"Sister, can you stand up by yourself?" Zhou Tong asked as he looked at Song Lingling's outstretched face behind the corner.

"Yes...... OK. Song Lingling stammered, she held on to the wall with both hands, her head slowly rose, her eyes were slightly closed, trying not to look at the side, for a while, her hair was scattered by the wind.

The TV was knocked out, Zhou Tong sped up his progress, he groped for experience, and followed the root of the wall until he reached Song Lingling's back wall, and he saw Song Lingling's hand sticking out of the wall.

At this time, the two of them stood on the dilapidated house on the ninth floor at the same time, and all that stood in their way was a cracked brick wall.

Zhou Tong tried to turn his body around, he wanted to face Song Lingling and pull her from behind the wall.

So, he held on to the perimeter of the dangerous wall and slowly adjusted his posture. And Song Lingling held on to the wall firmly and let the wind blow her hair away.

"Come, grab my hand and stand up slowly" Zhou Tong leaned against the wall and tried to stretch his palm over. Now the two of them can't see each other's faces, so you give me your hand and I'll pull you over.

Song Lingling grabbed the hand wearing safety gloves, she was barefoot, and her dirty pajamas began to fan under the action of the wind.

"I'll shout one, two, three, and you'll hang my hand hard and step over, you know?" Zhou Tong said word by word behind the wall.

"Big brother, no, my calf is very sore and numb. Song Lingling responded weakly by the wall, and she shook her head as she bowed her head.

Zhou Tong realized that due to excessive fright and curling up for a long time, Song Lingling's blood circulation in her legs may not be smooth, and she needs to be helped to adjust her psychological state.

"Don't be afraid, you listen to me first, hold me, stand up, it's okay. Zhou Tong wanted to poke his head as far as he could, so that Song Lingling could see the persistence on his face.

"Whew. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and silently thought one, two, three. The left foot is on the empty support point, and the right foot slowly rotates in place, just like the boot regiment teaches the essentials of turning backwards, and the right hand still pulls on the edge of the wall.

In an instant, "Hula" Zhou Tong turned around, and his dangling left hand grabbed the dangerous wall.

Seeing half of her beautiful face with a helmet sticking out from behind the dangerous wall, Song Lingling's tears couldn't hold back anymore and dripped down.

"Girl, okay, don't cry, I'll get you out right away. Zhou Tong, the big boy, couldn't think of any other way to comfort Song Lingling. On the contrary, he leaned over to maintain this difficult posture, just to save her.

"Oh, put this on" Zhou Tong laboriously took off the safety hook and full-body suspenders from his waist and threw them to Song Lingling from behind the wall.

Song Lingling obviously didn't know how to wear this thing, so Zhou Tong patiently taught her behind the wall.

At the same time, Zhou Tong understands that the longer they stay here, the more dangerous their situation becomes.

"Click". Zhou Tong tied Song Lingling's safety hook to himself.

"Director Fang, we're ready to come out. Zhou Tong's voice came from the walkie-talkie.

"Roger. ”

I saw Zhou Tong's action of turning around just now, and I couldn't help but sweat again. Suddenly nervous, I looked at Sun Hao, this kid was also sweating, just like me, holding the safety rope tightly in his hand.

"Girl, if you're afraid, close your eyes. Zhou Tong grabbed Song Lingling's hand, he felt that Song Lingling's hands were grabbing him with all their strength, like looking for a life-saving straw, and he couldn't stop trembling.

It's a survival instinct, but also a silent trust.

Zhou Tong counted loudly in his mouth: "One", "Two", "Three"

Song Lingling vacated.

She closed her eyes.

Her bare feet were conspicuous in the air, maintaining a posture, and her two hands were pulling Zhou Tong's arm hard.

"Ahhhh

Zhou Tong raised his arms to meet her with all his might.

"Knock". For more than a second, Song Lingling's body hit Zhou Tong's side.

Due to inertia, she was about to fall backwards, and I was so frightened that I couldn't speak, so I immediately grabbed the safety rope with Sun Hao.

"Hands grip the wall. Zhou Tong shouted Song Lingling.

Song Lingling was obviously frightened, and she quickly stretched out her left hand to grab the outside of the dangerous wall.

"Whoa-la-la-la-la The body was steady, but the already narrow wall support was stepped on by her a little bit, and a few pieces of rubble rolled down.

"Big brother, I'm afraid. Song Lingling wailed. "Woooooooo Song Lingling's legs unconsciously wanted to squat, but she couldn't squat.

Both of them are now facing a dangerous wall and need to return step by step, Zhou Tong also feels that facing such a process is indeed a bit cruel for a girl. But if you don't face it, how can you escape?

Seeing Song Lingling being pulled out by Zhou Tong, I secretly breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, which means that half of the rescue work has been completed, and next, just wait for them to come back slowly.

I'm thinking. But at this moment, something unexpected happened. A group of calls came out of the walkie-talkie of the three of us at the same time.

