It was an absolute disaster.
The sudden strong earthquake, in the irregular beating and swaying, the buildings on the surface were as fragile as paper. It collapsed amidst the constant vibrations, shattering into large chunks and falling to the ground. Just at the exit of this abandoned village, a violent earthquake formed a crack. The crack was only as thick as a tree trunk at first, but it continued to expand and expand in the blink of an eye.
The command vehicle and transport truck that happened to drive into this area immediately sank into the crack, and many soldiers on the truck were shaken out of the compartment and fell into the abyss in the crack, leaving only hasty, short-lived screams. Some soldiers reacted very quickly, jumping out of the carriage and grabbing onto the protruding rock wall. But the earth's crust kept shaking, so they couldn't catch it firmly.
Death seems to be grinning in the abyss. It has opened a big net, waiting quietly for the life above to fall into its net.
The cracks continued to expand, and some lucky soldiers climbed up to the surface, but they were not as fast as the surface of the formation shattered. The difference between life and death may be only one second, but sometimes, one second is forever.
An earthquake with an intensity of over eight descended on this wilderness just like that, and the earth elements that Jin had penetrated into the mantle since yesterday were constantly annihilated and hedged under his control, thus forming a force to shake the earth. This energy is so huge that it is already equivalent to 10 million tons of explosives*. The surface deformed, and the formations on both sides even formed a drop of up to ten meters.
In the distance from the source of the earthquake, rumbling loud noises were continuously heard from the wilderness on both sides, and pillars of lime dust shot up into the sky from time to time, but this was a phenomenon caused by the continuous compression of the stratum.
Su and Brown drove ahead in an off-road vehicle and several transport trucks. When the earthquake occurred and the ground was torn apart, all the drivers drove forward desperately. Because they were not the focus of Alice's attention, when the earthquake lasted for 5 minutes and finally the information gradually came out, all the people in the car were in shock, but there were no casualties. At most, it was only a little bumped and bruised when the car bumped, and it was not fatal.
Jumping off the off-road vehicle, Su gently covered his mouth with his hands, his beautiful eyes were wide open, and he looked at the scene like the end of the world in disbelief.
Tens of tons of dust rose into the air, forming a gray cloud in the air. The gray cloud was being slowly blown away by the high-altitude wind, and behind the scattered dust and smoke, a hideous crack appeared on the ground. A huge ground fissure with a length of at least three kilometers stretches across the wilderness. It is like a crack in the ground. A cold airflow rises from the crack and meets the scorching airflow on the ground to form a faint mist.
Su stood on the edge and looked down. The world under the cracks in the ground was almost bottomless, as if leading directly to hell. She sat unsteadily on the ground, and screamed into the abyss a moment later: "Zero! Beyoncé!"
Su's voice echoed in the abyss, but no one answered.
When the command vehicle overturned and sank into a crack, Zero attempted to crash into the compartment. But the cracks expanded very quickly, and before he stood up while maintaining his balance, the command vehicle began to spin, and there was a violent collision. Zero's face changed drastically, knowing that the car began to fall to the ground. He didn't care about doing other things, but subconsciously hugged Beyonce tightly, using his body to build the strongest and last line of defense for this woman.
If he is alone, if he is not trapped in the carriage, then with zero ability and reaction, it is very possible to survive on the surface. But under Alice's calculation, Jin started after the convoy started, which put Zero in a predicament.
Under the constant collision, the command vehicle began to deform. In the constant tumbling and collision, Beyonce passed out early. Zero had no choice but to hug her tightly and protect her fragile parts such as her head and cervical spine. He used his body to offset the impact from the outside again and again, but the impact became stronger and stronger, and Zero knew that the car had fallen deep into the ground.
Zero didn't dare to imagine what would happen when he fell to the ground. Under the inclined roll, the potential energy would continue to accumulate due to the effect of inertia. When it reaches the ground, it will explode completely due to the collision with a hard object, and the impact of the explosion will tear Zero and Beyoncé into pieces.
Is this the only way? I didn't die on the battlefield, but died in a disaster.
Zero hugged Beyoncé, thinking wryly.
