The phones of the Sapporo City Fire Department are already busy.

Izumi Yuki called 119 after sending his daughter to the clinic in the service area to hang the hanging bottle, but it turned out that the line was actually the fire department in Hakodate.

It's hard to imagine how many people are calling 119 at this time...... At least in the service area square, the anxiously waiting crowd was making non-stop calls.

"Don't go, I don't know if it's going to explode again."

Mrs. Izumi guarded the window and tightened the corners of the quilt for her daughter, who was covered with the quilt, and she looked worriedly at her husband who was standing by the window to shield the mother and her mother from the wind and snow, and pleaded in a rare tone.

At such times, Rao is a woman who is usually strong will also show her weak side, whether it is a daughter who is having a fever or a husband who wants to take risks, she feels at a loss and deeply powerless.

The windows had already been shattered in the blast wave of the explosion just now, and the floor was covered with shards of glass, and there was no time to clean them.

After hanging the hanging bottle for Mio Izumi, the doctor was already busy, and from time to time vehicles with different degrees of damage reversed back to the service area to seek treatment from the doctor, and all the wounded were wailing inside and outside the door.

The explosion of a tanker truck can cover houses several kilometers away, and the wreckage of the vehicle can be blown up everywhere within a few hundred meters. At this time, it was the evening rush hour, and the vehicles on the road were like dragons, and the losses and casualties were beyond the cognition of ordinary people in a lifetime.

The frightened woman huddled in the convenience store with her baby in her arms to keep warm, and the oden inside was now the only thing they found warm.

The men were anxiously calling, scolding or trembling for help, but at least they seemed to be no different from ordinary people except for the gauze they had just bandaged on their heads—they could still stand and talk.

Instead of responding to his wife's plea, Izumi Yuki found the curtain that is usually used to separate the beds in the clinic to block the window first to prevent the wind and snow from pouring in.

After that, I casually found someone at the door who didn't look so flustered and frightened.

"Hello! Are you coming from the front? He asked, "How's it going?" ”

The man's face was a little pale against the wind and snow of the night, his lips were dry and cracked, and Izumi Yuki couldn't understand why he would notice such a detail in such a crisis.

"The cars were all crashed together, and someone was crushed under the car!" He replied with a trembling voice: "I am still far away, and I only see the sky-high fire and a huge roar, and the shards of glass scratch my face......"

Only then did Izumi move his gaze from his parched lips to his cheek, a noticeable bandage.

It's so strange that I didn't pay attention to his injuries for the first time, but his pale face and lips.

"I couldn't figure out what was going on...... Looks like a blast! ”

The man's hands trembled and stopped in mid-air, as if he was holding the steering wheel, and he continued: "When the glass was shattered, I relied on my instinctive reaction to straighten the steering wheel and not move, so that the car did not overturn." But I couldn't stop the car, so I still crashed into the car in front of me, and then there were a series of collisions, and I was rear-ended...... Fortunately, I was far away from the explosion, and after getting out of the car, I walked over on foot. ”

As the two spoke, a man with a shard of glass on his shoulder burst into the infirmary covered in blood, accompanied by a woman's cry.

The shards of glass on the man's shoulders pierced a little higher, probably at the base of his neck.

Blood poured out, like a small red snake, and burrowed into his collar.

Next to him is probably his wife, because the age does not seem to be much different...... Helping him rush into the clinic and call the doctor.

So the doctor, who was treating a wounded man's sprained ankle, quickly judged the priority, and hurriedly helped the seriously injured man to sit on the ground a little further in—

The clinic was so crowded that there were really no more beds to spare.

Izumi Yuki couldn't bear to look directly, and turned his head to look out the window, where he saw more and more people began to pour into the service area.

The people were all retrograde and on foot, and were injured to varying degrees. Because the explosion of the fuel tanker truck caused a serious blockage of the road, it is no longer realistic to wait for rescue in place, and it is not realistic to reverse the car back, they all collide together, and the closer to the explosion site, the more serious the damage to the vehicle, and the more serious the blockage.

As a result, almost all the people who could move began to abandon their vehicles and rush in on foot, rushing in at least some emergency medicines, food, and drinking water service areas.

Izumi Yuki pondered for a long time, and finally made up his mind, gritted his teeth and prepared to go out to have a look.

