Natural Disaster (MTL)

Chapter 168

Chapter 168


Fire is all fire.

Qiao Qingqing was swimming under the sea of ​​fire. The water was flowing, bringing heat waves from the sky. She felt like she was soaking in the hot spring water. When all kinds of sounds came to her ears through the water, it became dull and distant. Qiao Qingqing did not go. Listening to those movements, she let herself focus on identifying the direction, and she was going to take her mother to meet Sheng An and the others.

She was holding her mother's hand and her heart was beating fast.

When she came to the vicinity of the passenger ship, she surfaced to determine the position, but saw her mother and mother-in-law jump off the boat, and at that moment her breathing almost stopped.

But she finally grabbed her mother's hand.

She grabbed her mother's hand again.

Qiao Qingqing held Qiao Songzhi's hand tightly, the two of them were like frogs in a boiling hot water pot, trying to swim back to their hometown before the water temperature completely imprisoned their hands and feet.

There was a person in front of him gradually approaching, it was Shao Shengan.

He made gestures, then held Qiao Qingqing with one hand and Qiao Songzhi with the other, and Shao Shengan signaled them to surface a few minutes later.

"Sister Zhi!" Mother Shao shouted excitedly while holding the wooden barrel.

"Hey Asia! You'll be fine!" Qiao Songzhi breathed a sigh of relief. She searched around and couldn't find anyone, she was really scared to death.

Qiao Qingqing took off the breathing mask, wiped her face and asked, "Are you injured?"

"No! We are all in the water!" Father Shao said hurriedly.

While talking, a bigger fire smashed down, and Qiao Qingqing and the others immediately got into the water again. She gestured towards Father Shao, pointing to the bag he was carrying in front of him, which she had left for them. There were two sets of diving equipment in it, just in case she couldn't come back in time, or if something unexpected happened, Shao would Father and Shao Shengfei father and son can have a way out.

Father Shao tightly closed his mouth and waved to her, meaning that it was not needed for the time being. He and Shao Shengfei both wore wooden barrels on their heads. When they couldn't breathe, they supported the wooden barrels to the surface, took a deep breath of the hot air, and then got back, and so on.

Song Sanhe and the others next to him did the same.

Qiao Qingqing was suspended in the water, looking up at the sky with his head raised -

if this is a movie scene, it must be very magnificent, but in reality it is just a synonym for death, without beauty, full of screams, burnt smell, destruction With... despair.

The red fire reflected in her eyes through the water, even if she couldn't see the situation on the water, but she could imagine that there must be many people jumping into the water like dumplings.

Qiao Qingqing's mood is very complicated. She died in the big earthquake. She didn't know that the natural disaster after the big earthquake would be like this. This is simply that the world collapsed together!

At this point, Qiao Qingqing had an idea for the first time.

Can this world survive?

This has nothing to do with humans.

She thought about it, maybe all human beings will go extinct, maybe after thousands of years, the law of biological evolution will restart, and human beings will appear again. But she never thought that this world would be completely destroyed and disappeared!

Suddenly, she had a strong desire to go up, go up and see the world.

The last glimpse of this world.

Qiao Qingqing began to go upstream, Shao Shengan hurriedly followed her, removed a wooden basin tied to his wooden boat, and slowed her to get out of the water.

After leaving the water, all kinds of desperate cries and screaming needles drilled into her ears. Qiao Qingqing felt that her soul was also pulled into the abyss of hell with this sound. She took a deep breath and the pain in her eyes disappeared.

She looked around without blinking. At this time, Shao Shengan came up and blocked the wooden basin over her and her head, and the two were next to each other.

The whole world is trapped in fire and smoke, the water surface temperature is very high, the fire goes out after entering the water, and the smoke that is excited is very thick, and it curls up, blurring the vision. Qiao Qingqing could only see the scattered ships of the Tangzhou fleet in the distance. All the ships were on fire. There were no traces of people on the ships. They were probably hiding underwater. She could see the survivors from time to time. , took a breath of air and then quickly drilled back, the next moment the fire cluster would fall down, leaving behind a plume of white smoke.

The sky was amazingly bright and dazzling, Qiao Qingqing suspected that there was a huge and boundless volcano hidden in the sky. It has been uncontrolled, unrestrained, unrepressed, and it wants to pour out the anger that has accumulated for tens of thousands of years, making the world tremble and burn up under it.

The wooden basin started to get hot, Shao Shengan pulled Qiao Qingqing into the water, cooled the wooden basin and then floated up.

Father Shao and Shao Shengfei also floated up, only daring to show their noses. Shao Shengfei frowned: "Dabao is gone, and Dabao ran away again."

"Dabao went out to play, and he will come back when he has had enough." Father Shao said, staring into the distance and muttering, "It's scary, this day Why did it collapse, how can people live like this?"

Qiao Qingqing remained silent, and two people came up beside him, Qiao Songzhi and Shao's mother.

Qiao Songzhi reached out to hold her, and Qiao Qingqing felt her mother's cold fingers and palms as the warm water flowed.

Qiao Songzhi looked into her eyes and said, "If we just die like this, it doesn't seem so scary. Our whole family is together. When you close your eyes, Mom can hold you, Mom gives birth to you, and when you die, Mom I'm holding you too, you see, it's still raining in the sky, we are like the protagonists in the movie, there is fire and light when we die, lively and lively, not lonely at all."

