Chapter 141 Despair after the earthquake
Yes, being alive now is their greatest luck.
Xu Sichen checked the time on her phone. It was already past six in the evening. The sky was filled with dust and she couldn't see clearly even when she wanted to.
I don’t know if there will be aftershocks, and I don’t dare to walk around. I just stay where I am for the time being, waiting for the dust to settle and the aftershocks to disappear.
"We don't know how long we'll be staying here. Drink some water and eat something first." Xu Sichen said to Wei Mingliang in a low voice, while stuffing him a piece of bread and a bottle of water.
Wei Mingliang was completely stunned. No matter what Xu Sichen said or did, the endless fear that surged in his heart made him hold tightly to the people around him, fearing that if he was not careful, he would be the only one left in this world.
Only by feeling the warmth around him could he gradually regain the warmth that belonged to him.
After a while, some of the people who had followed them to the road seemed to have recovered one after another.
In the gray vision, Xu Sichen vaguely saw several figures staggering and slowly crawling up from the ground.
Someone stood up, then remained motionless, staring blankly ahead. Although he could not see anything, it still awakened the horrific memory of the previous moment.
As if he could no longer bear it, he collapsed again with a thud.
Gradually, waves of extremely suppressed sobs sounded in the silence.
The sobbing sounds became louder and louder, and more and more, finally turning into waves of desperate cries and calls for help.
I don’t know if it was good luck, but the dried-up flood waters allowed people to come out of their houses to celebrate, reducing the chance of being buried by collapsed houses.
Especially those who were lying on the road with Xu Sichen. Although some of them were injured by the flying stones, their lives were not in danger and they were not crushed under the buildings.
It was just a huge shock that made people unable to recover for a while.
It’s just that the earthquake came too quickly, and in the panic, relatives and friends were separated.
"Wu Li, Wang Wei, where are you, where are you?" Because of their concern for their families, many people got up from the ground with weak hands and feet, and stumbled forward, shouting out names one by one as they ran, before they had time to relieve the discomfort and pain after the earthquake.
They may be your parents, or your wife and children.
The hoarse shouts, as if filled with blood, made people feel despair.
He fell heavily to the ground before he could even run a few steps, his hands and feet covered in blood, but he seemed not to feel any pain at all. He struggled to get up and continued searching forward.
And more are cries for help.
"Help, is there anyone? Help me, my leg, my leg seems to be broken!"
"Wuwuwu, is there anyone who can save my son..."
Panicked cries for help floated in the dust.
More and more people are waking up, and more and more people are beginning to grope and walk in the dust.
Those stiff limbs looked just like the zombies Xu Sichen had seen on TV.
This desperate voice made even Xu Sichen, who had a heart as hard as iron, feel a little irritated.
"Stay here and don't wander around. I'll go take a look around!"
Wei Mingliang was completely awakened from his confusion. He suddenly grabbed Xu Sichen's hand and said in a panic, "Sister, where are you going? I, I'm going with you!"
After confirming that Wei Mingliang was not injured, Xu Sichen let him follow him.
She took out her dust goggles and put them on, following the sound of a child crying, and slowly groped her way over.
The visibility at night is too low, and with the dust all over the sky, even if the eyes have adapted to the darkness, one can only see some vague outlines. It is impossible to tell who is who unless you get close.
"Are you okay?" Xu Sichen asked the crying child on the ground.
The child was crying as he spoke, and although his words were a little unclear, Xu Sichen still understood what he meant.
His parents were trapped under a rock in an attempt to save him.
Xu Sichen and Wei Mingliang pushed the stone in front of them away together.
There were indeed two people underneath.
The man's skull was crushed and he was dead.
The woman under him had some scratches but a pulse, and it seemed that the huge pressure had stopped her breathing.
Fortunately, it didn't last long. Xu Sichen directly pressed her upper abdomen quickly, allowing her to recover from holding her breath.
The rescued mother and son hugged the man's body and burst into tears.
In this way, Xu Sichen took Wei Mingliang and walked slowly on the gravel road, and helped anyone who asked for help.
She is not a saint. In this hellish environment, despair and death are everywhere.
It was so depressing that she had to do something to relieve the depression in her heart.
During the period, we also met Qian Wenbin and several others and their families. Although some of them were injured, fortunately they were all safe and sound.
Grandma Zhang's family is also with them, and they almost lean against each other to support and snuggle up to each other.
Although everyone had fear on their faces, it seemed that because they had their families to rely on, there was less despair in their eyes.
After all, humans are a social species.
At four o'clock in the morning, the dust in the sky finally slowly receded a lot, and people's visual range also expanded a lot.
They saw their fellow human beings wandering in despair, saw skyscrapers that had become ruins, and even more so, they saw the bright moon hanging in the night sky.
The bright moon of wild rice?
Is this nature's mockery of human beings who overestimate their own capabilities?
After the silence, the scene erupted in even greater sorrow and crying as they saw their homes gone, collapsed into a pile of ruins.
"Oh my God, why don't you even give us the last chance to survive? Wuwuwu..."
"My food reserves! If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have saved them. Woo woo woo..."
"After such a loud earthquake, I'm lucky to have survived. Even if my house is gone, it's gone."
"Luckily the weather has warmed up now, otherwise we would all have frozen to death."
At the same time, compared with the despair of residents in other communities, the owners of Central Garden Community seem to have seen hope in despair.
Compared to the large amount of waste around it, the buildings in the community are still standing there firmly.
After seeing this scene, Xu Sichen breathed a sigh of relief.
Although she lost her place to live, with her ability, she could just find a new one.
But there is no house more comfortable than the one she lives in now.
A group of people stumbled towards the community, ignoring the wounds on their bodies.
When we get a clear view of the situation in the community, we see that some are happy and some are worried.
It turns out that the community is not intact.
There were basically no problems with the first few low-rise buildings, with only a few cracks appearing here and there.
The situation of the high-rise buildings at the back was much worse. Several buildings had completely collapsed, several buildings had half collapsed, and some were tilted and had cracks.
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