Escape From the Library

【Ice Age-10】

The time displayed on the thumbnail screen was 23:30 in the middle of the night. When everyone rushed out of the underground base, the surrounding area was dark.

Jiang Pingce used the coordinate system to write the formula and had to see the landing point in front of him clearly, otherwise he couldn't guarantee whether his teammates would hit trees or mountains.Xin Yan knew this, and quickly summoned the alcohol lamp the moment he took off into the air, densely packed alcohol lamps flew out from his hands, strung together in the shape of a chain, and surrounded everyone.

There had just been a heavy snowfall outside, and the snow on the ground was thick enough to cover their knees easily.The surrounding area is shaking, the earthquake caused violent fluctuations in the air, the whole world seems to be distorted, everything in the field of vision is shaking crazily, even the flame of the alcohol lamp is constantly going out, Xin Yan can only quickly summon new Alcohol lamp to supplement!

At this moment, Ke Shaobin suddenly shouted: "Look below!"

Everyone heard the words and looked down, only to see a huge crack more than three meters wide appeared on the ground below!

The crack is so deep that it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "the abyss". The wide crack is like the earth opening its bloody mouth, trying to swallow everything up!

The location of the crack is exactly where their base is.

Looking at the scene under his feet, Zhang Xiaonian widened his eyes in horror: "Fortunately, we ran fast, otherwise, the entire base would be swallowed by cracks, wouldn't we be doomed if we fell?"

Qin Lu's voice trembled slightly: "Such a strong earthquake should exceed magnitude 8."

A major earthquake above magnitude 8 is enough to instantly destroy a human city.Today, they are in the Ice Age and there is no human civilization yet, so there is no need to worry about the collapse of a large number of buildings and casualties.

However, such a large earthquake is undoubtedly a devastating blow to the surrounding animals.They saw with their own eyes that the cave where the lions had just competed with the cave bear during the day had collapsed, and they did not know how many lions were buried in that cave before they could escape in time.

Jiang Pingce looked serious and adjusted the formula quickly.

The airflow generated by the earthquake oscillated, causing the cold wind to blow towards their faces like a sharp blade. Liu Zhaoqing hurriedly took out gauze and distributed it to everyone, using it as a scarf and mask.

Ke Shaobin wrapped himself tightly in the lion fur coat, and his teeth were chattering when he spoke: "It's a good thing we made this fur coat, otherwise, wearing short sleeves and flying in the air in the middle of the night, if we were not buried by the earthquake, we would have been hit by the cold snap." freeze to death."

Liu Zhaoqing smiled bitterly and said, "The geography department is really perverted. We should be thankful that we only encountered glaciers and earthquakes this time, instead of the doomsday escape package of earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions."

Xu Yishen said: "Have you watched too many doomsday movies? Then we really don't have to live!"

Yue Xingwen remained silent all the time - he was busy making gloves out of Liu Zhaoqing's gauze.

Jiang Pingce is in charge of the air movement, and other people don't need to worry too much about flying in the air, so they have free time to chat.However, Jiang Pingce has been writing formulas.The cold wind was biting, and his fingers were already red from the cold.

Seeing his frozen red hand, Yue Xingwen couldn't help feeling distressed, so he quickly used the gauze and sutures given by Senior Brother Liu to make a simple glove and handed it to Jiang Pingce, whispering in his ear : "Put it on, don't freeze your hands."

Jiang Pingce looked at the crooked gauze glove, and quickly put it on his right hand.

This glove does not have finger parts, strictly speaking it can only be regarded as a "gauze cover", but it was made by Xingwen himself, and only Xingwen noticed that his hands were frozen.

Jiang Pingce's heart warmed up, and he put on his gloves and continued to write down a formula to control everyone to move forward in the air.

Along the way, everyone looked at the ground shaking violently under their feet, and their hearts were extremely shocked.

They have never experienced an earthquake in reality. Now that they have visited the earthquake site, they can feel how terrifying the power of nature is. Human beings are really insignificant in front of nature!

If they don't have supernatural powers, all they can do when encountering such a big earthquake is to close their eyes and wait for death.

After flying like this for 20 minutes, the shaking of the ground seemed to stop, the airflow no longer oscillated, the whole world returned to silence, and the teammates looked at each other in blank dismay.

Ke Shaobin supported his glasses that were about to fall, and asked, "Has the earthquake stopped?"

Qin Lu said: "It seems to have stopped, but major earthquakes are often accompanied by aftershocks, we still need to be on guard at all times."

