With the last glimmer of hope, Li Ying sat down in front of the ruins, clearing all the distractions from her mind, focusing all her thoughts on hearing, and began to concentrate on the information coming from the ruins.

When all the worries in his mind were eliminated and it was empty, he suddenly vaguely felt that Su Xiaodan was lying on his stomach in a dark place, and a slight gasp came out of his mouth. Soon, he clearly heard Su Xiaodan's last faint shouts: "Little Huzi, my baby, farewell!

Li Ying only felt that his heart was beating violently, and Su Xiaodan's few words of farewell were suddenly amplified by his mental power dozens or hundreds of times, like thunder in the sky, rumbling in his ears.

Like a frightened deer, he jumped up from the ground, his cheeks flushed with excitement, his breathing was heavy and rapid, he pulled Wang Zixiong beside him, and shouted in a roaring voice: "Mayor Wang, my friend is still alive, she is under the ruins! Please hurry up and gather some people for me, we will dig up this ruin, and I will rescue her!"

Wang Zixiong and the others looked at him dumbfounded, thinking that he was a little bit of a problem because he was overly sad - under such a high and thick pile of ruins, even if someone was alive, it would be impossible to hear her voice!

Seeing Wang Zixiong and them standing still, Li Ying's eyes turned red, and he shouted: "Hurry up and call someone to save people!

Wang Zixiong looked at him with sympathetic eyes and persuaded: "Comrade Li Ying, I understand your feelings! I also lost two relatives in this earthquake. But there is no way to do this, the remains of my relatives are still under the rubble, and they have not been found! If you want to find your friend's body, we can only find it by waiting for the search and rescue team of the People's Liberation Army to come in and use large lifting machinery to clear the pile of rubble! However, I don't think the search and rescue team will do this, because it will waste a lot of manpower and material resources, and it will not be worth it. In this earthquake, there were so many cases of relatives crushed under the rubble like this, and if the bodies had to be found, it would definitely not be possible. What do you say?"

Li Ying knew that he had misunderstood what he meant, but these words also made him sober: now there are no more than 200 people in the town who can participate in the search and rescue. Moreover, most of these people are now busy searching for their families, relatives and friends, and they will definitely not be able to call them all over to help them dig up this pile of rubble. Take 10,000 steps back and say: even if they came to help them dig out of gratitude for saving so many people, it would be impossible to clear this pile of rubble without any large tools. What's more, there is still a ditch under the ruins, and it is even more impossible to save people......

Thinking of this, he was almost a little desperate: although he had a body of miraculous skills, in the face of such a large pile of ruins, no matter how capable he was to reach the sky, it would be impossible to clean them all up in a short period of time! Besides, if he forcibly cleaned up the ruins above, once he touched the supporting shelves at the bottom of the ruins, and collapsed again, Su Xiaodan would never be spared—because he now speculated that the reason why Su Xiaodan was not dead was that there should be some bracket below to support a space, which was enough for her to accommodate and breathe. Otherwise, she would not have survived until now.

However, listening to her few words of farewell, she is now extremely weak, and may be seriously injured. If you don't save it now, I'm afraid there will be no more chances......

Thinking of this, he calmed down, and under the increasingly surprised eyes of Wang Zixiong and others, he circled around the ruins twice, looked at the yellow glazed tiles that fell to the ground, pondered for a while, and suddenly walked back to Wang Zixiong's side, and asked anxiously: "Mayor Wang, is this house an old-fashioned building? How many years has it been?"

Wang Zixiong didn't know what he was asking for, so he replied: "Yes! This house is called Zhen's Villa, which is the country house and summer resort of Zhen Zhentang, the largest warlord in Sichuan Province before the liberation, and was designated as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit 30 years ago, and has a history of nearly 100 years. ”

Li Ying's eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to ask: "Do you know if there are any hidden passages and gutters under this villa?" As far as I know, when the landlords and warlords of Sichuan Province in the past built their houses, in order to avoid bandits and wars, they often dug a secret passage to the outside of the house in the bedroom and other places, just in case of emergency. And their dark tunnels are often dug very deep. Is there such a secret passage in this bedroom surnamed Zhen?"

