"Earthquake!" A few people walking past stopped in front, looked over and yelled, "It seems like there's an earthquake!"
Trinya stood up, took the umbrella from her colleague, and waved to show that there was no problem on her side. The ground only shook slightly, not strongly, and not even comparable to the vibration caused by the explosion of the No. 3 furnace in the Steam Tower more than ten years ago.
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"Go to the open area!" The roar came again. Trinya and her colleagues nodded in response, and the sample collection work was temporarily suspended. She and her colleagues walked forward and left the shelter of the building nearby. The big umbrella suddenly made a "ta-ta-ta" sound under the heavy rain.
"The sound, which was not small, was concentrated on the umbrella handle and transmitted to the hand.
There was also a splashing sound on the four-lane road next to it. There was a layer of flowing rainwater flowing on the slightly arched road. It all collected under the sidewalk steps and along the edge to the sewer entrances covered by metal grids. The rainwater collected there.
It flows in, and occasionally a small vortex is drawn out, and the "sizzling" sucking sound means that there seems to be a huge attraction below.
"I still can't understand how powerful and developed the underground sewer network of Minkfas City is. It has been raining heavily for several months, and almost no one in the whole city has been flooded by rainwater." Trinya was filled with enthusiasm.
Out of curiosity, due to work, she had seen several drawings of underground sewer networks. The dense lines and markings were like a dozen overlapping spider webs, complex and full of engineering beauty.
In the past, the impression of underground waterways in her mind was all rancid and dark. In the past few months, the negative image has changed a bit, and it has become more powerful and developed.
"It's different from the underground world on the ground. I heard it from several workers I've come into contact with." My colleague replied with a smile, "Occasionally, I actually want to go in and have a look, but I never have the chance. Workers
It is said that the main roads in some underground waterways are as big as roads on the ground, and vehicles can drive normally in them. I don’t know if this is true. But they also said that people like us should not go in, because the inside
The smell is indeed not very fresh.”
Trinya smiled, "When you really want to go in, remember to call me and we'll go take a look together."
"Then there should be no chance." The colleague on the side replied, and then changed the topic, "It is indeed getting weirder. There are continuous heavy rains and earthquakes. I don't know what else will happen in the future. There was a muffled sound just now.
, did you hear it? There should be no such sound in an earthquake."
"Did something buried underground explode? After all, it has been raining heavily for several months." Trinya nodded. She also felt strange. As she spoke, she looked at the roadside and looked at the water flowing on the sidewalk steps on both sides.
Rain, I don’t know when, a vibration pattern appeared on it.
She quickly patted her colleague with her hand. Just as she pointed her finger at the ground for a short time, the vibration pattern suddenly intensified, and the rainwater on the road instantly turned into a "boiling" shape due to the vibration. The vibration was transmitted from the ground to her body at the same time.
She shook a few times before steadying herself, and was about to squat down to reduce the impact when a frightened roar came from in front of her——
"Run! The road is collapsing! Run!"
Several male colleagues and shop owners in front had already thrown away their umbrellas and sprinted with all their strength in the rain. Behind them, a dark hollow appeared, and a section of the road collapsed along with the sidewalks on both sides.
Trinya and her colleagues beside her were stunned for a moment, and they didn't react until the next moment. Just as they turned around, they were chased by continuous rumbling sounds, and the dark hole expanded rapidly. In the blink of an eye, they could catch up with the front and sprint with all their strength.
Colleagues who are more than ten meters away.
Seeing several running colleagues fall down due to the vibration, and then falling into the collapsed cavity along with the road, panic and fear instantly struck Trinya. Her heart was beating violently, and she didn't understand what was happening.
, but knew that he had to run quickly. Then he turned around and saw a crack of more than ten centimeters wide in front of him, which had already stretched across the entire road, becoming a terrifying isolation line.
"Run!" There was an idea in her head, but her body couldn't keep up. The next moment, the ground in front of Trinya was rising rapidly in her sight. When she realized that the actual situation was that she had fallen along with the collapsed road, the huge
The power came from below. She didn't feel any pain. In the muffled sound of "clang", she felt her head was shaken, her consciousness dispersed, and when she passed out, the rumble turned into a loud explosion, which came from the front.
