Chapter 14: Rescue
No matter how the outside world is falling apart, the caves in the mountains, everything is dark, dead and silent, a pool of stagnant water.
Cave-ins occurred, and the unstable parts of the cave were enlarged by an unknown number of earthquakes, causing the rock layers to tear apart, and countless caves that had been eroded over the years began to collapse from the cave entrance, and the distance of nearly 100 meters was sealed by the rock.
Lin Qiudao was the first to wake up, and when he opened his eyes from the darkness, he saw a piece of hell.
Countless classmates fainted on the ground, rocks piled up, and there were not a few people who were stoned to death on the spot, and there were nearly ten people lying on the spot with a quick glance, and the blood mixed with dust was dripping on the ground, which was shocking.
"Chen Jiangwei, Xia Mengyue. Lin Qiudao was not shocked by this tragic scene, but after his heart sank a little, he began to look for the two people who were with him before the earthquake.
After a few seconds of searching, Lin Qiudao found that Xia Mengyue and Chen Jiang were not in a safe place, both of them were lying on the ground and had steady breathing, and there were no obvious wounds on their bodies, and the most they had were just abrasions caused by falling.
"Ah——! my legs!
Someone woke up again, but the moment he woke up, the sharp pain completely swallowed his reason, a huge rock smashed his legs along his knees, and the white bone stubble turned out blood and flowed into a puddle of water.
There is no help.
Lin Qiudao just glanced at it and came to a conclusion, the distance from the exit of the cave was nearly a hundred meters blocked by rocks, without any medical equipment, regardless of the subsequent symptoms such as infection, bleeding and blood loss alone could make him die.
The piercing screams echoed in the cave, waking up countless fainting people and seeing a hellish scene, cries, screams, and horrors instantly flooded the entire cave.
Lin Qiudao didn't organize the order when he looked at this scene, because it was meaningless to say anything now, and everyone was confused and collapsed when they woke up from the chaos, and they should be given enough time to go from being difficult to accept reality to accepting it silently.
Twenty minutes, maybe longer, the wails turned into low sobs, the screams turned to low wails, and the chaos in the cave slowly settled, and this was the time to take the lead.
"Students, be quiet and listen to me. ”
Before Lin Qiudao could make a sound, another voice sounded first, which made him slightly stunned and turned his head to look at the voice.
A dazzling light rose from the darkness, illuminating the figure standing on a higher rock, and after a glance, he found that it was Du Yan, who was lucky in the collapse, and a wound on his body was invisible, but the brand-name shirt on his body was covered with dust, and the whole person was a little gray.
"We should calm down now, treat the injured classmates first, and then find another way out. Du Yan seemed to be calm and organized.
As the leader of a class, it is impossible to say that it is just a rich second generation waste nature, the rich second generation has the merits of the rich second generation, and there will naturally be some leadership ability and shallow overall view since childhood, which is better than the obscure ordinary people.
With Du Yan coming forward to try to control the situation, Lin Qiudao naturally took a back seat, and he was not interested in fighting for any leadership, the game of power struggle was too child's play in front of every second of a human life.
Human lives are at stake, and there is no room for delay.
The boys who were not injured in the collapse took action and helped the injured students to the corner to treat their wounds.
The most serious boy whose legs were crushed was almost unconscious at this time, his lips were purple, his body was bloodless, and there was already a pool of blood under him. Several boys tried to push the boulder on his leg away, but with little success, only to make the boulder shake and cause a second squeeze.
"Help together. Lin Qiudao dragged off his coat and beckoned Chen Jiangwei to help, he stepped forward and put his hands on the rocks, shouting slogans, and exerting all his strength!
Suddenly, Lin Qiudao felt the trace of aura in his mind jump, and injected the wisps into his right hand, but it only stopped when it reached the position of the forearm, and at the same time, a stream of heat rose from his right hand, and with it came an unknown force!
Boom –
The boulder was pushed away and smashed to the ground, and the cave shook slightly, and everyone stopped their movements in an instant, looking at the rock wall full of cracks overhead.
After a full minute, there were no further secondary landslides, which gave everyone a breather.
"Stop the bleeding. Lin Qiudao immediately instructed the girl who had been a nurse in the hospital to help the person with his broken legs stop the bleeding.
"Xiao Qiuzi, you can do it. Chen Jiangwei walked bare-chested and looked at Lin Qiu with a surprised look on his face: "I still wanted to come to help, but as soon as you went, you lifted the stone." ”
Lin Qiudao pinched his right fist, and there was some movement in his heart, but he still said flatly: "It's just the last straw that crushed the camel." ”
Chen Jiangwei shrugged his shoulders and couldn't deny it.
"The wound has been exposed to too much dust and mud, and if you continue to survive this way, you will get infected if you lose blood. The girl who was a nurse was holding a strip of cloth and looked at the wound that the boy could clearly see on the bones of both legs, and it was a little difficult to get his hands on.
"I ...... I brought a little liquor. A classmate who was not happy with alcohol took out a bottle of well-preserved liquor from his bag.
"It can be used to disinfect, but this kind of wound can no longer be treated slowly with cotton swabs, so it can only be poured, and the process is very painful. Lin Qiudao glanced at the boy with a broken leg who was already unconscious on the ground and said.
