That was right—the thing trembling was not the earth, but the planet beneath his feet. At first, the shaking was not too severe, but as time passed, it grew increasingly violent, as if rising from an ultramicrotremor to a microtremor, then gradually evolving from a microtremor into a strong ground-shaking quake, a moderately strong quake, a major earthquake, and then a gigantic earthquake.
The ground in No Man's Land immediately split open with gash after gash. Broken stones tumbled into enormous, bottomless cracks, and for a long time, no sound of them hitting the bottom came back. From this, one could see just how intense the tremors were.
Rumble, rumble!
Great mountains abruptly collapsed and shattered. As they all rolled down together, they formed devastating mudslides that crushed everything on the road that dared to stand in their way.
Trees several meters tall, even a dozen meters or tens of meters tall, looked as fragile as weak, helpless saplings, and were swallowed up directly without the slightest ability to resist.
In Shangyang City, the closest place to here, high-rises collapsed one after another, and piercing alarms rang through the city. People immediately ran out of the buildings and charged madly toward open areas, terrified that if they were a step too slow, the tall buildings on both sides of the streets would fall in their direction.
The citizens along the coast discovered that wave after wave was striking the beach, each one higher than the last. Moreover, there seemed to be a white line on the horizon, slowly surging toward them.
All over the world, volcanoes that had been dead silent for many years suddenly spewed rolling black smoke, like black dragons coiling high above the sky, looking down on every living creature on the ground.
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