After a moment of silence, the young man said in a hoarse voice, "No need, keep it... ahem... keep it."

"Listen to yourself, your throat is about to smoke!"

The speaker was a little annoyed, and then everyone in the ruins heard a groping sound.

"...are you here?"

"Brother, you don't have to—"

"Who knows how long we'll be trapped, if you really don't hold on, I can't stand being rotten here! Drink as you please!"

A few seconds later, there was a slight swallowing sound in the silent darkness.

"...Thanks, bro."

"Is this enough?"

"enough."

So the ruins were once again shrouded in silence, but now, it was not as oppressive as before.

Zuo You, who was holding his girlfriend in his arms, looked in the direction of the voice in the darkness with great surprise.

If he heard correctly, the voice should be...

"We shouldn't sit still." At this moment, a woman said, "We must try again."

"Try what? Do you want to dig a hole yourself?" The person who just delivered water to the injured young man sneered, "If something collapses again, should I fight you in the underworld?"

"That's better than waiting here to die!"

The voice of the woman who proposed suddenly raised her voice: "Don't you understand! We are likely to be trapped for a dozen, twenty hours, or even three or four days in a major earthquake of this magnitude! There is no water, no food, or even And the injured...you said it yourself, in case he really—"

"You said your mother!" The person handing the water yelled, "Don't create panic here, shut up!"

"I'm saving the lives of everyone here! If you don't save yourself, do you still expect the government to save you? Why do you expect the efficiency of this bloated organization?"

"Don't normal people wait for rescue? Is there something wrong with you?"

Their quarrel made the atmosphere that was slightly better once again dull and dignified—everyone knew that the situation was too bad, everyone knew that it was impossible to be rescued in a short time, and everyone knew that acting rashly might cause a negative chain reaction, but Likewise...everyone wants to survive.

—even the man who handed the young man water.

"I... have a solution."

The not-so-fluent Jiuhua broke the heaviness and heat.

"I'm studying...architecture. I just used light to illuminate it. Over there, there is a piece of gravel on the top. Its position is unstable."

"But we... can't touch it, we need to use other methods, as long as its fulcrum... is deflected, it may move away, that big piece of gravel."

Although there are some stumbles, the words are still clear, and the meaning of the expression is also very clear.

"Then do it! What to do!"

Hearing this, the woman who advocated self-help just now said hastily, "How do you break that fulcrum?"

"Yes, is there a cultivator?"

"I!"

The answer was crisp and refreshing, if the voice hadn't been childish.

The speaker sounded like a teenager.

There was a brief silence in the ruins.

"...Why don't you talk? I'm really a cultivator... certified! The second level, I can use a little bit of magic!"

"...You, what do you know?" The man in Jiuhua said jerky.

"Uh... It should be enough to strengthen the human body a little bit and increase the strength of the person."

As a second-level cultivator, being able to use spells is rare enough, and there is no way to ask too much.

"That high place, there is no place to stand...you can't climb up and push away."

The man said: "Use something... There are gravels nearby, not small. You can smash it open, but you must not smash it sideways if you hit its edge, otherwise..."

He didn't say what this is or what it is, but everyone knew it very well.

"Ah..." The boy responded in a panic, "I, I don't have much confidence in my accuracy."

"Then don't move!" said the water-handling man who had been silent all this time, "The risk is too great."

"Here, sir." The man in Jiuhua spoke modestly, "The young man next to you needs to be treated as soon as possible, otherwise bleeding and trauma infection will kill him. We can't bet on when the Jiuhua government will find him. us."

"..." The man who delivered the water fell silent.

And in this short three or two seconds of silence, someone said again: "Leave it to me, my accuracy has always been good."

Zuo You firmly held his girlfriend's hand, and said in a deep voice, "We will never make mistakes!"

"You! You he—"

The voice of the man delivering the water was first startled, then angry, but in the end... he didn't say the dirty words out of his mouth.

"Think about it, if you make a mistake, everyone's death may be on your head."

"I won't make mistakes, don't you know very well, boss."

"……whispering sound."

The boss who once met Zuo You in that small town by chance, and had a dispute with him, and almost got into a fight, let out a sigh of displeasure.

"Then... I'll leave it to you." From the fluency of his speech, the man who was obviously from overseas turned on his phone and shone a light on a piece of rubble above the ruins.

There were thin cracks around the gravel, only a few cracks of light revealed, it looked very solid, but under the continuous tremors, Zuo You could see that the rocks were also shaking.

"This size..." He was shocked, "If you can move it away, it will definitely allow people to pass through!"

"There is no support above this rock, so even if it is removed, it will not collapse."

"I can help you get stronger, brother!" The boy said loudly, turned on the phone screen and leaned over, "Where are you?"

"This!"

Zuo You waved his hand: "I have found enough stones!"

His girlfriend held his hand tightly and said in a trembling voice, "Ayou, Ayou...we'd better wait for the rescue, it will definitely arrive soon."

"..." Zuo You silently looked towards the darkness, towards the corner where the injured young man was. Even now, he could still hear the young man's painful moans that he was trying to suppress but could not completely stop.

