Chapter 47: Distress 2 Within just ten minutes, all the personnel were rudely awakened and gathered in the open space in the center of the camp with bewildered faces.
"It's only after five o'clock, why are you up like this?"
Qin Qiu was lifted out of the tent by his assistant, shirtless, with his hair sticking up like a henhouse.
He complained and yawned, but when his sight fell on the volcano not far away, all his complaints were swallowed up.
"Damn it, did I wake up?"
he exclaimed, but no one else present had time to answer him.
Just like cold water pouring into a frying pan, uncontrollable fear spread among the crowd.
China has a vast territory and complex landforms, but there are only a few volcanoes, most of which are located in the northeast and southern Tibet.
And since the founding of the People's Republic of China, these volcanoes have hardly awakened.
For the Chinese, geological disasters such as "volcanic eruptions" only exist in international news.
They can only imagine the terrible consequences after a volcanic eruption based on scenes in disaster movies.
Horrible scene.
And now, they are standing halfway up an active volcano.
Soon, this volcano will erupt.
"This is the responsibility of your program team.
Why did you choose such a dangerous place?"
Wei Jing was furious and rushed with passion.
He just became a father, and his daughter hasn't learned to walk yet.
Is he going to leave her forever?
Not only the artists are anxious, but the staff are also in chaos.
It’s extremely hard to shoot with the crew.
If it weren’t for the pitiful overtime pay, who would be willing to travel thousands of miles to adventure in the jungle?
The left side is buzzing, the right side is buzzing, everyone is blaming each other, not knowing who to ask for an explanation.
Just when the dragons were leaderless, a loud and ear-piercing noise suddenly erupted in the center of the camp, shocking everyone in the camp.
The air froze and there was silence.
Surrounded by the crowd, Su Jishi stood proudly on the spot holding a geological hammer.
Under her feet was a group of rocks that had been hammered into pieces.
She must have used this method to attract everyone's attention just now.
"Shut up, everyone."
The girl's delicate face was tense, and her eyes were frighteningly bright.
Her gaze passed over the more than thirty faces in front of her, and her hot gaze carried a magical power, crushing the fear, timidity, and panic that emerged one by one.
“I’ll just say the following words once, and you’re not allowed to ask any questions.”
Her aura is full, and she is an experienced geologist.
Although geological disasters are not her area of expertise, her knowledge reserve is definitely more than everyone present combined.
Su Jishi knew that she must not panic now.
She was the backbone.
If even she panicked, who else could safely take these people away from the danger area?
Her voice was loud: "A volcanic eruption is like an earthquake.
No scientific method can predict it 100%.
When we went up the mountain yesterday, it was still emitting white smoke normally.
Who would have known that it would erupt today?
The program crew didn't know, the indigenous residents I don’t know, and the local government doesn’t know that we were able to detect the signs of the volcanic eruption a few hours in advance.
It’s already a blessing from God.
Are you going to waste these hard-won hours on blaming each other?”
Her words were loud and clear, like several loud slaps on everyone's face.
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Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, feeling a little embarrassed.
Two-thirds of the people in the program team were older than Su Jin, but at such a critical moment, they actually needed a little girl to take charge of the situation.
Su Jishi ignored everyone's hesitant expressions and continued: "Everyone should go back to the tent immediately to pack their things, wear long-sleeved pants, sneakers, masks, communication equipment, medicine, dry food and drinking water.
If you have a self-defense knife, you should also bring it."
Come on, don’t take anything else with you.
We are escaping now, not moving.”
She lowered her head and looked at her watch: "We will go down the mountain in ten minutes.
The volcano may erupt at any time."
Then she estimated the distance from here to the top of the mountain and looked at the meadow at her feet.
"We can't delay any longer.
At least we have to retreat."
To the plains outside the volcano’s radius of three kilometers.”
With her order, everyone dispersed and quickly rushed back to their tents.
They used all their energy to buy discounted New Year goods in the supermarket and desperately filled their backpacks with needed items.
No one questioned why Su Jin became a "leader."
Even the eldest and most experienced chief director was horrified by her yelling and could only concentrate on packing his bags.
The local tour guide next to them wanted to escape alone, but Su Jishi stopped him immediately.
After all the good words and countless benefits, he finally agreed to lead them.
Fortunately, what erupted this time was just an inconspicuous small volcano.
The impact of volcanic ash and pyroclastic flows is limited.
