Chapter 15 Chapter fifteen

April 2.Monday.In the morning, 0:01. The loud bang of heaven and earth lasted for a few minutes, Zhou Xuan didn't dare to open his eyes to look at the world, and didn't dare to imagine the terrifying scene he would see before he died.However, there was no deep-seated pain on his body, and there was no miserable scene of arteries thumping and blood spattering five steps. However, when he wanted to stand up, he found that he couldn't move anymore. God knows how it got here.There are Transformers and Doraemon in the window above the head. Naturally, there are children's business next to the cinema.The body was stuck by a heavy cabinet, which was slightly tilted, forming a triangle with the wall, like a solid cage.He shouted a few times, and finally heard Churchill's response, and then Luo Haoran came, but he couldn't move the cabinet.

After a few minutes, he saw a group of strange faces, including a young woman. After a few seconds, she disappeared. When Zhou Xuan closed his eyes and resigned himself to fate, the cabinet began to shake.In the narrow space, there was a cat-like exquisite body, and then a hand was pressed on his knee, and a soft female voice said: "Don't move around." There seemed to be wool tassels rubbing against his feet, and then the switch under the cabinet was turned on. "OK!" A woman's voice came from beside her.Everyone outside worked hard together, and quickly moved the cabinet away, and rescued Zhou Xuan who was trapped.

He lay on the ground breathing heavily. Next to the Doraemon doll, stood a girl wrapped in a wool cape, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, with bright eyes under messy hair.She reached out to pull him up. Zhou Xuan didn't reach out to pick it up, but got up on his own, coughed a few times and said, "Thank you." He didn't get close to those strangers. For a long time, he had a sense of insecurity when facing strangers, let alone at the critical moment of life and death.The only person who can be trusted is Luo Haoran, the owner of this building. He walked up to that person and dog: "What happened?"

"All the ways to go upstairs are blocked." Luo Haoran looked at the dome of the atrium on the ninth floor, "Why is the cinema on the ninth floor? Because the building structure on this floor is the strongest, it can bear the span of the atrium, and more It can accommodate multiple movie screening halls. Such a steel dome is equivalent to a layer of solid armor, dividing the future dream building into two sections." Zhou Xuan still didn't know what happened above, but Luo Haoran convinced him that at least it was safe here. The owner of the building is still looking up at the dome, is he concerned about those who have rushed to the top floor?

The rest of the people were a few steps away from him, and the girl who rescued him just now hid far away in the shadows. Luo Haoran didn't look at them any more, patted the Labrador on the neck, and walked down the escape route.Zhou Xuan followed closely, even though there was a sea of ​​swords and flames ahead. Escaped from the nineteenth floor to the fourth basement floor, and then escaped from the fourth basement floor to the eighteenth floor, and went straight down again, as if turning a few times inside and outside the revolving door.I climbed up and down the stairs twice before, I didn’t know the direction and just followed blindly, but this time I am much more familiar, like walking up and down at my own home—do you want to treat this as your own home?Living in the dark underground?

When he came to the atrium on the ground floor of the Future Dream Mall, Churchill barked again.Zhou Xuan almost fell to his knees.His eyes were full of corpses piled up on the ground.In any case, I never expected that most of the so many people who were eager to escape just now have turned into ghosts, leaving only broken bodies, like a pile of garbage. Zhou Xuan looked at the faces of those dead people, each of them had smiles and tears, hope and despair, had hurt others or been hurt by others... imagine their parents were happy for their birth and worried about their growth, Pain over their deaths - if it wasn't the end of the world out there.

Luo Haoran still had no expression, and his eyes did not change at all.As the owner of this building, when he encountered such a hellish scene and witnessed so many people die in his own territory, he was strong enough not to go crazy. At the foot of the wall on the ground floor of the shopping mall, there were several people lying on the ground or leaning against the wall. They were all seriously injured and did not even have the strength to climb the stairs.Only one person seemed to be safe and sound. It was a middle-aged man wearing glasses. One of the lenses was broken. His hair was neatly combed and his face looked very fair. It was not as dusty as the others. He probably washed his face somewhere. up.

Zhou Xuan felt that this face was a bit familiar, and he always felt like he had seen it before—tonight? Oh, it should be last night, now it is the early morning of April 2.Just over two hours ago, he walked into the elevator of the Future Dream Hotel and saw an advertisement for a bestseller on the LCD screen—he always saw the cover of that book recently, and he vaguely remembered the name of that scholar ——Wu... He scratched his head involuntarily, but couldn't remember the name that was so red.He has been planning to commit suicide for two years, and he doesn't care about the doomsday topic that the people on Earth collectively pay attention to.

