Chapter 58 Thick smoke, SOS again
Su Qing was surprised that he could guess it.
"I have a snowplow and can definitely clear a path. Although this method is a bit time-consuming, it's still a good idea. The helicopter will deliver the snow in the air while I clear the path on the ground. We can both proceed simultaneously."
There was another silence in the headphones, and then there was a crackling sound, the sound of a lighter.
Lu Chen lit another cigarette, took a deep breath and said, "Go do what you want."
"Hey? Don't you have any objection?"
"Why should I object?"
Okay, Su Qing was asked by him.
Seeing Su Qing remain silent, Lu Chen chuckled, "You've already made up your mind, right?"
"Um……"
"Can I stop you? If I say this method isn't feasible, can you give up?"
"Well……"
No, she thought this was the best way at the moment and she wanted to do it.
"Look, you've already made your decision, and I can't influence your actions, so why object? Besides, you're still trying to keep more people alive. I'll arrange for some cleanup here. It won't be as fast as your machine, but it's better than nothing."
"Thank you." Su Qing inexplicably felt that Lu Chen seemed to understand her very well.
"Why should you thank me? You've done everything you can to help our base out of this predicament, so I should be the one thanking you."
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The weather was good early the next morning, and the roar of helicopters could be heard in the sky. Su Qing came to the base and saw Shen Kuo parked in front of the base in a helicopter. He brought some people and a lot of money. Su Qing asked the managers in the base to arrange the personnel, then exchanged the money and bought many barrels of fuel in the system and gave them to Qin Yu and Shen Kuo.
After explaining everything, Su Qing started to move forward with Fuguier amid the complicated gazes of the crowd.
Many people probably find it difficult to understand her behavior. Thinking of the conversation with Lu Chen last night, Su Qing couldn't help but smile, then shook her head and started working.
Although Su Qing had the system to protect her, she could not stay outside for too long. She took out the car every half an hour, sat in it, turned on the air conditioner to keep warm, rested for a while and then continued to clear the snow. She walked and stopped along the way like this, and she probably walked dozens of kilometers in a day.
It was too cold at night, so she had to finish work early and take Fuguier to hide in the yurt to rest. Su Qing held a cup of hot water in her hand and looked at the moon outside through the window on the side.
The sky was particularly beautiful today. The moon was hanging high in the sky, and there were stars everywhere. Such a sky was hard to see in the past. She was so engrossed in looking at it that she didn't know when Su Qing fell asleep in the chair. She was not woken up by the cold in the middle of the night.
She stood up and stretched her stiff body, then turned around and saw Fuguier sleeping soundly in his sleeping bag.
What a heartless dog! Su sighed lightly and picked up the cup to pour another cup of hot water. She raised her hand and found that the bracelet was flashing with a prompt. She opened the page and saw that Lu Chen had sent her a video before. She probably slept too soundly and didn't hear it.
Su Qing sent the message back tentatively, and it was picked up within a few seconds. Lu Chen's messy hair and haggard face appeared on the projection screen. He hadn't shaved his beard, and there was a thin layer of blue beard hanging on his chin, which gave him a decadent beauty.
"Is there something wrong?" Lu Chen's voice was a little hoarse.
"I saw you posted a video before. I just found it now because I fell asleep." Su Qing held the water cup in one hand and supported the projector with the other hand, turned around and sat back in the chair.
"Um...I wanted to ask you how it was going."
"We've walked about thirty kilometers today, and we're still 500 kilometers from your base."
Lu Chen looked at Su Qing's eyes blinking, which were so clear and bright even in the night. He looked happy while speaking, as if his base was right in front of him.
"So impressive." Lu Chen leaned back with a smile on his face, "Looks like we'll be able to meet soon."
"Yeah, I didn't expect to walk so far today. If the temperature wasn't unbearable after dark, I could have walked even further." Su Qing was very satisfied with her work today. Hearing the admiration in Lu Chen's tone, she couldn't help but feel a little proud.
"You're not being modest when I praise you. There's no need to rush. Put yourself first. Captain Qin and his men have already taken away three hundred people today. Everyone in the base is fine right now, so there's no need to rush."
"I asked them to organize manpower, and several thousand people took turns clearing the snow, but they only cleared 20 kilometers."
“That’s pretty impressive too.”
"Not as good as you."
“No, no.”
“Be humble and modest.”
The two chatted back and forth like this for quite a while. Su Qing felt a little sleepy again and yawned from time to time. Seeing this, Lu Chen ended the meaningless compliments and urged her to go to bed.
"Oh...good night then." Su Qing yawned again, put down the water cup and rubbed her eyes.
"Um."
"Lu Chen..."
"What's wrong?" Lu Chen was about to hang up, but when he heard Su Qing's voice, he raised his eyebrows and looked at the sleepy person in the screen.
"Take care of yourself. You look so haggard now that you're not as handsome as when I first met you." Su Qing said and hung up the phone.
Lu Chen looked at the dark screen, recalled what he had just heard, and couldn't help laughing. He lit a cigarette and took a few puffs, then pressed the cigarette into the ashtray beside him, stood up and walked into the bathroom.
In the darkness, Lu Chen looked at the mirror and raised his hand to touch the stubble on his chin. He did look a little unkempt today.
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After Su Qing's diligent snow shoveling, it took a week to clear a quarter of the route. The trees on the roadside were all covered with ice and snow, which looked like a scene of rime. She marveled at the wonders of nature and took out a pair of sunglasses. Everything was white, and Su Qing was afraid of snow blindness if she continued to look at it like this.
