Rebirth: My 80s

A convoy consisting of six green Jiefang trucks and one dark blue Cherokee set out from the urban area of ​​PE and headed for the epicenter of the disaster, LCLZZ Autonomous County.

There were three green-skinned Liberation trucks in front, and three green-skinned Liberation trucks in the back.

The Cherokee was guarded in the middle.

The people originally responsible for transporting this batch of supplies were not the existing troops, but were temporarily replaced by fifty soldiers from a spearhead company.

Company commander Kong Bajin led the team personally.

Before leaving, Kong Bajin was called to an office and stayed there for more than half an hour. He could clearly feel the tremendous pressure and helplessness of his superiors.

Compared to the crowded Liberation trucks where some soldiers had to squeeze their bodies into the back bed, the Cherokee was spacious enough for playing poker.

A driver.

Fugui occupied the passenger seat.

There were only two people sitting in the back row, Li Jiankun and a woman wearing iron-framed glasses.

I told Captain Kong to arrange for someone to sit in, but no one did it.

The woman looked to be about 30 years old, without makeup, with an oval face, a little thin, and a scholarly air. She was a young female teacher from a provincial university, one of those who stayed on to teach at the university.

Her mentor is a famous folklorist who has profound attainments in studying the cultures and languages ​​of various ethnic groups in the province.

Her task this time was to serve as Li Jiankun's secretary.

It wasn’t Li Jiankun who found it.

Li Jiankun really needed such a person to help him, otherwise he might become deaf. But he felt a little embarrassed because the other person was taking this dangerous journey entirely because of his personal matter.

"Teacher Lu, I'm sorry for the trouble and for delaying your teaching work. I hope I can show my gratitude when this matter is over. I hope you will not refuse then."

"No need."

Lu Ran smiled and waved his hand. Seeing him talking, he dared to turn his head and took the opportunity to carefully look at this legendary peer: "I am paid here as usual, and there are additional subsidies. This is also a job."

"But it is dangerous after all. I am very grateful that you can come."

"We are the ones who should express our gratitude. The materials you donated helped many of my fellow countrymen. Compared with your kindness, what I did is really insignificant."

She applied voluntarily.

The first person contacted was her tutor. Although she was old, she had many students. After learning about the situation, she took the initiative to sign up immediately.

Without him.

As she said, she wanted to do her best to give back to the good deeds the other party had done for her hometown.

I hope his fiancée is safe.

This land should not leave him with sadness and regret.

Three batches of supplies were transported by chartered flights at a cost of millions of dollars. I heard that there will be a steady stream of supplies delivered in the future.

The first batch of supplies arrived the day after the earthquake.

And it should be due to his call and influence. It is said that many wealthy people in Southeast Asia have generously donated money and materials, which can be described as "enthusiastic". This is of great significance for responding to the disaster and post-disaster reconstruction.

The merit is immeasurable.

The two of them started chatting and gradually became familiar with each other.

Lu Ran surprisingly did not notice that he was much different from others. On the contrary, the indelible sadness in his eyes made Lu Ran understand that he loved the girl deeply and was now just a brother who was frightened because of the disappearance of his fiancée.

This inevitably gave her a maternal glow.

I hope to give him comfort and love.

After driving for several hours, the convoy stopped at a place on the provincial road where there was no village or shop nearby to rest for a while and to take care of the food, drink, toilet and other needs.

Li Jiankun didn't want to pee nor was he hungry, so he closed his eyes and rested in the car.

I was very anxious.

If he doesn't consider other people, he hopes that the accelerator of the car will always be at the floor level before reaching his destination.

The aroma of food wafted into my nose.

Li Jiankun slowly opened his eyes and saw Lu Ran holding a bowl of instant noodles and passing it in through the car window, with a smile on his face that could bring peace of mind to a person:

"Eat something. We still have a long way to go. Man is iron and rice is steel."

Li Jiankun subconsciously took the instant noodles and was curious about where she got the boiled water. He didn't see anyone lighting a fire, so he asked in confusion, "We've been walking for so long, we should be almost there, right?"

"No, Captain Kong said the road ahead will be very difficult to travel. There might not be any road at all, and we have to clear the obstacles. They even brought tools with them."

Li Jiankun's heart sank, he got out of the car with instant noodles in his hand, and wanted to find Kong Bajin to find out the truth.

However, the scene before him made him stunned.

I saw each soldier holding one or two cold steamed buns and chewing them. If they choked, they would use the cold water in the military green kettle to soothe them.

There was a thermos with a wire cover on a car. Kong Bajin was holding it in his hand, and a soldier next to him was holding three bowls of instant noodles. When the two wanted to make some, Fugui, Lu Ran and the driver came forward to stop them.

He became the most pampered person.

The paper bowl of noodles in my hand became extremely hot.

Please note that there are a lot of instant noodles on the bus.

But Li Jiankun fully understood their thoughts.

