Natural disaster at the beginning: I will lead the system to build a safe zone

It was midnight, and the entire capital city was plunged into darkness. People were sleeping peacefully, with only the occasional sound of the night watchman announcing the time and the barking of some dogs revealing their anxiety.

Everyone in the Shi residence also fell asleep. In Aunt Liu's room, Ruyi and Fuxin were in a deep sleep on the bed outside, smacking their lips from time to time, and I wonder if they were dreaming about something delicious.

The two of them slept here only because Shi Anan strongly requested it. Although she didn't know why the young lady did this, and she didn't like having maids to keep watch at night in the past, as a maid, she just had to follow orders.

Aunt Liu had already fallen asleep on the bed in the inner room, but Shi Anan didn't know why, but she had been feeling inexplicably anxious since the day before, which made her sleep poorly at night.

Shi Anan sat up suddenly, frightened by the nightmare again and broke into a cold sweat. She just dreamed that Aunt Liu was buried underground by the collapsed house in order to save her.

She took a breath and wiped the sweat from her forehead. She was afraid that no one except her would know that this was something that could really happen.

Thinking of the heartache she felt at that moment, she realized how deep her feelings for Aunt Liu were.

"Sister An, what's wrong with you? Did you have a nightmare?"

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Auntie is here."

Aunt Liu was awakened by Shi Anan's movement. Seeing her gasping for breath, she knew that she must have been frightened by a nightmare. She then sat up and gently stroked Shi Anan's head to comfort her.

"Auntie..." Shi Anan was about to tell Auntie Liu that she was fine when her face suddenly changed.

"Hurry! Auntie, get up and leave the room!" Shi Anan suddenly jumped up from the bed and pulled Auntie Liu out of bed.

Aunt Liu was stunned for a moment by her sudden reaction, and was pulled off the bed and ran after her like a puppet.

Ruyi and Fuxin outside were also awakened by the noise of the two people. They looked at Shi Anan dragging Aunt Liu out in a daze.

"Miss, what are you doing..." What's wrong? Fu Xin didn't finish her words before she felt something was wrong. Why did the house seem to be shaking?

"Fuxin, get out quickly, there's going to be an earthquake!" Shi Anan yelled at Fuxin, then rushed over and opened the door without stopping.

Maybe it was because An An explained to her too many times during the day what would happen before an earthquake, as well as some first aid knowledge. Although Fu Xin didn't understand it all, she tried hard to remember what the lady said.

When an earthquake strikes, run to an open area if you can. They are outside now, only a few steps away from the door, so there is still time!

Fu Xin used up almost the fastest reaction of her life, jumped off the bed, picked up Ruyi and ran out the door, following closely in Shi Anan's footsteps.

Thanks to her great strength, Ruyi, who had not yet fully woken up, was as dazed as Aunt Liu and was dragged or carried by the two men to the open space in the yard like a gust of wind.

The moment they ran out of the house, the earthquake became more and more intense, shaking everyone so much that they were dizzy and unable to stand. They also saw the most terrifying scene they had ever seen in their lives.

In modern times, the largest earthquake recorded in history was only a magnitude 9.5 earthquake, and the scope of its impact was so wide that no one could imagine it. Such an earthquake has only occurred once in history.

Scientists have been speculating what the world would be like if a magnitude 10 earthquake struck, but no one wants to see such a scene.

The earthquake that Shi Anan experienced during the Apocalypse Dynasty, even if it was not a magnitude 10 earthquake, was definitely no less than a magnitude 9 earthquake.

The originally sturdy house disappeared in the blink of an eye. The mud and rocks on the mountain not far away made a rumbling sound, as if the sky was roaring.

They supported each other and tried to find balance on the wildly shaking ground, but they saw a big crack suddenly appeared on the originally smooth ground, which was rapidly approaching where they were standing from a distance.

The system in Shi Anan's brain was ringing alarms frantically, almost breaking her nerves to the limit.

"Ruyi! Be careful!" Ruyi, who was still frightened and had not recovered from her shock, did not avoid the crack in the ground under her feet in time. She stumbled and fell into the abyss. Shi Anan took Aunt Liu's hand to avoid the crack and turned around to see such a thrilling moment.