The surrounding shocks had obviously stopped, but everyone dared not relax in their hearts. Their current situation was still not safe. In case of aftershocks, everyone had to be prepared to run for their lives at any time.

Jiang Pingce said: "Let's find a foothold first, I have 10 minutes left in my coordinate system."

Flying in the air with the cold wind blowing, even wearing fur coats, everyone was almost numb from the cold.Yue Xingwen looked back at the short-haired girl behind him, and said, "Qin Lu, you decide, which one is safer?"

Qin Lu looked around: "Just now, a large crack appeared on the empty ice field, which proves that an empty and flat place is not necessarily safe. What if the library deliberately creates large cracks according to our location like the "City Collapse" course of the School of Architecture? The crack, it is likely that wherever we go, the crack will open."

Liu Zhaoqing said seriously: "That's right, with the abnormality of the library, what Qin Lu said is very likely!"

Everyone: "..."

The library in everyone's impression is a perverted intelligent system that tries every means to create problems for them.The "City Collapse" escape class in the School of Architecture is where you go and where you collapse.The School of Geography, of course, may break down wherever it goes.

It was obviously not a coincidence that there was a big crack where their base was located just now, but the library did it on purpose!

Yue Xingwen said with a headache: "If you don't settle in an open area, where else can you go?"

Qin Lu frowned and looked into the distance. After a while, she suddenly pointed to the front and said, "Let's go to the mountain."

Qin Miao asked in a low voice, "Are you sure the top of the mountain won't crack?"

Qin Lu said: "Suppose there is a crack in the mountain range, causing the entire mountain to sink. Since we are standing on the top of the mountain and have a wide view, we will have enough reaction time to escape."

Yue Xingwen thought about it for a moment, and felt that Qin Lu's statement was reasonable, so he nodded and said, "Go to the mountain."

There is still some distance to the snow mountain. Fortunately, Jiang Pingce’s coordinate system has 10 minutes. He quickly adjusted the formula to let everyone fly to a higher position, flying all the way to the top of the mountain to settle down.

Just after a heavy snowfall, the snow on the mountain was so thick that everyone could barely move in the snow. Zhang Xiaonian quickly summoned the bulldozer to push the snow away and cleared an open space.

Lin Manluo summoned the green tree, and Liu Zhaoqing skillfully chopped wood to make a fire. Everyone sat around the fire with ugly faces.They all knew that the earthquake would not end easily, and everyone had only temporarily found a foothold. In case of another aftershock later, they had to continue to escape.

Since they came to the library, their lives were often hanging by a thread, and they kept escaping, and they were almost used to running away too much.

Jiang Pingce's coordinate system had already cooled down, and Qin Lu took the initiative to say, "Everyone, don't stay too far away from me. If there is another earthquake later, and the mountain cracks, I will use plate transposition to take everyone away."

Other research groups do not have such a mathematician as Jiang Pingce, so this class can actually be passed with teammates from the Geography Department.During the earthquake, the location cracked, and the students of the geography department only needed to react quickly enough to avoid the cracks in the ground by transposing successive plates.With Jiang Pingce in their 183 research group, it was relatively easy to escape in the air just now.

Quiet around.

Yue Xingwen reached out and gently touched the back of Jiang Pingce's head, and asked worriedly: "I heard your head hit the wall just now, are you okay?" He touched it carefully and found that there seemed to be a lump on the back of Jiang Pingce's head.

Jiang Pingce said, "It's all right."

Hearing this, Liu Zhaoqing immediately came over to check it out, and then said with a smile: "Ping Ce can write so many mathematical formulas, obviously he didn't suffer from a concussion. Flesh injury is easy to deal with, wrapped in gauze, the swollen part of the head will soon disappear. It can go away."

He took out a piece of gauze and handed it to Yue Xingwen: "Can Xingwen bandage it?"

Yue Xingwen said: "Brother, come here, you are more professional."

Liu Zhaoqing nodded, and quickly wrapped a gauze around Jiang Pingce's head.The swollen and sore part of Jiang Pingce's back of the head soon felt cool.After a few seconds, Liu Zhaoqing removed the gauze and said with a smile, "It's done."

Yue Xingwen reached out to touch it again, and found that the bag on the back of Ping Ce's head was gone. He breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Everyone, let's rest first, don't sleep, and be on guard at any time."

Everyone sat in a circle, let alone fell asleep. It was the first time in their lives that they experienced such a big earthquake. Everyone was scared out of their wits and very energetic.

A group of people sat like this until dawn.

However, aftershocks did not occur.

