Rebirth: Super Banking System

Chapter 1672: Chapter 1504 Our Car Is Gone (Request for Subscription!)

"Uncle, have you felt any earthquakes these days?"

"Earthquake? Haven’t felt any."

"Have any of your poultry behaved abnormally?"

"Yes, my dog killed one of my ducklings a couple of days ago. Also, this morning, I saw a large patterned snake crawling in the field. Haven’t seen a snake like that in ages."

"Thinking back to those days, we often hunted them..."

"..."

Faced with the older man who chatted endlessly, almost not letting anyone leave, the person involved was left speechless.

"..."

"No sensations."

"..."

"Is an earthquake going to happen?"

"Don’t panic, we’re just asking."

"..."

No exceptions.

No one in the nearby villages felt anything, and as for the ambiguous answers given because of their questioning, they were automatically ignored. All responses that lay between perception and non-perception were deemed invalid data.

After all.

Sitting in a chair.

The vibration from a heartbeat can make someone feel like they’re trembling.

"Director, no one here felt anything."

"Same over there."

"Quite a few people are spreading rumors about an impending earthquake."

"What?"

The director was a bit flustered.

This kind of extensive survey might cause panic, better not make the situation too big.

"Forget it, let’s not visit, we’ll measure ourselves."

The director decided.

"Alright."

"Where?"

"At the entrance of that village is an abandoned well, quite deep," the director pointed in a direction.

Before long.

At the village entrance.

The well.

This place has been abandoned for a long time, fearing people might fall in or kids might play carelessly, the well was sealed with a large cement slab, leaving only a hole the size of a fist.

"One, two, three, lift."

The five worked together.

To move the slab aside.

Inside was filled with water, a layer of green floated on top. But this wouldn’t trouble them; considering the drilling team hadn’t arrived yet, they brought a submerged vibration detector.

Like the Earth’s crust.

Water is also a good medium for wave propagation.

Like a tsunami.

Seismic waves can travel thousands of kilometers with barely any attenuation.

"Check the working conditions."

"Yes."

A technician wearing glasses pulled out the equipment, skillfully started it, connected the data cable to the computer, opened the monitoring software, searched for the device, data connection successful, shouted.

Ripples appeared on the computer.

Normal.

This is, of course, not the standard operation procedure, but after frequent use, they found shouting out loud was quite effective.

A tripod was set up over the well.

The middle contained a pulley.

"Be careful, lower it slowly." noveldrama

The equipment was submerged into the well.

One person handled the weight line, another handled the data cable, soon, it was lowered three and a half meters because preliminary measurements showed the well was only four meters deep, so the detector couldn’t touch the bottom.

After lowering it.

They didn’t all stay there to keep watch, leaving one person behind while others went elsewhere to look around.

Opened the computer.

The young person staying guard sat on a chair.

Taking out Epoch.

Started to play.

"So laggy."

"Forget it, as long as there’s internet."

"At least I can view pictures and play Happy Elimination."

In the mountains.

4G signal was bad, but watching news was no problem. Anyway, the monitoring software had alarm prompts. If seismic waves were detected, they wouldn’t miss it, since the computer was connected to wireless internet.

The young person didn’t know.

In an instant.

Dozens of lines of code were added internally to the detection software.

...

At a monitoring station.

An off-road vehicle slowly drove past.

Then.

A ’white cat’ jumped out from the trunk.

With a few leaps, it reached the wall, looking at the tall enclosure wall. Sharp black claws slowly extended from its paws, it jumped fiercely, claws gripping the edge of the two-meter high wall.

Standing on the wall.

Eyes gleaming.

Jumping over the wall.

And infiltrating inside the yard.

...

Shanghai Stock Market.

Evening.

Tang Qing looked at the progress of the concealment plan and sighed softly, the Fighters were indeed too efficient, in such a short time, relying on mechanical engineering and internet intrusion, it’s almost completed.

The remaining part will be much easier.

Finally.

It’s just about temporarily getting rid of the people on the ground evaluation.

The next day.

May 15th.

Early morning.

"Knock knock knock."

"Director, something’s wrong."

"What?"

"Our car is gone."

"..."

Call the police!

Ten minutes later.

"We’re from the town station."

"Found it?"

"Yes, but your car is currently soaking in the river, come and have a look," the statement made the director’s face twitch. Damn, soaked in water, this thief is really skilled at ’disposing’.

Ten minutes later.

Came to a riverside.

Along the way.

He already knew what happened, watched the surveillance, someone stole the car and tried to drive it out of town, but unexpectedly, when taking a sharp turn, in the dark, didn’t see clearly.

Speed was too fast, couldn’t react in time.

Just like that.

The car crashed through the guardrail, plunged into the river, carried downstream for a couple of kilometers before stopping at a shallow beach.

The car thief was nowhere to be found.

Only the car remained.

"..."

Looking at the salvaged business car, the director didn’t know what to say, only the first day out and already a major incident, it’s quite a loss, with the car soaked in water, it’s considered a write-off.

Looking inside the car.

He was disheartened.

Goddamn car thief, you stole it, fine, but seeing all this equipment, it was obviously not packed with money, yet you opened each one. Originally waterproof, now soaked, most equipment is ruined.

"Take inventory, see if anything’s missing."

They rushed to take stock.

Nothing was missing.

Just rendered useless.

"What do we do?"

"Report to the bureau."

Cover it?

Who could possibly cover this up?

With a readiness to face scolding, the director dialed the higher-up’s phone, who was also stunned for a moment, something like this had never happened in the bureau, "Get the car towed back, see if it can be repaired."

"And what about this issue..."

"Continue, the bureau will send another batch of equipment and car over."

Such a bizarre earthquake.

If they really pretend like they didn’t see it and halt operations, they might as well not work here.

"Alright."

The director was relieved.

New equipment.

New car.

Seems like it’s time to take a couple of days off, shake off the bad luck.

...

Thus.

The plan has accomplished the first phase. There is still much work left to be done to avoid detection, luckily Tang Qing doesn’t have to act personally, just watch silently, only hoping it ends soon.

At this moment.

Tang Qing remembered another issue.

Earthquake.

Building collapse.

The most crucial factor is the quality of the buildings, the safest, or relatively safest, would naturally be those that extensively use rebar concrete pillars rather than merely red bricks serving as columns.

Also, the floors.

In the rural areas and towns, they used to carry prefab slabs, hoisting them piece by piece.

If a big earthquake strikes.

The hundreds of pounds of floor panels coming down could really kill, hmm, have to exert effort backstage, now is the peak of rural house construction, do a good job promoting ’earthquake-resistant housing.’

This aspect.

On the Myanmar side, they do it thoroughly.

All newly constructed houses.

Must be able to withstand over Level 8 earthquakes.

The difficulty is not high.

Strong foundation, reinforced concrete framework, beam-slab-pillar integrated casting, similar to constructing commercial housing in cities. In this way, unless it’s truly a mountain collapse, it’s hard to bring it down.

At least.

It won’t collapse so quickly, can really gain some time.