booktalesy Chapter 65 Su Peixue Disappears
Chapter 65 Su Peixue Disappears
"Lin, we have to treat you to a meal!"
Wu Weimin stood in the rain, looking back at the landslide, his face pale. He turned around and patted Lin Ran on the shoulder, his hand trembling slightly.
"Thanks to you. Otherwise, the entire formation would have..."
Wu Weimin was still shaken! He didn't dare to think about the consequences! They were unimaginable!
If Lin Ran hadn't run over and reminded them in time, half of the students who were just squatting at the foot of the mountain to take shelter from the rain would have been buried in the ground!
No one can bear the responsibility for such a terrible accident!
How many families will be broken?
Ignoring the murmurs around him, Lin Ran anxiously scanned the room and demanded, "Where's Su Peixue?!"
The students in the class were all taken aback!
Looking around, Su Peixue was indeed nowhere to be seen!
Wu Weimin's heart sank!
"Xuexue and Song Yin have both disappeared!"
Zhao Yining's voice trembled with tears: "What should we do?"
Panic flickered across Tan Shuang's usually expressionless face. Her lips were trembling.
Wu Weimin's face turned even paler. He had just recovered from the fear of almost burying the whole class, and now another blow was hitting him.
"The whole class evacuated together, but Su Peixue and Song Yin weren't with us. Where did they go?!"
The noise from the landslide attracted the instructors. Several instructors ran over carrying shovels, followed by their superiors from the base.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Wu Weimin's class had all left.
That noise was terrifying! You could hear the booming sound from far away!
A leader in a raincoat squatted in front of the landslide for a few seconds, then stood up, his face darkening. He understood geology, or at least landslides. What he saw wasn't just one landslide, but the entire mountainside was shifting.
"There is a risk of secondary mudslides! All instructors, immediately lead all students to evacuate the base!"
"Two more trainees are missing!" Wu Weimin reported.
"What?!"
The instructors' captain, Fan Junchi, widened his eyes in surprise!
The other instructors were also shocked!
This is a huge problem!
Lin Ran walked coldly to the pile of shovels, picked up a shovel, and headed into the mountains.
"What are you doing, student?!"
When Wu Weimin saw that Lin Ran was still heading into the mountains, he quickly called out.
"Save people."
Lin Ran spoke in a deep voice, his pace quickening.
Zhao Qian grabbed his arm: "Are you crazy! The captain said there might be a mudslide! A special rescue team will be coming to save people!"
"There is a golden time for rescue; it will be too late by the time the rescue team arrives."
Lin Ran had reviewed the data. The first half hour after being buried is the golden rescue period; after that, the survival rate drops precipitously.
The rescue team will arrive from the city, and even without traffic, it will take them forty minutes. Forty minutes, plus travel time and the time needed to pinpoint the burial site, is simply not enough!
Zhao Qian didn't loosen his grip. "Have you considered what might happen if there's a mudslide?" He was an instructor, and his duty was to ensure the students' safety. Sending a student into danger meant he would be responsible if anything happened. But he also knew Lin Ran was right. By the time the rescue team arrived, the golden window for intervention would have passed.
Lin Ran took a deep breath, and rain streamed down his forehead.
"My people are missing. Even if the sky falls, I will search for them. You should evacuate first."
Fan Junchi glanced at Lin Ran, as if this young man was the classmate praised by the instructors for his leadership qualities.
"We can't let him take that risk! Go and pull him back right now! I'm contacting the rescue team right now and telling them to get here as quickly as possible!"
Fan Junchi shouted.
The mountains are extremely dangerous now. Even a slight landslide or collapse could be fatal! Not to mention the ever-present threat of mudslides!
At this time.
Zhao Yining and Tan Shuang followed. Then came Yao Ziwen, Li Yifan, and Wei Min. They had somehow found shovels; Yao Ziwen carried an entrenching tool, Li Yifan held a spade, and Wei Min had nothing but a thick tree branch picked up from the roadside.
"Why are there still students running this way?! Get out of here immediately! It's dangerous!" Fan Junchi shouted.
But none of them listened to him.
Yao Ziwen forced a relaxed laugh, but his face was deathly pale. He said to Lin Ran, "Su Peixue has gone missing. We can't let you be the only one to do the hero's rescue."
Li Yifan also said, "Yes, yes, yes. There are four of us in the dorm, so we share the hardships together."
Zhao Yining shook her head and said, "It's our roommate who's missing."
Tan Shuang stood there without saying a word.
Fan Junchi was completely overwhelmed!
Seeing that she couldn't persuade them at all, and they wouldn't even listen to her orders, Lin Ran suddenly turned to them and said, "You should leave. It's dangerous here. Your parents would be devastated if something happened to you."
"But what about you, Lao Lin? Aren't you in danger too!" Yao Ziwen and Li Yifan shouted.
Lin Ran, carrying a shovel, disappeared into the shadows of the trees.
"But she only has me left..."
If I don't even look for her, who else will care about her?
Seeing Lin Ran rush into the mountains, Zhao Qian cursed, grabbed a shovel, and followed. He wasn't persuaded; he knew he couldn't stop him.
Since we can't stop them, let's go together.
Wu Weimin also carried a shovel.
"I'm responsible for the people in my class." He was Su Peixue's instructor, and since the person was lost in his class, he was responsible.
"You lot, did you hear what Lin Ran said? Get out of here right now, don't delay the rescue!"
Wu Weimin said to Lin Ran and Su Peixue's roommate.
They were all stunned for a few seconds before leaving, turning back every few steps.
Fan Junchi sighed heavily. He had no better idea at the moment. He just felt that the young man's words were really effective, even more so than his own as the captain!
Lin Ran only realized the landslide was happening halfway up the mountain when he saw that it wasn't just one place. Several other sides of the mountain had also slid, covering a large area. Mud and gravel had completely covered the original mountain path, and several pine trees had been uprooted and lay horizontally on the ground, their roots pointing upwards, with mud still clinging to their roots.
Zhao Qian stood in front of a landslide, his shovel planted on the ground.
"If those two students are really buried, with so many landslides, digging in the wrong places will waste precious time." He was an instructor, trained in the field. He knew how difficult it was to find people in this kind of terrain. It wasn't just about digging; it was about digging in the right places. If you dug in the wrong places, it might be too late by the time you found them.
Wu Weimin crouched down and examined the terrain. "Three people digging together is the fastest. But which spot should we gamble on?" He had also been trained. He knew what this meant. They were gambling with their lives.
Lin Ran's gaze swept across the entire landslide area as he searched for clues.
Su Peixue wouldn't appear somewhere for no reason. She said yesterday that Song Yin found a grove of plum trees near the culvert.
Culvert.
Green plum tree.