He walked over, grabbed one of Teacher Lu's hands, and put the instant noodles in her hand: "I feel sick when I eat this, you eat it, don't waste it."

After saying that, he asked a soldier next to him for a steamed bun and took a bite of it.

Almost fell apart.

It is early winter.

The people around looked stunned.

It seemed that no one expected him to be so easy to support.

nausea?

It smells delicious.

Lu Ran picked up the bowl of noodles suspiciously, took a sip of the hot soup, and a wonderful taste bloomed in his taste buds.

This was the first time in her life that she had eaten this kind of imported boxed instant noodles.

Even the packaged instant noodles from the mainland, she has only eaten them a few times because they are difficult to buy.

She found that she had never eaten anything more delicious than this.

Fugui helped and said vaguely: "He has eaten too many delicacies from land and sea."

Li Jiankun munched on the steamed buns, as if they were indeed delicious, so he pulled Kong Bajin aside and asked, "How long will it take to get there?"

"It's hard to say."

Kong Bajin looked at the end of the provincial road. There was a fork in the road ahead. After turning into the county road, he really entered the disaster area. The further he went, the closer he got to the epicenter, and the worse the road conditions would inevitably be:

"The first main earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.6, occurred beneath the ground of Zhanmapo Village, which is located in the mountains.

"According to the news so far, no vehicle has entered the mountain yet. Our team may not be able to enter either. We will have to wait and see. If not, we can only hike into the mountain."

He added: "Even the road ahead is not easy to travel. Lancang and Gengma are basically in ruins."

"A ruin?"

"You'll find out later. I estimate it will take us two or three days if we're lucky."

Two or three days?

Or is it just luck?

Li Jiankun frowned.

If Miss Shen is in trouble and is waiting for rescue, can she survive two or three days?

Kong Bajin noticed his expression and said, "We'll see on the road. If vehicles are really difficult to pass, I'll take a team of people and carry some supplies to walk first. After all, the total distance is only 200 kilometers, and we've already walked halfway."

Li Jiankun knew that they had two missions on this trip.

One is to deliver the supplies to the epicenter of the earthquake in Lan Cang, and the other is to help himself find Miss Shen.

Military orders are like mountains.

There is no way to ask them to complete just one.

He can't do that either.

This should be the best way.

Li Jiankun nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

Kong Bajin waved his hand and said it was okay. He was also from the same province. After knowing the other party's good deed, he was not opposed to this task which required some special treatment.

Of course, he has a more important mission.

The convoy continued on.

Less than half an hour later, we stopped once to clear the obstacle.

Subsequently, the number of intermittent clearance operations increased.

Until dusk.

The convoy finally passed through Lancang County with great difficulty.

Li Jiankun also saw the ruins that Kong Bajin had described.

The setting sun is like blood.

Most of the buildings in front of me seemed to be soaked in blood, and they collapsed like toppled building blocks. Dust filled the air and lingered for a long time, as if a fog was covering the county town.

I could still hear the sounds of buildings collapsing or breaking, and when I looked in the direction of the sound, I could occasionally see the dust rising up again.

Alarms sounded in all directions.

I could still faintly hear cries for help.

The streets were in a mess, with few people to be seen. People had obviously been moved to a safe area, but some must have been sent to the hospital morgue.

The hard concrete road surface also cracked, and the cracks spread towards the sidewalk and the ruins of the houses.

Electric poles along the road were broken and trees were uprooted.

The air was filled with a complex, ambiguous smell of dust, earth, and worse.

The convoy did not stop and continued along the passable road.

Looking at the devastation outside the car window, Lu Ran said sadly: "This is the ruthlessness of nature. A county town condensed by thousands of years of human civilization was destroyed in the blink of an eye."

Li Jiankun had a complicated expression: "It's more cruel than any war."

Although he has lived two lives, this is the first time he has seen such a scene.

Can you imagine that an entire county town needs to be rebuilt?

Even those houses that still stood stubbornly had spider-web-like cracks on them, and had become dangerous buildings. An earthquake made the economic situation of this poor border town even worse.

The convoy was driving along with bumps in the road. The road in some places was completely uneven and there were a lot of debris scattered on the road. If it were a car, it would have been unable to pass.

Everyone sitting in the car felt as if they were in a small fishing boat sailing on the rough sea.

Almost crawling at a snail's pace.

However, being able to walk is a good thing.

About an hour later.

The vehicles in front turned on their brake lights one by one.

The thing that everyone was most worried about happened.

The road ahead seemed to have been hit by a meteorite, causing a ground collapse and forming a deep pit with a radius of more than five meters.

There are steep slopes on both sides of the road and a depression below. Kong Bajin said that this is the only way for vehicles to reach the destination.

If the convoy wants to get through, it must first solve this deep pit, either by filling it up or building a bridge, neither of which can be solved in a short time.

It was already dark by now.

The temperature dropped sharply and there were sporadic raindrops.

After taking a look at Li Jiankun, Kong Bajin made a prompt decision and selected some stronger soldiers, making a total of twenty people including him.

