When Cheng Suming went out, he was wearing a grey short-sleeved shirt and matching trousers. When he came back, his body was covered in blood, his clothes on the front and back were torn, his face had some scratches, and no one knew where his glasses were. But without the obstruction of the lenses, his facial features looked even more handsome.
Next to him stood a man of similar age, about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, wearing a white shirt and black trousers. The clothes were torn in several holes and stained with blood. He had regular facial features and a baby face, with slightly curly chestnut hair in the style of a Korean boy band. His forehead was covered by long bangs. If it weren't for the deep look in his eyes that didn't match his appearance, it would be difficult to tell his age.
Seeing Cheng Wei appear, Cheng Suming said calmly: "There is such heavy hail and rain outside, where are you going?"
"I should be the one asking you this." Cheng Wei walked up to him, looked him up and down, and said with a distressed look on her face: "Where have you been? Why didn't you answer my and my sister-in-law's calls all afternoon? My sister-in-law is almost going crazy. She said she was going to look for you before, but I don't know where she is now, or if she has found a place to hide. I couldn't get through to her phone either, and I was just planning to go downstairs to see if she had gone far. By the way, brother, did you see my sister-in-law when you went upstairs?"
"Sinan came to find me?" There was a hint of surprise in Cheng Suming's eyes. "Yu Yong offended someone he shouldn't have offended. I spent some time trying to save him. My phone was smashed during the fight. When I wanted to call, it was almost dark."
"Alas, it's all my fault." The man in the shirt, no, Yu Yong, scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "It's not the hot weather. I was bored at home during this period, so I went online to flirt with beautiful women. I invited many beautiful women to stay at my house, but I didn't know which married rich man's mistress I slept with. The other party found a group of people to come to my villa to mess with me. The situation was urgent at the time. I called the police but I didn't know when the police would arrive at my house. I could only call a few old friends for help. In the end, only your brother came to help me. We had a fierce fight to deal with those people. We fought for an entire afternoon and finally dealt with them. Your brother wanted to call, but my phone was out of battery and I was not familiar with the neighbors around me, so I had to rush home. Now there is so much hail and heavy rain outside, Si... No, sister-in-law should be fine, right?"
Cheng Suming pursed his lips and said nothing, his eyes flashing with strong emotions. A hint of anxiety appeared on his usually calm face. He took a step with his long legs and ran quickly downstairs.
"Hey, Lao Cheng, wait for me." Yu Yong hurriedly followed him, feeling extremely guilty, "It's all my fault. If I hadn't called you to help me, my sister-in-law wouldn't have gone out to look for you even though she couldn't get through to you. Don't worry, my sister-in-law will definitely find a place to hide, and she will be safe and sound, don't worry."
Cheng Wei and Yang Wentao closed the door and ran downstairs. Cheng Wei comforted Cheng Suming: "Brother, Brother Yu is right. Sister-in-law is not a fool. She is very smart. If she sees that the weather is not right, she will definitely find a place to hide."
Yang Wentao took Cheng Wei's mobile phone and kept calling Sinan, occasionally contacting Sinan through voice or video calls on the chat software.
It was not known whether it was Yang Wentao's good luck or the network equipment was not working properly, but when the four of them just went downstairs, the video call was connected. Si Nan's beautiful face appeared on the other end of the video. Yang Wentao exclaimed and handed the phone to Cheng Suming: "It's connected."
Cheng Suming took the phone and saw Si Nan on the other end of the video. He breathed a sigh of relief and asked in a calm tone: "Anan, where are you? Are you injured? I'll pick you up."
"Su Ming, are you...returning? I'm..." Although the video call was connected, the signal was not very good. Si Nan's face was stuck in the camera and he spoke incoherently: "No need to answer... I'll...return myself..."
As soon as I finished speaking, the video call was interrupted. When I called again, it showed that there was no network signal and I couldn't connect to the other party.
Cheng Suming stared at the phone where the video had ended, his brows tightly furrowed.
The natural disasters in this life were different from those in the previous life. In the previous life, the high temperature lasted for a full six months before the hail and rainstorm mode started, but this time it came a month earlier, catching him off guard.
Could it be that his rebirth caused the butterfly effect, so the trajectory of natural disasters in this life is different from that in the previous life?
If this is the case, he will not be able to know exactly when the next natural disaster will come, nor can he make adequate preparations to deal with it in advance. Many things will exceed his expectations, and this feeling of being out of control makes him very unhappy.
If he had known that the natural disaster would occur earlier, he might not have gone out today, or he might have taken Si Nan to Yu Yong's house instead of leaving Si Nan alone at home. After failing to get through to him on the phone, he went out to look for him and encountered this unprecedented heavy hail and rainstorm.
