Chapter 43 Profound helplessness and loneliness
Chapter 43 Profound helplessness and loneliness
When the mobile phone signal completely disappeared, Tan Yi on the other side of the ocean felt a strong sense of weightlessness, as if being pushed from a cliff into an abyss, he uttered a heart-wrenching roar: "Ji Huai!"
However, the video has been hung up, and there is no more audio from the other side.
Bai Mei looked at him in horror: "Xiaoqi, he..."
"I'll go find him," Tan Yi's voice was hoarse but firm, "...I will definitely bring him back."
Bai Mei's tears welled up all of a sudden, and her words were confused: "But now... how do I go, is Xiao Qi in danger... There's an earthquake, he should be fine outside..."
Tan Yi took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. He held Bai Mei's shoulder and said, "Give me all Ji Huai's contact information you can find, and then wait for us here."
After that, he dialed the assistant's phone number: "Have you applied for the route yet?"
The assistant said: "Originally, the aviation office has already approved it, but just now there was an 8.2-magnitude earthquake in country G followed by a tsunami. Now the whole country is under martial law, and all flights are grounded."
Tan Yi returned to the car, turned around and drove towards the airport, and said: "Let the hosting company connect with the international airport. I will arrive in two hours. I will take care of the waterway."
The assistant was obviously taken aback: "Mr. Tan! Aftershocks continue in country G, no one is sure whether there will be a large earthquake or tsunami in the future, and there must be refugees everywhere, and the law and order are very chaotic. It is said that troops have been dispatched to maintain stability. Even Dole Airport has been affected, the current situation is very bad, very unsafe, you..."
Tan Yi interrupted her: "Do as I say."
"……it is good."
He went there because it was chaotic, unsafe, and the situation was bad.
... Ji Huai is there.
When it comes to the application for international routes, Tan Yi entrusted someone and spent a lot of money to purchase a temporary route from the Air Traffic Management Bureau, and signed a liability waiver agreement at the request of the other party.Two hours later, Tan Yi hurried to the airport with a suitcase, and boarded a private plane through a special channel.
As the plane ascended, the ground became farther and farther away. Sitting in the luxuriously furnished cabin, Tan Yi looked down at the gradually shrinking street view outside the porthole, feeling endless panic and worry in his heart.
He didn't know what it was like in country G tens of thousands of miles away, and whether Ji Huai had escaped. He wished he could get to Ji Huai's side in one step, but he had to endure the long flight. The anxiety and suffering even covered up the discomfort caused by the fever. It wasn't until the co-pilot saw that his expression was different and asked him that he remembered that he was still sick.
"Go to the bedroom and rest for a while, we have to fly for more than ten hours." The co-pilot advised.
Tan Yi closed his eyes and nodded. When he got up, he was spinning and nearly fell down. He was supported by the co-pilot. Facing the other party's worried question, Tan Yi just waved his hand.
He went back to the bedroom and took the medicine, but he didn't feel any sleepiness at all.The unclear memory of the previous life was awakened at this moment, and my mind was full of reports about the earthquake in country G. In those news, dozens of tons of buses were floating in the water like leaves, and countless people were displaced in temporary shelters. Snuggle up to keep warm, the originally bustling city became ruins overnight.
Tan Yi sat up in pain, looking at the layers of fluffy clouds outside, as if suffocating in water.
He really can't bear the torture of losing Ji Huai again.
At this time in country G.
Only in the face of natural disasters can human beings realize how insignificant the power that they think can change the world is in front of nature.
The driver drove Ji Huai all the way, but after all, they couldn't escape the tsunami with a speed of [-] kilometers per hour, and their car was sucked into the dirty seawater amidst the screams of the two people in panic.In an instant, the yellow-green sea water seeped into the car through the cracks, and the normally green and yearning sea turned into a life-threatening ghost.
"Open the door! Get out, the car will sink!" Ji Huai yelled loudly, then fumbled to unbuckle the seat belt, and pushed the door hard, but the huge water pressure prevented the door from opening, so he had to yell at the driver Said, "The car window! Get out of the car window!"
The driver was completely flustered and didn't listen to him at all, but kept trying to push the door open.Ji Huai gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, and then lowered the car window. Fortunately, the car's circuit was not short-circuited. The car window was lowered slowly, and then a large amount of sea water poured into it. The driver cursed Ji Huai frantically, Ji Huai Huai couldn't control that much, and when the car window was almost lowered, he held his breath and nimbly got out.
The sea water was so turbid that Ji Huai couldn't see at all. With his eyes closed, he touched the driver's door, grabbed the handle and pulled it.Because the car was almost filled with seawater at this time, and the water pressure inside and outside was the same, the door could finally be opened.
