Chapter 110
After resting for a while, Mao Qingquan got up and started digging rocks again.
However, I still felt uneasy in my heart. I couldn’t tell why, but I just felt that something was wrong.
He shook his head suspiciously and raised his eyes, only to find that although the sun was directly overhead, it was not dazzling at all. Instead, there were some faint clouds floating around.
Another strange thing, Mao Qingquan tilted his head and thought, the weather on Lime Island has always been good, especially at noon, there is always sunshine, and there are rarely clouds blocking the sun.
Is it going to rain heavily today?
He sniffed with the tip of his nose, but didn't smell the dampness that preceded a heavy rain.
Suddenly, two screams interrupted his thoughts.
"Help! Brother Gen fell into the gap!"
"Hurry up, help!"
It fell through the cracks?! What happened?!
He hurriedly got up from the ground and shouted, "Is that Archie? Where are you?!"
Aqi and Genge are about the same age. They have a good relationship and go everywhere together. I saw them talking and laughing before. Why did they suddenly...
Hearing his question, Archie responded hurriedly from not far away.
Everyone successfully located the target and picked up their hoes and ran towards the direction of the shouting. They pushed aside the bushes and stepped in, one step deep and one step shallow. Soon, their vision turned and they saw Archie kneeling on the ground, his arms stretched into the gap, tightly holding the hand of the person below!
Everyone was horrified and quickly knelt down, reaching out to grab the person inside.
However, as soon as they touched those hands, a sudden burst of heat hit them!
"Hiss, it's so hot!"
"There's a hot spring here?! It's so hot!"
There are many hot springs at the foot of the volcano, and the villagers living on Lime Island have long been accustomed to them. They just didn't expect that a new hot spring would suddenly appear here.
At this time, Archie was sweating profusely and his face was flushed red. He didn't know whether it was because of the pulling or the hot air coming out of the gap.
No matter what, although the villagers were surprised, they did not withdraw their hands.
"Archie, let go, your arm is burning red, let go!"
The kind uncles frowned and reminded him. Archie hesitated for a long time, and finally let go. He fell backwards as if he had collapsed.
Archie made room and the others rushed forward to help.
Mao Qingquan rushed forward at this time. He ignored the scorching steam, knelt beside the gap, reached out with his strong right arm, and firmly held Agen's hands, which had already turned red.
"Hurry up, everyone, pull him up!"
Everyone shouted slogans and finally worked together to pull the man out.
The next second, everyone was dumbfounded.
Agen lying on the grass is completely different from what I imagined!
His feet were gone, melted away from his calf bones. The white bones and red flesh were intertwined together, which was creepy to look at.
In addition, there was no intact part of Agen's body. From his scalp to his neck, lower abdomen and calf bones, his skin was all red and swollen, like a steamed bun in a steamer!
"Agen!!!"
Aqi screamed in shock, climbed up in an instant, tears welled up in his eyes, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.
The villagers watched all this in silence, each expression more solemn than the other.
Agen died, steamed to death by the heat from the cracks beneath the ground.
Mao Qingquan looked at the person who was not breathing at his feet in horror, his heart pounding in his chest. It was this creepy feeling that had been lingering in his chest since just now and refused to dissipate!
Unlike other villagers who were immersed in grief, he slowly turned half of his body, his eyes looking upward, penetrating through the layers of trees, and looking straight at the silent volcano peak.
"My fellow villagers..." he stammered, "Is this volcano...was it awakening?"
His voice was not loud, but it was enough to break the deathly silence.
The heavy air seemed to be torn apart by sharp claws in an instant. Everyone gasped and followed his gaze, looking at the volcano head not far away.
"The volcano... the volcano seems to be emitting steam...!"
Someone noticed something was wrong and stood there like a half piece of wood.
After being reminded by this, the others also noticed that wisps of smoke were coming out of the crater!
The smoke is very light and thin, and it is not easy to detect if you don’t look closely!
It was not until this time that Mao Qingquan realized why there was fog over the sun above his head just now.
Those are not clouds at all, but smoke coming out of the crater!
"Oh my God, wasn't the volcano said to be dead? Why is it suddenly emitting gas?" The younger guy exclaimed, unable to believe what he saw.
The older uncle took over the conversation. Although his overall expression was calmer than that of the young man, his brows twisted into a "川" shape also showed the seriousness of the situation.
"No one has ever said this volcano is dead... It's just that since our ancestors lived here, no one has ever seen volcanic activity, so..."
Everyone tacitly agreed that this was an inactive extinct volcano.
But does tacit acceptance equal the fact?
No, the smoke from the crater in front of us is a warning.
"Let's go, quickly notify the village chief and everyone! Get the boats ready!" Several uncles and aunts proposed sternly.
The others nodded and turned to run towards the village.
Seeing this, Aqi, who was kneeling on the ground, cried and shouted, "Don't go, there's still Brother Gen. Brother Gen must be taken back...!"
Unfortunately, the situation was urgent. When half of the people heard that the volcano might wake up, they were only thinking about notifying their families, and instantly forgot about Archie and Genge, who had no sense of existence.
Seeing Aqi crying with red eyes, Mao Qingquan thought of his son Mao Xingxiu, who was only a few years younger than him. His heart softened and he called his wife Chi Yunying: "Yunying, give Aqi a hand and help him go back. I will carry Brother Gen!"
Chi Yunying nodded without hesitation, turned around and picked up Aqi, and comforted him softly: "Aqi, cheer up, we have to inform the villagers quickly now, otherwise everyone will suffer."
After saying this, he thought of Mao Xingxiu and the old man who were still at home, and his heart couldn't help but tighten.
