99 Chapter Ninety-Nine
Chapter 99
All the capable young people on the mountain have gone down the mountain. The only difference is that those among them who are not very capable will not be taken along by Tang Rufeng just because they go down the mountain.
After going down the mountain, the team of people with special abilities led by Tang Rufeng will leave some people with weaker abilities at the foot of the mountain to help the people in the town. After the situation at the foot of the mountain has settled down, these people will go directly back to Daxi Village.
Tang Rufeng led the remaining powerful people towards the disaster center farther away.
This time, not only Chu Xinran, who usually looked abnormal as she followed Xiao Ling'er all day and played with a group of children, went down the mountain, but even Tang Tang, who usually looked unlucky, also followed.
Originally, the village elders did not support Tang Tang's decision to go down the mountain. After all, Tang Tang had bad luck. If anything went wrong, she would be at the scene and would definitely be in greater danger. It was just her bad luck.
Others might be able to avoid danger and avoid getting hurt if they are lucky, but it is different for Tangtang. Normally, the probability of other people getting hurt is only 50%, but for her, it can directly rise to 70 or 80.
Bad luck has become Tang Tang's personal characteristic.
Even those townspeople who had gone up the mountain to build a village outside Daxi Village, might not have remembered the village chief or anyone else at first, but they were very impressed by Tang Tang.
Not everyone can fall to the ground while walking.
This impression is deeply rooted in the hearts of everyone in Daxi Village. How could the village elders easily agree to Tang Tang's request to go down the mountain with him?
There was really no other way, so Tang Tang acted first and asked for permission later. He turned around and went home to pack up his things. When Ms. Mei Zi returned home, she saw her fully equipped, with her powers revealed in a turtle shell.
Seeing her like this, Mei Zi wanted to sigh.
From the moment Tang Tang first said that she wanted to go down the mountain with them, Mei Zi knew that they could not influence their daughter's thoughts. As a parent, how could they really control their child's thoughts?
So the elders in the village and Tang Tang’s father persuaded Tang Tang not to go down the mountain with them, fearing that she would bring disaster upon herself after going down the mountain.
Now that the godmother is too weak, she is unable to remotely protect the children in the village.
Seeing the wilted look of the godmother before, the villagers didn't dare to say anything to her anymore, for fear that she would exhaust herself for them and something would happen to her in the end.
So this time, when Tangtang and the others went down the mountain, they definitely could not have the long-range spiritual protection of their godmother, but she knew Tangtang's personality. She was homesick, but she also had her own ideals and ambitions in her heart.
With the tragic situation outside, it would be strange if Tang Tang could really stay here peacefully.
Finally, before Tang Tang went out, Mei Zi's mother stopped Tang Tang's father who wanted to continue persuading Tang Tang not to take risks, reached out and rubbed Tang Tang's head, and finally stood quietly at the door and watched Tang Tang leave.
People have different ideas, but they all have their own code of conduct in their hearts.
And now, they are following their own ideas.
The young people on the mountain did not stop after coming down the mountain. Basically, those who could keep up were taken away by Tang Rufeng and headed towards the nearest first-tier city from a distance.
Like Daxi Village, the area there is within the earthquake's amplitude range, and their situation is many times more difficult than that in the town at the foot of the mountain.
There are not many green wetland parks in the first-tier cities nowadays. Most people in the cities live among the towering high-rise buildings. The high-rise buildings are so dense that after such a big earthquake, only a few buildings can be preserved intact. Most of them collapse directly and turn into ruins together with the collapsed high-rise buildings next to them.
It doesn't matter that they have become ruins, but there are still humans among them who have no time to escape.
There were so many people inside. It’s a bit scary to think about the number of people that could be in a collapsed building.
An earthquake may turn the area where it strikes into a burial place for many victims.
When Tang Rufeng arrived at the destination with the Daxi Village team, many rescue teams from other provinces had already arrived.
Although the world is now full of mutated plants and animals, making travel very inconvenient, with such a big thing happening here, how could people in the surrounding cities remain indifferent?
Not only them, the Flower Planting Family's troops were the first to arrive here to carry out rescue.
These lovely people who shed their blood for the country before the revival of spiritual energy and the changes in heaven and earth did not show any dejection because they did not have abilities. In fact, their spirits were more remarkable than those of the front-line team members who had been fighting on the front line for a long time.
"Are you here to help?"
Seeing Tang Rufeng bringing so many people here, they were discovered by the people directing the rescue around them almost as soon as they approached.
He was not in a hurry and arranged the work at hand in an orderly manner. Then he walked up to Tang Rufeng and his group and asked them.
"Well, we are all people with special abilities, and we are here to help with the rescue."