At this time, the command car suddenly shook violently, and Zero hugging Beyoncé was thrown tightly against the roof wall of the car. Just when Zero thought that a devastating impact was about to come, the command vehicle didn't move at all, but the compartment kept squeezing inward for some reason. Ling was taken aback for a moment, and then thought of a possibility. Before he could think about it, he raised his right hand and materialized Colt in an instant.
There was a flash of fire in the muzzle of Colt's gun, and a slender yellow bullet spun rapidly, nailing into the car wall instantly with a faint stream of fire. The firing pin built into the warhead of the high-explosive warhead sparked when the casing collided, immediately igniting the high-explosive bomb inside the warhead. The flame expanded and suddenly formed a violent shock wave, causing the car wall made of composite materials to groan and deform, and a big hole exploded in the center in the next second.
Amidst the clattering sound, ground water rushed in. Not surprised but happy, holding Beyonce against the current and swimming out of the gap in the car wall.
Under the ground, there is a spacious underground river. I don't know how deep the ground river is. When people are in the water, they can faintly see red lights flickering in the depths of the abyss, and bubbles pop up from time to time. Under the red light, some strange fish swim by from time to time. These mutated fish lived underground for a long time, and their eyes had already degenerated or even lost their eyes. Some of these strange fish are huge, almost the size of a killer whale, but their stomachs are as round as a ball, which is very strange.
Zero didn't have time to look at these strange fish. He held Beyoncé in one hand, and patted the water with his other hand and both feet at the same time, so that the two of them kept floating towards the surface of the water.
When the water broke through and he breathed the first mouthful of cold air underground, Zero felt relieved. He looked up, and there was a slender skylight above, which should be the exit of the crack. It's just that the sky light is so small, but it shows that Ling's current position is probably at least a thousand meters away from the ground.
The rock wall that slopes down from above forms a natural arch above the underground river. From the shape, it looks like a huge water pipe dug out by man. Of course, the bigger possibility is a naturally formed underground cave. Only now, the cave is cracked due to the earthquake. Fortunately, otherwise, the command car would not have fallen into the ground river, but fell directly on the rock formation.
Holding Beyonce in his arms, Zero swam to the river. It didn't take long to find a shoal for him. It is called a shoal, but it is just a piece of rock above the water. The rocky ground was hard, but the surface was covered with shimmering moss. These mosses exude a faint green fluorescence, they are like spots of light in this underground world, and they become strange decorations in the abyss.
Looking at these shimmering mosses, Zero knew that this meant that the water quality of the river was not a big problem, at least it was drinkable. Otherwise, if the river water is full of radiation, it is impossible for Shimmer Moss to grow.
Putting Beyonce on the ground, Zero quickly checked her body. After finding that she was fine, Zero really relaxed. As long as you can't die, there is still hope. Zero thinks so.
After a while, Beyonce woke up slowly, and finally sat up with her head supported: "Where is this?"
"If there is no mistake, it should be a thousand meters below the ground. We are very lucky to encounter such a big river, otherwise we would have to fall to our death." Zero looked at the soaked Beyonce, and he said: " You'd better take off your clothes to dry, or you'll get sick easily."
"But here..."
"It's okay. You wear this first." Zero took off his tactical uniform, revealing his strong and well-proportioned body. He handed Beyoncé the tactical suit, which was waterproof due to the special material used. Although the outer layer is stained with water, the inner layer is dry.
Beyoncé didn't pretend, so she took off her clothes in front of Zero's eyes, showing her beautiful figure in Zero's eyes. After taking off her stockings, Beyoncé was almost naked. She immediately put on Zero's tactical uniform. The cold wind underground was something ordinary people like her couldn't bear.
After Zero used the shaping function to make the tactical suit automatically resize, it clung to Beyoncé like a second skin. The tactical suit has a constant temperature system, and the temperature is corrected according to Beyoncé's body temperature. So a few seconds later, Beyonce could no longer feel the coldness of the ground.
Next, Zero began to think about how to get out of here. He took the shoal where the two were located as the origin, and searched the area within a few hundred meters to the left and right, but found that there were not many water outlet platforms like the shoal. In some places, Zero even had to stick to the rock wall and use the protrusions of the rock wall to climb over. If it was just him alone, there would be no problem, but Beyoncé definitely didn't have that kind of physical strength and skill.
More importantly, there are almost no gaps in the rock wall, and there seems to be no natural cave passages.
