Twelve hours.
Twenty-four hours.
Thirty-six hours.
Forty-eight hours.
Sixty hours...
Time is passing by little by little. Since the afternoon of the earthquake, everyone has been counting the time.
Because the world-recognized optimal rescue time for earthquakes is 72 hours, people exhumed after 72 hours are either corpses or miracles.
Therefore, the rescue command center mobilizes soldiers, police, doctors, fire fighters...all the resources that can be mobilized to the disaster area 24 hours a day, racing against time to open rescue channels.
People from all over the country donated money and materials, and countless enthusiastic people voluntarily became volunteers to participate in the earthquake relief. The land of China, which was originally immersed in the Olympic Games, now only has two words - disaster relief.
The Olympic Games, celebrities, and the world situation are all on the sidelines. Now there is only one thing in China that is disaster relief, and all other things have given way to this matter.
With so much attention from the whole people, one touching story after another has been on the CCTV news, and every opportunity for life in the earthquake is also being played out in business.
Every time a person is successfully rescued, the whole country cheers. Every time a teacher or parent is seen protecting a child, it makes people cry.
Yang Dongxu was walking around in the hotel room. His eyes were bloodshot and his face looked very wrong. Although I was forced to keep stuffing food into my stomach for the past two days.
But his eyes that could not be closed caused him tremendous mental torture. But I couldn't fall asleep no matter what. Every time I closed my eyes, I could see Zhou Ya's shadow.
If Yang's mother hadn't come to Chengdu at this time, she would even have brought her three children, Wen Chen, Wen Wu and Tangtang. Yang Dongxu had already rushed madly to the earthquake-stricken area to find Zhou Ya.
Two days, two whole days, not only Zhou Ya fell in love, but also Du Heng and others who went in lost contact. None of the information fed back from the front was related to Zhou Ya, and Yang Dongxu felt like he was going crazy.
"Sleep for a while, sleep for a while, just sleep for a while, believe it or not." Li Fujin looked at Yang Dongxu with tearful eyes, and beside him stood the tearful Zhou Ya and Chen Xin.
If it weren't for Chengdu's current air route control, even Chen Hong would have to fly back from the United States.
Yang Dongxu is still alive and well, but everyone around him feels oppressive that the building is about to collapse.
"Dad, Dad..." Tangtang waved her little hand and touched her father's tired face.
He is not very sensible yet, and feels that his father is very unhappy now. She wants to cry, but her mother has told him not to cry.
"Let mom take the children and leave Chengdu first. It's not good for the chaotic family to stay here." Yang Dongxu forced a smile and said in a very dry and hoarse voice.
"Just stay here, even if the family dies, they will die together." Bai Qian snorted and turned away, tears falling down her cheeks unsatisfactorily.
How long has it been since she cried?
It seemed like she hadn't shed a tear since her grandfather passed away. After her grandfather passed away, the whole family was in chaos, her unsatisfactory brother and her father who always wanted to marry her were so hard on her, and the birth of Wenwu was so painful, she never cried.
In the past two days, she had almost cried dryly because of the man in front of her.
"I'm sorry." Yang Dongxu looked remorseful on his face.
He knows that now as a father, as a son. He should act calmer because he is the backbone of the family.
But as a husband, when his wife has been in the disaster area for almost 72 hours and there is no news, he can't calm down. He regrets it now and wants to die.
I have been thinking about how to lay out the situation, how to eliminate my influence on these major events, hide myself behind the scenes, and avoid being treated as a monster and pulled into slices for study. Hiding and hiding, in the end, the most important person to you was lost.
Now whenever he closes his eyes, he can hear countless jeers. She laughed at him for wrapping herself up as safely as a tortoise, but in the end she lost her most precious possessions. If Zhou Ya had a shortcoming...
Bang bang bang...Wu Sheng, who was dressed roughly and had bloodshot eyes, ran in in a hurry.
"Found it, found it, in Gucun, in Gucun. Gucun is a village in a valley. During the earthquake, the only road leading to the outside of the village was blocked, and because the nearby signal tower collapsed, there was no signal anywhere.
Du Heng and others first followed the route planned by President Zhou. Unexpectedly, they were trapped in Gucun, so they went in the wrong direction. After checking several villages but finding no clues, I finally thought of Gancun. Because there was no road, I went directly over the mountain and wasted a lot of time.
Now Du Heng has met with President Zhou and the others in Gucun, and they are all safe. However, President Zhou has a sprained foot, which is not serious, but because the only road out of the village is buried under stones, there is no way to get out for the time being.
Du Heng's satellite phone was broken while rushing on the first day. Now Yu Feihong is sending a helicopter to drop rescue supplies and satellite phone to Tanimura, and he will be able to contact him in a short time. "
"Really." Yang Dongxu suddenly stood up from the sofa. He was halfway up before he realized that he was holding his daughter in his arms, and he quickly reached out to protect her.
But at this time, it was too late to check on her daughter's condition, and her bloodshot eyes stared at Wu Sheng.
