Chapter 114 Wei County
In the shelter, Shu Fu, lying on a camp bed with a thermal blanket covering her head, put the black notebook she had just checked back into her wristband.
Although she knew that no one except herself could see anything related to the bracelet, she was still in the habit of putting herself in a separate small space to check it when conditions allowed. After all, she did not need to control her expression in a separate small space.
Yes, seeing the seven draws, she couldn't control the corners of her lips that turned up temporarily...
Only an area at the entrance of this tunnel is empty, and the rest of the area inside is filled with construction waste left behind by the engineering team.
The place was originally quite large, but once the only four cars in the team stopped, it suddenly became crowded.
Gao Shan and several other team members did not understand what was happening. They wondered why the person who had left the county with them followed Liu Shuang and Han Lan's car out of the county.
But to them, anyone who can sit in the same car with their three captains and rush out of Wei County with other wounded people is a hero!
So they not only cleaned the shelter for her, but also set up two camp beds for her and Yao Ruoyun, saying that even if the ground had been cleaned, it was still wet and dirty, and it would be better for the two of them to sleep on it. They also said that these two beds belonged to Captain Liu and Wenrou, and had not been slept in by them. Then they told them to rest assured and they would guard outside.
The two camp beds were very close to each other. Yao Ruoyun put on a thick hood, pulled up the thermal blanket, faced in her direction, and fell asleep.
The surroundings were very humid. In the shelter, only a camping lamp placed on the side by Gao Shan emitted a dim light. It was cramped and depressing here, and it was not quiet outside either. Some people were resting, while others were crying out in pain because of cleaning, bandaging and suturing their wounds. There was also the whispering voices of some survivors.
Shu Fu thought she wouldn't be able to sleep, but a moment after this thought came to her mind, her consciousness drifted away.
After a busy night, I am tired after all.
When Shu Fu woke up again, the camp bed beside her was empty. Yao Ruoyun should have gotten up. She smelled the aroma of food in the air, the aroma of cured meat rice that she had not seen for a long time.
She took out her cell phone and checked the time. It was 12:30 noon. She had slept for five hours. Although the time was not long, it was enough for her to recover some spirit and physical strength.
Shu Fu put his cell phone into the backpack that he used as a pillow. Thinking that there were many people outside, he had to keep a low profile while taking refuge in the tunnel. So he used the backpack as a cover to take out a simple watch from the space and put it on his right wrist so that he could check the time conveniently.
When she put on the watch, she saw the light blue bracelet inside her sleeve, and then she thought of Chen Fa and Lu Zheng.
She found the satellite phone again and found that Chen Fa had sent a reply on it. At around eight o'clock in the morning, she said that the temperature in Cham County still remained below minus ten degrees Celsius. Although snow was still falling every day, it was much lighter.
In addition, rescue supplies and snow-clearing vehicles are already in place, and the snow trails are cleared almost every morning and evening.
She reminded about the avalanche problem. A notice had just been issued this morning in Chamu County, asking some residents who were closer to the mountain to relocate and evacuate. Their group was also on the relocation list and was currently on their way.
Finally, Chen Fa asked her why she suddenly thought of sending her a disaster warning of avalanche in the middle of the night? Could it be that she...
Shu Fu replied helplessly: Well, it’s just as you guessed. I just finished a race against time with an avalanche in the early morning.
After a while, the satellite phone rang, and the number calling was Lu Zheng.
Shu Fu answered the call.
"Are you okay?" The person on the other end of the phone sounded anxious, obviously frightened by the message she had just sent.
"It's okay, uh, I just sent it to Chen Fa..."
"I'm right next to you. You always contact her when you have something to do, so she will share any news about you on her phone with us."
“…” Blame her?
Soon, Lu Ce's voice was heard from the other end of the phone, calling Sister Fu Fu, asking her where she was and whether she was on land. He said that she rarely sent them messages recently.
Shu Fu: "…The signal is bad."
"Are you really not hurt?" Lu Zheng would ask this, mainly because he knew that the nature of an avalanche was different from that of a flood. A raft could move freely on the water, but on ice and snow, a raft could hardly move - of course, it was also possible that only their raft could hardly move, and her raft might be different.
