This earthquake lasted only 3 minutes.
Soon, the tremors stopped.
Tang Li felt as though all her internal organs had been displaced.
Fortunately, her physical condition was robust, and she quickly recovered.
After adjusting, Tang Li stood up amidst the gale.
Looking around, she saw devastation everywhere.
The residents of G City Base had suffered heavy losses.
Directly blown away by the wind, crushed or cut by debris carried by the wind, or forced into the fissures of the earth by the wind…
Some people were also seen spitting blood from the earthquake; it was estimated they had suffered internal injuries and their lives were in peril.
“Gulp!”
Beside Tang Li, Tang Guo also collapsed on the ground, vomiting.
Tang Li quickly looked over with concern.
Fortunately, Tang Guo was merely unable to withstand the earthquake and vomited; she hadn't spat blood.
Scanning her surroundings, she couldn’t find Song Pinxuan, Xue Keyue, Peng Yixuan, Lin Xi, or Lu Wan.
Tang Li quickly took out her phone and dialed their numbers one by one.
Fortunately, they were all unharmed.
Song Pinxuan and his research team were hiding near Elevator 3-1, suffering no losses.
Now, only the dozen or so elevators leading to the underground city remained standing on the ground.
They had withstood the earthquake's assault and could also block the fierce wind.
Xue Keyue was initially blown away by the wind, but by chance, she was blown towards Elevator 2-5, where she survived.
Peng Yixuan, Lin Xi, Lu Wan, and the others from the "United Combat Team" were also together and were largely unharmed, except their mechanical exoskeletons were shattered.
Hearing that they were all safe, Tang Li finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She glanced at the cracks in the windbreak wall in the distance.
It turned out that the cracks formed by the earthquake had caused a section of the windward slope to collapse, and combined with the ferocious wind force, this had directly toppled the windbreak wall.
The wind that entered through this collapsed section was even stronger than when there was no windbreak wall!
G City Base no longer existed, leaving only a scene of utter desolation.
All cold storage units, refrigerated transport containers, and general shipping containers had fallen apart. Various supplies were scattered everywhere.
Tang Li shook her head with a wry smile.
Everything that tens of thousands of people had painstakingly built was reduced to nothing in just 3 minutes because of a single fissure.
“The losses are immense!”
Tang Li lamented.
At this moment, Tang Guo had recovered.
Hearing Tang Li’s words, she comforted her, "It's okay, Lili. We still have the underground city."
"The underground city has passed this test! It is completely intact after this earthquake!"
Tang Li glanced at Tang Guo’s phone, where the data for the underground city was all normal, and felt a slight relief.
She instructed, "First, treat the injured, and have everyone enter the underground city to take shelter from the storm."
"Then, arrange personnel to repair the windward slope and the windbreak wall. Collect all scattered supplies and the bodies of the deceased that can be recovered."
Tang Guo nodded upon hearing this, "Understood!"
Soon, the elevators to various parts of the underground city opened, and people entered the underground city in batches.
They were supposed to return to their own residences to pack their belongings.
Now, that was no longer necessary, as everything had been blown away by the wind.
They could only resupply after entering the underground city.
On the second level of the underground city, the work area, the simulation cabin hospital, was filled to capacity for the first time.
Fortunately, Tang Li had stocked it with plenty of medicine and various medical equipment in advance.
Although many severely injured individuals ultimately could not be saved, many lives were still salvaged.
By evening, the death toll was tallied.
Of the tens of thousands of people in G City Base, plus the various teams and official support medical personnel temporarily residing in G City, almost everyone was injured.
The confirmed dead and missing numbered nearly 20,000!
And this number was still increasing.
Such a high casualty rate left people unable to feel joy even after moving into the underground city.
The atmosphere in the underground city was very somber.
It was at this moment that Xue Keyue found Tang Li.