Chapter 68 Arrival in the Disaster Area
Jiang Ning had no interest in the noises; she closed her eyes to rest.
"Tsk." A cold tsk sound came from the side. Yan Liyue's tone was sarcastic. "We're going to the disaster area to provide support. Does bringing these things make it seem like we're going to provide support?"
Jiang Ning glanced at her sideways but ignored her.
After several more hours of driving, we finally arrived at the town where the earthquake had occurred at 6 p.m.
The journey wasn't long at first, but most of the way through the neighboring county was quite treacherous, so the car drove very slowly.
Finally, their car was stopped at a landslide because several large rocks blocked the way, so they had to get out of the car and walk over.
Stepping off the bus, one can immediately see the devastation caused by the earthquake.
A light rain was falling from the sky, and some villages that had been destroyed by landslides caused by the earthquake could still be seen. I wonder how many people have lost their lives under this mud and sand.
This area is not considered severely affected.
While they were on the bus, Brigade Commander Liang distributed raincoats to everyone. The bus could no longer proceed, and they all had to walk.
"Keep going forward and you'll reach Hongyan Town."
Jiang Ning carried her suitcase and milk candy. There were few people in this area, and there were still signs of digging, indicating that this area had already been rescued.
After walking for a while, a bright light suddenly appeared ahead.
It sounded like a distress signal.
Brigade Commander Liang made a decisive decision: "Let's go over there quickly."
Jiang Ning's journey was not slowed by the things she was carrying. In the real world, her team often went into the mountains to find the plants needed for an experiment, and this rugged road could not stop her.
The volunteers recruited by Brigade Commander Liang were all from the family compound, so most of them had done farm work in the countryside and were not bothered by this little bit of hardship.
Yan Liyue had never experienced hardship since childhood. The only hardship she had ever endured was when she almost got into an accident while with the medical reserve team. She was later saved by Shen Mo, and she recognized him as the man at first sight.
Her family doted on her and didn't let her suffer much. After graduating from school, her family couldn't dissuade her, so they let her intern at the medical clinic of the Capital Military Region.
Her job was always easy; she usually did simple nursing care and had never been to such a dirty and chaotic place before.
When she learned that Brigade Commander Liang was gathering people to provide support in the disaster area, she signed up to be a volunteer without hesitation for Shen Mo's sake, just so that Shen Mo could see that she was the one who could stand by his side.
But who would have thought that Jiang Ning would also be going along!
Yan Liyue almost twisted her ankle after walking for a while, but then she saw Jiang Ning walking forward as if it were flat ground. She gritted her teeth and followed her, not wanting to fall behind. After walking for a while, she was covered in sweat.
As they got closer to the light source, they realized that the other party was indeed calling for help.
A soldier in military uniform was digging through mud and rocks with a shovel. He saw the light of a flashlight coming from not far away and waved his own flashlight to call for help.
"Comrade, there's someone under the stone slab, help me dig!" he said hurriedly as he saw the person approaching, his voice a little hoarse.
As the flashlight beam swept across, Jiang Ning saw that the soldier wielding the shovel had dry lips and a pale face, indicating that he was exhausted and dehydrated.
Even when he was exhausted, he did not put down the shovel.
He embodied the qualities of a soldier.
Brigade Commander Liang quickly went over with two soldiers to help. With everyone's help, the person trapped under the stone slab was rescued in no time.
The soldier who had been wielding the shovel saw the person rescued and collapsed onto the ground, exhausted, barely breathing, as if he had already fainted.
Jiang Ning was about to walk over when a figure moved even faster than her.
Yan Liyue pinched the soldier's philtrum and the space between his thumb and forefinger, and kept shouting at him as if she wanted to wake him up.
Although he had woken up, he still looked like he might faint at any moment.
"Stop shouting, let him rest." Jiang Ning walked over and coldly shouted.
Without hesitation, he took out a piece of candy, unwrapped it, and fed it to the soldier.
Excessive fatigue can easily lead to hypoglycemia, so it's important to replenish sugar in time.
The taste of sugar melted in their mouths. After half a month of rescue and relief work, they slept less than five hours a day and ate mostly dust and mud. They hadn't tasted sugar in a long time.
He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt like his strength was gradually returning.
"Have some water and rest for a while."
A girl's clear, bell-like voice reached his ears. The soldier struggled to open his eyes and looked at the person in front of him. He was slightly taken aback when he saw Jiang Ning's face.
Yan Liyue was so angry that she almost gritted her teeth when she saw him staring intently at Jiang Ning.
She was the one who saved people first, so why did this person only see Jiang Ning?
Yan Liyue released her grip in displeasure, and the soldier immediately fell to the ground.
Yan Liyue looked at Jiang Ningzheng with disdain, while the people who had been rescued over there also needed help.
Jiang Ning noticed that the soldier's hands were bleeding, which must have been caused by swinging the shovel too many times, resulting in a split in the web between his thumb and forefinger.
Seeing these soldiers exhausted to the point of collapse, fighting against death with their own blood and sweat, willing to sacrifice their lives for the people.
Jiang Ning felt a slight sourness in her chest.
She knelt down, took something out of the box to clean his wound, applied ointment, and then wrapped it with gauze.
Jiang Ning thought for a moment and asked, "Have you guys not had much rest at all in the past two weeks?"
She also wanted to find out about Shen Mo's situation through this soldier.
At this moment, the soldier, having rested for a while and replenished his strength, instinctively replied to her question, "It's alright. Saving the people is our duty."
Seeing him firmly say the words "It is my duty," Jiang Ning stopped asking questions.
The light rain had stopped by now, and Jiang Ning asked, "We came here to help, why are you here alone?"
He said, "My superiors said there would be support personnel today, and asked me to come and guide them. I didn't expect to encounter my comrade who was trapped under a slab of stone on the way."
At that moment, Brigade Commander Liang walked over, and the soldier recognized him and immediately stood up and saluted.
Commander Liang waved his hand, "Alright, these are all formalities in the face of disaster. Quickly take us to the disaster area."
The group marched into the disaster area in a grand procession, with Brigade Commander Liang leading the way and inquiring about the situation in the disaster area from the soldiers who were guiding them.
Jiang Ning followed behind Brigade Commander Liang and listened to the soldier say that the first batch of teams that came to the disaster area to provide support had not had a proper rest since then. In the first three days of the extreme rescue, they only rescued most of the people. Some of them were alive, while others had already died in the disaster.
Later, aftershocks struck the area, causing heavy casualties.
When she heard about the aftershocks and the heavy casualties, Jiang Ning's pupils contracted.
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