Chapter 115 Wei County
For Shu Fu, the answer she gave to Yao Ruoyun also surprised herself.
After all, no matter she, Chen Fa, or Lu Zheng, the family members in this world had never appeared in those fragmented memories. She was even more isolated and weird. As early as when Lou Yuncheng was doing the mission, she already knew that the memories of growing up in this world in her mind were all false, and it was impossible for any family members to exist.
Therefore, Yao Ruoyun might be shocked when hearing about this situation for the first time.
But in fact, this situation is similar to her and Lu Zheng. She and Lu Zheng also knew each other in that world. The reason why only Lu Zheng remembers seeing her and she does not remember seeing him is that, as analyzed last time, she may have a memory gap, and the other reason is naturally because her face has not changed, but Lu Zheng's face has changed.
This situation can also be applied to Yao Ruoyun and her mother Hua Qiong.
The word "psychic" may give people a strong feeling, so "traveler from another world" may be a more appropriate description.
If there is a chance to leave Xiangzhou Province and go to Xizhou Province during this transfer, she will accompany Yao Ruoyun to Zhicheng to meet her mother Hua Qiong and see if there is a white light bar above her head.
In addition, Zheng Feifei's family is also in Zhicheng. If the transfer goes smoothly, he may be able to celebrate the New Year with her and fulfill his previous promise.
Because of this, Shu Fu couldn't help but take the transfer seriously.
After waking up, both of them couldn't fall asleep, so they packed up their things, washed up simply with Shufu's mouthwash and wet wipes, and wanted to go outside to see what was going on.
As soon as they stepped out of the shelter with a simple door curtain, both of them felt the temperature rising. In fact, Shu Fu noticed it when she just woke up, but because the door curtain had a certain blocking effect, this feeling became more obvious after she got outside.
Both of them were still wearing snow gear, which was obviously too warm now. Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun took off their scarves and hats, and even zipped up their outer jackets.
The place outside where the armored vehicles were originally parked was empty. Only Wenrou, Awen, and another member of Chengyu's team who were recovering from their injuries were left.
The three were sitting there talking, and when they saw them coming out, they asked them if they were hungry. They boiled some water and asked them if they wanted to eat fried noodles or fried rice. They said they might be transferred today, so they made sure to eat well.
Starting from last night, the food for everyone in Chengyu's team has changed to compressed biscuits and energy bars.
The rescue team and the survivors had started eating biscuits since yesterday morning, so by noon yesterday, Cheng Yu, Liu Shuang and others distributed the last batch of ration bags in the team to the other side.
The other side had a lot of people, including the survivors, the rescue team, and the troops, totaling about forty people. The ration bags in the team were definitely not enough for all of them, so they could only share them among themselves to slightly ease their stomachs and their uneasy and fearful mood.
After all, everyone was taking refuge in the same tunnel. It was not a good experience to chew on biscuits while watching others eat delicious ration bags.
But they also knew that they had already received a lot of care and rescue supplies from the other team, and the people on the rescue team hadn't asked for anything, so why should they ask for anything?
It was obvious that the members of Cheng Yu's team would not let others chew on biscuits while they watched them eat rice and noodles, so after leaving a certain amount of rations for the two girls, they distributed the rest.
Liu Shuang and Wenrou originally wanted to keep their share, but they were both soldiers and didn't care about that, so they just divided it together.
From then on, both teams could only eat foods such as compressed biscuits and energy bars.
However, even this kind of food was not in stock on both sides, and with the issue of the wounded, the transfer became urgent.
Fortunately, as soon as the sun rose today, everyone found that the temperature had risen and the freezing rain outside had stopped.
The two teams held a quick meeting and decided to drive out the armored vehicles immediately to clear the mountain road from the tunnel to the bridge for the survivors. At the same time, because Qi Kai's satellite computer was left in Wei County, they also wanted to check the situation outside to see if they could connect to the Internet somewhere.
Now they just have to wait for those who are out to come back and then they can evacuate on foot immediately.
"Can the ice and snow on the road be cleared?" Shu Fu asked. After all, it was still sleeting yesterday, and the ice and snow outside that had not yet melted were frozen hard. Even if the temperature suddenly rose by more than ten degrees today and the ice and snow began to melt, it would not be so fast to shovel.
"It should be fine. There is a flamethrower on the roof. It's just that it consumes too much fuel to use. Our backup force can't keep up, so we didn't dare to use it easily before."
