The wind and rain roared, and on the sea, the waves rose and fell, and the waves were turbulent.

Two-meter-high waves washed over the mothership's metal hull, and the majestic steel structure stood like a mountain in the storm.

An alarm is announced over the radio, and an electronic female voice begins the countdown.

“18，17，16”

Without any explanation, the countdown suddenly turned on, and between each countdown was a warning "drop", accompanied by the echo of this "drop", as if something was gripping the heart, and the tension spread silently.

Tang Xue remembered that this timekeeping method is generally used to broadcast sudden natural disasters such as earthquakes, and after the earthquake bureau detects the fluctuation of the epicenter, it will play a countdown in the alarm in advance.

The "drop" sound in the countdown serves as a warning, if it is a small earthquake that is not felt, it usually does not add a "drop" sound, and if it is a medium earthquake that is felt but not hindered, only one sound is added, and if it is a destructive earthquake, two "drops" will be added to each interval sound.

When the countdown is over, the piercing air raid sirens will sound, she has heard such rapid sirens and countdowns, when the countdown reaches 10, the electronic "drop" sound will become more harsh, and the fear of the end of the world will breed in the bottom of your heart, prompting you to flee outside.

This is the role of the alarm, the earthquake alarm will not tell you in advance on the radio, the earthquake is coming, the purpose of the alarm is to let you run quickly.

The people in the war room were well-trained, and from the beginning of the countdown, they immediately and orderly prepared for protection, without the slightest panic.

Someone pushed Tang Xue's wheelchair to the anchor belt and tied a seat belt for her to stabilize her balance.

They are on top of the mothership, a modern military carrier, even in the face of a 12-level typhoon, can pass smoothly, this military equipment weighing 10,000 tons, there is no need to panic in the face of a small earthquake.

These sirens were sounded for the people on the shore, informing them to go quickly to the clearing.

Since there has been a small earthquake tonight, in order to prevent aftershocks, people on the shore have gathered in the open space and set up tents in the open area, so even if there is a major earthquake, there is a high probability that the personnel will survive safely.

“10，9，8，7”

When the countdown reached 1, the air defense siren was sounded, and within seconds, the piercing siren sounded through the wind and rain and resounded throughout the ship.

Tang Xue looked out the window, and soon she felt the shaking.

There was a loud noise coming from the south, and the roar was like thunder.

In the wind and waves, the hull of the mothership tilted slightly, and Dr. Su held the wheelchair for her to help her stabilize her balance.

Everyone was looking for support, and the waves were rising on the surface of the sea, like a basin of water that had been overturned.

After the air raid sirens went off for a while, an announcement came over the radio:

"A magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurred in the city, with an epicenter depth of 20 kilometers!"

"Repeat, there was a magnitude 5.8 earthquake in the city, with an epicenter depth of 20 kilometers!"

Magnitude 5.8 is a moderate earthquake, which will not cause casualties or major damage, but if the epicenter is close to the ground, some unstable houses will crack or even collapse, and most buildings will not have problems.

The source of the earthquake seemed to be very close to them, and everyone felt the tremors.

But for this 10,000-ton mothership, it is probably equivalent to the level of driving over a speed bump.

Soon the tremors subsided, and everything stabilized.

But the pictures broadcast back on the screen made people breathless.

At the same time, eight or nine pop-up windows popped up from the huge LED screen, each of which was broadcast in real time, from the footage of gunships and drones flying around the city.

It was still late at night, and the rain was pouring down, and the sound of helicopter pulp rotation was mixed with the sound of rain, and the buildings were cracking.

The footage was from what was once the most prosperous and densely populated area of the city.

Hospitals, schools, shopping malls

There were hideous and strange thorn trees growing in those places, and at this moment those trees seemed to come alive, and the thick and huge roots broke through the concrete floor, spreading and climbing like a giant snake, and in the rain and fog were the shadows of those thick roots swaying, like a terrible nightmare.

Searchlights pierced through the rain curtain and shone on the collapsed high-rise buildings, the fracture sticking out of the steel bars towards the sky, and two buildings collapsed opposite each other, and the roofs collided together to form a lonely "man" shape.

As far as the eye could see, the ground was covered in pitch-black roots that had broken through the dirt.

A low tremor was heard from all directions, and the earthquake did not occur naturally, but was caused by these sudden riots.

"Is that also an infector?"

Tang Xue pointed to the life in the center of the screen, which was like a life from prehistory.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, before human beings appeared, the earth's crust was stable, the air was humid, the seasons were warm, and the vegetation grew luxuriantly, so that herbivores and carnivores did not have to worry about food.

At that time, the oxygen content of the air was more than 30 percent, and giant creatures occupied the land, dragonflies one meter wide, centipedes three meters long, and Tyrannosaurus rex with a body length of more than 10 meters.

The suppression of body shape is engraved in the genes, and normal people will be afraid when they see a creature whose body size is far larger than their own, so Tang Xue also felt the same fear from that prehistoric life-like individual.

The creature that emerged from the collapsed ruins, its body connected to the hideous thorn trees and the roots of the trees that spread out of the ground, its body was as high as the collapsed building, it was a huge pitch-black humanoid with vines and rhizomes of plants entwined around it.

Tang Xue suddenly remembered the story called "EVA" that Jing Yuan told her, in the story, humans need to drive super robots to fight a monster called the Apostles, most of the Apostles are as tall as mountains, and that life is as high as mountains.

It slept until today, waking up on this night as if in response to someone's call.

"That's not an infected." Dr. Su faced the screen with a solemn expression: "Only infected organisms are called infected organisms, and this organism is not infected, it is itself a mixture of colonies. ”

"What do you call it?"

"Fungi, humans rarely have a chance to see them, because they will only be born after the destruction of humans."

A group of S1s encountered this huge fungus beast, and the fungus beast crushed the group of S1s as if it were crushing a swarm of ants.

In each of these images, there are life forms beyond the ecological environment of this planet, and they are in ruins.

(End of chapter)