When the earthquake struck, Si Nan and Cheng Su Ming, Cheng Wei, Yang Wentao and Yu Yong had already run to the ground downstairs.
But when they saw the mountains of mud and bones downstairs, they couldn't help but be stunned.
Cheng Suming was the first to come to his senses and shouted at everyone, "Don't just stand there! Run to an open area, don't stay here!"
Si Nan came to her senses and followed Cheng Suming, who was holding her hand tightly, and ran towards the entrance of the community through the thick mud.
The ground was shaking and houses were collapsing around her. She seemed to be in a noisy world. All she could hear were the sounds of the earth shaking, the ground cracking, building materials falling to the ground, and glass shattering.
Many people were buried directly by the collapsed buildings in front of her, without even the chance to scream.
The collapsed building stirred up a thick cloud of dust, which covered the ground and obstructed her vision. She couldn't help but close her eyes and cough. She subconsciously stopped and tried to wipe her eyes, then covered her mouth and nose and fell to the ground because she was so shaken that she couldn't stand.
At this moment, a pair of slender and strong arms picked her up by the waist, rushed out of the dust and fog of the collapsed area, and fell into the mud on the ground with her.
The moment they ran out, a group of buildings pressed down heavily. Si Nan wiped the dust from his eyes, looked back at the scene, and broke out in a cold sweat.
She didn't dare to think that if she hadn't run out just now, she would be crushed under those buildings and would be trapped for a long time if she didn't die.
"Anan, don't stay here, come with me!" Cheng Suming went to pull Sinan with blood all over his face.
There was dust on his head and there was a wound on his forehead that was bleeding. Fresh red blood was dripping down his tall nose bridge. He seemed not to feel the pain. He staggered as he pulled Si Nan, who was also unsteady, and ran in another direction.
Only then did Si Nan discover that a crack had appeared under her feet at some point. It was bottomless and was gradually getting bigger as the ground shook.
She had no choice but to use all her strength to steady her shaking body and run after Cheng Suming.
The two geese disappeared when she fell. It was unknown whether they were buried under the building or ran away to some other place.
One of her shoes was lost while she was running. She had no time to look back for it, so she could only endure the pain and step on the sharp garbage and broken glass on the ground, trying her best to avoid the cracks in the ground that were opening in all directions.
The two ran less than 20 meters away when they heard Cheng Wei's scream from behind: "Wen Tao!"
They turned back together and saw Cheng Wei lying on the edge of a huge crack that was about to collapse. With her slender hands, she grabbed the right hand of Yang Wentao, who was hanging from the crack, and cried, "Brother, sister-in-law, come and help me!"
Without any hesitation, the two turned back to pull Yang Wentao, "Hold on!"
When the two of them were exerting force, Si Nan heard some movement from the side. He turned his head and his eyes suddenly widened!
An abandoned car was flying towards them from the side at a very fast speed. The place where they were was already cracked into many small cracks, and large chunks of soil were falling into the cracks.
Yang Wentao hadn't pulled them up yet. If a car hit them, they would all fall into the bottomless crack and there would be no chance of survival!
At the critical moment, an extremely sexy pink sequined figure appeared in front of the car and used force to hold back the oncoming vehicle.
The force of the car knocked the man back nearly ten meters, and then he stopped less than five meters away from Si Nan and the others.
The flirtatious man reached out his hand and wiped his hair across his forehead, posed in a very handsome manner, and bared his big white teeth at Si Nan and the others: "How is it? Am I handsome?!"
Simon:......
You can't believe that Yu Yong, who usually pretends to be a decent person, wears such sexy and eye-catching thermal underwear in private! Not only is his upper body so bright, but the thermal underwear on his lower body is so tight that it's embarrassing to look at it.
Si Nan turned his head away unable to bear to watch, and with force on his hands, he and Cheng Suming pulled Yang Wentao up.
After Yang Wentao came up, the place where they were standing began to collapse rapidly. Without saying a word, they turned around and ran quickly in the other direction.