Hearing the question, Tang Rufeng had no intention of chatting with the other party, and quietly explained the situation and purpose of his side.
"Okay! Thanks for the hard work from now on. I'll show you a place later. You can take your people there and just listen to their instructions."
The people on the other side were not surprised to hear Tang Rufeng's answer. Among those who came to help with the rescue spontaneously this time, the majority were capable people.
In today's world, even if some people want to help out of kindness, they are just ordinary people and lack the strength to leave the safe zone designated by the government.
Among the people who came this time, they were already surprised by the small number of ordinary people who came to help with the rescue despite great difficulties.
But after really hearing their introduction of themselves, I understood that they had practiced martial arts for many years and were well-equipped. It was impossible for someone without skills to cross provinces and cities and pass through the wilderness where there were dense mutant plants and animals.
At this time, that group of people were being arranged to use instruments to check for life signals below together with the troops, and to rescue the survivors in the ruins.
"Do any of you have intuitional abilities? If so, we would like to separate you and rescue those in the ruins."
Following the instructions, they arrived at the place the previous person mentioned. The leader also knew why they were there. Before arranging the rescue work, he suddenly asked this question.
"Don't worry, we don't intend to do anything to you. It's just that our life detection system is somewhat limited. Most of the time, we can only see where people are, but we can't know their specific situation. We also need to rescue them, so it's impossible for us to find better but more cumbersome machines to roam around in the ruins. I heard that people with special abilities..."
After he finished speaking, Tang Rufeng and the others looked at each other in confusion. The other party explained in a hurry, and his words were spoken quickly and urgently. If the other party's pronunciation was not accurate, Tang Rufeng and the others might not be able to understand the meaning of his words at such a fast speed.
"Understood. Please make arrangements. We do have some people with auxiliary abilities. Please make arrangements if you think you can use them. We will listen."
Tang Rufeng nodded in response, and at the same time, he released his own abilities, and Captain Qing appeared.
At first, Tang Rufeng's face was only familiar to these people. After all, he was in charge of logistics in the official department. Even if someone had seen him later, it was because the official announced it after the incident happened.
But Captain Qingzhi is different. Before becoming an official rescue personnel, he spent a lot of time in the army and achieved outstanding results. Even now, some people in the army feel regretful when they think of him.
Who would have thought that one day in the future, after the original incident, they would see the souls of those who had been killed in the accidental explosion at the rescue site.
"This is?"
Looking at the transparent soul that appeared in front of him, and looking down at the other party floating some distance from the ground, the person opposite had a look of surprise on his face, as well as joy at being able to see his comrades again.
"You should be quite experienced in rescue operations, right? Choose a direction and go in."
Almost the next moment after seeing Captain Qing, the person on the opposite side gave up the plan of arranging the rescue command.
Apart from anything else, he has great confidence in Qingzhi's rescue command ability.
During the military competition, the opponent's move directly reversed the situation that was about to end in defeat.
Not to mention the many outstanding achievements that the rescue team he led later achieved.
If it weren't for that accident, they would be fighting side by side on the front line now.
Thinking of this, a trace of sadness flashed in the eyes of the comrade opposite, but then he thought again, now it’s like this, no matter what Qingzhi becomes, he has to come here and be on the front line of rescue with them, right?
Isn't it another form of fighting side by side?
"Okay, let's arrange for those with stronger support abilities on our side, and you can handle those with stronger combat abilities."
Qingzhi nodded and made his meaning clear.
After all, they are here to join the official side and cooperate with them in the rescue, so it would be more efficient to let them coordinate and dispatch.
"Okay, go ahead,"
After hearing what Captain Qing meant, the comrade on the opposite side looked at the people who were pointed out, and after confirming that the rest of the people were left behind for him to arrange, he agreed.
"Don't worry, they and other teams with special abilities generally won't face dangers they can't resist unless necessary."
Before turning around to get busy, the comrade seemed to remember something and made a solemn promise to Captain Qing and others.
This time, the authorities came here to rescue not only the soldiers from those troops, but also the front-line teams who were previously on the front line fighting against mutated animals and plants.
The priorities are clearly marked on their task lists, and being in the earthquake zone at this time is the most urgent task received by the first and second-line teams.
They all put aside other matters at hand, temporarily gave up their mission, and rushed here.
Almost immediately after the troops arrived, they arrived from various mission points.
The consequences of the earthquake were severe in first-tier cities because of the dense population. The mutant animals that were initially blocked outside were heading towards this unprotected area.
The main task of the front-line team is to stop those mutant animals that are extremely powerful and likely to cause large-scale damage.
