Escape the Library

【Ice Age-10】

The time shown on the small screen is 23:30 in the middle of the night, and it was dark around when everyone rushed out of the underground base.

Jiang Pingce used the coordinate system to write the formula and must see the landing point in front of him, otherwise he could not guarantee that his teammates would hit trees and mountains. Knowing this, Xin Yan quickly summoned an alcohol lamp at the moment he was in the air, and the densely packed alcohol lamps flew out of his hands, strung in the shape of a chain, surrounding everyone.

It had just snowed outside, and the snow on the ground was thick enough to easily cover their knees. The ground was shaking and the mountains were shaking. The big earthquake caused the air to fluctuate violently. The whole world seemed to be distorted. Everything in the field of vision was shaking wildly. Even the flame of the alcohol lamp kept going out. The alcohol lamp to replenish!

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 on the ground below!

The crack is bottomless, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "the abyss of ten thousand feet".

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

Zhang Xiaonian stared at the scene under his feet and widened his eyes in horror: "Fortunately, we ran fast, otherwise, the entire base would be swallowed up by cracks. Wouldn't we be finished if we fell?"

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

A major earthquake of magnitude 8 or higher is enough to instantly destroy a human city. Today, they are in the ice age, and there is no human civilization, so there is no need to worry about the casualties caused by a large number of buildings collapsing.

However, such a large earthquake is undoubtedly a devastating blow to the surrounding animals. They saw with their own eyes the lions that had just grabbed territory with the cave bears during the day, and the cave where they were located had collapsed.

Jiang Pingce looked serious and quickly adjusted the formula.

The turbulent air flow generated by the earthquake caused the cold wind to blow towards their faces like a sharp blade. Liu Zhaoqing hurriedly took out gauze and distributed them to everyone, so that everyone could use them as scarves and masks.

Ke Shaobin wrapped his lion fur coat tightly, his teeth chattering when he spoke: "Fortunately, we made this fur coat, otherwise, I would be flying in the air in the middle of the night wearing short sleeves, not buried by the earthquake, and would have been hit by the cold snap. freeze to death."

Liu Zhaoqing smiled bitterly: "The Department of Geography is really perverted. We should be glad that this time we only encountered glaciers and earthquakes, not the doomsday escape package of earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions."

Xu Yishen said: "Have you watched too many doomsday movies? We really don't have to live in that case!"

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

Jiang Pingce is in charge of the air movement. Others 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 red from the cold.

Yue Xingwen couldn't help feeling a little distressed when he saw his frozen red hand, so he quickly used the gauze and suture given by Senior Brother Liu, simply made a 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 fingers, and strictly speaking, it can only be regarded as a "gauze cover", but this was made by Xingwen himself, and only Xingwen noticed that his hands were frozen.

Jiang Pingce warmed his heart and continued to write down a formula with gloves on to control everyone to advance in the air.

Along the way, everyone looked at the ground shaking violently under their feet, and their mood was extremely shocking.

They have never experienced an earthquake in reality, and now they are at the scene of the earthquake, and only then do they feel how terrifying the power of nature is. Human beings are really as small as ants in front of nature!

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

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

Ke Shaobin held the glasses that almost fell off and asked, "Has the earthquake stopped?"

Qin Lu said: "It seems to have stopped, but large earthquakes are often accompanied by aftershocks, so we still have to be alert at all times."

The surrounding shaking has obviously stopped, but everyone does not dare to relax. Their current situation is still not safe. In case of an aftershock, everyone still has to be prepared to escape at any time.

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

Flying in the air with the cold wind blowing, even wearing a fur coat, everyone is almost freezing and numb. Yue Xingwen looked back at the short-haired girl behind him and said, "Qin Lu, you decide, where do you think is safer?"

Qin Lu looked around: "Just now, a big crack appeared in the empty ice sheet, which proves that an empty and flat place is not necessarily safe. In case the library is like the "City Collapse" course of the School of Architecture, it deliberately creates a big crack based on our location. Cracks, it is very likely that wherever we go, this crack will open."

Liu Zhaoqing said solemnly, "Yes, given the degree of perversion in the library, what Qin Lu said is very likely!"

Everyone: "..."

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

The big crack in the location of their base just now is obviously not a coincidence, but the library deliberately did it!

Yue Xingwen said with a headache: "Where else can you go if you don't settle in the open space?"

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 will not crack?"

Qin Lu said: "Suppose there is a crack in the location of the mountain, causing the entire mountain to sink. Since we are standing high on the top of the mountain and have a wide field of vision, we will have enough time to react if we escape."

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

There is still a long way to go before 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 and fly to the top of the mountain.

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

Lin Manluo summoned the green trees, Liu Zhaoqing skillfully chopped firewood to make a fire, and everyone sat around the fire with ugly expressions on their faces. They all knew that the earthquake would not end easily, and everyone just found their foothold temporarily. If there is another aftershock later, they have to continue to escape.