With every step, Si Nan felt that the ground she was standing on was cracking and collapsing. She felt like she was stepping on blocks of tofu, and wherever she ran, she was stepping on it.
She didn't dare stop. Her instinct for survival made her grit her teeth and keep running.
The land before my eyes was no longer the familiar calm ground. It was twisting and splitting like waves. Buildings on both sides kept collapsing, and people were running everywhere.
Si Nan was dizzy and dazed by the violent shaking. She could not see the road conditions around her at all. She could only let Cheng Suming, who was holding her left hand tightly, lead her to run.
She didn't know how long she had been running, perhaps ten minutes, or maybe half an hour. Finally, she couldn't hold on any longer and tripped to the ground, dragging Cheng Suming down with her. The two of them collapsed in the middle of a large crack in the ground, gasping for breath, when the earthquake finally stopped.
The noisy noises quieted down in an instant. The sun was shining brightly and everything was quiet. The violent vibration just now seemed like an illusion.
Si Nan was lying in the mud, his beautiful eyes staring straight at the long-awaited dazzling light in the sky. Suddenly his eyes turned red, he covered his eyes with his hands, and began to sob softly.
"Anan, why are you crying? Are you hurt?" Cheng Suming picked her up from the ground and looked around anxiously at the wounds on her body.
"I'm fine..." Si Nan sobbed, stretched out his hands and hugged Cheng Su Ming tightly, feeling his heartbeat, and said with red eyes: "I just feel that life is really too difficult! So many natural disasters, such a big earthquake, how many people will die this time!"
Cheng Suming remained silent, his eyes fixed on her bloody left foot.
He helped her sit down, took out a pair of tweezers from the backpack on his back, and removed the glass fragments and various sharp garbage that had pierced her delicate soles, and then bandaged them to stop the bleeding.
Si Nan hissed in pain, gritted her teeth and made no sound. After Cheng Su Ming finished bandaging her wound, she wiped away the tears from her eyes and looked around: "Where are Cheng Wei and the others?"
"They should be nearby." Cheng Suming picked her up, walked forward a distance, and put her on the roof of an abandoned vehicle: "Anan, wait here for me, I will go find Cheng Wei and the others."
He pointed at the backpack on her back and said, "Eat something to replenish your energy. It's better to put on a brightly colored dress so that I can see you at any time."
Si Nan nodded: "Be careful and watch out for aftershocks. I'll get you a red down jacket to wear later."
"Don't worry, I know my limits."
She watched Cheng Suming leave, and saw him calling Cheng Wei everywhere. It seemed that he was not seriously injured. Then she withdrew her gaze and looked elsewhere.
Most of the surrounding buildings were razed to the ground. The stacked building materials emitted a cold light under the sun. The ground was full of cracks. The survivors were separated by these cracks. They were covered in dust and blood. They sat slumped beside the ruins, crying and digging for building materials, trying to save their relatives and friends.
The city, which was once full of tall buildings, bustling with traffic and extremely prosperous, was reduced to ruins in just two years. The air was filled with a strong smell of dust and blood, which made people feel extremely uncomfortable and had difficulty breathing.
Compared with the dead silent ruins, what is even more distressing is the psychological state. Despair is spreading in the hearts of all the survivors. Everyone has no joy of surviving the disaster, only endless pain and despair. They all cry bitterly, not knowing when such days will end.
In today's world, living is much more difficult than dying!
Si Nan's eyes felt sore and he lowered his head out of empathy, not daring to look at such a scene again.
Even if she had known about this big earthquake in advance, she would have almost died. She didn't dare to think about what her uncle, aunt, Sheng Youqing, Gao Moli and the rest of their family were doing now, or whether they were still alive. All she could do now was to protect herself first and then find a way to find them.
There were only three or five survivors where she was, and each of them was in a very bad mental state. Some were lying on the ground crying, some were crying out their family members' names, and they were kneeling beside the rubble to move buildings.