It is conceivable that ten minutes ago, when someone shouted that the escape route was found on the top floor, all the living people on the bottom floor—as long as there were no missing arms or legs, all rushed up excitedly, but this person stayed on the ground floor , actually still has the time to sort out his image, and he still looks like an intellectual, don't he want to escape in the first place?Like Zhou Xuan wanted to die here? He heard the miserable cries of several seriously injured people: "What happened just now? Did you come to save us from outside?" Zhou Xuan looked at Luo Haoran. The owner of the building bypassed the injured and walked towards the corridor next to the atrium. Behind him, besides the Labrador dog, were those who escaped from the upstairs—a young mother with a child in her arms, a woman in supermarket overalls Men, men in dusty Dior menswear, white collars in bandages, security guards and maids, and finally women in capes.Unexpectedly, that "master" named Wu also followed them.

Entering the corridor, Luo Haoran pushed open a door, on which was written "Non-staff personnel are not allowed to enter". There is another door inside, with the words "monitoring room" pasted on the door. Luo Haoran pressed his fingerprint on the password door and entered a set of complicated passwords to open it.He didn't mind a group of people following behind, intending to tell everyone what happened. The monitoring room is full of various high-tech equipment, which is dazzling.Luo Haoran sat in front of a computer, entered a few lines of instructions, and divided the large screen into dozens of small screens, but only the lower half was lit, and the upper half was displayed as snowflakes, which should be the floors above the cinema.

