Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 141 How did they die?!
The tremors of the earth were initially quite weak, but quickly became violent.

At that moment, Jiang Yang even felt as if he wasn't standing on the ground, but rather on a bumpy off-road vehicle.

The next moment he was knocked to the ground, and in the darkness, something was falling and crashing down on him.

"what!"

A cry of pain came from Zhou Yu beside him. Jiang Yang's heart tightened, and he instinctively reached out to his side, shouting, "Zhou Yu! Zhou Yu! Where are you? What happened to you?!"

After groping around for a moment, he finally touched Zhou Yu's arm.

There was a lot of liquid on her arm, which looked like blood, but she didn't know where it came from.

In the darkness, Jiang Yang couldn't see anything at all, nor could he see Zhou Yu's current situation. He frantically pulled out his phone, intending to use it as a light to check the situation, but before he could even turn it on, an arm forcefully pushed him towards him.

"No, don't worry about me! Jiang Yang, intelligence, intelligence!"

In the darkness, Zhou Yu's voice trembled with urgency.

Jiang Yang's thoughts suddenly calmed down at this moment, and his slight panic and fear were instantly suppressed.

Yes... intelligence, intelligence!

He resolutely abandoned Zhou Yu, who was clearly seriously injured, and crawled on his hands and feet toward the doorway he remembered, trying to leave the room on the still violently shaking ground.

The room originally had screens that ran continuously 24 hours a day, constantly displaying real-time monitoring network data from around the world.

However, the earthquake seemed too violent, causing damage to the screens. The only option now is to go outside and check the other screens.

Amidst the chaos, Jiang Yang finally found the doorknob. Fortunately, the door could still be opened.

But the next moment, Jiang Yang's heart sank again.

When the door opened, what appeared before Jiang Yang was not the familiar passageway and corridor, but...

A rough, uneven "wall" made of dust, rocks, concrete, and steel bars.

The base had already collapsed entirely, blocking all the doors.

If we can't see those screens, there's only one way left to get information from the outside world.

My own mobile phone and smartwatch.

Both screens are too small, and the amount of information that can be displayed in a short time is limited. If there were a screen alternative, Jiang Yang would not choose this method.

But there's no other way now.

Amidst the increasingly violent tremors, Jiang Yang took out his phone, turned on the screen, and was quite surprised to find that the screen still displayed the familiar wallpaper, instead of the intelligence data that would be automatically replaced in the event of the apocalypse.

Looking at the top of the screen again, Jiang Yang clearly saw the no signal icon.

"Damn it, wasn't it supposed to have full signal coverage within the base, so that there would still be a signal even if the base was destroyed?"

Jiang Yang cursed inwardly and looked at his watch. Sure enough, the watch had no signal either.

Then there's no other way.

Another violent tremor struck, throwing Jiang Yang violently to the ground.

He gave up on getting up and started crawling again, using both his hands and feet, until he reached Zhou Yu's side.

A concrete slab was placed over Zhou Yu's waist, and large patches of blood were gushing out from beneath her.

She was pale, her eyes were tightly closed, and she had long since lost consciousness; it was impossible to tell whether she was dead or alive.

Jiang Yang pushed the stone slab hard but couldn't move it. He sighed softly, crawled over and lay down next to Zhou Yu, then closed his eyes.

"See you in the next life..." Something suddenly hit Jiang Yang on the head, and the next moment, Jiang Yang lost all consciousness.

……

Almost instantly, Jiang Yang opened his eyes.

The familiar face of Shen Wei, the director of the hibernation base, came into view.

"Comrade Jiang Yang, this is your 237th time waking up from hibernation. How do you feel?"

At this moment, Jiang Yang's heart was still filled with fear, panic, and despair as the apocalypse approached, Zhou Yu died tragically beside him, and he closed his eyes to await death.

This is a human instinct when facing death, and it cannot be eliminated by experiencing it more often.

At least Jiang Yang couldn't do that.

His breathing became rapid in an instant. He suddenly reached out and grabbed Shen Wei's arm: "Manager Shen, the end of the world, the end of the world is here!"

Shen Wei's smile froze instantly.

More than an hour later, under the notification and organization of Liu Fangyuan, the leader of the Hibernation Team of the Doomsday Project, a meeting was held again, attended by high-level officials and decision-makers of the World Government, leading figures from various disciplines and fields, and high-level members of the military.

Sun Changhe gave the briefing again, and after giving everyone an hour to digest the information, the meeting continued.

This time, all eyes were on Jiang Yang.

"This time, it is my second cycle in this apocalypse."

In the first cycle, because I was in hibernation before I died, I was unable to bring back any information.

During this cycle, I learned some information.

He looked at the many solemn-looking attendees and said, "The end of the world will come in 86 days, on October 14, 2078, at 7:00 AM!"

As for the type, I cannot determine it.

At the time, I was in my bedroom, but the door was blocked by the collapsed building, so I couldn't leave. My screen was out of power, and my phone and watch lost signal. I couldn't get any information from the outside world.

All I could see was vibration.

He took a deep breath: "A violent tremor, capable of destroying the entire base in less than a minute."

The experts present exchanged hushed conversations. After a long while, Lu Zhaoming seemed to have reached a preliminary consensus with the scientists and pressed the button to speak.

"Professor Lu, please go ahead."

"According to the intelligence provided by Comrade Jiang Yang, the location information of Doomsday Base No. 1, where he was in his previous life, is as follows."

After communicating with experts in geology, seismology, and geophysics, we confirmed that the area is a geologically stable zone and a large earthquake is unlikely to occur within the next hundred years.

Meanwhile, the Doomsday Base One was built to withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake. However, according to Comrade Jiang Yang's description, the earthquake that struck the base when the apocalypse occurred must have been at least magnitude 9.5 or higher; otherwise, the base would not have been destroyed so thoroughly and so quickly.

For every increase in earthquake magnitude, the released energy increases 32 times. Based on this, given Earth's geological conditions, the most powerful earthquake theoretically achievable is only around magnitude 10.

A magnitude 9.5 earthquake is roughly the strongest earthquake that can actually occur on Earth.

In other words... the most violent earthquake that could occur on Earth in a real-world environment happened in a place where geological studies would never allow an earthquake, resulting in Comrade Jiang Yang's death.

But that's not the problem. The more important issue is that even a magnitude 9.5 earthquake cannot have a global impact, let alone cause the end of the world.

So, how did the rest die?

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(End of this chapter)