Heart fire

The temperature in the basement was getting higher and higher, and at one point it was suspected that his sensory function had become abnormal.The high temperature and lack of oxygen made the consciousness confused again. The only thing that is clear is that the floor may collapse again at any time. I also know that my teammates are still working hard, so I can't say anything to tell them to give up.Wen Yue, who was exhausted, raised the walkie-talkie to his mouth, groped for a long time before finding it and pressed the call button.

"I need...air..."

The voice was so low that he wasn't even sure if he pressed the button correctly, or if the other party heard it.More than a dozen long seconds passed, and despair and fear gradually destroyed the will that had been built up with great difficulty. Just when Wen Yue was about to lose his hold and wanted to close his eyes again, the walkie-talkie in his hand finally had movement.

"Wen Yue! Can you hear it? Wen Yue?! Please answer if you receive it!"

Is the squad leader coming again... Wen Yue didn't have the strength to distinguish, but felt that in the sizzling and intermittent voice, every word he uttered was so familiar and kind, and it was as unreal as an auditory hallucination.

"Wen Yue! Talk! I'm Zhou Tong!"

Zhou... Tong?

Before Wen Yue's already sluggish brain could react, the voice suddenly became three-dimensional, as if it was right next to his ears.

"Wen Yue! I'm putting the air bottle down now, catch it! If you can hear it, pull the rope!"

The temperature and smoke gushing out of the cave made it impossible to get close to the situation inside.There was still no response from below. Zhou Tong lay on a thin door panel and loosened the rope bit by bit until he felt the air bottle touch the ground lightly, and his heart rose to his throat.

After a while, the weight at one end of the rope suddenly disappeared, and then tightened slightly. Zhou Tong's nerves were also slightly relaxed, and he immediately realized that it was Wen Yue who was responding to him.

Wen Yue was so weak that he didn't even have the strength to pull the rope.

Without delay for a second, Zhou Tong immediately sent a notice to his teammates outside, and at the same time shouted into the cave: "Wen Yue! I'm Zhou Tong, I'm here to pick you up, change the air bottle!"

"I'm going to spray water into it to cool down now, and it won't be hot soon, hold on, do you hear me? I know you can hear me, don't be confused!"

A sound of encouragement repeatedly awakens the consciousness of Wenyue.When Zhou Tong arrived, he found a shoebox-sized window on the ground outside the wooden building, which was only used for ventilation. He communicated with Wang Jiao immediately and arranged for someone to tear down the window and expand it into a new smoke exhaust port, so as to reduce the risk of exhaustion. Heat and smoke inside the hole.After receiving the notice, Wang Jiao ordered to open the water valve as promised, and led the team to cover Zhou Tong who was lying at the entrance of the cave with a water gun. Zhou Tong gritted his teeth and resisted the huge recoil with his own strength. The hole began to spray water inward.The door panel dispersed part of the weight, and he sat up on his knees slightly, while stabilizing his body, while quickly thinking about the next move.

I can't find the entrance to the basement, and I don't know if the trapped people are awake and whether they can crawl. How to pull people up in this case is a problem.Whether it was Zhou Tong going down or Wen Yue coming up by himself, the weight doubled afterwards. With the current bearing capacity of the floor, how to get out safely is another serious problem.

He carefully recalled every key point of the firefighter's underground space rescue technique in different situations, and at the same time as he was making a decision, a call came from the intercom, interrupting his train of thought.

"...Zhou Tong!"

It was almost unrecognizable, the trainer's voice carried a rare and obvious panic, but he couldn't tell at the moment that he was running desperately at a speed that others could not catch up with.

Communication is back to normal!He's looking for me, he's calling me!Zhou Tong's heart started beating wildly, wishing he could run to him immediately as promised.

"Instructor?! How do you..."

"Zhou Tong! Where are you? Don't act without authorization! Zhou Tong!"

The water sprayed in from outside the door washed away the smoke and dust like a torrential rain, and it was hot when it fell on the body.Zhou Tong's mask was covered with mud, he threw down the water gun, made a brief report on himself, Wen Yue and the surrounding situation to Xi Yang, and then said to him: "Instructor, I am going to find a way to go down now!"

The voice became clearer and clearer, the footsteps became faster and faster, and the distance was close enough to see the burning wooden building and a squadron standing outside.Xi Yang gave Wang Jiao who came up to him a look, signaling him to continue to cooperate with Zhou Tong, while he lowered his voice slightly, unquestionably but as if coaxing patiently: "Zhou Tong, listen to me, the current situation Can't go down, if you two are trapped at the same time, it will be more difficult to rescue."

"I know you are worried about Wenyue, and I am also very, very worried about him and want to save him. I am at the door now, you are obedient, climb out quickly, and let me in. I am lighter than you, and the chance of success is higher... ...."