Except for bathrooms and changing rooms, there are cameras almost everywhere in the building.However, Zhou Xuan didn't find the surveillance footage of the hotel floor, nor the office building, but saw the empty hotel lobby, which was on the other side of the building even though it was on the ground floor. Luo Haoran remained expressionless.There are so many eyes behind him looking at the surveillance screen - corpses are seen in many screens, from the cinema on the ninth floor to the restaurant on the eighth floor, and the shops on the seventh floor to the second floor, some corpses are mixed with dummies Difficult to tell.Except for the cats and dogs that escaped from the pet shop, the living people who can still move on the small screen are the seriously injured people who stayed on the ground floor. "I see them!" someone yelled, and everyone jumped, it was the limping cleaning lady. The security reprimanded: "What are you barking about! Did you see a ghost?" "It's the two children who rescued me with you!" She pointed to the bottom left of the big screen.The text shows the basement floor, and the picture shows a large supermarket, in which there is a young man and woman.Judging from their attire and hairstyle, they are undoubtedly born in the 90s. They wander around the ruined store like ghosts. The girls stay close to the boys, and the boys walk with ease like a stroll in a garden.The girl kept taking off the things on the shelves. They seemed to be snacks such as chocolates, as if they were at home, and they took them off and put them in their mouths. In the earthquake disaster, this is not a robbery, right? ? Luo Haoran entered another line of instructions into the computer, and the picture on the big screen completely changed, it was no longer divided into small screens, and the hotel floor appeared directly—the text displayed as a corridor on the nineteenth floor. That was the place Zhou Xuan was most familiar with. Two hours ago, he had just walked into that corridor, opened his room and was about to commit suicide by jumping off the building.However, he noticed a detail that was easily overlooked. The monitoring time was displayed in the corner of the screen: 23:55 on April 1st. That was last night tens of minutes ago—the staff members ran up to the top floor of the nineteenth floor, carrying all kinds of digging tools, full of hopes of escaping, but Luo Haoran and Zhou Xuan rushed downstairs to retreat under Churchill’s warning. time! Sure enough, a group of men in overalls appeared on the big screen in the hotel corridor on the nineteenth floor.They opened a small door and found that it was blocked with cement debris, so they started digging with hammer drills and shovels.Some people kept looking back, perhaps wondering why the owner of the building and his annoying dog hadn't come up yet. No sound can be heard, and the people watching in front of the big screen are also dead silent.In the monitoring screen of the soon-to-be-escaped day, the lights in the hotel corridor flickered on and off.Zhou Xuan felt inexplicable fear, like a female ghost about to appear in a horror movie.Luo Haoran remained calm - except for the slight tremor of the fingertip of the right index finger that clicked the mouse. Finally, the men in overalls on the surveillance screen suddenly dropped their tools, turned their heads towards the camera and ran for their lives, all showing terrified expressions, like little boys having a nightmare. what did they see Fear is like a plague, transmitted to the hearts of everyone in the room through the big screen in the monitoring room, through the eyes of every pair of escaped eyes, and through tens of minutes of time. The first thing I can't stand is Zhou Xuan.If it weren't for Churchill's madness, he would also rush up to the nineteenth floor with those poor people, and then show his crazy face on the crazy camera and big screen. He looked back and saw that everyone in the room opened their eyes silently, and the young mother tightly covered her son's face.Immediately, everyone had a violent reaction—the security guard clenched his fist on his chest, the middle-aged female cleaner closed her eyes, the white-collar worker in a bandage vomited, the young supermarket employee trembled violently, the rich second generation in Dior men’s clothing Simply fell to the ground, the young mother who was holding the child took a big step back, the woman who had just rescued him screamed, and the "master" who often appeared in various media let out a long sigh... Wait until Zhou turns back to look at the screen , Has become a snowflake in succession. For missing the most horrific scene, he expressed both remorse and gratitude, and he regarded himself as a dead person anyway. Luo Haoran turned off the big screen.Everyone's faces were vaguely reflected on the black LCD screen, and they all looked at each other in blank dismay. The owner of the Future Dream Building concluded in a deep voice: "Everyone, not only the top floor, but also the part above the atrium dome on the ninth floor, including all the hotel rooms and office buildings, all disappeared in an instant." Zhou Xuan remembered that when he fled down from the 18th floor, he met a group of people coming up from the bottom.There is no doubt that those who are completely different from themselves have long been buried in the hell between the nineteenth and tenth floors. All gone. Luo Haoran was right, because there was an atrium and a cinema on the ninth floor, and the dome was made particularly strong to support the weight of the collapsed top, otherwise this place would also become a tomb. Suddenly, Zhou Xuan heard a soft cry.The cleaning woman squatted in the corner crying, but the girl wrapped in a woolen cloak hugged her to comfort her. In an atmosphere of despair, the "master" said even more desperate words: "According to my experience, the entire building has sunk deeply into the ground, at least to a depth of more than 100 meters. The planet we live on , may have encountered the most destructive earthquake in human history!" Zhou Xuan found that everyone knew the "Master", but he was the only one who still couldn't see Taishan.The young man in supermarket overalls and the young mother holding a baby nodded frequently, as if the "Master" had also verified a fact they had discovered. In a corner of the monitoring room was a very old book, on the cover was the "Master" in front of him. The title of the book was "Dark Day - The End of the World is Coming", and the author was signed "Wu Hanlei". Zhou Xuan patted his head, he remembered.How did you forget the name?The hottest scholar in recent years, TV stations and the Internet are reporting on this doomsday prophet every day, stealing the limelight from those in the "Hundred Forums" in the early years.The reason why this book appears here is probably that the administrator of the monitoring room is reading it. It can be seen that Luoyang's paper is expensive, and it has penetrated into every corner. "No, I don't believe it!" Zhou Xuan said mercilessly, "This is indeed a big earthquake, but it won't be that serious." A white-collar with a bandage on his arm replied instead of the professor: "Our outdoor store on the seventh floor has already measured with an altimeter. The seventh floor is 150 meters below sea level, which means that the roof of the building—assuming there are still ten The nine-story building has already been buried at a depth of 100 meters underground. If the height of each floor is calculated at four meters, the ground floor where we are now is buried at about 170 meters underground!" "And you think the outside world is also badly damaged, so no one will come to our rescue?" "It's not just serious damage, even the most optimistic judgment, human beings are not extinct, but have regressed to the Stone Age." Professor