Chapter 392 An Accident in the Cave (2)
Song Qingqian's pupils were filled with red bloodshot from several days of sleepless nights.
His eyes were bright red.
She seemed like she was about to cry, but she clenched her teeth tightly, pursed her lips, and forced herself to hold back.
The former eldest daughter of the Song family would always hold her head up even when she was shedding tears.
What's more, everything is still undecided, so she will never cry casually.
Crying is the behavior of the weak.
Song Qingqian tried hard to hold back her tears.
But her hands were shaking so much from the tension that they had already revealed that she was on the verge of collapse.
Song Qingqian grabbed Jiang Rou's wrist with his palm.
His lips trembled and he spoke in a tense voice.
"What do you know? Tell me, tell me everything!"
It is a requirement.
Even more pleading.
Song Qingqian and Jiang Rou's wrist, which she was holding, trembled slightly.
Facing Song Qingqian like this, no matter how many comforting words Jiang Rou prepared, it would be useless.
Unless He Donglai appears, any words would be pale and powerless.
A deep sadness spread from Song Qingqian's body to Jiang Rou's heart.
It made her feel sad.
She held Song Qingqian's hand and nodded in response.
"Okay, I'll tell you everything I know..."
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The story of He Donglai’s accident started with the loud noise before the earthquake.
At that time.
The island is subject to extreme weather.
A sudden rainstorm disrupted the blasting plan of He Donglai's engineering team.
As an engineer, also as a company commander.
He Donglai immediately terminated their blasting plan, and he and his company soldiers took shelter in a cave from the heavy rain.
He wanted to wait until the rain stopped before making plans for the future.
At the same time.
He Donglai did not forget to investigate in the cave.
After all, they had to drill through a mountain, and they had no reference data on the inside of the mountain, and they had never done a similar project before.
I can only rely on He Donglai to make modifications as I go along.
This was originally just an ordinary rainy day.
Everyone thought that everything would be fine as long as the rain stopped.
Even He Donglai thought so.
However.
Accidents happened one after another.
first.
The entire blasting team's engineering team and some explosives have been installed at the designated locations.
The young soldier in charge of guarding the place made a communication error with the company and still detonated the explosives.
In this way.
It caused the loud noise before the earthquake.
This was also the sound that Jiang Rou and Song Qingqian heard at the dock.
It also made Jiang Rou alert to the possibility of an earthquake.
The unexpected explosion caused a large amount of falling rocks and the mountain shook.
Even in the cave, rocks fell.
He Donglai hurriedly arranged for soldiers to protect their personal safety and take shelter in a safe place.
Many people were injured in this accident.
But the overall situation is still okay.
The continuously falling rocks blocked most of the cave's exits, but there was still some space for crawling out.
He Donglai did not waste time and arranged the soldiers to evacuate from the cave in an orderly manner.
Especially the wounded soldiers, all of them were sent out first.
All this was going on in an orderly manner.
It was considered a work error of the engineering team, and He Donglai only had to submit a work review at most.
However……
Everyone knows what happened next.
The earthquake is coming.
By then, most of the soldiers had already climbed out of the cave.
Only He Donglai and two other soldiers were left inside.
"Captain He, you go out first, I'll cover your retreat."
He Donglai flatly refused, "You guys go out first, I'll stay until the end."
Seeing that He Donglai insisted, the two soldiers said nothing more, climbed up the pile of stones, and were about to go out.
He Donglai never let down his guard from beginning to end.
He had been observing the rock wall in the cave, and suddenly he saw a crack in the rock wall.
The cracks are spreading and breaking like earthworms.
He Donglai suddenly felt bad!
"Come back!"
He Donglai roared.
He grabbed the little soldier's belt and pulled the little soldier who was trying to climb out back.
The little soldier in the cave and the other soldiers waiting for support outside had no idea what was going on.
But the next second.
It was an earthquake. The earth was shaking.
Huge rocks rolled down from the mountain with a loud noise.
The rockfall was more serious than the previous explosion.
He Donglai pulled the two soldiers in the cave and kept retreating because there was a loud noise of falling rocks in the cave.
If you are not careful, you will get a bloody head.
Outside the cave.
Anxious shouts were heard.
"Captain He? How are you? Can you still get out?"
"Congratulations, Captain!"
"Hello, Captain! Are you okay?"
Even at such a critical moment, He Donglai still shouted calmly towards the outside of the cave.
"Evacuate! Everyone evacuate! Go quickly--"
He Donglai's order made sense.
Because of the falling rocks, not only did they become more numerous, but they also became larger. Some of the rocks were even as big as three or four people.
Outside the cave is also a dangerous place.
In the blink of an eye.
The entrance to the cave where we originally took shelter from the rain has been submerged by dense rocks.
But the rolling stones did not stop.
The soldiers shouted "Hello, Captain", unwilling to abandon their comrades and leave.
Squad leader Chen shouted, "Go! Go quickly!"
"I won't leave! Captain He is still inside, we can't leave!"
"Evacuate is Captain He's order! Do you want to disobey?!"
In the chaos and danger, squad leader Chen took the responsibility for the absence of He Donglai.
He forcefully ordered all soldiers to evacuate the cave entrance and head to a safe area.
Avoid danger first, then save people.
That's it.
After a while, the shaking subsided and we were temporarily safe.
Squad Leader Chen led the soldiers of the company back to the cave again.
The place where they used to carry out their daily tasks has been replaced by a strange and dilapidated scene.
Stacked stones of all sizes block the entrance to the cave.
This is still something they can see.
What about the cave?
With the earthquake, did the cave collapse? Would the people inside be drowned?
Are He Donglai and the other two soldiers who did not escape dead or alive?
Squad leader Chen called out to people in the cave.
"Hello, Captain! Hello, Captain! Hello, Captain!"
The sound echoed in the mountains, but there was no response for a long time.
Life and death are not yet determined.
The soldiers would never give up so easily. Even if it was a corpse, they would dig it out.
After the initial panic, Sergeant Chen immediately began to organize soldiers for rescue.
Clear away all the fallen rocks blocking the cave entrance, no matter how big or small, and then dig inside.
While digging deeper, we must also pay attention to the surroundings and try our best to avoid causing a second landslide in the cave.
Squad Leader Chen himself went to the military camp.
Squad Leader Chen has been with He Donglai for some years. He cannot learn the sophisticated techniques of bomb disposal, but he has learned most of the blasting engineering from He Donglai.
The rocks that fell this time, especially some of which weighed several tons, were so heavy that the soldiers of these companies alone could not solve the problem.
He wanted to go back - to ask for help.
However.
Squad leader Chen ignored the destructiveness of the earthquake.