Thud!
Kevin dropped the last bag of cement onto the ground.
He used his hands to wipe away the sweat that had accumulated on his face, while he tried to steady his breath.
He then stepped to the side and approached the window of the incomplete building that was still undergoing construction.
Looking down from where he was, he could only see tiny people who were going about the tasks that had been assigned to them.
Kevin could not help but feel a little frustrated.
He was the only one that had been given a task that required him to carry cement to the 19th floor.
He understood that the supervisor was trying to make things difficult for him, but he had no other choice.
With the current situation that he was facing, he had simply no choice but to endure all this to earn the income by the end of the day.
The good part of this situation was that, even though the supervisor was making things hard for him, the salary issue remained absolutely no problem at all.
Thinking about his family situation, he understood that he had to work and earn money to deal with all the debts back home.
His brother was also working hard at a small law firm, but the modest income was not enough, even with the additional income generated from the small store that they owned.
With the work done for the day, Kevin decided to go down, change the clothes he was wearing, and then head home after receiving his salary.
But, he had just managed to reach the ground floor when he suddenly felt the ground trembling slightly.
He frowned and looked around, wondering which large machine was being used during the late stages of the construction.
But as he looked around, he quickly realized that no heavy machine was present.
And the trembling of the ground was intensifying as time went by.
He was apparently not the only one who had noticed the situation.
They were also looking around with confused expressions on their faces.
And as the tremor continued, people finally began panicking.
They could even see that the stones on the ground, together with other small objects, were dancing slightly on the ground.
Kevin suddenly had a thought: "An earthquake?"
Apparently, he was not the only one who had indeed thought that, judging from the panicking expressions on the faces of the people around.
Chaos suddenly erupted as everyone was scrambling for a way out of the area of construction.
The ones in charge of supervising the construction tried to control the situation, but it proved futile.
Everyone only thought about getting out of here as soon as possible.
Kevin also thought about getting out of this place.
It was impossible for him to continue being here, especially considering that there was an earthquake.
The building that they had constructed was not yet completed, and nobody could reliably guarantee that it would not collapse because of the earthquake.
If they were buried in the debris of the building, then they might end up dying.
Everyone was rushing towards the nearby road, trying as much as possible to get away from the construction site.
Kevin had only taken a few steps when suddenly, the trembling of the ground unexpectedly intensified.
Several people lost their footing and collapsed onto the ground, but they still managed to pick themselves up before rushing away again.
Kevin managed to maintain his balance, and did not fall.
Regardless, it was very troublesome for him to move steadily because of the overwhelming intensity of the ground shaking.
Bang!
Suddenly, a loud sound captured his attention.
He looked towards the source of the sound, only to realize that a pillar of the building under construction had indeed actually collapsed unexpectedly.
But it was not the only one, considering that cracks had already begun showing on the walls of that building.
And considering just how tall this building was, from where he was, Kevin understood that if the building collapsed in his direction, he would be buried beneath it.
Out of desperation, with adrenaline kicking in, Kevin suddenly got himself moving at a speed that he had never moved before.
In just a few moments, he had already covered several tens of meters.
As he saw that he was approaching the main road that was close to the construction site, he suddenly got a bad feeling in his heart.
And even before he could react, the ground in front of him suddenly cracked open.
Kevin tried to stop himself, but due to the momentum caused by the speed at which he was moving, it simply proved impossible for him to come to a sudden stop.
Despite how much he tried to stop, he still ended up being engulfed by the crack that had appeared.
This crack was sufficiently wide to be able to swallow three adults consecutively.
As he was falling into this crack, Kevin could not help but feel despair in his heart.
Was this the end? Was he going to die just like this?
As Kevin remained in utter disbelief, not accepting that he was going to die, he did not realize that he had been falling for quite a long time, and had still not reached the ground below.
It was as If the crack that had appeared was bottomless.
And on the surface, the moment that this crack appeared, it immediately extended, engulfing the building that was undergoing construction.
Part of it was immediately swallowed by the crack, causing the building to collapse.
Even though not the entire building collapsed, the collapse was definitely going to lead to the entire construction being restarted, including the foundation, as part of it had already been swallowed by the crack.
In fact, considering this incident, maybe the authorities would not allow the construction to continue in this place.
After all, with such a big crack on the ground, who would dare to come and undertake the construction here?
But indeed something truly astonishing happened.
Just as the people who had managed to reach the main road looked back, a little confused, they saw that the crack that had appeared was actually closing.
Bang!
In just a few moments, the crack had completely disappeared, and everything went back to the way it was before.
Well, at least it looked the way it was before, unless one noticed the damage that had been caused to the building that was undergoing construction.
Several machines and other things that were used in the construction had been affected as well.
Several people that had not managed to rush out of the construction site during the collapse of the building, had been injured.
It was a good thing that nobody had actually been fatally injured.
Well, the strange part was the fact that it seemed that this earthquake had only occurred within this construction site.
When the group of workers managed to exit the construction site area and finally reached the main road, they realized that everything was normal there.
As for the people who were out of range of the construction site, they were also confused to see the building trembling before collapsing.
They did not understand what was going on.
This was an incident that had never happened before, and it actually did not make sense at all.
They believed that it was an earthquake.
But an earthquake of such enormous magnitude, fully capable of causing a building to collapse, was definitely not going to be limited to such a small range, right?
While those people still questioned themselves whether what had happened was real or not, Kevin, on the other hand, was still free falling.
It had already been several minutes, but Kevin had not reached his destination at all.
Kevin had finally accepted his fate, albeit reluctantly.
It was just that when he came back to his senses, he realized that he was still following, and he could not help but get confused.
Just how deep was the crack that had appeared?
Could it be that it had actually been connected to the core of the planet?
But if that was the case, then why was it that the temperatures around him were not increasing at all?
He could feel that he was falling, and everything around him was completely dark.
So, Kevin did not believe that this planet was so thick.
Considering the gravitational force, he was supposed to be plummeting at an incredible speed.
But he realized that there was no wind resistance at all.
In fact, it just felt like he was actually floating downwards slowly.
This was something that confused him, but he could not understand it, thus he decided not to think about it further.
And just as this thought appeared in his mind, he suddenly felt that there was an unexpected change in the surrounding environment.
Within moments, the darkness around him had actually begun dissipating.
But that was not all.
The feeling of falling suddenly vanished, and he felt that he had actually stood up.
It was just that he felt as though he were standing in midair, considering that there was no solid ground beneath his feet.
As his vision began returning to him, he suddenly felt that he was stepping on a solid ground.
And in the next moment, everything suddenly changed, it changed so abruptly that he found himself inside a room.
And this room was completely white, from the floor, the walls, and even the ceiling.
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