Chapter 419 Rescue
After returning to the cave, Zhou Yun lay on the rock and then extended the branch below. Xiao Hang sat on the ground, kicked a stone pit next to him, and grabbed Zhou Yun's legs with both hands.
A marine under the rock grabbed the branches and as Zhou Yun pulled them hard, he climbed up the branches.
The Marine who was rescued also joined the rescue ranks. Soon, another 11 people were rescued one after another, but there were still two people under the rock. They were far away from the rock, and everyone needed to work together to lower Zhou Yun, who was holding branches, to the rock to carry out rescue.
Just as everyone was about to start rescue of the two, suddenly, a pale light followed by violent shaking like the earth shaking, the top of the entire mountain was directly lifted off, and a huge conical patio appeared above everyone's heads.
Stones of all sizes fell like raindrops, and the dust flying all over the sky completely swallowed up the area where everyone was, like a sandstorm.
The light ball in the center of the lake exploded, destroying all objects about 5 square kilometers around the lake, and the top of the mountain was flattened by it.
It took Zhou Yun a long time to wake up from the gradually dissipating dust. Her eyes were in a mess. The stones from the top of the mountain were piled up everywhere like small hills, and everyone was buried by the stones.
Fortunately, although a table-sized stone fell beside Zhou Yun, it was about 30 cm away from her. A slightly curved surface formed by the stone blocked the attack of the stone above and saved her life.
Suddenly, she felt a piercing pain spreading from her right arm. When she looked closely, her arm had already bloomed and her blood had solidified into black pieces in the space suit, but the space suit did not break.
She tried to move her arms. Apart from the pain, her arms could move freely. She let out a long sigh. It seemed that they were just skin injuries and did not hurt their bones.
A clamor sound came. She turned her head and looked at the body of a Marine. His space suit was severely damaged, with black blood stains remaining on his nose and mouth. He had been dead for a long time.
Another clamor came, and Xiao Hang climbed up from the Marine. He slowly raised his arm, then shook his shoulders suddenly, and with a "click!" sound, his dislocated shoulders were restored.
He bent down, put the Marine's body flat, and lowered his head and started to observe silently...
The Marine was Xiao Hang's deputy. He protected Xiao Hang with his body the moment the stone fell.
After the silence, he and Zhou Yun immediately rescued the other personnel. When piles of stones were stripped away, the tragic experience that appeared in front of the two was shocking.
Among the 11 people rescued before, three were buried by car-sized stones. Three human-shaped pits about 50 cm deep were smashed out on the ground. Their corpses had merged into the stones, and the black blood had invaded the ground.
However, Zhou Yun and Xiao Hang did not give up the rescue. With the unremitting efforts of the two, the other 8 people were successfully rescued. In addition to one person, they were also injured to varying degrees of legs and waist, but they were not fatal.
After a brief rest, everyone carried the seriously injured and helped the slightly injured out of the cave.
The moment after stepping into the cave, the tragic scene in front of everyone was shocked. Looking around, the area within a radius of 5 kilometers was already scorched earth, and the originally dense and towering forests were gone, leaving only wisps of blue smoke.
The lake at my feet has dried up, and the silt and humus deposited at the bottom of the lake have completely disappeared, leaving only the flat lake bed.
"The explosion just now destroyed everything here!" Xiao Hang murmured, with a tone of surprise in his words.
"Luckily, we are still alive." One crew member sighed.
"This hollow island in the heart of the lake saved our lives." Zhou Yun said as she looked around the island, and after a moment, she turned her eyes to the air. The two small interstellar spacecraft that attacked them were gone.
"Contact the scout fleet and ask them to send a space vehicle to pick it up." Zhou Yun faced Xiao Hang and said.
Xiao Hang picked up the call device and started calling, but after calling several times, the scout fleet had no response.
"It must be the strong magnetic field generated by the explosion of the light ball that blocked the communication here." Xiao Hang waved his hand helplessly.
Zhou Yun thought for a moment, then looked into the distance: "You lead everyone out of here and walk 5 kilometers away to continue calling for rescue in the dense forest, where is safe."
"What about you? Aren't you with us?"
“I still have important things to do.”
Xiao Hang understood that Zhou Yun wanted to search and rescue Liu Hanyang. He turned his head and looked to the right. It was the direction where the ruins of the city were. Looking up, the originally dense forest had been destroyed and all the landmarks used for visual positioning had disappeared.
The firepower coverage of the city ruins by the Taibo people has long been flattened there, and thousands of tons of soil have completely covered the operating area. Liu Hanyang was buried deep in 150 meters underground, and his life and death are uncertain.
Xiao Hang knew that it was his responsibility to rescue Liu Hanyang, but Liu Hanyang's chance of survival was really slim. At present, he and several people had just escaped, and some were seriously injured. If Zhou Yun went to save Liu Hanyang, once the Taibo people killed a shot, these people would definitely face danger again.
