Chapter 106 Wei County
The two were originally playing flying chess on the glass balcony, listening to music. They were very happy to hear Cheng Yu said he was coming over, especially Yao Ruoyun, who sat up straight from the heating blanket and asked, "Did they call for help from Team Cheng? Is the snowplow coming? Can we leave here?"
Shu Fu shook her head. Although they were now disconnected from the Internet, she had been in touch with Chen Fa.
Chamu County has been trapped by heavy snow for a long time. No external help has arrived for the time being, and the rescue work is all done by themselves. They live in a flat-roofed hut. Because they are afraid that the snow will collapse the roof, they put on warm clothes and climbed up to the roof several times in the past few days to clear the snow. During this time, they also cleared the snow from the doors and windows to avoid blocking the doors.
This was the case even in Xizhou Province, where there were a large number of troops. Shu Fu did not believe that rescue could reach a small county outside Xizhou Province where the evacuation work was nearing completion so quickly.
But the two of them quickly got up and began to put on their outdoor clothes one by one. In addition to the cotton jacket and trousers and the outermost military coat, Yao Ruoyun had already put on the fleece-lined thermal underwear that Shu Fu gave her, which was clean, close-fitting and warm.
I'll wait until my cotton coat and trousers get dirty and then change into the down coat and trousers I find.
The two put on all their warm clothes, thick wool socks and boots, then turned off the heater and heated blanket, put on woolen hats and pulled up their hoods, and finally went out on the balcony, putting on scarves and gloves, almost fully armed.
Shu Fu unloaded the electric card and put away the raft, while Yao Ruoyun went to the kitchen to check the mattress. The large mattress was still new so it was temporarily moved to the glass balcony. Now there was only the small mattress left here, and the blanket and quilt for keeping warm had long been put into her backpack. At this moment, she took out two old ones and arranged it to look like someone was living there.
The two were very curious about the situation outside. After waiting for a while, they finally took out their backpacks from the space, put them in front of them, locked the door and went out.
They turned out of the corridor, went down half a flight of stairs, and went to the stairwell on the north side of the residential building. Because the windows of where they lived could always see the situation in the south, and they did not see any cars or people entering Wei County, so they estimated that even if Cheng Yu wanted to come, he would come from the north.
The window in the stairwell had been broken for a long time and no one had repaired it. It had been blocked by large wooden boards before. After the snow fell in the past few days, the wooden boards were frozen to the window frames, and a lot of snow leaked in through the gaps. Now it has frozen into thick ice.
Shu Fu directly took out two multi-purpose shovels, one on each side, and it took a while to pry the wooden board open.
The two of them worked together to move the wooden board away, and cold wind immediately blew in from the side where the window was missing.
Shu Fu grabbed Yao Ruoyun who wanted to stick her head out and handed her a pair of flip-up anti-fog ski goggles. This was not like looking out through the gaps between the wooden boards in the house before, this was about sticking her head completely out, and with the current amount of snow outside, it would be easy to hurt her eyes.
When she saw Yao Ruoyun taking it, she took one and put it on herself.
The ski goggles were salvaged in Yuncheng, from the same area where a large number of construction tools were salvaged. A large number of different models were salvaged, with packaging boxes outside and waterproof bags inside. The cardboard part of the packaging box had long been soaked, but the plastic part was intact. With the waterproof bag wrapped around it, the ski goggles inside barely got wet even after being soaked for so long.
Of course, it’s okay if it gets wet, it’s waterproof.
The north side of the residential building is also a pure white world of ice and snow, but there are a few houses behind it, covered with heavy snow, showing different shapes of high and low because of the buildings. Most of these buildings are empty and no one lives there.
Further on, the height of the snow layer gradually climbed, and the hillside behind was also covered with snow without exception.
Directly below the stairwell window sill is the corridor exit. At this moment, a two-person-wide passage has appeared in the extremely deep snow, leading all the way from the side door of the gymnasium on the left.
In the already dug tunnel, several team members can be seen reinforcing the tunnel. Some of them are carrying small iron buckets and pouring the black charcoal slag inside onto the cleared ground.
