Fierce Love: Bringing Wife Home
Chapter 542 - 32

Chapter 542: Chapter 32

Seeing this scene, everyone felt as if a mountain was pressing on their hearts. All eyes were wet with tears.

"There’s someone over here!" Yun Xiao suddenly spotted a woman lying on the ground in the ruins not far away, her legs crushed under the rubble.

Without thinking, Gu Xiaoxi immediately led everyone over, trying to push the stones aside to rescue the woman.

But when Gu Xiaoxi got closer, she realized the woman had already stopped breathing.

Her legs were brutally crushed, and the blood had long since stained the dirt red. She must have died from excessive blood loss.

The woman was covered in dirt and grime, her face soiled beyond recognition.

Upon seeing this, everyone fell silent.

In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through their minds, and everyone felt a sour discomfort in their eyes.

The rescue had just started, and they were already facing the first death.

A living, breathing life had come to an end!

Just then...

"Help me!"

A cry for help broke the brief silence.

Following the sound, Gu Xiaoxi saw on the third floor of a collapsed building not far away, a boy clinging to an iron window, hanging from it.

His voice was very weak from shock and exhaustion.

Without thinking, Gu Xiaoxi leaped high up, jumped onto the windowsill, pulled the boy inside, and then returned to the ground.

Her movements were swift as the wind, so fast that nobody could see clearly how she did it; the boy was already standing on his own two feet.

The fourteen- or fifteen-year-old boy, wide-eyed and slack-jawed, took a long time to come around, then stiffly craned his neck and said, "Thank you! Thank you, sister, for saving me!"

"If you’re alright, follow me and help rescue others," Gu Xiaoxi said, seeing that he was unhurt. A fourteen- or fifteen-year-old boy was perfectly capable of doing the job. Even if he couldn’t pull people out, he could carry the injured without a problem.

Yun Xiao and Shao Changfeng had already walked deeper down the street, searching for people waiting to be rescued in the ruins.

Gu Xiaoxi took out the detector in her hand.

With the device, they could locate survivors buried underground.

"Where is your school?" Gu Xiaoxi suddenly asked, knowing that she should start the rescue there first.

It was sleeping time in the morning.

Many boarding students were in the school; they were the ones who needed rescue the most. It was also the site with the major casualties.

"Follow me!" Although the boy was frightened, he quickly led Gu Xiaoxi towards the school.

Along the way, Gu Xiaoxi came across several uninjured survivors.

She then continued to lead the strong and able-bodied people in the rescue, while the elderly, the weak, women, and children were all led by assigned people to the medical facilities to help with the aftermath.

In the face of this demon-filled city, the death toll was rising.

In the beginning, Gu Xiaoxi would find one or two bodies, but as time went on, the number increased.

Especially in the collapsed school buildings.

For a day and a night, she didn’t know what kind of harrowing experiences she went through.

All she knew was that she kept digging, rescuing people, using her spiritual energy to treat some of those who were on the verge of death.

But still, people died right before her eyes.

The next day, the official tally showed that out of the hundreds of thousands of people in Qing City, over ten thousand had died, and that was just the bodies found.

The team Gu Xiaoxi was in had found six thousand bodies, rescued two thousand severely injured, and five thousand lightly injured.

What did that mean!

It was just the first day.

A tremendous gloom enveloped the city.

More and more people were paying attention to this news.

Soon volunteers, the military, and medical teams from various cities were rushing over here.

On the third day, Gu Xiaoxi led her team, though she didn’t know how many they had saved.

When they dug out the last of the school’s ruins and saw the faces buried under the rubble.

Everyone took off their hats in mourning!

Those lovely angels had left this beautiful world in their morning sleep.

Death was cruel.

Gu Xiaoxi felt a suffocating pain in her chest, and tears involuntarily welled up in her eyes.

She wanted everyone to survive, she wanted to use her power to save one more life.

But some lives could not wait for her to save them; they had already departed.

The digging continued!

The rescue could not stop.

On the evening of the fourth day, they finally had half an hour to rest.

That was during mealtime.

After four days of nonstop rescue without any rest, everyone reached their limit.

At night, only two heads were full.

Despite this, everyone ate with great relish.

Gu Xiaoxi sat on the ground, her clothes, complexion, and hair all stained with dust and sweat.

Even so, she could smell the sourness and stench emanating from her clothes.