Mrs. Izumi lay on her stomach by the window, carefully avoiding the sharp glass ballasts with her palms, and shouted at him, "You come back to me!" ”

"I'll just wait at the entrance," Izumi Yuki replied without looking back, "I'll go and take a look, and when I see Mr. Amamiya, I'll take him over, and I won't go any further!" ”

After saying that, he disappeared in the face of the wind and snow, and walked in the crowd.

Coming to the outermost entrance of the service area, Izumi Yuki found that there were already many people standing here.

Most of them were anxiously waiting for their relatives or friends to come back from there.

Izumi Yugui was also standing there, obviously having made a decision to go over and have a look, maybe he could save the rain palace and the horse would be on the rise.

But with his wife and daughter in the service area behind him, he suddenly didn't have the courage to step forward.

The firelight in the distance soared into the sky, and it could be clearly seen more than ten kilometers away in this dark and snowy night.

Under the light of the flickering fire, retrograde has become the mainstream, and the wounded who support each other to walk back seem to be right, and everyone knows the truth of staying away from danger.

But I don't know who is making noise and arguing, someone shouted "My dad hasn't come back yet" and rushed out.

Everyone looked at each other as the man and his friend rushed to the scene of the crash.

Izumi Yuki recalled the situation afterwards, and he no longer remembered why he had gone forward, but he remembered that when he came back to his senses, the large group of people who had been waiting at the entrance of the service area began to move forward slowly.

The hesitation of small steps turned into a uniform walk, and the chaotic footsteps of the last group of people echoed in the wind and snow, resounding in each other's ears.

Even more and more wounded people who had settled down after returning to the service area from the scene of the accident also caught up and joined the ranks of returning to save people.

"Hey, are you alright?"

"My legs, my legs are stuck!"

"Damn, the doors are deformed...... Is there anyone who came over to help! ”

At the outskirts of the crash, almost all the cars that could still be driven had been reversed back into the service area to form a congestion, leaving only those cars that had been knocked out of shape and the drivers and passengers who could not move inside.

A man who was walking home alone to celebrate his father's birthday was stuck in his thigh and arm by a deformed car door, and judging from his purple palm, he was afraid that he would have to amputate his leg if he did not rush to the rescue.

After the first one rushed up to help and shouted several times, Izumi Yugui went to help, and the others continued to walk towards the front of the car accident with unbearable expressions.

In fact, among the group of people who returned to save people, there were not so many enthusiastic people, and most of them came to save people because their relatives and friends were still inside.

Their purpose is very clear, they haven't even rescued their own relatives, and they don't have time to take care of others at all.

It took a lot of effort for Izumi Yuki to pry the deformed car door open.

He couldn't bear to look at the tragic situation in front of him, and when he turned his head to look around, he found that the highway railing had been knocked out of shape, and a car was stuck there, and the iron piece of the railing went through the windshield and inserted into the driver's chest...... The poor man was lying on the steering wheel, and the car's horn kept blaring.

He was a little confused, how could anyone who often drive have never seen a car accident, but Izumi Yougui has been driving a car for most of his life, and all he has encountered is scratches and collisions, and it is the first time he has seen such a tragic situation.

Those tragic car accident scenes can't bear to look at even in the video, and the visual impact in reality directly makes him feel sick to his stomach.

As everyone knows, this is only the first dead person he has seen tonight.

"Gross!"

Izumi Yuki, who had already drunk too much, finally couldn't help it, and he lay on the fence with his back to the car stuck on the railing and began to vomit.

"Are you alright?" The well-wisher behind him who had saved people in the river stepped forward to ask.

Izumi Yugui waved his hand: "I...... It's okay. ”

"Do you want to go back to the service area together?" The man carried the wounded man on his shoulder.

Izumi Yugui hesitated for a long, long time, he would be much more sober, and he also remembered the Amamiya Konma who was talking and laughing at the wine table.

But what he will remember is neither the elegance of talking eloquently, nor the arrogance of spending a lot of money.

Instead, Amamiya Konma said that he also had a daughter.

"I ...... I'll continue to look ahead......" Izumi Yuki straightened up and trembled and pointed to the crowded scene in front of him.

The closer he got to those sky-high fires, the more frightened Izumi Yugui was.

The deformed vehicles are crammed together, and sometimes they even have to climb over the front cover of the car to keep going.

