Chapter 291 Collecting Their Bodies
The soldiers still let the survivors leave first. "In the apocalypse, it's already difficult for survivors. We are soldiers of the country, guarding the country and the people. It is our responsibility to protect the survivors and ensure they get treatment and arrangements.
Furthermore, we cannot guarantee that there are no survivors at the Shancheng base. There must be other survivors hiding in other safer places, waiting for us to rescue them. We cannot just leave like this!"
"Captain Lu, we appreciate your kindness and believe that with you here, the survivors will have absolute safety and security. We are very confident in Lancheng Base! However, we have our responsibilities and cannot abandon any survivors!"
Because the natural disaster ruthlessly swept through the mountain city, many survivors died, and it is estimated that there are still many survivors whose bodies have no one to collect. We stay here and can collect their bodies and pray for them, hoping that they will not be born in the apocalypse in their next life!
The management of the official base in Shancheng and the official personnel of GJ also told Ji Yanmo and Lu Xingtang that they would not leave either, and would work with the military to search for survivors and usable supplies. Every survivor they found would be counted as one, and every piece of supplies they found would be counted as one.
Lu Xingtang had no choice but not to force them. Instead, he asked the plane to take the remaining survivors back to the Lancheng base and asked them to tell Su Cheng to arrange for Su Cheng to fly over immediately. They would search for survivors or supplies in the mountain city together and bring them back to the Lancheng base.
Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo stayed and searched for survivors in the mountain city with them. They gathered the bodies of the dead survivors and put them together to be cremated later.
Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo separated, but they held walkie-talkies in their hands and would communicate through the walkie-talkies if there was anything. They secretly collected the wood, big stones, concrete floors, ruins walls, etc. from the mountain city into the space and piled them in the space grassland.
When they encountered survivors, Lu Xingtang would call other soldiers, and everyone would come together to carry the dead survivors together, let them lie on the ground together, and then search around. Soon everyone dispersed. Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo made very little noise when collecting supplies, but they were lucky. Lu Xingtang actually found a lot of herbs, and without hesitation, he put them into the space and planted them in the black soil.
Lu Xingtang's consciousness worked with the three teachers to create a special medicine. Seeing that the three teachers were tired, he sent them back to their rooms to rest. His consciousness then went into the kitchen and prepared a nourishing meal for the three teachers to eat upon waking. While cooking, he was also busy in the black soil of the space. The sweet potatoes in the space were ready to be dug. First, he had to cut the sweet potato vines and chop them up to feed the pigs, or chop them up and ferment them to feed the pigs later.
Seeing body after body of bodies that were either disfigured or badly damaged, with no complete bodies found, Lu Xingtang felt very heavy-hearted. He and everyone else had stern faces and said, "I hope the apocalyptic disaster ends soon, otherwise there won't be a single survivor in our H Country. We will all die!"
Lu Xingtang touched her heart with her hand, feeling the leaf on her heart. After the Blue Star Heart Tree turned into leaves and entered her and Ji Yanmo's hearts, there was no movement. But she could feel the rich spiritual energy in the space, and her body became lighter and healthier. However, she still didn't know how to end the apocalypse.
At one o'clock the next afternoon, Su Cheng had his loyal assistant bring 100 people from Lancheng Base to support them. Together they would search for the dead survivors, collect the debris and materials, and bring them back to Lancheng Base to be used for the construction. This time they also brought a lot of food and water, enough for them to survive in the mountain city for half a month.
Lu Xingtang then distributed the supplies and suggested that groups of ten people search for deceased survivors or collect supplies, acting separately and not gathering together. If they found deceased survivors, they should be cremated on the spot, ensuring they would not cause a fire. If they found supplies, they should pile them in one place and collect them after Lancheng's reinforcements arrived, bringing them back to the Lancheng base.
This proposal was agreed by everyone. Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo separated. The loyal assistant and his men brought a lot of walkie-talkies with them this time. After everyone connected the channels, they used walkie-talkies to communicate with each other. They spread out with the aircraft parking location as the center point. Lu Xingtang followed a team of nine soldiers.
After they left the plane berth, they headed southeast. Along the way, Lu Xingtang saw many broken trees or stones that could be stored in the space, but due to the presence of soldiers, they did not collect them. They did not walk too far, and stopped after walking about two hundred meters to search everywhere. Lu Xingtang asked everyone to search separately and not to crowd together. After finding the bodies of the deceased survivors, he called everyone to come and dig out the bodies together, and even specially cleared a piece of open space. Only then did Lu Xingtang have the opportunity to store the small branches or stones he encountered in the space.
Soon, Lu Xingtang found a huge rock. The rock was incredibly large. Lu Xingtang placed his bare hands on the rock and with a slight movement of his consciousness, the rock was taken into the space. The moment the rock was taken into the space, it was overwhelmed by a rotten smell. Lu Xingtang's pupils shrank slightly, and then he moved the rock out of the space and returned it to its original position, then ran back.
"Quick, I found the body of a deceased survivor, and I smell the stench of decay! But because there's a large rock blocking the way, I can't confirm whether there's really a body. Come with me and take a look!"
With Lu Xingtang leading the way, they soon returned to the big rock. Lu Xingtang and everyone worked together to move the big rock away. Strength lies in numbers, and everyone used their strength to move the big rock again. Lu Xingtang moved the big rock again, and it took them a minute to move the big rock away.
As soon as the big rock was moved away, everyone was almost vomited by the stench of corpses. At the same time, they were also shocked by the situation in the cave. The cave was full of corpses, densely packed with corpses. There were probably more than a hundred people in it. The cave was not big and could not accommodate more than a hundred people. Everyone was crowded together.
Seeing this scene, everyone's faces looked unhappy. Lu Xingtang quickly took out disinfectant and masks from his bag. These were sent by Su Cheng to them. Lu Xingtang distributed a few more masks to everyone, sprayed disinfectant on their bodies and around the cave, and told everyone to wear gloves:
"We don't know when they died in the cave, or why. It's going to be very difficult to get them out now. You must be careful of the poison and insects on the corpses. I'll contact the people nearby and ask them to come over. Together, we can collect the bodies of the survivors and let them leave with peace of mind!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately took out the walkie-talkie to contact the nearby soldiers or people in their base. Soon they came over fully armed. The soldiers and Lu Xingtang's team walked into the cave without changing their expressions and carried out the smelly corpse.
(End of this chapter)
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