This hailstorm will last for at least three days and will only stop after destroying most of the old buildings on the earth. However, the heavy rain will not stop after the hail stops falling. It will continue to fall until the water level continues to rise to a height of ten stories and half of the land in the world is submerged. Only then will the heavy rain turn into light rain and continue to fall until a year later.
Thinking of this, Cheng Suming felt inexplicably irritated. He looked up at the sky and saw giant hailstones flashing white light and falling from the sky one after another. They hit the ground with a dull crackling sound. All around him came the sounds of people running in panic, screaming, and howling in pain after being injured. In this situation, even if he wanted to find Si Nan, he was no match for these giant hailstones.
If he wanted to go find her, he would have to wait for three days for the hail to stop before he could go out. Cheng Suming felt even more depressed.
During the time they were standing downstairs, many people who had gone out to enjoy the cool air and were hit by hail gathered at the front door of Building 14.
Some had their heads broken and bleeding, with their white brain matter smashed out, and they lay on the ground motionless, with their family members crying helplessly beside them.
Some people had several sharp ice arrows stuck in their bodies, and they fell to the ground and howled in pain. Others had their arms and thighs broken, or their shoulders were rubbed by ice and dislocated, with blood flowing out uncontrollably. They all sat against the wall of the stairs, covering their wounds and wailing...
Someone recognized Cheng Suming and asked him for help: "Doctor Cheng, please help my daughter. Her legs were broken by the ice, and her bones and flesh were shattered. She fainted from the pain and I don't know when she will wake up. Please save her."
"Doctor Cheng, please save my husband too. His stomach was pierced by an ice arrow and his face has changed color due to the pain. In this case, should I help him take out the ice, or should you perform surgery on him?"
"Doctor Cheng, my dad has a big cut on his head, and blood keeps flowing out. I keep pressing on the wound, but the bleeding won't stop. What should I do, Doctor Cheng? Please save my dad."
"Doctor Cheng..."
"Doctor Cheng..."
There were at least fifty injured people who were not killed at the front door of Building 14. Hundreds of relatives and friends surrounded Cheng Suming and begged him to save their relatives and friends.
There was heavy hail and rain outside, and the sky was so dark that you could only see the surroundings clearly when there was lightning. Naturally, there were no medical staff or ambulances to come out to save people at this time.
Many people risked their lives to rescue their injured relatives and friends and hide them under buildings. At this time, there were seriously injured relatives and friends, and no one could just watch them die. There was a ready-made surgeon, and everyone placed their hopes on him.
Cheng Suming looked at the anxious, crying and begging faces with great indifference, and said slowly: "You know my rules. I only accept advance payment of medical expenses before saving people. Before I save people, you have to sign an agreement with me. After the patient is treated by me, whether he lives or dies, or whether he recovers, it has nothing to do with me. If you can do the above two points, go get the corresponding money and supplies, and then come to me."
"You are a doctor, saving lives is your duty. Shouldn't you save lives first and then worry about medical expenses?" someone asked loudly in anger.
Someone echoed: "Yes, is there any doctor like you? There are so many people dying here, and as a doctor, you don't want to save people, but you are still here negotiating supplies and conditions. Is there any doctor like you? Are you worthy of being a doctor?"
"I'm sorry, I'm not a registered doctor in China." Cheng Suming's cold face showed a mocking smile: "I'm a surgeon from abroad. The rules of foreign hospitals don't have the patient-oriented and selfless dedication. You pay for work and bear the consequences yourself. Don't use the rules in China to blackmail me morally! My patience is limited today. If you are willing to give money and food supplies, I may save you if I'm in a good mood. If I'm not in a good mood, even if you give me a warehouse of food and money, do you think I will save you?"
The indignant crowd choked and suddenly became speechless.
Most of the owners living in Shenxianyuan know that Cheng Suming is a surgeon who returned from abroad. During the high temperature period, there were too many people in Shenxianyuan who fell ill or suffered from heatstroke. No one was willing to go to the hospital where the fees had increased several times in the high temperature, so they all asked Cheng Suming to come to their home to see the patients.
Cheng Suming is a gentle and handsome man with a seemingly good temper, but everyone knows that he has a strange temper. Sometimes when he is seeing patients, if he is in a good mood or feels that the family is having a hard time, he may symbolically charge one or two small loaves of bread as a consultation fee. If he is in a bad mood or dislikes a certain family, not to mention doubling the consultation fee, he may not go even if you kneel down and beg him to come to their home to save them.
The overall environment is not good now, natural disasters continue, and one crisis after another arises. No matter how much you think Cheng Suming's behavior is unreasonable, you have to swallow your anger in order to save your relatives and friends, and hurry home to take down the money, food and supplies that you are reluctant to eat, drink, and use. I hope that Cheng Suming will be in a better mood when he collects the medical fees.
