Chapter 90 Human Nature
Each coal stove is also filled with water on the outside.
This way she won't have to boil water for washing or bathing.
As more coal was put into the stove, the temperature in the room soon rose slowly from below zero to above zero.
Then he took out the extra empty buckets and water tanks in the space and started placing them in the bathroom to continue draining water.
The water flow is not large, but as long as the water flows, the chance of water pipes freezing and bursting can be greatly reduced.
Through the bathroom window, Xu Sichen vaguely saw dim lights still flashing on the water outside.
If it's minus three or four degrees Celsius indoors, the temperature outside will only be lower.
She took out a telescope and saw that the only ships left outside were rescue ships. The rescue workers on the ships were even wearing daytime clothes and were constantly transferring victims from various places.
Xu Sichen's face became serious for a moment, and he went back to change into warm clothes, put on a diving suit, and a fleece coat on the outside, then slid down from the balcony with the speedboat.
On the water not far away.
A small rescue boat was floating on the water, swaying.
Perhaps because it was severely overloaded, the ship sank until only the edge of the ship was exposed above the water. As the waves swayed, water entered the hull from time to time.
A woman in white medical attire was leaning against the edge of the boat, holding onto the edge tightly with one hand and holding onto the person under the boat tightly with the other.
"Come here and help me pull him up, quickly!" She shouted at the people behind her, regardless of her red, frozen hands.
But the people on the boat just stood there motionless.
At one glance, the woman knew what they meant.
My heart, which couldn't be chilled by the sudden drop in temperature, was shocked by the indifference in their eyes at this moment.
"You forgot, it was he who saved you. It was he who pulled you out of the building! You can't do this!" The woman's voice trembled.
But still no one came forward.
"Xiao Gao, hold on, don't fall asleep. I will pull you out soon." The woman shouted to the person in the water, holding back her tears.
But there was no response below.
"Please come and help him, please!" The woman's voice was almost full of pleading. If her movements were not allowed, she would have wanted to kneel down and beg them.
Many people on the boat couldn't bear it and lowered their heads, but still no one helped her.
The woman still didn't give up. Regardless of the danger of falling into the water, she turned around and grabbed the trouser leg of an old lady, begging: "Auntie, it was Xiao Gao who carried you out of the water. Can you save him and help me pull him out together?"
The old lady broke free from her hand and said, "I'm old and I really don't have the strength."
The woman immediately tried to pull the people around her, but they all moved away.
"Doctor, you see he has no sound, why don't you give up."
A cold voice sounded behind her, as if giving the woman the final blow. She turned around suddenly, stared at the man who spoke with all her strength, and roared.
"Give up? To save you, he didn't even have a cold meal for a whole day. In such freezing weather, he wore that military uniform and waded through the water to pick you up on the boat. Have you forgotten? He fell into the water just to pull you out. Have you forgotten? Now you say you want to give up on him! He didn't give up on you, so why should you give up on him? Why?"
The woman's body was also very weak, and it was a miracle that she could hold on until now.
The man felt a little guilty after being yelled at, but he immediately muttered unwillingly: "He is a soldier, he should protect us."
Someone else murmured in agreement, "Yeah, the water's so cold, and it's been so long, there's no way he could be saved. Look, there are so many people on our boat, it's almost sinking. You don't have to let us all go into the water just because of one person."
"Don't blame us for complaining about you disregarding the lives and safety of our people."
At this moment, the woman's heart was filled with sadness and powerlessness.
A rescue boat was equipped with two soldiers and an onboard emergency doctor, and she was that doctor.
In order to save people, they were bruised and exhausted every day, but no one ever complained about it.
Zhou Xiaotao, who was on the same boat, was caught in a whirlpool while trying to save someone. He was only 19 years old when he died.
Xiao Gao, whose real name is Gao Lijun, is also a boy of only 20 years old. He is currently soaking in the icy water, dying.
They are soldiers, and saving lives is their duty.
But why didn't anyone save them?
Are soldiers no longer human beings?
In a trance, her hand seemed to loosen a little.
With a start, the woman reached out to grab without thinking.
Then the next moment, she also fell into the water.
She wanted to struggle, but she really had no strength. Looking at the people on the boat, some lowered their heads, some wiped their tears, and some had no expression on their faces, she slowly sank.
Suddenly, a force came from her body and pulled her up.
Before she could react, a petite figure jumped down and lifted Gao Lijun, who had already sunk into the water.
The woman staggered over, helped, and desperately pulled Gao Lijun up.
She wanted to give Xiao Gao first aid, but her hands were completely out of control and she remembered she was about to cry.
Then a pair of white hands gently pushed her away, then helped Xiao Gao open her airway, performed artificial respiration, and performed chest compressions.
After repeating this for more than ten minutes, Xiao Gao finally spat out a mouthful of water and slowly resumed breathing.
The woman looked at the man in front of her wearing a diving mask, her eyes full of gratitude.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you so much." As she said this, she was about to bow to Xu Sichen.
"You are the ones who should be thanked." Xu Sichen said lightly, then took two emergency blankets and covered them respectively.
He took out two cups, two loaves of bread, and two bars of chocolate from a large backpack and stuffed them into the woman's hands. He said, "You two should rest first. I'll go check out some other places and take you to the aid station."
The woman looked at what was in her hand and a tear fell from her eyes.
But she soon cheered up, drank a sip of warm water in the cup to relieve her pain a little, and then began to take care of Xiao Gao who had not woken up yet.
The people on the opposite boat saw Xu Sichen driving a rather large assault boat and immediately shouted, "Hey, you're a soldier here for the rescue, right? Don't leave yet, take us to the rescue station first. There are too many people on our boat, and the water is coming in. Quickly move some of us to your boat."
Xu Sichen turned around and glanced at him with a sneer.
The ship was indeed overloaded, but not because there were too many people, but because they carried a lot of luggage.
The large and small boxes took up almost half of the ship's area.
In order to preserve their own supplies, they can sacrifice the life of a person who saved their lives without hesitation.
It's really ridiculous.
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