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Chapter 30

When the earth is no longer silent, the world begins to tremble.The sky is dumping sand, and the gravel on the construction site is collectively dancing, forming a strange dance.The two were running between the buildings, and a building with rough concrete and steel bars was like a paralyzed patient, kneeling and kneeling beside them, turning into a pile of ruins.

The front exit swayed and magnified in front of his eyes, but the figure beside him suddenly became shorter. Gao Shuli turned his head to see that Lu Shijun was tripped by a pile of steel pipes under his feet and fell to the ground, and he hurriedly turned around to pull it.As soon as he grabbed the opponent's hand, there was a shadow pulling down the tree from the corner of his eyes. He withdrew his hand in desperation, and the nearby scaffolding with the fence net fell down, pressing on Lu Shijun's back.Lu Shijun's back didn't hurt very much, but he felt as if his lower body was loosening. Just as he grabbed Gao Shuli's outstretched hand, a strong shock came through the earth's crust.Just below him was an uncompacted inspection well. The soil and rocks at the mouth of the well fell off, and the inspection well cover sank. The body suddenly lost its support and was dragged downward by gravity.

Gao Shuli looked at the collapse under Lu Shijun, as if he wanted to engulf Lu Shijun and then suck himself in, the shock became stronger and stronger, he couldn't stand still, and felt like he was about to fall down.A red shadow fell from the top of his field of vision, and he reflexively let go of his hand and sprinted to the side.Lu Shijun and the steel pipes beside him were pulled into the ground, Gao Shuli was stunned for a moment, then turned and ran out of the gate.After running half a street, he regained consciousness and stopped, and found that the whole city was shaking in front of his eyes.

He struggled against the weightlessness under his feet and staggered forward. At this time, he found that the stomach pain that had tortured him for the past two months had disappeared. Looking back at the construction site with broken bones, he couldn't help laughing wildly—Gao Jia, Gao Jing and the whole Sang Everything, everything that he was worried about losing was stripped away in an instant, including his heart, liver, spleen, stomach, emotions, sorrows and joys.The feeling of weightlessness has turned into a sense of frustration. Walking is like stepping on a video game dance machine. Because you are afraid of falling under the eyes of everyone, you will feel dizzy, but when you really fall under the dust, you will no longer have this feeling.He continued walking aimlessly, and suddenly fell to his knees, because the severe colic pain in his chest made him unable to move on.

Lu Shijun is still at the construction site, he is there on countless Saturdays for recreation, his lover who he knows through mutual use is there, that person he never thinks is necessary for life, he can and does give up at critical times The dead man, he is being eaten by the earth, he will be buried with the broken corpse of the building.He found that his vision was a bit blurred, and after wiping his eyes, he realized that he was crying—it turned out that even at this moment, he didn't have nothing.

He ran back, turned around the gate, heard a howl, and saw a man's legs pinned down by the collapsed stone wall beside the gate.He casually found a short stick to support a corner of the stone wall, and moved the stone wall away with his bare hands. The person inside took a deep breath, threw the crushed mobile phone aside, and wiped the ashes on his face. Fang Yu's appearance.Gao Shuli didn't have time to think about it, so he handed him his mobile phone, lost a sentence of "call the police" and ran around, found a hard hat and a shovel, and tried his best to distinguish the direction of travel and find the original place.On the rubble at the inspection well, a few rusty-yellow steel pipes poked out, and the side was covered with a red falling object just now, which was a "safety first" sign with the word "安".While shoveling the gravel, he roared to the ground: "Shijun, Lu Shijun, where are you, hold on. Shijun, Lu Shijun——"

He didn't know how long he had been shoveling and how much he had moved with his bare hands. He just felt suddenly hugged from behind and thrown to the ground, and a cement slab was "slammed" on the spot at the same time.He wanted to go up and move again, but several fire officers and soldiers pulled him out, and said solemnly: "Now the earthquake is very strong, and non-professional rescuers have to take refuge in an open place."

He stood where he was, and saw the sand and sand pouring from the tall buildings in his vision, as if they were crying, and there were the cries of women and children and the rumbling sound of collapsing.When he forced himself to calm down, he had already been taken to an open space to take refuge.There was a father beside him crying and pestering the fire officers and soldiers to let him go back to save his son. He stepped forward and grabbed the other man by the collar, and ordered, "If you can't help, at least don't make trouble. Only if you calm down, they can." Send more troops to rescue people."