Cheng Suming has a complete set of special surgical instruments, which are stored in a large medical box at home. When he goes out, he carries two thin scalpels as sharp as willow leaves and a backpack.
Those who asked him for help today were all seriously injured, and most of them needed surgical operations. Cheng Suming asked Cheng Wei and Yang Wentao to go upstairs and move the medical boxes for the operation down from his room. He also found a resident living on the first floor and waived his medical expenses on the condition that he cleared out the living room and set up a simple operating table so that he would have a place to perform surgery on the patients.
The host and hostess of that family, as well as the old lady and the old man, were all injured to varying degrees by the hail and needed medical treatment. Upon hearing this, they immediately nodded and agreed. The living room was cleared out, and all the injured people were rushed in by their family members and relatives.
There was a man with a brain injury, a dent on the left side of his head, and bleeding profusely. He and his family were usually honest. His thirteen-year-old daughter kept kneeling and crying for Cheng Suming to save her father first. Her mother handed the remaining four kilograms of rice, six wilted potatoes, and two two-liter buckets of drinking water to Yu Yong, who was standing behind Cheng Suming as an assistant. The whole family, with tears in their eyes, placed their hopes on Cheng Suming, the "savior".
There were many people dying and waiting for help in the living room of Room 103. There were even some familiar dignitaries who took out piles of supplies and asked Cheng Suming to save his people first.
But as Cheng Suming said, he saves people entirely based on his mood. It just so happened that this family lived in the same building with him. The man had saved someone from heatstroke in front of Cheng Suming during a high temperature period. Cheng Suming had a good impression of the family, so he nodded and agreed to perform surgery on the man first.
The operating table was a rectangular coffee table in the living room of Room 103. Cheng Wei brought a large outdoor flashlight with sufficient power and bright light from home. Yang Wentao and Yu Yong were there to assist him.
Because there was no anesthesia, if they wanted to have surgery, the patients had to endure it alive. In order to prevent them from being unable to bear the pain and having their limbs spasm, Yang Wentao and his colleague tied the patients to the coffee table with ropes, while one of them held their arms and the other held their feet. After Cheng Suming performed a simple disinfection, he began the operation.
The first thing a man with a brain injury needs to do is clean the wound before he can proceed with the next operation, but the cleansing alone makes the man scream in pain and struggle and tremble uncontrollably.
Yang Wentao used his tall stature and extraordinary strength to press down the patient's arms and upper body, making him unable to move.
Yu Yong was a playboy and very weak. He used all his strength, with veins bulging, but he still couldn't hold down the patient's feet, who were struggling and kicking in pain, and was almost kicked away.
It was the man's wife who cried and told him to bear it, and she and her daughter rushed over to press down the man's legs. Even when the man was dizzy with pain, he was still thinking about his wife and children. He was afraid that he would hurt them if he moved too much, so he endured the severe pain without struggling. Yu Yong, who was free, naturally cooperated with Cheng Suming to get various surgical instruments.
Cheng Suming remained calm from beginning to end. Wearing the new gold-rimmed glasses that Cheng Wei had given him, he lowered his head and carefully cleaned the wound.
The only beam of light in the dark living room reflected on his face, making his injured face look somewhat handsome and battle-damaged. But in fact, his facial features were angular but not sharp. He had an elegant and handsome appearance. Wearing glasses gave people a gentle and harmless feeling.
Only Yu Yong knew that beneath such a gentle appearance, there was a cruel heart.
Recalling the time in his villa, Cheng Suming took a scalpel and used the tactic of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west to lure away nearly forty big men who broke into his villa, and then fought them alone.
He shuddered as he thought of the scene of everyone falling under his scalpel, their limbs being chopped off, not dead but unable to move.
Although he knew that Cheng Suming had been a ruthless person since his school days, and that when he was in a junior high school in Xingcheng, he dared to challenge ten people and fight for his life without having learned any fighting skills, but now Cheng Suming fights with the opponent with the intention of taking lives with every move. If the law, government and country did not still exist, Yu Yong believed that Cheng Suming would really kill those people.
Such a ruthless person actually became a doctor who saves lives, performing surgery on people and saving their lives. Yu Yongguang found it ridiculous and hypocritical.
Fortunately, Cheng Su Ming is his good friend and buddy. Just because of his ruthlessness, he has decided to hold on to this thigh. Now he just hopes that the sister-in-law can survive safely, otherwise if something happens to her, his friendship with Cheng Su Ming will be over.
At midnight, the hail rain was still continuing. The bang bang bang sound of the hail falling to the ground outside hit everyone hiding in the porcelain shop heavily, making people feel heavy in their hearts.
The rechargeable energy-saving lamp had long run out of power, so the fat proprietress of the porcelain shop found a white candle as thick as a finger from behind the counter, lit it with a lighter, and placed it upright on the counter.