Shu Fu nodded, but did not take the ration bags that the team members had specially left for them, saying that they had been eating the team's rations these days, and in fact, they had not finished eating the things in their backpacks. As she spoke, Shu Fu took out a few packs of instant noodles from her backpack, and Yao Ruoyun took out two cans of luncheon meat.
They took the largest camping pot, boiled several packets of instant noodles, and finally put all the cuts of two cans of luncheon meat on it. After adding water and boiling three packets of instant noodles, it became a big pot, and when the luncheon meat was added, it was really delicious.
Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun each scooped out some noodles in stainless steel cups, and then brought the remaining half pot of noodles to Wenrou and the others: "We can't finish it, so you guys help us eat it, otherwise it will dry up and won't taste good."
The three team members who only ate compressed biscuits and drank water: …
She and Yao Ruoyun had discussed it yesterday. They had never neglected their appetite during the entire snowstorm and low temperature period. In the past few days, the supply was not enough, so they ate less and considered it as losing weight. Anyway, if they were really hungry, they could eat compressed biscuits, which were very filling.
Between letting the instant noodles dry up and eating them, Wenrou and the others of course chose to eat them. As for Cheng Yu, Liu Shuang and the others who didn't get to enjoy the delicious food, they could only say "sorry" in their hearts!
The aroma of instant noodles was already overbearing, and now that the armored vehicle was gone, there was no giant monster to serve as a barrier for the people here. The other survivors in the tunnel not only smelled the fragrant air, but also saw with their own eyes several team members huddled together and slurping noodles.
However, they also saw that they were eating compressed biscuits at first, and the instant noodles and canned food were taken out by the two young girls who were protected by the other team. Those were their own rations.
In the past few days, they have been secretly speculating about the relationship between the two girls and the opposing team. They are obviously being taken care of very well by the opposing team.
Even when the ration bags were distributed to the captain of their rescue team yesterday, the captain with a scar on his forehead made it clear that some food should be left for them. Even if they ate less and slower and the food was not consumed, it did not mean that others could continue to share their rations in the future.
The ration bags they ate yesterday contained fried rice and fried noodles, with a reasonable combination of meat and vegetables. They were much more delicious than the instant rice in the previous batch of rescue water dropped by air. It was obvious that they were made to ensure a balanced nutrition for the elite soldiers on the mission.
It was already very good that they were willing to share their rations, so even though many of them envied the two girls who were specially taken care of by this elite team, they only dared to sigh quietly and did not dare to show their true emotions.
I don’t know what the relationship between these two people and this team is. Why are they treated so well?
Seeing the two of them distributing their rations to the team members, they could only smell the smell in the air and continue to sigh. No wonder the team members were so nice to them, they seemed to have deliberately cooked more for them to eat together.
Fortunately, the temperature has risen today, the freezing rain has finally stopped, and the hail has also stopped. As long as they wait for the snow-clearing and path-finding team members to come back, they will be able to move smoothly to the rescue station on the other side of Yinhesha today.
Everyone knew that the snow outside was more difficult to clear after several days of freezing rain, so everyone calmed down and waited quietly in the tunnel.
**
It was almost noon when Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun could no longer sit still. They said hello to Wenrou and the other two, ran out of the tunnel, and used binoculars to check the route the armored vehicle took.
The tunnel is built on one side of the canyon mountain road. The area here is very remote. It is estimated that the original plan was to build a bridge across the river after digging the tunnel to facilitate traffic, but later the construction was stopped before it even started.
There is only this one mountain road nearby. The road is built along the canyon and is located at a higher altitude. On one side is a mountain wall and on the other side is a cliff slope. More than 20 meters below the cliff slope is the winding Yinsha River. On the other side of the wide river is the boundary of the southwestern plateau.
The terrain on the other side is higher than here, with a steeper slope. The difference in elevation between the high ground and the water surface is only about forty to fifty meters.
The Yinsha River was much wider than the upper reaches of the Qing River in Youcheng, which Shu Fu had crossed before. The water level in this area was also very low. It was said that it was even lower before, but now it was higher after several floods. But even if she wanted to cross the river at this time, she had to find a place to tie a safety rope after releasing the raft before she could climb down.
Therefore, if they wanted to cross the river, they could only use the bridge connecting the two sides.
The temperature rose overnight. It was still freezing rain yesterday, so except for the middle part of the mountain road that was cleared by armored vehicles, the ice and snow on both sides are still there. It is not as thick as before, but still about one to two meters. It is gradually melting into water, flooding the entire mountain road, and flowing down the cliff slope on one side due to the terrain.
At around 1:00 p.m., the armored vehicle that had gone out finally came back. In addition to the seven people from Cheng Yu's team, several members from the rescue team also went out with them.