She bit into her steamed bun, sipped mineral water, and gazed expressionlessly at the bright moon overhead.

Everyone tacitly refrained from speaking, not even uttering a single complaint about the hardship.

At that moment, Ai Xiang came over with two steamed buns, sat beside Gu Xiaoxi, wearing a white coat stained with blood.

As if he felt nothing, he ate his steamed buns and said to Gu Xiaoxi, "Nature shows no mercy, be it water or fire."

Gu Xiaoxi remained silent, taking a long time before turning to look at Ai Xiang with a grave expression, "Aren’t you the one who loves cleanliness the most? Your clothes are dirty."

Ai Xiang was at a loss for words; who could think of such things when saving lives?

By now, his fingers had become numb from fatigue.

All he wanted was to lie on the ground and sleep, not caring about his dirty clothes.

These past few days, everyone was exhausted, and even many soldiers fainted on the rescue site.

Everyone’s eyes were bloodshot, filled with weariness.

"Gu Xiaoxi, you really stink!" Ai Xiang suddenly exclaimed.

Startled, Yun Xiao quickly moved a bit further away.

Four days without bathing, coupled with the intense and strenuous activity, it was no surprise that the repeatedly sweat-soaked clothes now smelled!

"It doesn’t matter, I don’t have mysophobia!" Gu Xiaoxi said, finishing the last bite of her steamed bun. She looked to the others who were resting and said, "Everyone, eat quickly. In ten minutes, we’ll head to a small county next to Qing City. There’s a small town with over ten thousand people there needing our help."

"Yes!"

Gu Xiaoxi put down her water and said to Ai Xiang, "Go call Yeh Bai for me. Also, have logistics pack the necessary hemostatic medicine, anti-inflammatory medicine, and others; we need to take them when we leave."

"You want to take Yeh Bai with you?" Ai Xiang asked, puzzled.

"Why not? The higher-ups commanded us to bring doctors for the rescue. Because the mountain roads have collapsed, we can only travel on foot over sixty kilometers of mountainous terrain to rescue all the survivors."

"That should be fine! Each hospital has sent a rescue team. Even though doctors are in short supply, taking one away should be okay. I’m just worried he might not be able to hold up!" Ai Xiang thought for a moment. "I’ll go with you!"

After all, he was pulled over by Young Master Quan on a temporary basis; his main task was to follow this team and coordinate with their rescue work.

"You’re going? Can things work without you, the miracle doctor?" Gu Xiaoxi said, puzzled.

"What’s the issue? Even as a miracle doctor, I’ve still seen plenty of people I couldn’t save," Ai Xiang replied, his gaze full of depth. "It’s decided then, Yeh Bai is also exhausted these past few days. If he doesn’t get some rest, he’ll faint from fatigue."

"And what about you?" Yun Xiao suddenly interjected, concern in his voice.

Ai Xiang, however, shook his head nonchalantly, "I’m not a normal person just like you guys. My physical condition is not that bad!"

Even if one’s physical condition was strong, at this point, everyone was just pushing their limits.

The higher-ups had told them to rest when appropriate, but they were racing against the clock to save as many people as possible.

Hence, for these four days, no one had rested for even a minute.

The team quickly assembled, and twenty people, along with a doctor and two nurses, set off toward the small town known as Tiger Head Mountain.

Because rocks had rolled down the mountain, the roads were submerged, and some areas even collapsed, making them impossible to traverse.

At night, armed with flashlights, they had no choice but to climb over one perilous mountain after another, cross several boulder-littered knolls, and by late night, everyone was gasping for breath with exhaustion.

Their clothes had long been soaked by mountain streams.

Even Gu Xiaoxi, the freak, felt a wave of dizziness at that moment, and the others were even more out of energy.

"Everyone hold on a bit longer! Once we’re over this mountain, we’ll rest for an hour on the flat ground ahead," Gu Xiaoxi commanded. It wasn’t feasible to let everyone collapse from exhaustion. These days had pushed them to their limits.

Summoning their last bit of strength, the group managed to reach a flat area at three o’clock in the morning.

The one-hour rest was precious, and without a second thought, they collapsed on the ground and fell asleep.

Gu Xiaoxi unpacked her backpack filled with medicines.

She sat with her sore and limp legs, beginning to perform feats of strength to heal her injuries.

These days, her spiritual power had been pushed to the limit.

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