"Chief of Staff, after verifying the number of people in the collapsed building, 9 people are missing at the scene, 4 people have been found, and 5 people are still missing. Of these, 4 people have been found, 2 are injured and 2 are dead. The deceased was an elderly woman and a young man. ”

"Roger, continue to search with the Life Detector, to make sure nothing goes wrong, the large digging tools are in place and ready" The Chief of Staff said in a firm and powerful voice. Usually at this time, if it is not 100% certain that the buried person has no signs of life, large-scale excavation and bulldozing tools will not be able to enter the search and rescue.

Song Lingling was still holding Zhou Tong's arm, moving forward step by step along the wall, when she heard the number of dead and missing people coming out of Zhou Tong's walkie-talkie. She felt as if she had suddenly remembered something, and her emotions suddenly became excited.

"No, my mom, my grandmother is still down there. Song Lingling cried out in a panic with a crying voice. With that, she unconsciously moved her steps. The hand that grabbed Zhou Tong suddenly shook sharply. Zhou Tong was made by her like this, and she seemed a little overwhelmed, originally the rhythm of the two was in sync, you one step, I walked to the finish line so peacefully, but now Song Lingling is like an emotionally out of control person, disrupting the rhythm, and desperately wants to push Zhou Tong forward.

"Not good". I screamed in my heart.

"Hold on to the rope". I hurriedly said to Sun Hao.

Before the words fell, Song Lingling's bare feet stepped on the air, and the whole person was weightless and about to fall, pulling Zhou Tong together.

"Ahhh Song Lingling's screams pierced the entire scene.

I instantly felt like I was going to be sucked in by a huge pull, and I almost got carried into that empty door and fell off the 9th floor. Immediately, standing sideways at the door, I immediately felt the huge pressure brought to me by Song Lingling's weight. I desperately lifted one foot against the door frame. Sun Hao stood behind me, pulling back as he continued to wrap the remaining safety rope around the stair railing.

Song Lingling grabbed Zhou Tong's rescue shoes when she fell, she howled like crazy because of fear and fright, and the whole person hung in the air and threw her around.

Zhou Tong was so tricked by her that he couldn't move even if he wanted to.

The surrounding crowd kept exclaiming, shouting, "Hold on, hold on!"

A group of rescuers downstairs heard Song Lingling's shout, and they put down their jobs one after another, ready to rush into the dangerous house.

To be honest, the rescue does not have to be in a group of three, just because in this kind of rescue, the collapsed dilapidated house cannot enter too many people at one time, so as to avoid the house being unbearable, or resonating and causing a secondary collapse.

I gradually felt my shoulders become heavy and my hands became extremely sore. Once upon a time, to build a firefighting army, each of us carried a 120-pound sand dummy to climb the 10th floor, and we didn't feel very heavy. But today, my comrades-in-arms and I were pulling 100 pounds of living people, but we instantly felt very heavy.

Perhaps the desire to survive was stimulated in an instant, Song Lingling kept grabbing Zhou Tong's feet and kept struggling in the air. And Zhou Tong was unsteady standing at the base of the wall. He told Song Lingling more than once to persevere and hold steady, and Song Lingling's face was full of tears, but she kept telling him: "Big brother, I can't die, I want to see my mother and grandmother."

Suddenly, I realized that no matter how hard I pulled back, I still couldn't stop the safety rope from being pulled out of my hand one by one.

"Fuck, Sun Hao, help pull it. I couldn't hold back the despair in my heart, I didn't look back, and I burst into foul language with indignation.

"Instructor, I'...... I'm pulling. "Sun Hao was scolded by me like this, and he was already working hard, but he stammered.

In fact, I also know that the two of us bear the weight of two people, in addition to Song Lingling, and fix Zhou Tong's body. For the more than 200 catties, our brothers also tried their best.

Finally, just as I was in a trance, there was a series of footsteps in the hallway......

(Postscript)

When I pulled Song Lingling and Zhou Tong over with more comrades-in-arms, I was excited and uncomfortable, excited that at the critical moment, we snatched a life from the edge of life and death. Sadly, I know that Song Lingling's mother and grandmother will not have any hope of surviving this disaster. When we went downstairs together, Song Lingling cried very sadly and couldn't comfort her, so we could only take shoes and clothes to put on her.

At the headquarters, Song's father, who saw his daughter, knelt down for us again with tears streaming down his face, this middle-aged man in his 40s endured the great grief of losing his wife at home, and squeezed out the word thank you from between his teeth.

At the same time, large excavation tools drove into the ruins and began to excavate on the premise of repeatedly confirming that no one had survived, and the remains were excavated.

For many years, Song's father's expression when he saw his daughter has been firmly imprinted in my mind, not only because of the love of licking calves, but also because of a continuation of life. I once heard a saying: Only firefighters are the ones who dare to take their lives with the king of Yama. I suddenly realized that everything I had done had built a bridge of hope for him. Life comes first, hope comes first. As long as there is hope for life, there is still the possibility of continuity.