Some were holding a watering can and spraying water on the snow walls on both sides of the passage. The water should be hot, but it would cool down quickly at such low temperatures, and the snow walls on both sides would solidify into stronger ice walls that would not collapse easily.
When they looked down, the passage was almost formed. The ones who took the lead in digging the passage were Cheng Yu, Han Lan and the "Strongman" team member Awen.
Han Lan stood on an A-type folding ladder, holding an engineer shovel, and first shoveled the softer snow on the upper part onto the snow layer next to it. Cheng Yu and Awen used the part he had shoveled to break up the more firmly frozen ice and snow layer below, and then removed them one by one and threw them into a large plastic frame behind them that was originally used to hold sporting goods.
When the big frame is full, the other busy team members at the back will run over, work together to lift the full big frame away, and push the empty big frame forward.
They moved with skill and coordination, and it was obvious that all of them had put in a lot of effort to create this small snow track.
Han Lan was the first to raise his head from the corridor. He took off his ski goggles, pulled down the scarf around his mouth and nose, and smiled at the head sticking out from upstairs: "You're almost done with your food, don't be too touched, we're here as a team to deliver supplies to you. But in my opinion, we shouldn't live in two separate places, otherwise you might as well live with us in the gymnasium, there's a basement over there, it's very warm with a fire -"
Before he finished speaking, Ah Wen shouted something downstairs, saying that they were almost at the entrance of the corridor and seemed to have hit a flower bed, asking him if he had gone off the road. So Han Lan quickly lowered his head, climbed down the folding ladder, and bent over to study the ice and snow layer at the entrance of the corridor.
Yao Ruoyun subconsciously wanted to say no. If they lived in the gymnasium, how could the two of them lie comfortably on the glass balcony and watch TV shows together while enjoying the heater? But she had experience this time and knew that she was not the one who really made the decision. She could not answer for Shu Fu, so she looked at Shu Fu obediently.
Sure enough, Shu Fu, who was lying on the windowsill and looking down, was silent for a moment, suddenly responded "OK", and then rushed downstairs.
Shu Fu lifted the lenses of his ski goggles and quickly rushed to the stairs on the first floor. The light here was very dim because looking down from the second-floor windowsill, the walls of the building had been buried in the snow. A narrow opening had just been cleared at the entrance of the corridor for exit.
The three of them were continuing to expand the exit, and they had to avoid the flower beds next to the corridor entrance, while being careful of the snow walls on both sides to prevent the dug snow from becoming unstable and falling again.
Seeing her running down in a hurry, the three of them were a little surprised. The corridor on the first floor was covered with ice because of the snow. Cheng met her rushing down the stairs and hurriedly stepped sideways through the opening. He took a few steps forward and supported her: "Be careful! What's wrong?"
Shu Fu didn't say anything. Her eyes quickly passed over Cheng Yu's head who was supporting her, and then turned to Han Lan and Awen at the stairs.
Which one is it?
Just now when the three of them were leaning against the entrance of the corridor, she saw flickering white stripes of light appearing on the snow layer that was blocking their way. Because it was almost the same color as the snow, she took several glances to confirm it.
The white light strip has an obvious characteristic that goes against the common sense of reality. As long as it is within a certain distance and is not a building that completely surrounds the person, even if the person wears a hat or puts his hand out to block it, he cannot block the existence of the light strip.
Likewise, the snow layer is no barrier.
But the three of them were too close just now, and she was not sure whether the person with the light bar above his head was Cheng Yu, and Han Lan and Awen had never been involved in her mission before.
She had hurried down as fast as she could, but the light bar had long since disappeared.
"The door at the entrance of this corridor was broken before, and I was afraid that it would be hit when you were digging the tunnel." Shu Fu explained, and then said, "You don't have to worry about our supplies. We found some in the house next door these days. I think the snowstorm may not be over yet. While you are digging the tunnel today, we will temporarily stay at your place for two days."
"Okay." Cheng Yu responded quickly and asked her if there was anything she needed him to move.
"We need to take the honeycomb coal stove, as well as the honeycomb coal next to it. In addition, there is a box of instant noodles, a bag of rice, and a box of vacuum-cured bacon and sausages that we found."
