Chapter 1 Interrupted Questioning

The torrent of questions from the vampire questioning Prince Dracula abruptly ceased, as if someone had taken a knife and suddenly slashed his throat!

Magneto, his face ashen, was writing checks from his personal fortune to repay debts. The check he extended stopped in mid-air. The person opposite him, whose fingers had clearly touched the check, began to tremble, not daring to accept it.

A well-dressed fellow who was about to spit at Professor X suddenly froze. He abruptly turned to look at his feet to make sure it wasn't his hallucination. The crowd below burst into exclamations, but Mr. Charles' eyes suddenly gleamed with ambition!

This moment had finally arrived!

After playing the role of a saint, his image of courageously shouldering responsibilities and working diligently without complaint had deeply resonated with the people. With the support of these people present, who could stop him from becoming the leader after the disaster? Professor X had long realized that without corresponding power and political status, there was no way to promote his ideas!

As for the sharp population decline after the disaster, Professor X had consulted a series of professionals. They told Professor X that humans were one of the most fertile creatures in the world, mainly in two aspects:

First, most animals have a mating season, but the human mating season is extremely perverse. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn, or winter, the reproductive capacity of human males can span from their teens to their eighties, allowing them to mate anytime, anywhere, at will.

Second, humans rely on their technology to easily reduce birth and death rates to extremely low levels.

Given the trend of "shanzhai" (knock-off) arks sweeping China, the US government has also taken a lot of countermeasures. It is estimated that the number of survivors can exceed three million. Therefore, it only takes thirty years after the disaster for the population to exceed one hundred million.

And Professor X's lifespan... The powerful him can even directly occupy the body of someone with cerebral palsy or in a vegetative state, so time is not a problem for him at all!

"The disintegration of the Pacific Plate begins in the middle. Imagine a cookie breaking in half. A huge crack, almost spanning the middle of the United States, is slowly forming. This crack runs from west to east, extending along the Mississippi River, and is expected to form a super-enhanced version of the East African Rift Valley. In that area, the intensity of the earthquake will reach twelve or even thirteen!"

"Fortunately, cities like New York and Washington will be in the least affected areas in this first wave of cataclysm. However, Los Angeles will be affected by the San Andreas Fault in San Francisco, and the extent of the disaster will increase linearly."

"In general, people in coastal cities will have more chances of survival in the first wave of earthquake disaster. However, the tsunami triggered by the earthquake will arrive in two to three hours. The first wave should exceed one thousand meters in height. That will be the ultimate disaster for coastal cities!"

Fang Senyan's words echoed in the minds of the three giants.

At this point, the three giants deeply believed in him.

The continuous earthquakes began to make everyone panic. Although the magnitude of the earthquake was only maintained at a level of 4 to 6, even this experience, which was not very life-threatening, instantly crushed most people's previous anger, shock, and humiliation! Replacing them was endless fear!

In the face of this grand natural disaster, Prince Dracula gave a bloodthirsty smile, stood up, and first looked around. Watching the questioning gazes turn into utter submission, he slowly stretched out his hand and twisted the neck of the vampire who had been spiritedly questioning him just minutes before!

The stunned fellow even forgot to resist!

Then, when would Prince Dracula seize the opportunity to eliminate dissidents if not now? He immediately launched a bloody and terrifying massacre! Only when he had satisfiedly licked his fangs did he order to board his flagship.

Magneto coldly looked at the man in front of him, the man who was once his friend, the man who had been shouting madly just seconds before, demanding compensation for all the losses, and then said indifferently:

"Take this check. This is the compensation I got for you after selling my inheritance."

The man's face was pale, and he squeezed out a smile, waving his hands repeatedly and saying:

"This, this is just a misunderstanding, listen to me, dear Erik..."

Magneto was too lazy to say more to him. He directly stuffed the check into his mouth, then looked at the remaining guys in the room who were sweating coldly and seemed to want to say something but couldn't. Suddenly, he laughed wildly and strode out.

The entire eight airship squadrons stationed in this base, a total of fifty-six airships, had been filled with gas and tethered to float low on the ground during the time period Fang Senyan had notified them of.