The remaining capabilities that were not handled by the first-line team were handed over to the second or third line teams that followed behind them to assist in the mission, and finally to the spontaneous civilian teams led by Tang Rufeng.
The official people walked in front, which was equivalent to ensuring the safety of the civilian people who came with good intentions and took the initiative to do so to the greatest extent possible.
Of course, after so many layers of division, we still have to face those mutated animals and plants in the end, and danger is inevitable.
After Tang Rufeng determined that his abilities would be better in assisting the rescue here, he took the remaining few people from Daxi Village whom he had selected to the side to arrange the tasks.
Tangtang's ability is defense. If you don't swing her to hit people, you can say that she is just a turtle shell that looks better.
Because of her ability to expand and harden the protective shield, as well as soften and provide close protection, Tangtang became a useful and convenient jack in the ruins.
Almost as soon as they discovered that there was a risk of secondary collapse if they were not careful during the rescue, Tang Tang stepped in. He asked her to drive the protective shield in by herself, and then expand the shield into a ball, so that the area could not collapse.
The soldiers from other units who witnessed Tang Tang's amazing abilities were in the rescue efforts. Whenever they found that Tang Tang could be of use and that she was not acting as a jack, they would ask her to come over and hold the position for a while when there was a gap.
For this reason, the soldiers were afraid that Tang Tang would be tired and exhausted, so they gave Tang Tang all the chocolate snacks and other high-calorie snacks that they had saved to replenish their energy.
Tangtang, the greedy girl, accepted everything that was offered to her. She put herself in the form of a cricket pupa, held up the protective shield, and squatted there to eat snacks.
When I was in Daxi Village on the mountain, although there was no shortage of food and drink, I was indeed lacking in snacks.
When the brothers from the mountain go down to purchase things, they only think about what the villagers need. The things they can bring are limited, so each time they can only choose the most useful things and bring them up the mountain.
These snacks and the like have become dispensable.
The children in the village rarely had candies in their mouths, so whenever they had free time, they would wander around the mutant fruit tree behind the village, hoping to find ripe ones to pick and eat.
Even the children in the village lack snacks, let alone the adults.
Tangtang is an adult at his age, but a child at heart. He is still a mama's boy at this age. How can he not be childish and crave snacks?
Tang Rufeng knew what Tang Tang was doing. Seeing that she was at ease and didn't seem to be uncomfortable with having to be a jack all day long, he stopped paying attention to her.
There are protective shields on both sides of Tangtang, so there will be no life-threatening danger.
I don't know if it was her luck that knew Tangtang was saving people. Or maybe it was because the soldiers who rescued her were naturally blessed with great luck, or perhaps just full of righteousness. Tangtang saw the world spinning around, the ruins so uneven. Aside from the first two days when she got unaccustomed to walking and rolled over a few times, only to be rolled back by the soldiers, Tangtang spent the rest of her life being a jack, and she hadn't seen any bad luck.
The biggest bad luck that can happen is probably that when you eat snacks, there are always a few grams missing from them, or the chocolate packaging is intact but one or two pieces are missing, or there are small ribs like that.
Because she could stay here, she was of great help to the rescue. People who came here to rescue and those who were rescued from the rubble called her Miss Jack when they saw her. As long as they had some delicious food and were not hungry, they would put it in her arms.
Because of her popularity, Tang Rufeng and others also shared a lot of snacks that they hadn't eaten for a long time.
Their rescue went smoothly. As people with special abilities, they had the physical strength to keep up, and their abilities allowed them to quickly determine the situation of the people below, making the rescue effort very targeted.
Especially Tang Rufeng, his ability itself has no offensive power, but he can communicate and pull souls. As long as enough souls are pulled out, the more condensed the souls are, the more soul power they have, and the stronger their strength is, these are all his combat power.
He didn't need to fight here at the moment, but he could summon souls, pass through layers of ruins, and go to those who were buried underground and unable to communicate with the outside world, or who no longer had the strength to communicate with the outside world, and relay their situation, making rescue easier.
Although Chu Xinran's ability caused her a lot of trouble, and she couldn't stand noise, this time it was rare. She knew that these noisy sounds would provide her with a lot of information. Even though her brain was about to explode, she never said anything about giving up or taking a rest.
Following Captain Qing's instructions, he followed a military rescue team, pointing out where people were over there, analyzing the situation of the buried people from the sounds, and pointing out their location.
The assistance of people with special abilities and the location marked by the life detectors they carry with them speed up the rescue.
In such a critical moment, every second counts, and a life may be saved. Therefore, Chu Xinran never mentioned that she felt uncomfortable and wanted to rest. When she was really made to scream by the noise, she would soak the cloth she found, wrap it around her face, and calm down for a while before continuing.
