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Chapter 208 The Earthquake
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2024-10-29 19:42:56I staggered and lurched. With a kick of dust, I flew up into the air before I could fall again. The ground was shaking! There was nothing wrong with me! The terrifying blue flash of light and the shaking of the earth told me enough: it was an earthquake!
What else could it be but the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976 and here I was, standing in the Yahong Bridge town near Wu Zhong County, merely leagues away from the epicenter of the quake. The ground's shudder aggravated with fury under me and I began to see people running from their homes to safety like ants abandoning their nests.
The Bian Family's burial grounds were just to the west of Huang Xiang River. Looking east at the other side of the river, I saw a little tent erected using some poles and a felt blanket. An old man walked briskly out of the tent hurriedly as I rose into the air, his long white beard waving as he moved towards north along the river's flood embankments. With another few steps,
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The ground gave another shudder and the walls of the compound of Uncle Quan's house buckled and fell over the young Uncle Quan! Acting by reflex, I dashed towards him at all speed! The boy was hugging for his life at a tree, lurching wildly as it shook to the violent undulations of the destruction occurring around him. I somersaulted and reached him just in time to deliver a kick at the wall crashing down on him, snapping the wall into half and sending the upper half careening elsewhere. The wrecking din of the falling wall made Uncle Quan looked around. But he saw nothing but the rubbles and debris that once was the wall that ringed the compound of his home crashing down before his very eyes! What remained of his house continued wobbling as if its bedrock was made of jelly and all the walls came coming down like London's Bridge. A surge of iridescent glow flooded from Master Six's direction suddenly. He has recovered! The tremors in the ground softened a
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