The time shown on Xiao Tu’s screen was 11:30 pm in the middle of the night. The surrounding area was dark when everyone rushed out of the underground base.
Jiang Pingce used the coordinate system to write the formula, he must see the landing point ahead, otherwise he did not dare to guarantee that his teammates would not hit trees and mountains. Xin Yan knew this, and quickly summoned the spirit lamp the moment he flew in the air. The dense spirit lamps shot out of his hands and strung into the shape of the chain, surrounded everyone.
I had just snowed heavily outside, and the snow on the ground was thick enough to easily submerge their knees. The surrounding mountains were shaking, the big earthquake had caused violent fluctuations in the air. The whole world seemed to be distorted, everything in the field of vision was shaking wildly, even the flame of the spirit lamp was constantly extinguished. Xin Yan could only quickly summon a new spirit lamp to replenish!
At this moment, Ke Shaobin suddenly shouted, “Look down there!”
Hearing this, everyone looked down, and saw a huge crack more than three meters wide on the ground below!
The crack was bottomless, and it was not an exaggeration to describe it as an ‘abyss’. The wide crack was like the earth opening its bloody mouth, to swallow everything up!
The location of the crack was exactly where their base was.
Zhang Xiaonian looked at the scene under his feet and widened his eyes in horror. “Fortunately, we ran fast, otherwise, the entire base would be swallowed by cracks, wouldn’t it be finished if we fell?”
Qin Lu’s voice trembled slightly, “Such a strong earthquake should exceed magnitude 8.”
The big earthquake of magnitude 8 or higher was enough to destroy a human city in an instant. Today, they were in the Ice Age, there was no human civilization, and they did not have to worry about the collapse of the buildings and causing casualties.
However, such a big earthquake was undoubtedly a devastating blow to the surrounding animals. They saw with their own eyes that the lions who had just grabbed territory from the cave bear during the day had collapsed in the cave and they did not know how many lions had not had time to escape and were buried in the cave.
Jiang Pingce looked serious and quickly adjusted the formula.
The air flow generated by the earthquake shook, causing the cold wind to blow into their faces like a sharp blade. Liu Zhaoqing hurriedly took out gauze and distributed it to everyone, allowing everyone to use it as a scarf mask.
Ke Shaobin wrapped the lion skin coat on his body, and his teeth were chattering when he spoke, “Fortunately, we made this leather coat, otherwise, wearing short sleeves and flying in the air in the middle of the night, even if we are not buried, we will be frozen to death by the cold.”
Liu Zhaoqing smiled bitterly. “The Faculty of Geography is really perverted enough. We should be glad that we only encountered ice and earthquakes this time, not the great package of earthquake, tsunami and volcanic eruptions.”
Xu Yishen said, “Have you watched too many doomsday movies? In that case, we really won’t live!”
Yue Xingwen had always been silent—— He was busy making gloves out of Liu Zhaoqing’s gauze.
Jiang Pingce was responsible for air movement, and others did not need to worry too much about flying in the air, so they had leisure to chat. However, Jiang Pingce had been writing formulas. The cold wind was bitterly cold, and his fingers were already frozen red.
When Yue Xingwen couldn’t help but feel a little distressed when he saw his frozen red hand, so he quickly used the gauze and stitches given by senior brother Liu, simply made a glove and handed it to Jiang Pingce, and whispered in his ear, “Put it on, don’t freeze your hand.”
Jiang Pingce looked at the crooked gauze glove and quickly put it on his right hand.
This glove did not have finger parts, strictly speaking, it could only be regarded as a ‘gauze cover’, but this was made for him by Xingwen himself, and only Xingwen noticed that his hand was frozen.
Jiang Pingce’s heart warmed, and he continued to write down a formula with gloves, controlling everyone to advance in the air.
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If they did not have special abilities, when they encountered such a big earthquake, all they could do was close their eyes and wait for death.
After 20 minutes of flying like this, the ground shaking seemed to stop, the air flow also no longer oscillated, and the whole world returned to silence. The teammates looked at each other.
Ke Shaobin held the glasses that almost fell off and asked, “Has the earthquake stopped?”
Qin Lu said, “It looks like it’s stopped, but big earthquakes are often accompanied by aftershocks, so we still have to be on constant alert.”
The surrounding shocks obviously stopped, but everyone did not dare to relax, their current situation was still not safe, in case of sudden aftershocks, everyone still had to be ready to run for their lives at any time.
Jiang Pingce said, “Let’s find a landing point first. I still have 10 minutes left in my coordinate system.”