But when I suddenly heard that she was caught in an avalanche, I still felt worried.
"It's really okay. You see Chen Fa is not in a hurry, so you should understand."
Lu Zheng sighed slightly: "Okay, as long as you are okay, just be careful--"
His words of advice were interrupted by a tall figure appearing outside the shelter.
Cheng Yu probably heard her voice and knew she was awake, so he came over.
Because he was in the tunnel, he had changed his outermost cold-proof jacket into a cold-proof tactical vest, and the wounds on his face and arms had been treated, but his weapons and equipment had not been removed, and his whole body still smelled heavily of gunpowder.
He met her eyes and saw that she was holding a satellite phone, so he didn't come in. Instead, he gestured to a stainless steel cup between his fingers: "Hot vegetable soup."
He seemed to still remember the details of the last time she finished drinking the vegetable soup and went to get more.
"I'll be right there!" Shu Fu was really a little hungry. She responded to Cheng Yu and wanted to end the call.
On the other end of the satellite phone, Lu Zheng's voice sounded again: "I seem to hear someone talking." Moreover, the voice seemed a little familiar.
"Yes, it's my friend, calling me to eat. It's noon now, you should go and eat too!" Because they were still in the mission period, Shu Fu used the name of her friend instead of Cheng Yu.
"We've all eaten." Lu Zheng seemed to smile on the other end, "I'm glad you're okay. Let us know when you're done. I hope to see you soon."
"Okay, I understand." Shu Fu hung up the phone, put the phone back into her backpack, and went outside with the bag.
**
The rest area where Cheng Yu's team was located was right next to the shelter. They now only had one armored vehicle left, which was parked against the wall next to the shelter, with the front of the vehicle facing the tunnel wall and the rear facing inward, forming a sixty-degree angle between the vehicle body and the tunnel wall.
Outside the car, other survivors gathered around the fire, eating the food in their hands. The first group of people to evacuate had more supplies, while those who fled later had nothing. Fortunately, these survivors were the ones who were willing to share supplies, so under the coordination of the rescue team, everyone quickly got the food, heated it up a little and ate it directly.
The members of Cheng Yu's team were currently staying in the angle between the armored vehicle and the tunnel wall. The situation outside was not yet bad enough for them to share food.
The body of the armored vehicle blocked the cold wind that was spreading in from outside the tunnel. They started a fire in the open space and set up a camping table and chairs on the side. On them were equipment that several team members had taken off, clothes that had just been dried, and some food.
Several team members sat on chairs around the fire, while others stood directly, all drinking the hot vegetable soup in their hands.
While Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun were resting in the shelter, they cleaned and bandaged their wounds, checked their weapons and communication equipment for damage, cleaned the ice on the armored vehicle, checked the wheels, and dried their clothes that were wet by ice, snow, and freezing rain...
Except for Wenrou, who was shot in the shoulder and had to sit in the carriage to rest because one of her arms was hung, basically no one slept, including Cheng Yu, who also injured his arm.
His arm was grazed by a bullet, and because it had hit a blood vessel the amount of bleeding was quite a lot. But for him this injury was really nothing, and as long as he could disinfect it, stop the bleeding and bandage it, he could basically do whatever he needed to do.
The teammates were already accustomed to carrying out missions all night long, so not sleeping for a night would not affect their condition. Now they gathered around the fire drinking some hot soup and eating some hot food, and their physical strength and energy were basically restored. They could even laugh at each other's embarrassing situations when evacuating in the early morning.
"The two of them, one with a face blackened by the smoke, and the other holding on to the seat belt tightly, then they rolled out of the trunk together, and just like that - bang! Face down, on all fours! Hahahaha!"
Arwen: ...
Qi Kai: ...
"Qi Kai, you can't do this. What the hell are you testing? It's still 10 to 20 days. We were almost buried!"
"That's right, you hold your baby and play it there every day, and this is the result? You're not as good as our captain!"
"Luckily the captain went back to rescue you, otherwise none of you three would have gotten out!"
