Ye Zhao didn't know how much time had passed, but she felt it was time for lunch because her stomach was rumbling for a long time, but she couldn't find the time to eat.
The events of that morning, spanning just a few hours, were like a plane crash; the situation deteriorated rapidly with no sign of improvement.
As the landmass flipped, Ye Zhao clearly felt the brightness and heat around her decreasing, gradually darkening. She looked back at her feet and this time saw not the deep blue sky and dazzling sunlight, but the Blue Star that was moving away.
At this moment, the Blue Star was riddled with craters, and many continental plates that had separated from the Blue Star could be clearly seen floating in the air.
Ye Zhao's current location should be that, as the land rolls, it is finally no longer directly exposed to the sun and has been moved to the side of the sun. Although it cannot completely block out ultraviolet rays and the sun's high temperature, it can be considered a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.
The amount of mud and pebbles rolling down from above gradually decreased until it finally stopped.
She breathed a sigh of relief. Although a Defense Barrier could be used for 100 minutes, she couldn't keep using it indefinitely. Okay, she admitted she was a bit stingy, after all, she had to survive for an hour to create one.
Thinking about how difficult her life was, she felt that her stinginess was perfectly justified.
Ye Zhao's current position was relatively safe, so she quickly climbed down. After a while, she finally reached a small hole that she could crouch down in, her neck slightly bent. She quickly crawled inside. Her large body curled up in the small hole, which was quite uncomfortable, but much better than being suspended in the air.
She shook her hands, which she had been practicing the Nine Yin White Bone Claw all morning. Although they didn't hurt, her fingernails were full of mud, and she looked like a mud doll from head to toe. Fortunately, her high Constitution not only made her very strong, but her nails also seemed to have become more powerful, and she didn't even split them.
Her skin wasn't invulnerable yet. She took out a pack of wet wipes from her Personal Space, wiped the dirt off her arm, and found that there were only some scratches. She sprayed some alcohol on it and disinfected it simply.
I took off my Helmet and oxygen mask; they were covered in mud. And believe it or not, in just half a day, the Helmet's durability had already dropped by 10 points.
Just a moment after she took off her oxygen mask, she felt a little short of breath, so she quickly put on a new one. She wiped her Helmet clean and could still use it, and she could stick her Sun Hat back on. Her clothes were covered in a layer of dirt, so she just changed into a matching red jacket. She mainly did this because she found red to be more eye-catching. If Qin Ruo hadn't also been wearing a red jacket, she definitely wouldn't have seen her fall through the rubble.
After changing into new clothes, taking a few breaths of oxygen, taking out two pieces of bread from his Personal Space and munching on them, drinking a carton of milk, eating a few Vitamin ABCDE, D, and E pills, and also taking a couple of ginseng Ginseng Pill and other tonics, and while he was at it, cursing the Lord Ghost Messenger, Ye Zhao felt like he had come back to life.
Your health is the foundation of everything, so cherish it!
Even this place isn't safe. She looked around. The subway tunnel was overcrowded, and the two refuge areas above were squeezed and teetering on the verge of collapse due to tectonic movements. Looking around, she felt that none of them were as safe as the tunnel she was in now. It was a safe place where she could advance or retreat at will, and she was free to go about her business.
... It's just a little uncomfortable to bend over like that.
Ye Zhao took two milk candies from her pocket, lifted her oxygen mask, and popped them into her mouth, then began to ponder her next move.
The landmass descended higher and higher, the air became increasingly stuffy, and the temperature gradually dropped, finally making it less sweltering. It seemed that although a lot of the atmosphere had been removed, we were still in the troposphere. The temperature decreases with increasing altitude, dropping by about 6°C for every 1,000 meters of altitude gained in the troposphere. Until we reached the middle of the stratosphere above 10,000 meters, the temperature dropped to below -55°C, and then began to rise again with increasing altitude.
Ye Zhao lay prone in the cave, sticking his head out to look down. Besides seeing several continental plates following behind, which had also separated from Blue Star, he could also see many missing Black Hole in the sky above Blue Star, and vaguely make out the shapes of rolling mountains and cities...
