Chapter 763: Thunderstorm

Damn!

Thunderstorm!!!

Liangzi and Xia Qing moved at the same time, but Liangzi was in a closer position and pulled the power plug of the monitoring screen.

In thunder and lightning weather, even if electrical equipment wasn't directly hit by lightning, when lightning discharged nearby, the high voltage generated through electromagnetic induction would be transmitted to the electrical equipment along the wires, causing damage to the internal circuits of the electrical equipment. Therefore, electrical equipment should be turned off and the power cut off in thunder and lightning weather.

The thunderstorm had already started; it was too late to turn off the screens one by one, so they could only pull the power plug directly.

Dajiang, who rushed out of the reception room, shouted, "Lightning hit Mountain No. 49!"

Er Yong was also anxious. "Quickly ask if there are any casualties."

Xia Qing's first reaction was that the red squirrel's perception of subtle changes in the environment was truly too keen; the second was whether the flat-headed one living in the third district of Mountain No. 49 had hidden.

Wild boars? Wild boars must have hidden in caves, so Xia Qing didn't need to worry.

Tang Huai asked loudly in the Territory Lord channel, "Mountain No. 49, what's the situation? Why is the mountaintop smoking? Is your lightning protection device installed for fun?"

Yin Jie of the Qinglong Battle Team replied, "A big tree on Mountain No. 49 was struck by lightning, no one..."

"CRACK!!!"

Before Yin Jie finished speaking, another bolt of lightning struck down from the sky. The sky and earth, which had been pressed dark by the Qi clouds south of Territory No. 3, were instantly illuminated, which was shocking. Interfered with by the lightning, the intercom emitted a *zizhi-zizhi* static noise.

Auditory evolver Xia Qing shook her head uncomfortably, raising her hand to rub the small curly hair on Sheep Boss's head, which had almost knocked her over because it was startled.

The red squirrel family in the sheep shed was trembling with fear, and the chickens in the chicken cages exploded, screaming in surprise. The territory lords were also scared, looking desperately at the dense cloud layer in the sky.

In the face of natural disasters like Qi rain and thunderstorms, small humans could only hide, praying that the destructive lightning wouldn't fall on their houses or sheds.

The intercom transmitted Tan Junjie's serious and calm voice, accompanied by the static noise of the intercom being interfered with by lightning, instantly pulling people back to the violent natural disasters of the two years before the natural disasters.

"The loudspeaker has been destroyed by the thunderstorm; now switching to the intercom to report the situation. Everyone in each territory, hide in the house and do not go out, do not get close to the windows, do not use mobile phones, and try not to use intercoms as much as possible. Please rest assured, territory lords, according to detection, the Qi element concentration in the air is not enough to trigger Qi explosions, and the thunderstorm disaster level will not expand."

When the Qi element concentration in the air reached a certain level, lightning strikes, heavy weapons, and even sparks from electric saws could trigger Qi explosions.

When a Qi explosion occurred, the Qi element particle flow spraying at high speed in all directions had extremely strong penetrating power, which humans wearing protective suits below level four couldn't block.

Therefore, once a Qi explosion occurred, humans wearing protective suits below level four within the affected range, even if they weren't blown up, would suffer cell and internal tissue damage due to the attack of the particle flow, leading to organ dysfunction or physical imbalance. Those with weak resistance would likely die directly or lose control and go wild.

Among humans, those who possessed protective suits above level four were less than one percent.

Therefore, in the Qi rain, humans could still survive by trying to save themselves. But once a Qi explosion occurred, the range it affected was the death zone.

Hearing the situation report from the investigation team, the territory lords perked up, because compared to Qi explosions, lightning strikes indeed weren't natural disasters that destroyed the world.

Just then, another thunderstorm illuminated Territory No. 2. Xia Qing stayed away from the window, pressed the intercom button, and asked, "Tang Huai, Tang Heng, how is it on your side?"

Tang Heng's response carried the *zizhi* static noise of the current being interfered with: "Territory No. 12 was not hit, Territory No. 2 was hit twice, casualties unknown."

"Received, pay attention to safety." Xia Qing had just finished speaking when she was violently knocked down by Sheep Boss. The intercom slipped from her hand and fell to the ground, being stepped on and crushed by Sheep Boss.

Immediately after, a closer thunderclap exploded.

Xia Qing hugged Sheep Boss with one hand and quickly crawled forward, bringing it to shrink under the sturdy wooden table. Xia Qing, whose ears were buzzing, asked loudly, "Is everyone okay?"

"Okay." Liangzi responded.

"I'm okay too." Little Jiang, Er Yong, and Chen Cheng responded.

Dajiang, who was near the back window, shouted loudly, "Sister Qing, Shed No. 4 was struck by lightning!"

Shed No. 4 was planted with green-light, yellow-light, and green-light cotton, and was one of the sheds protected by Yi stones by Xia Qing.

Xia Qing, under the table, shouted loudly, "It's okay, the shed also has a lightning rod. Before the thunderstorm passes, no one can go out of the house."

Xia Qing, in her four years in the construction team, not only learned how to build houses, carpentry, and build sheds, but also learned how to assemble and install lightning rods. Last year, the low slope of Territory No. 3 was struck by lightning, clearing the entire fish pond, so Xia Qing installed lightning rods on every shed.

After the weather forecast said there would be thunder and lightning in this Qi rain, she purchased a batch of iron wire from Kuang Qingwei, and added her own stock of angle steel, steel pipes, and other materials to assemble more than twenty lightning rods, which could successfully introduce the lightning that hit houses and sheds into the grounding device buried in the soil—angle steel and steel pipes.

Therefore, the current thunderstorm sounded terrifying and looked scary, but it wouldn't cause substantial damage to the key facilities in Territory No. 3.

Besides installing lightning rods on key facilities, Xia Qing cut down the big trees around the sheds and houses, which was to prevent lightning from hitting the big trees and causing fires, or the tree crowns falling and hitting the sheds and houses.

Not just Territory No. 3, the sheds and houses in the territories of the Territory Alliance members also followed Xia Qing's example and installed lightning rods. Wen Nengjie, who wanted to get close to Xia Qing every day, also followed her example and installed lightning rods in Territory No. 17.

Now, it really came in handy.

"Baa..."

Another very close thunderstorm sound, Sheep Boss, whose body was trembling, leaned tightly against Xia Qing and emitted a trembling sound.

Xia Qing smoothed its fur while softly soothing it, "Boss, don't be afraid, lightning can't hurt us. It's very safe here. Your big Chinese toon tree also has a lightning rod installed, so nothing will happen, don't be afraid."

"CRACK!!!"

Accompanied by Xia Qing's voice, another bolt of lightning struck Territory No. 3, but her voice remained gentle, and the action of smoothing the fur wasn't interfered with.

Er Yong, who was hiding on the other side of Sheep Boss, didn't know if Sheep Boss was soothed, but he was soothed. Sister Qing was truly violent when she was violent, and truly gentle when she was gentle.

However, her gentleness was only given to Sheep Boss and the sick wolf that had left.

One bolt of lightning after another fell within this territory. The territory lords, who were curled up under tables or in basements, became increasingly nervous, because it was raining Qi outside, and Qi-evolved plants might have already appeared in the farmland, and highly destructive aggressive wild paulownia might have already drilled out of the territory.

In Territory No. 2, Tang Huai, whose ears were buzzing, hid in the house, looking at the lightning bolts like devil's claw marks outside through the glass window shattered by stones thrown up by the lightning, muttering, "Wolf God bless, Wolf God bless..." ===== CHAPTER 764 =====