Chapter 47 Published
Family members?
Well, family members.
For a brief moment, Gu Xiuyi almost couldn't control his expression.
He had never heard these two words from Ji Ruan's mouth before, and they were used to describe himself.
At that moment, it was as if the spiritual energy of all things in heaven and earth gathered in one body. Gu Xiuyi felt refreshed like never before, and even his soul expanded to twice its size.
He tilted his head and pressed the corner of his lips hard, finally letting Ji Ruan go and straightening his collar: "Okay, then I'll take you to dinner when you come back. Is there anything you want to eat?"
Ji Ruan's eyes lit up, and he stretched out a finger and tapped his lips: "The most famous thing here is sea bass, right?"
Gu Xiuyi laughed softly: "Okay."
In the afternoon, Ji Ruan, with Cheng Zizhan and others, climbed up Qingxi Mountain with the beautiful vision of eating delicious sea bass.
The mountain is not high and it doesn’t take long to walk the entire way. The pavilion is halfway up the mountain and can be reached without much effort.
The teachers still had some things to deal with, so the little disciples went upstairs first with some tea and snacks.
The wind on the mountainside was stronger than on the plain, and it was blowing so hard that Ji Ruan's hearing became a little blurry.
He and Cheng Zizhang only brought a few bags of snacks, but the others were fully equipped. Some even brought a complete set of celadon tea sets to boil water and make tea in the pavilion.
"Oh, the teachers are almost here," Cheng Zizhang said after a while, looking at his phone, "I'll go down and pick them up."
Everyone said, "Okay."
"Be careful."
"Go quickly and come back soon."
Everyone else had their own things to do. Ji Ruan had few things with him and felt embarrassed to just sit here, so he decided to go with Cheng Zizhan.
On the way down the mountain, the wind became stronger and stronger, constantly blowing the corners of Ji Ruan's clothes in all directions.
Cheng Zizhang opened his arms as he walked, took a deep breath and said with satisfaction: "The air in the mountains is so fresh, right, Xiao Ruan?"
"Ah? Yes..." Ji Ruan agreed with a smile.
He raised his head and looked around, listening to the rustling of leaves and the clanging of tree trunks.
Is the wind a bit too strong?
Ji Ruan felt inexplicably uneasy. This kind of weather and the sound of rustling leaves were very familiar. Where had he heard it before?
Ji Ruan paused.
--rainstorm!
An idea suddenly flashed through his mind.
It was exactly the same as the last time when it suddenly rained heavily when Gu Xiuyi was about to take him to eat Western food.
Ji Ruan's heart began to pound. Encountering a rainstorm in the mountains was no joke.
He quickly took two steps forward and held Cheng Zizhang, saying anxiously, "I'm afraid it's going to rain."
Ji Ruan didn't say anything before, and Cheng Zizhang gradually felt something was wrong, but he still had a good idea: "No, no way, I specifically checked the weather forecast today, and it didn't mention it at all..."
The last time there was a heavy rain forecast, it wasn’t even there!
As if to fulfill this sentence, as soon as Cheng Zizhan finished speaking, a raindrop as big as a bean fell down, hitting her nose with a "pa" sound, so that Ji Ruan could see it clearly.
"Damn... No way..." Cheng Zizhang touched his nose and said blankly.
This raindrop was like a vanguard from the sky. In just a few seconds, the army suddenly rose up and smashed down in large numbers, occupying every inch of land in the mountains.
It was so fierce and fast that it hurt when it hit people.
It was obviously heavy rain.
And it was an incalculable amount of rain.
Their situation was very awkward. They could neither return to the hotel at the foot of the mountain, nor find a pavilion on the mountainside to take shelter.
Ji Ruan and Cheng Zizhan looked at each other and ran down the mountain at the same time.
In just a short moment, thunder mixed with heavy rain resounded throughout the entire valley. After running a few steps, Ji Ruan was soaked all over, and his hands and feet quickly lost temperature in the rain and fog.