Qi Kai: ...
Qi Kai felt sad, but he couldn't say it.
It was clearly caused by yesterday's explosions that happened early. It was a human factor. How can you blame him?
But even he himself had to admit that if their captain hadn't decided to evacuate in advance, they probably wouldn't have survived this time. Moreover, the three of them hadn't obeyed the order to evacuate in advance, causing the captain to turn back to save them and almost die in the fire...
All the team members were still injured and had been busy all night, but because everyone in the team was still alive, they were laughing and joking with each other and were very happy. Shu Fu noticed that when they talked about this matter again, they mentioned Cheng Yu.
It was he who decided to set off early in the morning, and it was he who helped everyone avoid this crisis.
Liu Shuang, the only one who knew about this, did not speak up to correct it. Although Han Lan did not hear everything, he should have guessed that it was her idea to evacuate early. However, they both seemed to have unanimously ignored this matter.
Even when he saw her wake up, he just smiled at her gently and didn't ask her why she returned to the county.
Shu Fu subconsciously looked back at Cheng Yu outside the circle of seats. He was leaning on the camping table and putting the stainless steel cup in his hand back on the gas stove to heat it up.
The vegetable soup was not completely cold to begin with, so it was quickly heated up. Cheng Yu took off his half-finger tactical gloves, put one on the cup handle and the other on the bottom of the cup, then walked over and handed the cup to Shu Fu: "Be careful, it's hot."
It was drizzling outside, and even though they were hiding in the tunnel, there was a damp chill in the air. However, as soon as she held the cup in her hand, the warmth penetrated her palm through his gloves.
She lowered her head and blew gently twice, then took a sip carefully. The steaming hot vegetable soup flowed into her throat, warming her whole body.
"Thank you." After Shu Fu opened her mouth, she realized that her words seemed to have a double meaning.
"I also left some cured meat rice for you. The rice is from the ration bag, but the bacon is freshly steamed and placed on the rice." He nodded slightly at her, then turned to another camping table and lifted up a folded thick blanket, revealing the still warm ration bag inside. He then took a folding chair, opened it and placed it next to the table, then turned back and motioned for her to come over and eat.
Seeing his series of actions, Shu Fu hurried over and said, "Don't be busy. Be careful of your wound."
"It's okay." He said, and took out an unopened disposable tableware from the side and placed it next to the ration bag.
Shu Fu originally just wanted to drink some vegetable soup, but since he had already prepared so much for her, she naturally couldn't say that she didn't really like eating military ration bags or bacon...
So she opened the bag and began to eat silently and hard.
At the side, Yao Ruoyun got out of the rear door of the armored vehicle, holding the empty cups and cutlery, and happily came to Shu Fu's side: "Senior sister, you are awake, I just fed Sister Wenrou. She injured her right shoulder and can only eat with her left hand. She didn't want me to feed her at first, and resisted in various ways..."
Han Lan, who was sitting closest to the table, turned around in surprise: "She really let you feed her? And she finished feeding her? That's amazing!"
"Yeah." Yao Ruoyun nodded proudly, feeling that she had accomplished something great.
Han Lan smiled twice, then looked up at Cheng Yu, who was leaning against the edge of the table and drinking water with his left hand in silence. They were both injured on their right arms, but some people were actively fed by others, while others pretended to be fine, even though they had lost so much blood before...
There are some things Han Lan cannot say, but that does not stop him from sighing meaningfully and clicking his tongue twice at the end.
Cheng Yu's drooped eyelashes moved, and his eyes glanced at him, meeting Han Lan's gaze directly.
Han Lan felt a chill subconsciously down his spine.
He was just looking for trouble, but he didn't expect that he was so serious before he said anything. Was it because he didn't want her to worry? Han Lan turned his gaze to Shu Fu who was talking to Yao Ruoyun. How could she look worried? Look how delicious she was eating!
Yao Ruoyun put down the cutlery, lowered her head and saw a little bit of the watch strap exposed on Shu Fu's right wrist, and asked casually about the time.
