Chapter 113 Wei County
At 3:42, they ran to the central square. They were not very fast because, except for Cheng Yu, everyone was supporting a wounded person. Ah Wen was limping and supporting someone. Fortunately, he was strong enough to continue.
But in comparison, Cheng Yu was even stranger, running with someone on his back.
Awen took the time to look at the person on Cheng Yu's back out of curiosity, and found that it was Shu Fu: "Why are you here? Why didn't I see you just now? Are you injured too? Where are you injured?"
Shu Fu coughed softly, reminded them to "run", and then turned his head silently.
At 3:44, they finished running around the central square, and then heard another louder explosion from the direction of the hotel building behind them. This time the explosion created a very high air wave, and even through the high and thick snow layer, they could see the smoke rising from there.
The sound of the explosion seemed to have affected the snow trails around them. They saw that the originally frozen ice and snow walls on both sides were dropping ice chips and broken snow.
"Hurry up." Shu Fu leaned over to remind Cheng Yu in his ear.
"Don't look back! Keep running!" Cheng Yu's voice rang out.
That was the captain's order. Although several team members still wanted to watch, they subconsciously turned their heads, each supporting the wounded, and accelerated again to run out of the county. Several injured people were also trying their best to support themselves.
In fact, the members of the rescue team still don’t understand what happened. Why the evacuation plan originally scheduled for tomorrow morning was suddenly brought forward to before dawn? Why at this moment, when they have obviously escaped from danger, they are still running so desperately.
Wenrou and the other two had a rough idea in their minds, but because they trusted Qi Kai's judgment very much, they subconsciously felt that it was unlikely.
Red blood spilled on the snowy trail, and the wounds of the wounded were torn wider due to the intense running.
The clothes on Wenrou's shoulders had already been stained blood, and Shu Fu soon discovered that blood was dripping from Cheng Yu's arm as he carried her on his back. But it was almost four o'clock now, and disaster could come at any time. It was safer for him to carry her on his back than not.
At 3:49, they could already see the mountain road leading out of the county town.
At the same time, they heard a rumbling sound coming from behind them, like continuous muffled thunder, with a low roar, resounding through the night sky.
Some people couldn't help but look back and saw an astonishing scene. The snowy hillside that originally covered the entire Wei County seemed to shake at the same time.
The center of the shock started from the hillside behind the hotel building, just like the cracks that appear on the glass. There is always a starting point at the beginning. The starting point shows signs of collapse due to the strong external force, and then this sign of shattering will continue to spread in all directions until it is completely shattered.
At this moment, the snowy slopes surrounding Wei County are like this. The ice and snow layer that was originally frozen due to days of blizzards and extremely low temperatures began to break up from the slope behind the hotel and gradually spread to both sides.
In the darkness of the night, there was a constant sound of horrible crackling, which was the sound of ice and snow breaking.
The entire Wei County is surrounded by mountains. After the avalanche started, it started a chain reaction like a domino effect. One can imagine what will happen when this chain reaction spreads to the other end.
Their only way out of the county town will be blocked by collapsed snow and rocks!
"Run!" Someone shouted, and everyone sped up again.
However, on the hillsides around Wei County, the speed at which ice and snow collapse is much faster than the pace of human progress.
At 3:50, a flickering light appeared from the only exit.
That was - a jeep speeding towards them!
The jeep made a rattling sound as it was moving, like an old tractor.
This is the survivor's car!
Shu Fu remembered that when she quietly came back, Han Lan was being pulled away by the survivors for help, asking him to help repair the car which had problems again.
They remembered Cheng Yu's order that the armored vehicle had to clear the snow on the road and could not come back, so they borrowed this vehicle.
Liu Shuang poked his head out of the passenger window and waved at them. At the same time, he said to the driver, "I saw them!"
In a blink of an eye, the jeep arrived in front of them. The driver's window opened and Han Lan poked his head out: "Get in quickly!"
"Why are you here?"
"Captain, this is also a private operation! Hehe!" Han Lan, who had laughed twice, suddenly stopped laughing when he saw the other people behind Cheng Yu, "Wow, why are there so many people! I'll open the trunk, and all men - except our captain, go to the back!"
Liu Shuang had already pushed the door and got out of the car. He was surprised to see Cheng Yu carrying Shu Fu on his back, thinking that she was injured somewhere, but no one had time to talk at this time.
She helped Awen and Qi Kai and pushed them and the other two injured people into the trunk. The space was too small and they could only put their legs outside, so she quickly pulled out the seat belts from the back seats and buckled them on the four of them.
In the front, the female rescue teammate helped Wenrou, whose face was a little pale, to the back seat, and then she sat in too. On the other side of the back seat, Cheng Yu directly stuffed Shu Fu in.
Liu Shuang got into the car behind Shu Fu, and Cheng Yu quickly got into the passenger seat.
