Chapter 1199: A Straw to Clutch

Sun Bumian is the embodiment of auspiciousness; what he pursues is the sound of gongs and drums, the fire trees and silver flowers, not being protected in a closed underground like a rare animal.

Sun Bumian turned and walked out of the secret passage.

No elevator could trap others, perhaps, but it couldn't trap him, Sun Bumian. He could transform into a Waking Lion and easily shuttle through the underground, leaving this underground project.

Seeing this, Sun Zhongliang did not stop him, but quietly watched his departing back...

As the Waking Lion pendant on Sun Bumian's wrist swayed slightly, seven-colored flames enveloped his figure. Just as he transformed into the Waking Lion and was about to pass through the wall, a cold aura, as if from the netherworld, forcefully bounced him back!

Sun Bumian's face was full of astonishment, and then he saw a flash of ghostly light on the wall. At the same time, a very familiar aura drilled into his nostrils.

Sun Bumian, who had been bounced back into the stone corridor, seemed to realize something and turned his head sharply to look at Sun Zhongliang.

"Why is there something from the Ghost Path Ancient Treasury here??"

"The 749 Bureau has been established for so many years, there is always some foundation..." Sun Zhongliang was not surprised by Sun Bumian's reaction and explained calmly.

"In the early years, when excavating the 7012 Underground Project, a secret treasure called [Du Shang] was discovered from the underground around Wushan. Its shape is like a tea cup. After turning it upside down, it will seal an area, and it cannot be easily opened from the inside... Even if you are a Tier 7, you can't break out by brute force.

Mr. Sun, don't be willful. Staying here is the safest thing."

Sun Bumian's face turned gloomy. He swept through the secret passage like a gust of wind and grabbed Sun Zhongliang's collar again.

"Sun Zhongliang, I don't want to use force... Don't force me."

"Mr. Sun, I am just an ordinary person. Even if you kill me, [Du Shang] will not open... My duty is to let you come here and meet your living needs. I can't do anything else." Facing the threat from a Tier 7, Sun Zhongliang's voice was very calm.

The noise from the next-door conference room grew louder and louder.

Sun Bumian stared at him fixedly, the veins on the back of his hand bulging one by one...

……

*Buzz, buzz, buzz—*

The nuclear weapon that fell into the mountains made the entire Wushan town tremble slightly.

The lights overhead flickered constantly, and occasionally fine dust fell from the ceiling, accompanied by the sound of a large number of windows shattering, as well as the continuous sound of car alarms outside.

In the shelter of the civil defense project, the crowded people shouted in terror. They hugged everything or everyone around them that could give them a sense of security, their hearts already jumping to their throats...

"W-what happened outside?"

"Was it a nuclear bomb explosion? Did we survive?!"

"Help, I'm so scared... I want to go home, I want to go home!!"

“……”

Amidst the crying of babies, the fear in the hearts of the people continued to spread. In the shelter, they didn't know what was happening outside at all, nor did they know if there would be a second or third nuclear bomb coming.

Perhaps in the next second, the earth above their heads would collapse, and they would be buried alive or blown to death... If they didn't die in the next second, it might be the second after that, or a second later...

The shadow of death followed like a shadow. What was more terrifying than a nuclear weapon was the unknown future.

Chu Changqing stared fixedly at the ceiling where dust was falling, and couldn't help but ask:

"Can this place really withstand a nuclear strike?"

"Our country divides civil defense projects into four levels: A, B, C, and D. Among them, Level A projects have complete nuclear strike protection capabilities, while projects below Level B can only resist the indirect effects of a nuclear explosion, that is, the shockwave of the explosion... But strictly speaking, no matter what level of shelter, if it is directly hit, it will be destroyed."

Lu Xun was relatively the calmest one. He recalled the knowledge in his mind and answered calmly.

"If it's a direct hit, will everyone die..." Su Zhiwei sighed. "It seems it's really up to fate."

"What level is the shelter we are in?" Yang Xiao asked.

"Level B." Lu Xun looked at the ventilation duct.

"Shelters below Level B cannot isolate the threat of nuclear radiation, nor can they filter the air of mixed harmful fallout after a nuclear explosion. Even if we can escape the direct impact of the nuclear explosion, after inhaling harmful fallout, we will die before long..."

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone's face turned ugly.

They thought that after hiding in the underground project, they could survive the nuclear strike, but now it seems that the situation is much more severe than they expected.

"If I had known, I would have gone directly to a Level A shelter." Chu Changqing frowned.

"For an ordinary third-tier city, the population that a Level A shelter can accommodate is 10% of the city's total population. Wushan town has about one million people, and there are less than twenty Level A shelters in total, and officials and project maintenance personnel will enter first... Our location is too far from the Level A shelter, and having a Level B is not bad." Lu Xun looked at him with a complex expression.

"Now you know why the general public wasn't informed in advance before the global nuclear war came?"

"The chaos caused by the loss of human nature is even more terrifying than the nuclear strike itself."

Several people fell into silence at the same time.

Lu Xun was about to say something more, when suddenly, he looked up at the void above!!

"What's wrong?"

"Something is approaching... directly above us!"

As soon as Lu Xun said this, everyone's face turned extremely ugly. One must know that what could make Lu Xun suddenly alert was definitely not an ordinary thing, and now it was in the process of a nuclear strike. In this way, the "thing" in Lu Xun's mouth was self-evident.

"Directly above??" Chu Changqing frowned. "Doesn't that mean..."

Yang Xiao on the side closed his eyes, as if trying hard to perceive something... Unlike Lu Xun, Lu Xun's perception was through the brilliance of the stars, while Yang Xiao's was through feeling the magnetic field fluctuations around him.

Although it was still a bit reluctant, he could perceive that above Wushan town, a very special metal component was falling rapidly!

And judging by the trajectory, its impact point was precisely in this block!

"No... absolutely cannot let it fall here!!" Lu Xun knew the seriousness of the matter. If this thing really hit the shelter head-on, everyone would surely die.

His brain worked at high speed, and he grabbed Yang Xiao's shoulder, as if clutching the last straw.

"Yang Xiao!! Only you can influence it now!! The lives of everyone here depend on you... Even if it's just a little bit off, absolutely cannot let it fall here!"