As long as they can seize the time to escape, their lives will not be in danger.
But the biggest problem is that the vegetation here is dense and the terrain is complex.
They climbed from sunrise to sunset yesterday to arrive here.
Can they really retreat to the foot of the mountain before the volcano erupts?
"Mr.
Mu, Mr.
Mu, wake up quickly" A fierce knock on the door broke the tranquility of the seaside resort.
Secretary Gao's voice was hoarse and he banged on the door again and again.
He had a spare room key in his hand, but Mu Xiulun had the habit of locking the door before going to bed.
Secretary Gao tried several times but failed to get in.
The two black bodyguards behind him immediately dragged him away, raising their legs to open the door.
At the critical moment, the door was opened from the inside, and Mu Xiulun's gloomy face appeared behind the door.
He worked until early in the morning and went to bed at four o'clock.
Unexpectedly, he was woken up by Gao Ling's screams as soon as he closed his eyes.
"Gao Ling, doesn't the flight leave at ten in the morning?"
He said in an irritable tone, and the headache caused by lack of sleep made his annoyance reach its peak.
He originally only planned to stay in Indonesia for three days, but he didn't expect that the local governor had a bigger appetite than he imagined.
The other party not only demanded real money and silver, but also wanted to get involved in his nickel mine, intending to get shares.
Naturally, Mu Xiulun refused to give in.
Not even the Mu family could interfere with his own property, let alone hand it over to outsiders.
After such a delay, he would After staying in Sulawesi for five full days, he finally defeated the greedy governor at the banquet last night, so he arranged a special plane to return home this morning.
"No, Mr.
Mu, the plane can't take off now."
Secretary Gao, who usually smiled playfully but had no formal expression, turned pale at this moment, "We have to move inland now.
The tsunami is coming."
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"What" Mu Xiulun's pupils shrank sharply, and the sleepiness he felt just now disappeared instantly.
He glanced out the window and saw that the resort stood on the coast with beautiful scenery.
The most expensive suite he stayed in was on the highest ground and could clearly overlook the coastline a few hundred meters away.
But now, it should be the time of high tide, but the coastline has retreated one kilometer away contrary to common sense.
The shore is full of stranded dead fish pushed up by the tide.
Sea birds are flying in the sky, and a catastrophe has already begun.
Prelude It was still early in the morning, but the beach was already filled with swarming people, running away like crazy with their backs to the ocean.
This is a natural disaster.
When a tsunami hits, "man can conquer nature" is just a lie to comfort himself.
Those who own cars drive cars, and those who own motorcycles drive motorcycles.
But most tourists can only rely on their own feet, crying and running at the same time.
It was obviously a vacation trip, but who would have thought that a roaring tsunami would tear their vacation apart.
In 2004, a tsunami in Sumatra, Indonesia claimed the lives of 220,000 people.
Could it be that that disaster is happening again today?
Will it happen again?
Secretary Gao spoke very fast: "The eruption of a submarine volcano triggered this tsunami.
The official issued a tsunami warning ten minutes ago.
The tsunami will hit the coast in forty minutes at the earliest.
There are dangerous areas within five kilometers of the coastline.
We must Go up the mountain immediately."
The car has been parked downstairs, although it can still start.
"Forty minutes is enough."
Mu Xiulun narrowed his eyes and stared at the tourists and residents fleeing downstairs.
"Call the team leader and ask them to bring the bus over to help evacuate the tourists."
"What" In order to facilitate mining and transportation, laterite nickel mines are generally located in mountainous areas about 20 kilometers away from the coastline, and Muxiulun's nickel mine is no exception.
His mine is large and employs many workers.
A few days ago, he just purchased 20 buses as shuttle buses for workers in the mining area.
However, because it takes time to apply for licenses, those buses are temporarily parked in the parking lot on the shore.
Each bus carries fifty people, but when life is at stake, a hundred people can definitely squeeze into a bus with eight wheels and run faster than people with two legs.
Twenty buses are thousands. human life.
He is not a cold-blooded machine, how could he watch these living lives disappear before his eyes, especially when he has the ability to save them?
Secretary Gao shook his head repeatedly: "Impossible, this is impossible, Mr.
Mu, even if you want to save people, you have to think about the actual situation.
This is a tsunami.
The convoy drivers must have run away long ago.
