Chapter 29

Xia Ruirui was woken up by the alarm on her cell phone.

She was planning to take a nap on the bus and set it up to wake herself up, but who knew it would accidentally save her life.

When she woke up, she covered her aching head with her hands and touched it tentatively. It felt a little warm. She spread her hands and saw blood.

Xia Ruirui was shocked. She touched her limbs and found that they were all still there and she had consciousness. Only then did she feel relieved.

She followed the blood trail and saw that it was coming from her side.

The memory before she fell into a coma came back instantly, and Xia Ruirui finally realized what had happened.

She turned to look at Wang Kelly beside her, wiped her bloody hand casually on her pants, and anxiously patted her friend's cheek.

But Wang Kelly never woke up and her face was as pale as if she was dead.

Xia Ruirui frantically checked her breath and found that she was still alive. She let out a breath and fanned her hard with her hands, trying to wake her up.

Wang Kelly suddenly opened her eyes and looked at Xia Ruirui in surprise, whose face was covered in blood.

The two looked at each other. Seeing that she had finally woken up, Xia Ruirui hugged her tightly, her voice trembling: "Fortunately...fortunately...as long as you are alive."

"We are all still alive..." The following words sounded more like a whisper, so soft that even Wang Kelly couldn't hear it.

Although she couldn't hear what Xia Ruirui said, she could feel her friend's out-of-control emotions.

Thinking of the horrific scene she saw before she fell into a coma, Wang Kelly was still a little scared and her body trembled uncontrollably.

Xia Ruirui quickly released her and touched her limbs for her: "Wang Kelly, can you feel it? Are you conscious?"

It was not until Xia Ruirui touched her right leg that Wang Kaili exclaimed, and Xia Ruirui only then saw the dark red bloodstains on her right leg.

Not knowing where she got the strength from, Xia Ruirui tore open the hem of her clothes with her hands, tore the strips into strips and wrapped them tightly around her wound.

The blood quickly soaked the cloth, but at least the bleeding was stopped.

After dealing with all this, she looked at her friend comfortingly and said, "It's okay, it's probably just a fracture. We'll be fine once we go to the hospital."

Wang Kelly nodded and said to her, “Let’s leave here first.”

Xia Ruirui nodded, and then, thinking that there might be unconscious or injured people on the bus, she shouted, "It's very dangerous here, everyone, get out of here quickly."

After saying that, she unbuckled Wang Kelly's seat belt and planned to help her leave first.

But Wang Kelly didn't move, but stared blankly ahead. Xia Ruirui also realized belatedly that no one responded to her at all.

Apart from the sound of rocks rolling and hitting the ground outside, the bus was so quiet that it seemed as if only the breathing of the two people could be heard.

Xia Ruirui's back stiffened a little when she thought of a terrible guess.

She slowly unbuckled her seat belt, held onto the back of the chair and staggered forward, trying to find other injured people.

Everyone on the bus was still there, but no one was moving.

Xia Ruirui trembled as she came to the front seat of their car. She looked at the bloodied old lady and said in a hoarse voice, "Grandma, wake up."

The old lady still didn't move. Xia Ruirui tried to feel her breath but accidentally touched her cold body.

It's cold already.

She couldn't imagine that the person who was holding her hand and chatting and laughing just a second ago had turned into a cold corpse.

She turned her head mechanically and continued walking forward, sniffing each person's breath, but was disappointed every time.

It was not until she reached the driver's seat and saw the driver, whose body was not even intact, that Xia Ruirui's shoulders slumped and she walked back stiffly.

She walked to Wang Kelly without saying a word and wanted to help her up.

Wang Kelly's right leg was weak, and she staggered to her feet with her help. She knew... but still couldn't help but confirm: "They..."

After a long silence, Xia Ruirui said with a hollow look in her eyes, "She's out of breath."

"...Yeah." Wang Kelly didn't know what to say.

Xia Ruirui looked at her and forced a bitter smile: "Let's go quickly, it's very dangerous here."

"good."

Xia Ruirui helped her walk forward, and when they passed the old lady in the front seat, Xia Ruirui suddenly stopped.

She hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward, took the ring off her already stiff finger, and put it in her pocket.

Seeing Wang Kelly's puzzled look, she explained briefly: "If I see her son later, at least leave him with something to think about."

"...Okay." Wang Kaili's face was wooden and her expression was stiff.

Xia Ruirui helped Wang Kelly out of the bus. Looking at the scene outside, both of them were speechless.

The entire winding mountain road was covered with rubble from rolling wheels, and there were also large and small rocks falling from the mountain, almost hitting them.

Xia Ruirui half-dragged and half-pulled the dazed Wang Kelly, avoiding the rocks and struggling to move forward.

"It rained early this morning and there was a landslide. We just need to walk to the top of the mountain." Xia Ruirui comforted her friend and herself at the same time, "Once we reach the top, someone will definitely come to rescue us."

Wang Kelly was gasping for breath, her right leg was powerless, her left ankle was twisted, and she was frightened, so she felt a little shaky.

Xia Ruirui looked ahead, trying hard to suppress all her emotions. She didn't dare to think too much about what to do if no one came to rescue them when they reached the top of the mountain.

After walking for a while, Wang Kelly suddenly stopped and Xia Ruirui looked at her in confusion.

"Ruirui, why don't you go first? If you hold me, you will also..."

"What are you talking about?" Xia Ruirui frowned for a rare moment and shouted at her angrily.

Wang Kaili looked at her, her eyes suddenly red: "Everyone in the car is dead..."

