Zhou Tang led the team slowly out of the basement of the main building.
Seeing the sun again, they blinked their eyes, one black and one white, one dark and one bright, as if they were in another world...
It doesn't feel like just one day has passed, it feels like decades have passed.
There used to be a large square near the main building of the campus, and a long row of beautiful and tall pine trees planted on the main road in front of the main building...
Usually there are people coming and going no matter what time of day it is, so lively.
But now, like a campus that has been abandoned for decades, only the gray trunks of the pine trees are left, covered with dust.
They looked back at the main building. The original green tiles, light yellow walls, and highly designed main building had also turned into gray. The whole world had lost the color it should have, and was all gray.
"this…"
"How could it be like this?" We are just ordinary college students, living in the spring and under the sunshine, and have never experienced a man-made disaster.
Su Man's eyes widened under the scarf, "A Tang! We..."
Zhou Tang looked around, "Let's slow down and follow the route we planned carefully, trying not to stir up dust. These dusts contain radioactive substances! The gaps between everyone's trousers and shoes should be wrapped up!"
Everyone responded softly, and Zhou Tang nodded and looked at the sky. Although the sky was bright, the sky was still gray, and the sun could not penetrate the haze to shine on the earth.
She raised her hand and looked at the time. It was now 9:26 a.m. on the 14th. They expected to arrive at the temporary station of Guanhu Street Health Center, eight kilometers away from the school, in more than three hours.
"Let's go."
A group of people were cautious, raised their legs gently, lowered their legs slowly, and finally crossed the avenue in front of the main building and arrived at the square.
I actually met another group of people in the square...
Zhou Tang looked back behind her. They all predicted the situation when they met other teams like this. Her proposal was that if they wanted to leave the team, she would never stop them, but once they left the team, they would no longer accept rejoining.
Everyone was well aware of the "ugly words" Zhou Tang proposed in advance, and no one made any other moves for the moment.
The two groups of people approached slowly. Everyone was dressed the same and tried to cover their exposed skin.
"Classmate! I am Teacher Li from the Institute of Education! Why don't we go together? It's better to be together." The leader was a middle-aged teacher. It was a common thing for teachers to lead students on campus a day ago.
At this time, teachers still maintain the mentality of being responsible for their students.
However, Zhou Tang chose to refuse, "Teacher Li! I suggest that we walk separately! If there are many people walking together, it will inevitably cause dust..."
The teacher disagreed with Zhou Tang's words, "This student is right, but in this emergency situation, as long as you walk outside, your clothes will inevitably be contaminated with dust."
Zhou Tang shook his head slightly and asked, "Teacher Li, which station are you planning to go to?"
The teacher answered directly, "Of course it's the station near the bus station in University Town, which is the closest to our school! Why don't you plan to go somewhere?"
Zhou Tang nodded, "We plan to go to the Guanhu Street garrison point farther away,"
The teacher said rudely, "That's nonsense! Don't go to the nearby garrison, you guys! Hurry up and follow our team."
Zhou Tang still shook his head and explained, "Teacher Li! I guess there must be a lot of people at the garrison near the university town! The large number of people requires a large amount of clothing, food and water! And the same goes for special medicines! So we plan to avoid the crowds and When we still have enough strength, we should go further and leave our limited resources to those who need them more."
After she finished speaking, she asked directly to the team behind her without waiting for the teacher's reply, "If anyone wants to join Teacher Li's team, you can leave the team and join on your own!"
A few students actually came forward. The students were from the college and Teacher Li had taught them. They knew Teacher Li's moral character.
Besides, following a teacher is safer than following Zhou Tang, Su Man and others who are also students!
Besides, Zhou Tang has too many demands!
Zhou Tang didn't say anything. When the students who wanted to leave left, she nodded lightly to the teacher, turned around and greeted the remaining nearly forty people to leave slowly.
The two teams staggered.
Teacher Li was also a little stunned. What Zhou Tang said was not unreasonable! Give limited resources to those who need it more and win more opportunities for others.
He sighed in his heart that he didn't think as much as the student. This student was a good one!
It's just that Teacher Li can't replicate Zhou Tang's ideas and practices. Someone in their team has been damaged by radioactive substances and needs special treatment quickly.
