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The shaking finally stopped, Song Cheng propped up his body, and held up the flashlight to shine back. The scene under the weak light gave me a chill.

The place less than ten meters away from us was completely engulfed by rocks and landslides, and the rock I just sat and rested was completely buried in it.

The plastic raincoat was ripped apart in the chaos, and icy drops of water slid down my hair.My heart was beating wildly, my lips were numb, and it was the first time I experienced the fear of the rest of my life after a catastrophe.

If I had stayed there to rest, I should be dead by now.

But even if I had to die, I definitely didn't want to die in such a miserable and ugly way in such an inexplicable place.

Song Cheng seemed to have said something, I didn't recover, I stared at him in a daze, unable to distinguish anything from the sound of rain and sharp tinnitus.He barely pulled me to stand up, and pressed his lukewarm lips to my ear, his voice finally became clear:

"It's not safe yet, follow me!"

In the darkness, I could barely see the outline of his back, and the warmth from his palm became a reassuring rope connecting me and the world.

After calming down, countless questions swarmed - why is he here?how did he find meWas it just a mudslide?

"Take care of the road. There may be many dark pits rushing out. Be careful not to step in and hurt yourself."

Song Cheng tugged at my wrist, only then did I notice that he was staggering and walking very hard, so I quickly reached out to help him.He frowned, took a few deep breaths to calm down his pain, and gave me a sorry look: "Thank you."

"Don't say such things." I still remember that his calf was injured. I don't know how the injury was caused by such a toss, and I felt terribly guilty, "You put my shoulders on my shoulders."

The rain is heavy and sometimes small, no longer the terrible scene of torrential rain, and it seems to have a tendency to weaken.I couldn't ask any more questions, so I could only concentrate on supporting him, and walked forward with a deep foot and a shallow foot.

I supported Song Cheng, I couldn't walk too fast, I gritted my teeth and moved forward with a sense of tenacity.I don't know how long I have been walking, but the rain is gradually getting lighter, which is much better than the previous situation where I couldn't even open my eyes under the rain.

Song Cheng stopped to take a picture of the surrounding mountains, observed for a while and said, "There is no problem here, let's rest first."

I also look up decently, and the black mountains are still the same in my eyes.It is said that it can rest, but the surrounding area is full of mud and weeds sticking to the ground, so there is no place to sit and rest.

But I was very tired, and I didn't have the heart to pay attention to it, so I sat down on the ground as soon as I heard him say that I could rest.If the conditions were not so bad, I would have liked to lie down and take a nap.

"One o'clock thirty-two." I took a look at my watch and said with a wry smile, "Maybe I really have to spend the night in the mountains."

Song Cheng sat down beside me, and said in a hoarse voice, "Junyan, can you help me get the light off?"

I took the flashlight and saw that he used something to cut open the lower end of his trousers without hesitation. His calf was obviously swollen, and he looked a little scary.

"Are you okay?!" I didn't expect the situation to be so bad, "How could this be?"

Song Cheng frowned, his face was extremely pale under the light: "I felt something was wrong when I fell on the ground just now... Probably a broken bone, but there should be no dislocation, so it's not serious."

I was at a loss and said, "Isn't this serious? It must be very painful. I have to see a doctor!"

"Junyan, don't panic." He raised his eyes and looked at me, "Find me a stick nearby, a straight thick branch is fine, it's better to be sturdy. I noticed a lot on the way we passed just now, don't go too far. "

"I'll go right away." I said immediately, "You wait."

After the rainstorm, the clouds were slightly thinner, and the sky was much brighter than before.

I thought it would not be too troublesome to find branches along the road, so I returned the flashlight to Song Cheng.Unexpectedly, he said unquestionably: "Take it, your eyesight is bad, how can you find branches in the dark?"

"It's not that you can't see at all, you will feel at ease here with a flashlight..."

"Legs are already painful enough." With wet hair sticking to his forehead, his face darkened, "If you accidentally slip and fall again, I will feel even more distressed."

I was beaten in high school and really felt the pain of broken bones for a while.But my injury was considered minor at best, and it was completely incomparable with Song Cheng's situation.

