Chapter 57 Bridge Escape
"The bridge deck is cracked!" After someone shouted in fear, the people nearby were suddenly shocked and confused. Others also saw the cracks in front of several cars.
On the gray-white concrete bridge deck, several cracks as wide as two fingers were stretched across it, winding vertically and horizontally. The bridge deck on both sides of one of the cracks had a height difference of nearly ten centimeters. The front wheels of the first few cars were stuck in this gap.
If the car was forced to drive through the gap of more than ten centimeters, it could still be driven through, but now it was on a cross-river bridge, and there was such a large gap on the bridge deck. Who would dare to drive through it!
The people in the cars got out to check the situation and discussed whether to call the police. Little did they know that the bridge started to shake at this moment.
After the first vibration, there were several more. Some people found that the gap that was originally two wide had become four or five fingers wide. It seemed that a black hole had opened up on the bridge deck. The gap that was originally only at the front wheel of the car had spread to the front of other cars behind.
"No! Back off!" Someone stood up and prepared to abandon the car.
"Where is the car! What should we do with the car?" There were also family members in the car who asked anxiously.
"How can we drive in such a jam! No matter what, get out of the car and run! Human life is important!" With a clear mind, he immediately dragged his family back.
"Wait - my bag is still in the car!"
"No! Let's go!"
...
Behind several cars, people who didn't hear the shouting and didn't know the situation were still moving forward, complaining why the car in front didn't move away, asking if there was a car accident. Even if there was a car accident, they shouldn't be so uncivilized as to block the bridge?
"Hey, whose car is that in front of you? If you want to solve something, shouldn't you move the car aside first? Everyone is rushing home to eat, this is too much! If this continues, I will call the police--"
A person raised his neck and shouted forward, but before he finished speaking, he was hit by someone running backwards. He didn't hold the mobile phone in his hand firmly, and it fell to the ground.
He quickly bent down to pick it up, and another person in front ran backwards and almost stepped on his mobile phone.
He quickly blocked the other person's foot, picked up the phone while cursing, and slowly stood up while carefully checking his phone. This is a new phone he just bought last week, and he must not break the screen.
Fortunately, because of the protection of the phone case, the screen of the phone is fine. He wiped the phone twice, and just when he was about to put it away, another person came and bumped into him without any care, and the phone he just picked up fell to the ground again.
The man was so angry that he grabbed the person who bumped into him and refused to let him go.
"Why are you pulling me! Are you sick? I'm running for my life!" The other person stared and struggled hard, and seeing that he refused to let go, he punched him directly, and after breaking free, he ran to the other side of the bridge in a panic again.
The unlucky guy who dropped his phone twice and got punched finally stood up and realized that not only the person in front of him was running backwards, but also the people in the car next to him were running backwards.
The lanes for the left and right directions of this cross-river bridge are separated in the middle. They were running backwards here, and the people on the opposite side were desperately driving forward.
Not far ahead, a black private car was trying to reverse and drive back through the emergency lane, but the cars behind were so congested that the car couldn't turn around. However, it drove back more than a meter and directly hit the front of a car behind it.
The owner of that car was nearby and immediately cursed at the black car.
The owner of the black car got out of the car and ran along the emergency lane, completely ignoring the curses behind him.
"The bridge deck is cracked! Everyone, run back! Quick!" Finally, someone ran while shouting to warn the people around.
The poor guy who had not seen the situation with his own eyes and was still hesitant was frightened by the tense scene. He was squeezed by the crowd and took two steps back. Finally, he reacted and turned around and ran back.
Before he could run a few steps, the entire bridge deck began to shake violently. He heard a kind of numbing snapping sound from behind him, dull, heavy but continuous.
He subconsciously looked back and saw that the cars that were originally blocking the front had sunk diagonally.
On such a cross-river bridge, what does the collapse of the bridge deck mean! ?
The man's heart was beating violently, and he ran very fast, toward the bridge, squeezing through the crowd, passing through the gaps between cars, as if a ghost was chasing him from behind.
When he passed a car, he picked up a young woman from the hood of the car. He couldn't brake and almost collided with her.
However, the other party reacted quickly, and I don't know how she did it. She braked in time, stopped her steps and body, and stopped on the spot, avoiding a collision with him. The man didn't have time to say sorry, and continued to rush forward like his life depended on it.
You Xi walked around the front of the car, opened the passenger door, unbuckled Zhao Xuefei's seat belt, and pulled her out of the car: "Hurry up, the bridge is cracked!"