"Really, the helicopter dispatched by Yu Feihong had already taken off when you called me. You can talk to President Zhou in an hour at most."
"Where's my phone? Where's my phone?" Yang Dongxu handed the daughter in his hand to Li Fuzhen next to him, and kept looking around.
...
"Everyone has been contacted?" At the disaster relief command center, the Prime Minister, who was on the front line in person, asked hopefully as he looked at the bright spots one after another on the screen in front of him.
"Everything has been contacted. With Hope Primary School as the starting point, all nearby villages have been basically contacted. The communication soldiers have set up temporary communication towers on the roof of the school.
However, because the power facilities were destroyed and only temporary batteries were available, there is no way to maintain communication 24 hours a day. But now the situation in all places in the disaster area has been roughly summarized.
The command center is allocating resources to the most severely affected areas and striving to carry out rescue operations as much as possible within the 72-hour golden rescue time. But because there are constant aftershocks in the earthquake area, roads are different in many places, so..."
"At all costs, we must ensure the safety of people's lives and property. The road is not busy, so we will continue to coordinate with the military region to send all the helicopters that can be dispatched to take pictures and then airdrop.
Food and water, especially medicine, were air-dropped to the most severely affected areas, and careful machinery was also air-dropped. Don't be afraid of losses. If one airdrop is broken, just drop another one. How long will it take to rescue the people buried underneath just by digging by hand? "
"Yes, I promise to complete the mission."
...
In Yanjing, in a private room of a club where a certain young man likes to gather.
"That Yang Dongxu is still in Chengdu?"
"He's still here. He kept making noises about going to the earthquake area, but his family stopped him. It's said that he was almost going crazy in the hotel because of the worry."
"With his wife inside, can he not be anxious? But then again, there is no shortage of women around him. It is quite rare for him to be so affectionate towards his wife."
"It's so rare. He's just selling his character. If he really cares about his wife that much, would he have so many lovers? And let his lovers give him children?"
"Yes, he is selling his character. He is so affectionate that he goes directly to the disaster area to find someone. Isn't he very domineering, chopping off the hands of anyone who reaches out? If he really wants to go in, others dare to stop him? "
"Haha, that's right. He's the only one who knows how to pretend!"
"There's no way, whoever lets the people above just do what they do."
"Don't worry about whether people can pretend or not. Hurricane Construction has donated 100 million in cash and 100 million in relief materials to the disaster area. How about you also donate this much and pretend?"
Oh, by the way, this was donated by a company under his control. In addition to Hurricane Construction, Yang Jiayan, Rising Sun Technology, Millennium Supermarket...all the companies we know or don't know have donated money. And the sales are all priced at 100 million. "
A discordant voice appeared among a group of people laughing, and the private room that was originally filled with laughter and ridicule suddenly fell silent.
The girl who spoke stood up, and left the box with a disdainful sneer in the eyes of a group of people who were either dumbfounded, angry, or cold.
"Who has such a bad temper? I have never seen this aunt in this three-acre area of Yanjing." Someone's tone was full of ridicule.
"It seems that only Zhao Fei brought it in."
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." A young man quickly bowed his hands and apologized continuously, "She just came back from abroad and doesn't understand the rules of the circle. Please bear with me, please bear with me."
"Who's talking so rudely, let's talk about Xiao Zhao." The elder brother raised his chin.
"Sorry, sorry, let me chase that aunt first. Otherwise, I will break my legs when I get home. Tomorrow I will set up a table for all my brothers and sisters to apologize and explain." Zhao Fei kept bending down to apologize, and then walked quickly Chased out.
This caused the already tense atmosphere in the box to suddenly become silent again.
"That one seems to be the youngest daughter of the Ye family. She has been studying abroad before. She seems to have come back recently. I almost didn't recognize her for a while."
"That Ye family?"
"Aside from the Ye family in the south, how else can it be the Ye family?"
"Why did she come to Yanjing and hang out with Zhao Fei?"
"It seems that she just came back from abroad, and the Ye family's business in Yanjing is going to be taken care of by her and used as her dowry in the future. The Zhao family wants to marry the Ye family."
"How can she speak for Yang Dongxu?"
"That's not clear."
...
After spending an agonizing hour, watching the hands on the watch beating second by second, Yang Dongxu lived like a year.
"What's going on? Why hasn't the call come through yet? The satellite phone is broken again? Or has something happened over there?"
"You scare yourself. Now basically all disasters have been clearly investigated, and temporary signal towers have been set up in many places. If there are strong aftershocks, there will definitely be early warnings from the command center.
You have also seen the map of Tani Village. It is a valley with a relatively concave terrain. The temporary signal tower cannot cover there, otherwise Zhou Ya will definitely call you as soon as possible. "
"Where's my phone?"
"I'm holding it in my own hands, who are you asking?"
Buzz buzz... As soon as he said the phone, the phone in Yang Dongxu's hand vibrated.
He quickly pressed answer, "Hello!"
"It's me, I'm fine!"
Familiar business is as short as five words, and Yang Dongxu feels as if it has spanned a century. The next thing he saw was blackness.