The dim light clearly illuminated the uneasiness, confusion, fear, and helplessness on the faces of everyone crowded in the porcelain shop. No one knew when the hail and rainstorm would stop, when they would be able to leave, and no one knew whether the government had organized a rescue team to provide assistance in this situation. All they could do was wait where they were.
Everyone waited in the porcelain shop for several hours. Not only did the hail and rain show no signs of stopping, but the water level gradually rose. You could even see ripples in the accumulated water through the tiny gaps in the rolling door.
Fortunately, the foundations of the shops in this row of porcelain shops are all built very high. They are not flat roads, but about five or six steps built upwards, about one meter high. Now there is no need to worry about water accumulating into the shops.
Just when everyone was planning to find a place to sit and make themselves more comfortable, someone suddenly shouted at the door: "Is there anyone inside? If there is, please open the door and let us go in and hide."
A young woman standing at the door of the store looked out through the small hole on the rolling door, turned around and whispered to the crowd, "It seems to be three police officers. They are carrying two injured people. They are unable to stand up straight due to the strong wind. I wonder if they saw the light in the store and came to ask us to open the door."
Everyone looked hesitant. The small porcelain shop was already packed with people. If they let more people in, there might not even be a place to stand. Also, the wind outside was too strong, and once the rolling door was opened, it would most likely not be closed.
It is winter now, and there has been hail and heavy rain outside. The temperature has dropped sharply. Someone saw from the mobile phone that the temperature had dropped to 18 degrees. A group of people were wearing short sleeves and shivering with cold. They huddled together to keep each other warm. If the rolling door was opened, it could not be closed. Everyone did not dare to go out easily. At the current rate of temperature drop, they were afraid of getting frozen sick.
But the police are standing at the door of the store. Usually when the people are in trouble or danger, the police will stand in front of the people without hesitation to protect their lives. It is rare that the police need help from the people. If they don't help, they will feel guilty for the rest of their lives.
If I save him, I might be crushed to death by the ice that blows in from the door, or frozen to death by the cold air. If I don't save him, I'll be sorry to the people outside the door...
When many people were struggling with their conscience, the tricycle driver standing in the crowd suddenly broke through the crowd and bent down to lift the rolling door.
Two strong men saw his intention and rushed over to hold down his wrists, roaring at him in a low voice: "What do you want to do? Do you want to kill everyone?"
"JC is in trouble, I can't just ignore it!" The tricycle brother was also angry: "I don't believe that you will die if the rolling door is opened. If you really die, it's your fate."
He was going to open the rolling door, but the two sturdy men refused, and a conflict ensued between the two sides.
The people around wanted to persuade them but didn't know how, and wanted to break up the fight but didn't know which side to help.
Just when the two sides were in a stalemate, the shutter door was opened with a bang, and a strong wind blew several huge hailstones in. Everyone was scared and dodged, but some people were still hit and couldn't help cursing: "Who the hell opened the door!"
"It's me, what's the matter?!" The fat lady boss stood next to the rolling door and said domineeringly: "This is my shop, I open the door whenever I want, who cares!"
Those who were unwilling to open the door remained silent.
The only candle in the store was blown out by the strong wind when the store opened. The store was pitch black. I couldn't see people's faces clearly, nor could I see what the three police officers outside looked like. I only heard a police officer with a slightly hoarse voice say, "There are two injured women here. They can't go to the hospital for a while. They will squeeze in with you and take shelter together. When the hail stops, they will go to the hospital. We also need to go to other places to see if there are people who need help. Please take care of each other."
After the JC finished saying this, the other two JCs helped two women who were injured somewhere into the store. After they found a place to stand, the three JCs risked being hit by hailstones and went to other places along the narrow eaves on the side of the street.
There were two more women in the store, and although many people were unhappy, they were already in, and the police had pushed them in, so they couldn't kick them out. They all squeezed in reluctantly to give the two injured women more room to stand, and then everyone started pulling hard on the rolling door, trying to close it.
As everyone worked together to pull the shutter door against the strong wind, the tricycle driver felt someone stuff something into his hand. At the same time, a familiar woman's voice whispered in his ear: "Brother, this is your fare. I don't have that much money. I'll give you 2,000 yuan and two steamed buns to cover the fare. I have something to leave first. If you have a chance, you should find a high place to hide. Don't stay here all the time. If the water rises, it won't be easy to get away."
The tricycle driver was holding the soft steamed bun in his hand and saw a slender figure leaving in the dark night. He wanted to say something, but a gust of wind blew, bringing two huge hailstones that hit the half-pulled rolling door, making two loud bangs, which scared the people inside and made them scream. He opened his mouth, but in the end, no words came out.
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