【Summer Five】Iron City Wall

Several lockers in the main control room were not damaged, and although a corner of the incubator for storing supplies collapsed, it did not damage the refrigeration core.Xia You took out food and water from it, and it was roughly estimated that it could last for a week.

The road to the exit has been completely blocked, and it is extremely difficult for them to open a way out while ensuring safety only with the tools at hand.But before the disconnection, he had already sent the location of the two to the engineering team. Even if all the team members were wiped out, a report should be uploaded to the headquarters to guide the rescue team to search for the NO.13 furnace.

Different from the factories in the large cavity, the structure of the furnace on the surface is basically a numerical control model; all the heavy work is thrown underground, where the fuel produced is stored, processed, and finally transported to various sections.Therefore, the temperature in the main control room was not low. After the processor was repaired and the turbine continued to run, the average room temperature of the furnace was restored. Even if the other places were plagued by cold, the inside of the ruins always maintained a warmth higher than the body surface temperature.

This is the luck of misfortune.Xia You took out the Genesis Spray from the medicine box scattered all over the floor, trying to move the five hands covering the tourniquet.The latter almost lost consciousness, but he also knew the consequences of doing so under a serious injury, so his hands were extremely strong, and he was still pressing the wound in a daze to minimize bleeding.

But that obviously doesn't work.According to the steel bars that Xia You witnessed, the gash in his abdomen was obviously a penetrating wound, and it was not clear whether any major organs were injured.Judging by the amount of bleeding—if no effective method is found, even five patients will die of excessive blood loss within a few hours.

Xia You took out the medical gloves, but didn't notice her extremely abnormal calmness.There was still some water vapor in his eyes, but he was like a wooden man whose three souls and seven souls had been taken away, blocking out the turbulent emotions, leaving only an empty shell of extreme rationality.He abandoned the indifferent fear, and the hand holding the knife did not tremble at all.

Even if the sky is falling at this moment, it won't startle him.

The micro sterile balls were slowly unfolded, creating a relatively safe surgical environment for the two.Wujo tried to keep his eyes open, and he knew what Xia You was going to do at a glance, so he let go of his hand and asked him to check the injury.Xia You took out an anesthetic, looked at him, and was not surprised to see Wutiao shaking his head.

I don't need drugs that will cause nerve fatigue - Xia You saw this sentence in his eyes, and his forearm paused invisibly. After all, he readjusted the dosage and formula of anesthesia, and used it as a local anesthesia below the ribs and above the hip bone.

The lights were pale, Xia You arranged all kinds of medical equipment, and began to operate the knife in the sterile ball.

The ferocious penetrating wound hit the abdomen, narrowly avoiding the main organs, and did not cause internal organs to rupture.It must be that Wutiao adjusted his posture at the last moment, deliberately not letting his vitals hit the steel bar - even though his act of rushing up to protect Xia You was irrational in itself.

During the process of debridement and hemostasis, Wutiao had been convulsing slightly, with each finger clinging tightly to the ground, and the fingertips were bleeding from the concrete grinding, and the veins were all over the place.Xia You watched indifferently, thinking, oh, it seems that the anesthesia didn't work.He didn't turn his head to look at Wujo's face, but continued to focus on the operation, using the blade extremely familiarly, using all the techniques he had learned while working hard for the Rebel Army.

This long torture was almost dead silent, only the sound of surgical instruments colliding with each other and skin and flesh churning.Xia You was engrossed, her hearing was largely closed to one point, and she could only hear five heavy and rapid panting in the gap between raising and lowering the knife.

Until the last needle fell and the wound was closed, Xia You threw the blood-stained knife into the waste basket and let out a deep breath.He leaned in the sterile ball and looked at Wutiao, who opened his eyes and smiled fearlessly on his bloodless face.

That damned, piercing laugh.

