After getting off the highway, there is still a long way to go, and it seems more congested here, and the speed is much slower. Bai Shuo looked out the window, surrounded by lofty mountains and deep ravines, and when he passed a stream, he saw that there were not a few huge stones in the stream, which were obviously rolling down from the mountains next to him. Bai Shuo couldn't help but glance at the mountain next to the lane a few more times, showing a trace of worry.

After more than 10 kilometers, the road ahead was congested, as if something had happened. When the vehicle slowly passed through the congested section, everyone found that half of the road had collapsed, and there was a Toyota off-road vehicle on the side of the road that was smashed by falling rocks, and it was not known whether the people in the car had safely evacuated before being smashed. The existing roads are barely navigable after simple maintenance. However, this tragic scene did not frighten the volunteers, and everyone still marched towards the destination with high enthusiasm.

It was originally a 3-hour journey, but it took more than 5 hours to arrive. Everyone just ate some dry food in the car and immediately plunged into the rescue battle. A group of people went to the resettlement site of the affected people with relief materials and cooperated with the on-site staff to distribute the materials, and a group of people went to the collapsed houses to assist in the rescue operation.

Xichuan is closer to the epicenter, and it is also a place that has been greatly harmed by the earthquake, Bai Shuo walked on the road, and the road under his feet has cracked two thin cracks, the cracks extended more than ten meters along the highway and then slanted to a 6-storey building next to it, the wall of the building is also the same as the ground, cracked a crack, but the crack is larger than the ground. Bai Shuo took a closer look at the surroundings again, and some houses had already appeared cracks, and a few telephone poles were leaning crookedly against the walls or houses next to them. Bai Shuo found that although Xichuan City still seemed to be seriously damaged, there were not too many houses that really collapsed, and the casualties should not be very serious, which was a little different from Bai Shuo's memory. In his memory, after the post-disaster reconstruction, Bai Shuo visited several earthquake-stricken areas, the old city of Xichuan should have been built into an earthquake museum, there were many houses collapsed, Bai Shuo remembered very deeply, there was a six-story house, directly collapsed, the fourth floor became the ground floor, and the three floors below became a piece of rubble. But today in Xichuan City, it seems that such a tragic situation was not found.

When passing through the two ruins, but did not see anyone in the ruins to carry out rescue, Bai Shuo asked the staff who came to guide them strangely, only to know that the two pieces were originally fifty or sixty years ago old houses, belonging to dangerous houses, this year after Xiao Zhen Secretary took office, it took a lot of effort to organize the relocation, and it was originally going to be demolished, but the earthquake collapsed directly.

Bai Shuo said: "So Secretary Xiao's security awareness is still very high. ”

The staff member said with admiration: "That's it, not to mention these dilapidated houses, there are still many houses in the city, all because Secretary Xiao has spent a lot of effort to repair and reinforce, so they have not collapsed." At that time, many people here were still opposed, saying that with these funds, it would be better to invest in the construction of a new city. Now these people are all admired by Secretary Xiao Zhen, if it weren't for Secretary Xiao, we in Xichuan County don't know how much loss we will suffer. I heard that there is Dongchuan over there, but half of the city is gone. ”

Only then did Bai Shuo know that Xiao Zhen really focused on the earthquake work after he came over, and it seemed that his tips still worked.

After walking for a short time, another ruin appeared in front of them, and many people were busy on the ruins. "Is there anything else that needs to be rescued?" asked Liang Ying.

"In addition to this, there are two other collapsed houses to the north, and the county finance bureau is also the hardest hit area, which is also the least staffed. ”

Bai Shuo thought for a while and said, "I see that there are enough people here, let's leave another team of people here to assist, and the rest of the people will all go to the Finance Bureau." ”

So 10 people in the team were led by Zhao Yong to support on the spot, and the remaining 20 people all rushed to the county finance bureau. On the way, Bai Shuo listened to the staff tell about the relevant situation, and it turned out that Xiao Zhen gave priority to the county's funds for the maintenance and repair of schools, hospitals, and residential houses, so in this earthquake, no school was damaged, and no hospital was destroyed. However, very little was spent on the ZF organ, and the county finance bureau did not spend a penny on maintenance. It was originally an old house from the 60s of the last century, so when the earthquake struck, the main structure partially collapsed, and then soon after, the entire building collapsed. However, after the disaster, the main forces were concentrated in residential buildings, suburbs, and mountainous areas, and the county finance bureau had the least rescue force.

