On the way back, they could clearly feel the tremors easing.
Xinghai ran at the front, and Zhang Zian looked back and forth. He stared at Xinghai and looked back to see if Fina was following them. He also had to pay attention to his own safety, in case a young female ghost suddenly appeared and snatched him away to be the pagoda's husband. Then … he could only reluctantly accept it!
They returned to the entrance without any mishap. They drilled out of the tunnel and found that the outside had changed beyond recognition.
The crisscrossing ravines had split the earth into countless broken plates. Most of the honeycomb-like sand dunes had collapsed or disappeared, and the few cars left behind by Peter Lee and the others had all fallen into the abyss.
At the bottom of the widest and deepest abyss, a car had been twisted and deformed. The ear-piercing alarm of the burglar alarm was still ringing.
On the surface, the most intense phase of the shaking seemed to have passed, but now was not the time to relax, because the real danger had not yet arrived.
The golden pyramid itself was already tilting, and the tilt was gradually intensifying. Once it lost its balance and fell, the impact of the huge weight would completely break the mineral vein, and that would be the beginning of the catastrophe.
They jumped over the smaller cracks at the foot of the pyramid and ran around the corner from the north to the south.
The cracking of the earth was caused by the last explosion, but the crack that originated on the north side was blocked by the pyramid, so the situation on the south side was better than on the north side.
Seeing that the SUV was safe and sound, Zhang Zian felt half of his heart return to his stomach.
The elfins were waiting anxiously by the car. When they saw the three of them coming back, they jumped and urged them to run faster.
"Quack! I thought you were an idiot who wanted to live and die with the treasures in the pyramid! "Richard said, hiding in the shade of the roof rack.
Richard was the most relaxed and calm at the moment, because it could fly. Even if the earth collapsed, what did it have to do with it?
"There's no time to explain. Get in the car!"
Zhang Zian almost jumped into the driver's seat. The other elfins also entered the car. As he fastened his seat belt, he looked back and counted. Only Vladimir was missing.
"Who saw Vladimir?" he shouted, but he knew that the chances of getting the right answer were slim.
Every time Vladimir went to a strange place, it always liked to be alone. It would run away after a call and mingle with the local stray cats.
The pyramid blocked the cracks on the front, but more cracks had already bypassed the pyramid from both sides, forming a circle on the left and right. It looked like the south side was about to fall.
They couldn't wait any longer. If they waited any longer, everyone would be finished.
It wasn't that Zhang Zian favored one and discriminated against the other. He knew where Fina was and could go look for her, but he didn't know where to find Vladimir. He could only hope that it was safe.
He started the engine and stepped on the accelerator, and the jeep roared forward.
But which way should he run?
He looked around blankly.
The path from the north had been completely sealed off. East, West, and South, which of these three unfamiliar directions could they escape from?
"Vladimir is here!" Famous shouted.
In the blink of an eye.
Before Famous could finish his sentence, Vladimir jumped into the car through the open window.
"Follow Wildcat!" Without saying another word, it pointed outside the car.
Zhang Zian saw several sand cats running away, so he immediately turned around and followed them.
When natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, torrential rains, and wildfires hit, wild animals often had some kind of intuition. They could hear high-frequency or low-frequency noises and knew which direction to run was the most likely to escape. Rats, cats, and dogs in the city also had similar intuitions. When they encountered natural disasters, following them would have a greater chance of saving their lives.
Shortly after their car left its original position, the area was swallowed up by the abyss.
Zhang Zian tried not to look at the terrible scene in the rearview mirror. He focused on following the erratic sand cats, for fear of losing them.
Sometimes, they abandoned the flat sand and ran to areas with smaller cracks, but after a while, the flat sand suddenly twisted, collapsed, or bulged. If he hadn't been determined to follow them, the car might have met with an accident by now.
"Slow … slow down … I …"
Richard was dizzy from the jolting. Everything he saw was double.
The other elfins were also shaken, but they couldn't fly like Richard. They knew that they couldn't slow down at this time. If they did, they wouldn't be able to keep their lives.
Da!
There was an unusual sound behind the car. It was not loud, but it was very clear. Even the roar of the engine couldn't cover it. It didn't seem to be transmitted from the air.
Something broke.
In the rearview mirror, the pyramid shook violently, then tilted and slid into the abyss.
It didn't collapse, but slid.
The pyramid was probably the most stable building in ancient times. Its large base area made its center of gravity very low, and the extremely tightly bonded boulders made it very strong. Even in a disaster of this level, it did not fall apart, but slid into the abyss as a whole.
The earth and the sea of sand were boiling, and the smoke and dust covered most of the pyramid.
Zhang Zian's eyes widened. He saw an incredible scene — the sinking of the pyramid had caused a strong pressure, and the desert was like a rising tide. The sand waves, at least ten meters high, swept from behind the car with the power to devour everything.
Once they were caught by the sand waves, they would be buried under the sand forever, never to see tomorrow's sun again.
He had stepped on the accelerator to the end. The off-road vehicle could overturn at any time, but at least it was better than being buried by the sand waves.
The sand cats in front seemed to sense the urgency of the situation, and they fled even more desperately.
More animals came out of nowhere, such as lizards, snakes, foxes, small rodents, and so on. They joined the escape team. Some gerbils with strong jumping abilities even jumped on the roof of the off-road vehicle full of various cat elves, trying to hitch a ride.
Usually, these animals would eat each other when they met. At this time, they seemed to have become comrades. Everyone's common goal was to save their lives.
The collapse, which had just eased, suddenly intensified several times, and everything on the ground was swallowed into the abyss.
Even … everything on the ground was swallowed.
There was a black spot flying in the sky. It might be a falcon, vulture, or other birds, but this black spot seemed to be attracted by a magnet. It struggled desperately, but it was still sucked into the abyss.
Obviously, the airflow over the Devil's Sea was also violently disturbed, and the black spot was involved in the downdraft.
After seeing this scene, Richard, who was originally indifferent to the situation, jumped onto Zhang Zian's shoulder, flapped its wings, and slapped him hard. It shouted in horror, "You idiot, step harder on the gas pedal!"
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