Chapter 347: The first exchange with Mother
The tremors lasted no more than ten seconds, and were felt most clearly on the Tibetan Plateau and other regions known as the roof of the world.
Rumble~
Across the Himalaya Mountains, the brief tremors triggered avalanches on several peaks perpetually cloaked in snow.
Anyone watching from a wide aerial view would have witnessed the spectacular sight of avalanches sweeping across a chain of peaks. Countless masses of snow came rolling down, almost creating the illusion that the mountains were surging skyward amid a flowing sea of white.
Tourists and adventurous climbers on some of the mountains felt the shaking even more directly. Only after a dozen or so seconds of panic did they settle down.
Reports of these tremors, which completely defied the normal behavior of the earth's crust, streamed into the Special Security Team's headquarters from sites across the country.
Although none of the affected sites lay in densely populated areas, their sheer number was chilling. The intelligence department could not sit still and immediately alerted its superiors.
But there were too many locations, and it had all happened too suddenly for them to gain a complete grasp of every site. If all of them were places where terrifying anomalous incidents would occur, they might have to abandon some areas.
For the past two years, they had kept both anomalous incidents and society well under control. The sudden emergence of this possibility was deeply painful and difficult for Huaguo's entire senior leadership to accept.
Inside the operational conference room, red dots marked numerous locations on the national map displayed on the large screen, each accompanied by an estimate of the tremor's intensity.
By now, the member nations of the World Anti-Dark Tide Convention Alliance rarely called these peculiar tremors earthquakes anymore,