At first he tried to cover his ears to prevent the external machine from getting wet, but later he took it off and held it tightly in his hand, and then put it in his trouser pocket.
The ground became extremely muddy and difficult to walk on after getting wet. Ji Ruan and Cheng Zizhang supported each other as they ran, trying their best not to fall, but their feet still slipped uncontrollably several times.
The rain was so heavy that he could no longer see the road ahead. Ji Ruan was really afraid that he would be struck by lightning if he stayed in the woods like this.
Suddenly, his hand was grabbed with great force and he was pulled backwards with great violence. Ji Ruan almost staggered back several steps before he could stand firm.
Cheng Zizhang's hair was long and straight, and even when he was in the hospital, it did not look messy but hung smoothly.
But at this moment her hair was completely soaked by the rain, with strands sticking to her cheeks and shoulders. Countless raindrops formed lines and rolled down from her hair. Ji Ruan had never seen her in such a miserable state.
Her lips moved as if she was saying something loudly, but Ji Ruan could not hear it at all.
He was stunned for half a second before reaching into his pocket to find the external unit. His frozen fingers were not very obedient, and Ji Ruan shivered several times before he took it out and put it on.
But Ji Ruan was soaked all over, and even if he put the external machine in his trouser pocket, water inevitably got into it.
The little thing was a little broken, and there was a lot of noise and crackling sounds, so Ji Ruan could sometimes hear a little bit, and sometimes it felt like he was watching a pantomime.
But he finally understood what Cheng Zizhang said.
She's saying "Don't run away."
"Don't run anymore. You can't run anymore."
She looked terrified.
Ji Ruan's cheeks were hit by the crackling raindrops and it hurt a lot. He was gasping for breath but couldn't hear his own breathing.
He turned his head and looked in the direction Cheng Zizhan was looking. The heavy rain poured down, hit the ground and bounced up high, like smoke or fog.
In the dim light, he saw several large trees collapsed on the muddy road, and countless fallen rocks of varying sizes, and gurgling yellow muddy water rushing across the ground.
——Their road was blocked.
Ji Ruan felt dizzy for a moment.
Landslide?
So fast?
His face was covered with rain, which kept falling after he wiped it off, and each time it fell faster than the last. His hearing seemed to be completely isolated by a barrier, with only a hazy and distant roar.
Cheng Zizhan beside him staggered and grabbed Ji Ruan's arm. Only then did Ji Ruan realize that the ground was shaking.
His whole body was stiff and he followed Cheng Zizhan's gaze and raised his head inch by inch to look up into the sky.
Under the heavy rain, the originally hard mountain suddenly became as soft as foam, with a few pieces of gravel sliding down from time to time.
A huge rock on the top was crumbling in the wind and rain, like a trapped beast trying desperately to break free and about to fall in the next second.
Ji Ruan's blood ran cold.
In extreme environments, survival depends entirely on instinct.
With his heart beating like crazy, Ji Ruan grabbed Cheng Zizhan's hand and threw himself to the side.
boom--!
The huge rocks rolled down, crushing the branches and rolling up the turbid liquid, and collapsed with great roar, breaking the fences and crashing the tree trunks along the way, and rolled into the turbulent river at the foot of the mountain like a torrent, splashing up huge waves.
Smoke and mud filled the mountains, and the air was as turbid as a battlefield filled with smoke after a war.
After the violent roar, all that remained was a terrifying silence.
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"At 4:10 pm on the 5th, the Qingxi Ancient City in City B was hit by a heavy rainstorm, which caused a landslide. Dozens of students were trapped in the mountains. The rescue team is urgently rescuing them..."
The reporter from the city TV station was broadcasting live in a raincoat. The rain gradually subsided, but the scene was too noisy and he still needed to speak loudly into the microphone.
The sky was dark, as if it were a completely different world from the bright spring scenery a few hours ago.
