Chapter 357 Earthquake. Clearing the Roadblocks
This wave of aftershocks lasted a long time, at least five minutes, and the shaking was not particularly strong, which may be related to their location.
Chu An and Gu Ye hid under the bed. She picked up her cell phone and told Li Qing that the car was safe and that they would not come out until one minute after the shaking stopped.
It was already daybreak and there were no casualties outside, but the road below the hill was blocked by rubble and dead trees. The largest stone was nearly five cubic meters in size and it was absolutely impossible to move it by human power.
When Chu An came out of the RV, Li Qing and Jinli were organizing everyone to clean up the supplies scattered on the ground and to pack up the tents.
The other two families were not much better off. Some people were lying on the ground, their internal organs were almost shaken to pieces, and they were vomiting violently.
An hour later, the camp was cleaned up and the most difficult task left was to clear the road.
This is their only road leading to Xiwan. There is a deep ditch on the left and a mountain on the right. They have to clear space for vehicles to pass, and they also have to be vigilant against landslides and unstable rocks at all times.
Li Fu acted like an older brother and called a meeting of the three families. Chu An wanted to hear what solutions they had, so he followed them.
Xia Yaoyin and Lucy couldn't help but look at her when they saw her. Lucy's subordinates were the only five women in the whole team, but they were all average looking and servants, so no one took them seriously.
But Chu An is different. She arrived driving an Expedition RV. She is also pretty. Most importantly, there is no trace of torture from the end of the world on her face.
Chu An felt two burning gazes and glared back. Xia Yaoyin and Lucy hurriedly looked away.
In fact, she hadn't had time to wash up when she got out of the car. Her hair was casually tied into a low ponytail. Her clothes were the same as yesterday, with several greasy spots. And because she was in a hurry, she was wearing Gu Ye's sandals, which looked very out of place.
"Let's get down to business." Li Qing stepped forward and pushed Chu An back.
"Ahem..." Li Fu cleared his throat, "Well, the road is blocked. We need to send people to clear it."
Xia Yaoyin continued, "Of course, but what about the big rock in the middle?"
"Whoever has explosives can just blow it up."
Everyone looked at Yue Qianshan who was speaking at the same time. Explosives were a scarce commodity. How could he be so shameless to expect others to provide them for him!!!
Xia Yaoyin smiled and said, "I remember Brother Yue has explosives. Don't you want to take them out?"
Yue Qianshan's face instantly darkened, "Don't you have any?"
Li Qing didn't want to hear them quarreling with each other, so he said directly: "Such a big rock will require at least two kilograms of explosives. Each of your two families will provide 6.5 kilograms, and I'll take the rest. Also, the blasting may cause a landslide, so each of our families will provide one person, and no one can play tricks."
"No." Yue Qianshan crossed his legs. "I can take the explosives, but I can't take the people out. What if my people get hurt?"
Li Qing seemed to have heard the biggest joke of the century. "Mr. Yue, who killed five of your men in the mudslide?"
Liu Zishuo glared, "What do you mean?"
Those people were forced by him to go back to get supplies and got into trouble.
Xia Yaoyin and Huang Jue also looked very unhappy. They also exchanged their subordinates' lives for their current life of having no worries about food and clothing.
Li Qing stared at him. "It is a great shame to cooperate with people like you. Let's take this opportunity to make it clear that from now on, the three of us will share equally in everything we do. Otherwise, we will break up and no one will get the ship."
The shipping king gave each of the three companies a letter, and all three letters had to be handed over to the agent in Xiwan before the ship could be picked up.
Yue Qianshan clenched his fists and thought of a thousand ways to kill Li Qing.
"Okay, let's do it this way." Xia Yaoyin was the first to agree, "I'll do the blasting, and I'll send ten more people to clean the road afterwards."
"Meet at the intersection in twenty minutes." Li Qing said the last sentence, pulled Chu An, who was still rubbing his eyes, and turned away.
The meeting ended surprisingly quickly.
Chu An looked back at the other two families, and saw that they were arguing about something again. Huang Jue even pushed Liu Zishuo a few times.
If only she and Gu Ye were here, the big rocks would enter the space and the small ones would not be able to stop her Hummer at all, but she couldn't act rashly now.
She looked at the road again. Many rocks on the mountain had become loose, and it was indeed very dangerous.
Li Qing returned to the camp and repeated what had been said at the meeting. Quan Duan immediately raised his hand to go and blast the rocks.
"Can you use explosives?" Ji Xiaolu volunteered, "Let me go, Brother Qing. I'm familiar with explosives, and I'm small."
"You are small and you run slowly." Quan Duan rushed to say, "It's not difficult to light a bomb. Don't forget that I am also a doctor of physics."
If he hadn't brought it up himself, everyone would have forgotten about it. The main thing is that this guy fights to the death and is sometimes even more ferocious than people with tattoos.
"Brother Qing, let me go. I do this all the time and I'm familiar with it." Huabi said.
"I'll go, I will too."
"Brother Qing, let me go."
The people below were scrambling to get ahead, which formed a sharp contrast with the dull atmosphere of the other two teams.
"Okay, stop arguing." Li Qing glanced at everyone and finally set his eyes on Quan Duan. "Duan Duan, thank you for your hard work."
Quan Duan raised his head and said, "Don't worry, Brother Qing, I will complete the task."
"Xiaolu, prepare the explosives for him, using the paper tube timer you made last time."
Ji Xiaolu nodded and went back to prepare.
Chu An took out a large black umbrella with a metal frame, a white construction hat and a homemade slate bulletproof vest from the car and handed them to Quan Duan.
"That's great, Sister An."
Twenty minutes later, the three blasters were ready. Xia Yaoyin sent Yang Guang, the leader of the coolie team who exchanged the ring for hot pot base. Yue Qianshan sent a young man who was injured by Liu Zishuo and was still walking unsteadily.
Except for Quanduan, the other two were obviously a little nervous, and they were also a little jealous of Quanduan's fully armed appearance.
"Wait." Gu Ye suddenly called them and ran down the hillside quickly, holding two big black umbrellas and two white hats in his arms.
He handed it to the other two people in full view of everyone and said, "This umbrella and hat are very sturdy. They can save your life at a critical moment. But you have to return them to us after use."
The two of them didn't care about their boss's expression and hurriedly took it and thanked him profusely.
"Fuck, you need to bring these things for such a trivial matter." Liu Zishuo said disdainfully, "If you are afraid of death, you shouldn't come out. Guodong, if you are afraid of even this, then don't work for me."
His words made the little boy named Guo Dong pale. He was assigned this job because he was called a loser due to his waist injury, but his waist was also injured by a kick.
"I... don't want it. Thank you." Guo Dong wiped the wet corners of his eyes. He was not afraid of death, but he felt very depressed.
Li Qing stuffed the returned umbrella and hat back to Guo Dong, "Here, wear it."
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