Chapter 2: Hope in the South (1)
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A wide river came into view, at least a few hundred meters wide, perhaps more than a thousand meters. The place is on the east bank of the great river.
Along with the land beneath your feet, the banks of the river are lush forests of coniferous and broad-leaved trees, and the crevices of the forests are dotted with lush weeds.
Countless irregular cement masonry, huge twisted metal supports, pieces of broken stacked fiberglass tiles, and even hundreds of containers are scattered crookedly among the river beaches and forests. Occasionally, there are crooked and painted tall pier cranes, overturned dock vehicles, and metal beams of the cranes, all stacked, squeezed, and interspersed horizontally.
Five huge freighters seemed to fall from the sky, strangely crooked or turned on their sides between the river beach and the forest, and one of them was even more exaggerated like a thick broken axe poked into the depths of the forest.
The canopy of countless trees is covered with various packaging, and a few dense trees support a small house made of fiberglass tiles with a roof facing down.
The customs smuggling boat and another brown fishing boat ran aground shoulder to shoulder on a rocky river beach further north.
The undulating crowd shouted to each other, and the figures of red and white weaved through the green river beach jungle. They shook their arms, occasionally ran up, or fell.
"Uh......h Mom! ”
"Is there a doctor? Is there a doctor? Hurry up, my brother is bleeding! ”
"Listen to my ...... One, two, three, lift! ”
The hoarse shouts of people echoed everywhere in the strange forest. It's just that unlike what you see on TV, there are no reporters, no flashing ambulances, and no rows of stretchers.
Injured people are lifted out of the jungle or rubble and simply leaning against the debris on the riverbank, while many more are sweating profusely looking for companions in various cement or metal rubbish.
A young man with glasses was dragged out of the rubble, turned around and scratched like crazy between the rubble and broken glass tiles, and it took a long time to pull out a laptop bag that had been wiped out by dust, and then hugged it in his arms.
An old man shouted his daughter's name among the ruins, and the old body seemed to burst out with infinite strength at this moment. Struggling to drag away a metal steel beam that usually requires a few young men to move, he stretched out his hand and pulled hard into the gap in the ruins below. It wasn't until a young woman in a police uniform came running from a distance and hugged the old man's body that the old man suddenly woke up and hugged his daughter's head and whimpered.
A weeping little girl stood among the rubble, tears drawing lines on her plaster-stained face, the soft cry that seemed to move no one, and around her, distracted adults staggered by, or buried their heads in the rubble.
Under the command of a young armed police officer, more than a dozen armed police soldiers dragged out a huge truck that had stuck into a certain dock warehouse, and the driver had already died, but from the hole in the warehouse wall that the truck had towed, an old woman who was already dying was rescued, and a man in the crowd next to him rushed up almost crying and holding the seriously injured old woman in his arms.
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In the midst of the chaos, it is not excluded that a very small number of people are indifferent to this qiē in a sluggish state. And since an hour ago, Su Zining has been one of them.
The sparkling waves of the river in front of him made Su Zining enter a strange sluggish state, and he didn't seem to be able to see anything clearly. There was only a soothing cool breeze in my ears, even the voices of the people were so unclear, and the dust drifting from the ruins irritated my nose and made me faintly nauseated.
"Hey, is there any smoke?"
Suddenly, a greeting came from my ears. Su Zining turned his head, and what came into his eyes was a young man who was more than one meter tall and seven meters tall, and a smiling face.
I felt that my hands were hot, and it turned out that the cigarette I had lit before had burned my fingers. Su Zining replied with a very bitter smile awkwardly, and handed the cigarette in his pocket to the strange man who took the initiative to greet him.
"I've seen you in a daze for a long time. Why, wondering how we got to this place? ”
The man lit a cigarette, took a long puff, seemed to remember something again, and quickly stretched out his hand, revealing an apologetic smile, "I forgot to introduce, Yan Xiaosong, do outdoor advertising design." ”
"Well, Su Zining...... Labor Inspection Brigade of the Municipal Labor Bureau. Su Zining thought about it, but still reported his professional identity that he had not really resigned.
"It's been a few hours, everyone is panicking, isn't the two of us a little different?" Yan Xiaosong remembered the crowd of people on the dock before the disaster, and was stunned for a moment, and then showed a wry smile, "Maybe we are lucky, we didn't have any relatives present before...... ”
"Someone must come out in the most difficult moment to worry about the country and the people, right?" Su Zining smiled awkwardly.
Seeing that the other party was covered in cement dust, and he was basically clean, Su Zining knew that his state was indeed a little inappropriate at this time.
Looking around, Su Zining ran more than ten meters away, hugged a crying little girl in his arms, and then walked towards the more chaotic forest.
