Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 402 Dead End
"Sorry, we can't save everyone."

Even though a lot of time has passed, Zhong Yin can still often think of the terrible explosion, the collapse that seemed like the destruction of the world, the flames gradually dying in the rainstorm, the cries and wails in the darkness, and the two cold corpses covered with white cloth.

The search and rescue worker was drenched by the heavy rain, his gloves were torn, and his body was shaking with exhaustion. He was obviously exhausted from saving people, but he still had to say words of comfort to the people he had saved with a heavy heart.

really weird.

At that moment, Zhong Yin suddenly felt that this world was too absurd. The person who tried his best to save others apologized, but a coward like himself who was saved, after seeing the sad expression on the other person's face, would inexplicably feel a trace of anger in his heart.

What are you angry about?

Angry that they couldn't save everyone? Or angry at my own incompetence?
…It’s clearly me who should apologize.

She often thought that if she had been braver, she might have been able to save her parents instead of watching them become cold corpses.

She had the chance to save everyone.

What's even more tragic is that her hearing was severely damaged by the violent explosion, so much so that she couldn't even hear her parents' last words.

Not a word.

Covered by heavy rain, the whole world was blurry that night. The wind carried a fishy and salty smell, whimpering crookedly in the firelight.

Through the thick rain curtain that was like a barrier, she could not see her parents' expressions, nor could she hear their voices.

But she knew very well that no matter what her parents said, that must be the future they had promised her with all their might.

But she let the "future" slip away from her hands.

In the ambulance, the doctors were busy checking Xiaoling's condition. Although I couldn't hear what they were saying, from the expressions on their faces, Xiaoling's life should not be in danger.

This is the only good news today.

The best decision she made tonight was to knock the unconscious Xiao Ling to the ground and cover her ears tightly before the explosion.

But she didn't know how to face Xiaoling after she woke up.

In Xiaoling's world, her parents are the whole world. She is not sure whether she can be a qualified older sister and become the new spiritual support for her younger sister.

"You two are sisters, right?"

Suddenly, a tired voice sounded beside me. It was the exhausted search and rescue worker. It seemed that he had worked too hard to save people. He had many injuries on his body. The skin on his hands was worn off and he was bleeding. He was forced into the ambulance.

She was stunned. She didn't find it strange before, but now she thought about it, she clearly couldn't hear anything, so why could she still hear this person's voice?
Is this a dream?

It was pitch black outside the car window, and the whole world seemed to be shrouded in fog. Even the car lights could not penetrate. It felt unreal, as if it was indeed a dream.

Whether it was a dream or not, Xiaoling was unconscious now and she couldn't hear any sound from the outside world. Even if she wanted to find someone to communicate with, she couldn't. Maybe she would feel better if she talked to this person.

"Yes, thank you for saving us."

There was a long silence in her ears. She suddenly felt a little scared. She didn't know if it was because her hearing loss was too severe. She couldn't even hear her own voice. She didn't even know if she had succeeded in saying this sentence.

"You're welcome."

Fortunately, after a while, the man finally responded, saying in a bitter tone, "I'm sorry, I wish I could save your parents."

"No need to apologize. It's already amazing that you saved us."

She was a little angry that this person was saying such things again.

Seeing that person lowered his head and didn't speak, as if he was in a low mood, she continued, "A person's ability is limited. You can't save everyone. Just do what you can."

"Is it within your power..."

After a long silence, the man smiled bitterly and said, "My ability may be stronger than you think."

"That's enough," she said.

There was another moment of silence.

"Is that enough?"

"That's enough. Anyway, I don't want to hear any more apologies from you... I am very grateful to you."

The man seemed to be a little slow in responding, and each time he answered, he was half a beat behind. Suddenly he shook his head and sighed, "Obviously, you know this very well yourself."

"what?"

She didn't quite understand what the other person meant. She turned her head and looked. Suddenly her expression changed and she asked in horror, "Are you...are you okay?"

"fine."

"But your ears are bleeding..."

This person's hearing is also impaired. No wonder he always answers half a beat late. It turns out he can't hear himself speak clearly.

"Your ears are bleeding, too."

The man touched his ear and looked at the blood on his hand, seeming not to care at all.

"Doctor! Doctor!"

But she couldn't help but care, and hurriedly shouted for a doctor. However, when she looked around, the doctors and nurses in the ambulance had disappeared. Only she, the man beside her, and Xiaoling lying on a stretcher were left in the car.

There was no driver in the car, but the ambulance continued to move forward.