That's when he notices the people who are trapped in the car and bleeding silently, and he doesn't know if they're unconscious or ......

Pray just to be unconscious!

There were glass ballasts everywhere, the windshields of almost all the vehicles were shattered, and many of them were in flames.

It won't be long before these vehicles are burned to the ground.

As long as there are no flammable and explosive materials in the car, the car combustion generally does not explode violently, because the fuel tank and overall structure of the car were improved to avoid this situation at the beginning of the design.

Within seven minutes after the car burns, the tires will first be unable to withstand melting and exploding, and the power of the exploding tires is not small, and the nails and wheels will collapse because of the air explosion.

Fuel tanks, batteries, airbags, etc., will deflagrate violently one after another, but they will not explode like in the movies.

Standing on the front cover of a sedan and looking ahead, he could already see the wreckage of the fuel tanker truck burning violently and a large crater with a diameter of more than 20 meters...... I'm afraid there are no more people alive over there.

The explosion of the tanker truck not only affected the road to Sapporo, but also affected the opposite lane in the opposite direction, and even the opposite lane was even more seriously damaged due to the tanker truck skidding and rollover explosion.

"Mr. Amamiya......" Izumi Yuki's lips trembled and murmured softly.

It seemed to him to be a hellish scene, and the impact was about to rob him of his ability to think.

There is no salvation left.

It's impossible to find.

No matter how rich Mr. Amamiya is, he is fair to others in the face of natural and man-made disasters.

Izumi Yuki looked at the tragic situation around him with some dead heart, and saw how the people who were still standing rescued the wounded from the burning vehicle, and suddenly understood that Amamiya Konma was no different from ordinary people.

Perhaps, Mr. Amamiya has died young in the wreckage of a car he was passing by!

But just as he was about to turn around and decide to hurry back to the service area, he finally found Amamiya Konma's car!

On the way back, he also drove side by side with Amamiya for a while, whether it was the license plate number or the business Mercedes-Benz, he was too familiar with it!

"Mr. Amamiya!"

He shouted and jumped off the front of the car, his body, which was not fat ten years ago, was nimble enough to allow him to pass through the abandoned cars and get to Amamiya near the gallop.

The whole body was squeezed in the middle by several cars, against the guardrail of the road.

In the middle of the two roads is a green belt, and the front of Amamiya's Mercedes Benz knocks the guardrail against an evergreen tree in the green belt.

The airbag wrapped tightly around his upper body, his forehead was covered with blood, and his chest was even dyed red.

The doors on both sides of the rear row were completely deformed by the collision of other vehicles, and you can see the back of Mrs. Amamiya inside through the shattered window-

She held Amamiya Chizuru in her arms, quietly as elegant as if she had fallen asleep.

But Izumi Yuki knows that it is not a good thing to sleep leisurely in hell.

He didn't think much of it, and gently shook Amamiya Konma's shoulder.

"Mr. Amamiya! Mr. Amamiya, wake up! ”

Because the front of the car crashed into the green belt, he could only see that the upper half of Amamiya Konma's body was stuck in the airbag, and the blood on the airbag should have been strangled out of the chest by the seat belt.

I can't see the situation of the lower body, and Izumi Yuki can't make an accurate judgment.

But looking at the gasoline on the ground around him and a burning car in the distance that was already making a crackling sound, Izumi Yuki knew that he couldn't wait any longer, even if he moved the injured and removed the obstacles of the crushed injured person could cause secondary injury, he absolutely couldn't let their family stay in this kind of place and wait for death!

"Somebody help me!" Izumi Yugui desperately begged for help around him: "Help! Help me!! ”

The shouts did not attract anyone's help, because it was too close to the explosion of the tanker truck, and no one dared to approach it.

But the shouting was still somewhat useful, at least Amamiya Konma's eyelids moved slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes and woke up.

"Mr. Amamiya!" Izumi Yugui was overjoyed, sure enough, he wasn't dead yet!

Amamiya Konma was confused at first, but after gradually understanding what was happening in front of him, he looked at the tragic situation outside, tried to move his body again, and found that he was completely stuck by the airbag and the deformed steering wheel, and knew that he was afraid that he would be more than lucky today.

"Izumi...... Mr. Izumi," he was so weak that he had to endure the pain of being squeezed in his chest with every word: "Please, take my daughter and wife!" ”

The rearview mirror was broken, and Amamiya had no way to turn back, so he didn't know what was going on in the back seat at all.