But the faces of those who came back seemed to be not very good.
Sure enough, they brought back bad news. When they finally cleared the ice and snow and arrived at the bridge 30 kilometers away, they found that the bridge had collapsed.
The bridge was built some years ago. It is not one of those cross-river bridges in the city. I don’t know which disaster it collapsed in, but it should have happened recently. There is a large fault layer in the middle, and it is impossible to pass through.
The previous plan was disrupted, and they now had to re-plan a new transfer route. First, they still had to go to the rescue station in the previous plan, but they had to find another way that passed through the Yinsha River; second, they had to change the destination and go to another rescue station that did not require crossing the river.
After Cheng Yu and his group came back, they briefly and quickly explained the situation to the other team members from both sides who had not gone out, and then the team members from both sides returned to their teams to eat.
Cheng Yu, Liu Shuang and Han Lan had no time to eat. They just drank two sips of water, immediately spread out the map on the camping table, turned on a camping light, and began to plan a new route.
Shu Fu walked over and stuffed an opened chocolate bar into each of the three people's hands, motioning them to use it first.
Cheng Yu took a bite and realized it wasn't their energy bar. He turned back to look at Shu Fu: "Yours? Didn't I tell you to keep the food for yourself?"
"You've already bitten it, you're not going to give it back to me, are you?" Shu Fu pretended to be shocked.
"..." Cheng Yu looked up at Han Lan, who was about to take a bite of the chocolate bar in his hand. Cheng Yu was quick-witted and took the one he had not bitten and gave it to him.
Han Lan: ...
Cheng Yu wrapped the unbitten chocolate bar back into its packaging and handed it back to Shu Fu: "Keep it, eat it when you're hungry."
Shu Fu: ...
What else can she say about this operation?
Liu Shuang looked at them in silence, and ate the chocolate bar in a few bites. Han Lan glanced at Liu Shuang, holding the chocolate bar that had been bitten, and complained: "Why can she eat the unbitten one?"
Cheng Yu stretched out his hand to him: "You don't have to eat it."
"Hmph!" Han Lan opened his mouth and swallowed the chocolate bar in two bites.
The three captains had a commotion, which eased the slightly tense atmosphere among the other team members.
In fact, the captains just didn’t say that they are currently facing a bigger problem, that is, there is not enough fuel!
Apart from their team, only the rescue team members and army personnel who went out with them knew about this matter, but everyone agreed that they did not plan to tell the survivors about this situation for the time being.
If they follow the original plan and route, there will be enough fuel, but taking a detour or changing the destination may lengthen the journey. At that time, they may not be able to have all four vehicles on the road at the same time. It is estimated that they can only use two to ensure that the armored vehicles and ambulances can continue to drive.
This will result in more people having to walk.
In addition, food is currently in short supply, so whether we are planning to take a detour or change our destination, we must plan a new transfer route as soon as possible and embark on the transfer journey before the food runs out.
This time the plan must be more cautious, because the remaining fuel is not enough for them to try to explore the road. Once the transfer plan begins, they have to take everyone on the road together, otherwise the car may be able to drive out, but not necessarily drive back.
In addition, they checked the vicinity and found that the signals were interrupted, which was probably caused by the previous extreme cold and snowstorm.
Bad news came one after another. The only good news was that the temperature was indeed rising, and it seemed that there would be no more freezing rain and blizzards. The thick layer of ice and snow on the mountain roads was also melting on its own. When they planned a new route and set off, they would no longer need to use armored vehicles to clear the ice and snow, and the road would be much easier to travel.
But the good times did not last long. Before the three captains could plan a new transfer route, a loud thunder suddenly flashed outside the tunnel. A moment later, the deafening thunder startled everyone in the tunnel.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and talking, stood up and walked to the tunnel entrance, looking at the sky outside which had turned gloomy without them noticing.
Two more thunders exploded in the sky. Someone subconsciously covered his ears and looked at the gloomy sky outside with horror.
Is it going to rain again?
A moment later, it started to rain heavily. The rain at the tunnel entrance fell from above like water columns, so dense that it seemed like a layer of water curtain was covering the tunnel.
After the freezing rain, the weather had only been nice for a short while when the rainstorm started again. It was as if these disasters had been planned in advance, one after another, leaving no chance for anyone to breathe.
With such heavy rain, the ice and snow on the mountain roads and rock walls outside were quickly washed away and melted away. The ice and snow completely faded away in half an hour, revealing the withered and rotten weeds and branches underneath again. The whole world seemed to have quickly switched from winter to spring.