Fortunately, Fu Xin reacted quickly and grabbed Ruyi's hand in time, preventing her from falling into the crack as deep as hell.

Ruyi, who was hanging in the air on the rock wall in the crack, finally realized what was happening. Seeing that she was about to fall to the ground, she broke down and burst into tears.

The earthquake did not stop at this time, and Fu Xin could not even stand steadily. There was no way to pull her up. She could only grit her teeth and hold her wrist tightly to prevent her from falling.

Shi Anan brought Aunt Liu to a relatively intact ground and quickly went to help Fuxin. She lay on the ground and reached out to grab Ruyi's other hand. With the efforts of both of them, they finally pulled Ruyi up and returned to Aunt Liu.

This earthquake lasted for a quarter of an hour. When the earthquake subsided, the originally exquisite Shi Mansion had completely changed.

Some of the houses collapsed, some sank into the ground, and the surrounding walls were all flattened to the ground. What was even more terrifying was the ground beneath their feet. There were huge cracks on the ground that looked like man-eating mouths, and the length of the cracks was so long that it was impossible to see the end at a glance.

And the mountains in the distance, some of the peaks seemed to be flattened by a knife, some were split in half from the middle, and some were even worse, performing the art of disappearing, as if out of thin air.

There was a sudden silence in the air. No one dared to speak at this moment. Only the sound of some falling stones told what had just happened.

It seemed that everyone had not yet recovered from the terror of God's wrath and just stared blankly at the mess. It was clearly late at night, but the sky suddenly turned blood red, reflecting everything and making people feel like they were in hell.

Aunt Liu trembled and grasped Shi An'an's arm tightly, her voice choked with sobs and confusion after surviving a disaster: "An... Sister An, is it over?"

Shi Anan was already the calmest among the four people, but even though she was mentally prepared, she still couldn't help but feel scared after seeing such a scene.

If she hadn't woken up early from a nightmare, and if Fu Xin hadn't reacted quickly enough, the 20 seconds of the system's warning would not have been enough for them to run out of the house.

If they didn't run out, they would have sunk completely into the ground along with the house and disappeared without a trace.

"It's over now, but we still have to be careful." Earthquakes usually have aftershocks, and she couldn't say for sure whether this horrific earthquake was over.

"Then what should we do? How could this happen?" Aunt Liu began to sob. Although she had a low status in the Shi Mansion, she had long regarded this place as her home and the place where she would live all her life.

Now that this home is suddenly gone, she is completely at a loss.

"Miss, are we going to the main courtyard?" Fu Xin asked after she came to her senses.

Shi Anan looked at Fuxin with relief. She didn't expect that although Fuxin was young, her psychological endurance was much stronger than Aunt Liu.

In fact, what she didn't know was that after experiencing this devastating earthquake, her trust in Shi Anan had reached a blind point. The young lady could even foresee such a sudden disaster. As long as they followed the young lady's steps closely, they would be fine!

"Go. We don't know what happened to the others now. Let's go and see if we can rescue some of them." Shi Anan made the final decision.

"Yes, yes, let's go and see the others..." Aunt Liu's wandering heart seemed to have found a target.

As for Ruyi, she was so frightened from having almost fallen into the abyss just now that she hasn't recovered yet, so there is no need to ask for her opinion.

Shi Anan supported Aunt Liu, and Fuxin held Mumu's Ruyi, and the four of them carefully avoided the cracks in the ground and walked towards the main courtyard.

As they walked along, they realized that the situation outside was far more tragic than that in their yard.

Because the accident happened at midnight, many people were crushed to death by the collapsed houses in their sleep, or were swallowed by the cracks in the houses.

Perhaps they will never know until they die that the world has experienced such a great disaster.

Some people who were light sleepers or alert people noticed the disaster and ran away, but unfortunately they failed to avoid the abyss under their feet.

Shi Anan saw a huge crack on the road that was bottomless and about two meters wide. A shoe fell on the edge, but there was no human figure. It was unknown whether that person had successfully avoided the crack.

"Wuuuu! Mother!" Just as they passed by a yard, they suddenly heard crying and shouting from inside.