After working for most of the morning, when he returned to the shallows, Ling found nothing. Judging from the current situation, there is probably only the stupid way to climb up from the rock wall.
Just thinking about how to climb up with Beyoncé, Zero suddenly heard a "muttering" sound. The voice came from Beyonce's stomach, and she turned red. Ling Xiao asked, "Are you hungry?"
Beyoncé nodded and said, "It's okay, I can take it."
"I can't do anything when I'm hungry, just wait for me." After Ling finished speaking, he plunged into the ground river and disappeared for a moment.
After a few minutes, the surface of the water roared loudly. Beyonce subconsciously took a few steps back, thinking that some ferocious mutant beast was about to appear, but the water surface became quiet. After Ling emerged from the water, he walked onto the shoal, but with one hand he dragged the strange fish with a messy stomach from the river.
"You want to eat this guy raw?" Beyonce looked at the big fish in embarrassment.
Zero laughed and said, "I guess it doesn't taste very good if eaten raw, let's eat it roasted."
"Baking?" Beyonce smiled wryly, "We don't have anything now, how can we bake?"
"Of course I can."
After Zero finished speaking, he flicked his hand and used his own energy to construct a gun like magic. Beyoncé's eyes almost fell out of sight, Zero is only wearing a pair of underwear now, and he has nothing on his body, Beyonce has no idea where he hides this pistol at all. Ling didn't explain, and between the ups and downs, he sliced off the fish fillets of the strange fish.
Not long after, the fattest part of the strange fish had been sliced into fillets. Zero directly took out the thick fish bones in the strange fish, cut them into several pieces and put them on the ground. He covered his fist with a layer of energy force field, and with a few punches, he punched a few holes in the surface of the shoal. Zero inserted the fishbone vertically into the hole and fixed it into a bracket.
Then the fish fillets were taken to the river to wash off the blood stains, and then inserted on the fish bones. Finally Zero took a solid piece from the carrying case to burn, and he put it under the fish. With a shake of Zero's hand, a ball of fist-sized flame fell on the solid burning surface, and it was instantly ignited. Immediately, a wave of fire sprayed from the solid burning vessel, and the fish fillets above it began to roast.
Not long after, the fish fillets were already dripping with oil, and the aroma began to waft into Beyoncé's nostrils.
Watching Ling empty-handed create * and flames, Beyonce looked at Ling meaningfully and said: "It seems that many people underestimate you, Zero, you still seem to be hiding many secrets."
"It's not a bad thing to be underestimated, is it?" Zero smiled lightly.
After a while, Zero picks up a golden-grilled fish fillet. He put it in his mouth and tasted it carefully, and after confirming that the meat of this strange fish was edible, Zero handed over the other grilled fish fillets to Beyoncé. It was definitely a picnic for Beyoncé. There are no utensils, so the food can only be delivered to the mouth with bare hands. The fish fillets made her fingers turn red, and her mouth was covered with grease. But in this environment, Beyoncé can't care about the appearance of etiquette. After she wiped out several fish fillets like a storm, she burped.
Stretching, Beyonce murmured, "I'm sleepy."
She was not polite, she just lay down on the ground and fell asleep with Ling's lap on her pillow. Zero knew that the accident this morning had caused Beyonce to consume a lot of physical energy. She was able to get a good night's sleep, which was of great help in restoring her physical strength and spirit. Zero naturally would not object, he stopped eating after eating two pieces of fish. The rest of the food will be saved for the next meal and given priority to Beyoncé.
Zero doesn't know how long it will take to go out. Although there seem to be a lot of mutated fish in the ground river, God knows whether other fish can be eaten like this ball-shaped strange fish. In short, when conditions permit, Zero decided to save food as much as possible to ensure the continuation of Beyoncé's life.
Gently stroking Beyoncé's face with his hand, seeing her sleeping face, Zero smiled slightly. He looked at the carrying equipment next to him, finally opened it, and took out the Naga specimen inside.
This ruby-like meat [grain] is still intact, and Zero opened the container, picked it up with two fingers, and threw it into his mouth.
Zero swallowed it directly, and immediately, the genetic information stored by Naga in this piece of minced meat was continuously released. At this moment of crisis, Zero finally decided to use the gene fragments of Naga to evolve and strengthen himself!