When Qiao Qingqing struggled to wake up, the first thing she saw was the resentful eyes in the water. She closed her eyes, then opened them again, and sat up, holding onto the water tank.
"Qingqing, are you awake?" Qiao Songzhi was surprised.
"Sister! Sister, are you okay?"
Qiao Qingqing smelled the scent of Tiger Balm, and her philtrum and temples felt cool. It must be the oil her mother rubbed on her.
"I'm fine, what's wrong?" She asked the owner of the eyes, which came from a corpse floating not far away, with a familiar crossbow arrow sticking out of its chest.
"They found your space and wanted to bully us." Qiao Songzhi said briefly, touching Qiao Qingqing's face and head, "How do you feel? You probably hit your head and fainted."
"Much better, I'm fine. Mom, brother, are you injured anywhere?"
"No, Feifei and I didn't suffer any loss. We killed two people." Qiao Songzhi said calmly, looking to another place.
Following Qiao Songzhi's gaze, Qiao Qingqing saw another body floating not far away. She understood everything and held her mother's hand.
"Has my space been discovered?" When she took out the water tank in the critical moment, she thought of the worst outcome. She was prepared to deal with it, but she didn't expect that her body could not hold on. This was beyond her expectations.
"Yes, but they were all chased away by Feifei and I, so don't be afraid."
"He's been chased away! Don't be afraid, sister. I will protect you!" Shao Shengfei said.
Qiao Qingqing's throat felt dry. She hummed softly, took a deep breath and said, "For safety's sake, let's get out of here as soon as possible. The water isn't deep enough so we don't need a speedboat. I'll get the kayak out."
She took out the kayak, and after the three of them got on, she put away the water tank.
"Go that way. Those people avoided the corpses when they left." Qiao Songzhi said.
"good."
The three of them worked together and paddled the kayak to leave the area. Someone from afar saw them breathing heavily.
"They have a kayak! That woman must have woken up, she really has space!" He waded a few steps into the water, but the kayak in front of him was getting farther and farther away.
"Stop chasing me, come and help me move the things. There seems to be a box of canned food underneath!"
"Don't be afraid, Mom. We may never see them again in the future. Don't be afraid just because you know I have space." Qiao Qingqing comforted Qiao Songzhi.
"That's good, that's good. The water ahead is flowing faster, I'm afraid there may be potholes, let's avoid them." Qiao Songzhi knew that it was useless to worry at this time, so he didn't dwell on this topic.
"Okay." Qiao Qingqing ended the topic. In fact, the three of them were on the camp's check-in list. If someone really wanted to find them, they could find them. But so what? It's so chaotic now, the possibility of meeting again is almost zero. It's not the time when information networks were highly developed, and communications were developed. In the blink of an eye, news would fly everywhere.
Thinking of this, she felt a little painful in her heart.
She always looked forward to reuniting with Sheng An and the others. In fact, she knew in her heart that in this era, it was too difficult to reunite after separation.
After avoiding the cracks in the ground ahead, the kayak moved forward smoothly. After the tornado swept away the camp, it quickly got bored and threw its toys away one after another, leaving a mess everywhere. The survivors in the wind and rain were all exhausted. The kayak passed by the survivors who were searching in confusion and slowly came to an empty corner.
There were a lot of supplies floating on the water, but Qiao Qingqing and the others did not take them. The three of them had the same idea, which was to stay away from the crowd and find a place where there was no one.
The day was too long. It was dark at first, and almost pitch black in the evening. There was no one around, so Qiao Qingqing decided to stop. She chose a big rock and fixed the kayak on it.
Qiao Qingqing's raincoat was already filled with water. She felt extremely uncomfortable whenever she stopped, and she was already exhausted after holding on for so long.
"The wind is not as strong as before, let's take out the tent and umbrella." said Qiao Songzhi.
The tent umbrella was very large, enough to cover the entire kayak, but it had no support point. When Shao Shengfei held the kayak in his arms, it shook for a long time before it stabilized.
"This won't work. We have to fix the tent umbrella, otherwise we won't be able to rest tonight." Qiao Qingqing took out the water tank again and put it down. The ten tons of water might be contaminated and inedible, but she couldn't care about that now. On the basis of the water tank, Qiao Qingqing found the cement barrel she had prepared before, that is, she filled a barrel with cement and then left a cylindrical gap in the middle that was enough to put the handle of the tent umbrella in. She had two such barrels in total, both bought from vegetable vendors in the market. They needed tent umbrellas for their stalls all year round, so they had this homemade tool to fix the tent umbrella.
Shao Shengfei inserted the tent umbrella into the cement barrel, and then the umbrella stood firmly. The wind was not strong now, so it swayed a little, but it was generally stable. Under its cover, the kayak was finally not attacked by wind and rain.
The busy, thrilling and tiring day was coming to an end at night. Qiao Qingqing and the other two were all exhausted and bruised.