That afternoon, everyone in the tunnel stood there quietly, watching the heavy rain and thunderstorm outside in silence for a long time.
Soon they could no longer stand, because after the rainfall reached a higher level, it was mixed with strong winds. The strong winds swept the rain and blew it towards the people in the tunnel in waves like a high-pressure water gun.
Everyone had to take shelter inside the tunnel again.
For them, the only good news in a pile of bad news no longer exists. Although the temperature has risen, the long rainy season has begun again.
**
On the second day of the heavy rain, the rainfall doubled again and turned into a severe storm. There were lightning and thunder in the sky outside from time to time. The rain was like dense rain columns. Looking out from the tunnel, nothing could be seen but the rain that destroyed everything.
Some people ignored the roar of thunder and tried to go out in raincoats despite the rescue team's attempts to stop them. However, they were pushed back wailingly by the rain and strong winds.
Everyone was trapped in the tunnel, and everyone was more anxious than when they were trapped in the building by the snow, because they all understood that in such weather conditions, even the rescue drones would not be able to arrive.
And now, the food around them is really running out.
Everyone had to reduce the amount of food for each meal, and eat a piece of compressed biscuit in several portions. In this situation, Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun did not want to cause trouble, and basically only ate compressed biscuits, energy bars and chocolate bars when they were hungry in front of others. In the shelter, they would only eat beef jerky, pork jerky and other tasteless meats.
Shu Fu would sometimes feed the team members quietly, putting a piece of beef jerky, chocolate or candy in each team member's hand, all of which were small enough to be held in the mouth and sipped slowly.
It’s okay to feed Liu Shuang, as long as she persists, she will usually eat. Han Lan basically accepts everything.
The most difficult thing was feeding Cheng Yu. Unless she stuffed the food directly into his mouth, he would not eat anything she handed to him. He would then put the food in a clean plastic bag and stuff it back into her mouth.
Shu Fu: ...
After everyone had been living frugally for two days, someone was so hungry that they went to search the construction waste area at the back again. They actually found a large box of instant noodles and snail noodles in an abandoned wooden box under a scaffolding. A rough count revealed that there were actually sixty or seventy packets in total.
This man was ecstatic. He covered his mouth to suppress his inner excitement and wanted to quietly transfer this large box of food to his small team.
As a result, he just got the wooden box out when he heard a female voice not far away asking loudly: "Hey, what did you find?"
That person: …
The survivors in the tunnel had nothing to do, and any slight movement would attract the attention of others.
Yao Ruoyun shouted with great force, which immediately attracted most of the survivors who were watching.
"Wow! What? What did you find?"
"Oh my god! Is it food? No way! Who hid it here? Is it expired? Can it still be eaten?"
"Tsk! You still care whether it's expired or not at this time! Besides, instant noodles and river snail rice noodle will never expire for me, okay!"
"Stop talking, my mouth is watering just hearing these few words, hurry up and cook some of them!"
…
The person who discovered the food wanted to continue struggling, saying that he was the one who discovered the food, he had made a contribution, and he should have a bigger portion.
However, he had only said half of the sentence when he saw the female captain of the elite team looking at him indifferently, with one hand on her waist: "Everyone share equally."
That person: …
Emma, this is scary!
"Equal! Equal! Of course it has to be equal!"
Not far away, Han Lan looked at Liu Shuang and couldn't help but smile.
She even resorted to threats... In the past few days, one of them didn't say anything and the others didn't ask, so he thought she really didn't care at all.
But now, she was so afraid that the man's feelings would be wasted - even if this feeling was only her unilateral guess so far...
"Hehe, a guy with a cold exterior but a warm heart..." Han Lan sighed and turned his gaze away from Liu Shuang.
After drinking out that person, Yao Ruoyun quietly sat back on the camping chair next to the shelter while others rushed over, leaned against Shu Fu, and said to her in a low voice, "Done."
"Yeah." Shu Fu, who was leaning on the back of the camping chair with his hands in his pockets and his eyes closed, also responded softly. Special days should have some special gifts.
Yao Ruoyun turned her head to look at Shu Fu. In the past two days, when she was alone, she always pulled up her hood to cover her entire head, and tied the hat string tightly, leaving only her face exposed. She looked like a hidden young person and seemed to be in a bad mood.
She continued to comfort her in a low voice, saying that the rain would stop soon, and at least today Liu Shuangchengyu and the others didn't have to worry about everyone's rations, nor did they have to starve themselves in order to save a few bites of food for other team members. She had done very well, so she shouldn't be sad.