Flying with a cold wind in the air, even in fur coats, everyone was almost frozen and numb. Yue Xingwen looked back at the short-haired girl behind him and said, “Qin Lu, you decide, where do you think is safer?”
Qin Lu’s eyebrows were around. “Just now, large cracks appeared on the empty ice field, proving that an empty and flat place is not necessarily safe. In case the library, like the Faculty of Architecture <City Collapse> course, deliberately creates a large crack based on our location, it’s likely that the crack will open wherever we go.”
Liu Zhaoqing said seriously, “That’s right, with the level of perversion in the library, what Qin Lu said is very likely!”
Everyone: “…”
The library in everyone’s impression was a perverted intelligent system that tried to create problems for them. The Faculty of Architecture <City Collapse> escape class was all about walking everywhere and collapsing everywhere. The Faculty of Architecture, of course, had the potential to crack wherever they went.
Just now, a big crack appeared in the location where their base was located, which was obviously not a coincidence, but a deliberate attempt by the library!
Yue Xingwen said with a headache, “If we don’t settle in the open area, where else can we go?”
Qin Lu frowned and looked into the distance. After a moment, she suddenly pointed ahead and said, “Let’s go to the mountain.”
Qin Miao asked in a low voice, “Are you sure that the top of the mountain won’t crack?”
Qin Lu said, “Suppose that there is a crack in the location of the mountain range, causing the entire mountain to sink. Because we are standing at the top of the mountain and have a wide field of vision, there is enough reaction time to escape at that time.”
Yue Xingwen thought for a moment and felt that Qin Lu’s statement made sense, so he nodded and said, “Go to the mountain.”
There was still some way to go from the snowy mountain, but fortunately, Jiang Pingce’s coordinate system still had 10 minutes. He quickly adjusted the formula to let everyone fly to a higher position and fly all the way to the top of the mountain.
Just after a heavy snowfall, the snow on the mountain was very thick, everyone could hardly move their feet in the snow. Zhang Xiaonian quickly summoned a bulldozer to push the snow away and clear up an open space.
Lin Manluo summoned the green tree, Liu Zhaoqing skillfully chopped wood to make a fire, and everyone sat around the fire, their faces were ugly. They all knew that the earthquake would not end easily, and everyone had only found a foothold temporarily, and they would have to continue to run away in case of another aftershock.
Since coming to the library, their lives had often hung in the rope, constantly escaping, and they had almost gotten used to escaping more.
Jiang Pingce’s coordinate system had fallen into cooling down, and Qin Lu took the initiative to say, “Don’t be too far away from me, if there is another earthquake later, and the mountain is cracked, I will use the Plate Movement to take everyone away.”
Other research groups did not have mathematics experts like Jiang Pingce, and this course could actually pass with teammates from the Faculty of Geography. When the location of the earthquake cracked, the geography students only needed to react quickly enough to avoid cracks in the grounds by switching places continuously. Their Research Group 183 had Jiang Pingce in, and it was relatively much easier to escape by air just now.
Quiet all around.
Yue Xingwen stretched out his hand and gently touched the back of Jiang Pingce’s head and asked worriedly, “Just now, I heard your head hit the wall, are you okay?” He touched it carefully and noticed that Jiang Pingce seemed to have a bump on the back of his head.
Jiang Pingce said, “It’s okay.”
When Liu Zhaoqing heard this, he immediately came over and checked, and then smiled and said, “Pingce can write so many mathematical formulas, obviously he was not hit into a concussion. Skin injury is easy to deal with, use the gauze at the swollen part of the head and it can quickly disappear.”
He took out a piece of gauze and handed it to Yue Xingwen, “Does Xingwen know how to bandage it?”
Yue Xingwen said, “Senior brother, you can do it, you are more professional.”
Liu Zhaoqing nodded and quickly wrapped a circle of gauze around Jiang Pingce’s head. A cool feeling soon came from the swollen and painful spot at the back of Jiang Pingce’s head. After a few seconds, Liu Zhaoqing removed the gauze and said with a smile, “It’s done.”
Yue Xingwen reached out to touch it again, and found that the bump on the back of Pingce’s head was indeed gone. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Everyone rest first, don’t sleep, be on guard at any time.”
Everyone sat around. Let alone sleeping, after experiencing such a big earthquake for the first time in their lives, everyone was frightened and very energetic.
A group of people sat like this until dawn.
However, the aftershocks did not occur.
On the ninth day of the exam, the sun shone on the snow and reflected a dazzling light. Yue Xingwen stood up and looked into the distance, and a large number of black cracks crisscrossed the endless white snowfield, like countless wounds cut by a knife.
