Chapter 7 Survival from Death
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Yuan Qi’s sister is Yuan Qi, a female special police officer with high combat power.
Before the tsunami hit, the water sports team that Yuan Qi participated in and the water sports team of Youxi Company were playing activities in the same offshore pontoon area.
They all signed up for the sea parachute landing. The first person to discover that something was wrong with the sea was Yuan Qi. She was flying in the air at the time and had a clear view.
When the tsunami hit L Island yesterday, it rolled up huge waves of tens of meters high, but when it passed this sea area, the waves were only five or six meters high. Yuan Qi immediately shouted, wanting the people on the speedboat to collect the parachutes, but the people below did not hear her, nor did they notice the waves in the distance.
Yuan Xing made a prompt decision, unfastened the safety buckle of the parachute, and jumped directly into the sea. When she fell into the water, her angle was a little off, and her arm was injured and dislocated. The people on the speedboat found her in the water and immediately retreated to rescue her.
She endured the severe pain and immediately asked the speedboat driver to adjust the direction and drive at full speed towards the tsunami.
At that time, in addition to the driver of the speedboat, there was also a local coach assisting the parachute work and seven or eight tourists waiting to play parachute.
Yuan Xing's flip made everyone confused. In addition, the L islanders were not proficient in international languages, and the communication problems and the numerous inquiries delayed a little time.
In the end, Yuan Xing knocked the coach unconscious, dragged the driver to the driving area, and used force to force him to assist her and let her drive the boat.
Yuan Xing had received training in various aspects and could drive a speedboat. After getting familiar with it, she immediately turned the bow and rushed towards the tsunami at full speed.
The speedboat driver was stunned for a moment before he discovered the abnormality in the sea ahead. He was frightened and screamed in panic, then rolled and crawled to the contact intercom at the back to notify the staff on the offshore pontoon to evacuate everyone immediately.
However, in a crisis, how many people can deal with it as calmly as Yuan Xing.
Xiaolu was on the speedboat driven by Yuan Xing at the time. She, Fang Zichen and a female colleague named Mangmang were planning to play the sea parachute project.
At first, she thought Yuan Qing was a psychopath or an antisocial person who was going to commit suicide. However, when she learned about the tsunami, she was so frightened that her face turned pale. She tightly grasped Zi Chen beside her and trembled as she looked at the people in the sea in front of her.
The floating platform on the sea is very large and can accommodate more than a hundred people. It has a sunshade roof, simple shower and changing rooms, and a service counter.
There are many sea projects around: banana boats, snorkeling, motorboats, sea parachutes...
When their yacht was tilted and bumped towards the tsunami, those who were still trapped in the sea could only scream in despair.
Some people rode motorboats to rush through the tsunami like them, but they were overturned by the waves halfway through; some people were hanging in the air and crying helplessly, but as the speedboat below overturned, the people were dragged into the sea in an instant as if they were entangled by tentacles and disappeared; the floating platform on the sea was overturned and broken, and the people were like fragile building blocks, scattered and swallowed up as the floating platform collapsed.
When have you ever seen such a scene in peacetime? It was like being in hell on earth. There
were screams all around, and even the speedboat driver on their speedboat, who used the walkie-talkie to warn people, was thrown out by the bumpy speedboat because he did not hold on to the hull.
The reason was that because his right hand was injured, he could not completely stabilize his body, and his waist was stabbed by a sharp object when he fell.
"... After we rushed through the tsunami and came back, there was nothing left on the sea. Li Hui, Zhang Yuan... Everyone was gone... There were only three of us left."
Fang Zichen lay on the sofa in an empty room on the fifth floor, his face pale and haggard due to blood loss and the fear of not sleeping all night at sea.
He thought You Xi, like other colleagues, had died in the tsunami. Now seeing her standing in front of him, he felt excited and emotional. She stood there, looking at him with a calm gaze like she had every time in the past. This feeling made him familiar and at ease.
He reached out and held her hand: "It's so good to see that you are okay, so good... You don't know, when the tsunami came yesterday, I..." At this point, his voice was choked with sobs.
"Zi Chen!" Meng Lu rushed forward and stroked his face worriedly, "You are still injured, don't get too excited, Xixi is fine, I am fine, you are fine, the three of us are fine!"
Mang Mang, who was sitting next to him, heard it and moved her lips, but in the end she didn't say anything.
Meng Lu's action invisibly squeezed You Xi, who was originally standing next to the sofa. She raised her eyebrows. Didn't the other party say in front of her yesterday that he didn't like him and only regarded him as a friend? Today he swore his sovereignty?
The water outside was almost flooding the fourth floor. She didn't have the time to continue to get involved in the melodramatic relationship between men and women, so she directly pointed out: "Xiaolu, are you and Zichen together?"
"Xixi?" Xiaolu turned back with embarrassment and worry, "I..."
"Don't be so scared." Youxi smiled at her, "It's good that you can be together. It's really good to communicate with each other when disaster strikes. I wish you all the best."
"Youxi!" Fang Zichen looked at her in astonishment, as if he couldn't believe she actually said such a thing.
Even Meng Lu was full of surprise. After all, she was the only one in the world who knew how much Youxi liked Zichen. She looked suspicious: "Xixi, you..."
She wanted to ask what happened, but when she thought of Fang Zichen's excitement and joy when he saw that she was still alive, she changed her words, "Xixi, do you have any water? We haven't eaten anything since yesterday afternoon..."
After the tsunami, there was a sudden heavy rain. Yuan Qing didn't dare to return to the ship under such circumstances and decided to stay on the sea for the time being. As a result, they stayed on the sea for a whole night.
The speedboat was provided for tourists to play parachuting at sea. They searched the entire boat but only found three half-drunk bottles of water, a few packs of biscuits, and half a barrel of spare oil.
In addition to the original eight or nine people on the speedboat, several more people were rescued later. The things they had were not enough, and most of them were provided to Yuan Qing, because she was the only one who could drive a speedboat and identify directions.
The disaster happened too suddenly, and no one was prepared. Clothes, food, water... all the way to the hotel, everything around was swept away by the tsunami.
She didn't feel it before, but now that she was in a safe room, she felt her throat dry and hoarse, and her stomach ached.
But when she spoke, Meng Lu suddenly felt her cheeks getting hot. In the past, when the two of them were together, she had always been the dominant one, confident and carefree. Now she spoke like this, as if she was begging the other party...
She was not used to begging You Xi so humbly - especially at this moment when she was tired, hungry, thirsty, and her hair was messy, and the whole person was in a mess, while Ye Xi standing in front of her was dressed neatly, with a rosy and calm face, and completely avoided the disaster of yesterday.
This gap made her feel strange for the first time. She didn't like this feeling very much and subconsciously wanted to show her closeness to Zichen in front of him.
You Xi glanced at her, took off her backpack, opened it directly, took out a bag of bread, three bars of chocolate and two 500 ml bottles of water. Ignoring the other party's eyes still looking into her bag, she put the things on the coffee table and glanced at Mang Mang: "These are all I have. You guys can prepare first. The hotel should still be distributing breakfast now. You can ask the hotel staff later."
Mang Mang was a staff member in another office. She was not particularly familiar with them. She was a fresh graduate and very young at only 21 years old.
She must have been very hungry at this moment. She glanced at Fang Zichen and asked him in a soft voice, "Brother Fang, can I have a piece of bread?"
The bag of bread was quite big, with seven or eight carrot buns in it. The upper part of the crust was roasted to a golden brown, and the lower part was white with carrot shreds embedded in it. It looked delicious.
"Of course you can. You are hungry too. Eat it quickly. Take a piece of chocolate too." Fang Zichen said kindly.
When the two of them lowered their heads to unwrap the bread, Xiaolu looked down at Mangmang, who had a slender figure and a gentle face, and her face looked a little ugly.
These things were obviously what she asked for, and they were not enough for her and Fang Zichen to eat. But there was also a burden. How could she eat them without doing anything? After
Youxi gave the food, she put on her bag again and planned to leave.
"Xixi, where are you going? Aren't you coming with us?" Fang Zichen noticed her movements and suddenly became anxious, even wanting to get up and pull her.
"I'm going to see my friend." She didn't explain too much, but when she turned around, she saw a young man standing at the door of the room with a medical kit.
In order to facilitate rescue, the doors of the rooms on the fifth floor have been open in recent years. She didn't know how long he had been standing there, how much he had seen and heard.
Although she didn't care about these things, she didn't like the feeling of being spied on. She glanced at him and walked straight out.
"I'm here to bandage it." Lin Wu explained to her, and when he saw her stop and look at him, he stretched out his hand to her, "Hello, I'm Lin Wu."
"You Xi." She shook hands with him.
"I know you. I heard from Ximan that you speak the local language very well."
"Not bad, we can communicate."
"Will you have time later? I want to ask you for help with something."
"What I can do for you--" You Xi thought about it for a moment and thought, "Do you want me to translate?"
"Yes, it's the shortwave radio station that I occasionally tune into." After the tsunami, the phone was disconnected, and the mobile phone and the Internet also lost signal one after another. Now L Island is isolated from the world.
If the sea water had receded yesterday, this would probably be just an ordinary disaster. But until this morning, the sea water did not recede but rose instead. He had some bad guesses based on the messages he had just received from Yuan Xing.
It's just that these explanations are not convenient to say in the corridor where people come and go. He just hopes that the other party will not refuse outright.
Youxi was not stupid. When the other party mentioned that the radio needed translation, she guessed something. So she nodded to him and said, "Okay, when you are done here, come find me next door."
Yuan Qi was seriously injured and had to undergo surgery. Naturally, Yuan Qi did not leave with the first batch of rescuers. She didn't care at first, but now she wanted to listen to Lin Wu's opinion before making a decision.
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Ten minutes later, Lin Wu, who had treated Fang Zichen's wound, entered the room where Yuan Qi was: "Wait two minutes, everyone will be here soon."
After a while, several people walked into the room one after another. Fang Zichen, Xiaolu and Mangmang were among them. There was also a couple with a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old. Youxi had seen this family of three before. They lived on the same floor as them. The last two young couples who came in were friends with each other.
"These are all the remaining Beijingers in the hotel." Lin Wu explained briefly.
These people were in good spirits. No one was injured except Fang Zichen who had just arrived at the hotel. In addition, they did not want to be separated from their families, so they were not arranged to leave in the first batch.
There were fourteen people in total, filling up the small room. After everyone came in, Lin Wu told the last person to close the door.
On the side, Yuan Qi sat up slightly with the help of Yuan Qi. Yuan Qi also put Yuan Yuan on the bed, and then gave him a picture book, and he started to draw by himself.
Fang Zichen wanted to go to Youxi's side, but there were too many small people in the room, so he had to give up after moving two steps and sat down on the sofa beside him.
Xiaolu supported him and took the first step to sit down next to him. Seeing this, Mangmang told the family of three that he would give up the position on this side to them, and stood on the other side, leaning against the armrest of the sofa.
"Okay, let me talk about the current situation first. Let me talk about the news brought by Yuan Ning first." Before, he performed suturing surgery on Yuan Ning. Because there was no anesthesia, the other party woke up in pain. In order to divert attention, the two finally started chatting.
Yuan Ning brought the situation outside the island. After the tsunami subsided, she carefully identified the direction and drove towards the coral island. However, she found nothing except the remaining buildings, trees and other debris.
The entire coral island was gone. Not only that, after dawn, when they took a nearly two-hour boat ride from the vicinity of the coral island to L Island, she did not see any island above the water.
There were originally many small islands between the two islands, and they were not large in area, but now the sea is endless, as if you are in the open sea.
"When I saw the water did not recede this morning, I thought it might be due to the terrain. Maybe the water level at the coast has dropped, and the terrain here is low, so the seawater is still accumulating, but now..."
Lin Wu said, his eyes swept across everyone's faces, "Our judgment is that the sea level has risen."
The family of three and the two couples were all lucky ones. They happened to be in the hotel yesterday and did not go out. Naturally, they did not know the situation outside. When they heard this, their faces changed a little, and they all looked at Yuan Xing who was lying on the bed.
Yuan Qing nodded: "I don't know why, but it's true. There is no road on L Island now. It took us a long time to get back to this hotel. When we drove the boat around, we found that almost everyone was heading in the same direction. I looked from a distance and that should be Wanghai Mountain where the rescue was transferred."
"Then are we going there too?" Xiao Lu couldn't help asking.
Yuan Qing looked at Lin Wu and said, "We must go, but there is something I need to tell you first. There may be no external aid on the island in the short term."
"Where did you get the news from?" As soon as this sentence came out, almost everyone couldn't help but ask him where the news came from and why.
"My mobile phone has a built-in AM function." He said, taking out his mobile phone.
Youxi realized that because the phone had no network signal, the FM app could not be used unless the phone had a built-in FM module.
However, the FM band can only receive local channels, and although AM has a long transmission distance, the signal is unstable. It has been less than 24 hours since the disaster yesterday, and everyone is looking for their lost relatives and trying to survive. In this situation, very few people would think of using A numbers.
At least she didn't think of it.
Lin Wu connected the phone with headphones, and after debugging, he handed one of the headphones to You Xi: "I know a little Haiguo, but the signal of this channel is unstable, and the sound is very fuzzy. I can't be sure. It seems to be playing a message in a loop."
You Xi took the headphones: "Why don't you ask the hotel staff for help?"
For example, Ximan.
Although Ximan doesn't speak Beijing dialect, he speaks international languages ok. It's impossible that Lin Wu can't understand international languages?
Lin Wu can understand the doubts in her eyes, but he has his own considerations. He went to You Xi to confirm it again.
"I don't trust them. Maybe you don't know, but half of the hotel employees ran away in the middle of the night yesterday, and took away some food and supplies."
His eyes swept over the people who were hesitant to speak again, "Don't worry, I'm not 100% sure about the news of external rescue. Let's wait until she finishes translating."
Everyone's eyes were focused on You Xi, including Fang Zichen. Xiao Lu, who was sitting next to him, looked at him, then at You Xi, and whispered in Fang Zichen's ear with an unexpected look on her face: "She can speak Haiguo dialect? Never heard of it? Let her translate such important news, okay?"
This attracted the middle-aged woman from a family of three sitting on the other side of the sofa to look back. Fang Zichen frowned and motioned Xiao Lu not to speak.
You Xi turned a deaf ear and took the headphones and put them on. Ten minutes later, she took off the headphones with a serious face: "The situation on the capital island of Haiguo is even worse. Because of its low terrain, most of it has been submerged by the sea... The president of Haiguo and several senior officials were caught in the tsunami yesterday and their whereabouts are unknown. The Haiguo government is now in chaos and they are also seeking foreign aid... The officials of the various islands of Haiguo are calling on everyone to save themselves."
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