Wearing sunglasses, everything she saw was gray. She held a snowplow in her hand and kept clearing the snow, cleaning the snow in her backpack, and continuing to clear the snow over and over again. The surroundings were silent, as if Su Qing was the only living being in the world. Su Qing felt a little uncomfortable and stopped what she was doing. She looked up at the snow around her that was almost a person's height and seemed like it would collapse at any time. She was so depressed that she couldn't breathe.
Su Qing's heart was beating violently, and she was gasping for breath. The cold air was inhaled through the scarf and seeped into her body and every part of her body. She was shivering with cold, and there was a buzzing sound in her ears. Her consciousness seemed to be slipping away bit by bit.
Awooo~Awooo~Woof woof woof!
Fuguier's anxious roar came to his ears. Su Qing shook his dizzy head, took a few steps back, pulled down his scarf with one hand and took a few deep breaths of air.
"Cough cough cough... I'm fine." The cold air irritated her and she coughed several times. She raised her hand and touched Fuguier who was wagging his tail beside her to comfort him.
Su Qing took out the yurt and took Fuguier inside to keep warm. She didn't know what had happened to her just now. Maybe it was because she didn't eat breakfast and her blood sugar was low? She rummaged through her backpack and took out a cup of chocolate Piaopiao milk tea. She boiled some hot water and made it. Su Qing sat in a chair and drank it slowly, sip by sip.
At this time, a voice came from the bracelet. It was Qin Yu's voice. The helicopter had no fuel. He asked Su Qing's location and told her that he would come to Su Qing later with money to exchange the fuel. While waiting, she and Fuguier had a simple lunch. When she was full and drowsy from the electric heater, a roar came from far away. Su Qing immediately woke up, got dressed and walked out.
There were gusts of cold wind and snowflakes all around. Looking up at the sky, she saw a helicopter preparing to land on the open space she had cleared in advance. After the helicopter stopped and the blades slowly stopped, Su Qing walked forward.
Qin Yu brought Li Yi down.
"Hey, sister, how come you've lost so much weight after not seeing you for a few days? Why didn't Lu Chen stop you? It's hard work like this, and you're just a little girl. How can you do it?" Li Yi walked quickly to Su Qing as soon as he got off the plane and looked at her carefully for several times.
"I don't feel thin." Su Qing looked down at her round body wrapped in heavy clothes in confusion. How could she look thin even though she was wearing such thick clothes?
"Hey, why haven't you lost weight? Captain Qin, take a look at my sister Su, have you lost weight?"
After hearing what Li Yi said, Qin Yu looked at Su Qing seriously, then nodded, "You have indeed lost some weight."
"Oh, where's the money? I'll change your fuel." Su Qing decisively changed the subject.
Li Yi turned around and pointed to the cabin, "Look, it's all here."
Su Qing walked into the cabin and put all the boxes in the cabin into his backpack, then exchanged the fuel and put it back into the cabin.
Li Yi looked at how much money he had spent and only got a dozen barrels of fuel. He couldn't help but put his hands over his heart and said in a rather exaggerated manner, "I didn't know how much this thing really made my heart flutter until I saw it. This isn't just burning fuel, it's clearly burning money!"
Su Qing agreed with Li Yi's words. She felt painful every time she exchanged money. She didn't know how many bricks and tiles she could add to the base with so much money, but in the end, it was all burned.
She stood up and jumped out of the cabin. Just as she was about to speak, she suddenly saw thick smoke drifting in the distance. Su Qing pointed in that direction and said, "Hey! Look over there, there's thick smoke."
Qin Yu and Li Yi turned around after hearing Su Qing's words, and saw thick smoke billowing in the distance ahead. They didn't know what was burning, but under the current circumstances, the fire was indeed a bit strange.
"Shall we go and take a look?" Li Yi asked.
"Walking."
Su Qing put away the yurt on the ground and took Fuguier on the helicopter. Qin Yu controlled the helicopter to fly towards the place where the smoke was coming from. Soon they arrived at the place where the smoke was coming from. It seemed to be a small farm. A large pile of wood was burning in the open space in front of a two-story building. There was wet firewood on the wood that was burning violently, producing thick smoke. There was also the smell of gasoline in the air.
There seemed to be a big SOS written in red paint next to the campfire, and there was a person standing next to it, waving a red national flag at them. Qin Yu looked sideways and saw that a large area of snow had been cleared here, making it very convenient for landing, so he pressed the main control stick and landed directly.
After the helicopter landed, the three people and the dog got off one after another.
A red figure rushed over quickly. Qin Yu and Li Yi quickly pulled Su Qing back a few steps. Fuguier rushed over and bared his teeth, growling a warning at the newcomer.
"Oh, my dear ones! I finally see a living person! Wow, this Husky is so cute. I... I don't mean any harm! Don't bite me!"
The red thing on that man turned out to be a Chinese flag. He took off the flag to reveal his golden hair, three-dimensional facial features and blue eyes. He was actually a foreigner, but he was speaking fluent Chinese at that moment.
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The author has something to say: It’s positive... It’s been a week... After having a high fever for two days and two nights, I have been having a low fever, coughing, nasal congestion, body aches, feeling confused and without strength.
This is really not a cold. The symptoms of my family members are different but they are all very painful. We must pay attention to protection!
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