The longed-for village system

Chapter 338 Showing Off Skills During the Earthquake
The two chatted until an unknown time. Just as the three of them were getting sleepy, they suddenly felt the bed beneath them shaking gently. Chen Qing, who was sleeping in the next room, immediately woke up and woke up the others who were still sleeping next to her. The next second, they rushed to the girls' dormitory.

"Get up quickly, there's an earthquake! Get out of here!" Chen Qing shouted to Zhao Xiaogu and the other two inside.

The three girls, still half-asleep, ran out of the room when they heard Chen Qing's shout. The younger sister, holding Zhao Xiaogu's hand, looked dazed, clearly not fully awake yet.

The next moment, everyone in the Mushroom House, including all the staff, gathered on the main road in front of the Mushroom House. At this moment, everyone could feel the ground shaking more clearly, and the Mushroom House also made a slight creaking sound due to the shaking of the ground, which sounded particularly jarring in the quiet night.

Chen Qing wasn't worried about the magnitude of the earthquake. He had taken the seismic factor into account when he designed it, and the mortise and tenon structure itself was very effective in resisting earthquakes. So even if the Mushroom House faced an 8-magnitude earthquake, it would be safe and sound. The reason he called everyone out of bed was simply to be on the safe side.

The house itself may be fine, but the things and furniture inside might be. Just like the fence and gate around the yard, which have long since collapsed and are now crooked.

"How could there be a sudden earthquake! Anyone have their phone? Quickly go online and check the latest news." Teacher He realized that he hadn't taken out his phone and asked everyone.

A staff member quickly responded with a mobile phone.

"Everyone, there's the latest news online. Just now, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Dali, Yunnan Province. We were quite close by, which is why the tremor was so strong."

"A magnitude 6.8 earthquake, that's a huge earthquake! I hope everyone is alright."

Huang Sanshi prayed, but he felt uneasy. It was late at night and everyone was resting. This was the time when a major earthquake was most likely to happen. The reason why the Tangshan earthquake caused such heavy casualties was not only because the earthquake intensity was as high as 7.8, but also because it happened at around 3 a.m., when everyone was asleep.

Just like now, if Chen Qing hadn't woken them up immediately, if Chen Qing's house hadn't been new and had a special structure, and if they hadn't been in the epicenter and crest of the earthquake, they might have all been buried alive.

"This year has been truly disastrous for China!" The old man said with a worried expression after hearing the staff's report.

A heavy feeling settled over everyone. It was impossible for an earthquake of this magnitude to go unscathed; they could only hope that the casualties would be low.

"boom!"

Suddenly, a loud noise came from afar, drawing everyone's attention. Although it was dark and they couldn't see what was happening in the distance, they could guess that a house had collapsed.

Once one thing happened, another followed. As if by prior arrangement, the houses collapsed one after another, and cries of agony began to rise from the surrounding area. Clearly, everyone had moved to this open space.

"I'll go check it out. Xiao Gu, Grandpa, you two stay here at the Mushroom House." Chen Qing decided to go check it out anyway. With so many houses collapsed, there was a chance that some villagers and tourists might get injured. He thought he could lend a hand if necessary.

Of course, before going there, Chen Qing still went into the Mushroom House to get medical tools, since he kept his acupuncture kit there, and without it, he couldn't do many things.

Seeing Chen Qing rushing towards the Mushroom House, everyone was stunned for a moment. Zhao Xiaogu looked anxious and shouted to Chen Qing, "Brother Chen, don't go in! Come back quickly!"

"It's alright, I'll go inside and get the silver needles and come right back out." After answering Zhao Xiaogu, Chen Qing had already arrived at the fence. Looking at the crooked fence and the obstacles all over the ground, he took a deep breath and jumped over it with all his might.

Just as Huang Sanshi, Teacher He, and the others were about to speak, Chen Qing's next move stunned everyone, including the two of them. Chen Qing lightly leaped and flew directly from the courtyard gate to the hall entrance, then disappeared from their sight in a flash.

Everyone stared wide-eyed, their eyes scanning the take-off and landing points. The distance between them seemed at least eight or nine meters, yet Chen Qing had jumped over it with ease. At that moment, the word "lightness skill" flashed through everyone's minds.

Zhao Xiaogu wasn't surprised at all. She had seen a man kick a tree as thick as an adult's thigh and then leap lightly to the second-floor roof. This time, he was just flying a little further. It was all the same. She just hoped that Chen Qing would get the acupuncture kit soon.

He went in and came out just as quickly. In only a dozen seconds, Chen Qing came out in the same manner, said something to everyone again, and then ran towards the square. His speed made everyone tremble with fear.

"Feifei...flying! Brother Chen can fly!"

Only after Chen Qing's figure completely disappeared from their light did someone stammer out a sentence, clearly shocked by Chen Qing's performance, followed by the sound of everyone swallowing their saliva.

Huang Sanshi and Teacher He stared in the direction Chen Qing had left for a while before they came to their senses. They sighed inwardly, realizing that Zhou Xingxing and the others were right. Chen Qing knew martial arts, and it was an extremely profound kind of martial arts, like the heroes in TV dramas who could fly over rooftops and walk on walls.

"I knew it. Xiao Chen really does know martial arts, but I didn't expect him to be this good."

As a top soldier among special forces, he knew better than anyone how capable a person could be. Someone like him was one in hundreds of thousands, or even one in a million. But someone like Chen Qing was something he had never heard of or seen before; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe him as inhuman.

With a light leap, he can jump two or three meters and cover a straight-line distance of eight or nine meters. Goodness, if he had this ability, he could easily win all the gold medals in the Olympics.

"This can't be considered martial arts! This is lightness skill! I didn't expect Brother Chen to have kept this from us."

Peng Peng's eyes sparkled with excitement and exhilaration, as if his childhood dream of martial arts had returned. If it weren't for the earthquake, he would have wanted to run to Chen Qing to become his apprentice.

“Xiao Gu, you don’t seem surprised at all. You must have known about Xiao Chen’s martial arts skills long ago!” Teacher He said to Zhao Xiao Gu, who was standing next to him.

Seeing everyone's attention focused on her, Zhao Xiaogu nodded, but added, "I only found out recently. Back then, Brother Chen accidentally kicked a tree in the old house courtyard without controlling his strength, and I was terrified."

"Xiao Gu, the tree you're talking about isn't that one in the yard that's thicker than Peng Peng's thigh, is it?" Teacher He felt like his worldview was about to collapse again.

Zhao Xiaogu nodded. "That's the one. It used to exist, but Brother Chen turned it into a figurine."

(End of this chapter)