Apocalypse: After Being Reborn, I Stocked Up on All Supplies-Chapter 212 - Solo Adventure 01
Chapter 212: Chapter 212 Solo Adventure 01
Chapter 212 -212 Solo Adventure 01
The cold wind whistled past Jiang Yan’s cheeks, carrying the warm ashes of the Rat, causing her to shiver involuntarily.
Without a second thought, she entered the Space.
After quickly changing into slightly bulky biohazard Protective Clothing and putting on a gas mask, she stepped back out.
At this moment, she could only hope that Su Dai and the others were still alive.
As for everything else, she no longer cared to give it much thought.
“Ye Qing!”
“Su Dai!”
“Sun Jingtao!”
“…”
Jiang Yan began shouting their names loudly.
However, after calling out several times, the only responses she received were the smoke drifting into the air and an endless silence.
A bad premonition grew inside her.
She took out her telescope and scanned the surroundings twice, but she couldn’t spot any signs of the mall’s ruins.
Logically speaking, even if the earthquake was of a massive scale that flattened all buildings, there should at least be a mound of rubble.
Yet, all she saw before her eyes were shattered stones, dust, and cracked land.
And here and there lay the bodies of mutated Rats, some charred, others crushed by huge rocks.
Not far behind her, there were some contorted cars burned down to their frames and a few charred bodies.
There were also a few tanks, as if they had been tossed from the sky, with their tracks scattered around.
And three black armored vehicles, also severely deformed.
The bulletproof glass of the armored vehicles had completely shattered into a spiderweb pattern.
The windshields and the glass of the cockpits were spattered with blood.
Two were flipped upside down, and one was skewed and jammed in a two-meter-wide fissure.
The door of the one stuck in the fissure was forcibly opened.
Several bodies lay haphazardly inside the severely compressed deformed carriage.
No, to be precise, they were clean, gnawed bones.
Some were large, some small.
They were undoubtedly the convoy she had encountered before.
Feeling physically ill at the sight, Jiang Yan made a retching noise, switched her Handgun for a submachine gun, and then cautiously approached the vicinity:
“Is anyone there?”
“Is anyone there?”
She shouted a few times.
No one responded.
Not even a groan was heard.
Jiang Yan frowned and turned to continue searching.
She carefully avoided the enormous bodies of the dead Rats and slowly walked towards where she remembered the mall was located.
But after walking a long while, there was no end in sight.
There were fewer dead Rats in the vicinity, leaving only endless large boulders and shattered stones.
Unlike other areas covered with a thick layer of black dust, the soil here was a yellowish-brown color, as if freshly exposed.
“Cackle! Mother, we are no longer on the original ground; we are in a trench.”
Hua Bao seemed to realize what she was searching for and hurriedly reminded her.
“A trench?!” Jiang Yan exclaimed.
No wonder when she looked toward the mountain range earlier through the telescope, all she saw was a huge cliff-like formation.
Seeing this, had the earthquake torn open a rift running for kilometers?
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Wasn’t that a bit too outrageous?
However, having experienced many outrageous events, Jiang Yan was no longer surprised.
And right now, her priority was to quickly confirm whether Su Dai and the others were still alive,
rather than ponder these trivial matters.
Seeing she didn’t say anything, Hua Bao used his newly acquired knowledge to explain further:
“Cackle! Mother, the ground tore open, and the earth’s crust underneath must have transformed under pressure.
The ground we’re standing on now is likely a large fault formed by the fault zone.
Cackle! Also, the earthquake continued outside last night with strong intensity, and I didn’t wake you up.
The earthquake only stopped early this morning, and that annoying haze has also cleared.”
It had been shaking all night…
Jiang Yan was momentarily lost for words.
So, the seismic waves had also affected the Space.
She always felt deeply groggy after closing her eyes,
a sensation she had never experienced before.
As for whether Hua Bao had woken her up or not, it no longer mattered.
Rescuing others began with rescuing oneself.
She understood this principle well.
Helping others when safety was within capacity was fine,
but she could not bring herself to risk her own life to save others.
Heaven had given her a second chance at life, and she naturally intended to cherish it.
After Hua Bao finished explaining, he fell silent.
Jiang Yan gathered her thoughts and continued calling out the names of Su Dai and Ye Qing.
Eventually, her voice grew hoarse.
With the gas mask on, breathing was not easy.
She then realized that in her Space, she had a loudspeaker and a jetpack.
Searching on foot was too slow.
Just shouting was ineffective as well.
Indeed, in moments of desperation, the mind could fail, forgetting that she carried an all-in-one toolkit.
Jiang Yan quickly returned to the Space, took out the loudspeaker, recorded her shouting, and then donned the jetpack over the Protective Clothing. She also switched to a pair of eyeglass-style telescopes that supported voice-command focus adjustment before stepping out of the Space again.
The heavy Protective Clothing coupled with the tens of kilograms heavy jetpack made Jiang Yan feel as if she was carrying a small mountain on her back.
Fortunately, after resting in the Space last night, her strength had fully recovered.
She reached out to turn on the power switch of the jetpack, testing the stability of her mid-air hovering half a meter off the ground as usual.
After verifying it was working correctly, she slowly increased the jet thrust.
As the jet streams intensified, Jiang Yan gradually rose.
She did not immediately start her search but decided to first overview the post-earthquake situation of the entire Xiangcheng.
After all, the flying heights for surveying the landscape and searching for people were completely different.
One meter, two meters, three meters…
As Jiang Yan’s flying height increased, she finally exhaled deeply at a hundred meters in the air.
“You never know the true face of Mount Lu because you’re inside it.”
She could now see the area she had been in earlier clearly.
She had seen satellite images of Xiangcheng on a computer before.
But now, this small city had completely changed overnight in the earthquake.
All buildings were flattened in just one night.
The water level near the base entrance seemed to have dropped significantly.
Xiangcheng now looked like a small island.
Looking behind her,
the mountain peaks that originally surrounded the city on three sides seemed to have their tops sheared off,
considerably shorter than before,
as if there had been a landslide.
Stones occasionally tumbled down, stirring up dust.
Her gaze moved further down, and Jiang Yan gasped.
The originally flat ground now resembled a basin sunken down.
The basin was not small, roughly three to four kilometers in diameter.
The drop at the edges was significant too, at least seventy to eighty meters.
This basin, like a sudden addition,
expanded Xiangcheng’s boundary overnight.
After observing in disbelief, Jiang Yan began to control the jet thrust, descending slowly.
Reaching a suitable position, she started meticulously searching for Su Dai and the others.
Three hours passed.
She had searched every corner of the basin without finding any signs of life.
In her Space, ten jetpacks filled with fuel had been used consecutively, and the loudspeaker’s batteries had been changed twice.
A tired and sweaty Jiang Yan, covered in ash, somewhat disheveled, returned to the Space.
But she did not give up.
As long as she hadn’t found the bodies of Ye Qing and the others, there was still hope they were alive.