"You actually found something to eat, you're so capable, girl!" Han Lan came over and said that he and Cheng Yu would go and move the things together after the passage was reinforced, and told them to just put the things in front of the teahouse.
When Shu Fu went upstairs to prepare things, he pulled Yao Ruoyun who was standing at the stairs, intending to unify with her on how to obtain supplies.
Yao Ruoyun had been listening quietly beside her. Even if Shu Fu didn't remind her, she knew what she meant and made an OK gesture to her.
After they returned to the small teahouse on the third floor, Yao Ruoyun lowered her voice and asked her why she suddenly wanted to live there.
Shu Fu also lowered his voice and replied: "There may be more than two companions among them."
Yao Ruoyun:……!!
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Two honeycomb coal stoves, a large snakeskin bag of honeycomb coal, a box of 48 packs of instant noodles found by Yao Ruoyun, a 50-pound bag of rice from the turntable lottery without any packaging labels, and a large cardboard box of vacuum-packed bacon, sausages, and salted chicken and duck.
The cardboard boxes for vacuum-packed meat were large cardboard boxes of the same standard from all over the country that she had stored in the space she had specially selected. Of course, the purchase labels on them had long been torn off. The bags of bacon, sausages, and salted chicken and duck inside were all produced in Xiangzhou Province.
These were caught by her in the same cured meat shop when she was in Suicheng in the early days with an automatic water fishing rod. These brands are all popular brands, and their production areas are all in Xiangzhou Province, a major province for cured meats.
She checked when she harvested the goods, and because they were all similar brands and produced in the same place, she guessed that there was a cured meat shop under the water, and therefore remembered that she had this batch of supplies.
It’s just right to take it out at this moment.
When Han Lan came up, he saw several large boxes piled in the corridor and exclaimed, then called two more team members to come up. Yao Ruoyun also pointed out to Han Lan the mezzanine under the tiles where she had dug out instant noodles with a treasure shovel in a corner of the teahouse hall, saying that the people of Wei County really know how to hide things...
The team members quickly went upstairs and started to carry the supplies. In addition to their own backpacks, Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun each rolled up a thick blanket and held it in front of them, using the large backpacks in front of them to support themselves, intending to carry it over directly.
The snow track outside has been dug, and the snow walls on both sides have frozen into ice. The height of the original snow layer plus the height added when they dug the passage has exceeded three and a half meters. When people walk inside, the extremely pale light from the overcast sky of the cold winter day leaks in from above, and they feel like they are walking in a kingdom of ice and snow.
Since the disaster struck, these few days have been the most comfortable and peaceful days for Yao Ruoyun. After all, she is young, and she was already itching to go there when she saw the dug snow trails before. Now that she was going to the gymnasium, she couldn't help but walk in front.
Yao Ruoyun is about 1.73 meters tall, tall and with long legs, and a large thick blanket held in front of her will not slow her down.
Shu Fu was different. The backpack in front of her was already a lot bigger than Yao Ruoyun's, and the height of the blanket blocked half of her vision. When she went down the stairs, she almost missed a step twice because she couldn't see the steps on the ground. Both times, Cheng Yu beside her supported her.
He couldn't help it, and finally put the bag of rice on one shoulder. He wrapped his hand around the thick blanket she was holding, and then opened his five fingers to her: "Give me the backpack too."
Shu Fu turned her head to look at him. The thick blanket that seemed very large when she was holding it in front of her was just an ordinary blanket to him. Shu Fu touched her nose and didn't bother to be polite with him. She took off her backpack and hung it on his hand.
"Thanks."
Cheng Yu smiled slightly and walked in front of her this time. If she missed a step again, he would not have a hand to support her. But if he walked in front, even if she fell, he would cushion her.
However, before Cheng Yu had taken a few steps, a hand gently patted his shoulder, and he stopped and turned his head.
Because she was standing on a step two steps higher than him, her outstretched hand reached directly to his lips. Her slender, white fingertips were holding a pink crystal candy in the shape of a flower, which was very beautiful.
He looked up along the hand whose delicate fingertips were only exposed because of the cold, and met the girl's bright dark eyes looking at him. Half of her face was buried in the thick scarf, and only the eyes behind the ski goggles were exposed on her entire face.