On the ninth day of the exam, the sun shone brightly on the snow.Yue Xingwen stood up and looked into the distance. A large number of criss-crossing black cracks appeared on the endless white snow field, like countless wounds cut by knives.

When I ran away last night, I relied on Xin Yan's alcohol lamp to illuminate it, so I couldn't see the distant scene clearly. After dawn, I looked far away, only to find that there were countless cracks on the snow.This desolate and spectacular scene left everyone speechless for a moment.

After a moment of silence, Qin Lu said: "If such a major earthquake occurred in a human city in the civilized age, the number of casualties would be unimaginable." She paused, and said in a low voice: "Unfortunately, until now, human beings still have no mature earthquakes." Monitoring and early warning technology, and the natural disasters caused by this kind of crustal movement, there is no way to stop it.”

Geography is a very esoteric subject. Qin Lu always felt that after studying for so many years, she only touched the surface. There is still a long way to go for human beings to study and explore the earth.

Assuming that one day, humans can accurately predict the time and place of earthquakes, and organize local residents to move out in an orderly manner before the arrival of a major earthquake, what will it be like?

Ke Shaobin came over and asked Xiaotu to take a picture of the cruel scene after the earthquake. Then he put away Xiaotu and said, "Today is the ninth day, and the exam will be passed at 12 o'clock tomorrow night. Do you think the library will be merciful?" One point, let us escape this wave of earthquakes and pass the level directly, or will you continue to give us aftershocks big gift packs?"

Liu Zhaoqing didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "It must be the latter. The sandstorm in the School of Environment came twice, and the earthquake in the Department of Geography didn't make sense to only shake once."

At this moment, Jiang Pingce suddenly said: "Listen, there seems to be a strange sound."

Everyone stopped discussing immediately, and listened carefully with their ears up—sure enough, there seemed to be a "buzzing" sound in the distance, like the sound of wind, and like an animal whining.

After listening for a few seconds, Qin Lu's face suddenly changed: "Too bad, it might be an avalanche!"

Almost as soon as she finished speaking, everyone felt a violent vibration under their feet, as if something was about to break through the ground.Not far away, a large amount of snow rushed towards them at an extremely fast speed like a thousand troops galloping!

Jiang Pingce immediately reported the data: "The rear right is tilted downward by 45 degrees, 300 meters!"

That was the straight-line distance between the ground and the top of the mountain that he calculated yesterday when he controlled everyone up the mountain.

Seeing that the big avalanche was about to completely bury them, Qin Lu quickly summoned the globe, and quickly pressed twice on the globe with his finger: "Eurasian plate, Pacific plate, switch positions!"

The plate transposition skill took effect, and everyone appeared at the foot of the mountain in an instant.

However, before everyone had time to catch their breath, when they looked back, their faces turned pale with fright!

The speed of the avalanche far exceeded their imagination, and it was even more terrifying than a sports car on the passing lane of the highway.

The heavy snow rushed down the mountain quickly, and caught up with them in a blink of an eye. Yue Xingwen turned his head and saw that the snow behind him formed a snow wall nearly three meters high, rushing towards them with a ferocious momentum, quite overwhelming momentum.

If they were buried by an avalanche, they would definitely not be able to climb out for a while, and would soon suffocate to death!

Imagine being buried in snow more than 3 meters thick, and everyone couldn't help but feel chills down their backs.

Qin Miao sternly said, "Xiao Lu, run!"

Qin Lu's face turned blue, and she took the globe and quickly changed positions to lead everyone to escape.Blizzard was chasing after him, and everyone changed positions crazily all the way, with their hearts in their throats!

Jiang Pingce said calmly: "Don't be afraid, if we can't escape the range of the avalanche after the transposition, we will continue to hide in the sky."

Qin Lu nodded. With Jiang Pingce as the second guarantee, her pressure was indeed relieved a lot.

Qin Lu was highly concentrated, operated her fingers quickly, and changed positions 10 times in a row. After 5000 meters away from the mountain from the center of the avalanche, Blizzard's speed gradually slowed down and stopped not far behind her.

Qin Lu breathed a sigh of relief, and walked another 500 meters before stopping. Looking back at the thick snow, she said with a pale face, "I thought there would be several aftershocks, but it turned out to be an avalanche?"

Liu Zhaoqing smiled wryly: "The library was afraid that it would be boring for us to hide from the earthquake all the time, so they changed it for us."

Everyone: "..."

Thank you library, they really don't need so many flavors.

The endless glaciers, the sudden earthquake in the middle of the night, and another big avalanche, the exam experience in this ice age is also rich and colorful!