Teacher Li sighed and asked the students around him to whisper the situation and plans of the team to the few people who joined the team.
"Our goal remains unchanged! Everyone, please walk slowly."
When the girls heard that there were injured students in the team, students whose skin had been burned by radioactive substances, they wanted to impulsively quit the team and return to Zhou Tang's team.
However, the previous scene of Zhou Tang rejecting Haruko and others in the air-raid shelter was still vivid in their minds. Moreover, there were familiar classmates from the same major in Teacher Li's team at the Institute of Education. In the end, they still chose to stay.
Zhou Tang's team moved forward slowly, trying to speak softly wherever they went, and finally left the school gate after walking for half an hour.
She frowned slightly and whispered softly to Cheng Mu beside her, "Look at the situation, our speed is too slow! The estimated three hours is obviously not enough."
Cheng Mu nodded. He also clearly understood that he could not move forward faster now. If he moved forward faster, he would be in trouble.
"There is no way, we can only hold on! We can't stop on the road." There is no place for them to stop.
Of course, I can’t stop, and that’s too absolute to say, but I can’t sit down, and I can’t replenish food and water! Can only stand...
The route they planned in the air-raid shelter was all towards the main road, taking full consideration of walking on a trail. If they encountered a collapsed building, they would not be able to climb over it.
The group of people walked "hum hum hum" for more than half an hour, and Zhou Tang could hear the gasps coming from the companions in the team behind him.
Only then did she stop, "Let's take a rest here! You can't sit down! You can't drink water or eat! Stand quietly for a while, or put your hands on your knees to rest for a while!"
Everyone obeyed and rested where they were.
Su Man and Li Qi gathered next to Zhou Tang to study the route drawings carefully.
Li Qi's fingers were wrapped in a half-tied sweater, "This is the *Avenue, how come we've walked for so long and we're still near the school?!"
Suman corrected Li Qi's mistake, "To be precise, we walked for one hour and thirteen minutes, a total of 2.3 kilometers! About half an hour per kilometer!"
"According to our physical exertion, the next journey will become slower and slower, and it will take about three hours!"
Li Qi's eyes widened, and he could only see two dark eyes through the gap in the small scarf.
"Why does it take so long! Didn't we agree on three hours?"
Suman rolled his eyes, "This is the huge gap between reality and ideals! Fortunately, we are walking slowly, and the physical exertion is not that great. It is still within the range of our tolerance."
Li Qi said "Oh" twice and looked around again, "Why is our team the only one on this road? Where are the others!"
Su Man pointed at the route map and said, "It's all marked clearly! Most people will choose to go to the nearest garrison point! Like Teacher Li from the Institute, they choose to go to the university town garrison point."
"Students who are close to the west side of the school should choose the camp point! The camp point that is relatively close to us is shaped like a triangle and surrounds us tightly."
Li Qi nodded, glanced at Zhou Tang uncomfortably, and asked softly, "Do you think...where will she go?"
The straight daughter Suman asked, "Who?"
Li Qi took a deep breath, "Sister Yi!"
"She will definitely go to the university town!" Suman sighed, "Didn't Xiangyang say that they left an hour or two earlier than us? The time should be almost here?!"
Zhou Tang did not comment on the conversation between the two. She just looked at the city that had suffered a huge blow silently. There seemed to be some faint thoughts rising in her heart! But the idea came to her in a flash, too fast for her to catch.
Yue Yi, who was missed by Li Qi, followed the team of teachers in the main building, followed them out of the campus, crossed the main road and entered the path.
But halfway through, the road was blocked by collapsed dilapidated houses.
If you want to pass through the collapsed houses blocking the road, you must either take a detour or crawl over the collapsed houses on your hands and knees.
"What to do? Which way to choose?"
"We have been walking for more than an hour! We are about to pass this trail! If we go back the same way now and have to re-plan the route, it will take one to two hours more."
"Old Pan, you're not good at leading us this way."
Lao Pan's face turned red. In the air-raid shelter, everyone brainstormed to find the shortest way!
He reported the trails he often travels! Who knew that the houses on both sides of the path were too old to withstand the shock wave, and the houses collapsed and directly cut off the path.
