This was a catastrophe that came out of nowhere. In just over ten minutes, everything was turned upside down. Yan Liqiang, Gu Zexuan and Zhao Huipeng witnessed the entire process of this catastrophe!
When the meteorite fireballs that fell from the sky completely disappeared, the entire earth was devastated, with flames rising everywhere, and the city of Jinling in the distance had almost become a ruin engulfed in flames. As far as the eye could see, there was almost no intact building on the earth.
The flames in Jinling City had illuminated the distant sky red, and the stretch of rice fields in the distance were also burning rapidly, with thick smoke billowing.
The water around the small hill in the field has quickly receded and returned to the Qinhuai River. However, at this time, there is no longer a single pleasure boat on the Qinhuai River. There are only broken pieces of wood, the wreckage of the pleasure boat, and countless corpses floating on the river. This ten-mile Yanzhi River suddenly seems to have become a slaughterhouse full of wailing.
The prosperous city with its bright lights and feasting turned to ashes in the blink of an eye, and the ancient city with its majestic ancient architecture turned into a sea of fire. It was unknown how many people were buried by this sudden catastrophe in just the past few minutes.
Yan Liqiang, Gu Zexuan and Zhao Huipeng looked at everything in front of them, and before they knew it, they were already in tears.
The three people were lucky. If they had been on the pleasure boat in the river, even if they survived, they would probably have been like the pieces of wood floating on the Qinhuai River. And if the three people were in a building, the collapsed building would have buried them. When the first fireball fell, the three people had just reached the shore, and they reacted in time and moved quickly. When the Qinhuai River roared and swept over, they rushed into the fields by the river and ran to this small mound, luckily escaping the disaster.
"Why is this happening? Why is this happening?" Gu Zexuan muttered to himself, tears streaming down his face as he stared blankly at everything in front of him. He survived, but everything in front of him almost shook him into a trance...
Zhao Huipeng’s face was pale, he bit his lips tightly, and his whole body was shaking.
It’s not real, it’s not real, everything in front of me is not real. This is the scene happening in the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm. The Heavenly Dao Divine Realm is a world that exists because of me. It is an illusion parallel to the real world. The catastrophe in front of me is just something that will happen in the future. In reality, all this has not happened yet, not happened yet...
Yan Liqiang was the first to react. He kept reminding himself in his mind that the disaster before him had not happened yet. He had only foreseen it in the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm. Everything before him was just a real game. It had not happened yet, and not so many people had died. There was no need to panic. He had to survive in this fantasy world that was parallel to reality. Survive...
Thinking this in his heart, Yan Liqiang's eyes gradually became firm after constant self-suggestion and reminder. He glanced at Gu Zexuan and Zhao Huipeng who had not yet recovered, gritted his teeth, grabbed one of them by the shoulder with one hand, and shook him heavily a few times, causing the two people's eyes to slowly shift to his face, "Zexuan, Huipeng, at least we are still alive..."
"Yes, at least we are still alive, still alive..." Gu Zexuan's eyes gradually focused and his fists slowly clenched.
"Boss, what should we do now?" Zhao Huipeng looked at Yan Liqiang with hope. At this time, only by seeing the firm look in Yan Liqiang's eyes again could he become firm as well.
Yan Liqiang pointed at the broken pleasure boats and the banks of the Qinhuai River that were battered by the huge waves and said, "Let's leave here first and go down to see if anyone is still alive. Then we'll go back to the yard and meet up with the people from the Sihai Escort Agency and see what to do next..."
"Okay, Boss, we'll listen to you!"
Gu Zexuan and Zhao Huipeng looked at each other and nodded heavily.
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Yan Liqiang led two people down from the slope again. Although it was still late at night, the starlight and moonlight in the sky, as well as the blazing fire in the distance, allowed Yan Liqiang to see everything around him clearly.
At this time, along with the night wind, in addition to the smell of thick smoke, there was also a faint sound of wailing and crying.
Just below the slope where several people were hiding, there was a pleasure boat that had been broken into two pieces. The huge waves just now had receded, and half of the pleasure boat was lying on its side in the mud. The surrounding crops were in a mess and could no longer be seen in their previous appearance.
The entire houseboat was like a drawer that was broken in half, open and divided into two layers. From the outside of the houseboat, one could see the messy and broken things inside - the exquisite furniture, tables and chairs, as well as calligraphy and paintings, had become a mess at this time. Three people found a person in the messy cabin of the houseboat after just a quick search.
It was a woman, her whole body was wet. Judging from her clothes, she seemed to be a maid in the pleasure boat. A broken wooden screen and a pile of debris were pressing on her. Yan Liqiang moved the broken wooden screen and the debris away from her, and found that the maid had a huge wound on her forehead and a dent in her skull. She had stopped breathing and the pulse in her neck had stopped beating. However, her pale face was still wide-open with a trace of fear.
Yan Liqiang sighed secretly, reached out and closed the maid's eyes.
"Boss, look, there's something here..." Gu Zexuan, who was not far away, screamed.
Yan Liqiang quickly walked over the pile of debris in the cabin and asked, "What is that?"
"This..." Gu Zexuan pointed to a scattered box in the cabin. The box was not big, only one foot square, but very exquisite. From the opening of the box, you could see that the box was filled with silver...
Yan Liqiang thought about it, then picked up the box, opened it, and divided the silver inside into three parts, letting Gu Zexuan and Zhao Huipeng take one part each.
Gu Zexuan and Zhao Huipeng were a little hesitant, not knowing whether they should take it.
“Now that something like this has happened, there will definitely be disaster victims and chaos in the future. At that time, it will be difficult to move forward without money. This is not about making money from the dead. If we don’t take it, someone else will come to take it. There is nothing wrong with silver. We will definitely need it if we carry it with us. Even if we don’t need it, we can use it to help others…” Yan Liqiang said in a deep voice, and while speaking, he put one of the money in his pocket. Gu Zexuan and Zhao Huipeng looked at each other, and then each packed up the remaining two.
"In addition to silver, pay attention to what you can eat with you. It would be best if you can find a tool that can be used to make a saddle bag that can be tied around the waist without affecting your movements and is concealed and not easily discovered..."
"Boss, what do you want to make that saddle bag for?" Gu Zexuan asked in confusion.
"Put in whatever you find edible. At the critical moment, that little bit of food may save your life..."
This is the experience Yan Liqiang learned from watching TV in his previous life. In all places where disasters occur, food shortage is the first problem faced by all survivors after the disaster. Although Yan Liqiang still doesn't know how many people will be affected by this catastrophe and how many places will be affected, one thing is certain: after tonight, the entire Han Empire will fall into great chaos...
The meteorite that caused the violent earthquake just now fell in the direction of the Imperial Capital, and this place is hundreds of miles away from the Imperial Capital. Judging from the movement from the Imperial Capital just now, even a hydrogen bomb attack could not bring such a great power. This made Yan Liqiang make a frightening judgment in his heart - the capital of the entire Han Empire, it is possible... There are not many people who can survive...
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Three people walked out of the broken houseboat. The farmland below was still flooded with water and mud everywhere. The three people didn't care about that. They walked out of the muddy field with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and moved towards a piece of collapsed ruins on the river bank in the distance.
Sure enough, as soon as the three of them arrived at the ruins, they heard a faint cry for help from within the ruins...
After hearing the cry for help, Yan Liqiang took the lead and the three of them started searching in the ruins. Twenty minutes later, the three of them rescued the first living person from the ruins...
(End of this chapter)