"Don't hesitate, take them to a safe place as soon as possible, you can't stay here for a long time." Zhou Yun urged.
He wanted to dispel her idea of going to rescue her because it had been blown up beyond recognition, but he didn't know how to speak at the mouth. He knew her very well, and no one could convince her what she decided.
Especially when it comes to saving Liu Hanyang, she has to see people in her life and corpses in her life.
Xiao Hang took the others and several wounded people to walk towards the dense forest in the distance. Zhou Yun stared at them for a moment, then turned around and walked towards the ruins of the city that had disappeared...
The lake bed, which was originally covered with silt, became extremely hard due to the explosion of the light ball. It didn't take long before Zhou Yun arrived at the intersection of the lake and the forest, saying it was a forest, which was what it used to be, but now it has turned into a scorched earth.
The entire surface is charred and bare, like walking on a barren land, and here it was originally a dense forest full of vitality.
After walking for about 20 minutes, she finally entered the jungle. The shock waves generated by the explosion blew the trees here to the other side, and the range extends to the depth of the jungle about 30 kilometers.
Not long after entering the dense forest, several bright balls of light appeared in the sky. They were like several fleeting meteors passing by Zhou Yun's head. She instinctively looked up at the direction where the balls of light were traveling. In an instant, a bunch of gorgeous fireballs appeared in the sky. The fireballs burst rapidly, and countless burning fragments fell to the ground like flowers scattered by the heavenly girl.
Zhou Yun's face immediately became gloomy, and the light ball hit the scout fleet in the synchronic orbit of Feida Star, and none of the ships were spared.
"It must be the Tabers who attacked the scout fleet!" she thought to herself.
She called Xiao Hang, and there was no sound in the communication device in the aerospace helmet except for the sound of electric current coming from it.
Communications are still not restored.
She sighed helplessly and looked at the air again. The space where the scout fleet was located was already empty, replaced by countless burning fragments that stormed from the center of its location.
After a brief stare, she took heavy steps forward...
After a arduous trek, five hours later, she finally arrived at the area where Liu Hanyang had carried out his previous operations. The entire area was beyond recognition. The wide and deep pit that she had originally dug had long been filled with soil, and it was covered with a thick layer of soil, which looked like a small hill.
The firepower of the Taibo people blasted the operation area to the sky, and the thousands of tons of soil stirred up directly overturned, burying Liu Hanyang and five other scientific researchers inside.
Zhou Yun was a little at a loss. She didn't know how to rescue her. If Liu Hanyang was still alive, then he was still in the pit, but the pit was a hundred meters away from the ground, and the mound above was more than 150 meters deep.
If there were no large excavation equipment, he would not be able to dig out with his own hands alone, that is, he would have tried his best to dig out with his bare hands. By the time he was dug out, the best rescue time would have passed.
But the flame of hope was still ignited in her heart. In the dark, she felt that Liu Hanyang was still alive, but the more than 150 meters thick soil temporarily isolated them.
The obsession in her heart made her not care about resting and immediately searched around, hoping to find the large-scale excavation equipment airdropped by the scout fleet before. But after searching for a whole circle, there was not even a bar of iron besides the damp soil.
Her body softened, and she knelt on the soil sadly, shouting Liu Hanyang's name loudly, over and over again, her voice was empty and hoarse.
It was not that she had thought of talking directly with Liu Hanyang, but she was afraid that he had already died, so she would rather shout hysterically than enable the communication equipment.
The shouting was still echoing on the empty earth. She realized that this was a stupid thing to do. She could not hear her shouting when she was 150 meters deep.
Only communication devices can be activated.
She blamed herself and regretted her behavior just now. This was a rash approach. If Liu Hanyang was still alive, she would waste her precious rescue time in vain.
She stopped shouting, gasped for a few times, then turned on the communication device and called him...
Three minutes passed, but Liu Hanyang's familiar voice still didn't sound in the communication device.
She looked around in despair a little, with her eyes lonely and sad...
"Han Yang will not die, she will not die!" Suddenly, a thunderous surge surged on her body, and her body stood up "swoosh!"
She was encouraging herself.
She called Xiao Hang and Yuanhang Fleet several times, and to her surprise, both of them did not react at all.
"There is a high probability that the strong magnetic field generated by the explosion also blocks the signal here!" she thought to herself.
She looked around in a wooden manner, the surroundings were empty and silent, only the whistling wind kept whistling by the charred surface...
A breath of silence.
But the strong fire of rescue in her heart has not been extinguished. Her inner obsession tells her that no matter what difficulties she encounters, she will rescue Liu Hanyang!
To rescue him, the first thing is to determine where he is. This is the first and most important step. Only in this way can rescue become practical and operational.
She ran back quickly and stopped about 50 meters away from the work area. She could see the whole picture of the entire work area. She wanted to determine where Liu Hanyang had worked by observing the surrounding terrain and vegetation characteristics from a distance.
Chapter completed!