"What can I do about this?! I must not have known about it beforehand! If I had known, I wouldn't have suggested taking this path!"
"I think we should go back the way we came! It will be more time-consuming and laborious to climb over this collapsed house!"
The collapsed walls and bricks were covered in dust! No amount of time or physical strength can be as deadly as radioactive materials!
Everyone thought it was important to save their lives and made the decision, "Let's go back the way we came!"
Yue Yi hid in a small corner and heard their discussion word for word. She looked past the collapsed house, as if she could quickly reach the garrison point by climbing over the house.
She touched her dry face that looked like it was chapped and peeling, and the temperature of her whole head slowly warmed up...
She didn't have much time or energy to go back the same way and find a suitable way around.
Yue Yi didn't even wait for the group of teachers to go far before he staggered towards the collapsed house, climbed up almost on his hands and feet, and slowly climbed over the collapsed house bit by bit.
During this period, she also stepped on the ground many times, and the place where she collapsed was unstable, causing her to fall directly with her.
Dust rushed towards her face, covering her entire body.
With great effort, she climbed over the collapsed house while gasping for air.
The exhausted Yue Yi leaned against the wall and took a deep breath. He took out the chocolate on his body, tore open the packaging bag and stuffed it into his mouth.
The sweet taste flowed down her throat and into her belly, giving her a little strength.
Now she understands that she is in a broken state and just wants to replenish her strength to avoid fainting here and never having a chance to live.
After resting for a while, Yue Yi endured the pain on his face and hands, slowly stood up on his knees, and continued to walk forward staggeringly.
What she didn't notice was that her face was red at this time, and blood burst out from the cracked areas, and it soon covered her face...
Yue Yi shook his head and felt that his eyes were blood red...
Can't stop!
Continue to go!
Only the belief in her heart urged her to keep moving forward.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, she faintly saw in her blood-red vision the place she had dreamed of reaching, the University Town Bus Terminal.
With a "plop", she fell to her knees. The last thing she saw was people wearing heavy protective clothing running toward her.
"Come quickly! There's a person down here."
"It's a student from nearby!"
"Why is she so bad! No protection at all."
"...Let's carry her in first!"
"She... looks like she's not going to survive."
"Give her some painkillers! And then give her some special medicine! Just let nature take its course!"
How can this be a matter of resignation! ?
Even if she can barely survive, regardless of how long she can live for the rest of her life, it is said that she will be soaked in pain for the rest of her days!
Yue Yi was placed in a special observation room, and this room was filled with people like her who were extremely ill.
As time went by, the bus terminal in the university town became overcrowded before noon.
Food, water and medicine were once exhausted!
It will take another six hours for the next wave of relief supplies to arrive.
Some people are asking to leave here!
Zhou Tang and others once again chose to rest where they were.
"We have been walking for nearly three hours! If we keep on keeping on, we still have about two kilometers to go!"
The road they carefully selected is still smooth. Even if there are collapsed houses on both sides, it only covers half of the width of the road. They can pass through the other half of the road...
Someone turned on the cell phone radio.
"Urgent notice! The garrison on ** Avenue is full and lacks supplies. Survivors who are rushing to the garrison on ** Avenue are asked to turn to the garrison at ** Park, which is ten kilometers away from ** Avenue..."
"What's going on? There are too many people at the camp?!"
Everyone didn't know why and started talking quietly.
Subsequently, the radio continued to broadcast reports of other fully occupied garrison points.
When everyone heard the notice that the university bus terminal nearest to their university was also full, they couldn't help but marvel at the foresight of Zhou Tang and others.
If they choose to go to the bus terminal station and have to go to another station farther away because there are too many people, it will be extremely painful!
Spending most of your energy and not receiving corresponding replenishment...
Su Man couldn't help but give Zhou Tang a thumbs up, "A Tang, you are smart and have anticipated this."
Food, water, medicine, and even clothing at the station must be on a first-come, first-served basis. Those who want to get these materials must wait for the next wave of rescue materials to arrive, or find a new station where the remaining materials are returned.
Zhou Tang accepted Suman's praise, turned around and said to the team, "Let's keep walking! We can reach the station in one hour at most!"