"What!?" Zhao Xuefei was originally arguing with the man on WeChat. The other party asked her to return the branded bag, and she told him to eat shit. Before she finished typing and sent it out, she was pulled down by You Xi. She didn't have time to admire the other party's strength, and hurriedly said: "My bag!"
You Xi pulled her bag off and hung it around her neck, then leaned into the car to take out the car key, and then closed the car door and locked the car.
When she dragged Zhao Xuefei towards the rear of the car, she put one hand on the car body and threw all the cosmetics, perfumes and watches she had bought in the back seat into the Xingwu warehouse.
At this moment, she was glad that she was thoughtful and had put a one-way film on her father's car early in the morning. From the outside, one could not see into the car at all, and it was even more impossible to notice the disappearance of the items in the back seat.
After collecting the things, she began to speed up and pulled Zhao Xuefei to retreat to the back of the bridge.
No matter what the situation in front was like, no matter how serious it was, they were now one-third of the way along the bridge. They were too passive. If something really happened, they would not be able to escape in time.
After running a few steps, the bridge deck fell down again.
This movement was greater than the previous ones. People around screamed, some people fell to the ground because they could not stand steadily, and some people held on to the car next to them to barely stabilize their bodies, dragging their weak legs and running back desperately.
At this time, no one was watching the excitement anymore. Even those who were sitting at the back noticed something was wrong. Some people had quick response to the crisis. Once they noticed something was wrong, they immediately abandoned the bus and turned around to run.
Some people were busy asking their family members to get off the bus, and then wanted to go back to the bus to get their bags and mobile phones. Some cars still had children who didn't know what was going on, and they were picked up by their parents with grim faces.
Everyone was in chaos, and the doors of the cars opened and closed. Some people were so panicked that they bumped into the doors and fell to the ground. When they tried to get up again, they were hit by people running behind them.
Passengers on several buses and public transports all ran out, and the lanes were blocked by the crowds of people. People at the back thought the people in front were running too slowly, so they reached out and pushed them hard.
The people in front of them were not standing steadily and fell down. The lucky ones could still struggle to get up, but the unlucky ones were trampled by the people behind them.
"Don't step on them--don't step on them..." The voices calling for help quickly faded.
The bridge had not collapsed yet, but the panicked crowd became a more terrible killing weapon.
They had only one thought in their minds: run! Run quickly! Run off the bridge!
Even You Xi was pushed and squeezed by people a few times. Although she would not fall down because of her physical strength, Zhao Xuefei had stumbled several times.
Zhao Xuefei was wearing ten-centimeter high heels, and she had to be careful even when walking on flat ground, let alone in this situation. You Xi dragged her for two or three hundred meters. She misstepped and twisted her ankle. She screamed in pain.
You Xi was quick-witted and lifted Zhao Xuefei to the hood of the car in front. He also jumped on the front of the car.
"Take off your shoes!" You Xi ordered, and turned back to observe the situation on the bridge.
Several cars in the crack of the bridge had sunk so deep that even the roofs of the cars could hardly be seen. Cars that had passed the crack before were now speeding towards the other side of the bridge. However, the more panicked, the more crowded it was. Some cars collided with each other, blocking two lanes. Some people saw that things were not going well and abandoned their cars and started running.
The situation on the left lane was the same. No matter where she looked, she saw panicked faces pushing and shoving each other, desperate to escape off the bridge.
The central area of the bridge was cleared, and she relied on her superior vision to find that the right lane where they were was the one that had collapsed, and the left lane was temporarily fine. However, due to the large magnitude of the collapse, one part of the bridge had tilted slightly, and several bridge railings at the collapsed part had broken off.
You Xi frowned and looked back. Zhao Xuefei had already taken off her shoes. She gave up the idea of letting her run barefoot, and without saying a word, she stepped forward and carried her on her back.
"You, what are you doing?" she was shocked.
"Don't make noise, or I'll leave you here." She stopped the other person's voice with just one sentence.
She easily carried Zhao Xuefei on her back, stepped onto the roof from the front hood of the car, then jumped off the trunk and began to run quickly.
She ran to wherever there was space and few people, occasionally helping someone who was about to fall, and occasionally kicking other open car doors to clear a passage for the people behind.
Zhao Xuefei only felt the wind blowing past her ears, while the person carrying her breathed evenly from beginning to end, and did not lose his pace no matter how others pushed and squeezed or whether the bridge was shaking.
The distance of seven or eight hundred meters soon came to the end, and they finally arrived at this end of the bridge safely.