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"Run! The road collapsed, run quickly!" The consciousness stopped at a certain moment, and after restarting, the thoughts continued. When thinking that she had fallen with the collapsed road, panic and fear surged, impacting Trinya.
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"Ah!" The next moment, Trinya opened her eyes with an exclamation. Her violently beating heart made her breathing rapid. She opened her mouth and took a big breath, and the collected rainwater flowed down from above. She choked on a big mouth.
As the rain fell, my breathing suddenly turned into a violent cough.
Not knowing the surrounding situation, Trinya had time to observe after the coughing feeling subsided and her breathing became smoother.
She turned her head to one side and moved away from where the rainwater was flowing down. The heavy rain continued, but there was something above that blocked most of it, and not many raindrops actually fell on her. She blinked a dozen times.
After her eyes were sore and her vision recovered a lot, she realized that the thing blocking her body turned out to be a twisted tree root-like thing. The twisted shape did look like a tree root, but there was something on it.
Some branches and leaf-like things grew out, perhaps because they couldn't see the sun. Whether it was branches or tree root-like things, they all showed a slightly sticky gray-white color.
Trinya immediately thought of that small piece of gray-white bud, whose color and condition perfectly matched it.
The slight pain coming from her left leg made her sit up slightly and check her condition. She was lying on a pipe-like object, her raincoat was lifted, and she could see a steel rod with a concrete block running through it.
The side of her left leg was injured. The strange thing was that she did not feel the paralyzing pain. Even if she saw it in person, the pain did not get worse. It seemed that there was not much bleeding. No blood was visible under the left leg, but it was broken.
Looking through the trousers, I don't know whether the wound turned white due to rain or other reasons. The wound and the surrounding area were strangely gray.
After shaking her head, Trinya took a deep breath to calm down, but found that her strength had not been restored and her body could not move, so she could only observe her surroundings.
Looking around, she suddenly realized her situation - she had indeed fallen along with the collapsed road. But she was more or less favored by the goddess of luck, and she landed on a twisted and huge tree root-like object. This
The roots of the knotted tree look like huge trees growing sideways. The direction of growth is exactly parallel to the four-lane road. The few twisted branches are not limited by space and gravity. They spread out with the knotted tree root as the center line.
The ground actually collapsed to a depth of nearly ten meters. This tree root grew horizontally about five or six meters above the ground, hanging in the center of the collapse.
A few meters ahead, with the cross-cutting crack in my memory as the boundary, the roadside did not continue to collapse. It became a section there, like a wall, blocking the front. However, the tree roots were not affected and penetrated directly to form the wall.
In the soil, the growth did not know where it stopped. And on this section, Trinya found traces of artificial excavation.
She turned her head and looked down. On this entire section of the collapsed road, similar obvious traces of excavation could be seen everywhere.
"Did someone hollow out this section of the road, and then it collapsed?" There was a question in her head, but she hadn't thought about it yet. Below, in the rainwater that had accumulated into a puddle, Trinya saw a large collapsed piece.
The road surface, and my colleagues who were soaked in the rain with only half their heads exposed.
That is already the performance of a corpse.
"Ah!" Trinya screamed in fear, and then cried, "Help! Help! Is there anyone there?"
She shouted, and after a few breaths, a sound came from the side. She lowered her cry, suppressed her trembling body, and looked over. There was a rectangular black hole on the high side, and the rainwater flowed out from there.
A turbid waterfall.
That was a branch of the underground sewer network under the ground, which was supposed to merge with the main network under the road. After the road surface collapsed, a section was formed.
The sound came from there, the sound of rapid running.
As the sound got closer and closer, and it was determined to be the sound of footsteps wading in the water, Trinya immediately raised her voice and shouted. But when the pair of bright red eyes shone in the dim light, the shouting immediately disappeared.
A man with golden and bright red eyes stood at the cross section. His clothes were soaked and full of tears. He had a look of pain and weakness on his face. The man was breathing heavily and holding what was obviously a pistol in his left hand.
, with his right hand covering his neck, gray-white putrid juice-like liquid was gushing out from between his fingers.