Ji Huai's swimming skills are very poor. After opening the car door, he has no time to care about the driver. He tried his best to swim towards the surface of the water. Fortunately, they had already run a certain distance. The waves were blocked by various obstacles on the mainland, and their speed Slow down gradually, or you will die in the turbulent waves.
Ji Huai struggled to expose his head, hugged a floating plastic board, and approached with difficulty a three-story building that was still standing after the tsunami.
When the sea swept across the city, it brought a lot of rubbish, branches, trash cans, bicycles... All kinds of objects were caught in the torrent and moved quickly. If they were hit, there was only a dead end. Ji Huai escaped most of the attacks, but still He was bruised all over by some stones and rubble, but he finally climbed to the top of the small building.
He was already drenched, collapsed on the roof of the building and breathed in some dirty air. It should have been the time of sunrise, but the sky was still dark, and the surroundings looked like purgatory on earth, with collapsed houses everywhere. Messy ruins, and people struggling to survive.
At this time, the waves had calmed down and gradually receded into the sea, but no one knew how many people's lives had been swallowed by the sea in just a few minutes.In the previous life, Ji Huai only had a very vague impression of this incident, but he only knew it when he experienced it personally.
How terrible it is.
Someone was pushed to the vicinity of the small building by the sea and shouted for help. Ji Huai got up and pulled him up to the roof. As the sky brightened, several people climbed up one after another, and a group of people snuggled up to keep warm , until the rescue force paddled a lifeboat to search and took the group to a temporary shelter.
The temporary shelter is a gymnasium on a higher ground, which was not affected by the tsunami. When Ji Huai and his group arrived, thousands of people had gathered in the empty stadium, most of them were soaked and in a state of embarrassment. The blanket shrank.Hearing someone coming in, many people raised their heads to search among them, and then lowered their heads in disappointment after finding that there were no relatives of their own.
Ji Huai and the others each received a blanket, a bottle of water and a piece of bread, and the person who brought them in quickly left.Ji Huai quietly found a corner and sat down, wrapping himself in a blanket.His hair and clothes were all soaked, and he was shivering from the cold wind. Ji Huai trembled uncontrollably, partly because of the cold, and partly because of fear.
The experience of escaping from the dead is really scary, and Ji Huai is also very confused about what to do next. All his documents and cash were lost in the tsunami. At this time, he is penniless and not a legal citizen of country G.He didn't know what to do next, how long this shelter would keep them, where to go next after leaving the shelter, whether the government of country G would treat foreigners equally, and whether the country would come to evacuate overseas Chinese.
He has never had experience in dealing with these things. He has only been here for a few short weeks, and even just learned how to see a doctor in the hospital here, when he was suddenly thrown into a situation where he knew nothing.He seemed to be still floating in the vast ocean, not knowing where to go.
Ji Huai opened the bread, slowly tore it into small pieces and stuffed it into his mouth, his mind was in a mess.
If he is no longer accommodated here, Ji Huai thought, then go to the embassy to see, maybe they can provide some help.But I don't know if the embassy has also been destroyed in this disaster, and it is hard to protect itself.
Alone in a foreign land, facing such a disaster, Ji Huai suddenly missed his hometown very much.The ears are full of foreign languages, and everyone tends to get closer to their own people when they are in a group. Sitting alone by Ji Huai, he feels deeply helpless and lonely.
As the sky gradually dawned, the rescue team kept coming in and out to bring in new survivors. But later, it was obvious that the supplies stored in the shelter were not enough. Survivors could no longer get blankets, only water and bread.They didn't get any more food for the next day.
No one came to provide them with daily necessities or explain the situation outside. The long wait coupled with hunger and cold made people gradually dissatisfied, especially those survivors whose relatives were not rescued. When the rescue team came in again, There were complaints, demands for food and water, and medicines—and some developed fevers.
But the rescue team told them that the city was destroyed and the existing supplies had been exhausted, so they could only wait for new relief supplies to be transported in.
Such an answer was obviously unsatisfactory. At night, the people who had been plagued by hunger for a long time became restless, and several small conflicts even occurred.Fortunately, Ji Huai's bread and water have already been eaten, even if someone thinks he is an omega and a stranger, and wants to attack him, they don't bother to talk to him because he has nothing.
This kind of chaos lasted until the second half of the night, and the people who had been tossing all day were also tired. They gathered together one after another, fell asleep in the hunger and cold, and gained a short period of peace.
Ji Huai huddled under the blanket and fell into a light sleep, but the floor was too hard and cold, he didn't sleep well, he was only half awake, and kept paying attention to the movement outside, when someone passed by him, Ji Huai would Waking up alertly.
But in the early hours of the morning, Ji Huai couldn't hold on anymore and fell asleep.
In his sleep, he seemed to feel that someone was gently hugging him and hugging him in his arms. His whole body became warm, and a restless heart fell into place, and Ji Huai fell into a deeper sleep.
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