Since they came to the library, they have often been hanging by a thread, constantly escaping, and they are almost used to escaping too much.

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

Other research groups don't have a mathematics department scholar like Jiang Pingce, and this class can actually be passed with teammates from the geography department. When the earthquake cracked, the students in the Department of Geography only needed to react fast enough to avoid the cracks on the ground by transposing the continuous 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 touched the back of Jiang Pingce's head lightly, and asked worriedly, "I heard your head hit the wall just now, are you okay?" He touched it carefully and noticed that there seemed to be a bag on the back of Jiang Pingce's head.

Jiang Pingce said, "It's fine."

Hearing this, Liu Zhaoqing immediately came over to check it, and then said with a smile: "Pingce can write so many mathematical formulas, so obviously he didn't get hit with a concussion. The flesh wound is easy to deal with, and the swollen part of the head will soon disappear. Can go away."

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

Yue Xingwen said: "Senior brother, come on, you are more professional."

Liu Zhaoqing nodded and quickly wrapped a gauze around Jiang Pingce's head. Jiang Pingce's swollen and painful back of the head soon felt a cool breeze. After a few seconds, Liu Zhaoqing removed the gauze and smiled, "It's done."

Yue Xingwen reached out to touch it again, and found that the bag on the back of Pingce's head had really disappeared. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Everyone, rest first, don't sleep, and be alert at any time."

Everyone was sitting in a group, let alone falling asleep. It was the first time in their lives that they had experienced such a big earthquake.

A group of people sat like this until dawn.

However, aftershocks did not occur.

On the ninth day of the exam, the sun shone on the snow and reflected a dazzling light. Yue Xingwen stood up and looked into the distance. A large number of black cracks crisscrossed the boundless white snowfield, like countless wounds slashed by knives.

When escaping last night, I relied on Xin Yan's alcohol lamp to illuminate the scene in the distance. After dawn, I looked into the distance and found countless cracks in the snow. This desolate and spectacular scene left everyone speechless for a while.

After a moment of silence, Qin Lu said: "If such a big earthquake happened in a human city in the civilized era, the number of casualties would be unimaginable." She paused and whispered: "Unfortunately, until now, human beings still do not have a mature earthquake. Monitoring and early warning technology, and natural disasters caused by this kind of crustal movement, cannot be prevented at all.”

Geography is a very esoteric subject. Qin Lu always feels that after so many years of study, he has only touched a little bit. Human research and exploration of the earth still has a long way to go.

Suppose one day, humans can accurately predict the time and location of earthquakes, and before the arrival of a major earthquake, local residents are organized to move out in an orderly manner, what kind of scenario will it be?

Ke Shaobin came over and asked Xiaotu to take a picture of the cruel scene after the earthquake. Then he put away the small picture and said, "Today is the ninth day, and the exam will not be cleared until 12 o'clock tomorrow night. You think the library will be kind. One point, let us escape this wave of earthquakes and go straight to the customs, or will we continue to send us the aftershock spree?"

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

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

Everyone immediately stopped the discussion and pricked up their ears to listen carefully - sure enough, there seemed to be a "humming" sound in the distance, like the sound of wind, and like an animal whining.

Qin Lu listened for a few seconds, and his face changed suddenly: "Oh, it might be an avalanche!"

Almost as soon as her voice fell, everyone felt a violent vibration under their feet, as if something was about to break out of the ground. Not far away, a large amount of snow was rushing towards them at an extremely fast speed like a galloping army!

Jiang Pingce immediately reported the data: "The right rear is inclined down 45 degrees, 300 meters!"

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

Seeing that the huge avalanche was about to bury them completely, Qin Lu quickly summoned the globe and quickly pressed it twice with his finger: "Eurasian plate, Pacific plate, shift and transpose!"

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

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

The speed of the avalanche was far beyond their imagination, more terrifying than the sports car on the highway passing lane.

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 fierce momentum, quite like the top of Mount Tai. momentum.

If they are buried in an avalanche, they will definitely not be able to climb out for a while, and they will soon suffocate to death!

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

Qin Miao said sharply, "Xiaolu, run!"

Qin Lu's face turned blue, and he took the globe's rapid plate transposition and led everyone to escape. Blizzard was chasing after him, and everyone changed positions frantically all the way, and their hearts were all in their throats!

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

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

Qin Lu was highly concentrated, his fingers moved quickly, and he changed positions 10 times in a row. After 5,000 meters away from the mountain at the center of the avalanche, the speed of the blizzard gradually slowed down and stopped not far behind.

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

Liu Zhaoqing smiled bitterly: "The library was afraid that it would be boring for us to avoid earthquakes all the time, so it gave us a different taste."

Everyone: "..."

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

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