"Some people can't wait, Lianghua." Zuo You lowered his voice, "And...it is true that a more serious earthquake may occur at any time, just in case, if it collapses again...we can't wait, Lianghua."

Someone once taught him the value of courage when he stood up, and told him the power of courage when he stood up.

No one knows whether the earthquake will strike again, and no one knows how severe the next earthquake will be.

At this moment, at this moment, someone has to stand up, in this silent, panicked majority, someone has to stand up.

——Because as long as you stand up, there will be people who have the same courage to respond to you.

"Would you like to lend a hand?"

The person who spoke was the boss who had made things difficult for him.

Zuo You was also stunned, he didn't expect that the first one to respond to him was the boss who had a grudge against him and didn't support his actions.

"What do you mean?" The woman who first proposed to take measures disdainfully said, "Now you are pretending to stand up again?"

"Can you shut up? If you just talked about the plan like that foreigner just now, instead of saying that we are going out, or we will die, the government is useless and other nonsense, what would I say? Huh?"

"you!"

"..." Zuo You is now [-]% sure that this is the boss, his temper is really as violent as before, and his mouth is still as poisonous as ever.

"Then... Please help me take a picture of the location, and a few more people can take a clearer picture."

Hearing this, the boss stopped arguing with the woman, turned on the phone and touched Zuo You's side, and said a little unhappy, "Where is the photo?"

"That's right, that stone." The boy and the overseas man who provided the light at the same time shook the lights.

The boss turned on the flashlight to provide light, finally giving Zuo You a clear enough vision.

"You've been strengthened, brother!"

The young man who muttered in a low voice for a long time patted Zuo You on the shoulder: "I leave it to you!"

A powerful force that Zuo You had never experienced surged through his body. He clenched his fist in disbelief, lowered his head and weighed the stone that he said was too heavy just now, and said pleasantly: "It can definitely be done!"

This level of aiming and "shooting" is a piece of cake for him, but even so, Zuo You's palms are still sweating.

He suddenly understood why so few people came forward.

——That responsibility, that pressure, that weight.

"That... still can't see clearly?"

Someone whispered: "Will this be better?"

Another ray of light cleared the field of vision.

Then someone turned on the flashlight again, and the person who had given up and sat slumped seemed to be looking forward to it.

But there will always be someone who steps up...and here's why.

Zuo You didn't hesitate any longer, and ruthlessly threw the stone in his hand!

Bang-!

A heart-shattering muffled sound echoed in the ruins, followed by a dead silence that was only a few seconds long, but seemed to last for several hours.

cluck cluck——

The rock shook, vibrated, rolled down slowly, and hit the ground heavily.

In the gap above that can allow people to pass through, a real sun shines into it.

Zuo You stared blankly at the dazzling light above, a strong sense of loss of strength swept through his body, and the explosion of cheers filled him with strength.

"I said, I said I can go out!"

At first, she proposed to go out, but just like the boss said, the woman who had no plan other than to vent her emotions ran to the bottom of the hole screaming, "Pick me up, lift me up! I'm a woman!" "

Borrowing the sunlight, Zuo You had a glimpse of the woman's face.

It was unexpected...the face of a foreigner.

The boss scolded directly: "Get out! Let the wounded go first! Carry the wounded out first! Then children, the elderly, parents with children, and then go out according to age!"

Overseas women froze for a moment, then shouted: "What are you talking about! I'm a woman, women first! You call yourself a civilized country, don't you even understand such rules!"

"...feminine does not mean weak, there is no need to give in, this lady." Zuo You's girlfriend said softly, "Don't waste our time anymore, you must leave now, otherwise who knows when the next wave of earthquakes will come ?”

"I... you! I have to be the first to leave, or uh-"

The woman rolled her eyes and fell to the ground, while the man who knocked her out smiled, and said in a non-standard Jiuhua: "Hurry up, I will be responsible for taking my... impolite compatriot out." , according to the standard that gentleman said."

He is also a foreigner.

Because the number of people trapped was not too many, no one raised objections to this arrangement.Everyone hurriedly transported the tearful young man out of the cave, and then climbed out of the ruins in an orderly manner according to the boss's proposal.

"Why don't you leave?" The boss glanced at the boy.

"I am a cultivator!" The young man raised his neck, "I can help others! Of course I have to go back!"

"How many are you!"

The boss scolded angrily: "What kind of a big man is a ten-year-old brat, get out of here!"

The boy suddenly became angry: "I'm not a brat, without me, how could that stone be broken!"

"Okay, okay...Little brother, can you please climb up to meet us first?"

Zuo You smiled and said, "This is something only you can do."

"Oh! It's easy, leave it to me!" The boy patted his chest, turned over and crawled to the entrance of the cave, and stretched his hand down, "Come on, who's next?"

Zuo You pushed his girlfriend, the girl hesitated for less than a second, stood on tiptoe and kissed his cheek, and crawled towards the entrance of the cave without any nonsense.

"It's your turn." The boss said angrily.

"..." Zuo You looked around and found that everyone had already evacuated, only the boss, him, and the two overseas people remained.

"Let that gentleman go first." Zuo You said, "He was the first to stand up. Without him, we couldn't have escaped so easily."

"I'm just proposing a plan, but really under pressure...Forget it."

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