The scene was in chaos, with reporters, civilians, medical staff, and family members crowded together.
Some of the trapped students’ family members arrived quickly, crying inconsolably towards the mountain pass, and only managed to stand with the help of the teachers.
Song Ling held a black umbrella for Gu Xiuyi and stood with him in the rain.
Gu Xiuyi was wearing a long black windbreaker, almost blending into the gloomy sky. He stared at the exit with his back straight, watching the mud gurgling out from there.
There was no expression on his face. The flashing orange-red lights of the rescue team shone on him again and again, making his eyes go off and on again.
But that little bit of light couldn't reach deep enough, and Gu Xiuyi's pupils were as black as stagnant water.
He was unnaturally calm.
Amid the anxious, violent, or mournful cries around him, Gu Xiuyi was like an emotionless reef standing in the rain.
But Song Ling felt deeply fear from it.
He stood beside Gu Xiuyi and knew that every inch of Gu Xiuyi's muscles was tense. Like a locked beast, he arched his back, roared silently, and pulled at the precarious chain.
Song Ling didn't even dare to think about the one in a thousand possibility. What a horrible scene it would be if something happened to that person in the mountain...Gu Xiuyi's sanity, which was held together by a thread, completely collapsed.
There was a shadow swaying at the entrance, and the voices were getting louder.
“Found it, found it!”
"All strangers, stay away!"
"All the students in the pavilion are out!"
Song Ling felt dazed for a moment, and when he looked again, Gu Xiuyi had already taken several steps.
His windbreaker was soaked through by the rain, and it stuck to his trouser legs as he walked. His back was so stiff that it seemed like it would break if he bent it.
Umbrellas seemed too much of a hindrance at a time like this. Song Ling frowned in the strong wind, folded his umbrella, and quickly followed Gu Xiuyi, watching the rescue team carry the students out of the mountain pass one by one.
Gu Xiuyi stared closely at every person who came out, his eyes moving sluggishly.
Some of the students were being supported, some still had the strength to walk on their own, and some were lying on stretchers.
Every time a stretcher came out, Gu Xiuyi's knuckles, dripping with water, turned whiter. After confirming that the person lying there was not Ji Ruan, he would close his eyes again, as if he had received a brief salvation.
One, two, three... ten...
Until the exit was empty and the last rescue team member came out, he still didn't see the person he wanted to see.
Song Ling heard the sound of the sky collapsing and the earth splitting in a trance.
He could feel that Gu Xiuyi's depression was reaching its limit. He turned his neck stiffly and carefully scanned the people on the ground one by one - the group of people covered in mud and crying loudly.
Like making a final confirmation.
Then he saw Gu Xiuyi's eyes gradually become bloodshot, and he slowly turned his head to look at him, uttering two extremely suppressed syllables:
"Where are the people?"
He's like a calm madman.
Song Ling almost fell to the ground, and quickly pulled up a rescuer: "Brother...Big brother, it's not enough, one more person is missing, our child is still inside!"
"——Two! Two!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a beautiful woman rushed up to him. The originally elegant Teacher Cheng's hair was all messed up. She fell down and sat down beside Song Ling, her voice trembling:
"Our sub-chapter hasn't come out yet..."
In an instant the air became extremely quiet.
I don’t know how long it took, maybe only a few seconds, when a string of sobs pierced the night.
“Teacher…Teacher…”
A girl with blood on her forehead sat up from the stretcher tremblingly: "Zi Zhang and the others should be trapped on the other side..."
She must have been frightened by the sudden landslide. Tears could not stop flowing. She choked and said intermittently: "She, they went down to pick you up. They took the road at the back. That way, that way is the closest to going down the mountain..."
Gu Xiuyi suddenly raised his head, his bloodshot eyes staring straight into the void.
The majestic mountains in the darkness were like ghosts with their masks torn off, revealing their snow-white fangs under the lightning, tearing the rain curtain into a surging abyss.
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