Izumi Yuki was still struggling to break open the deformed door, and his fingers had already been cut.

He clenched his teeth and didn't speak.

Amamiya's eyes widened, and his voice trembled: "Mr. Izumi...... My wife and my daughter...... How are they......"

Izumi Yuki turned his head to look at the back seat, paused and replied, "Mrs. Amamiya fainted, but she was also stuck and couldn't get out." Your daughter is in her arms. ”

Amamiya Kinma's tears fell in an instant.

He didn't have any cowardice when he understood that he would not be able to escape today, and even begged Izumi Yougui to take away his wife and daughter.

But when he heard Izumi's answer, he finally couldn't help but whimper.

An ambitious man, but so fragile at the moment.

Izumi Yougui saw it in his eyes, and tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.

Isn't he vulnerable?

Such a situation is completely beyond the psychological bottom line of an ordinary person.

"Who can come and save me!" It was Izumi Yougui who made this wail, and he was about to collapse, and the person was right in front of him, but he couldn't do anything about it.

Amamiya Konma trembled on the airbag, if someone could come to save him now, and he could come to help a group of weak Izumi Yugui, he would be willing even if he gave up all his family property!

In the face of life and death, people are so fragile and insignificant.

Two men in the mall collapsed at this time because of a small piece of deformed car door.

"Help! Ask for ...... Anyone can ......."

Izumi Yuki was still shouting, as if instinctively whimpering and roaring in his throat.

Because the cars were all crashed together, the distant vehicles exploded more and more, and soon they would be implicated in the burning.

If you don't rescue people within ten minutes, I'm afraid Izumi Yuki can only watch the Amamiya family burn to death in front of his eyes!

He now has only two options:

First, to stand here and continue to work in vain, and finally witness the tragedy of this human world.

Second, he hurried away, fled before it burned over, and then continued to fantasize about the last misery for the rest of his life for decades to come.

But either way, it will be an endless shadow that will accompany him in the second half of his life.

In this hellish scene, two girls in evening dresses stood not far away, as if they were angels watching all this.

Amamiya Chizuru was silently shedding tears, and Izumi Mio wanted to comfort her, but before she could say anything, she found that she was crying more than her.

"Mom......," Amamiya Chizuru murmured softly.

She has always felt that her ability to bear it is very good, even if she relives the car accident that she had no memory ten years ago because she was in a coma, she can bear it.

Now it seems that she was wrong, very wrong.

Even when she occasionally goes to worship her mother, she will cry so sad that it is indescribable, how can she be strong enough to relive all this?

Oh, my God!

Who's going to help!

This was the voice of everyone, and even Mio Izumi began to pray.

"Mr. Izumi, please take my daughter away!" Amamiya may have felt the hotter and hotter temperatures and the constant sound of explosions ringing in his ears.

He begged Izumi Yuki to at least take his daughter away, even though he didn't know what her daughter was living or dying now.

But even if his daughter has unfortunately left, he doesn't want Chizuru to be buried in such a sea of fire, and in the end even a grave is empty.

Amamiya Chizuru, who was in the distance, finally couldn't stop crying after hearing this.

The father she has always hated is still begging others to save her in the end!

"Mr. Izumi, take my daughter with you, let's go!" Amamiya Konma lay on the airbag and sounded like a mosquito fly, as if he had given up on survival: "I will keep all the family property for you, and I only ask you to take care of my daughter......"

"Dad!"

In this immersive pain, Amamiya Chizuru finally softly shouted a title that he hadn't called for ten years.

She hid her face and wept.

Izumi Yuki shook his head in pain, he couldn't do such a cruel thing, but he had to do it!

Tonight, he is going to leave his life behind and have nothing to do!

"Hey, there's a cry for help here!"

"Did you hear me right?"

"You can't be mistaken!"

A noisy conversation sounded behind him, and Izumi Yugui was stunned for a moment, and then a stirring spirit turned around and shouted, "I'm here!" Help me! Come help me, please! Whatever you ask, I'll say yes! ”

So in the almost desperate gaze of Amamiya Konma and Izumi Yuki, one after another men jumped from behind the wreckage of the car and came to the eye.

This scene is illuminated by the firelight, and these men with only black outlines on their backs will become a picture that the two of them will remember for a lifetime.