During this period, the bridge body fell down several times again. Everyone could feel the bridge deck shaking violently. Every shake and fall made everyone terrified. They were afraid that if they ran a little slower, the bridge body would collapse completely and everyone would fall into the abyss.
Falling from such a height, even if you were not squeezed and hit by the broken bridge body, falling into the water would feel no different from falling directly on the concrete floor.
Fortunately, this cross-river bridge was not a shoddy project. Until most people rushed off the bridge crying, the bridge deck did not collapse on a large scale.
After reaching the safe area, many people dragged their trembling legs to run to Binjiang Avenue and looked back at the bridge. They found that the middle part of the right lane of the bridge had sunk a long way downward, the bridge railings were broken, the bridge deck was tilted, and all the cars in that area were tilted and sunk.
Several cars had already slid to the bridge railings following the tilt of the bridge deck, with half of the front of the car sticking out. It was horrible and abnormal...
Such scenes are common in movies, but rarely seen in such a peaceful era. After experiencing it personally, people realized how small and helpless humans are before a disaster...
Ambulances and fire trucks rushed in one after another. Many people had injuries on their bodies, all caused by the squeeze, collision and fall just now, but those who could run down the bridge by themselves at this moment only had minor injuries.
Those who fell and were trampled by many people and never stood up again were still unconscious on the bridge deck between the cars.
Those who recovered and watched the medical staff and firefighters quickly run up the bridge to rescue, and then they realized what they had just done.
Apologies, remorse, guilt and fear came one after another. Obviously, if there was no crowding and pushing, everyone could get off the bridge safely, but at that time, most people only wanted to get themselves safe as soon as possible...
**
Zhao Xuefei's ankle was seriously sprained. After surviving the disaster, she was completely in a daze. She didn't even respond when the doctor asked her if it hurt when checking her ankle.
You Xi accompanied her to the hospital and called Fan Qi on the way.
Fan Qi didn't watch the news and didn't know about this. When he heard about it, he first asked her if she was injured. When he knew that she was not injured, he immediately abandoned the car and ran away, and even praised her a few words. Finally, Fan Qi asked her to stay with Xuefei in the hospital for the time being, and she would help her notify You Li from here.
In the hospital emergency room, when the doctor treated Zhao Xuefei's ankle, she finally responded - a reaction caused by pain, crying and shouting in pain, so miserable.
When the treatment was over, Zhao Xuefei was sweating from the pain. She looked at herself and found that her shoes were gone, her stockings were torn, her hair was messy, and her makeup was smudged. On the other hand, You Xi had fair cheeks, a neat ponytail, a white T-shirt, black sports pants and sneakers. She looked the same as before.
Although they had experienced a chaos together, her expression was still indifferent. At this moment, she had her hands in her trouser pockets, half leaning against the wall, watching the news about the bridge crisis on the hanging TV next to her.
In fact, Zhao Xuefei didn't want to compare herself with Youxi all the time, but from childhood to adulthood, whenever the two of them appeared together, there would inevitably be others who would compare them together.
——Look at the girl from the old house of the You family. Wow, the little girl has the advantages of both parents and is really beautiful!
——Oh, this is from the third child's family. I remember that the third child was very pretty. How come this girl...
——She looks like her father. None of her mother's advantages were inherited. Alas, what a pity...
——Shh, be gentle, the child can hear you. Haha, Xuefei, have you eaten yet? Don't listen to them. You are also very cute... ……
When
she was young, all the members of the You family lived with Grandpa You in the big bungalow that had not been demolished. When Zhao Xuefei was very young, she could not understand what others said, but she could feel the eyes of others.
There is a huge difference between the look of admiration, surprise and love and the look of pity and compassion.
She is just a child, and she also hopes that others can look at her with love.
She ran home to ask Yuli, but she saw Yuli sitting in front of the dressing table at the door, applying her lipstick to Yuxi's lips, and then applying eye shadow to her.
She has liked those cosmetics for a long time. Once, she took advantage of Yuli's absence and secretly applied them on her face. As a result, Yuli came back and screamed, hurriedly washed her face, and angrily told her not to play with them in the future.
She was frightened that time. In her mind, these cosmetics were things she couldn't touch, but why could Youxi do what she couldn't? Yuli even smiled and did her makeup herself?
That night, she cried in front of Yuli and asked her if she liked Youxi or not? If she looked as pretty as Youxi, would everyone like her?
Yuli was stunned for a long time.
After that day, she never saw her mother hug Youxi again.
Later, as she grew older, many childhood memories gradually faded, but everything related to Youxi was preserved intact.