The moment he heard him say that he was outside the door, Zhou Tong's nose started to feel sore, and he subconsciously raised his head to look in the direction of coming in, but he couldn't see anything clearly.But as early as the moment he heard the voice, Zhou Tong was convinced that he had seen him. He saw the trainer running wildly against the fire in the narrow alleyway for him, saw the pair of shallow and clear eyes staring at him, and felt the coldness. The palms of my hands were pressed against the hands holding the water gun tightly, and I heard him say in the most beautiful and gentle voice: "Zhou Tong is great."

"No, don't come in first, I'm fine here, don't worry." Zhou Tong pulled out the rope at his waist, lay down on the door panel again, and started the operation with the torch light from his helmet. "I can't waste any more time. I'm handcuffed now, and I'll arrange for someone to come in after I go down!"

The handcuff knot is one of the few effective special knotting methods in firefighting operations. However, since hydraulic pumps and other equipment and other alternative methods are available, many firefighters usually ignore or give up this knot at the beginning because they don’t remember how to tie the knot. The simplest and most effective, old-fashioned rescue method.The trainer has taught it twice so far, and only Zhou Tong has memorized it by heart and practiced it alone.He took off his gloves, first quickly tied the rope into a double knot, then put the rope segments in the left and right circles into the left and right rope circles respectively, and then pulled them out at the same time, a handcuff knot that can be adjusted in size at will was tied up.

"Instructor." He pressed the intercom again and said to Xi Yang, "I'm ready. Please practice the underground space rescue with me as before."

"Report! Intervention team Zhou Tong, arrive at the rescue area with the No. [-] handcuff knot!"

Please wait for me, wait for me to come back.

After a barely audible sigh, the instructor's voice came from the intercom: "Got it, please start the rescue as soon as possible and pay attention to safety."

I've been waiting for you, I've been waiting here for you, please, please come back soon...

The hole that was half demolished before was too small. In order to avoid another collapse, Zhou Tong could only use a fire ax to remove the broken wooden boards along the edge bit by bit.Every time he disassembled a piece, his heartbeat almost stopped, and his hands trembled uncontrollably. It was not until the opening of the hole had doubled in size visible to the naked eye that he dared to let out a heavy breath and picked up the intercom to report: "The demolition is complete, and the rope has been released." Secured at the entrance, ready to enter now!"

"Understood, we will enter when you go down, pay attention to the signal... Please, please keep talking."

...

If you are trapped in a corner, the teammates who came to the rescue will spend a lot of energy and air to search and drag yourself, so Wen Yue has always insisted on staying at the bottom of the ladder, even if it is closer to several burning points, there is no danger. block.Zhou Tong's voice above his head has never stopped, he heard every sentence, and also heard the news that the trainer had rushed to rescue him.After struggling to change the air bottle, he finally took a breath, picked up the intercom and said to Zhou Tong: "Listen to the instructor...don't...don't come down... ..throw me the handcuff knot... I can, I can..."

But gradually, no matter how hard they tried, everyone ignored his voice as if they couldn't hear him at all.Only then did he finally realize that maybe the walkie-talkie had been damaged when it fell down, and maybe he could only hear other people’s voices from one side, but he really didn’t have the strength to shout at Zhou Tong like he did to Wang Jiao at the beginning .

Soon, the ladder behind him began to shake, and Zhou Tong quickly and nimbly climbed down with the rope. When he was almost at the end, he kicked over the chair, and then touched Wen Yue who fell on the ground.

"How are you?!" He jumped down, half-kneeled in front of Wen Yue, holding his head up and desperately trying to see his face clearly. "Where is it hurt? Can you go? I can't carry you, two people are too heavy, you have to persevere. Wen Yue, wake up, climb up by yourself, I will protect you behind, understand... ..”

"Zhou Tong..." Wen Yue raised a hand and put it on the back of Zhou Tong's, trying to squeeze out a smile. "I'm fine, don't... don't panic."

The brain is unclear, and the person is also in a daze and teetering, but after recognizing Zhou Tong, out of instinct, he began to talk non-stop.

"Sorry for worrying you. I didn't mean to, the walkie-talkie may be broken, I've been answering you..."

"Stop talking, go quickly." Zhou Tong raised Wen Yue's arm to support him, and tried to push the ladder twice to confirm its stability.

"Wen Yue, we all have to live well, you only have one chance, you must insist on climbing up, understand?"

"Understood." Wen Yue nodded while supporting the ladder.Zhou Tong put the knotted handcuffs on his wrists, and instructed him to turn his body [-] degrees to ensure that the empty air would not get stuck during the ascent, and then called out: "The preparation is complete, you can pull it!"

