Chapter 312: Deep Underground

When the earthquake struck, Su Xiaodan was just lying on an old-fashioned ebony carved bed, and after filming a little girl feeding her medicine.

The place where they filmed was a Western-style villa built by the largest landlord and warlord in the old Sichuan Province at the foot of Xionghu Mountain. However, the things that this warlord furnished in the villa were all traditional furniture of the Huaxia Kingdom. For example, this carved ebony bed is a typical example.

This carved ebony bed is made from a single piece of ebony cut open, which is extremely precious and valuable.

Ebony is also known as "Ebony Wood", which is known as "Oriental Sacred Wood" and "Plant Mummy". In ancient times, natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and mudslides buried all the plants and creatures on the ground in low-lying places such as ancient river beds. Some of the trees buried in the silt are carbonized for tens of thousands of years under the action of microorganisms such as hypoxia, high pressure, and bacteria, and finally form ebony. Therefore, ebony is also known as "charred wood". Ebony has been used throughout the ages as a ward off evil spirits, making handicrafts, Buddha statues, amulets and other objects. The ancients said: "A half square of ebony in a home is better than a box of treasure." ”

Ebony is as hard as gold and iron. Due to its dense texture, it will sink naturally when placed in water. Beds made of ebony are not only strong and durable, but also never grow insects and never decay. In summer, people sleep on the bed, and there is no need to hang mosquito nets at all, because this bed has a natural mosquito repellent effect......

Fortunately, because Xiushui Town is sheltered in the mountainous area of northern Sichuan, and the people here are simple, this small western-style building has not been damaged much after the liberation, and the precious furniture and decoration inside have been protected. In recent years, this small western-style building has become the filming place for many film and television dramas.

Gu Liming's film this time is an ethical drama that reflects the internal struggle of a feudal family before liberation, in which Su Xiaodan plays the role of an aunt's wife.

At this time, she was wearing a red cheongsam, lazily lying on her side on the ebony bed with a thick quilt and velvet blanket, and a little girl dressed as a maid had just fed her medicine and was walking away with a bowl. At this point, this shot is finished.

Gu Liming stood at the door and asked his assistant to bring a bottle of mineral water to the photographer and Su Xiaodan each, so that everyone could take a break and continue shooting.

Su Xiaodan took the mineral water thrown by his assistant, and just wanted to twist the lid, when he suddenly heard a loud sound like the sky cracking, as if a big * bag had exploded nearby. Then, the ground began to shake violently. The camera, the table, and the coffee table in front of her all fell to the ground. The two photographers standing in the house and the maid who had not yet walked out of the door were unsteady on the ground, and they all fell to the ground screaming.

Gu Liming was the first to react and yelled: "Run! This is an earthquake!"

As soon as he finished shouting these words, the walls of the second and third floors of the small western-style building "rumbled" down, covering the room where Su Xiaodan and the others were located.

Gu Liming saw that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly pulled an actor and ran out of the courtyard. However, as soon as he ran out of the iron gate, the wall next to him collapsed, crushing his thighs into the rubble......

At this time, in the bedroom where they were filming, the two photographers and the actress who played the maid were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood on the spot by the bricks and stones dumped by the "bang", and they died one after another without snorting.

After Gu Liming shouted that, Su Xiaodan immediately came to his senses, and in a whirlwind of dizziness, with his super self-control ability, he rolled over and rolled to the innermost part of the ebony bed. There, there were sturdy wooden lattices blocking the masonry outside. The top of the bed also had an ebony roof, a thick plank of iron that temporarily blocked the masonry that fell from it.

At the same time, Su Xiaodan stretched out his hands and firmly grasped the wooden lattice on the inside of the bed, preventing himself from falling off the bed that kept shaking violently.

But then, something even more terrifying happened: after the bluestone brick floor shook for nearly a minute, a crack suddenly opened under the bed. Just a few seconds later, the opening suddenly looked like a giant dragon arching underground, and the ground on both sides slowly raised upward, and then with a loud "boom", the floor under the bed suddenly cracked, revealing a large crater like a cliff. Then, the ebony bed fell straight to the bottom of the pit about ten meters deep.

At the same time, the bricks and tiles of the roof fell and soon filled the pit. Since this western-style building is also a reinforced concrete structure, there are also cement slabs falling down, and a triangular bracket is erected just around the ebony bed to resist the masonry on it. Otherwise, no matter how strong the ebony bed is, it will not be able to withstand the weight of the two-story masonry.