Shu Fu opened her eyes and saw Yao Ruoyun's cautious look, then smiled. Then, she reached in from the edge of the hood, took something out from her ear, and stuffed it into Yao Ruoyun's ear.
Suddenly, a soft and soothing singing voice rang in Yao Ruoyun's ears. It was a song with guitar accompaniment. It was one of the songs that Shu Fu often listened to, "In Somnia". It gave her a leisurely and comfortable feeling.
Yao Ruoyun opened her eyes wide in surprise, but she held back from making a sound. She reached out to plug the small, short cordless earphones in more securely, then followed Shu Fu's example, pulling up the hood to cover her ears and tying the cord around her chin.
How could she forget that her senior is a "Doraemon"!
So now, there are two "hidden youths" next to the car shelter.
Yao Ruoyun also put her hands in her pockets and sat there in the same position as Shu Fu. Because she was afraid that she couldn't hear other people talking, she didn't turn on the noise-canceling mode on her headphones, but because of this, the sound of rain outside the tunnel became the background sound of the song.
If we put aside this dim and old tunnel and the current situation of these survivors being trapped, Yao Ruoyun actually used to like leaning on the sofa on rainy afternoons, listening to music, reading a book and eating some snacks.
After closing her eyes and listening to music, she always had the illusion of time dislocation, as if she was not in a strange tunnel far away from her hometown, but in her safe and warm home.
On a holiday afternoon, she was at home acting vindictive while her parents were busy in the kitchen.
It was as if as soon as she opened her eyes, she could see her mother coming out of the kitchen and asking her if she was hungry and if she wanted a bowl of bubble wontons to fill her stomach.
She had been eating it since she was a child, and she was really tired of it. She firmly refused and said she wanted fried chicken wings and boiled fish. So her mother had no choice but to go back to the kitchen and continue to work. Soon, the aroma of fried chicken wings wafted out from the kitchen...
Yao Ruoyun missed home, and her parents, but their old home in Suicheng was long gone. Fortunately, she now had a small raft house, and when she met her parents again, they would have a home again...
She leaned on Shu Fu's shoulder and quietly wiped the tears that rolled down her eyes onto Shu Fu's clothes. Shu Fu did not open his eyes, but raised his hand and gently patted her on the head.
When Ah Wen came over and called them to go get the supplies, he was immediately speechless by the two "hidden youths" leaning against each other: "Oh, what's going on... Go quickly, it's better to leave it there if you don't want to eat it."
On the other side, the captains of the two teams gathered together to supervise and sent people to count the food they found. There were a total of 35 packs of instant noodles and 41 packs of snail rice noodles. Liu Shuang seemed to be afraid of missing something, so he suggested searching the construction waste area again. As a result, he actually found a box of canned vegetables under another scaffolding.
There are 40 cans in a box, and there are five or six different flavors in them, such as old duck soup, chicken stewed with mushrooms, braised pork, beef brisket with potatoes, and pork with pickled mustard greens... They were so happy to see them that tears were streaming from the corners of their mouths.
On this day, the survivors in the tunnel seemed to be celebrating a festival.
Someone calculated the date and found that today seemed to be a holiday.
"Oh my god! Today is New Year's Day!"
"Really? I didn't even remember the date, don't make a mistake!"
"Wait, at such a critical moment, it's worth it for me to turn on my phone and consume some power!" Someone immediately took out a mobile phone from his inner pocket, turned it on and found that it was not New Year's Day yet. The date was December 31st, the last day of the year.
"Wow! So tonight is New Year's Eve!"
"With all this food, today is really a day worth celebrating!"
"However, we actually found that place before, so why didn't we find these foods?" Someone also raised a question. As soon as this was said, several people turned around and looked at the person who was holding his head high and accepting praise from others.
"Yeah, I remember I looked around there several times, but I didn't see any food, and it was in such a big box, how is it possible?"
"Hey, do you think he could be the...superpower person mentioned in the rumors?" someone else speculated in a low voice.
"He's like that, and he's a superpower? How can he be so generous? Just now, when he heard that we were going to share the supplies, his face turned black..."
"Don't worry about it. No matter where the food came from or who put it there, it has saved our lives! Don't research it anymore. You won't find anything. It's better to have a good meal with a grateful heart!"
…
Yao Ruoyun will always remember this day. She, her senior schoolmate, Cheng Yu and Liu Shuang's team, and a bunch of survivors they had never met before, hid in a tunnel in the inclement weather of wind and rain outside, cooked instant noodles, cooked rice noodle soup with snails, opened cans of food, and celebrated the New Year together.
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