Everyone tried to carry as many relatively small items as possible, such as food and medicine, in packages or boxes.

Every soldier carries a "small mountain" on his back.

"Add more, add more, as long as it doesn't fall off."

Wealth carries a huge mountain on its shoulders.

Everyone understands what these supplies mean to the victims.

If they take the lead in bringing a cookie or a pill, they might be able to save a life.

Li Jiankun came to the rear of a Liberation truck that was unloading goods and signaled the people next to him to tie some supplies on his back, but no one dared to move.

Kong Bajin stepped forward and looked at him, then looked at Lu Ran who was eager to try:

"We still have to consider the actual situation."

He pointed to Fugui:

“He didn’t say anything. I’ve learned about him before. He’s a trained man and his physical fitness is better than all of us.

“You two… Teacher Lu, forget it. You can only carry a bag.

"We are marching all night in a disaster area, and there are constant aftershocks. Danger may occur at any time. Excuse me, if you can take good care of yourselves, you can reduce the burden on everyone and buy time for the victims."

I have to admit that what he said makes sense, and Li Jiankun did not force it.

He glanced at the thin teacher Lu next to him and added taking care of her to his to-do list.

After all twenty-three people were ready, they turned on their flashlights, lined up in a single column, and set off via a detour.

The thick night soon engulfed them.

No one expected that this road would be a hundred times more difficult than imagined.

……

……

Rumbling--

The earth is shaking.

"Aftershock! Aftershock!"

"Hurry, move to an open area, away from the cliff!"

...

Such sudden aftershocks occurred more than ten times in just a few hours.

Fortunately, thanks to Kong Bajin's calm command and the team members' absolute trust and obedience, nothing was dangerous.

The raindrops in the sky are getting bigger and bigger.

The rain mixed with the winter chill stung my skin, penetrated my neck, and pierced through my clothes.

As the team got closer to their destination, they entered a mountainous area with more complex terrain and a higher degree of destruction.

Below us are rugged mountains covered with dense tropical shrubs and weeds.

The field of vision is almost limited to the toes.

You never know when an earthquake will occur, tearing the earth apart and creating cracks.

The mountain became loose after the earthquake and landslides were easily caused by rain.

This is a battle between human will and the cruelty of nature.

An adventure of living and dying.

"careful!"

"The ground collapses! The ground collapses!"

Boom——

A piece of mountain that originally looked relatively flat suddenly fell down in front of everyone, like an elevator to hell.

The two soldiers were unable to stop their feet and fell in instantly.

Bang!

It's too late to say.

Fugui pounced like a tiger, and at least 200 kilograms of supplies hit his back with a dull sound.

He quickly reached out his hand, his eyes like a hawk in the dark night, and grabbed the wrist of one of the men below the edge of the pit, then exerted force suddenly and pulled the man out.

The soldiers were all shocked by his move.

But there was no time to be shocked.

On the other side, Kong Bajin quickly threw away the supplies on his body, wrapped a hemp rope around his waist, threw the end of the rope to the person next to him, and then jumped directly into the pit where the soil was still falling.

"Woooooooo..."

Lu Ran, whose knees and arms were bruised, was so scared that he started crying loudly and his body was shaking.

Li Jiankun stretched out an arm and supported her.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on the dark pit.

The night is so thick.

The rain refracted the flashlight.

The soil once again formed a barrier.

I have no idea what's going on underneath.

The only connection was the taut hemp rope.

The hemp rope was moving, but it was difficult to tell whether it was caused by Kong Bajin or by the collapsed soil.

The air almost stagnated.

The soldiers were all a little panicked, and some tried to shout downwards in the hope of receiving a response.

"It's useless. The person should be covered by the mud."

Li Jiankun stepped forward and said, "Now it depends on whether Captain Kong can catch that soldier, put the rope on his head, wait... 30 seconds, and then pull it up."

The soldiers looked at each other and listened to his advice.

Thirty seconds later.

"pull!"

Everyone worked together and the hemp rope in the pit shortened rapidly.

puff!

Something broke through the dirt.

Fugui suddenly said, "They are all coming up."

Sure enough, Kong Bajin, who looked like a native, was seen holding a man around his waist and was pulled out of the pit by everyone.

Both of them are fine.

Just a mouthful of dirt.

"Pah! Pah... Damn it, I've finally experienced what it's like to be buried alive."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and laughed.

However, what they didn't know was that this thrill was just the beginning...

After entering the early morning.

The night is getting darker.

The ground subsides.

Crack.

Landslide.

Happening in turns.

Everyone was injured to some extent.

Some supplies were also lost.

This makes everyone feel more painful and heartbroken than being injured.

At dawn, this disheveled team finally arrived at their destination, Zhanmapo Village.

At this time, Li Jiankun finally understood one thing:

The reason why the two colleagues in red are still in shock after escaping danger is perhaps not because of the aftershocks.

There's something even scarier...