Bai Shuo and his entourage soon arrived at the county finance bureau and found that all the buildings here had collapsed and become a ruin, at this time there were a small number of teams on the ruins to search for survivors, and only an excavator around the ruins was slowly digging the place where the search and rescue had been rescued. Bai Shuo looked at the time, now that the golden rescue time was about to pass, the chances of survival for the people in the ruins were getting smaller and smaller. More than 20 people were divided into five groups to search from different directions, Bai Shuo took Anna and three other volunteers, and went down to the middle of the ruins under the guidance of professional rescuers, Liang Ying took Niu Er and several other volunteers to start the search and rescue from the west side of the ruins.

Not long after the search and rescue began, Bai Shuo suddenly stepped on a cement slab, and half of his body fell into a gap, but fortunately, Anna quickly grabbed Bai Shuo and didn't sink deeper. With the help of several people, Bai Shuo quickly got out of trouble and launched a search and rescue with everyone again. Liang Ying quickly summoned two professional rescuers, and with the efforts of everyone, finally revealed a man's body, but in the end, it was found that the man was pressed by another cement slab above the chest, and the surrounding soil was stained brown with blood. Someone probed the man's life characteristics through the obstacle and found that there was no sign of life at all. So everyone sped up the progress and quickly dug the man out of the rubble, looking at the appearance of the deceased, the two volunteers in the same group couldn't help but rush to the side and vomited. But the search and rescue continued, and in the end, no one flinched, they all knew that time was running out, and now every minute and every second could be harvesting lives under the rubble.

Soon, a group of volunteers successfully rescued a survivor who still had vital characteristics, and watched the medical staff successfully carry the survivor away on a stretcher, and everyone at the scene broke out into cheers, and then cheered up and continued to carry out the rescue.

Although the golden rescue time has passed, everyone still does not abandon or give up, and accelerates the rescue, but most of the victims who have died are found. The sky is getting darker and darker, and everyone's hearts are getting more and more gray. Bai Shuo, who had just rested for a while, had eaten a few slices of bread, went up to the ruins again, and under the illumination of the searchlight, slate by slab cleaned up the scene.

Anna was also very shocked at this time, although it was the first time she had seen such a big disaster, and participating in the rescue was also out of respect for life. But along the way, what shocked her even more was that in the face of such a disaster, the country was able to organize such a huge rescue in such a short time, and those soldiers were like fighting a war, disciplined, regardless of life and death, fighting on the front line of rescue. There are also a large number of civil rescue teams, without any instructions or agreements, everyone volunteered towards the same goal, and staged scenes of heroic deeds that can be sung and cried. Anna couldn't help but think about what kind of country, what kind of people, what kind of people this is. Her clothes were wet at this time, a few muds on her face had obscured her beauty, and her tired eyes were watching the people coming and going. When she saw Bai Shuo rushing to the ruins again, she didn't hesitate to get up and follow.

Another stone slab was lifted, Bai Shuo sat down on the spot tiredly, took out a few cigarettes, and after throwing them to everyone, he smoked the remaining one. Perhaps the night was quieter than the day, Bai Shuo suddenly keenly noticed a faint sound coming from under the ruins, Bai Shuo threw away the cigarette, turned over and lay on the ruins where the stone slab had just been removed, and shouted loudly: "Is anyone there......?

The people around also gathered around at this time, and Bai Shuo immediately made a quiet gesture to everyone, and then quietly listened to the movement under the ruins. Soon, there was another sound from under the rubble that looked like some tool colliding with a stone. Bai Shuo immediately led everyone to carefully continue to dig and search. After a while, the surrounding debris was cleared, but a beam appeared in front of everyone, with a pillar attached to one side and a slanted end into the ruins at the other end. Under the beam, a stone slab is pressed down, and the stone slab seems to be supported by something, forming a triangular space. At this time, Bai Shuo had faintly noticed that there were traces of life under the stone slab, but he didn't dare to dig rashly, because in case of another collapse, the beam would lose its support and suddenly press down, and the people below might be injured immediately. This location was in the middle of the ruins, and it was not easy for large machinery such as excavators to come over, and for a while, the rescue was at an impasse.

