The deafening blast cin an instant, Philip's pupils contracting in an instant. The following sound was unbearably loud.

Phil stood in the doorway, buffeted by a force that sent him stumbling backward, slamming the door shut in its wake.

The world inside the base began to spin out of control, a cacophony that sounded like the heavens themselves were collapsing.

Pinned against the wall by the invisible hammer of the blast, Phil struggled to his feet, oddly numb to the pain. It felt as though

something was cushioning his fall.

Turning, he saw Philip splayed out behind him, acting as a human shield and already spitting out blood.

"Philip!" His voice was a whisper against the roar.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have gone after that insect. Philip, con, wake up."

Meanwhile, the entire base was lifted by spowerful force. In face of nature, human engineering designed to withstand a

magnitude 8 earthquake, seemed trivial against the dual onslaught of the landslide and the earth's violent shaking. Every secure

door had been breached.

The base was uplifted from its subterranean stronghold by the landslide and then harshly flung down, carried forward unstoppably.

Even the citizens could hear the earth-shattering noise. Sfell to their knees in prayer, murmuring for salvation.

meal when she felt the table quiver. Dropping her fork, she rushed to her apartment

But outside, everything looked like normal; beyond the

woman who had mostly recovered from recent injuries, stepped

from the southwest. I cfrom there. The disease

whole area.

sank; that was where lan was

was the

to check her computer, her face turning ashen, "Preliminary estimates say

skyscrapers, even could crack open the earth and then

and called

the local officials

minute ago. 8.1 on the Richter scale. The higher-ups

but they've just barricaded the place with wire

shot on sight."

"Why?"

epicenter of the disease outbreak. With the earthquake, panic villagers would definitely want to get

if it

villagers and take them out if necessary, to prevent the disease from

the media would be told that the villagers were casualties of the quake - not left

their own government.

the globe, scountries would choose to create multiple lies. The despair of

was new

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