No one noticed her. Si Nan sat on the roof of the car boldly. She changed her upper body from wet and sticky yellow mud to clean underwear and warm clothes, but did not change her pants. She also deliberately wiped a lot of yellow mud on the red down jacket she had just taken out of the space to avoid making it too clean and arousing suspicion.
After throwing all the dirty clothes into the space, Sinan took out two square purple sweet potato breads from his backpack and started eating.
The sweet purple potato filling combined with the soft bread filled her empty heart and made her feel a little alive.
She felt a little choked after eating one, so she took out a box of yogurt and ate and drank it while looking around. When she finished the milk, she saw Cheng Suming's tall and thin figure.
"Why are you alone here?" Si Nan became anxious when he saw the empty back behind him.
"Cheng Wei and Yang Wentao are buried under a ruin. I can't pry open the huge building that's pressing on them with my bare hands." Cheng Suming reached out and carried her down from the roof of the car, and walked under a ruined building. "Yu Yong is stuck in a gap not far from them, and he could fall at any time. Take out a solid iron rod and a long rope from the space, and let's go rescue Yu Yong first."
After they pulled Yang Wentao up, the ground was shaking so violently and there were cracks everywhere, so they got separated while running. Unexpectedly, after the earthquake stopped, Cheng Wei and the other two were trapped.
But compared to those who lost their lives, Cheng Wei and her friends are already very lucky.
Si Nan took out the things Cheng Su Ming wanted from the space, "Put me down, I will walk by myself. After such a big earthquake, you must be almost exhausted."
"It's okay, I can still hold on. Your feet hurt, so you shouldn't walk on the ground." Cheng Suming carried her around the rubble and garbage on the ground and stopped beside a crack less than one meter wide.
Yu Yong was about fifteen meters below the crack, spreading his hands and feet, supporting his body to prevent himself from falling.
Hearing some movement above his head, he saw Cheng Suming and the other man appear with a rope. Yu Yong's face, which had turned pale from exertion, revealed a smile as if he had been relieved of a heavy burden. "Brother Cheng, sister-in-law, you're here. Pull me up quickly, I can't hold on any longer!"
Cheng Suming and the other man worked together to pull him up from the crack little by little. The first thing he did after coming up was to jump several steps away from the crack. He sat down on the ground, patted his chest and said, "Damn, I was scared to death! I didn't see the road clearly before, and I missed a step and fell down, and got stuck in the crack. I thought I could climb up by myself, but it got bigger and bigger. I could only support myself with my hands and feet. I thought it was over. Fortunately, you came in time."
"I'm glad you're okay." Si Nan handed him a bottle of mineral water breathlessly, "Drink some water to moisten your throat."
Of course, she did not forget to bring a bottle of water to Cheng Suming, "You should drink some too, to replenish your energy."
Cheng Suming unscrewed the bottle cap, took a few sips, and reminded Yu Yong, "Don't drink a lot of water at once if you've used up too much energy. Drink small amounts multiple times to avoid gastrointestinal dysfunction, diarrhea, or even death."
"......" Yu Yong held the empty bottle, "Why didn't you say so earlier!"
The three of them rested for a while. Cheng Suming held Si Nan and led Yu Yong to the place where Cheng Wei and the other were trapped.
It was a building that was lying sideways and upside down, and Cheng Wei and the other person were pinned underneath by a large stone slab.
Fortunately, there was a heavy stone pillar above them that borne most of the weight of the collapsed building. The two men were just unable to move under the pressure of the stone pillar. Apart from the dust on their heads, there was no visible injury anywhere on them.
Cheng Suming placed Si Nan in a safe place, holding the solid 1.5-meter-long iron rod she gave him, and asked Yu Yong for help. The two of them worked together to pry the large stone on the stone pillar.
Si Nan did not stop, surrounding Cheng Wei and Yang Wentao, and moving the bricks near their heads. His hands were blistered from the friction. Only then did he see their faces: "Cheng Wei, Yang Wentao, you are not hurt, are you?"