Wu's tone was calm, as if he was giving an academic report, "For people on earth, this is the end of the world." This conclusion made everyone present feel desperate, but it was also in line with the signs of the past two hours, including the destruction of the tenth floor of the Future Dream Building. "Are we the last survivors of mankind?" The rich second generation in Dior men's clothing was almost crying. "Yes." Professor Wu Hanlei replied firmly, and then leaned his head against the wall, unwilling to believe that his prediction had come true. "Professor, what do you mean—the people outside are probably dead?" the young man in the supermarket overalls asked while biting his lip. "I regret that……" "Mom and Dad..." The young man hugged his head, knelt down on the ground with sobs, and muttered to himself, "No—my hometown is thousands of kilometers away from here, how could it be..." "Not to mention thousands of kilometers, even tens of thousands of kilometers will not be spared." This time Zhou Xuan played the role of a counterfeit fighter: "Tell me the reason! Don't be sensational!" Professor Wu Hanlei was silent for a moment, and explained calmly: "The city we are in is located in the alluvial plain along the eastern coast of China. Know." "That's right." Zhou Xuan, who was born and bred in this place, nodded slightly.He grew up in this city and never encountered any earthquakes.When I was young, there was an earthquake warning, and everyone ran to the open space to take refuge. It was very lively like a festival, but there were no casualties, and the house was not affected at all.During the Wenchuan Earthquake, the entire country felt the tremors. He was in a high-rise building at the time, and he only felt a slight shaking. When others rushed to the stairs to flee in panic, he searched the earthquake news on the Internet with confidence. "Not only that, within a radius of 500 kilometers from this city, there has never been any major earthquake recorded in history. The highest record occurred during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, and it was only 4.8 on the Richter scale." After all, a famous scholar, Professor Wu's skill in citing classics is first-rate, "And the strength of this earthquake can shake a 19-story extremely strong building more than 100 meters into the ground. According to my research on various natural disasters over the years, the local The magnitude of the earthquake was at least 10 on the Richter scale! And the Great Japan Earthquake was only 9 on the Richter scale. You must know that every time the magnitude of an earthquake increases by one level, the energy released will increase by 32 times.” "What?" The young security guard's jaw was about to drop. "It's like this." The mother who was holding the child said, it turned out to be Japanese, "I have personally experienced the earthquake in Japan, and I feel that it is much more serious now than it was then." "Yes, the earthquake we are experiencing now is at least 30 times more powerful than the earthquake in Japan! But, don't think that this earthquake is only a magnitude 10—" Professor Wu calmly analyzed everything that happened like a computer, "Just now we We all know that within hundreds of kilometers of this city and its vicinity, there has never been an earthquake with a magnitude above 4.8 on the Richter scale. Then such a violent earthquake must have its epicenter thousands of miles away, and it is most likely Japan—— " Professor Wu glanced at the pair of Japanese mother and son. The young mother lowered her head and silently accepted this desperate fact. "However, I can't tell where it is. In addition to Japan, the epicenter may also be in the Philippines, Indonesia, or even California on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. If the earthquake occurred on the west coast fault zone of North America, it would spread to China. It is already on the Richter scale of 10, so how big would the magnitude of the earthquake in the United States be? Even God can't imagine it! If this earthquake is of this magnitude-in fact, I have no doubts about it, the whole earth will change. How? To use an analogy, it is to detonate an atomic bomb buried at a depth of 10,000 meters underground!" Everyone shuddered when they heard the professor's analysis, and many people shed tears, not only for the surviving self, but also for the family members outside. Suddenly, Zhou Xuan remembered the moment before the earthquake, when he opened the window to commit suicide by jumping off the building, he saw the dazzling nuclear explosion-like light at the end of the horizon... He changed his attitude just now: "Professor, please tell me more about the specific situation." "First of all, the United States must be completely destroyed. The North American continent may disappear from the earth. The Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean are connected into one ocean. The situation is definitely more tragic than the movie "2012". Second, the earthquake will affect every corner of the earth. Once this level has been reached, no country or nation will escape this catastrophe; thirdly, because the West Coast fault zone of North America is close to the Pacific Ocean, it will produce the most terrifying tsunami in human history, crossing the widest part of the Pacific Ocean head-on, It happened to hit the eastern coast of China." The white-collar with a bandaged arm became excited: "Professor, what do you mean - half of China has been submerged by sea water?" "Not yet. The tsunami transmission takes time. The Pacific tsunami spreads from two hundred to one thousand kilometers per hour - we must calculate according to the highest standard, and it is likely to exceed this speed. The straight-line distance from the east coast of China to the west coast of the United States About 12,000 kilometers, calculated at a speed of 1,500 kilometers per hour, that is eight hours! This speed is indeed amazing, much faster than flying, but this is science!" "Eight hours? No, it's six hours. Even if a tsunami warning has been issued, how can such a large city be evacuated with so many people and families?" "Yes, by this morning, it is very likely that the top of our heads has become a part of the Pacific Ocean!" Professor Wu took off his glasses with a broken lens and combed his messy hair. It happened to us again today. It’s just that this time the disaster is more serious. Under the influence of such violent crustal movement, many huge active volcanoes around the world, especially in the Pacific Rim, will have activities and even violent eruptions. I don’t know Will Mount Fuji—” "Please stop talking!" The young Japanese mother hugged her child tightly and retreated to the corner of the monitoring room. "Sorry, I'm just speculating on the worst possibility. But based on the analysis of the current situation, this possibility has reached more than 90%. I am afraid that only the herdsmen who live on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and live in tents can escape Otherwise, they will either be drowned, crushed to death, or poisoned to death in the following nuclear, chemical, and heavy metal leaks.” "It seems that there is still a lot of truth in the movie, but we can't get on the boat!" The rich second generation wearing Dior beat his chest and feet. When everyone was in a mess, Zhou Xuan noticed that Luo Haoran, the owner of Future Dream Building, was standing quietly by the monitoring computer all the time, looking at Professor Wu calmly, listening to those terrible analyzes or facts. Suddenly, Luo Haoran's voice interrupted everyone's discussion—"Well, I believe in the scientific judgment. The outside world has been completely destroyed, and it is impossible for anyone to save us. The people who are still alive in this building are Humanity's last survivor."