Chapter 141: How Did They Die?!
The trembling of the land started out relatively weak, but it quickly became intense.
At this moment, Jiang Yang even felt like he wasn’t standing on the land, but on a bumpy off-road vehicle.
The next moment, he was shaken to the ground, and in the darkness, he didn’t know what things were crackling and descending, falling onto him.
“Ah!”
A cry of pain from Zhou Yu came from beside him. Jiang Yang’s heart tightened, and he instinctively groped to the side while shouting loudly: “Zhou Yu! Zhou Yu! Where are you? What happened to you?!”
After groping for a moment, he finally touched Zhou Yu’s arm.
There was a lot more liquid on her arm, which seemed to be blood, but he didn’t know where it was flowing from.
In the darkness, Jiang Yang couldn’t see anything clearly, nor could he see Zhou Yu’s condition at the moment. He fumbled in a panic to take out his mobile phone, planning to use the mobile phone’s light to check the situation, but before he could turn on the mobile phone, an arm forcefully pushed toward him.
“No, don’t worry about me! Jiang Yang, intelligence, intelligence!”
In the darkness, Zhou Yu’s voice was full of trembling, full of urgency.
Jiang Yang’s thoughts suddenly calmed at this moment, and the slight panic and fear were instantly suppressed.
Right… intelligence, intelligence!
He resolutely gave up on Zhou Yu, who was obviously seriously injured, and on the land that was still shaking violently, he crawled hand and foot toward the direction of the door in his memory, trying to leave the room.
There were originally screens in the room, running continuously 24 hours a day, uninterruptedly presenting real-time surveillance network data from all over the world.
But this earthquake seemed too intense, causing those screens to be damaged. The only option now was to go outside the room to check other screens.
In the chaos, Jiang Yang finally touched the door handle. Very luckily, this door could still be pulled open at the moment.
But the next moment, Jiang Yang’s heart sank again.
After the door was pulled open, what appeared in front of Jiang Yang was not the familiar passage and corridor as before, but…
A uneven “wall” composed of dust, rock, concrete, and rebar.
The base had already completely collapsed, blocking the door.
Without being able to see those screens, there was only one way left to obtain external intelligence.
His mobile phone and smartwatch.
The screens of both were too small, and the information they could display in a short time was limited. If there was a screen alternative, Jiang Yang wouldn’t choose this method.
But now there was no other way.
In the increasingly intense shaking, Jiang Yang took out his mobile phone, lit up the screen, and the next moment he unexpectedly discovered that the screen was still the familiar screensaver image, not the intelligence data that was set to automatically replace it once the apocalypse broke out.
Looking again at the top of the screen, Jiang Yang clearly saw the no signal icon.
“Damn it, didn’t they say that the base has full signal coverage, and even if the base is destroyed, there would still be a signal?”
Jiang Yang cursed in his heart and looked at his watch. Sure enough, the watch also had no signal.
Then there was no way at all.
Another intense shock came, slamming Jiang Yang to the ground.
He gave up on trying to stand up and once again crawled hand and foot to Zhou Yu’s side.
A concrete slab was covering Zhou Yu’s waist, with large patches of blood surging out from under her.
Her face was pale, her eyes tightly closed, and she had long lost consciousness, not knowing if she was dead or alive.
He pushed hard on the slab and found he couldn’t move it. Jiang Yang sighed softly, crawled over, lay down beside Zhou Yu, and then closed his eyes.
“See you in the next life…”
He didn’t know what suddenly smashed onto his head, and the next moment, Jiang Yang lost all consciousness.
……
Almost in an instant, Jiang Yang opened his eyes.
What came into view was the familiar face of Hibernation Base Supervisor Shen Wei.
“Comrade Jiang Yang, this is your 237th hibernation awakening. How do you feel?”
At this moment, Jiang Yang’s heart was still filled with the fear, panic, despair, and other emotions from the apocalypse arriving, Zhou Yu dying miserably beside him, and him closing his eyes to await death.
This was the instinct of people when facing death; it couldn’t be eliminated just by experiencing it many times.
At least Jiang Yang couldn’t do it.
His breathing became rapid in an instant. He suddenly reached out his arm and grabbed Shen Wei’s arm: “Director Shen, the apocalypse, the apocalypse has come!”
The smile on Shen Wei’s face instantly froze.
More than an hour later, under the notification and organization of Doomsday Plan Hibernation Team Working Group Leader Liu Fangyuan, a meeting was held again with participation from high-level officials and decision-makers from the World Government, leading figures from various disciplines and fields, and high-level military members.
Still by Sun Changhe giving the situation report, and after leaving people an hour to digest and absorb, the meeting continued.
This time, everyone’s gazes converged on Jiang Yang.
“This time, it was my second cycle in this apocalypse.
In the first cycle, because I was in hibernation state before death, I failed to bring back any intelligence.
In this cycle, I learned some intelligence.”
He looked at the many serious-faced participants: “The time of the apocalypse’s arrival is 86 days from now, October 14, 2078, at 7 a.m.!
As for the type, I cannot determine it.
At that time, I was in my bedroom, the door blocked by collapsed buildings, unable to leave. The screens lost power supply, the mobile phone and watch lost signal connection, and I couldn’t obtain any external information.
The only thing I could see was the shaking.”
He took a deep breath: “Intense shaking that could destroy the entire base in less than a minute.”
The participating experts exchanged low voices. After a long time, Lu Zhaoming seemed to have discussed preliminary opinions with the scientists and pressed the request to speak.
“Professor Lu, please speak.”
“According to the intelligence provided by Comrade Jiang Yang, the location information of Doomsday Base No. 1 where he was in the previous life is as follows.
After my discussion with experts in geology, seismology, and geophysics, we confirm that the area is a geologically stable zone, where no major earthquake is possible within a century.
At the same time, the construction standard of Doomsday Base No. 1 can withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake. Based on Comrade Jiang Yang’s description, the earthquake level the base encountered at the time of the apocalypse should be at least magnitude 9.5 or above; otherwise, the base wouldn’t have been destroyed so thoroughly and so quickly.
Earthquake magnitude increases by one level, releasing 32 times more energy. By this measure, the most violent theoretical earthquake that can form under Earth’s geological conditions is around magnitude 10.
A magnitude 9.5 earthquake is roughly the strongest earthquake that can occur on Earth in a real environment.
In other words… the most violent earthquake that can occur on Earth in a real environment happened in a place where geological research indicates earthquakes are fundamentally impossible, leading to Comrade Jiang Yang’s death.
But the problem is not this; the more important problem is that even a magnitude 9.5 earthquake couldn’t possibly affect the globe, let alone cause the apocalypse.
So, how did the others die?”
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