In an instant, the tightly blocked tsunami broke through the dam and soared into the sky with an unstoppable momentum, smashing all of Xia You's indifferent and rational bodies to pieces.He suddenly lost all his strength, he could only stare blankly at the void, beating endlessly as if his heart was broken, his ribs and chest were so painful that he was about to die.

"Enlightenment..." he called, struggling to shake the opponent's hand.Wujo showed a little fragility, and his blue eyes gradually faded, like a dense forest covered in fog.But in the end, he held Xia You's hand back, his fingers feebly snapped back, and his blood-stained fingertips left a few intermittent bloodstains in Xia You's hand.

Wutiao opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to find out half a word for Xia You from the disordered breath.But his lower lip was bitten to pieces by himself during the operation, fresh blood dripped down from the corner of the damaged lip, mixed with the dust, and crawled out of the winding pale stream.Xia You couldn't look away, so she could only half-squat on the spot, enduring the huge pain in her heart that was stronger than the next.

There was no light in the ruins, but he saw the clear blue sky in those eyes.Even though he was tortured by the high pressure of dying, Wujo was still the aloof god - he gave summer oil to redeem, just a few broken syllables, and eyes without haze.

"Jie." He said softly, his voice falling into the dust, splashing crystal clear drops of blood.Xia You hurriedly leaned closer to listen, the pinnae to the jaw stretched too tightly, and the bones were aching.He squeezed Wujo's hand almost nervously, and heard him say very slowly and softly: "Don't worry."

As soon as the eye sockets became hot, the liquid rushed out again.Xia You immediately lowered her head and endured it, and her voice was hoarse when she spoke again: "Well, I'm not worried."

So Wujo grinned, his sweaty cheeks lit up, and he regained some vitality. "Who are you lying to?" he said, his eyes gradually sinking, as if sinking into a deep dark sea, "Speaking of...you will also...deceive people."

Then, there was deathly silence.

Xia You threw herself in front of him almost at a loss, touched her neck tremblingly, because her heartbeat was so fast that she didn't feel Wutiao's pulse for a while.His windpipe was strangled by the rapidly tightened rope, his hands and feet were cold and numb, his internal organs seemed to be blocked by rubber tubes, blood and air stagnated at the same time, and time and space roared and ran over his brain.The bottomless darkness hangs upside down, and there is an abyss under his feet; the infinite chill swallows him, and everything goes away from him.

Until there was a pulsation under the fingertips.Weak, but still stable, with the warmth of the living.

He remained motionless, feeling five very shallow breaths and pulses in a numb manner.At the moment when the brain finally realized the concept of "he is still alive", the suffocating rope around the neck also broke suddenly; emotions surged, carrying the hopes and dreams of the past and the future, and blatantly smashed everything that imprisoned him within an inch the shackles of the earth.

His whole body trembled violently, and a large amount of air rushed into his lungs, forcing Xia You to hold his throat and bend over to cough.He coughed so badly that every bone from head to toe was excruciatingly painful, and the tears dripped down uncontrollably, and soon wet Wutiao's skirts.

He seemed to die once.

Dust floated aimlessly, and the light from the sterile ball illuminated Wu, making him look like a china doll.Xia You leaned against the wall and stared at him for a long time, until she finally regained some strength.He stood up silently, arranged the materials in the incubator according to the number of portions, opened the purified water and self-heating liquid food, and fed them to the five little by little.

In the dark, Xia You suddenly found an unprecedented peace.He can no longer see the obstacles and thorns he hesitates to move forward. Only the people in front of him and in his hands at this moment are the singularity and eternity of his helpless world.

"Wu, do you know?" He gently wiped away the soup dripping from the five lips, "Actually, I have already thought about it, long before you reorganized the council."

No one answered, Xia You smiled and continued: "But you did it——you did it, and I feel that some words have lost the meaning of saying it."

