Chapter Eighty-Three: After the Earthquake
Shock, violent vibration.
The ground is like a mythical giant standing up to the sky not far away, the shock wave driven by the sound vibration is extremely terrifying, Lucarin has completely fallen into a state of sensory powerlessness, simply put, she was stunned, just threw herself into Gehr's arms, hugged his strong body, felt his powerful heartbeat, and believed that she was still alive.
Geer's face was also solemn, cold sweat broke out unconsciously at the palm of the hand holding the stake, and his heart was beating violently, this kind of disaster caused by nature was not at all what he could resist now, the power from the power of heaven and earth, made him feel helplessly small.
Click!
It was not the sound of trees being uprooted with shallow roots, but more dull and more terrible, the sound of tears from the depths of the earth.
For a moment, Gehr felt that everything in front of him had turned gray and white, and there was no sound, even the wind had stopped, and he could not hear anything but his own heartbeat.
The picture in front of him was all still, as if the world was frozen, including himself, everything had been frozen in an instant.
The bouncing stone froze in the air, the panicked horse froze in place as it fell, and not far away Iona struggled to hold on to her stake, trying to hold her body in place......
Bang!
A loud bang drowned out everything with strong gusts of wind.
In an instant, the gray faded.
After the loud bang, all the sound was back to its original state.
The stone continued to rise into the air, flying in a perfect parabola to its original trajectory, the horse was knocked to the ground with an irresistible force with a terrified roar, and Iona was holding her body to the stake with her arms bulging.
The world is turned upside down, and it is extremely terrifying.
In the violent shaking, Gehr could only try his best to control himself from being thrown away, and then he could only watch with his eyes wide open, he did not let go of any detail, he wanted to record all the pictures that showed the power of nature firmly, to remind himself that there were more terrifying forces in this world.
1.2......
From the moment the earthquake began, Gehr silently began to count, and when he counted to two hundred and fifty-seven, the shaking finally stopped.
The wind speed has also begun to slow down, but there will be occasional violent gusts, but the problem is not too big, at least the loud shouting can be transmitted.
"Iona, Dayi, Clemi, how are you doing?" said Gehr, instead of letting go of the stake immediately, shouted loudly in the direction of several of his companions, and shouted several times in succession.
After a while, Iona's voice came: "Phew...... Bah...... I'm fine......
"I'm fine. On the other side, Klemmie's shouting rang out: "It's okay for Ida, but she was hit in the mouth by a rock, and now she can't speak." ”
"It's okay if there's nothing to do, everyone stay in place first, be careful, there may be a situation later. Seeing that his friends were fine, Gehr was relieved.
"It's good. "Zhilu said. ”
After two more less powerful aftershocks, Gehr was sure that he should be much safer now than before.
Slowly loosening the stake, Gell said softly, "There should be no problem." ”
"What's the matter?" Lucarin, who had buried her head in Geer's heart, continued to hug Gehr for a moment before she reacted, and said in a still trembling trill.
"It's all right. Gehr gave his lieutenant confidence in an affirmative voice. Only in the face of an irresistible natural disaster did Lucarine feel like a girl about the same age as Gehr rather than a mature and sophisticated subordinate. "You rest first, I'll go and see the others. ”
"Yes, that's good. ”
Gehr stood up cautiously, feeling the earth rise and fall beneath his feet, and then trotted towards Iona, who was closest to him.
"I'm fine. Iona, who was a little disgraced, stood up and patted the dust off her coat, looking embarrassed.
Not far away, Klemi also helped Dayi over.
Dayi's condition looked a little miserable, his mouth was swollen, his lips and chin were shockingly bloodstained, and his chest was stained red.
After Klemmie's introduction, Gehr learned that Daudai was just unlucky, he had two teeth knocked out, and the bleeding had stopped, as long as he dealt with it a little, it would be fine.
The group was regrouped, it was the darkest hour before dawn, and the movement within a few meters could barely be seen, and the campfire had been extinguished by the earthquake, but fortunately there was nothing to burn in the clearing, which might have caused a fire. After this earthquake, everyone was not sleepy, and it was not a good idea to walk around, so everyone sat around and waited for dawn.
The darkness before the light is the most difficult, especially after such a natural disaster, everyone's hearts are a little heavy, they are not in the mood to speak, and the atmosphere is even more dull.
But the darkness will eventually pass, and when the first rays of the morning sun shine through the treetops and onto the clearing, the depression in everyone's hearts suddenly dissipates a lot.
With the light, Gehr and his party immediately began to get busy, and the first thing to do was to check the damage caused by the earthquake.
"The wheels of the carriage were broken and needed to be replaced, one side of the carriage was broken and needed to be repaired, and the loss of supplies was not large, so some pottery was broken, and the horses were recovered with two horses, which were only enough to pull the cart......"
Looking at the craters in front of him that had been formed by the collapse of many trees, Gehr listened to Clemi, who was on the side, report the damage. The carriage had been lifted up, and the side that had fallen to the ground looked as if it had been hit with a hammer, and Date had already found the tools to start repairing it. The scattered supplies were collected and stacked aside, and Lucarine and Iona were sorting them out.
"You ride to the front first, I heard the sound of the ground cracking during the earthquake, we didn't have it here, it might be somewhere else, I hope it doesn't affect our route. ”
Gehr still remembers the cracking sound he heard during the earthquake, and although he didn't see a big crack, there were always some inexplicable worries that plagued him.
About three hours later, Geer's fears were confirmed - Clemy, who had been running back and forth on horseback, had brought him a bad news, that their original route had been cut off by a huge crack that was at least ten meters wide, and that it had stretched horizontally for a long time, and that Clemi had spent about an hour running along the rift without seeing the end of the rift's extension, so it could be said that it was no longer feasible to continue on the road.
"So we have to go back and go another way?"
"Yes, and we must go to Castle Blossham once, or we won't have enough supplies to get us back to the last one. Klemi nodded affirmatively.
Gehr turned to look in the direction he had come, where the ruins of Brotham Castle were located.