Everyone worked together and drove at a very fast speed, while Han Lan kept turning his head to check the situation behind, staring at the people getting on the bus, and also vigilantly checking the mountains around Wei County.
He had seen avalanches before, but he had never seen an avalanche like the one now, roaring in a circular trend from all directions!
He knew that when an avalanche occurs, one cannot run down the slope, but should run to the sides of the slope. However, when encountering a circular avalanche like this one, no matter which direction one runs, it will be a dead end!
The only way to survive is to leave this canyon.
When everyone was seated firmly, Han Lan lowered his head and kissed the steering wheel: "Baby, please give it a little more strength!"
After he said that, the car turned around quickly and drove at full speed towards the county entrance.
He stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and the car body began to shake more and more uncontrollably, making a rattling sound, as if it would fall apart at any time.
The wheels quickly rolled over a stone on the road, causing the car to bump up and down violently. The four people in the trunk screamed and almost fell down together. At the critical moment, the four girls in the back seats turned around and reached out, one grabbing one and holding their bodies from sliding out.
"Hold on tight!" Han Lan glanced at the rearview mirror and accelerated again.
He could already see the snow waves surging down from the hillsides on both sides. The roaring snow waves were no less shocking than the huge waves. The upper part raised powdery destructive snow clouds, and the lower part was like rolling sea water, the speed was so fast that it was suffocating.
Behind their car, the five-meter-high snow wall began to collapse one by one. From far to near, they seemed to be chased by a huge ice and snow monster. The monster opened its bloody mouth filled with snow clouds towards the tiny car on the snowy road.
"Faster!" Liu Shuang shouted.
Han Lan gripped the shaking steering wheel tightly and shouted loudly. The car finally rushed out of the county entrance and headed down the mountain road.
The roaring ice and snow monster closed the huge gaping hole tightly. At the same time, the collapse of the ice and snow layer on the hillside of Wei County finally spread to the intersection of Li County. On the hillsides on both sides of the intersection, the ice and snow layer seemed to have its supports pulled out in an instant and suddenly tilted down. The ice and snow mixed with gravel rumbled down on the mountain road behind their car, completely blocking the exit of Li County.
But all this was not over, and soon, a huge air wave was raised again on the countless huge falling snow blocks, and spread towards the bottom of the mountain road. It was a powdery snow cloud that could even collapse buildings.
The four people in the trunk just breathed a sigh of relief, but in an instant they screamed again: "Don't slow down! Keep driving!"
At four o'clock, Shu Fu felt the last vibration of his phone.
"Keep driving." She also spoke up, "Drive across the bridge and past the red road sign!"
Han Lan started racing again, this time on a mountain road. Fortunately, the ice and snow walls that were gradually collapsing on both sides were both a danger and a wall, which regulated his driving route.
The off-road vehicle rushed past the red road marker and continued driving in the direction where the armored vehicle was parked ahead.
Behind them, the giant ice and snow beast that was chasing them like the god of death was finally stopped on the bridge road section of the canyon.
The car braked and stopped. The four girls in the back seat let go at the same time. The four people in the trunk immediately fell to the ground. After wailing, they were all helped up and hugged by their teammates: "Great! You are not dead!"
Shu Fu got out of the car and was immediately hugged tightly by the figure who rushed in front of her.
"Senior..." Yao Ruoyun's voice was still trembling. God knows how fast her heart was beating when she saw their car being chased by Xueyun all the way out of the mountain road.
Shu Fu felt the vibration on her wrist and patted her back gently to comfort her, but her eyes glanced at Cheng Yu who was standing beside her. The latter just raised his uninjured hand, pressed it on her head, and said softly to her, "Thank you."
Thank her for coming back and saving him.
There was a chance that he would not die in the fire, but he would certainly be seriously injured.
I also thank her for saving Wenrou, Awen and Qi Kai. If she hadn't saved him first and reminded them again and again, the three of them would have most likely all died in the avalanche with him...
But he knew she might not want to hear these words.
So, just say thank you, and he knew she would understand the rest.
**
At 7:30 in the morning, the sky was overcast and freezing rain continued.
On a branch mountain road of the provincial highway, in an abandoned tunnel near the Yinsha River, the survivors who had been running all night without sleep encountered freezing rain before they had gone far and could only take shelter in this deep tunnel for the time being.
This used to be a two-lane tunnel, but before the work was finished, the end of the world happened and it was abandoned.
In the past, many cars must have taken shelter in the shelter from disasters such as heavy rain, hail, thunderstorms and tornadoes. Some people even used it as a shelter. Some traces of human life can be seen in the shelter, as well as abandoned vehicles, daily necessities and other garbage.
Fortunately, there was no body.
Freezing rain can cause more damage to vehicles than blizzards, so all the cars in the team drove into the tunnel and parked outside the tunnel entrance, thus shielding the group of miserable survivors from the cold wind and freezing rain.