Inside the subway tunnel, the earthquake and landslides finally stopped. The counselor groggily awoke. A sliver of light shone through the cracks in the tunnel, allowing him to see what was happening inside. Everyone else was still disoriented and confused. He shook the student next to him, "Wake up, wake up!"
The class monitor was shaken awake, clutching his aching head and asking blankly, "Teacher? What happened?"
He said his head was hurting so much because he had bumped his head on the railway tracks. It was so hard, and he felt nauseous and gagged. He was worried he might have a concussion.
After a while, he remembered what had happened. His blank expression turned to terror and helplessness. He called out to his unconscious companion, stumbling to his feet. "Where are we now? What's going on outside?"
Unfortunately, no one could answer his question.
He carefully stepped over the survivors lying on the ground, rushed to the tunnel wall, and stood on tiptoe to peer through the cracks out—
Outside, the sky was clear and blue, the Blue Star was receding into the distance, and not far behind them, several pieces of land that had also separated from the Blue Star were floating!
"Ah!"
The scene, which terrified and shocked him, made him scream and fall to the ground with a thud.
"Waaah..." He couldn't hold back his tears, "It's all over, it's all over..."
More and more survivors around them regained consciousness and crowded into the crack to look out. They were so shocked that they were trembling all over, and even their voices were shaking.
Why? How could this happen?
"Waaaaah, it's hopeless, this time it's really hopeless..."
"Oh God! It's God's will to destroy us!"
"Waaaaah..."
A chorus of cries rose and fell.
The entire tunnel became dull and oppressive.
Qin Ruo also barely escaped death. She was almost killed several times by the violent 360-degree flips. If it weren't for the vines wrapped around her waist, with the other end of the vines hanging on a steel bar that was deeply embedded in the cliff, she would definitely have been drifting away with the wind, her fate unknown.
Now that things had finally calmed down, she barely stopped and struggled to climb toward the refuge area. When she finally climbed up, she saw the girl who had saved her with only her head squeezed at the entrance of the hole, her cheeks bulging out, eating candy with great satisfaction.
Although the other person was wearing an oxygen mask and Helmet, and seemed to have changed their clothes, she recognized them at a glance as the girl in black who had saved her life.
"Hello, my Qin Ruo. Thank you so much for saving me!" Qin Ruo was very grateful. "Luckily, I had your vines, otherwise I would have been dead."
Ye Zhao clasped her hands together and said, "Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. Amitabha, may the Bodhisattva bless me."
Qin Ruo:... This, this is such a good person! She's never met such a kind person in the game!
"Amitabha, Amitabha," Qin Ruo said. "It's not safe for you to hide here. Do you want to come with me to the refuge area upstairs? At least we can hide there for a while. There are also Earth Ability User there. We can dig a deeper tunnel then. It's too dangerous to be exposed in the current situation. Hiding underground is the safest option. Do you want to come with me?"
She didn't recognize that the person in front of her, wearing an oxygen mask and saving her life, was Ye Zhao, whom she had met before. She had even tried to recruit Ye Zhao into her team, and the two had become X-Messenger friends.
Ye Zhao couldn't possibly stay cooped up in that hole forever, unable to even stretch her legs out, so she only thought for a second before deciding to go with Qin Ruo to take a look, and if it wasn't suitable, they could talk about it later.
Since they were going to travel and the situation wasn't too critical, Ye Zhao needed to make some preparations. She pretended to use two steel bars—which she actually created using two Creation Point— from her Storage Card, and forcefully drove them into the cliff face. She then took out two bundles of Hemp Rope and tied them to the steel bars. This way, even if an accident happened along the way, as long as the ropes were there, she wouldn't worry about being thrown off.
Qin Ruo couldn't help but give a thumbs up. "My benefactor sister is so thoughtful. By the way, what's your benefactor's name?"
Ye Zhao looked at her with a puzzled expression. "Don't you remember me? Me? Ye Zhao, didn't we just meet?"
Qin Ruo:... Huh???
Ye Zhao:... So she's that forgettable?
Okay, it seems she's not strong enough yet!