Shao Shengan didn't say a word, supporting with one hand The tub, holding her other hand.

Death is not something to fear and panic. Over the years, Qiao Qingqing has never been afraid of death.

Looking back on the life experience in the past ten years, she and her family have worked hard, labored, harvested, separated, and finally reunited.

Qiao Qingqing's eyes turned red, and she nodded lightly.

Fortunately, there is water to provide shelter. After the despair of destroying the world, Qiao Qingqing, who had calmed down, began to change her mind again. Although the end of the world is coming one after another, there are often some wonderful coincidences. The most obvious one is the dense fog and acid rain one after the other. If it falls at the same time, the insects that damage the human body in the dense fog cannot survive at all. If the acid rain lasts a little longer, the crow and vulture disaster that erupts later can also be greatly alleviated...

Or go back to the initial heavy rain, extremely cold, and human beings were first hit by the heavy rain. The flood was locked at home, and then the world froze, it froze all the floods, and human beings were able to get out of their homes again and explore the outside world. But the cold is obviously not a good solution, so it starts to heat up again, it melts all the ice, liberates the ground that has been imprisoned for a long time, and allows humans to regain the land...

And now, if it weren't for the collapse of the continent and the sea covering all parts of the world, such a terrifying rain of fire would completely set the whole world on fire. But now the boundless waters have blocked the rain of fire, and the survivors can hide under the water to save their lives. Otherwise, how can people who live on land and have not escaped to the seaside survive?

Fortune and misfortune depend on each other.

Qiao Qingqing didn't know how long this rain of fire would last, but before the inevitable death came, he had to continue to flutter a few times and seize the chance of life.

This world-annihilating fire lasted for a full forty-nine hours.

Qiao Qingqing's family did not rely too much on diving equipment to stay in the water, but like everyone else, they often surfaced to breathe fresh air. However, Qiao Songzhi and Shao's mother were unable to support their physical strength soon, and Qiao Qingqing simply asked them to wear breathing masks and hide them underwater with wooden barrels. Oxygen cylinders are mainly for them.

During these forty-nine hours, there was no dark night, and it was always bright all night.

They see the needle and eat something to replenish their strength every time they get out of the water.

fish!

Shao Shengfei's eyes widened, and he reached out to catch a fish with thick arms. His eyes were full of surprises. He was so excited that he breathed out of his mouth and bubbling. Shao Shengan was so frightened that he quickly pulled him ashore to breathe.

Since then, there have been more fish underwater, and schools of fish have slowly appeared.

They seemed to enjoy the warm waters above, unafraid of people, and swam up in groups from the dark underwater depths. This provided the survivors with plenty of food and dispelled the gloom of the dead end.

Liu Zhen stuck the fish with a wooden stick, carefully floated to the surface, and stretched out the fish in an attempt to make grilled fish.

This is definitely not successful. Although the fire is very dense, it does not have the conditions to burn for a long time when it encounters natural enemies of water. Song Sanhe motioned him to try the burning wooden boat not far away, but before it was cooked, the wooden boat sank completely. Liu Zhen took a bite of the half-cooked fish, enjoying himself and thinking it was delicious.

More people eat raw fish. The fish is not slaughtered or scaled. They use human teeth to breathe hard at the moment when the probe breathes, take a bite of the fish at the same time, and then dive back into the water to chew.

Can bite anything, eat anything.

As long as you can survive.

Qiao Qingqing's family was full of compressed biscuits in their backpacks, and there was no shortage of food. They only had one meal of raw fish. The fish they caught were stuffed into bamboo baskets and wooden barrels. Shao Shengan and the others took off their coats to block the mouth of the barrel.

The wooden boat was dragged down by them and soaked in water, trying hard not to be completely burned, barely becoming a haven for them and the chicks and ducks. The chicks and ducks have been let go by Shao Shengfei. They surround the wooden boat and cling to each other tightly. When a fire hits them, they dive into the water without a teacher, and their survival instincts are more sensitive than humans.

The bamboo baskets and wooden barrels were quickly filled with fish, but Qiao Qingqing was very nervous. She thought of the fishing grounds that attracted sharks.

If there are shark swarms now, it will be worse, a real disaster!

I don't know if it's because of luck. Qiao Qingqing has been worried about the dangers underwater, but time has passed, one hour later, two hours... Day after day, there are no sharks.

Forty-nine hours later, the sky darkened without warning, and the fire and rain stopped.

"It's over, is it over?"

"It's so dark, I'm not used to it all of a sudden."

"Cough cough, cough! The smell of burnt is so heavy!

" , the brightness of the sky stopped abruptly, but fortunately, some ships nearby had not burned out to provide light, providing some light for the survivors.

Qiao Qingqing greedily breathed in the pungent air with burning embers, and then coughed into tears. Her eyes were red, stinging and itching because she had not rested for a long time and had been soaked in water for a long time. She stared straight with such tired red eyes. He looked up at the sky and gave a stiff smile.

survived! survive!

There were cries coming from elsewhere, one after another.

Qiao Qingqing closed his eyes and rested his wet face on Qiao Songzhi's arm.