He sat down in a position and fumbled around for his phone, only to remember that it was given to Fang Yu.A woman beside him handed him her mobile phone, and he said "thank you" before dialing the number with trembling hands, the screen was covered with blood from his fingertips.The earthquake seriously affected the base station in the area, so he had to stand up, check the signal constantly, and then ran until he reached a place where the signal was stable.The first call was not connected. He wiped the blood on his clothes and made another call. After a "Hello", Qiao Zhan's voice came from the opposite side: "Our house hasn't collapsed yet. But Lao Gao went out at noon and I don't know where he is."

He couldn't feel his fingers anymore. He finally made a call, and when he heard "Hello" from the other party, tears fell, his throat was blocked and he couldn't speak.

Lu Shijun recuperated on the hospital bed for nearly two weeks, and all the zongzi-like packages were removed from his body. When he was dimly conscious and unable to move, he saw Gao Shuli lingering at the door of the ward, waiting until he could finally sit up. At that time, I never saw him again, and I couldn't dial his phone number.

The radio and television have been reporting the details of the Sandu earthquake rescue, but he felt calm in the news center, which is also the case. The ground resumed its crawling posture, and the number of dead and missing people was beating steadily every day. Under the orderly deployment of the army and the army, the supply is far more abundant than the demand, not to mention the situation where people consciously abandon basic needs.

This unprecedented earthquake shattered the originally intricate network of relationships, so that when he went home and found the landlord to claim the financial settlement of the rent, the other party waved his hand and said forget it, and the people above him could not be contacted. And to whom.He went to the relevant department formed temporarily to apply for a new certificate, and when he went out, he didn't know where to go except to look back at the moving team behind him.Stopping in front of the reading column of the newspaper, I saw several bankruptcy information listed in one corner of the newspaper, another report that several foreign companies planned to withdraw from Sandu, and the largest page was the post-disaster reconstruction plan made by the central government.Lu Shijun looked at the reading column made of two bamboo poles and a large three-ply board, and understood that it would be pulled out of the soil and thrown to the ground before it was covered by densely packed small advertisements. Maybe a stainless steel bar will be built here in the future. The glass window reading bar, but then it will bear much less significance than it does now.

After the highway for entry and exit of Sandu was reopened to traffic, people from the insurance company also came, and they apologized and said: "Mr. Lu Shijun, I am sorry that it took nearly two years to find you. Your parents died two years ago. Around August, I was killed in a car accident on the road from Luozhou to Sandu. According to their records in my company, which is the company where Mr. Lu’s parents work, the beneficiary of their personal accident insurance is you, but at that time we We have not been able to get in touch with you. We did not know your whereabouts until the list of missing persons released by the Sandu earthquake a while ago. If there is no problem, please sign this document, and the bank will quickly remit the insurance money to your account."

Lu Shijun looked at the contract handed in front of him, and didn't quite understand whether the other party's "I'm sorry" was because of a two-year delay in finding the beneficiary, or because of his parents' car accident, or because of this natural disaster that related to his interests.He looked at the two in confusion, and asked, "You mean, my parents are gone?"

The other party bowed his head in a manner, and said, "Please accept my condolences."

After he sent the two away, he replied to the email from the US side, booked the nearest ticket, and left in a hurry.

After more than half a year, Qiao Yun suddenly found him and asked him if he knew Gao Shuli's whereabouts.He looked at the hurried pedestrians outside the window, none of them could be Gao Shuli's compatriots living abroad, he said: "After the earthquake, he never came to look for me, and I didn't wait for him either."

Qiao Yun took a sip of coffee, looked at his watch again, and asked, "Do you know what's going on?"

"do not know."

"There is still some time. Let me explain this matter to you. When he contacts you, you can tell him. The paternity test report my dad got is fine. The problem lies in Chairman Gao himself. He has two problems. DNA—maybe two embryos in the uterus fuse into one during the embryonic period, so one gene is responsible for expressing the limbs and trunk, and the other is scattered in various parts of the body, possibly expressing the uterus and genitals, so chimeras produce Sperm or eggs may be inconsistent with other DNA content on the body, resulting in the result of rejection of parental relationship. I only learned about the whole thing a few months ago, noticed the abnormality of CIP, and persuaded Mr. Gao to do an inspection, and the result proved my guess That's right."

Qiao Yun suddenly became a little discouraged: "But neither the Gao family nor I can contact Gao Shuli. Did he die in the earthquake?"

"No," Lu Shijun smiled wryly, "I saw him after the earthquake. Did the Gao family go to Shuyang to look for him?"

Qiao Yun shook his head and said, "There are fifty towns and thousands of villages in one city in Shuyang, and I don't know the exact location, how can I find it?"