My Little Poplar - Chap 101

The crowd rushed over. Bai Xinyu’s heart is in his throat, the heat detector is responding, that means he’s alive!

The rescue team start to survey the burial site and make a plan to dig.

Bai Xinyu lies on the rubble, touching the cold stone, calling Yu Fengcheng’s name several times but gets no response. His heart ached so much that he could hardly breathe, thinking that Yu Fengcheng might be down there, perhaps seriously injured and unconscious, perhaps dying.

To prevent a secondary collapse, the rescue team worked for an hour on the excavation plan alone, leaving the Snowleopard brigade in a frenzy, they wanted to carry the shovels themselves.

Finally, the cranes went to work, while the rescue team and the Snowleopard team started to work with human assistance.

It was a long night for many, Bai Xinyu’s ears were filled with the sounds of machinery, people shouting, dogs barking, his mind was sometimes blank, sometimes confused, as he watched the rubble being cleared away, his fear escalated, he didn’t know what he was going to see Yu Fengcheng, would Yu Fengcheng’s blood have stained the ground beneath him red? Will he survive this?

“I see someone!” I don’t know who shouted.

Bai Xinyu’s knees go weak, he almost falls to the ground, he braces himself, from underneath the cleared stones, he saw Yu Fengcheng’s bloodied, motionless back, he really can’t hold on now, he falls to his knees with a thud, tears flow from his eyes, fear and despair are overwhelming him He wanted to disappear, because he didn’t know if he could bear what was coming.

Chen Jing pulled him up from the ground and said in a muffled voice: “Fengcheng is still alive, the heat detectors are still warm.”

Bai Xinyu took a deep breath, climbed up on Chen Jing’s arm and said in a trance: “Yes, he’s alive…” It was good to be alive, all he wanted was for Yu Fengcheng to be alive!

After the rocks had been completely removed, they carefully pulled Yu Fengcheng out of the rubble, when Yu Fengcheng’s face appeared in a mixture of blood and mud, his eyes were shut tight, he was covered in blood, his breathing was extremely weak, everyone turned their heads away. Yu Fengcheng, despite his young age, had always been a reliable comrade and a fearless soldier, this mission was not meant to be the most difficult and although they were all prepared to die at any moment, they could not accept that a man of Yu Fengcheng’s strength could die here.

Huo Qiao reached out but does not dare to touch Yu Fengcheng, he stumbles, held by Lao Sha, he closes his eyes, he seems to have aged several years.

Bai Xinyu also lost the courage to check on Yu Fengcheng’s injuries at that moment, the more he cared about someone, the more he could not think calmly in a crisis, without having experienced it, he really did not know that he would panic so much in the face of Yu Fengcheng’s injuries.

The rescue team carried Yu Fengcheng to the ambulance, where he was given emergency treatment.

Bai Xinyu watched as they stripped Yu Fengcheng of his clothes, put him on a ventilator, saw this tall, strong man now motionless and at the mercy of others, saw a soldier who had never flinched or been timid, now so vulnerable that he could not even open his eyes and felt his heart wrenching. He could not restrain himself from imagining what would happen to Yu Fengcheng if he could no longer walk, if he could no longer hold a gun, if he could no longer be a soldier.

The ambulance was taking Yu Fengcheng to the hospital, Bai Xinyu wants to follow but there is no more room on the bus, only Huo Qiao on the Snowleopard side gets on, the others are loaded onto another bus and follow it to the hospital.

Bai Xinyu and the others arrive at the hospital, Yu Fengcheng is already in the operating theatre, he rushed to Huo Qiao, he has a lot of questions to ask but looking at Huo Qiao’s heavy face, they are stuck in his throat.

Huo Qiao looked at him and said in a deep voice: “He was lucky, after jumping from the fourth floor, he rolled into a low depression in the grass, when the factory collapsed, he was buried underneath but there were no serious blows to the brain, the more obvious injuries were lacerations to the back and front chest, as well as four ribs and a fractured right leg, More details are not yet known… He is now bleeding out…”

Bai Xinyu leaned against the wall, took a deep breath and felt the sky spinning, the red resuscitation light on the operating theatre door, pierced his eyes.

At that moment, Manager Xu suddenly appeared, holding a mobile phone in his hand and said, “Xinyu, Manager Jian just called, call him back and tell him he is safe.”

Bai Xinyu remembered that he had been missing for days, the family must be worried, he took the phone and dialled back.

“Hello? Xinyu?” Jian Suiying’s eager voice came over the phone.

The moment Bai Xinyu heard the voice, tears came to his eyes, “Brother…”

“Bai Xinyu!” Jian Suiying shouted, a little emotional, he gritted his teeth and said: “You fucking… You really can worry people to death!”

Bai Xinyu sobbed, “Brother, he’s in the operating room, he’s in the operating room.” He couldn’t hear anything else, he only knew that the voice on the phone came from the person he trusted and relied on the most, he had grown up, when he was in trouble, the first person he turned to for help was not his father but his cousin, he had known for a long time that Jian Suiying was not omnipotent but when he was in pain, he still subconsciously wanted to ask Jian Suiying for help. But when he was in pain, he still subconsciously wanted to turn to Jian Suiying for help, he longed for his childhood hero to save him at any time.

Jian Suiying was silent for a moment and whispered: “Who? Yu Fengcheng?”

Bai Xinyu nodded vigorously, completely oblivious to the fact that Jian Suiying can’t see it, he crouches in the corner, clutching the little floor phone, as if it were his only comfort now.

Jian Suiying sighed inaudibly and said, “Are you hurt?”

“No.” Bai Xinyu sniffled, “My parents, you didn’t tell them, did you.”

“Not yet, if we don’t hear from them today, we won’t be able to keep them in the dark, so call home and tell them the signal is bad in Africa.”

“Okay… Brother, I…” Bai Xinyu wanted to see Jian Suiying right away but he didn’t say anything, he knew he was past the age of pampering Jian Suiying whenever and wherever he wanted, he just couldn’t change his habits.

After hanging up the phone, he adjusted his mood and called his mother, in his usual tone.

The Snowleopards, despite the battle they had just fought, none of them had any intention of resting, their comrades, Yu Fengcheng, Yan Qiang and Mai Zi, were all in the operating theatre, it was destined to be a sleepless night.