Ch20 - After the Earthquake

The shaking of the earthquake lasted for two and a half hours after the first shock started.

Wei Xuan didn’t calculate the duration and frequency of the earthquake until this life, because he was crushed under the bookshelves in his previous life, and every second felt like a year. He only knew that when he and Du Hang emerged from the ruins when they struggled out, it was almost dawn.

The magnitude of this earthquake is neither big nor small, there is no specific equipment to detect and calculate it, so the remaining experienced seismologists in the base can only speculate. They estimate that the magnitude of this earthquake is around five or six levels. Almost 70% of the houses and high-rise buildings in the urban area, especially those newly expanded ones have collapsed.

What is even more unexpected is the condition of the ground. Most of the roads and sidewalks are cracked, especially the wide traffic routes that go in and out of the city. 

What’s more difficult is that this earthquake happened globally! In other words, if the buildings and ground in this city collapsed into a mess, then other cities would certainly not be much better off.

Therefore, most of the bases will put a heavy focus on building bases in the suburbs, rural areas, county towns, and other such places.

It is a pity that because humans have not entered the city for a long time, zombies are rampant in the area. After adapting to the new power and speed, many zombies quickly evolved into killing machines one by one. There are also a large number of mutated plants, mutated animals, and zombie animals entrenched in the wreckage of the ruins, attacking passers-by.

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All of this forced human beings to completely abandon the city. Only those survivors who had no way out and whose lives were unsustainable would form a team to enter the city, hoping to find something useful in the ruins.

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Fortunately, the loss wasn’t much, and the backpack full of various emergency items that he put aside was not touched. It’s just that the place where this thing landed at this time is not suitable – right at the entrance of the tent, which made Wei Xuan have to move it away by himself.

Although Du Hang has gradually become familiar with Wei Xuan’s command and can help him with some things, he has never encountered this order of “push the stone away” before, so the one who is struggling to move the stone at this moment is only Wei Xuan.

After pushing for a long time, Wei Xuan straightened up and wiped his sweat. When he thought that it would be impossible, he thought to move the tent to another position. Du Hang seemed to have sensed the meaning of his action suddenly walked over a few steps, and then pushed that big rock!!

Wei Xuan stared dumbfoundedly at the big rock that rolled several times before stopping because of an obstacle and then stared dumbfounded at the still blank face of Du Hang, but at this time it was obvious that there was a kind of “doing what the master asked expression ”, he seemed to be seeking praise after ‘helping’. Wei Xuan took a deep breath, twisted his facial muscles to make a smiling expression, raised his hand to stroke Du Hang’s hair, and then ran towards the direction of the stone with a bitter face – the stone was pushed away, but what it hit was the backpack with medical supplies that Wei Xuan had collected before!!

Wei Xuan usually does not need to use medicines, and Du Hang hardly needs any medicines to heal his injuries. But during these times, general topical medicines, disinfectants, and bandages are still needed. Even if Du Hang suffers some kind of external injury, Wei Xuan still needs to use a knife and bandage to prevent the wound from growing into a strange shape when he recovers, let alone Wei Xuan himself. If he is injured, he also needs to deal with the wound!

Therefore, there are not only a few general anti-inflammatory drugs and common medicines in this backpack, but there are a lot of disinfectants, wound treatment supplies, and bandages.

After Wei Xuan struggled to rescue the backpack from under the boulder, seeing the deformed tweezers, scalpel, thoroughly smashed disinfectant, and medical alcohol that wet all the gauze, he felt like crying without tears. Well, there are several large and small hospitals nearby that he could go to, but he can’t go to small clinics at they would be wiped out by people collecting supplies. He can only go to large hospitals with a large number of zombies at this time, there should still be medical supplies there. 

With a sigh, he poured out all the contents inside, opened the backpack and put it aside to dry, and temporarily put the usable things in another bag. Then Wei Xuan turned around and pulled Du Hang, who had been obediently by his side, back to the tent to sleep, there should be no aftershocks tonight. Of course, unless God has trouble with the reborn Wei Xuan and insists on making him suffer.

The narrow tent makes it difficult for two big men to sleep together and even turn over, but no matter how difficult it is, it is much better than sleeping in the open space outside. If it is still necessary to ensure normal sleep to replenish energy for Wei Xuan, unlike Du Hang who has completely lost the need for sleep after turning into a zombie.

If he hadn’t been by Wei Xuan’s side, then Du Hang would definitely be like ordinary an zombie, chasing the survivors to their door, and then hitting on the door like an idiot until the people inside come out, die, or other prey passing by diverts his attention, and he might die unexpectedly by human hands.

Such an honest and well-behaved Du Hang is like a large human-shaped pillow. According to the habit that the two of them just formed after camping, Du Hang just lays down obediently on one side of the tent, leaving enough space for Wei Xuan and offering one of his arms at the same time. Wei Xuan pulled his thin blanket, yawned and lay down in Du Hang’s arms naturally, and kissed his chin lightly—since he made up his mind, such things became more and more natural for him.

There are still many things to do tomorrow, such as checking whether there is any problem in the community and building where he used to live before. He also needs to check whether there are any problems in the dozens of places where he hid food and water. Another thing he needs to do is to take time to go to the hospital and get some alcohol, disinfectant, surgical medical equipment, etc…

Although he didn’t consume much energy today, the earthquake was enough to challenge people’s nerves and make them tense all the time. Even Wei Xuan, a reborn person, couldn’t relax completely after the earthquake had completely stopped.

However, Wei Xuan finally has a general understanding of the situation after that, especially now that Du Hang is by his side. Just like before, just like in the previous life, even if Wei Xuan doesn’t admit it, he firmly believes in his heart that if something happens again, Du Hang will certainly protect him. If he encounters a situation that even Du Hang can’t do anything about, he will still be by his side to accompany him to face the danger, just like the one in his previous life before his death. 

The violent explosion before his death reappeared in his mind, and the crazy red flames swept toward him and Du Hang who was hugging him tightly, but Wei Xuan didn’t have the slightest worry or panic in his heart, instead, he put on a smile, looking at the person who could only vaguely see the outline in the darkness: “Good night, Du Hang, I have to get up early tomorrow…” 

The morning sun shone brightly, but it illuminated a miserable situation in the world.

Collapsed buildings, cracked roads, and arched pipes. Even the roots of the trees arched out of the soil one by one, twisting ferociously among the rocks, looking so desolate and terrifying.

Wei Xuan was standing in the gazebo at this time, and the zombie couple who liked to watch the sunset were still in the gazebo, but it seemed that because of yesterday’s earthquake, they were not interested in wandering in the park either. The older one is sitting on the bench, but the younger one has already got up, walking aimlessly back and forth in the gazebo within the length of the rope. Every time he walks a certain distance, he will not be able to move because of the limitation of the length of the rope. He turned around again and continued walking in the other direction.

Wei Xuan held up the binoculars to observe the situation outside, but the gazebo was not high enough, and he could only see the park and the one-acre land outside the park, but even such a small area was enough to make people feel the ruthlessness of nature.

But fortunately, the buildings around here are quite strong, at least the number of collapsed buildings is not too many, but there are a lot of people’s furniture, metal guardrails, balconies, flower pots, and clothes that fell to the ground.