"I'm fine." It was Cheng Wei who answered.
When Cheng Wei was running after Yang Wentao, she accidentally stepped on a skeleton. She was so scared that she ran to the side two steps.
Just two steps away, a tall building collapsed from the side with a roar.
Seeing this, Yang Wentao, despite being dizzy from the earthquake, rushed over and held Cheng Wei tightly under him.
When the floor collapsed, he only heard the crash of the building falling down, and then there was a roar in his ears. His face and head were covered with a thick layer of dust, which almost choked him.
Fortunately, Cheng Wei was safe and sound under him. Hearing Si Nan's cry, he raised his head with a dusty face and said, "It's okay."
The buildings after the earthquake were extremely dangerous and could collapse a second time at any time. When Cheng Suming and Yu Yong were prying the stone slabs, the building that was stuck between the two collapsed buildings about three meters above their heads was shaking. From time to time, huge pieces of rubble and buildings fell around them, making a dull noise and stirring up a lot of dust.
Si Nan was so terrified that he could not help but limp to Cheng Suming's side. He reached out and gripped the iron bar tightly, and together with the two of them, they worked hard to pry up the huge rock weighing thousands of pounds bit by bit.
"Yang Wentao, see if you can come out." Veins bulged on Yu Yong's forehead, and he spoke with such force that it sounded as if he was gritting his teeth.
Yang Wentao tried to move a bit, and when he found that he could move, he pushed hard against the stone pillar on his back, "Weiwei, you go out first."
Cheng Wei knew that he was afraid that if he left first, the stone pillar above would fall down and crush her, so he let her go out first.
She didn't try to shirk her responsibility, but suppressed her fear and quickly crawled out of the hole that Si Nan had cleared. She turned around and pulled Yang Wentao: "Wentao, hurry up, get out."
Just as Yang Wentao was about to climb up, a large wardrobe suddenly fell from the collapsed building and hit the stone slab that Cheng Suming and the other two had pried up.
The three of them were shocked and squatted halfway down. Yang Wentao was also pressed down a few inches by the sudden weight and did not move for a long time.
"Wentao!" Cheng Wei lay in front of him, crying anxiously, "Are you okay? Don't scare me."
Yang Wentao raised his head with great effort, revealing a dark face covered in dust, and smiled at her: "Don't worry, I won't die. With my body size, I can still bear this weight."
"Weiwei, please move aside and don't block us."
Cheng Suming and Yu Yong pried up the heavy stone slab again. Si Nan limped to Cheng Wei who had moved a few steps to the side. The two of them bent down, grabbed Yang Wentao's arms on the left and right, and dragged the tall Yang Wentao out.
Without even taking a breath, they supported Yang Wentao and walked to an open area nearby. Cheng Suming and Yu Yong followed closely behind them. When they had walked less than ten meters, the building behind them collapsed with a loud bang, stirring up a cloud of dust.
The group looked back and sat down on the ground gasping for breath in fear.
They were now in the middle of the intersection outside the community. There wasn't much garbage or buildings, and it was far away from the collapsed houses and buildings around. There was only a large, long-deposited tree trunk across the intersection, which was just right for them to lean against and rest for a while.
There were five people in the group, and each of them carried a bag containing water and important items.
Cheng Wei took out a bottle of water from her backpack, took off the scarf around her neck, turned on the water to wet it, and wiped the thick dust off her and Yang Wentao's faces, "Wentao, are you hurt?"
Yang Wentao covered his chest, his face looking a little pale, "My chest feels stuffy, maybe I inhaled too much dust, and my back hurts a little bit."
"Let me see." Cheng Suming stood up and walked behind Yang Wentao, asking him to put down the mountaineering bag behind him and take off his coat so that he could see.
After Yang Wentao took off his clothes, his strong back like a bear was exposed. It was covered with bruises and swelling, but no obvious scars.