Last night’s escape relied on Xin Yan’s spirit lamp to illuminate, unable to see the scene in the distance. After dawn, they looked into the distance, only to find that countless cracks appeared on the snow. This desolate and spectacular scene made everyone speechless for a while.
After a moment of silence, Qin Lu said, “If such a big earthquake occurs in a human city in the civilized era, the number of casualties will be unimaginable.” She paused and whispered, “Unfortunately, until now, human beings still don’t have mature earthquake monitoring and early warning technology. The natural disasters caused by this movement of the Earth’s crust can’t be stopped at all.”
Geography was a very profound subject. Qin Lu always felt that she had studied for so many years, just touching a little skin. Human research and exploration of the Earth, there was still a long way to go.
Assuming that one day, humans could accurately predict the time and location of an earthquake and organize the removal of local residents in an orderly manner before the arrival of a major earthquake, what would it be like?
Ke Shaobin came over and asked Xiao Tu to take photos of this cruel scene after the earthquake, only then put away Xiao Tu and said, “Today is the ninth day, and tomorrow night at 00:00 am will be considered as passing the exam. Do you think the library will be merciful and let us survive this wave of earthquake and go straight to pass, or will it continue to send us aftershock packages?”
Liu Zhaoqing couldn’t cry or laugh. “It must be the latter. The sandstorm of the Faculty of Environment has come twice, and there is no reason for the earthquake in the Faculty of Geography to only shake once.”
At this moment, Jiang Pingce suddenly said, “Listen guys, there seems to be a strange sound.”
Everyone immediately stopped the discussion and pricked up their ears to listen carefully—— Sure enough, there seemed to be a ‘buzzing’ sound in the distance, like the sound of the wind, and like an animal wailing.
After listening for a few seconds, Qin Lu’s face suddenly changed. “Oh no, it may be an avalanche!”
Almost as soon as her words fell, everyone felt a violent vibration under their feet, as if something was about to break through the ground. Not far away, a large amount of snow rushed towards them at an extremely fast speed like thousands of troops!
Jiang Pingce immediately reported the data. “The right rear, inclination down 45 degrees, 300 meters!”
It was the inclined straight line distance between the ground and the top of the mountain that he calculated when he manipulated everyone up the mountain yesterday.
Seeing that the big avalanche was about to bury them completely, Qin Lu quickly summoned the globe and quickly pressed his finger on it twice. “Eurasian plate, Pacific, switch places!”
The Plate Movement skill took effect, and everyone instantly appeared at the foot of the mountain.
However, before everyone could catch their breath, when they looked back, they suddenly turned pale with fright!
The avalanche was far faster than they could have imagined, and more terrifying than a sports car on a highway overtaking lane.
The heavy snow rushed down the mountain quickly, catching up with them in a blink of an eye. Yue Xingwen turned his head and saw that snow behind him formed a snow wall nearly three meters high, rushing towards them fiercely, quite like Mount Tai’s overwhelming momentum.
In case they were buried by an avalanche, they would definitely not be able to climb out for a while and a half, and they would soon suffocate!
Imagine themselves buried in more than 3 meters of snow, and everyone could not help but feel chills down their backs.
Qin Miao said in a stern voice, “Xiao Lu, run!”
Qin Lu’s face turned blue, and she took the globe to quickly switch positions and led everyone to escape. The avalanche behind chased after them, and everyone switched positions wildly all the way. Their hearts were raised to their throats!
Jiang Pingce said calmly, “Don’t be afraid, if we still can’t escape the avalanche after the Plate Movement skill is used up, we can continue to hide in the air.”
Qin Lu nodded. With Jiang Pingce’s second guarantee, her pressure was indeed much lessened.
Qin Lu’s spirit was highly concentrated, her fingers operated quickly, and she switched places 10 times in a row. After 5,000 meters away from the mountain in the center of the avalanche, the speed of the avalanche gradually slowed down, and stopped not far behind her.
Qin Lu breathed a slight sigh of relief, and went forward another 500 meters, only then stopped, looked back at the thick snow, and said with a pale face, “I thought there would be a few earthquakes, but it turned out to be an avalanche?”
Liu Zhaoqing smiled bitterly. “The library is afraid that we will be too bored to hide from earthquakes all the time, so they gave us a change of taste.”
Everyone: “…”
Thank you so much library, they really didn’t need so many flavors.
Endless ice, sudden earthquakes in the middle of the night, and another big avalanche. This Ice Age exam experience was also colorful!
I’m not sure how this faculty training you for your further life. Maybe your team work
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