When the ebony bed fell vertically, Su Xiaodan subconsciously clung to the bed lattice. However, the moment the bed fell to the ground, she was a little panicked, so she pulled out her right hand, trying to press against the bed board to cushion the fall. But it was this wrong move that caused her right hand to be broken under the huge impact, and the wrist bone was broken, and the pain made her almost faint on the spot.

Fortunately, the quilt laid on this bed is very thick and the blanket is very thick, and the bed is blocked by the soil walls on both sides during the fall, so the speed is not particularly fast, and Su Xiaodan is not injured anywhere else on his body except for the fracture of his wrist bone.

Moreover, because there are steel bars and cement slabs between the buried masonry above, although the gap is small, the outside air can still enter. In addition, the space is quite large with an ebony bed and a few cement slabs, so it's not very stuffy inside.

After all the noise stopped, Su Xiaodan endured the pain in his right wrist, sat up from the bed lightly in fear, and looked around for something that could be used while he was waiting for rescue with the little light leaking in from the gap in the reinforced concrete.

When her eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness, she finally found that not far from under the bed, there was a bottle of mineral water, which was the bottle she had not had time to open just now, and it also rolled down with the bed, and it was not buried by the masonry.

When Su Xiaodan saw this bottle of mineral water, she was like a treasure: although she had never experienced an earthquake, she had learned from a lot of information: When people are buried under the rubble in an earthquake, the most important thing to sustain their life is water! As the saying goes: "Hunger is unbearable, thirst is unbearable!" A person who does not eat can maintain 6-7 days without dying, and some last longer. However, if people do not drink water, the vast majority will die within three days. Therefore, for Su Xiaodan, this bottle of water is simply a beam of life in a desperate situation!

Su Xiaodan carefully climbed out of bed, picked up the bottle of baby water, and cherished it into his arms. Then, she looked up to the top and the sides, trying to find a way to climb out. However, she soon despaired: above her head were thick cement slabs and layers of masonry, which had not yet been heaped high, cracked walls of earth to the east and west, and the south and north sides were tightly covered by the rubble. With the strength of a weak woman, it would be wishful thinking to tear up those ruins.

She tried to raise her head a few more times and shouted, "Is there anyone? Is there anyone up there, help me!"

When she finished shouting, she listened intently, but there was a dead silence above. Only the masonry was hit by her sound waves, and from time to time some dust fell "in a hurry".

After shouting a few times, Su Xiaodan completely calmed down and began to analyze his current situation. Now, he is facing three dangers: first, the aftershocks that come immediately after the strong earthquake are likely to crush the triangular support, and the masonry and cement slabs above his head will fall down, and he will be stoned to death; second, this crack will suddenly close during the aftershock, and he will be buried alive underground; third, even if the above-mentioned dangers do not occur, no one will come to the rescue or be unable to rescue him within the limit of his life, and he will be starved to death or die of thirst......

Thinking of these possibilities, she only felt that she was really dead this time: an earthquake like this, aftershocks were inevitable. As long as this bracket on top of his head is slightly unstable, he will be crushed to death. Moreover, people outside may not know that there will be a living person in this crevasse, and those rescue team members may not even come here to search. Besides, even if they knew there were living people down there, it would be impossible to remove the masonry and reinforced concrete from the floors above her head. And, even with large lifting tools, they struggled to clear the rubble without touching the bracket hanging over her head. Once you knock the bracket down, you're still dead......

Thinking of this, a wave of despair began to rise in her heart. However, as Li Ying analyzed, she is not a person who resigns herself to fate, nor is she a person who gives up and admits defeat easily. Under the domination of this despair, she still kept a cool head and began to plan for self-preservation.

She walked slowly to the bed, took out the quilt on the bed, bent down and spread it under the bed, and then, draped the thick blanket over her body, which was only wearing a short-sleeved cheongsam, and got under the bed, lying on her back on the quilt, maintaining a motionless posture. In this way, in the event of an aftershock, you will be protected by at least two layers of ebony bed slats above your head. Moreover, lying still like this can maximize the maintenance of physical strength and calories, and try to support yourself for a while without food.

As for the bottle of water, she decided: it would be at least a dozen hours before she started taking her first sip. Moreover, the amount of water should be controlled every time you drink it, and it is necessary to ensure that the bottle of water can last for more than seven days. Because after seven days, if no one has come to save him, he has basically collapsed, and it is useless to drink water.

At the same time, she also decided: from two days after her estimate, regardless of whether there is anyone on it or not, she will climb out of the bed every once in a while and shout "help" to the top a few times, so that the rescuers who may come to her know that they are still alive.