He kissed lightly on the silver hair as usual, stepped back a little, and sat down leaning against the wall.While waiting for the rescue, he had to conserve his strength, and he couldn't feel at ease even for a moment away from Wutiao, so he simply opened his eyes and looked at the sterile ball, with the waves and the cries of terns in his mind.

Humans in the Golden Age have never seen the sea, but they have glimpsed the endless blue ocean in the old images.It is like the epitome of a planet, engraving hundreds of millions of years of history and life in the abyss and canyons, sprouting new sprouts from the broad placenta, and containing the birth and death of all things.When the wind blows, stars from all over the world will fall to his toes, flying towards him across light years.

And Xiayou owns a sea.A piece of sea that belongs to him, and a piece of sky that reflects him; they blend in madness and romance, deviate from the channel, bow their heads with a gesture of no hesitation, and are willing to stay for him.

"What dissatisfaction do I have?" He smiled bitterly, as if mocking himself, "What dissatisfaction should I have?"

Just like the wind blows away the dark clouds, those paranoid and shadowy branches that have been lingering are also quietly annihilated in the life and death without thoughts and righteousness.At the end of the day, only Xia You's soft and seemingly nothing gaze, like wind and rain, wanted to chase Wu Tiao away.

During the seven days of waiting for help and taking care of Wujo, he often had time to think, chewing over and over again the life of the past nearly 30 years and the life from now on, as if he could taste the sweet or bitter fragrance from it.

Until the day when the supplies were exhausted, Xia You still closed his eyes and rested beside Wutiao, relaxing his dizzy mind a little.He was thinking about what to do next, but suddenly he heard the sound of the tracks turning.

The rough, solid loud noise and the movement of the driver shouting - Xia You is very familiar with it.He immediately got up from the ground, his eyes went dark, and he almost tripped over himself due to dizziness.But he did say it, with a hoarse and rough voice, louder and louder over and over again: "There are people here!"

So the sound of the excavator came closer, and two small holes were cracked on the top of the head. The miniature load-bearing beam was placed in the furnace, and suddenly stretched in the room, becoming a frame that could replace the original supporting inner wall of the building in a short time.The engineering team seemed to have confirmed the stability of the structure, and began to loosen the stones from the front, slowly removing the obstacles blocking the main entrance.

During the construction process, Xia You stepped back in front of Wutiao, blocking the flying gravel for him.The engineering team seemed to have turned the chainsaw to the maximum, and the sparks of violent metal collisions shot out everywhere, and finally the entrance was chiseled with a loud noise.

In an instant, the grand sky light flooded in.

Xia You even forgot to cover her eyes, allowing her pupils, which had long been accustomed to the darkness, to constrict violently, bathed in the newly rising morning light.

The sky was not yet fully lit, but the sun, which was about to climb to the horizon, was already scorching. The golden light pierced the unfading night, piercing through the clouds and mist to send them a radiant light.In the warm current that filled his body, Xia You saw the crowd rushing into the ruins, carried him and five people onto a stretcher, and sent them into the ambulance smoothly.

Before he lost consciousness, he vaguely saw a bare old tree swaying in the wind and sunlight, a green bud sprouted from the branch, emerging against the morning glow.

"Enlightenment." Xia You called silently, turned her head stiffly, and saw Wu Tiao surrounded by a large group of medical staff.The silver-haired young man's complexion was pale, but his breathing and heartbeat stabilized, and the wounds on his body, large and small, had begun to heal.The doctors covered their lips in amazement, but Xia You stared at him intently until he lost his mind.

He fell into a reassuring slumber, with the corners of his lips raised, as if he was in a world full of light.

The new life sprouts, and the wounds of the past are wiped away at dawn.People started to rush again, and vendors yelled and walked through the long alley, handing hot steamed cakes to students waiting for the bus.There is nowhere to go in life, thousands of people are taking steps, and thousands of people are moving forward.

Ale rolls across the fields, canals carry ships across, and the water ripples with hot gold.

Looking forward to the next spring.

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