Chapter 58 Super Earthquake
"So, are you going to run away with me?"
Yu Miaomiao did not answer the little girl's question, but instead posed another question to her.
The little girl was clearly in a dilemma. These days, her relationship with Lu An had become increasingly intimate. The two of them farmed and played together. Lu An even taught her how to cook and read books with her.
In contrast, Yu Miaomiao is completely slacking off, acting like the father in a family of three. She eats, sleeps, plays games, and her occasional interactions with Xu Nanwei are mostly for fun.
For her, the two men represented a close relationship with different meanings.
If she had to choose one, she couldn't.
In just a few seconds, the girl's face flashed with a mixture of confusion, struggle, and hesitation, which was incredibly captivating.
"No, I won't let you go."
Yu Miaomiao laughed and gave her a light tap on the head. "I don't know what's going on in your head all day. I'm going to pick up the supplies we traded that day. Want to come with me?"
"Yes. You should have said so earlier, stop with all that nonsense." The girl's furrowed brows relaxed, and she smiled again.
He quickly got up from the ground, flicked his fingers lightly, causing a slight ripple in the surrounding air, and brushed off the dust from his pants and the corners of his clothes, leaving them clean and new.
This skill is amazing, comparable to a washing machine.
The little guy has become more cheerful and lively since living with them, and even a bit mischievous.
He is becoming more and more adept at controlling his superpowers, and sometimes he even creates some strange ways to play.
"Let's go." Xu Nanwei put her little hand in Yu Miaomiao's hand, humming a song as she pulled Yu Miaomiao outside.
She didn't forget to tell Lu An and the three little ones, who were in the yard getting their UV light, that they were going out to do a mission and would be back in a while.
"I've washed all the vegetables for today. Let's cook together when I get back."
The three little ones hummed in response, indicating that they had read it.
Lu An kept his eyes closed, enjoying the moment. He gave an OK sign, waved, and didn't say a word.
Sure enough, when relationships get too close, people become perfunctory.
The base is now broadcasting warnings about earthquake precautions on a loop. Even if no earthquake occurs in the end, it is still necessary to conduct disaster prevention publicity in advance.
To avoid everyone being caught off guard and panicking, causing even greater losses and harm.
The people have just experienced a natural disaster, and although they are afraid of the unknown ahead, they are much calmer.
Taking the elevator directly to the plaza, Yu Miaomiao felt that the elevator lights were flashing faster than usual today, perhaps due to psychological reasons.
The square also seemed rather deserted.
He Yusen sat on a bench on the side early and waited. When he saw Yu Miaomiao leading a little girl toward him, he waved to them eagerly.
"Did you find the item?"
"Of course, I always keep my word. And you, did you bring enough?"
After He Yusen finished speaking, he looked behind Yu Miaomiao and found that she didn't even have a bag.
"Are you kidding me?" He immediately got up and tried to leave.
"Don't rush, don't rush, we have them all with us. Let's find a place to check the goods. There are too many people around here, let's go somewhere else."
Upon seeing the small umbrella that had appeared out of thin air in Yu Miaomiao's hand, He Yusen was first taken aback, then realized that she was a kindred spirit.
Turning into the passageway next to the square, after secretly checking that no one was around, Yu Miaomiao told the little girl to be on guard, and then simply released a box containing 100 small umbrellas from her space.
Without further ado, He Yusen placed his hand on the ground, and a harvester that looked at least 90% new appeared.
"No problems, no repairs needed, brand new harvester, I'd be losing money even if I took 100 of them, don't forget to help me spread the word."
Before she could put it into her spatial storage, dust billowed up in the passage, small pebbles kept falling, and the ground trembled slightly.
Realizing something was wrong, he quickly put the harvester into his spatial storage, grabbed the little girl, and ran towards the square, reminding He Yusen, "There's been an earthquake."
He Yusen was squatting on the ground counting, but he didn't care anymore. He put the items into his spatial storage and ran away. With his long legs and big strides, he overtook Yu Miaomiao in no time.
Unattainable.
The broadcast began: "Please do not panic, proceed to the earthquake-resistant shelters on either side of the underground city..."
As he passed Yu Miaomiao, he couldn't help but shout, "Did you go the wrong way? The shock absorber is in the opposite direction."
"You're the one who's come to the wrong place."
"I want to go home, I'm not going to the earthquake relief site."
"What a coincidence."
This is earlier than the last natural disaster. The tsunami and extreme cold came a week earlier, and the super earthquake came more than two weeks earlier. What about the next one?
Without time to think it through, Yu Miaomiao needed to get back to the villa and meet up with Lu An as soon as possible. Since all the elevators were out of service, she had no choice but to use the emergency exit.
The earthquake had just begun, and the fluctuations were still slight, with a relatively low frequency and intensity. Since they were underground, they sensed the earthquake earlier than those on the surface, so she still had time.
The little girl gradually fell behind as she ran, and she couldn't run anymore, but she gritted her teeth and kept running.
Seeing that the safety passage was relatively smooth, he simply took out his electric skateboard, picked up the little girl, put on his goggles, and sped off into the distance.
As they glided to the entrance of the villa area, they saw Lu An and the three little ones looking around. Lu An was holding two cats, and the dog was close to his feet. The three of them were a little scared, but they didn't run around. When they saw Yu Miaomiao, Ma Jiang ran a few steps toward her.
"Sesame paste, hurry, let's go home."
"Woof!"
The security guards in the villa area also withdrew to the earthquake relief point, and all around were crowds of people running in the opposite direction from them, but they were the only ones who wanted to run back to the villa.
The earthquake-resistant sites will be overcrowded at that time. Hundreds of thousands of people who usually live in the underground city will have to hide there.
When people gather together, the feasibility of their actions decreases.
The underground city has the highest earthquake resistance level. The earthquake-resistant point is the strongest triangular structure point inside the underground city. It is relatively safe to hide there. However, if the underground city collapses, nowhere is safe.
Neither the ground nor underground is a complete land.
We made it back to the villa without incident.
Lu An closed the villa's courtyard gate and then the room door.
Yu Miaomiao took out the escape pod, and the three little ones and Xu Nanwei filed in one after another. Yu Miaomiao herself also sat in. Finally, Lu An came in and closed the heavy pod door. Only then did everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
The second wave of earthquakes and tremors is coming.
They also felt the violent tremors inside the escape pod; the tremors felt completely different on the ground and underground.
In her previous life on the ground, Yu Miaomiao saw the ice layer tearing apart, and everything being sucked into the ice abyss tens of meters deep and disappearing.
The slightly higher floors were cut in half at the waist and crashed onto the ice, engulfing the crowd who couldn't escape in time, with shards of ice, dust, and blood splattering everywhere.
Before they even have a chance to scream, they die a miserable death, like ants being crushed.
The underground city also began to shake amidst the ripples.