CHAPTER 1495: CHAPTER 1496: SHH (10 UPDATES, REQUESTING REWARDS!)

Your heart grows heavier and heavier, deeply afraid that what you fear most might happen; if it really does, you might never forgive yourself.

In your view, if you had woken up and come here at the first moment and taken Liang Xinyue to Yuhang City, all the problems would cease to exist.

However, in this world, what’s most lacking is a regret medicine!

When you arrived at Wen’an Middle School, you found it too was a wasteland in front of you. There were a total of three teaching buildings, all collapsed; one even sank underground, tilting over thirty degrees.

Many people were around the school, mostly parents, all gathering together to carefully search the ruins, yet what they unearthed were mostly chilled, tiny bodies.

The cries were overwhelming!

"Mayor Liang, what’s the situation outside now, have you made contact with the outside world?" spotting the middle-aged man walking with you, three middle-aged men immediately approached from within the crowd.

You couldn’t believe the middle-aged uncle beside you was indeed the mayor; looking at his tattered clothes, full of scratches, not at all like the high and mighty mayor he usually is.

Mayor Liang let out a long sigh: "It’s not working, all lines are disrupted, and the road collapses so severely that we simply can’t get out—wait!"

Mayor Liang suddenly seemed to remember something and asked you beside him: "Young man, you look like you just came in this morning, right?"

You nodded.

"How did you get in?"

"Climbed in." You spoke succinctly, yet his current concern wasn’t these things; he quickly yelled to the surroundings, "Who knows Liang Xinyue?"

Your shout drew the attention of some people, and soon a woman in her thirties came over. She looked at you and said, "She is my student, and she still hasn’t been found. Alas, it’s not just her; there are also more than a dozen children still missing!"

Speaking to this point, the woman covered her face with both hands, bowed her head, and began to sob: "They’re just children! They’ve only just begun their lives..."

The woman was already choking up and couldn’t speak anymore.

You hurriedly asked, "Where were they when the earthquake happened?"

The woman didn’t speak; instead, an older woman beside her sighed: "Those dozen or so kids should be trapped under the experimental building. The few kids who escaped said those dozen ran to the stairway on the first floor when the entire teaching building collapsed."

Upon hearing this, you dashed towards the slanted teaching building. Your running speed was swift as the wind, making people merely feel a strong gust before you swiftly passed by.

Once near, two young men stopped you, advising, "Don’t go any closer; this teaching building could collapse at any moment!"

"Move aside!"

You deftly maneuvered, bypassing the two of them and charging ahead fiercely. At this moment, a group of people began to gather around, but no one dared to approach. The teaching building was large, and if it collapsed, they’d all be in trouble.

"Young man, come back quickly!"

Mayor Liang stood outside the safe line, looking anxious.

You ignored him, quickly rushing to the experimental building, approaching lightly on your feet.

While walking, you observed carefully.

You found that the bottom, the first floor of the experimental building, sank roughly two meters into the ground. From the exterior, the structure seemed relatively intact; those dozen children might simply be trapped underneath.

With this realization, you felt slightly relieved yet clearly understood that it was crucial to find those children and rescue them swiftly.

Upon this thought, you squatted down directly and began to throw some nearby debris backward with your bare hands.

Your arm strength was terrifying; what a group of ten couldn’t move, you lifted a cement slab alone, and after walking nearly a dozen meters away, gently placed it down, afraid that the vibration would affect the teaching building.

Witnessing this scene, everyone was stunned. For those dozen trapped children, you were merely a stranger. Still, many standing outside watching were teachers, even parents and relatives of the children.

"We can’t let him fight alone; let’s go help too."

The youth who had been photographing you with his phone suddenly spoke, walking over first, imitating your steps as he lightened his steps.

"Let’s help too!"

Everyone around exchanged glances and made up their minds.

Mayor Liang hurriedly stopped everyone, saying: "Everyone, don’t rush up together, as more people would increase the weight. Little Liu, you lead a few strong comrades to help, everyone else stop watching and continue searching for survivors; at this moment, time is life!"

About half an hour later, you and those beside you finally cleared a small passage.

You said to those around: "You all wait outside the safety line; I’ll crawl in and check."

"No, we’ll wait right here. No matter what, we have to save the children!"

The youth’s words drew unanimous response from the crowd.

Glancing at them, you nodded and said, "Alright, then wait outside; if there’s news, I’ll inform you immediately."

With that, you buried your head and crawled into the little passageway. Just as you entered, the youth followed closely behind.

Glancing back at him, you didn’t say much, yet your heart was warmed. In these times, having such passionate and perceptive young people was indeed rare!

The end of the passage was a drop of about two meters. With your left hand gripping a stone slab, you jumped down like an ape.

Just as the youth was about to follow, he heard your voice: "You don’t need to come down; use your phone’s flashlight to shine for me."

As the youth took out his phone, preparing to turn on the flashlight, a weak cough sounded from inside.

That cough caused both you and the youth above to be instantly invigorated.

The light soon illuminated down, brightening the once dark world. Following the light, you found five or six children lying beside you.

Quickly squatting down, you performed a rough check on the children, smiling at the youth above: "Great, they’re all fine!"

"What now?" the youth quickly asked you.

"I’ll lift the children up to you, and you carry them out one by one."

"Alright!"

This passage was only narrow at the entrance, while the spot leading to the drop was able to accommodate several people at once. When they saw the youth carrying a child out, those outside hurriedly climbed in. Most of the twelve children were merely unconscious, incredibly fortunate not to have sustained physical injuries.

"Comrade of the Liberation Army, come up quickly!" seeing there was no one below, the four people at the edge of the drop hurriedly spoke.

"Shh!"

You gestured for everyone to keep silent.