TopAppnovel Chapter 105 Am I going to die?
Chapter 105 Am I going to die?
Su Wanwan never expected that she would encounter a sandstorm tonight!
Bai Rongbei once said that sandstorms in the Gobi Desert can come suddenly, and if you encounter one, you must find a sheltered place to hide, lie low, and cover your mouth and nose!
Su Wanwan's heart tightened. She looked around and vaguely saw a dark, raised area to her left, like a pile of sand or a embankment.
She gritted her teeth and used her last bit of strength to rush over.
It was indeed a small mound eroded by the wind, with a shallow indentation on the back.
Su Wanwan huddled up and squeezed in, facing away from the wind, covering her mouth and nose with her sleeve and burying her head in her knees.
Su Wanwan hugged herself tightly, her body trembling uncontrollably from exhaustion and cold.
The pit wasn't completely sheltered from the wind; the cold, sandy air enveloped her, and her temperature was rapidly dropping.
She felt her hands and feet begin to go numb, her teeth chattered, and her consciousness began to blur.
Those spies... they probably can't catch up, right?
It's so cold... colder than falling into an ice hole in winter...
Su Wanwan shrank herself even tighter.
Time seemed to stretch out, and every second felt like torture.
She started to feel sleepy, her eyelids were so heavy she couldn't lift them, but a voice inside her was calling out.
can not sleep!
Once you fall asleep, you won't wake up!
But it's so cold tonight.
Su Wanwan's eyelids drooped...
At the brick kiln, after the initial intense pain and shock, the injured Wang Xiuying and Gu Lin discovered that the two assailants had chased after another figure and had not killed them to silence them.
The two struggled to get up, their backs and arms burning with pain.
"Is the baby...is the baby still inside?" Gu Lin asked in a trembling voice, her face completely pale.
Wang Xiuying was terrified, but remembering her plan, she forced herself to say, "Quick, let's go in and look! If we can find the child, then all our injuries won't have been in vain!"
The two men, supporting each other, moved fearfully into the brick kiln.
The place was empty. Wang Xiuying found the approximate location where she had hidden the child, but there was no sign of him.
"How could this be... It should be here..." Wang Xiuying panicked.
"Were they taken away by those two people?" Gu Lin asked, her voice trembling with tears.
"Search! Search carefully!" Wang Xiuying was unwilling to give up and endured the pain as she groped around in the brick kiln.
After searching around, Wang Xiuying kicked the loose brick, discovered the niche, and heard faint sobs coming from inside.
"Here he is!" Wang Xiuying was overjoyed and quickly pulled aside the broken bricks and straw mats to take out Gou Dan, whose little face was blue from the cold.
When the child saw her, he cried even louder.
Wang Xiuying didn't care about anything else. Together with Gu Lin, she carried the child and stumbled back.
Along the way, the two tacitly began to rehearse their lines.
"Just say... it's the child we risked our lives to rescue from the bad guys..."
"Yes, we were injured, but we protected the child with our lives..."
"Those two people... ran away..."
The two carried the child back to the village.
When Gou Dan's mother saw the child, she rushed over, snatched the child away, and burst into tears.
"Found them! The child has been found!"
"It was the comrades from the cultural troupe who rescued her!"
"Oh dear, look how badly they're injured! They've lost so much blood!"
"A hero! A true hero!"
Officer Zhang and Zhou Min breathed a sigh of relief and quickly had someone take Gu Lin and Wang Xiuying to the commune clinic for treatment.
They also arranged for people to reassure the crowd and explain the situation, stating that unidentified criminals had taken advantage of the chaos to commit crimes, but had been bravely repelled by the comrades from the cultural troupe, and the child had been safely rescued.
Surrounded by the crowd, listening to the praise and gratitude, Wang Xiuying and Gu Lin felt their injuries less painful.
Especially Wang Xiuying, although the plan went wrong and she was injured, the result was good.
She glanced at Gu Lin, whose face was pale but whose eyes were filled with excitement, and felt extremely smug.
Amidst the celebrations, Zhou Min suddenly realized something was wrong: "Where's Su Wanwan? Has anyone seen Su Wanwan?"
Everyone looked at each other.
In the chaos just now, no one noticed.
"Didn't Wanwan go with you to look for the child?" Zhou Min asked Wang Xiuying.
Wang Xiuying's heart skipped a beat, and she stammered, "I...we searched separately, and then we encountered bad people, and...we stopped seeing her."
Zhou Min's heart sank.
Officer Zhang frowned and immediately organized a search party to search the surrounding area, with the brick kiln as the center.
But by then, a sandstorm had already started, making the search extremely difficult.
……
The sandstorm gradually subsided, but the cold wind was biting.
Su Wanwan felt like she was about to die.
Before she died, she heard someone calling her name.
"Wanwan!" After finding Su Wanwan, Bai Rongbei pulled her into his arms. The person in his arms was so cold, almost hypothermic.
Bai Rongbei quickly unbuttoned his military overcoat, wrapped Su Wanwan up tightly, and held her close to his chest, warming her with his own body heat.
No, my body temperature is too low, I need to start a fire.
Bai Rongbei immediately lit a small bonfire in a sheltered spot and spread out a military first-aid blanket.
He carried Su Wanwan to the fire, letting her lean against him, and kept rubbing her cold hands, feet, and cheeks.
"Wanwan, wake up, Su Wanwan!" He called her name over and over again.
The person in my arms was unresponsive, only a faint breath remained.
Bai Rongbei hugged her even tighter.
"You'll be alright, I won't allow anything to happen to you," he whispered, unsure whether he was speaking to her or to himself.
Su Wanwan couldn't warm herself up with just her own body heat.
Bai Rongbei hurriedly went to start a fire.
A fire was lit, and the whole area became warm.
Bai Rongbei felt the cold body in his arms warm up a little.
The latter half of the night was exceptionally long.
After Bai Rongbei found Su Wanwan, he originally planned to take her back.
But she has a severe hypothermia, and the most important thing now is to restore her body temperature. We'll take her back tomorrow.
So Bai Rongbei fed Su Wanwan hot water and warmed her by the fire, staying up all night and constantly watching over her condition.
As dawn approached, he finally felt that her body temperature had returned to a considerable level.
His breathing was steady; he had clearly fallen asleep.
Bai Rongbei breathed a slight sigh of relief, his tense nerves relaxing.
He hadn't slept a wink all night, and leaned against the mound behind him, closing his eyes.
As dawn breaks, the Gobi Desert changes from deep blue to grayish-white, and the distant horizon begins to show a pale white.
Su Wanwan was awakened by the white light.
She felt as if she had a very long and cold dream in which she kept running and hiding, and finally fell into an ice hole.
But now, she felt a warm sensation beneath her, and heard a strong, powerful heartbeat in her ear.
She opened her eyes groggily.
The first thing you see is military green, and the fabric is a bit rough.
She blinked and found herself lying on a broad chest, her face pressed against warm skin, and a familiar scent lingering around her nose.
Is this... a dream?
Was she dead?
So you finally met the person you wanted to see?
She moved slightly and raised her head.
In the dim light of dawn, she saw a face with distinct features, slightly furrowed brows, closed eyes, and long eyelashes that cast a small shadow beneath his eyes.
It is the northern part of Bai Rong.