Chapter 1806: Chapter 1709: Still Alive
"Wait, there’s soone down here!"
The soldier was originally about to climb up using the safety rope, but when he turned his head, he saw the woman kneeling with her body bent and knees down, frozen in a very peculiar position on the ground.
The posture was reminiscent of ancient people’s kneeling prayer, but the woman’s body was deford from being crushed by the ruins, making the sight extrely eerie.
The soldier felt sowhat puzzled in his heart, then as if driven by a mysterious impulse, he reached out and gently pushed the woman.
Just as he pushed, he was startled; the woman couldn’t hold up her stiff form under external force and directly fell to the side.
As she fell, a child was revealed beneath her body!
The child appeared to be about a year old, dressed in a thick cotton jacket, protected under the woman but was pale in complexion.
The soldier picked up the child and found that the child’s neck and calves were injured, having lost quite a bit of blood, though the wounds had scabbed over. But the child was unconscious, with a forehead burning with fever.
"It’s a child, still breathing, but has a high fever and very weak breath!"
The soldier shouted loudly.
ng Jinlong’s body stiffened, realizing there really was a child still alive down below. His mind buzzed; how did that woman nad Huo really manage to see soone alive buried within? How did she figure it out?
ng Jinlong’s mood was very complex, but at this mont, there was no ti to ponder such questions. Several soldiers worked together swiftly pulling the soldier and child from the ruins.
The soldier stumbled out of the debris holding the child and clutching a Nokia phone. He hurried to ng Jinlong’s side, choked with emotion: "Captain, have a look at this!"
With that, the soldier handed over the Nokia phone, ng Jinlong froze, lowered his head to look at the lit screen pressed by the soldier.
Seeing the words clearly on the screen, his face turned blank. Slowly, waves of profound shock and solemnity surged from deep within him.
This phone belonged to the child’s mother, its interface paused on a text ssage—edited but unsent—which read:
Dear baby, if you survive, rember that mommy loves you!
From the ti of the earthquake to now, in these dozen or so hours, accustod to life and death separations, ng Jinlong had grown sowhat numb. Yet upon reading what was written on that phone, he trembled all over.
No one could imagine, after the earthquake, this child’s mother trapped beneath a large pile of broken beams, protecting the child while enduring imnse physical pain, how challenging it was to type these few words on the phone.
The phone was passed among the other soldiers, each deeply shaken, moved by the mother who sacrificed her own life to ensure the child’s safety, shedding tears for her selfless maternal love.
The phone eventually landed in Huo Sining’s hands, and she couldn’t help but tear up as well, looking up at ng Jinlong: "Captain ng, let
take care of this phone. Don’t worry, I won’t lose it!"
ng Jinlong nodded, and Huo Sining pretended to tuck the phone into her backpack, but actually slipped it into Space. If possible, she hoped that in the future, when this child grew up, the phone could be handed to him intact, showing him his mother’s unconditional, profound love through its broken screen.
Although the child was rescued, he was still running a high fever, and the soldiers were at a loss. Seeing this, Huo Sining hurried over:
"Don’t worry, I brought plenty of ergency ds, including rapid fever reducers. Feed the child a little dicine, he’ll be relieved soon."
Huo Sining rummaged through her backpack, finding fever reducers and wound-treatnt dicine. After administering them to the child, she cleaned his wounds, secretly channeling so Spiritual Energy into the child’s body. Soon, the fever reduced, and the child’s complexion beca much rosier.
The soldiers, including ng Jinlong, watched eagerly as Huo Sining handled things. She found a blanket, wrapped the child in it, and placed him in the armored vehicle’s rear compartnt, then inford ng Jinlong and the others that the child was fine.
Only then did everyone breathe a sigh of relief, as ng Jinlong hastily used the satellite phone to request reinforcent with an additional dical team.
The child’s appearance dispelled much of their skepticism towards Huo Sining, and at that mont the soldier responsible for the life-detection apparatus also ran over, full of astonishnt, whispering sothing to ng Jinlong. Then, ng Jinlong glanced toward Huo Sining.
Huo Sining had already guessed what the soldier said to ng Jinlong—that area she explored with Heavenly Eye showed no signs of life, and the soldier likely confird her statent’s validity, which was likely what he reported.
Indeed, after nodding to the soldier, ng Jinlong directly walked over with a sowhat awkward and conflicted expression:
"Huo... Chief, from now on, the Seventh Battalion follows your command in the rescue operations!"
Huo Sining squinted slyly at ng Jinlong: "Well, didn’t you say your detectors were the most accurate? Changed your mind now?"
ng Jinlong’s face turned red, scratching the back of his head: "This..."
ng Jinlong couldn’t truly believe in Kanyu teachings. From a young age, through military education, he’d always learned materialism and scientific fundantals, but he couldn’t explain how Huo Sining could precisely determine there were people under the ruins.
Huo Sining knew well her ability wasn’t real Feng Shui Kanyu; she claid such mystical reasoning mainly as a cover, so she laughed and waved her hand, saying:
"Forget it, it’s hard to explain clearly in a few words. Just follow , listen to what I say going forward. About earlier, I won’t hold it against you, but I hope there won’t be a repeat situation. Whatever I command, I won’t say it twice!"
Huo Sining’s youthful face was full of seriousness and solemnness, her gaze sharp like an eagle, exuding a sudden sternness that made ng Jinlong feel a cold surge from underfoot.
He shivered, as if seeing an old chief of the district stand before him, the powerful aura made him unconsciously stand tall and firm, with no trace of previous indifference or casualness. He responded with a heavy and solemn: "Yes!"
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