No wonder he gasped occasionally along the way, and his spirit was surprisingly poor.I thought it was just a bump on the original wound, but I didn't expect him to endure such pain all the time, yet still managed to remind me to be safe.

The more I thought about it, the more sad it became, and even the exhaustion became bearable, and I soon came back with a few branches that I thought qualified.The rain stopped slowly, and the mountain wind was still damp and strong, brushing against the skin in waves, making people shiver.

Song Cheng's thin coat was blown up by the wind, his lips had turned bloodless, and he must have been very cold.He cut the cut trouser legs into long strips, and cut off the branches of the branches to make them into a suitable shape.

The technique is very skilled, the movements are not sloppy, and even have a kind of cold beauty.

I sighed in a low voice: "Fortunately you brought a knife, otherwise it would be a lot of trouble."

"The one I used to peel apples before is not easy to use. It can't be compared with a saber." He sighed helplessly, "Junyan, hold it down for me, don't let it slide."

I reached out to hold the branch to facilitate Song Cheng's fixation, and accidentally touched the skin of his swollen calf, and the extremely hot temperature seemed to burn my hand like sparks.

When he fixes it, my tense nerves relax, and the torment of physical loss cannot be ignored.

But Song Cheng's condition was worse than mine. We sat side by side to rest. I looked at the simple fixing device on his leg and said worriedly, "Tell me if you feel uncomfortable."

In fact, these words are useless, I can't share half of his pain, it will only become his burden.

He said softly: "Talk to me and divert your attention, I will feel better."

"You can't walk like this, let's wait here for someone to find you." I thought for a while, "I don't know if it will rain again..."

"No." He looked up at the sky, "The rain has stopped, look."

I also raised my head, and found that the clouds dispersed at some point, revealing a clean and quiet night sky above my head, and it was completely impossible to see that there had been a frightening storm before.

Although this scene is not very beautiful, it is enough to give hope to me who was discouraged during the long wait.

"Why did you come to me?" I breathed a sigh of relief and asked the doubts that had been in my heart for a long time. "It was raining so hard at that time, so there was no need for you to go out."

"Someone called you, but Xiaoqian didn't dare to answer it rashly. As a result, your phone kept ringing. I found it strange. I asked her to find out that you hadn't come back after helping." Song Cheng said, "When the rain is light, the signal It’s better, when other people receive a message to help, I’ll follow along.”

"But your leg is still hurt."

"It's okay, I've almost recovered in the past few days."

"what?"

I was speechless and stared at him for a moment.Song Cheng rarely showed embarrassment, and coughed twice to hide it: "But he hasn't fully recovered."

"Forget it." I didn't have the strength to care about this, and couldn't tell whether to laugh or cry, "How did you find me?"

"I met Brother Zhang's assistant on the way. He said that you should have gone back, but we didn't meet on the way."

He rubbed the space between his brows, tiredness climbed up his face: "You have no experience in field training, and the rain is fierce, and there have been mudslides in some places, how can I rest assured? They said that there is only one way to go, maybe it is in the I happened to miss it when I was entering or leaving the village. But I was afraid of anything, so I went back to look for it and found this."

He took out a pair of dirt-smeared glasses from his pocket, and I realized that it had been lost halfway, and I was in a complicated mood and couldn't speak, just staring blankly.

If Song Cheng hadn't looked back for me, maybe I would have died in despair at this moment.

"... Even so, you didn't have to take such a big risk to protect me and cause you to suffer such a serious injury."

"Instinctive reaction, there is no time to think about it." He was silent for a while, and then said suddenly, "Even if I have time to think, I will still make the same choice."

I looked sideways at him sharply.

Because of the pain, he didn't show the gentle smile I was familiar with, but there was something more real in the deep eyes under the frowning brows.

For a moment, I heard the beating of my heart beat the howling of the wind.

"Song Cheng, thank you."

It took me a long time to speak, and after waiting for a long time without hearing a reply, I realized that Song Cheng had fallen asleep leaning against me with his head down.Even in his dream he frowned slightly, other than that his sleeping face was defenseless.

"Come to me."

Compared with tens of thousands of high-sounding promises, what really touches me is a hand stretched out in the dark without hesitation.

go to him.