"Want to eat? It's candy." Shu Fu shook the small sugar jar in her other hand, like a squirrel in winter, and used her short, fat little paws to take out the treasured pine nuts, then handed them to his lips with eager eyes.
Cheng Yu originally wanted to say that he didn't like sweets and asked her to keep it for herself to eat slowly, but as soon as he opened his mouth, the slender fingertips pushed the crystal candy into his mouth.
His lips touched her fingertips, and in an instant, a sweet strawberry flavor spread in his mouth.
Very sweet.
Very very sweet.
Shufu withdrew her hand and wiped her fingertips on her clothes without leaving any trace. Seeing that he was still looking at her, she said, "My hands are very clean. We melt a lot of snow water to wash our hands every day."
"No--" Cheng Yu seemed to want to explain, but Han Lan's voice came from the corner of the corridor.
"What do you mean it's very clean? What's wrong?" He held two honeycomb coal stoves in one hand and a snakeskin bag filled with honeycomb coals in the other. He tilted his head back and looked around the corner. He happened to see the beautiful sugar jar in Shu Fu's hand. "Is it sugar?"
"Yeah." Shu Fu nodded, walked a few steps past Cheng Yu, and poured out another pill, this time it was an ice-blue flower.
Han Lan had no hands, so he opened his mouth naturally, and Shu Fu put the liquid directly into his mouth.
Cheng Yu: ...
"Not bad, not too sweet, it's hard candy." Han Lan took two sips and praised, "It tastes like soda, delicious!"
Shu Fu smiled, passed him again, and continued to give candy to the others in front of her. Of course it was delicious. Even in peacetime, such a small can cost more than 100 yuan. It was bought from a very famous candy store, which was famous for its slightly sweet taste and varied and beautiful shapes.
At that time, the food she bought was all in large bags, which she found inconvenient, so she put some in small transparent jars that she could "take out" from any pocket at any time for easy eating.
Han Lan was still evaluating the candy in his mouth. He really thought it was delicious. However, when he turned his head, he found that Cheng Yu, who was passing by him on the way down the stairs, was looking away from his face. For some reason, that gaze was a little cold.
When everyone left the corridor, Shu Fu had already distributed the candies and was waiting at the entrance. When Han Lan, who was walking at the end, came out, she planned to close the door.
Because she couldn't be sure if there would be another heavy snowfall in the future. If the door was not closed and there was another heavy snowfall, the ice and snow would directly block the stairs inside. When she wanted to go back to the teahouse next time, the cleaning project would be even bigger.
Everyone else had something in their hands, but she had nothing in her hands, so she was the most suitable person to do this.
The door was a double-opening iron door, one side was good, but the latch connecting the other side to the door frame was a little broken, and it took a lot of effort to close it. Han Lan could put the stove and snakeskin bag in his hands on the ground, so he put down his things and went to help her.
When the two men had almost closed the door, there was a loud "bang bang bang" noise coming from somewhere in front of them, accompanied by a woman's sharp scream.
Several people on the snow trail stopped immediately. The direction where the sound came from was actually quite far away, but because the other survivors in Wei County were trapped in the house, it was not raining outside, and the surroundings were empty and quiet, so the noise and the woman's scream just now seemed particularly loud.
However, they were in the middle of the snow trail at the moment, and the three-and-a-half-meter-high snow wall blocked their vision. They could not see clearly what was happening where the sound came from.
"Go back to the gym, quickly." Cheng Yu shouted, turning back to signal Shu Fu and Han Lan to speed up and walk in front, and he would be the last one to go.
The stadium has high floors, so if you want to know what is happening somewhere, you can only see it clearly by going upstairs.
A group of people carried their things and started walking quickly towards the side door of the gymnasium. The thick blanket in Yao Ruoyun's hand was also rolled away by Awen, so that she could better pay attention to the road under her feet.
Everyone quickly walked out of the passage on the north side of the residential building and had to cross a small street. There were no buildings on both sides of the street, so the surrounding light was much better, but they still couldn't see anything.