"I'm sorry......" The nurse girl half-knelt beside the boy with the broken leg and said in a low voice, and after the strip of cloth pierced the wound to stop the bleeding, she unscrewed the liquor and fell down.
At first, he didn't feel anything, but the liquor soothed the wound and stimulated the pain, gradually recovering the confusion of the boy, and then feeling the sharp pain that gradually rose, and couldn't help screaming.
"I can't let him faint, and now that he sleeps, he doesn't know if he will wake up or not. After Lin Qiudao said this, he stood up and glanced at the situation in the cave now.
After having a specific leader, the rescue is proceeding step by step, and the 35 people who originally entered the cave are now only about 23 left, and as many as one-third of the injured are mixed.
"Lin Qiudao, are you okay, I woke up and didn't see you......" A female voice sounded from behind Lin Qiudao, Lin Qiudao listened to the voice, and Xia Mengyue's appearance appeared in his mind, he didn't look back, just waved his hand to indicate that he was fine.
Xia Mengyue ran to Lin Qiudao, looked at Lin Qiudao, who was intact and didn't even sweat a drop, and breathed a sigh of relief, and then her eyes fell on the boy on the ground whose legs were broken, her face turned white with a brush, and she almost didn't gag when she covered her mouth.
"Don't throw up, save a little effort. Lin Qiudao stopped in front of Xia Mengyue and the boy without leaving a trace, and said lightly: "Now that the basic treatment has been completed, we are only waiting for the rescue from the outside world, but the rescue also takes time, during this time, more than 20 people need a lot of water and food to maintain their physical strength, and they can keep a little bit of the things in their stomachs and live longer." ”
Xia Mengyue took a few steps back, forcibly forced down the desire to vomit, took a few deep breaths, looked at Lin Qiudao, and nodded with difficulty.
Looking at Xia Mengyue, who was surprisingly self-controlled and calm, Lin Qiudao felt a little surprised in his heart, and after that, he took out the mobile phone that was not lost in his bag, and the mobile phone screen cracked a few big holes, but it was barely usable.
Glancing at the no signal pattern in the upper right corner, Lin Qiudao casually turned off the mobile phone to save power, raised his hand and looked at the time on his watch, it was already late at half past three in the morning, and their call for help would not have any effect.
The outside world is probably already in chaos after such a violent earthquake, and the lack of mobile phone signal is due to the collapse of the signal tower? Bishan is located in a tourist attraction that is not particularly hot in the suburbs, and it will take a long time for the search and rescue team to search here, and now 23 people are trapped, and if they want to hold on, they need supplies.
But what supplies are there in the cave? Snakes, insects, rats, and ants are all running away before the earthquake, do you really expect a hibernating bear to be blind inside?
"......" Lin Qiudao touched the backpack behind him, he happened to bring a lot of high-calorie food before he came out, which was originally used as an emergency ration for deep mountain exploration, but he didn't expect to use it now.
"I still have a piece of chocolate here, are you hungry?"
At this time, Xia Mengyue touched Lin Qiudao's side, poked him, handed him a piece of chocolate, and asked.
"Thank you. Lin Qiudao didn't refuse, opening the backpack now is estimated to cause some commotion, this piece of chocolate can just make up for the previous physical exertion.
Eating chocolate, Lin Qiudao's attention gradually shifted to his mind, the white-gold aura, when he was pushing the boulder before, there were wisps of active influx into his right hand, giving him a powerful explosive force to push the boulder away, and now this wisp of aura is indeed a little more meager.
"Does aura still have this effect...... Lin Qiudao thought quietly, as for why it was his right hand, probably because he had tried to open the "shackles" of his right hand in that dark space, although it failed, it didn't seem to be completely nothing.
Swallowing the slightly bitter dark chocolate in his mouth, Lin Qiudao put away half of the chocolate and put it in his trouser pocket and said to Xia Mengyue in front of him: "After that, follow me and Chen Jiangwei, just keep silent about something." ”
Xia Mengyue nodded and didn't say anything, silently following behind Lin Qiudao.
After an hour of busyness, the rescue operation was finally completed, and all the injured people were treated urgently by several girls who worked as nurses to alleviate their symptoms, but the boy with the most serious leg injuries still did not improve, and everyone had no choice but to look at them with pity.
So what now?
Everyone was silent and looked at the figure holding the flashlight.
Du Yan looked at Qi Shushu's gaze and was also a little nervous in his heart, and secretly swallowed his saliva, he took a step forward and said, "Who has the signal on your phone?"
The answer was a resounding no, and all calls, regardless of brand, lost their signal.
"Don't you have a satellite phone?" In the crowd, Chen Jiangwei looked at Du Yan and raised his eyebrows and asked, he remembered this stubble clearly.
"Oh yes......" Du Yan seemed to be busy and fainted, and then he remembered that he had a satellite phone, and he searched for it as if he was about to be amnesty, and after opening it, his face suddenly turned purple.
"I didn't ...... Signal. He said with difficulty.
Everyone was in an uproar, and then there was a dead silence, and even the satellite phone lost its signal, what happened to the outside world? A magnitude 10 earthquake, a volcanic eruption, a tsunami?
No one knows, they are trapped in caves and isolated from the world, waiting for rescue that may not exist, enduring endless unknowns and fears.