Who would drive back to save people just because of your phone call?"
people" "I can't call anyone on the phone, but where's my money?"
Mu Xiulun looked solemnly, "If you are willing to come to the rescue, a driver will be rewarded with one hundred thousand dollars.
If you die due to my fault, an additional five hundred thousand dollars will be added. " The local per capita GDP is extremely low.
Even for highly educated white-collar workers, the monthly salary is only five or six hundred US dollars.
For the local lower-class residents, a family of five cannot earn US$100,000 in a lifetime.
There must be a brave man under a heavy reward.
Ten minutes later, brand new and neat buses, twenty of them, were parked on the coast.
Many buses had their doors open, and the tourists who flocked to them quickly crowded the carriages.
Under their guidance, many private cars actually stopped and took the initiative to assist tourists.
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Pickup trucks are popular in the area to facilitate the transportation of goods.
I saw more than a dozen people squeezed into the back of each pickup truck.
Just a few minutes ago, the expressions of these people were gloomy.
They thought they were going to die.
But now, their faces have the hope of "survival".
"Set off."
In the off-road vehicle, Mu Xiulun looked back at the vast convoy behind him and pressed the call button on the intercom.
The convoy started, turning their backs to the tide that was about to hit the shore, running at full speed, and speeding towards the inland mountains.
"Hold on a little longer" Seeing that the little planner accompanying the team was about to fall down as soon as her legs weakened, Su Jishi quickly grabbed her arm.
Along the way from the mountainside to the foot of the mountain, they didn't know how many times they fell.
There is almost no formed path under your feet, it was all stepped on by previous tourists and wild beasts in the forest.
They suffered a lot when going up the mountain.
It took more than an hour to climb a steep dirt slope with a drop of 30 meters.
However, when going down the mountain, they didn't care about the fear in their hearts and simply slipped down from the top of the slope.
There was no time to clean up the minor scratches on my hands and face.
With a volcano about to erupt behind you, who can care about those little scratches?
Su Jishi and the tour guide walked at the front of the team.
Whenever there was any danger, she would go first; I feel more at ease in my heart.
Suddenly, the mountain below me suddenly shook.
This wave of vibration was not violent.
It was like falling on a soft bed.
It bounced slightly and it was an earthquake.
Everyone's nerves immediately tightened, and they all turned around to look around.
They saw more and more gray smoke rising from the high crater, and the flames that burst out grew bigger and bigger.
It was as if there was a balloon filled with gas hidden under the cone-shaped mountain.
Seeing it expand bigger and bigger, the skin was about to burst, and the earthquake just now was like a needle that punctured the skin of the balloon.
"Bang" I heard a muffled sound, another shock under my feet, and saw black smoke suddenly rising from the crater.
Black smoke instantly rose more than a hundred meters into the sky, and orange-red magma visible to the naked eye erupted from the crater and rolled down the hillside.
Wherever the magma passed, the scalding torrent swept away countless vegetation, and the top of the mountain pass was covered by that layer of heat.
However, the magma only traveled a few hundred meters before it suddenly stopped.
The high temperature of thousands of degrees quickly cooled into black-gray mud.
The people who finally reached the foot of the mountain after struggling all the way said: "" "" "" "The power of this volcanic eruption is too small."
Chen Gangyu's voice came out weakly, "When I was cooking porridge, I jumped on the pot, which was louder than its movement."
"I think it just burped," Qin Qiu said angrily.
His hair was sticking to the top of his head, and his image as an idol was completely ruined.
"If we had known that the power of the volcanic eruption was so small, why would we have run away?"
Ah, I rushed down here early in the morning without bringing anything, and I even put on the wrong socks.”
Everyone agreed.
They had heard that the volcano was about to erupt, and countless clips from disaster movies flashed through their minds, thinking that they would definitely die from it today.
Unexpectedly, when this volcano erupted, there was no sign of "earthquake", which made their worries become a joke.
The chief director nodded when he heard this, and his heart began to bleed when he thought of the millions of worth of photographic equipment he had thrown in the camp.
A camera weighs twenty kilograms.
When retreating, he asked the cameraman to remove all the memory cards.
However, these light and small cards are not as valuable as the camera.
Seeing that the outbreak did not pose any real danger, the chief director suggested: "Otherwise, let's go back."
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"Why?"
Su Jishi shouted, causing the entire team to return to silence.
"A volcanic eruption is the same as an earthquake.