At this time, from the direction where the previous impact sounds and screams came from, continuous collision sounds were heard again. The impact sounds were louder and more terrifying than the previous ones, accompanied by shattering sounds and continuous screams of women. The movement was like a house was thrown directly from mid-air.
Shu Fu felt the shaking of the snow wall on the left, which was the direction from which the sound came. It seemed that the huge impact caused the snow layer to vibrate.
"Be careful!" Along with Cheng Yu's voice, Shu Fu felt as if there was a tall, dark shadow pressing down above the snow wall.
That was a tall poplar tree on the street with thick branches. After being frozen by the sleet and snow, plus the shock at the moment, it finally couldn't bear the weight and fell towards the snow path. The tree was more than ten meters high, and with its weight after being frozen, it was enough to break the frozen ice wall when it fell.
Shu Fu had quietly activated her protective shield when the first scream came. At this moment, she immediately pushed Han Lan in front of her because Cheng Yu reminded her that the poplar tree had fallen. Han Lan originally wanted to pull her, but she pushed him forward a few steps, just avoiding the place where the poplar tree fell.
The tree trunk had already smashed the upper end of the ice wall. Shu Fu was calculating whether she had enough time to symbolically dodge when suddenly a strong arm wrapped around her waist. She was lifted up by the owner of the arm and turned backwards, and then her entire back and head were protected by a tall figure.
Puff, puff, puff—a hole was collapsed in the ice wall by the frozen tree trunks, and the snow on both sides poured down, directly blocking the snow trail.
"team leader!"
"Shu Fu!"
In the flying snow fog, the anxious voices of others sounded at the other end of the snow, which resulted in a small-scale snow and ice pouring down. Everyone suddenly dared not shout anymore, and began to divide the work at the same time. Some people quickly brought the supplies to the building on the other side of the gymnasium's side door, while others took out the engineer shovels again and began to dig the snow.
At the other end of the snow, Shu Fu was helped to climb out of the snow pile. As soon as she stood firm, she turned around to pull Cheng Yu, who had half of his body stuck in the snow.
Everything happened in an instant, and she had no idea how Cheng Yu, who was walking at the back, suddenly came behind her. But at that moment, she was protected by his whole body, and she had no time to turn around and hug him, so that the protective shield would also work on him.
The result was that she, who would not be hurt at all with the protective shield on, was protected by the body of someone without a protective shield.
Shu Fu was really worried that something might happen to him. The pressure of such a high wall of ice and snow pressing down on him was no joke.
Fortunately, when she reached out to pull for the second time, Cheng Yu held her with his backhand, and with the two of them working together, he quickly escaped from under the layer of broken ice and snow.
"Are you okay?" Shu Fu picked up his dropped ski goggles and handed them to him.
"It's okay." He replied, "Are you hurt?"
"without."
He lowered his head, looked her over carefully, helped her put on her hood that had slipped off, and pressed it gently with his big hand: "Don't be afraid, it's okay." As he said that, he put on his ski goggles and started to go back to dig out the backpack, rice bag and blanket that had fallen into the snow.
Fortunately, Han Lan and two team members on the other side quickly dug through the blocked snow. They not only dug through the snow path, but also dug out all the supplies that everyone had dropped.
Without thinking too much, the group took their supplies, kept each other on the lookout, quickly passed this unstable snow path, and rushed into the side door of the gymnasium.
"Senior!" Yao Ruoyun rushed over to hug her and brushed off the broken ice and snow on her body. "Are you okay? Ah! You're bleeding! Were you hurt?"
Shu Fu looked at the blood that Yao Ruoyun had touched from the brim of her hat and quickly realized who the injured person was.
However, the injured person was completely unaware and was still patting the snow off her backpack and rice bag. Then he picked up the blanket and shook off the broken snow on it. He saw her looking at him and walked towards her: "I'll help you bake it before you use it."
"You're hurt." Shu Fu pointed at his ear, where there was a bloody wound. It was unclear whether it was scratched by the branches of the poplar tree or pierced by the ice.
He reached out and pressed it: "It's okay, just a minor injury."
Before Shu Fu could speak again, Wen Rou hurried over from the other end of the passage: "Captain! Come over here quickly, the alien on the other side is in trouble!"
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