Chapter 994: Chapter 991: Catastrophe
In the void, Qin Yanyang and Yang Fei flew with the wind.
In the past few days, Yang Fei had been in charge of the array, resulting in a significant depletion of his Divine Thought and even True Qi inside his body, so much so that he was almost carried along by Qin Yanyang during their flight. However, he could still clearly feel that flying had become much easier than before for both of them.
The rules of heaven and earth were becoming friendlier to cultivators.
Yet, as the two flew out of the Cloud Mist Mountain’s Base, looking at the scenes of landslides and earth cracks in the distance, their hearts grew heavy.
Such intense crustal movement, who knows what kind of disaster the Great Divine Continent had suffered?
An hour later, the two flew out of the Primordial Forest and arrived over a town.
Most of the houses had collapsed, and despite the town being densely populated, there were barely any people moving about, while those visible wore expressions of dullness and sadness, their eyes filled with deep fear and despair.
The two quietly landed on the rooftop of an undamaged building where no one noticed them and pulled aside a man with torn clothes and an injured leg.
Yang Fei asked, "Brother, is the casualty here severe?"
The man looked at them with vacant eyes, saw their neat attire and handsome looks, and couldn’t help but ask, "Are you guys from the government?"
Qin Yanyang nodded, "Sort of, brother, please tell us what you know."
The man sighed and shook his head, "It’s terrible, at least one-third of the people in the town died."
Although Yang Fei and Qin Yanyang were mentally prepared, knowing the disaster could be devastatingly huge, hearing the man’s answer still sent a chill through their hearts, making acceptance difficult.
"On the first day, over 570 people died, and subsequently, some more. Our town is not big; the permanent population in the township is only a little over two thousand, but now half of them are gone... I... only my child and I escaped from our home..."
Qin Yanyang’s eyes instantly misted up.
She had expected the disaster to be significant, but she had not imagined it to be so horrific.
A single town lost a third of its permanent residents, what about other places?
If this was a nationwide disaster, the loss to the entire country would be astronomical.
Property aside, as that can be recreated, but human life is different.
Those are living, breathing lives.
Later, led by this brother, Yang Fei and Qin Yanyang saw nearly a thousand new graves on a mountain near the town.
Many people still hadn’t been able to overcome the pain of losing loved ones, weeping uncontrollably at the gravesides.
After leaving the town, the mood of the two was extremely heavy, and they didn’t speak.
On the way to Wu’an City, they saw many villages and towns, all of which had suffered various degrees of disaster impact, with some places suffering severe casualties and damage, while others were slightly luckier, with fewer casualties.
Arriving over Wu’an City, the sight was devastating.
The modern metropolis, densely populated, became one of the most populated cities in the Divine Continent after Yanjing turned into ruins last time.
At this moment, helicopters patrolled above Wu’an City, and many streets and roads on the ground were severely damaged, with traffic nearly paralyzed.
Though many high-rise buildings still stood, at least more than half had collapsed into ruins.
Despite recently enduring seven days and nights of torrential rain, fires could still be seen everywhere in the vast city.
These fires were caused by electrical circuits, gasoline, natural gas pipeline leaks, and other reasons.
Without finding anyone to ask, just by surveying the city from above, the two could roughly guess the disaster situation of the entire city.
The only way to describe it is brutal.
Just like the apocalyptic scenes in some science fiction movies.
Crying everywhere, life devastated!
"This place isn’t too far from Cloud Mist Mountain’s Base, yet it suffered such a huge disaster, and there hasn’t been any disaster report from the Cloud Mist Mountain side." Yang Fei said in a deep voice.
Qin Yanyang said, "The entire transportation and communication systems are paralyzed; how can they report the situation?"
Yang Fei said, "Helicopter."
Qin Yanyang shook her head, "In the past few days of thunderstorm weather, helicopters lost the navigation system’s positioning, flying in such natural phenomena is extremely dangerous, and even the direction cannot be precisely locked."
Yang Fei remained silent.
"So, does this mean even planes can hardly take off?"
Qin Yanyang nodded, her tone heavy, "This is a destructive disaster unprecedented in human history."
Yang Fei gently held her hand, comforting her, "Such situations are beyond human control, don’t carry a mental burden."
Qin Yanyang shook her head, "I know, but it feels so hard inside. I thought I was really great, able to help this country and nation go farther and better, only to realize now in the face of nature’s mighty power, I’m so tiny and helpless."
Yang Fei nodded silently and said in a deep tone, "What I’m worried about now is my Aunt, Yang Hao, and Yang Wen, I’m not sure how they are doing."
Qin Yanyang quickly grasped Yang Fei’s hand in return, comforting him, "They must be fine, auspicious people have their own fortunes, I... I’ll try to contact them right away."
Yang Fei shook his head with a heavy tone, "I’m afraid now even global satellites and communication systems are paralyzed, land transportation has also been greatly damaged, high-speed rail and highways cannot operate, how can you contact them?"
Qin Yanyang fell silent.
She really wanted to know the national disaster situation now, but it is fundamentally impossible in such a short time.
If the entire country is struck by such a scale of disaster, the reconstruction of national infrastructures will be an extremely enormous project.
"Yang Fei, I will first accompany you to your old home in Xiangxi, then go to Binhai to find Yang Wen." Qin Yanyang said.
Yang Fei looked at her gratefully and then said after thinking, "No need, you stay and take charge, I can go by myself."
Qin Yanyang said, "Given the current situation, whether or not there is someone in charge is no longer important."
Yang Fei, however, shook his head, "No, precisely because of the current situation, you senior figures need to stabilize the situation as quickly as possible, to let the common people on this land feel there is still hope, a backbone, and the hope to rebuild their homes.
What’s most important is, once you’ve stabilized the situation, I’ll likely be back too, and then we’ll go to the Arctic to see what really happened there."
Qin Yanyang’s eyes flashed with a bright light.
When the disaster struck, they saw through the satellite monitoring system the shocking scene of eight people from Lingxiao Sect using spells to draw a majestic mountain out from the sea.
Everyone was stunned at that time, even though they themselves were already powerful cultivators, witnessing a gigantic mountain range being drawn out from the sea by a single golden talisman left them speechless, as if witnessing divine skills from ancient mythology.
"Alright, we’ll act separately, and by then, we will go to the Arctic to see what has happened. Those damned people from the Exotic Realm, they’re the ones who caused this terrible disaster on Earth, I won’t let them go." Qin Yanyang said through gritted teeth.
Yang Fei also silently clenched his fist, his eyes filled with killing intent.
Yang Hao and Yang Wen, and Aunt better be safe, otherwise, no matter how powerful these Outer Domain powerhouses are, Yang Fei vowed, he would avenge his family.
Although the deaths of other people on Earth also filled him with grief and anger, humans are emotional creatures, and they are selfish. Yang Fei doesn’t have such a broad heart to seek revenge and fight those powerhouses for strangers.
However, if his family perishes because of this, he must avenge this hatred.