While Song Lili was repeatedly attempting to video call Lu Xiaoer, the rescue team at Angus Church was continuously lifting corpses from the ruins...
So passed right by them, parts of the bodies not covered by the white cloths, the black blood, and the faintly visible white bones were as horrifying as could be.
Song Lili closed her eyes for a mont; she truly didn’t know whether to say Lu Xiaoer was extrely lucky or extrely unlucky!
Until now, not a single survivor had been dug out.
"The rebel army’s attack was cruel and ruthless; several missiles, one can imagine the impact," Qiao Ke said.
With every corpse that was carried out, there was a family’s heart-shattering cries near the blockade area.
The sounds were overlapping, making it impossible not to be moved.
Zhongli Wuzhi looked at the dismal scene before him, which was no better than the earthquake in Dongheng; all around were people’s anger, grief, and despair!
He really couldn’t understand what was going on in Lu Xiaoer’s mind, why she was so keen on running to various disaster-stricken areas! Now, this living Bodhisattva had finally sacrificed herself!
If she really died here, Zhongli Wuzhi swore, he would never visit her grave, not even once!
"Why isn’t she answering!"
He watched as the video call sent out request after request, but each was disconnected after timing out without answer, losing patience, he let out a low growl!
"Beep," On Song Lili’s eleventh attempt, the video call connected.
With that gentle sound, Zhongli Wuzhi imdiately held his breath, almost pressing his entire face into the screen,
"Little, Little Ear!"
"Ah... Zhongli ah..."
Lu Xiaoer’s voice was even weaker than in the morning, the slight breathiness as she spoke seed like it could cut off at any mont, making the listener’s heart rise to their throat.
"How are you? Lili and I are already here, right beside Angus Church!" Zhongli Wuzhi said hurriedly.
"Wow, you guys are so fast..."
Lu Xiaoer still had the mind to marvel, indicating she really was quite bold...
Song Lili was about to ask the crucial questions when Zhongli Wuzhi rushed to speak again, "Xiaoer, I have so much I want to say to you, so you have to hang on no matter what, you know!"
"Zhongli, get to the point!"
Song Lili couldn’t help but remind him!
Ti was urgent; every minute was critical for the current Lu Xiaoer!
Six to seven cubic ters of air would be enough for her to breathe normally for fifteen to sixteen hours, clearly, that ti had already passed, the concentration of oxygen in the enclosed space was dropping, and Lu Xiaoer was injured.
Without needing further prompting from Song Lili, Zhongli Wuzhi quickly steered the conversation back, "Xiaoer, tell now, before the terrorist attack, where were you? We need to estimate your approximate location first, then plan our action; the entire Angus Church is destroyed, searching blindly for you is like looking for a needle in a haystack."
"Let think..."
Lu Xiaoer took a breath, inhaled deeply once more; between that exhale and inhale, one could distinctly sense her struggle.
Song Lili’s heart sank.
"I was in the lecture hall on the first floor when it happened, then I went to the restroom, and after coming back... I went into an adjacent hall... Looking out from the window of that hall, the night view was particularly beautiful, the stars... scattered... there were also scattered yellow lights in the courtyard, it was so pretty..."
It was truly Xiaoer’s style, her mind wandered where it wished.
However, it was precisely the beautiful view through that window that saved her life.
According to Qiao Ke, they had used surveying instrunts and high-tech scanning, and the regular Friday lectures were always in the sa hall; the result of the scanning of that hall showed the entire ceiling had collapsed, with all the debris piled on top, and the high-tech equipnt did not detect the slightest sign of life.
"Qiao Ke! I know where that is! Can you get the floor plan of Angus Church?"
Song Lili quickly asked.
Once the approximate location was confird, high-tech equipnt could scan and provide a rough structure and line images inside!
Qiao Ke had soone bring over the floor plan; after exchanging a few words with Song Lili, they quickly pinpointed the location! Qiao Ke was quite willing to help Song Lili, and without a word, he had his people bring over the equipnt for scanning to determine Lu Xiaoer’s exact location!
Song Lili impatiently waited for the results, while Zhongli Wuzhi clung to his phone, unwilling to close the communication line.
"We are now confirming your position, once the scan imagery is out, we can develop a plan to rescue you, Xiaoer, it’ll be fast, you believe ..."
"Is that so..."
Lu Xiaoer murmured, her response very vague.
"Little Ear, stay alert!"
"... Okay."
"I hear your voice, and you don’t sound alert at all... stay sharp, Little Ear."
The results of the scan ca out, and Song Lili looked at the image that ford on the screen; the black, white, and gray colors could roughly distinguish bricks, stones, and a person.
"I see it, right here!"
Song Lili told Qiao Ke, "This position, look, a long right-angled triangular space, it looks very stable. Is there a way?"