The surrounding open flames have spread along the walls to the ceiling, and the other smoke exhaust will soon fail.One handcuff knot can reduce the weight of the rescued person by half, and two can reduce the weight to a quarter, but it needs to be dragged by at least four people above.Zhou Tong didn't know who was sent in, so he could only silently pray in his heart that the floor would not collapse again, and that his teammates could bear the weight of the two ropes.Fortunately, Wen Yue was still a little sober, and when he felt the other end of the rope start to exert force, Zhou Tong supported Wen Yue's leg with his hand, let him step on his shoulder to climb up the ladder, and supported him to climb up with difficulty.

The lack of oxygen and dehydration caused short-term imbalances in movement and balance functions, accompanied by dizziness and strong vomiting, making it extremely uncomfortable to move.Even so, Wen Yue tried his best to climb out of the cave bit by bit with the help of Zhou Tong and the strength above.

The cover of water guns continued, buying them time and conditions for rescue.In order to reduce the burden on the floor, the people above withdrew first after pulling Wen Yue out of the hole, knelt outside the door and continued to drag, and shouted at him: "Keep climbing! Don't stop, come on! Come out soon!"

......

I don't remember anything.Until many years passed, when talking about the experience of entering the fire scene for the first time, Wen Yue only remembered the moment when he saw the light again, the blurred outline of the trainer and his bloody palms.

The cold touch left by those hands didn't gradually disappear until he was carried on the stretcher and sent out of the alleyway, and was soon replaced by the warm and dry palms of the other hands.After Wen Yue was dragged out, Wang Jiao stopped Xi Yang who refused to stop for a moment, and picked up the lifeline again: "Instructor, let us come, your hand..."

In order to accurately perceive the situation of the rescued person, he insisted on not wearing gloves. At this time, Xi Yang's hands were already unconscious.What Wang Jiao didn't know was that the most painful part of the instructor was not the hands at all, but the knees, but he still shook his head stubbornly: "I'll wait for him, and you all do your own thing."

One second, ten seconds, 20 seconds, the passage of time did not make hope and confidence disappear, but became stronger and stronger.I have been looking forward to this so hard many years ago, but I am far less convinced than I am at this moment. I firmly believe that that person will be able to do what he says, and will finally return to him after going through hardships and obstacles, and fulfill their agreement.So when Zhou Tong crawled and appeared, the five-year wait seemed to finally have an acceptable result.That person seems to have really come back, in another way, a way that only appeared in dreams, tall, tough, breaking through the thick fog, returning from the ashes, bringing him to face himself and live again courage.

She wanted to hug but staggered and fell into his arms, seeing his smoldering but still handsome face, she was obviously calm but frowned because of her nervousness.

"Instructor! What's the matter with you? Where are you injured?" Zhou Tong held Xi Yang firmly, let him lean on him, and when he lifted his scarred hands, he suddenly understood, and his heart ached beyond measure.

Zhou Tong didn't know how to express his shock and respect for one person carrying the weight that two or even four people could bear.

He turned around in a panic, and hurriedly helped the person to the corner, completely losing his composure when fighting the fire and saving people: "You..."

"Why did you come in by yourself? Why don't you wear gloves!"

"It's okay, I didn't suffer any injuries." Xi Yang smiled calmly, took out his hand and gently traced the outline of Zhou Tong's eyebrows and eyes with his calloused fingertips, and whispered: "The leg hurts, and there is... ...."

After confirming that Zhou Tong didn't need ambulance, everyone put into the intense fire fighting work again, not paying attention to what they were doing hiding in the corner.

"I know." Zhou Tong took off his helmet, took off his gloves, and gently wiped a tear from the corner of the instructor's eyes. "I miss you too, I've always thought of you."

"I'll send you back first, and then hurry back." Zhou Tong didn't dare to delay, and without further ado, he hugged Xi Yang effortlessly, ignoring all eyes of surprise, curiosity, or indifference, and took every step quickly and quickly. Walk steadily towards the exit of the laneway.

"Stop moving around, take a good rest." When he realized that the trainer was hugging his neck tightly, he hugged him tighter again, and his tone was stronger than ever. "Don't go anywhere, just wait for me. I swear with my life, I will definitely come back, I will always come back, no matter how long or where I go."

"Can you trust me now?"

The summer night was long overdue, Zhou Tong looked at the last sunset glow on the horizon, recalled countless heartbreaking partings and departures in his life, and those untouchable souls that turned into stars, and finally realized Because of the fear of losing, the entanglement with the past, and the confusion about the future, people said to Xi Yang more firmly and gently: "Don't be afraid, the past and the future don't exist. I."

"If one day we have to face death, I will disappear with you by your side and meet you again in another quantum time and space."