Shu Fu pulled up her sleeves to take a look and told the time, but the sharp-eyed Yao Ruoyun noticed the light blue rope hanging down from the strap. She curiously leaned over to take a look and found that it was a light blue bracelet.
"It's a peace knot. Senior sister, you believe in this too? I want to make a few too. Can you teach me later?"
"I don't know." Shu Fu shook her head. "You can ask Lu Zheng directly later. He made it up."
"Oh~~" Yao Ruoyun drew out an exclamation and did not mention learning rope weaving again.
On the side, Han Lan, who had been listening closely, also let out an exclamation: "Oh~~"
Yao Ruoyun turned back with a look of disgust: "What are you saying?"
"Nothing. You can but I can't? Oh~~" He spoke while looking at Cheng Yu's expression. He knew that although the other party seemed expressionless, he must have been listening to their conversation just now.
Cheng Yu's eyebrows twitched when he was looked at. He put down the water cup in his hand and directly pulled Han Lan up: "Let's go."
"Where are you going?"
"Change the dressing."
"Ah? Changing again? Didn't you just wrap it up not long ago?"
…
Liu Shuang looked at them in silence and sighed deeply. He hadn't slept all night and had been on the run for his life, but he still had so much energy. A man is indeed a young man until his death...
**
Yao Ruoyun cleaned up the dishes, came to Shu Fu, and asked her in a low voice where they were going next.
Shu Fu actually wasn't quite sure. Normally, everyone would have to evacuate to Xizhou Province. The two teams currently only had four vehicles: an ambulance, a jeep with intact windows but which could break down at any time, a jeep with most of its windows damaged, and an armored vehicle.
No matter how many cars are packed in, they cannot accommodate all the survivors in the tunnel now.
When they were transferred from the red stone monument before, they also tried their best to get the wounded and women and children on the bus, and the others walked. Only then did she know that the route that Cheng Yu's team originally planned to evacuate was also in this direction, but they did not plan to come to this tunnel, but wanted to evacuate directly to another rescue site across the Yinsha River.
The rescue station is not in the direction of Gongmang County, but closer to the southwestern plateau. It requires taking another road, but it is much closer than Gongmang County.
It was the last stop for the evacuation of the Southwestern Plateau to Xizhou Province. Because the population of the Southwestern Plateau was not large, although the rescue point was still there, there were relatively few survivors. It was a highland with a slightly higher altitude than here, but the surrounding area was relatively flat and there was no avalanche risk, making it suitable for people like them to temporarily stay there.
After that, when the low temperature has completely passed and all the snow on the mountain roads has melted, they can plan to go west again. However, by that time, the rescue team from Xizhou Province should be able to come, and Cheng Yu's team may not need to continue to escort them.
To get to the rescue site, they had to cross the Yinsha River, and the nearest bridge was about 30 kilometers further along the canyon mountain road next to the tunnel.
Thirty kilometers, with the current road conditions, the snow must be cleared all the way. If there are enough manned vehicles, it will take about 1 to 2 hours.
However, no one expected the evacuation to be brought forward, and several vehicles that were originally available could not be driven out. Walking slowed down the journey, and freezing rain began to fall at daybreak.
The survivors who were not afraid of heavy snow could not withstand the power of the freezing rain, so in the end they were all stranded in this tunnel near the Yinsha River.
Now, we can only wait and see when the freezing rain outside will stop.
After a while, a teammate from the rescue team came over and asked about their next plans.
Liu Shuang spoke up and said something similar, concluding: It depends on the weather.
The team member sighed deeply: "The rising temperature is a good thing. I thought the snow along the way would melt by itself, and the work of clearing ice and snow would be easier... Who would have thought that the temperature would rise back to around zero degrees and the freezing rain would start again!"
After hearing this, the other team members also sighed.
There seems to be endless water in the sky that needs to fall on this planet. When the temperature is high, it is rain, and when the temperature is low, it is snow. There is a seamless connection between freezing rain and that's enough!
At this time, they didn't expect that what they thought was a temporary stay would actually last for three days.