The soldiers around her didn't know her condition at first, but after a few conversations they guessed it. They were very careful when talking to her, fearing that she might be feeling unwell.
But no matter how careful you are, being in such ruins, the ruins cannot block the noise and clamor coming from the objects and words.
But one day, Chu Xinran could no longer hold on. She held her head and screamed and cried miserably among the ruins. Fortunately, she had the locust leaves that Xiao Ling'er had retained her power from before she came out.
Although the ability above was not as effective as when the owner was in person, it could at least suppress the noise around her and the irritability that aroused her.
Although Chu Xinran did not hurt anyone, her sudden outburst really scared the soldiers who were with her and listening to her describe the situation under the rubble. Even the people who had just been rescued were blindfolded and their ears were more sensitive to the surrounding environment, so they were frightened by such a shrill sound.
"It's okay, it's okay. We have some things to take care of here. The medical staff will carry you to the tent for treatment. Don't worry."
Seeing the injured man so frightened that he almost fell off the stretcher, a soldier hurriedly tried to comfort him, then handed the injured man to the ambulance. Only then did he turn around to care for Chu Xinran, who was obviously in a bad mood.
"Chu Xinran, can you stand up now? If you can't, let's go to the side and rest."
The soldier reached out and patted Chu Xinran on the shoulder, not sure if Chu Xinran could hear his voice. After he finished speaking, he winked at the person next to him, took some effort to help Chu Xinran up, and walked her far away to the tent camp.
This is a rare open space, which is itself a small park. There are no obvious high-rise buildings around it. After the earthquake, those short buildings have collapsed.
After their rescue team arrived, they cleaned up the area, removed the tall trees, and cleared the site before accommodating the rescued victims.
Because it was some distance away from the ruins, Chu Xinran felt noticeably relaxed after arriving here.
The noises were farther away, and although she could still hear them, they were not as loud as when she was nearby. Chu Xinran could accept this distance.
If she didn't need to get closer to listen carefully and determine the location, she would actually be able to stay in this position to listen to the voices of those objects and analyze what they said.
Unfortunately, she couldn't, she had to insist.
Each of Tang Rufeng and his companions was assigned a task to do. They were surrounded by ruins and had to fight for their lives against the devil.
Ali and Huhu, who had previously set out on the mountain with other mutant animals such as the mountain peak, had now crossed the two mountains where they often hunted for food.
From afar, you can see the peak of the abruptly appearing mountain range.
The highest mountain in that mountain range is the target of Ali and other mutant animals.
That mountain is very strange. Different strange phenomena will appear in different time intervals.
But they are very subtle, and it is difficult for someone who does not sit around and stare at the mountain all day to notice them.
Ahri discovered it because she was paying attention to it and was sure that there were good things there, so it was normal for this to happen.
But when they actually arrived near the mountain, they found that it was very difficult to get close to the mountain.
Just like now, at the bottom of the mountain range, there are humans lurking on the side of the mountain next to the highest mountain. But looking at their current state, it seems that they have not even climbed up the outer mountains. They are just wandering around the mountain and doing their best.
Of course, some of them are people with special abilities who come to the surrounding area for rescue. They wander around the mountain range and force themselves to take a look during their rest time.
Although it is not clear what is in this abrupt mountain range, according to the information they have learned before, as long as there is no strong intention to attack humans or they disdain to associate with humans, everything else, whether it is mutated animals or plants, or the places after the mutation, are beneficial to human beings with abilities.
Like the mine that appeared on Sang Mountain.
Right now, the cultivation resources that the official people with special abilities have in their hands are all produced from there.
"No, I still felt a sense of oppression halfway through, so I walked out unconsciously."
Looking up at the lush green mountains ahead, one of them looked tired and turned to speak softly to his companion.
He was already very tired, and after coming out to look for a fight, not only did he not find any resources to improve his strength, but he also became even more tired, and he felt a little unwell.
"Yeah, I feel the same way. I came out a few minutes before you. I can't do it anymore. I'll come back tomorrow. Now go back and rest."
Although his companion was somewhat unwilling, he was still concerned about participating in the rescue and could not waste his rest time and energy here. With a comforting tone, he persuaded his companion to leave and go back to rest.
"There's a long way to go. Now that this mountain range has appeared here, we can always figure out what's inside and what kind of resources it can produce to enhance our strength."
The person being advised also knew that he couldn’t bring a gambler with him. After thinking it over in his mind, he turned around rationally and prepared to go back to rest.
"Awoo~Ahri, the two-legged beasts are almost gone~"
Hu Hu opened his eyes wide and stared at the person in the distance until he walked away before speaking to Ali.
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