Qiao Ke squinted at the image, he frowned, soone being alive was naturally a good thing, but... he looked towards the rubble of the destroyed church and just felt that the actual operation of the rescue was not going to be easy.
In fact, this point had already been discovered by Song Lili when she confird Lu Xiaoer’s location.
Xiaoer was in a position near the edge of the ruins, at about one third of the way in, given the scale of the ruins at that mont, at least a dozen ters or so, and looking from the height, right above Xiaoer was the highest point made up of piled bricks and stones, roughly twenty ters, with the half-tilted spire of the church lying on top.
Digging out bit by bit... even using a large excavator would take hours, and that completely ignored whether the impact from the excavator would affect the seemingly solid right-angled triangular space at the very bottom layer.
It was difficult...
Song Lili’s expression was very grim, and Qiao Ke was also trying to think of a solution for her, but neither Qiao Ke nor Song Lili had experienced such a high-difficulty rescue before.
Heaven knew how lucky Lu Xiaoer was to be precisely trapped in that small right-angled triangular space!
Except for her, the entire Angus Church probably had no other survivors.
If it weren’t for Song Lili, who had received news in the morning and imdiately contacted Qiao Ke, who was leading the rescue on site, after failing to detect Lu Xiaoer’s vital signs, Qiao Ke would have ordered the use of excavators and bulldozers to speed up the disaster site cleanup.
By then, even if Lu Xiaoer was still alive, she would have died due to improper rescue actions.
This was one very important reason why Song Lili insisted on being on site.
She had participated in disaster rescues before and knew that improper rescue thods could cause secondary injuries to the victims, and these were inevitable in all disaster rescues.
For M country at the mont, the most important thing really wasn’t to carry out every rescue action thoroughly, but to do a good job in national defense work, especially in Caesar, the capital!
"Pushing soil from the top can reduce the height quickly, but, the weight of the bricks is too great, if by chance it crushes the stones supporting the space, then your friend might..."
"I know."
Song Lili touched her chin, "I’ll go and take a look on the site."
"Be careful over there, in case the stones collapse..."
"I know."
Song Lili said this and then walked to the edge closest to where Lu Xiaoer was, she roughly estimated the distance, took a deep breath and walked back, just about to tell Qiao Ke her plan, when Qiao Ke’s phone rang, he motioned for Song Lili to wait a mont and then turned to answer the call.
Song Lili did not an to eavesdrop on Qiao Ke’s call, but she understood the language of M country, and with Qiao Ke not far from her, even if she did not want to listen, the sound had already entered her ears.
"Now? Okay, I understand, rest assured, Commander, I’ll take my troops to the train station right away, and the rebel army will definitely not have their way with Caesar! Good! I promise to complete the mission!"
Qiao Ke hung up the phone on his side and turned to look at Song Lili,
"Tang, I may not be able to help you here, I have other urgent missions to execute. So..."
Song Lili felt her heart tighten, without Qiao Ke’s help and command, it would really be difficult for her.
She didn’t know if the negotiations for Wen Nian’s rescue had been settled, and she didn’t know how long it would take to wait for dostic rescue forces. She turned her head to look at Zhongli who had been talking to Xiaoer...
Clearly, Xiaoer’s situation was getting worse. Going on like this, it would be difficult to wait for dostic rescue forces to arrive, and even if they did, the rescue operation would still be a problem.
Song Lili shook her head, she couldn’t pin her hopes on dostic rescue forces now.
"Qiao Ke, I’m worried that after you leave, your subordinates, as well as these firefighting rescues, will not care about the life of my friend..."
"Tang, I will make it clear to them, they won’t ss around, as long as your friend is still alive, they will definitely give you enough ti."
"Just counting on and my friend here..."
"These rescue personnel all have their own missions, they might not all co to help you, Tang... I want to give you a heads-up."
Qiao Ke put his hands on Song Lili’s shoulders, "Life and death are destined, just do your best."
"Can I borrow so tools?"
Song Lili asked directly, not caring about his ominous words!
"What tools do you need?"
"An excavator, an earth drill, the largest kind, ropes, a large sledgehamr, give three people."
"..."
"Please, Qiao Ke, I just need three people, I can definitely rescue my friend before dark!"
Song Lili said confidently.
Qiao Ke looked at Song Lili and after a long sigh, he exclaid, "Tang, you’re still so amazing. Your friend is in trouble here, and you managed to get to the scene so quickly..."
"..."
"This ti, do you want to create a miracle here?"
"Can’t I?" Song Lili retorted, and then said very earnestly, "That’s how we are as people from G country, we never easily give up any hope. And we don’t give up on our friends."
"I’ll give you six people, I will have all the tools you need ready for you. Good luck. Tang!"
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