It doesn't end with a wave of earthquakes and have aftershocks.
Volcanic eruptions will also come in waves.
Just now, it was just the vanguard.
No one can I don’t know how big the next wave will be or when it will come.”
As if to confirm her words, aftershocks continued under my feet.
At the same time, the black smoke on the top of the volcano became thicker and thicker, covering the entire sky like a piece of black silk.
Next, there was a sound like thunder in the sky, and black smoke spewed out from the volcano crater, instantly jumping to an altitude of nearly a thousand meters.
But this time, the magma splashed out directly as if it had been exploded, mixing with it.
The volcanic ash fell on the mountainside, and together with the surging heat and rocks, formed a terrifying "pyroclastic flow" Pyroclastic flows are definitely the number one killer of volcanic eruptions.
To the naked eye, they look like thick mud, but their lethality far exceeds that of ordinary mudslides.
It is so powerful that it can roll from the top of the mountain to the mountainside in just a few minutes.
It's not just the debris flow that kills people.
The volcanic ash that rushes into the sky spills out in all directions, and soon falls back to the earth under the influence of gravity.
Its speed was even faster than the former.
Looking from a distance, I saw endless smoke sweeping in, like a terrifying big mouth, waiting to devour them.
Volcanic ash is just fine dust and is not fatal in small amounts, but inhaling large amounts into the lungs will definitely cause pneumoconiosis and strangle breathing.
Historically, the ancient city of Pompeii was buried at the foot of a volcano.
Most people did not die from magma, but from suffocation due to inhaling excessive volcanic ash.
"Run quickly," Su Jishi shouted, "behind this forest is the road.
The bus is waiting for us there."
The program crew was originally scheduled to return to China today, so a connecting bus was arranged in advance to transport everyone back to the nearby airport.
Before going down the mountain, she specifically contacted the driver and promised him a large sum of money to stay where he was.
Just now on the hillside, everyone has seen the shadow of the bus.
As long as they run faster, they can escape the clutches of death.
At this moment, the desire to survive outweighed the physical fatigue.
Everyone threw off their burdens, spread their legs and ran towards the distance.
Fifty meters, eighty meters, one hundred meters.
Two hundred meters, three hundred meters, five hundred meters Close, close After rushing out of the woods, they were only a hundred meters away from the bus.
However, they never expected that the last hurdle standing in front of them was a man-made ditch about three meters deep.
When building a forest road, in order to prevent large animals from straying onto the road and causing traffic accidents, there were two ditches on both sides of the road.
They dug a ditch, but now, the ditch seemed like a divine punishment, blocking their escape.
Fortunately, the tour guide who was familiar with the local environment pointed out an "earth bridge" for them.
Some villagers cut off a few bamboos and tied them together to form a narrow earth bridge.
The tour guide jumped on immediately, crossed the ditch in a few steps, and reached the road.
The bus driver opened the door and Didi honked the horn desperately, urging them to get on the bus as soon as possible.
Although three meters is not deep, falling down will definitely break your muscles and bones.
But at this moment, no one could care about the deep ditch under their feet, all eyes were fixed on the bus, staring at the hope of survival.
Everyone jumped onto the bamboo bridge one after another and ran quickly to the other side of the bridge.
Su Jishi took the initiative to suppress the battle.
Xiaoxia was loyal and wanted to stay with her, but Su Jishi forcefully pushed her onto the bamboo bridge.
By the time the last person got on the bus, the black smoke was already close at hand.
The terrifying power of the natural environment is vividly displayed at this moment.
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Screams came one after another, Xiaoxia cried and shouted: "Sister Su, come here quickly, run here quickly" Su Jishi abandoned all distracting thoughts and quickly jumped onto the bamboo bridge.
However, she was still a step too late.
Before she could stand firm, the black smoke rushing from behind opened up a huge net in the sky and swallowed her up.
Thick smoke filled the air, blocking all sight.
When Su Jishi fell from the swaying bamboo bridge, in just a few seconds, her spirit seemed to have traveled through time and space and returned to ten years ago.
Ten years ago, she finally got admitted to the university of her dreams.
Ten years ago, she took possession of the three treasures of geology and embarked on her first field trip with confusion and excitement.
Ten years ago, as a young girl, she listened to the professor's teachings by the campfire.
"As a geologist, you must always remember: In the face of nature, human beings are ultimately small." gd1806102: