Chapter 75 Angel's Gift
Although the Dena family had many people, there were only seven people including Olicia. The boat was heavy, and due to the angle, they had no way to lift it up, let alone transport it to the bay.
"Don't leave! Come and help us! The boat is pressing on Sim!" Olicia's mother was anxious and confused, trying to pull the villagers who ran past her.
But at this moment, the volcano erupted another round of ejecta, which fell into the forest and exploded. The huge noise was like a death warrant.
The other party felt guilty under her pleading, and pulled her hand away: "I'm sorry, I still have family, I have to take care of them, sorry!"
Several people in a row did the same.
Uncle Chuck, who was on guard tonight, sighed and rushed over to help.
Everyone tried again, even Olicia cried and pushed hard. But the more anxious they were, the more panicked they became. The boat was pushed a little, but because several people were exhausted, it was pushed tighter again.
Olicia's father let out a suppressed cry of pain, reached out and grabbed his brother: "Li Fu, listen to me... it's too late, you can't push this boat, take Olicia and the others away!"
"Brother--"
"Stop talking, there's no time! If we delay any longer, we will all die here! Don't go to the cave, there are several small wooden boats in the bay... take everyone and the three of them..."
Sim looked sideways and didn't find Youxi and the other two. He thought they had abandoned them long ago to seek refuge. "Forget it, take your family and row the boat away! Row as far as you can..."
Several people looked at Sim with red eyes, feeling as if their bodies and hearts were torn apart. How could they abandon their loved ones and go alone?
But it was useless to stay here. The volcanic eruption was getting closer and closer. They could even hear the sound of grass and trees burning.
"Go, please, go..."
"Go!" Finally, it was Uncle Chuck who shouted.
Several people from the Dena family picked up their backpacks, one of them picked up the crying Olicia, and two of them grabbed Olicia's mother, ran out of the warehouse, and ran down the slope in panic.
Sim watched his relatives leave, and the pain spread again. He lay on the ground, and the sound of explosions was getting closer and closer to his ears, as if it fell on the roof next to him.
This fishing village where they have lived for generations will be completely destroyed this time, and he will be buried here with the fishing village.
Sim closed his eyes silently.
A stun gun appeared behind his neck and hit him without hesitation.
Sim twitched and fainted completely.
Youxi, wearing a gas mask, appeared and instantly put the boat into the transportation space. Then, she effortlessly carried Sim on her shoulders and rushed out of the warehouse in two or three steps. Under the attack of the volcanic rocks getting closer and closer, she ran towards the cliff.
Some houses around had already started to burn, and the flames rolled up the wood, making crackling sounds. The air was filled with smoke and ashes, and the flames were jumping, illuminating everything around.
Youxi looked back while running, and a burning volcanic rock exploded and flew towards her.
She accelerated again, and finally rushed to the edge of the cliff, jumped, and headed for the sea without hesitation.
Volcanic rocks exploded on the cliff, and rubble rolled down. After entering the water, Youxi quickly surfaced, put away the gas mask, swam two meters to the side, and found the unconscious Sim underwater.
She lifted his chin to lift him out of the water. Four hands reached out to help her pull Sim onto the rubber boat.
On the rubber boat were Youqi and Tang Yatong, who were soaking wet. They also wore gas masks. At Youxi's request, they jumped off the cliff into the sea first, and then swam to the rubber boat that Youxi had left, rowed to a safer area, and waited for her.
"Are you not hurt?" Youqi also saw the volcanic rock that had just fallen. It was so close that it frightened her.
"No." Youxi climbed onto the rubber boat swiftly and immediately released the fishing boat into the water.
"Where are the others? Why didn't they get off?"
"They went to the cave from the ramp." Youxi replied, and stopped talking. He picked up the oar and paddled hard.
Seeing this, Youqi knew that something must have happened. She stopped asking questions and, together with Tang Yatong, the three of them quickly paddled the rubber boat over.
Relying on his good skills, Youxi borrowed a little strength from a hanging rope and climbed onto the fishing boat.
She found a rope ladder on the deck, fixed it, and dropped down the boat. She climbed down the rubber boat again, letting Youqi and Tang Yatong go up first, then she carried the unconscious Sim, climbed the rope ladder to retrieve the rubber boat, and carried the man back into the fishing boat.
The few people didn't have time to talk, and continued to be busy.
Youxi checked the fuel tank first, then ran to the cockpit and started the fishing boat.
Tang Yatong and Youqi worked together to drag Sim into the cabin, then opened the door of a compartment, quickly took off the wet clothes inside, wiped their hair and body casually with a towel, and changed into soft, dry clothes.
Finally, Tang Yatong put away the wet clothes, took out two backpacks from the space, and she and Youqi each carried them.
The two men came out of the compartment. Tang Yatong took out a medical kit, half-crouched beside Sim, and began to check his legs.
Youxi had already driven the fishing boat around the cliff and headed towards the bay.
In the distance, she saw a small wooden boat moving slowly towards the sea.
**
Olicia leaned on her mother's arms, her body trembling with tears. Beside her were the other members of the Dena family and Uncle Chuck.
When they went down the slope and arrived at the bay, they saw that the other villagers of the fishing village were crowded in the cave on the opposite cliff.
There was more than one small wooden boat in the bay. Uncle Chuck called them and asked everyone to get on the boat and escape.
The volcano erupted, and the entire fishing village was within the eruption range, and the people under the cliff could not be spared.
What could they do if they hid in the cave? There was no water or food, and there was volcanic ash and fallen rocks everywhere, and there might even be magma spreading over. They had no choice but to die...
But maybe it was because the cave gave them a sense of security, the villagers hiding inside did not move for a while, until they saw the Dena family pushing the boat into the water, boarding one by one, and began to row towards the sea, some people could not help it.
In fact, the villagers did not understand the principle of sitting and waiting for death, but they were frightened by the sudden volcano, and subconsciously wanted to shrink in a safe space, holding a lucky mentality.
Now seeing someone trying to escape even with a boat, they suddenly felt uneasy.
Someone rushed out of the cave, surpassing the crowd, and ran desperately towards the sea. With the first one, there was naturally a second, a third...
Nearly half of the villagers rushed out of the cave and ran towards the remaining two boats.
But it was too late. With two bangs, two sudden volcanic rocks fell down, illuminating the dark night and exploding the gravel and sand on the bay. The villagers who ran in the front didn't even make a sound and fell to the ground.
The people behind screamed in panic, their legs softened and they fell to the ground directly. Some people turned around and fled back to the cave at a faster speed.
After this battle, no one dared to step out of the cave again. They used the light of the fire to watch the Dena family and Chuck rowing the boat away.
The erupting volcanic rocks became more and more dense, and some fell near the sea, splashing huge water. But the Dena family never stopped, as if they would rather escape from here even if it meant risking being hit by volcanic rocks.
"Faster!" On the boat, someone kept looking back at the erupting volcano, while rowing with all their might.
But their speed was still too slow, and the erupting volcanic rocks kept falling into the water behind them. They were almost like walking on the edge of a knife.
"Dad's boat!" Suddenly, Olicia raised her head from her mother's shoulder, she pulled her mother's clothes, and shouted, "It's Dad's boat! It's Dad!"
Everyone was startled, and looked in the direction she pointed, and sure enough, they saw the familiar fishing boat.
"Oh my God! How is this possible!? Was it blown down by the air current? The boat didn't break into pieces?"
"No, that's not right! Look, the boat is moving! It's coming towards us!"
...
A moment later, the Dena family and Uncle Chuck on the small wooden boat had already boarded the fishing boat. Everyone looked at the foreign traveler driving the boat in horror, not understanding what was going on.
Youxi continued to drive the boat forward until it was out of the danger range of the jet.
Youqi and Tang Yatong were still in the cabin at the back. She took the opportunity to explain: "I don't know what happened. We were trapped by the flames of the volcanic rock explosion. Later, we jumped off the cliff. Not long after swimming in the water, we saw this ship. By the way, there was another person in the cabin. He was still unconscious when we found him. Now my friends are taking care of him..."
Everyone:...
"It must be Dad!" Olicia was the first to react. She turned around and ran towards the cabin.
Youxi glanced at the other people who were still in shock and pointed in the direction of the cave: "Do you want to save them?"
Li Fu waved away the image in his mind of those people abandoning them and running for their own lives, and sighed: "Even if we are willing to go back and save them, it's too late!"
Youxi knew it was too late.
The dark volcanic ash had already been pressing over their fishing village little by little, covering the bay below the slope. The burning volcanic rocks were like falling shells, smashing all over the bay, illuminating the entire bay.
They could even see the desperate and sad faces exposed at the entrance of the cave...
The volcano was too close to the fishing village, and the area within a radius of several kilometers could not be spared.
But those were their villagers after all, and she was driving someone else's boat now, so she had to ask.
In fact, Youxi had just realized that the villagers might not have time to move the fishing boat, and was already prepared to expose the space to rescue people.
After all, this is just a stop on their journey. They won't stay here for long. As long as she refuses to admit it and escapes afterwards, she can minimize the danger to herself.
She didn't expect that this would happen when she took Youqi and Tang Yatong to the bushes beside the cliff, gave them a few instructions, took out and dropped the rubber boat, let them enter the water from the cliff, and waited on the safer water surface for a moment.
When she came back, she only saw Sim resolutely sending his relatives away.
Those villagers never thought that when they abandoned their companions and fled for their own lives, they also threw away their only chance of survival.
In peacetime, they were not such selfish people, but in the face of disaster, the instinct for survival made them subconsciously make a choice.
Chuck, with a thought of kindness and reluctance, saved a life.
The fishing boat broke through the waves and stopped for a moment when it reached completely safe waters. Everyone, including Sim who had woken up, was on the deck, looking at the fishing village completely engulfed by black smoke, with sad expressions.
The house they had lived in for many years, everything in the house, the little wealth they had accumulated with so much effort, and other villagers, all disappeared with the smoke and flames.
The hatred and pain they had just been abandoned had already become trivial matters in the face of life and death...
Everyone was suppressing a deep sadness in their hearts.
In front of nature, everything was too small.
Where should they go in the future, how should they live...
After a while, Youxi started the fishing boat again and headed southwest along the coastline.
**
Three days later, the fishing boat stopped at a small pier.
With Olicia reluctant to leave and the Dena family watching them with gratitude and worry, Youxi and the other two got off the boat with their backpacks on their backs.
According to Sim's instructions, they should go west from the pier to the fork in the road, choose the left intersection and go a few kilometers to return to the road they originally wanted to take.
If they want to replenish supplies, they can go one or two kilometers to the right at the fork in the road. There is a small town there.
Everything was fine before they escaped from the fishing village. I don't know if there will be any changes in these three days.
But no matter what, the Dena family felt that it was a bit risky for them to get off the boat and act alone here, mainly because they had no car and no supplies.
They really wanted them to stay on the boat and go with them to the next stop - a seaside town about two days away by boat.
There were many people and sufficient supplies there, as well as a hospital. Sim's injury had to be treated in the hospital, and they could also recuperate there for a few days before setting off again.
But for Youxi and the other two, three days of dry food was really almost the limit - especially Tang Yatong, who was still seasick. She vomited again and again in the past three days, and the medicine didn't work. She could only lie drowsily in the cabin every day.
The fishing boat was a bit broken, and the wind and waves on the sea were a bit strong. The boat was bumpy, and even Youqi felt a little uncomfortable, which made Youxi, who seemed to be completely fine, feel a little confused.
Even more unfortunately, the coastline that the fishing boat had passed by before was full of cliffs and deserted.
So, Tang Yatong could only continue to vomit.
So, when they knew there was a pier here and a road to get back to the road she originally wanted to take, the three of them unanimously decided to get off the boat.
For them, this sea voyage was like taking a shortcut, which saved a lot of time. They would still have to walk on their own for the rest of the journey.
Before Youxi was about to get off the boat, Olicia hugged her tightly, and then whispered in her ear in a voice that only she could hear: "Sister Xi, I know it was you who saved Dad and saved all of us... I also know that you are an angel sent by God, and you have other people to save and other missions to do...
Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about your affairs. Please take care of yourself. If you have time, you can fly over to see me at night... I will always miss you. This is a gift for you, thank you for saving us."
After the girl finished speaking, she spread her hands towards her. In her palm was a beautiful purple-red shell, small, round and cute.
Youxi took the shell, kissed the girl's soft cheek, and then whispered in her ear: "This is a kiss of blessing. I hope you and your loved ones can be safe and happy forever."
That day, until Youxi and the other two disappeared at the end of the pier, Olicia still stood on the deck, reluctant to leave.
Her mother came to hug her, but she felt a hard object outside her pocket. She reached out and took the object out, put it in the sun and looked at it, and suddenly exclaimed.
This... turned out to be a diamond necklace!
"Olicia, where did you get it from?"
The girl thought for a while and smiled brightly: "It's a return gift from the angel sister."
**
The town of Qiton.
This is a very small town, so small that when you stand at one end of the town, you can see the other end of the town at a glance.
Life in the town is boring, probably because the town is too small. It perfectly avoided two meteorite showers, which made some people who are eager to create chaos in the world feel very bored.
Victor and Anton are such a pair of idle brothers. They always think that if a meteorite falls on the town and causes the townspeople to flee in chaos, they can take advantage of the chaos to move a lot of supplies from the only supermarket in the town, and then take their loot and drive to a big adventure.
But it's just a thought. Even if everyone outside is panicking and saying that the end of the world is coming, life in the town remains unchanged.
Oh, actually there have been some changes. The only change is that in the past, there would be travelers passing by here every once in a while to replenish supplies, but now even the travelers passing by can't be seen.
Until one day, a strange silver RV slowly drove into the town and stopped at the door of the only supermarket in the town. Then the door opened and a young foreign girl got out of the car.
She was very beautiful, with long curly hair dyed golden and tied into a high ponytail at the back of her head. Black hair had grown at the roots. She pursed her lips slightly, and the moment she got out of the car, her eyes suddenly swept over, as if she realized that someone was watching her.
However, when her eyes fell on him and Anton beside him, her sharp eyes suddenly froze, and then turned back indifferently.
Youqi got out of the car after Youxi. Seeing that she looked to the side warily as soon as she got out of the car, she asked hurriedly, "What's wrong?"
"No, just two kids." She was sensitive and found that she was being stared at. She thought they were some evildoers, but it turned out that they were two fair-skinned teenagers from E country who were about fifteen or sixteen years old.
The two of them sat like adults. When she looked over, one of them pulled her hair hard, and the other pulled down half of his coat and showed off his arm muscles, looking particularly silly.
"Yeah." Youqi also looked sideways, and then went into the supermarket with Youxi.
They came to buy tools to reinforce the car. Although this town is small, it has everything. Not long after they drove in, they saw a car repair shop. They got
out of the car and asked the boss, who said that as long as the tools are complete, he would take any job.
The main reason they came to the town was to reinforce the RV. This RV was good in every way except that it had too many windows. There was a window above the kitchen, a window in the bathroom, and several large horizontal windows next to the double bed, the bench seat, and the driver's seat.
They planned to make it look like an SUV, adding iron bars outside the glass, and adding bumpers to the front and rear compartment to improve the safety index.
In the apocalypse, it doesn't matter whether the car looks good or not. The key is to make it sturdy.
Another thing is to have a comprehensive inspection, after all, they still have many days of travel waiting for them.
They had no plan to stay overnight in the town, so they spent most of the day reinforcing the car, went to the supermarket to buy some local food specialties and drinks, and then left the town. However
, not long after they left the town, they found a tail behind the car.
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