Over the past three days, the freezing rain has become increasingly severe, mixed with egg-sized hailstones, and from time to time, hailstones larger than fists or even as big as a baby's head have fallen densely. The entire sky has always been gloomy and dark, as if a huge layer of ice in the air has melted and shattered, and large ice fragments have fallen continuously.
The survivors in the area near the tunnel entrance moved their resting place to the back again and drove their cars further in, for fear of being hit by hail that accidentally fell in.
The ground was wet, and although the temperature in the tunnel was not particularly low, it was still very cold.
After the survivors burned the limited charcoal they had, they began to chop the construction waste wood in the back, and at least they could pick up some garbage for heating and fire. They could also use some freezing rain to get some water, filter it simply, add drinking water effervescent disinfectant tablets, and finally boil it before drinking.
The equipment on the ambulance was supported by the generator and fuel, but due to the lack of conditions for a second operation, the two seriously injured and unconscious team members were still hanging on to their lives.
In addition, there are other people who suffered burns, gunshot wounds, and fractures, and their recovery is very slow due to the lack of sufficient medicine.
The biggest problem was food. After three days, seeing that both teams were running out of food, the survivors who had slept on the floor in the tunnel for three days felt their anxiety, fear and panic reach the limit.
**
In the car shelter, Yao Ruoyun woke up from a nightmare.
Perhaps because she was too scared, she clenched her teeth tightly even in her dream, not letting any screams of fear escape from between her teeth.
Shu Fu was awakened by her sudden sitting up. As soon as she woke up, she felt a little hot.
She patted Yao Ruoyun's back and slowly sat up: "What's wrong? Are you having a nightmare again?" She didn't know if it was affected by the avalanche, but since they followed the team to take refuge in this tunnel, Yao Ruoyun's memory fragments would occasionally increase in the form of nightmares.
She had seen the disaster scenes that Chen Fa and Lu Zheng had seen twice before. One was a tsunami that submerged half of the land of the Little Turtle Kingdom. The other was a typhoon that landed in the coastal area, and the storm was raging, accompanied by a tornado, and the floods were serious, destroying a large area of houses and buildings in the coastal area...
Although the disaster that happened later was also seen in the news, Yao Ruoyun felt a little scared, because not only did this disaster happen in her own country, but the disaster scene also made her feel familiar.
She was the second person after Roh Jung to feel a sense of familiarity and fear about the disaster scenes happening in that world on the news.
This shows that Lu Zheng’s feeling was not wrong.
She always felt that Yao Ruoyun and Lu Zheng felt empathy and fear not only because they had seen similar scenes before or because the disaster scenes in the news had too large an impact. Mountain torrents, tsunamis, typhoons and rainstorms... these disasters were too insignificant when placed on an entire planet.
But these disasters all have one thing in common: water.
She always felt as if she had touched the edge of the answer to the mystery, and was just waiting for more fragments of memory to verify her guess.
Yao Ruoyun grabbed the thermal blanket, feeling the hand caressing her back, and it took her a long time to break free from the nightmare. But this time when she came to her senses, her expression was not only filled with fear, but also confusion.
She turned her head to look at Shu Fu. Just like every time before, she lowered her voice so that only the two of them could hear, and then slowly began to confide in her, but this time her lowered voice was a little shaky: "I'm back in school, in the high school classroom... My grades dropped a lot in the new monthly exam, and the teacher asked me to call my parents. I think I made a call, and then I stayed in the office after school and waited... Then I saw my mother, my mother! It was really my mother!"
She emphasized this sentence, but Shu Fu obviously didn't understand. When she realized that she didn't make it clear, Yao Ruoyun took a long breath, calmed down her emotions again, and then spoke again: "In the memory fragments of another world, I saw my mother in this world - Hua Qiong, the one you also met!"
Shu Fu's expression froze: "Are you sure it's the same person?"
"I'm sure that's my mother! Even if, as you guessed, we both come from that world, but for me now, the memory of this world is complete. How could I not recognize my mother? Except for the different clothes, hairstyle, I'm sure it's the same person!"
Shu Fu lowered her head and thought for two seconds, then quickly came up with an answer: "Your mother is probably also a superpower."
Yao Ruoyun: ! !
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