With a cigarette in his mouth, Yan Xiaosong lay down on the grass tiredly, looked at the clear sky, and sighed slightly.
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"Zhou Keming!"
"Here!"
The young man quickly threw away the broken fiberglass tiles in his hand, and walked to a middle-aged man wearing the uniform of the customs anti-smuggling team and wearing the rank of third-level customs supervisor.
"Captain, what are you calling me?" The young anti-smuggling team wiped the sweat from his forehead with his dusty sleeves and saluted Zheng Quan, the top leader of the customs anti-smuggling ship.
"Just now I communicated with Captain Chen Liwen of the police force, and immediately organized a group of police forces to be responsible for the safety of the ship at the scene. Go and inform all the customs officers that no one is allowed to board any vessel for any reason without my orders!" ”
The middle-aged captain of the customs anti-smuggling ship had an extremely stern face, and after speaking, he walked to the other end. There, several men in police and customs uniforms were meeting nervously for a meeting.
The armed police team involved in the disaster relief was pulled out and surrounded a ship that was stuck in the woods. Zheng Quan and other customs anti-smuggling team members pried open the twisted deck cargo lid and entered the dark cargo room with a gas welding gun. After more than ten minutes, Zheng Quan and the others withdrew with a reassuring expression.
This small episode did not attract any attention from the entire ruin site.
Above the ruins of the catastrophe, busy crowds were still running around in the hustle and bustle, and the sky was getting darker.
When Su Zining's watch showed that it was already 6 o'clock in the afternoon, he finally helped the three-year-old girl named Tian Tian in his arms find her mother, a woman who had just been pulled out of the rubble. Fortunately, the young mother was largely unharmed except for a few scrapes.
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"Why haven't you seen the rescue team yet?"
"There is no cell phone signal!"
"The police still don't care? Where the hell is this?! ”
Dozens of bonfires were scattered along the riverbank as it darkened along the forest, and weary people gathered to point at a circle of police officers in the distance.
Angry, confused, haggard, and frightened, all kinds of expressions came and went, but without exception, they were aimed at all the uniformed people present.
The wounded have all been lifted onto a stranded bulk carrier, and the improvised medical team is working nervously on it. Surrounding the wreckage of the freighter were the families and companions of the wounded, all nervous.
"Su Zining." Yan Xiaosong carried a bottle of imported wine that was turned out of the ruins, squatted beside Su Zining with a mysterious smile, and then pointed to the customs anti-smuggling ship that almost landed at the end of the sight, "I heard that the police and customs people are holding meetings there, guess what kind of results we will get." ”
"We won't know the truth until we are rescued. Or they don't know what's really going on. Su Zining shrugged his shoulders, refused the wine bottle handed by the other party, and then lay on the grass with his head in his hands, "But I'm sure, this is not the original place, not even China." ”
"Oh? Are you so sure? Yan Xiaosong was stunned for a moment, and then happily poured a sip of wine.
"There's more to guess." Su Zining stood up and pointed in the direction of Yan Xiaosong. At the edge of the forest, there were figures in the glow of flashlights, and it was a few survivors resting under the trees.
"That's the oak tree, a large area of pristine oak forest, which only exists in parts of China. But as far as I know, there are no such primitive plains and great rivers in those regions. And the temperature now is significantly similar to autumn in the north. ”
Su Zining pursed the corners of his mouth, revealing a helpless expression, because he was still wearing a summer shirt.
"Doesn't seem like you care about any of that? Don't worry about it either? Su Zining looked at the person in front of him who had only known him for a few hours, and suddenly changed the topic.
"I'm here for a trip, so I might subconsciously want to see more unfamiliar things, right?" Yan Xiaosong looked up at the starry sky with an indifferent smile, "Look, Polaris...... The great river came from the north...... Like you, I'm sure we're at least in the northern hemisphere. ”
"There are not many rivers in China that run north-south, and it obviously can't be the Pearl River." Su Zining closed his eyes and began to think about more things in his mind.
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A stern meeting was held in the command compartment of the stranded customs anti-smuggling ship, with armed police officers and customs anti-smuggling officers standing around the bow of the ship, facing the reproaches of the survivors with either indifference or embarrassment.
Tired people gradually lost the strength to point fingers at anyone, squatting or sitting in piles, filling their bellies with packaged food found in the rubble.
From the ruins of the crumbling warehouses, a large number of bedding and ready-to-wear items were also found. The sea breeze, which was obviously much colder, made people lose their self-control, and they rushed to grab those brand-new clothes or sheets, and simply wrapped themselves up.
Men with families searched for a nook to shelter their families from the night breeze, and extravagant dock workers even used the diesel fuel they found to set fire to a container full of dead branches.
The first night after the great tribulation came slowly.
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