As the minutes passed, the movement under the stone slab became smaller and smaller, and Bai Shuo knew that this person had been pressed under for more than 72 hours, and if he continued to delay, even if he was rescued, it might be a corpse. At this time, the two team members brought a few jacks, and Bai Shuo decisively asked everyone to fix a few stress points with a thousand gold tops, and then took a few people to start cleaning the stone slabs. It took a lot of effort to finally break the slate and remove most of it. At this time, Bai Shuo could already see the trapped person inside, judging from the clothes, it should be a woman, Bai Shuo tried to probe into the gap and pulled the trapped person, but the space inside was too narrow, and the person was stuck inside, and he could no longer pull it after only pulling out a little bit. Bai Shuo carefully continued to clean up the gravel, mud and debris around the gap with his tools, trying to expand the space, but as soon as he cleared a little space, the beam above pressed down a little, almost overturning a jack. Bai Shuo was not in a hurry, and after letting everyone fix the surroundings again, he slowly continued to clean up the debris and expand the gaps. Finally, after the surrounding clutter was cleared, Bai Shuo moved the man out a little more. In this way, the reinforcement, cleaning, and movement were constantly carried out, and after half an hour, the upper body of the trapped personnel had been removed. Although the woman's face was too flowery to see clearly, Bai Shuo could still tell that this was a young female employee in her early 20s. At this time, the woman slowly woke up again, looking at Bai Shuo with dull eyes, obviously trapped for too long and already very weak. "Who are you? am I dead?" the woman spat out a sentence weakly, Bai Shuo smiled and replied: "Don't worry, you are not dead, we are here to save you, I will definitely save you." ”

Bai Shuo asked the others to hold the woman's head and shoulders to prevent the woman from being injured again, and Bai Shuo carried the woman's waist and continued to carefully send it out. Suddenly, the jack made a kaka sound, and the support below was constantly falling sand and sand, which was obviously a sign of imminent collapse, Bai Shuo hurriedly shouted for everyone to quickly pull people out, but it was still a little too late, and the stone beam had already begun to press down. Bai Shuo didn't think much about it, and instinctively pushed up with his shoulder, supporting the stone beam that was pressed down, and there was immediately a pain on his shoulder. The woman's dull gaze was still staring at Bai Shuo, and her body was slowly pulled out of the gap by everyone. At this time, Bai Shuo suddenly let go of the stone beam and threw himself down from the ruins in front of him, and the stone beam behind him was pressed down again in an instant, and then the stone slab below was crushed into several pieces.

Bai Shuo didn't completely fall down, he felt that he was being held up, and when he looked up, it was Xiao Lin who caught him at the first time. Bai Shuo immediately smiled gratefully at Xiao Lin, and Xiao Lin looked at Bai Shuo's dirty appearance and silly smile, and also showed a very bright smile.

In the middle of the night, everyone gathered in a tent area to rest, and after Bai Shuo had changed and washed, he was crossing his shoulders and asked Anna to give him medicine. Just after being pressed by the stone beam, his shoulder was also slightly injured, and it became red and swollen. Anna carefully disinfected Bai Shuo with alcohol, then applied medicine and bandages. Bai Shuo got dressed and said, "I didn't think you still had this skill." Anna smiled slightly: "It's just a compulsory course during training." ”

At this time, not far from the pile of people, there was a crisp singing, the singing in the quiet night, it was particularly beautiful and beautiful, Bai Shuo walked to the pile of people with the support of Anna, and found that everyone was surrounded by a circle of five or six meters in diameter, and a little girl in the middle was singing to everyone, although there was no stereo and microphone, the little girl's singing voice was still enough for the people around to hear very clearly.

Bai Shuo knew this little girl, she was a volunteer in her own team, and she should be an employee of Huaying Group. After the little girl finished singing, everyone applauded and asked the little girl to come again, although the little girl was a little tired, but she was still very happy to sing an old song of Zhang Huimei to everyone. Maybe it's because it's relatively empty, the little girl's singing voice is very loud and explosive, which makes Bai Shuo feel that this little girl has a lot of potential to explore, and even thinks that after the rescue is completed, I will talk to her to see if there is another opportunity to recommend it to Sheng Shi Huazhang.

But he really wanted to come to something, and just as Bai Shuo was thinking, a familiar figure suddenly appeared in front of him.