Qiao Qingqing was so energetic that she checked the health of her family members. She started by checking Qiao Songzhi's health. From head to toe, she confirmed that Qiao Songzhi had injuries on her head and waist. There was no condition for further examination, so Qiao Qingqing had to give her mother some Chinese medicine to dissolve blood stasis and relieve pain.
"Mom, are your eyes okay?"
"Much better, I can see now." Qiao Songzhi said. Her eyes were bloodshot, and Qiao Qingqing gave her eye drops and asked Shao Shengfei, "Where is my brother? Where is he injured?"
Shao Shengfei stretched out his hand: "My hand hurts." He was unlucky as he was blown up by the wind and almost thrown into the crack in the ground. But he was also lucky as he had no other injuries except for the hand injury he suffered while clawing at the ground to survive.
She grabbed Shao Shengfei's hand, and Qiao Songzhi exclaimed: "Qingqing, your hand is also..." Qiao Qingqing looked down and found that her hands were the same as Shao Shengfei's. Several nails were completely turned over and turned white due to blisters.
Qiao Songzhi looked at the two pairs of bloodstained hands and burst into tears with heartache.
"I'm not in pain." Qiao Qingqing said with a forced smile. She really didn't feel any pain just now, but now when she looked at her hand, she belatedly felt the pain visually.
She took out medicine and gauze and asked Qiao Songzhi to treat the injuries on her and Shao Shengfei's hands. Shao Shengfei cried in pain and sobbed while holding his bandaged hand.
The fingers are connected to the heart. When she was changing the dressing for Shao Shengfei just now, Shao Shengfei cried very loudly. Qiao Songzhi saw that she was frowning and silent, and couldn't help but said, "I'll take care of it, you don't have to watch."
"I'm fine. Don't get wet after taking the medicine and you'll be fine soon."
There was a piece of rotten meat that Qiao Songzhi didn't dare to cut, so Qiao Qingqing cut it off herself.
"…It's okay, just spread the medicine."
Qiao Qingqing's voice was all breathless. After she squeezed out these words, she stopped talking and gritted her teeth. After the treatment, she leaned back as if exhausted, with sweat on her forehead and neck from the pain. Qiao Songzhi applied medicine and bandaged her with tears in her eyes.
After checking her body, she found that there were many bruises from the collision, but fortunately, no bones were injured. She could ignore the abrasions on the broken skin for the time being. Qiao Qingqing felt a lump on the back of her head, which was larger than the one on her mother's head. This must be the culprit for her fainting several times in the afternoon. There was no way to do an examination now, and she couldn't do massage or acupuncture for her injured hand. She could only rely on experience and take some medicine, hoping that her strong body could get through it.
"I don't know what happened just now. All of a sudden we all flew up. It was like a dream, a nightmare." Qiao Songzhi still felt scared when he thought about it. "Luckily we were all in a small tent when the accident happened, so we all ended up in this area."
"It's a tornado." said Qiao Qingqing.
Qiao Songzhi couldn't see clearly just now. He was lying on the water tank to avoid the disaster. He saw almost nothing. He was shocked when he heard it: "Tornado?"
"Yes, I saw it. Suddenly, many tornadoes formed. We were unlucky because the camp was attacked and we were swept out. But our luck was not bad. At least we did not suffer any fatal attack when we were on the water tank." Qiao Qingqing still feels scared when she thinks of the situation at that time.
"No wonder, what could have blown us all up into the air..." Qiao Songzhi murmured, "Yes, even a sandstorm has appeared, so it's not surprising that a tornado has appeared."
The three of them changed their clothes and applied medicine to their wounds. Qiao Songzhi applied medicine to the wound on Shao Shengfei's back, but he could reach other parts of the body by himself.
After changing into dry clothes that smelled of soap, the lingering chill faded a lot.
Rain hit the tent umbrella. Qiao Qingqing looked down at her watch. The waterproof and shockproof electronic watch showed the current time.
The disaster happened at about one in the afternoon, and it is now about five o'clock.
Fortunately, tornadoes and lightning strikes are not long-term disasters, otherwise humans really would not have survived. However, I don’t know how many lives were taken in these four hours of disaster. It is certain that more than one camp was affected. The survivors who finally found a shelter had to be displaced again. The tornado came unexpectedly, and many people also lost their supplies - the various things floating on the water must have come from the survivors and the camp’s supply warehouse.
Under the absolute suppression of nature, Qiao Qingqing's golden finger was useless. If she had died at that time, everything would cease to exist. Fortunately, she did not die and successfully reunited with Qiao Songzhi and others, so after night fell, they were able to have a simple temporary shelter that could shelter them from the wind and rain, and they could change their wet clothes and put on dry new clothes, clean their wounds and take medicine.
Qiao Qingqing thought that she was already very lucky.
She heard a growling sound in her ear and came back to her senses. Qiao Songzhi finally smiled: "Fei Fei's stomach is growling with hunger. Let's have dinner."
Qiao Qingqing couldn't help laughing. She touched her stomach and said, "I'm hungry too. Let's eat."
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