Before Wang Zixiong could answer, a villager in his 50s who came with him suddenly said, "Comrade Li, I know this. There is indeed such a secret passage in the Zhen family's villa, and the entrance of the secret passage is under the ebony bed in the master bedroom, and it takes more than ten steps to reach the bottom of the dark passage. When we were children, the Zhen family's villa was allocated to the poor middle peasants in the town, and many people played in the secret passages. The secret passage was long and led to a hill about two miles outside the villa's walls. The exit of the secret passage is behind the tombstone of a fake tomb, which is very hidden and difficult for ordinary people to find. ”

When Li Ying heard the words of the villagers, he climbed up to his shoulder and asked anxiously, "Brother, can you still find that exit?" This is very important, it is related to my friend's life, please take me to find it." ”

The villager was unconsciously clenched at his shoulder, grinning in pain, and hurriedly said, "Little brother, let go of my shoulder first, and I'll take you to look for it!" However, after such an earthquake, the grave mountain is likely to be razed to the ground. It's going to be very difficult to find that exit!"

At this time, Wang Zixiong also roughly guessed Li Ying's intentions, and said very worriedly: "Xiao Li, do you want to go directly into the ditch from that secret passage to find your friend? This is very dangerous! There are still frequent aftershocks, even if that dark passage does not collapse, but if you go in and a strong aftershock suddenly occurs, you will probably be buried inside." Besides, in such a strong earthquake, the underground tunnel must have been distorted and collapsed unpresentably, and it is very difficult for you to clean up the earthwork in the underground tunnel alone, how can you enter the trench? I advise you not to take risks!"

Li Ying was so anxious now, he just wanted to hurry up and save Su Xiaodan, where could he still listen to his advice? Before Wang Zixiong finished speaking, he took the villager's hand and ran quickly towards the grave mountain behind.

Sure enough, as the villager said, the grave hill behind the villa had fallen apart in the earthquake, as if it had been crushed by a giant bulldozer on the grave hill, and there were all the tombstones everywhere, the decayed coffins that had been lifted out of the tomb, and in some places there were even white bones that had been shaken out, which looked shocking.

The villager took Li Ying to a shady place in the south of the tomb mountain, searched carefully for a long time, and then pointed to a tombstone with the words "First test the spirit of the great cause of Lord Zhen", and said to Li Ying: "This is the tombstone of the fake tomb, the exit should be nearby, let's look for it first." ”

Since the earthquake damaged the structure and landmarks of the tombstone, the villager searched for a long time near the tombstone, and then pointed to a hole with a stone staircase exposed and said, "Comrade Li, the exit of the secret passage should be here." However, it must be dark inside, and the air is not well circulated. You'd better do your preparations first, go to town and get a big flashlight and get your hoe ready so you can go down. ”

Li Ying shook her head and said, "There's no need. I can see things in the dark, and if there is a cave-in, preparing a hoe will not do anything, but will delay time. I'll go down and take a look before I do it. ”

The villager was a little embarrassed and said, "Comrade Li, then I won't go down with you." One is that I don't have the skills you have to find your way in the dark, and the other is that I am indeed a little afraid of the collapse inside. ”

Li Ying took out her wallet from her trouser pocket, took out 2,000 yuan, stuffed it into the villager's hand, and said, "Thank you." Please go back and tell Mayor Wang, and ask him to arrange a few laborers, bring flashlights, hoes, dustpans and other tools to the entrance of the cave, and if there is a landslide to be cleaned inside, I will ask them for help. ”

The villager had inadvertently made a small fortune, nodded gratefully and said, "Okay, I'll go to the town in person and call a few people, get the tools ready, and wait for your news at the entrance of this cave." ”

After the villager had left in a hurry, Li Ying picked up the stones and slag that had accumulated at the entrance of the cave, and bent down the stone stairs to go down.

After descending a dozen steps, Li Ying came to the bottom of the dark passage. He looked around carefully and was surprised to find that this underground tunnel, which was made of reinforced concrete, had not suffered any damage in the earthquake and remained basically intact.

It turned out that at the beginning of the last century, there were two relatively large earthquakes in Sichuan Province, which killed many people. When Zhen Zhentang was building the villa, he took into account the earthquake factor, and specially invited construction experts from the United States to increase the seismic function in the design and construction: the top and both sides of this underpass are all poured with reinforced concrete, whether it is the bottom plate, side plate, or beams, columns, are poured with reinforced concrete of more than 60 centimeters, and the roof is also up to 4 meters thick, which can resist earthquakes of more than eight degrees. In this way, it inadvertently provided a passage for Li Ying to enter the ditch to find Su Xiaodan.

However, due to the long construction time of this underpass, and the long-term lack of maintenance, there are still concrete cracks and cave wall collapses in some places during this strong earthquake. After Li Ying had traveled 300 years, at a bend, a large piece of concrete fell, and the stones and slag that fell with it blocked Li Ying's way out.