However, because at least half of the people had wavered before, these airships were lowered back to a height of three or four meters above the ground and installed with temporary giant steps to facilitate those people to leave. But now, once the earthquake occurred, the mutants and blood clans etc. who had been holding back their anger on the airships, along with the confidants of the three giants, unhesitatingly retracted the steps with vengeful pleasure, and then allowed the airships to quickly climb in altitude!

"That'll teach you to clamor for a refund!" the currency exchanger on the airship said with a sneer.

"That'll teach you to disobey management and leave privately?" the management of the airship said bitterly.

"That'll teach you to block the door and mess with my buddy!" the waiter on the airship said through gritted teeth.

"That'll teach you to litter!" the cleaner on the airship said with a sneer, waving his broom.

"That'll teach you to take my words as farts!" the captain said fiercely.

Seeing the airships rising, the only chance of survival about to disappear, those who had previously come down from them were even more panicked. At this time, the earthquake was still continuing, and the fear in their hearts was growing day by day. Some were crying, some were shouting, some were threatening madly, and some even took out guns and fired at the airships...

This behavior was obviously unforgivable, so they were quickly riddled with holes by the weapons on the airships and the legendary plot characters. As for the repair work, it could be handed over to the flying blood clans, who could directly stick a band-aid-like thing on it and then use an air pump to fill in the prepared gas. The entire airship's envelope was divided into a large number of compartments, so the breaking of one sub-compartment did not affect too much of the load.

At this time, it was still Professor X who stood up. He slowly floated into the air, and then directly asked those people to kneel down and confess their sins, and then silently chant his name in their hearts and sincerely beg for forgiveness, so that they could be redeemed.

This kind of shamanistic performance would definitely be ridiculed in normal times, but now, with life on the line, people would do anything, no matter how outrageous. More importantly, Professor X could really know people's inner thoughts and ideas!

Soon, dozens of people who sincerely repented actually showed faint white light on their bodies, and then a rope ladder that rotated back and forth like a conveyor belt was lowered from the airship. As long as they grabbed it firmly, they could be rescued onto the airship without climbing.

Since there were role models and a way out, these people who were selected were also social elites. Although the earthquake was shaking fiercely, it seemed that it wouldn't kill them for the time being, so the situation finally returned to normal.

The biggest casualties were still the ten or so people who cramped and fell off the rope ladder to their deaths. Well, there were also more than a hundred devout religious people who believed that Professor X's behavior blasphemed the Lord, so Professor X also mercifully released them, allowing them to go to any corner of the earth except the airship.

At this time, the most fortunate ones were the people who stayed on the airships. They looked at the idiots below with arrogant eyes, and the names of these stay-behind personnel were also registered. As staunch supporters, they would definitely receive preferential treatment in all aspects in the future.

However, after such a disturbance, most of the people who had dispersed before did not return. They were worried and scared all night, and when they left, they believed that the doomsday was just a big fart that had been let loose, and they were probably catching up on sleep beautifully at this moment. They certainly wouldn't be able to rush back in time, and even if they did, the base might not be willing to take in such a guy.

Therefore, after a discussion among the three giants, it was decided to activate the emergency plan, which was to take advantage of the fact that there were still billions of people on earth at this critical moment and urgently replenish the population from New York City. It was definitely not appropriate to cook everything in one pot, but the saying that population is the primary productive force was absolutely correct. It was better to have something than nothing!

The affairs of the three giants were in full swing, but Fang Senyan and his group of four were facing the most difficult test they had ever experienced since entering the Nightmare World!

The area they were in was hundreds of kilometers closer to the epicenter! More importantly, a crustal crack derived from the epicenter would also pass through here, so the intensity of the earthquake here would be at least above magnitude eight!

What is the concept of an magnitude eight earthquake? The official statement is: most houses are damaged, a few destroy roadbed collapses, and underground pipelines rupture.

Sounds very understated, doesn't it?

However, the earthquake that occurred in Wenchuan in 2008 was only 7.9 magnitude, the most destructive main shock lasted only 22 seconds, and the location was in western China, a relatively backward area with a smaller population density. The final loss was 800 billion RMB, and the death toll was nearly 100,000.

And under normal circumstances, the duration of an earthquake is only a few seconds, ten seconds, rarely exceeding one minute.

But in 2012 Doomsday, what is the concept of an magnitude eight earthquake that is expected to last for nearly half an hour? It is not difficult to imagine the staggering losses.