"Qingquan, is our boat still usable?" she asked with a frown.
If the volcano really wakes up, the island might be doomed and the whole family would have to leave by boat.
Mao Qingquan had already carried the scalding Gen Ge on his back and rushed in front of Chi Yunying. His throat tightened when he heard the sound: "...It's been more than a year since I last used it. I don't know if I can still go out to sea."
Chi Yunying's face darkened. "Never mind. Let's go back and have a look. If that doesn't work, ask Old Xu next door. I remember he has some."
"Okay, got it." Mao Qingquan gritted his teeth and ran wildly on the dirt road in the forest.
Before reaching the foot of the volcano, Mao Xingxiu suddenly noticed that there seemed to be smoke rising from the crater!
"Yuanzhou! Look! Is the volcano emitting gas?" Mao Xingxiu was frightened and asked, pointing at the mountain pass in the distance.
How could this happen? A panic rose in his heart. Didn’t Grandpa say that the volcano on their island would not be active?
He stared at Song Yue, hoping to hear a different answer from the latter.
Unfortunately, he saw the other party nodded with calm eyes.
It felt like someone hit his head with a thud, and his brain was buzzing.
"...Yuanzhou, my parents are still there, hurry... let's go find them!"
He had long been accustomed to his parents going out early in the morning and returning in the evening, but when he realized that the volcano had started to move, his heart was once again in suspense.
He was so afraid that something had happened to his parents at the foot of the mountain, and he wanted to see them as soon as possible!
Xiao Hei, holding the leash, rushed in front and suddenly started barking.
"There might be someone ahead, let's go and take a look!"
Song Yue took a step forward and rushed out in an instant. Mao Xingxiu was stunned for a moment, then followed.
"Uncle Chen, Uncle Li!" Mao Xingxiu was delighted to see his acquaintances and elders. "Have you seen my parents?"
The uncles who were called pointed back again and again: "It should be at the back, you'll see it soon!"
As he spoke, he glanced at Song Yue with a dark look in his eyes.
Song Yue naturally noticed their eyes, which were just like those of the children and aunties in the village, full of resistance, hostility and unkindness.
However, because the situation was urgent, this group of people had no time to care about her. They just glanced at her and hurried away.
Mao Xingxiu didn't pay attention to his uncles' unkindness to Song Yue. He was completely focused on finding his parents. Seeing that no one had come out of the forest, he was so anxious that he almost cried: "Yuanzhou, why haven't my parents come out yet... Have they been in trouble...?"
"ah--!"
The person next to him suddenly screamed, and then a force fell on his shoulder, dragging Chi Yunying to the side.
Fortunately, she was strong and had a stable center of gravity, so she was not dragged to the ground by Archie next to her in an instant.
"Archie!"
After she stood up, she suddenly noticed that one of Archie's feet was stuck in the gap.
The gap was very similar to the one that Brother Gen fell into before. It was a narrow crack, like an open eye, silently watching them.
Archie found his left foot stuck in it and tried desperately to pull it out!
But no matter how hard he tried, the gap was like a man-eating mouth and would not open.
Seeing this, Chi Yunying hurried over to help: "I'll do it, don't worry!"
She knelt down, grabbed Achika's foot, and tried to pry it left and right, but found that it was stuck tightly.
What should I do? !
Suddenly, an idea struck her. She took off the hoe from her back and began digging, bit by bit. As she dug, she told her husband, Mao Qingquan, "Qingquan, you carry Gen back first! I'll catch up with you later!"
But Mao Qingquan refused and shook his head: "No, if you want to go, let's go together!"
Chi Yunying was anxious and raised her voice: "Our father and son are still waiting at home, do you want anything to happen to them?"
Mao Qingquan was suddenly stunned and began to hesitate whether to leave or stay.
However, at this moment, there was a rumbling sound under Chi Yunying's feet! The ground suddenly cracked in both directions!
“Yunying!!!”
All thoughts were thrown away at this moment, and he rushed forward and grabbed his wife's hand before she and Archie fell into the crack at the same time!
"Yunying, don't let go! Hold on to me!"
When a person falls, the pulling force is quite strong, not to mention that Chi Yunying is strong and heavier than a normal woman. This made Mao Qingquan's right arm snap when he grabbed her!
Dislocated shoulder!
"Qingquan!"
The woman under the gap raised her head and screamed in horror.
Mao Qingquan lay on the ground, his teeth bared, veins bulging on his forehead and neck. "Don't be afraid, don't let go, I will definitely pull you up!"
Having said that, the pain in his right arm was like a chainsaw drilling into his bone marrow, making him feel numb all over and losing all his strength.
His right arm seemed no longer his own. It was clearly attached to his body, but he couldn't exert any strength! He stretched out his left arm, but because of the angle, he couldn't reach the other person.
Damn it! Damn it!
What's the point of being able to chisel so many stones normally?! You can't even save your own wife at the critical moment! Mao Qingquan, you are a piece of shit!
Mao Qingquan held his breath and cursed himself desperately, trying to catch Chi Yunying in this way.
Chi Yunying looked down and saw that Aqi had already fallen in and disappeared, and she was also sliding down little by little in despair.
The steam from below made her muscles numb. She suddenly understood something, raised her head, and forced a smile: "Qingquan, take good care of your son and dad..."
The raised arm suddenly slipped down.
Mao Qingquan's eyes were filled with despair: "No——!"
The person he was holding in his right hand let go of his hand, and that smiling face hit his heart like a hammer!!!
In the blink of an eye, a pair of slender hands suddenly stretched out from beside him at an astonishing speed.
"Auntie Mao, hold on tight."
A calm voice came into his ears.
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