It's very big inside, so armored vehicles can certainly drive in, but the snow-throwing pipes on the snowplows have to be removed.
During this evacuation, most of the rescue workers and troops at the Weixian rescue station were evacuated, and about one-sixth of the other survivors were evacuated.
These one-sixth survivors were those who had not previously participated in the fight for supplies. When the incident at the supplies warehouse occurred, some of them were shoveling snow and some were in the clinic building.
They were mocked as saints and incompetent by another wave of survivors who took away supplies directly, but they were also the first group of people to immediately follow the advance evacuation notice after receiving it in the early morning.
In fact, when Chengyu's team first started planning the evacuation, they notified the rescue team via walkie-talkie.
However, the matter was of great importance. Although they had predicted the avalanche at that time, the entire Wei County was still trapped by a five or six meter high layer of ice and snow. All of them were like trapped beasts in a cage, so Cheng Yu's team reached an agreement with the two captains of the hotel building. Before finding a solution, they would only inform the survivors of the planned evacuation, and would not explain the reason, so as to prevent the already panicked survivors from falling into the chaos of snatching supplies again.
But many people don't take such notices seriously.
The rescue team cannot take care of everyone. They only save those who trust them and want to be rescued. In order to cooperate with Cheng Yu's team's plan, they have been working hard these days to clear the snow, dig out the cars buried in the ice and snow, check and repair them, and hollow out the passage between the hotel building and the clinic.
It took a long time to dig out the ambulance. Almost all of the windows, tires, engine, and various rescue equipment inside the car were replaced and repaired.
But even so, there is still no way to start the car.
Fortunately, Wenrou and two others came over yesterday afternoon, and Awen, a mechanical maintenance expert, gave the rescue team hope. But even with Awen's help, it was not easy to get the ambulance moving.
After receiving Cheng Yu's order to evacuate early, the three of them discussed and decided to remove the parts from the off-road vehicle, and only then did they barely repair the ambulance.
But no one had expected that their actions in the past two days, including airdropping snow shovels, clearing the snow on the main street of Wei County, digging out a wide snow path, and a series of actions by the rescue team... were all seen by the group of people hiding in the building on the other side and escaping.
The group was originally composed of two teams. One team accidentally got weapons. Not long after the snowstorm hit, while most of the rescue team was out clearing snow, they robbed the supply warehouse, killing one person and seriously injuring two others.
The other team was made up of those people who were ostracized by all the other survivors in the hotel building. They indirectly killed three people when they were trapped on the mountain road by freezing rain, so they switched sides and became thieves.
These two groups of people, step by step, went from being ordinary people to a path of no return.
On the day they escaped, there was actually another person hiding in the building they chose to hide in. That person was an accomplice of the people who had previously bombed the service desk and was from the same organization.
There were more than ten people from that organization, divided into several groups to sabotage, and he stayed behind to coordinate - or in other words, the others were cannon fodder, and he was the one who brought the cannon fodder. As a result, the actions of those groups were successful, but they were all arrested, and several were shot dead on the spot.
He originally wanted to hide and leave after the storm passed, but he was also trapped by freezing rain and blizzard.
He had weapons but lacked food and water supplies, and then formed a temporary alliance with two groups of people who fled into the same building.
However, this alliance was so fragile that it was vulnerable to any attack. More than ten days had passed, and although the hotel building and the clinic received airdrops of supplies, their own supplies were about to run out.
They were not the same kind of people to begin with, and disasters would amplify all kinds of emotions. In the past ten days, they had no plan, ate and drank to their heart's content, argued over how much, and blamed each other. The internal situation had long been in chaos, and an inexplicable opportunity would trigger an internal fight.
The member of the organization was unexpectedly the first to be killed in the chaos, and the remaining people naturally took away his weapons and equipment, and also found a walkie-talkie signal jammer.
Later, they planned a second surprise attack on the hotel building to seize the new airdropped supplies.
Fortunately, Wenrou, Awen and Qi Kai were there, and fortunately Cheng Yu returned to look for his teammates.
Fortunately, Shu Fu turned back.
She was like a fighter against some predetermined fate. She reached out her hand and snatched those people back from the hands of death.
**
[Complete the task of punching in the red stone road monument outside Wei County within four hours, and get a 20% progress bar for level 5 of the raft; get an additional 15% progress bar bonus. Get the wheel lottery: 7 times. (Current progress of level 5 of the raft: 95%)]
This was probably the first time she had received such a rich reward, apart from the progress bar tasks for advancement.
She always felt that such a reward must be related to her return to Wei County.
The progress bar is 35 percent, and there are still seven draws to go!
Such a generous reward allowed her to maintain a happy mood when she saw the familiar 95% progress that was just one step away from completion.
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