Zhao Xuefei imitated everything from Youxi to rebel, determined to surpass Youxi. Even though Youxi never cared about these, she still persisted in this one-on-one competition.
You Li came very quickly. As soon as she entered the room, she rushed over and looked Zhao Xuefei up and down. Seeing her swollen ankles and her messy body, she immediately became furious and asked You Xi: "What's going on! Why are you with our Xuefei? Why is she like this?"
The questioning voice was too loud and attracted the attention of other injured people nearby. The man glanced at You Li and said: "There was an accident on the cross-river bridge. Many people were injured. Someone was trampled on the bridge and is now in the emergency room. Your daughter is very lucky."
"I didn't ask you!" You Li was arrogant. She glared at the man and looked at You Xi again, "You say!"
You Xi spread her hands: "Didn't you hear everything just now? She is very lucky. She was wearing ten-centimeter high heels and still got off the bridge alive."
"What did you say? How can you talk like that!" Yu Li's face changed.
"Mom..." Zhao Xuefei looked at the people next to her with embarrassment, "Don't be like this, it has nothing to do with my cousin, she saved me... Speak softly, this is a hospital, you are yelling like this without knowing the truth..."
"What's wrong? I'm just worried about you, but you are disgusted with me..." Yu Li rolled her eyes at her daughter, took out a makeup remover wipe from her bag, and helped her wipe her face.
Zhao Xuefei tried to hide but couldn't avoid it: "Mom, what are you doing?"
"Wipe it off, it's all stained..."
Seeing that she had nothing to do here, You Xi said hello to the two of them and left the emergency room.
**
You Feng's car is still on the bridge across the river, and the bridge has been blocked. The car near the collapsed part was lifted and moved away, and the car near the bridge head on this side was towed down. All other cars were temporarily unable to move. People could not go up to retrieve the cars until the emergency repair of the bridge deck was completed.
For Youxi, it was good to get the car back. There was nothing in the car anyway, and it would not be a problem for a few days.
She called a car with her mobile phone, and not long after getting in the car, Zhao Xuefei sent a WeChat message.
She rarely sent WeChat messages to her, but this time she sent several messages in a row.
Heavy snow: Thank you for today.
Heavy snow: My mother is like that, don't worry about it.
When Youxi was checking, new news came again.
Heavy snow: ...Actually, I'm not as miserable as you see. How could a smart person like me be devoted to that kind of person! I don't like him that much, I have other boyfriends outside, so no one is at a disadvantage!
However, this message only lasted for a few seconds before it was withdrawn by the other party.
You Xiaoxi: ...I have seen it.
Daxuefenfei: ...
You Xi smiled, put down her phone, and found that the taxi drove onto the ferry across the river.
She looked at the bridge across the river in the night, and the collapsed hole was particularly conspicuous even at night.
The taxi driver was also looking in the direction of the bridge. As he looked, he sighed and said, "Oh, what's wrong with the world? There was a tornado at the beginning of the month, and today there was an accident on the bridge again. Fortunately, I decided to have dinner early today, otherwise I would be trapped on the bridge... Oh, I heard that many people were trampled while escaping, and two of them are still in the intensive care unit. It's so pitiful..."
You Xi said nothing.
The other party didn't seem to need her to reply, and continued to speak with a sigh: "The first batch of experts who investigated said that it was not a quality problem during construction. It seemed that some plants or something else caused the bridge deck to break? Oh, this is too ridiculous. The bridge is so high and above the water. Where did the plants come from? What's more, there is no plant in the world that can crack steel bars and cement. It's nonsense... I think it's a quality problem. They must have cut corners..."
You Xi listened to the driver's complaints and slowly frowned.
That night, she returned to her parents' apartment. They were both very worried about her. Even though they knew she was fine, they were very scared just to imagine that their baby daughter was stuck on the bridge when the bridge broke down.
You Xi had something on her mind, so she ate some food that Fan Qi had left for her. After washing up, she went back to her room to rest early. She checked the news before going to bed, but the information on the Internet was very confusing and she couldn't make out anything.
She woke up very early the next day and opened the curtains. The sky of the entire S city was gloomy. She opened the window a little. It was still very hot outside. Today, it seemed to be a little humid in this heat.
It started to rain when she was having breakfast downstairs.
The rain was not heavy, just a few fine raindrops. You Xi took out her mobile phone to check the weather forecast, but the voice of the system came in her head.
[The apocalyptic disaster is covering G Blue Star. Host, please improve your strength, continue to upgrade the star house, and strive to survive! ]
[...Good luck. 】
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