Cheng Suming pressed around and asked him if it hurt. Finally, he concluded, "It's not a big deal. It's just a soft tissue contusion. It will be fine after a period of rest."
Cheng Wei breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm glad you're okay."
Sinan: "I guess Yang Wentao's backpack blocked a lot of his strength. The bag is bulging and looks very heavy. Did you stuff clothes in it?"
Yang Wentao nodded: "I packed a lot of things in it before I went out, and I also packed a few thick winter clothes. I guess they blocked it for me."
As he spoke, he took out a bottle of mineral water that was twisted and leaking from his bag with great effort, and poured a little water down his throat. After drinking it, he felt his throat much better. He then took out a lot of biscuits, candies and other things that had been crushed into powder from his bag and asked everyone if they wanted to eat some.
Yu Yong shamelessly reached out his hand: "Give it to me, there is no candy in my bag."
At this moment, many people have not recovered from the earthquake, and those who can move are crying and calling for help.
The deathly silence after the earthquake was soon broken, and the sounds of people crying in despair were heard everywhere.
Wherever Si Nan and his five companions looked, they saw people frantically shouting for their friends and family members, and digging through the ruins of buildings.
Cheng Wei asked: "Should we go to rescue? I heard many people shouting for help."
Yang Wentao shook his head: "Wait a little longer, there may be aftershocks. It's not safe to go for rescue now. If the aftershock is bigger, we will be killed as well."
Si Nan stood up silently, and Cheng Su Ming held her hand: "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to the hospital to look for Sheng Youqing and the others." Si Nan bent down and picked up a branch that had been soaked in water to use as a crutch: "Don't stop me."
"I know you're anxious, I won't stop you." Cheng Suming hung the backpack on his back in front of his chest and half-knelt in front of her: "Come on, I'll carry you, your feet are not convenient for walking."
Si Nan hesitated, "It takes at least an hour and a half to walk from Shenxian Garden to the hospital where Sheng Youqing is staying. There are cracks and collapses everywhere on the ground, and various buildings are blocking the way. It will take us at least three hours to get there. Can you hold on?"
"I have the stamina to carry you, trust me." Cheng Suming deliberately lifted up his sleeves to show her the bulging muscles on his arms. He turned his narrow eyes and looked at her with an ambiguous expression through the slightly cracked lenses: "You should know my stamina very well."
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Si Nan glanced at Cheng Wei and the others' reactions. Seeing that they all showed a look of understanding, she blushed and reached out to pinch Cheng Suming's exposed arm: "Treat the wound on your forehead first, and then eat something to restore your strength."
Cheng Suming's wound was not big and the bleeding had stopped long ago. The dried blood sealed the wound, and Cheng Suming thought it was okay if he didn't treat it.
However, since Si Nan had spoken, he still had to obey. He took the first aid kit to treat the wound and ate a little before leaving with Si Nan on his back.
Yang Wentao and the other two decided to stay and rescue those buried in the rubble. Both parties agreed to meet here before dark. If Cheng Suming and the others did not come back, Yang Wentao and the other two would go to the hospital to find them tomorrow morning.
Along the way, all the obvious architectural landmarks collapsed, and there were crumbling buildings all around. Cheng Suming carried Si Nan on his back, carefully jumped over the cracked streets, and walked towards the hospital with difficulty.
Si Nan held his phone in his hand, carefully looking at the local map that he had downloaded to his phone when there was internet, and gave Cheng Su Ming directions: "Go east."
Cheng Suming retracted his feet in time and walked towards a ruin to the east for a while. Suddenly, he heard someone shouting for help in the distance. Before he could carry Si Nan to check, a series of explosions were heard in the distance.
The explosion was quite loud, and it blew the ruins where the man was into pieces. There was a faint sound of a gas valve flying into the air and then falling heavily to the ground.
It turned out that a gas tank exploded.
After the explosion, there was no sound from that man anymore.
"Let's go."
When Si Nan saw this scene, his face became heavy and he sighed, and asked Cheng Suming to continue following the route on the map.
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