Before she could finish, Xia Ruirui interrupted her and yelled, "Then why did we keep you here?"

"Waiting to die?" She shouted at the top of her lungs, her voice becoming hoarse.

After calming down and seeing Wang Kelly's tears, Xia Ruirui sighed silently.

She walked forward, wiped away her tears forcefully, and dragged her forward regardless of whether she was willing or not.

Xia Ruirui had to watch out for falling rocks and bear most of Wang Kelly's weight, and her physical strength was at its limit.

The two men walked forward in silence, slower than crawling.

Xia Ruirui looked at the tunnel not far away and breathed a sigh of relief: "There is a tunnel here, we can rest in it for a while."

The tunnel that could avoid the rocks was undoubtedly a mirage for them at this moment.

The two people hid in the tunnel. There was no light in the tunnel. They shouted twice in the hope of getting lucky, but found that there was no one in the tunnel.

In the darkness, Xia Ruirui's face completely fell, and the optimism she had pretended to have in front of Wang Kelly at the beginning was no longer there.

Her face was expressionless, and her eyes were filled with despair.

The two of them didn't care whether it was dirty or not and just sat on the ground to rest.

Xia Ruirui felt something in her pocket, and she thought of something. The moment she touched her cell phone in her trouser pocket, she truly felt hope.

She turned on her cell phone, but found that there was no signal at all.

Hope seemed to be crushed by an invisible hand, leaving only despair.

A little light from the screen illuminated the faces of the two people. Xia Ruirui opened WeChat and opened the dialog box with Shen Yuqing.

Looking at Shen Yuqing's funny and incongruous profile picture, she was unusually silent.

Huge rocks from the mountain kept falling down, and they could even hear the dull sound of the rocks hitting the tunnel.

The dull sound echoed in the tunnel, further breaking down the two men's psychological defenses, and even the air became invisibly more irritable.

Suddenly, they felt the ground they were sitting on shake noticeably.

The huge rocks on the mountain rolled down even more violently, and the entrance and exit of the tunnel were completely blocked by the rolling rocks in the next second.

The two looked at each other tacitly and realized that this was not a landslide at all.

But...

"It's an earthquake." Xia Ruirui's voice was terribly hoarse.

The two people who realized this instantly became weak, and everything was explained.

Why is there no signal on the winding mountain road in the scenic area, and why has no one come to rescue them even after such a long time since the accident?

I'm afraid the epicenter is in Yunjin...

Since they couldn't get out anyway, the two of them stopped struggling.

Wang Kelly lay down on the ground, and Xia Ruirui also leaned against the stone wall to rest after switching her phone to power saving mode.

From the moment the boulder rolled down to now, everything happened so suddenly that they were caught off guard. Both of them were silent and didn't know what to say.

It was Wang Kelly who spoke first: "Xia Ruirui."

Xia Ruirui heard the voice and looked at her: "What's wrong?"

Wang Kaili felt a little guilty: "If I hadn't dragged you to Yunjin..."

Xia Ruirui knew what she was going to say and interrupted her directly: "If it weren't for you, I would be even more helpless when facing this alone."

Wang Kelly didn't say anything. She knew that Xia Ruirui was comforting her, and she felt even more guilty.

But she didn't bring it up again.

She wanted to force a smile towards Xia Ruirui, but it pulled at the corner of her mouth and her entire left cheek hurt.

She touched her cheek and murmured, "Why does my face hurt so much..."

“…”

In the darkness, Xia Ruirui's chuckle was a little abrupt.

Wang Kelly looked at her friend, not understanding why she suddenly laughed.

Xia Ruirui looked at her for a long time. The tunnel was too dark and she couldn't see Wang Kelly's face clearly. She could only think of the scene where she had been trying to wake Wang Kelly up because of her anxiety.

I don't know why it's even funnier.

Xia Ruirui laughed more and more wantonly, her laughter echoing in the empty tunnel, covering up the dull sound of the boulder falling to the ground.

When she finally stopped laughing, Wang Kelly also reacted.

Wang Kelly pulled her arm: "Xia Ruirui, was it you who slapped me?"

Although it is a question, it is in an affirmative tone.

Seeing that she realized it later, Xia Ruirui laughed out loud again.

"I just wanted to wake you up quickly..."

"So you slapped me like this...it's all swollen..."

Xia Ruirui couldn't help herself and said sorry with a smile: "I was wrong, my fault."

Wang Kelly couldn't help laughing and hit her jokingly.

The two people indulged in jokes, laughing and playing, trying to drive away the anxiety and fear in their hearts.

When the two finally stopped laughing, they lay side by side in the tunnel, looking at the dark top of the tunnel in sync.

After a while, Wang Kaili turned her head and looked at Xia Ruirui: "If you could go out, what would you most like to do?"

Xia Ruirui thought about this for a moment: "If I could get out... I'd like to eat sweet and sour pork ribs again and have a good sleep."

As if she was afraid that Wang Kelly wouldn’t believe it, she strengthened her tone: “Really.”

Wang Kelly laughed after hearing this. She believed it as soon as Xia Ruirui said it.

She believed that this was Xia Ruirui's true words.

She never plays by the rules.

Even though they are now trapped in the tunnel due to the earthquake, she remains optimistic and hopeful.

Different from everyone else.

Wang Kelly felt that if she were Shen Yuqing, she would also fall in love with Xia Ruirui like this.

She was very grateful to God that Xia Ruirui was by her side during the earthquake.