"People are stuck!"

"Two people, a man and a woman, the cab and the rear...... The girl can be held out, according to what Naoki said, try to hold it out as much as possible without obvious external injuries, and don't change the posture to prevent the internal injury from aggravating! ”

"Hey, Natsume! Where is your son? How to deal with this here? ”

"Naoki is behind him, I'll call him!"

A group of men gathered around the deformed Mercedes to look at each other, and one of the tallest, strongest men came over and patted Izumi on the shoulder.

"You've done a good job," he said, with a firm look in his eyes, "I can't hear your cries for help, we won't come...... You saved them! ”

"Please, save him!" Izumi Yugui sent him to kneel.

Amamiya Konma also sent a plea to them for help, but mainly wanted to beg them to save their wives and children first.

"Let's move his chair out of the way and let him catch his breath, shall we?" Stout man proposed.

At this moment, a very childish voice sounded.

"Uncle Murata, don't move yet!"

A ten-year-old boy who was only about 1.5 meters old actually climbed through the front cover of the abandoned cars around him and appeared in everyone's sight.

The little boy is, of course, Naoki Natsume, and after receiving the last goodbye call from the Asai family in the middle of the night, the Natsume family called the entire village to rush to the scene of the incident.

Because of the proximity of the village, they came faster than the helicopter from the fire station by going straight from the fields through the maple forest and not taking the avenue!

The man called Murata is a neighbor of the Natsume family, and because he is a carpenter, he is very powerful, and he is also a very practical person, so now all the men in the village are under his command to save people.

And even if it's him, in fact, the rescue of people all night is also under Naoki Natsume.

It may be difficult for people in other villages to understand that a ten-year-old child can mobilize the power of the entire village, and even command the entire village in the face of natural and man-made disasters.

But Naoki Natsume has such a ability, all the people in the village from his childhood to adulthood have seen it, coupled with the high moral respect of his parents, so the rural rescue team that saved countless families tonight is really a child leading the team.

"Don't move the chair yet, eighty percent of the ribs have been broken, and there may be hemopneumothorax." The young Natsume Naoki had a serious face and commanded in an orderly manner: "Uncle Murata, you first lead someone to move the car that is holding the door, be careful when priing the door, and first make sure that the lower body condition and the degree of chest squeezing." ”

"Good!" Murata nodded solemnly, and then began to beckon the young people in the village who were more powerful to lift the car: "Liu, Yusuke, come and help!" ”

Naoki Natsume then instructed again: "There will be a fire extinguisher in the trunk of the car, you uncles are looking around for the car that has been knocked open from the trunk, don't think about prying, save time first!" Let's get the surrounding fires under control! ”

"Good!"

After ordering everything, Naoki Natsume's expression was still not relaxed, and he shouted at Murata: "Uncle Murata, I'll leave it to you here!" I went on to find Mao...... When you see Uncle Asai's car, you must call me! Come with me, the rest of the uncles! ”

"I know, you go find it!" Murata watched Naoki Natsume lead the people away, turned his head to look at Amamiya Konma in the cab, gritted his teeth and smiled: "Don't worry! I'll get you out! ”

Amamiya Konma's head was hit, and he was groggy, so he hung here to wake up with a breath.

Hearing this, he finally couldn't help it, and his eyes slowly closed again.

"Huh! Don't sleep! Don't sleep! ”

Murata was still shouting, but Amamiya Kima couldn't hear it clearly.

The last picture he remembered was these men jumping out of the back of the car one after another, and the young man with resolute eyes that seemed to have blue points of light......

The maturity that does not match his appearance even made him think that this teenager was imagined by him when he was dying in the next ten years, but in fact, there was no such teenager at all.

But in any case, it is a fact that he was rescued, so for the rest of his life after Amamiya Konma, he has been looking for these people who saved him back then.

He wants these people to know what kind of man Amamiya Konma is!

Mio Izumi and Chizuru Amamiya, who were watching all this from the side, were also full of surprise, and even forgot that they were still crying just now.

Even though their tears were still streaming down their cheeks, their bodies were shaking from sobbing.

But the boy who appeared in a hurry is a figure that they will never forget in their lives!

"That's Naoki-kun, I can't be mistaken!"

"Why is he here?!"

Both girls looked at the back of the young man who was leaving in the distance, covering their mouths with an incredible expression.