "Then tell me, what do you want me to do?" β
Lu Yutian: "I said, the Yin and Yang Division sent me here to deal with the matter of the Seven Stars Alignment." Our Onmyoji are proficient in the Five Elements Technique, and we can use the formation to unlock the Heavenly Damnation Seal, but this formation is extremely large and requires a lot of materials, including the blood of the Chinese and Indian people, and this requires your full cooperation. β
Chino was silent.
Lu Yutian didn't say much, she looked at the sky, silently walked to the refuge, and whispered alone: "The earthquake shook the mountain, the storm destroyed the city, and then the sky was covered with dust, and the curse of withering fell on the eldest son, and the sky rained blood, and the dead reappeared in the world, until all things withered. β
"If you don't come to your senses, the Seven Calamities will eventually destroy everyone in Twilight, including you and me."