Chapter 3: Hope in the South (2)

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The "leadership meeting", which lasted almost overnight, finally came to an end at dawn.

A temporary self-rescue leading group was set up, led by Zheng Quan, captain of the customs anti-smuggling team, Feng Bin, captain of the anti-riot squad of the Y City Armed Police, who led the team to participate in the anti-smuggling operation, Chen Liwen, deputy head of the Y City Economic Investigation Brigade, and Qi Jianjun, deputy director of the Supervision Brigade of the Municipal Labor Bureau, who handled the wage demands of the dock workers.

Regarding the question of "what happened", the leaders of the self-rescue team still did not give people a positive answer, but said that they were actively contacting the superiors of various departments to carry out disaster relief.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, Qi Jianjun finally found Su Zining, who was sleeping soundly in a corner of the ruins. The young man clinging to the imported cotton pillow accepted the first task of the almost expired boss with a confused face - to count all the accident personnel present, including the casualties.

Cause? Just because Su Zining is the only subordinate Qi Jianjun can find a job, Su Zining has been his assistant for a long time.

With the assistance of a customs anti-smuggling team member and a dock security guard, Su Zining spent nearly three hours completing his first job on the first day after the catastrophe.

A total of 498 people survived the accident, including 14 seriously injured, 52 minor, and 32 who died after digging out of the rubble. Among the survivors, a total of 425 were men and 73 were women, including 19 under the age of 12......

"Yes, do you count so carefully? Are you studying management? Zhou Kemin, a member of the customs anti-smuggling team who was responsible for assisting in the statistics, looked at the form handed over by Su Zining and was a little surprised.

In addition to the basic number of people, the form also contains a number of classifications by gender and age group, and even family ties.

"To do things for the leader, you must think of what the leader may take and want." Su Zining shrugged his shoulders and looked like he was used to it, "Otherwise, you will find that you have to spend more time doing work that should not be repeated." ”

"Haha, Brother Su is really old-fashioned!" Zhou Kemin suddenly realized, and touched his head as if embarrassed, "I remember to count the heads." ”

Am I old-fashioned? Maybe...... Whoever doesn't understand these things after a few years in the government will not even think about it when he is old.

At noon, Qi Jianjun of the self-rescue leading group held a loudspeaker and began to shout by the river beach. Roughly speaking, a voluntary search and rescue team will be formed and will travel south along the river to find survivors who may have been lost in the downstream area.

Within 10 minutes, this temporary search and rescue team was set up, with a total of six people. Su Zining, Yan Xiaosong, and Zhou Kemin were all volunteers, and the other two were all specially appointed by the leaders of the self-rescue team, including an armed police officer and a ship doctor of a bulk carrier.

The last volunteer was a bald man, Su Zining knew, who was the organizer of the wharf migrant workers' salary on the day of the accident, and Dong Jiunan, a retired non-commissioned officer from the north who asked the mayor to come forward to find an explanation. However, Su Zining couldn't believe that the big man in front of him, who was more than 1.8 meters tall, was only 25 years old.

Under Qi Jianjun's publicity, Su Zining was mentioned as the leader of the search and rescue team, and Su Zining had no opinion on this result except for frowning in his heart.

In addition to carrying basic search and rescue equipment and some food and medicine, the only riot policeman in the team also carried a Type 81 automatic rifle, which made the big man Dong Jiunan's face look bad all the time. It is no wonder that the riot police with loaded guns in a migrant workers' wage bargaining event is a very bad memory after all.

Since it was almost impossible to travel by land in a densely forested area along the river, the team also called on the only motorboat on board the customs anti-smuggling boat. The driver was Zhou Kemin, a member of the customs anti-smuggling team.

"Directions?" Yan Xiao tightened the backpack on his body, stepped into the motorboat, and grinned at Su Zining, the top commander of the team.

Direction...... Looking at the big river flowing southward again, Su Zining exhaled and read out two words at the same time.

"To the south."

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The motorboat moves slowly along the eastern side of the river, and in addition to forests and forests on both sides of the river, you can occasionally see large green river beaches and wetland swamps on both sides of the river.

Further south, there are vast waterways. Except for the sound of flowing water and motors, there is silence, and the entire river basin is like an unexplored primeval land.

Su Zining looked at his watch, and more than two hours had passed since departure. Judging by the speed of the motorboat, it is probably less than 10 kilometers south. Apart from the occasional deer-like wildlife spotted among the riverbank trees on the east side of the river, no signs of human population have been found.

From the beginning to the present, Yan Xiaosong has been holding his small drawing board and drawing something carefully, and from time to time he still looks at it for a few seconds.

And the rest of the people, except for Zhou Kemin, who was driving a motorboat, was humming a tune softly, and the others were as silent as Su Zining. The muscular man was even more nervous, holding the edge of the motorboat tightly with one hand and holding a pair of binoculars in his hand.

Soon after, Dong Jiunan suddenly raised an arm, Zhou Kemin quickly extinguished the motor, and everyone followed the direction of the man's arm and saw an area with traces of human activity on the edge of the east bank of the river, which was a small riverbank meadow on the edge of the forest.

The motorboat docked, and the armed policeman with an automatic rifle jumped out first, and then the Liaodong Dahan also followed closely with a fire axe that he carried with him.

The weeds on the river beach were almost up to a man's waist, but a simple shack made of a few logs still loomed among the weeds.

The meadows on the river beach are not large, and soon you will come to an area where the ground is full of gravel. I saw that the wooden shack had decayed and collapsed, and there were many half-charred irregular stones scattered around it, and a small cross made of wood was erected on the edge of the abandoned camp.

Letters and numbers are faintly engraved on the cross, and although the numbers are blurred, they are faintly recognizable as "1577-1610". This scene made the six people present look at each other. Because no one including Su Zining knows these Western words that are obviously not English.

"What do you think?" Liaodong Dahan was the first to break the silence.

"No one has been here for at least five years, and besides, it's a cemetery." Yan Xiaosong walked around the cross twice, and hugged his hands to his chest, "A cemetery for Westerners." It's been dead for hundreds of years. ”

"Brother Su, Brother Yan, should we continue to take the boat and go forward?" Zhou Kemin looked around a little nervously, as if the safest thing now was the small motorboat.

"No, since there are traces of human habitation here, it means that there may be more discoveries around." Su Zining shook his head, turned his head to the armed police and the accompanying ship doctor, a riot policeman with tender hair on the corner of his mouth and a short boat doctor in his thirties, "Cheng Peng, you and Dong Jiunan are in a group, turn eastward, remember not to go too far into the forest." Yan Xiaosong and I continued south along the riverbank. Xiao Zhou and Lao Zhao, you stay on the motorboat, and we will meet in two hours. ”

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