Chapter 292 I Will Never Forget It
The cave was not big, so to avoid crowding, the others took Lu Xingtang to find firewood, spread it on the ground, and then placed the bodies on the firewood. After all the bodies were moved out of the cave, they all saluted or bowed to the deceased survivors to express their apologies, and then cremated the rotten bodies with a fire.
The corpse burned in the fire, and the stench became strong and pungent, causing everyone, including Lu Xingtang, to vomit. Immediately, everyone left the area, hiding far away and observing the progress of the corpse's burning through binoculars.
"This taste... I'll never forget it in my life." said a survivor of the base. He probably won't want to eat meat for a long time.
Lu Xingtang sat dejectedly on the ground. After hearing what the survivors of their base said, she deeply agreed. Not only could she not forget it, she also had nightmares. She really didn't want to eat meat for a long time, and seeing meat would remind her of the situation in the cave.
After the fire was extinguished, they returned to the original place, collected the ashes, dug a pit and buried them.
Lu Xingtang and his group did not go looking for the bodies of other survivors. They were so choked by the stench of the corpses that they almost vomited gallbladders and had no energy to continue searching for the bodies of survivors.
After resting, they only drank water and went to look for the bodies of survivors without eating. They had no appetite and felt nauseous as soon as they ate.
Not only did Lu Xingtang and his team encounter a large number of corpses, but other teams also encountered them. For example, they saw corpses floating in the ditch. Because the downstream of the ditch was blocked by branches or stones, the corpses could not be washed downstream by the water and were all blocked there. The corpses had been swollen by blisters and were as pale as paper, making it difficult to see their original appearance.
There were also a lot of bugs in the water. When everyone went into the water to salvage the bodies, they found that the side that was soaked in water had already rotted. When they touched it with their hands, the bodies gradually [decomposed]. The soldiers who were salvaging the bodies and the survivors of the base vomited on the spot, causing the people waiting on the shore to vomit as well. The scene was so miserable and terrifying.
The whole process of cremation was even more unbearable, and there was no suitable cremation site, which had to be guarded to prevent the fire from spreading to other places and setting the entire mountain and the ruined city on fire.
When Lu Xingtang met up with them, he saw that they couldn't walk anymore, their legs were weak, and even when they supported each other, they couldn't hide their fatigue and weakness. Lu Xingtang was puzzled: "What happened to you?"
It would be fine if they didn't ask, but as soon as they asked, the scene and the smell came back to their minds and noses, and they fell to the ground again, vomiting yellow bile, and all the food and water were vomited out.
Lu Xingtang immediately understood that they might have encountered the same situation, and his stomach felt a little uncomfortable.
When Ji Yanmo and others came back, they saw this scene. After asking briefly and learning the result, Ji Yanmo fell silent. They were lucky and had not encountered such an unacceptable scene for the time being.
Lu Xingtang looked at everyone and said, "Let's collect the supplies and send them to the plane. We'll have the plane return to base and have them prepare highly corrosive sulfuric acid to corrode the bodies! The weather is getting hotter, and the bodies are getting worse. We can't just move the bodies and cremate them like before!"
This view was immediately agreed by everyone, so everyone started looking for supplies everywhere. No matter what kind of supplies they were, they were collected and put into the plane. The pilot was asked to go back and tell Su Cheng about the situation, and asked Su Cheng to make arrangements immediately to prepare highly corrosive sulfuric acid.
After seeing off the plane, everyone took a short rest and did not continue to look for survivors. Instead, they kept looking for supplies, or digging up wild grass, wild medicinal herbs, broken trees, etc. in the mountains.
Two days passed before Su Cheng had the sulfuric acid prepared and delivered. They had already collected a lot of supplies. Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo also took this opportunity to collect a lot of supplies into the space.
The pilots brought not only sulfuric acid, but also nutritional pills, which were all made by the base based on the previous formula of Lu Xingtang and others, specifically to supplement everyone's nutrition.
After they had sulfuric acid, they used it on the survivors they saw, apologizing while doing so. They didn't do it on purpose, it was just a last resort.
They then stayed in the mountain city for half a month, collecting a lot of supplies, both in the space and outside, and also dealt with a lot of corpses.
If it is not completely processed, there will be no way to deal with it later.
However, they also found dozens of survivors who survived by eating grass roots and tree bark, as well as a dozen soldiers who had been scattered, and they returned them to their positions and took care of them.
Just when Lu Xingtang and his team gave up looking for survivors and just wanted to look for supplies, the reinforcements from their Lancheng base finally arrived at the Shancheng base. The person was Special Assistant Fox. The work of Special Assistant Fox and Special Assistant Loyal Dog was handed over to Su Cheng, Jian Qingqing, and people from the GS provincial government to help.
When Fox saw Lu Xingtang, he said to him, "Base Commander, we're so sorry we're late. We encountered too many survivors along the way, which wasted quite a bit of time! Especially after entering the mountain city, the road was incredibly difficult to navigate. The surface was all broken and bumpy. We kept turning around and repairing the road as we went, working tirelessly for half a month before we finally reunited with you!"
If Lu Xingtang had not sent people by plane to look for helpers every day, and meet up with them to help them drive the vehicles over, I'm afraid the time for meeting up would have been delayed for a long time.
Lu Xingtang: "Thank you for your hard work! Take a rest first." Then he distributed all the supplies they brought. The supplies they brought this time were basically dry food, such as compressed biscuits and dried meat, dried meat of various meats, water, as well as nutritional medicines, special medicines, clothes, etc.
After everyone got the supplies, they immediately dispersed to look for them. This time, Lu Xingtang deliberately separated from the crowd and quickly searched for supplies in the mountain city, storing all the supplies into the space no matter what they were.
It was at this time that the GJ arrived to provide assistance. Previously, during the earthquake and seawater backflow in Shancheng, the GJ had helped transport supplies to the base, sending waves of survivors to the Lancheng base. While Lu Xingtang and his team were rescuing survivors and soldiers from Shancheng, the GJ searched for survivors and supplies in other districts and counties of Shancheng. Every day, planes flew to the Lancheng base, delivering survivors and supplies.
Lu Xingtang also learned about it through the pilot's message, so they were very moved when they saw the GJ rescue team returning to the mountain city. This meant that all the survivors and supplies near Yinjiang had been collected, and there was basically no problem.
With the help of the GJ, they were able to search for supplies in the mountain city much faster. After another month, they had found almost all the supplies they could find in the city. But rebuilding the city? Even the GJ was powerless at the moment! They had to wait until the situation improved a bit, and then slowly rebuild!
(End of this chapter)
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