This is really a dream...

She calmed down, but still couldn't bear to see the other person's ear continue to bleed, so she hurriedly picked up the bandage from the car and used it as a tissue to help wipe the blood that had already flowed down the man's cheek.

"Don't be so nervous. I told you, my abilities are stronger than you think." The man grimaced in pain, then smiled indifferently.

"Are you a chuunibyou?"

She frowned, only then noticing that this person was unexpectedly young, indeed he looked like someone who was still living in a fantasy.

What a strange dream.

She knew no medical skills and could do nothing except to wipe the blood flowing from the other person's ears, just like when she could only watch her parents being swallowed by the boulder from afar in tears.

The man seemed to see the sadness in her eyes and kept trying to comfort her, but she didn't listen until he said this -

"I heard your parents' last words."

She raised her head suddenly and looked at the other person with a dull expression.

"Didn't you hear it clearly?" The man repeated seriously, "I said I heard your parents' last words."

"What...is it?" Although she knew very well that this was just a dream and the last words were just a self-comforting fantasy in the dream, she still wanted to listen to it.

"they said……"

The man was about to speak, but at this moment, the ambulance suddenly shook violently, and the roof instantly sank inward, as if it had been hit hard by a heavy object.

The ambulance began to tilt from side to side, and she subconsciously rushed to the stretcher and held her still unconscious sister tightly in her arms to prevent her from rolling around in the car and getting hurt.

"It seems something went wrong again."

The man frowned slightly, tightly grasped the handrail beside him, looked up at the dented roof and said, "I'll go out and take a look. Protect yourselves."

"go out?"

She was stunned for a moment, looking at the raindrops rapidly retreating outside the car window, and asked nervously, "How are you going to get out?"

The man did not speak, but responded with practical actions.

He opened the car door and jumped out of the ambulance while it was driving at high speed.

She was horrified and looked out of the car window quickly, but the man was nowhere to be seen, completely disappeared in the rainstorm.

She was stunned for a moment and wanted to say, "At least tell my parents' last words before you leave," but thinking that the person might not be able to hear her words anymore, she closed her mouth silently, hugged her sister and stared at the open car door in a daze.

The strong wind brought with it raindrops as big as beans, which kept drilling into the car and hitting people's cheeks, causing pain.

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

It felt like heavy objects were constantly falling on the top of the car, making the roof dent continuously. The space inside the car became smaller and smaller, and the surroundings gradually became dark, like a thick black liquid.

She laid her sister in her arms flat on the ground, carefully pressed on her, and covered her ears with force.

Although I can't hear it, the noise must be very noisy now.

As the space in the car became smaller and smaller, she could feel something heavy pressing against her chest. The air became more and more stuffy, with a fishy and salty smell that made it increasingly difficult to breathe, as if she was not in the car but under the water.

It was getting darker and darker all around, and gradually I couldn't see anything.

What a terrible dream... she thought.

But even though it was just a dream, if only I could have asked that person's name just now...

He always feels a little familiar...

……

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Zhong Yin suddenly opened his eyes, coughed up several mouthfuls of water, gasped heavily, and greedily breathed in the long-lost air.

The sunlight was not too glaring, but it made her feel a little uncomfortable.

What made her even more uncomfortable was the pair of large hands pressing hard on her chest and the face so close before her.

With his back to the sun, the face seemed a little blurry, and gradually overlapped with the figure in the dream, but soon turned into Han Zhou's face.

Pale and tired, with a few seaweeds on his head, he looked extremely disheveled, but his eyes were particularly bright.

Her body was wet and sticky, and a gust of cold wind blew past her. She couldn't help but shiver. She put away her wandering thoughts and looked around.

"Sister Yin, are you awake?"

Seeing Zhong Yin waking up, Han Zhou was overjoyed, and the girls around him were even more relieved and came closer with excitement on their faces.

Zhong Ling wanted to throw herself into her sister's arms, but was worried that this would hurt her, so she just knelt on the ground and held her hand tightly.

Zhong Yin's head was groggy, but he had remembered what had happened before. He had the impression that he seemed to have fainted after seeing Han Zhou approaching, and he couldn't remember what happened after that.

She smiled at Zhong Ling, then suddenly thought of something and asked nervously, "Where are Gu Zheng and Yi Xia?"

"Don't worry, they are all fine."

Ouyang Lianyu explained with a smile, "They woke up earlier than you, but they don't have much strength left, so they lie down over there to rest. Xiaoxiao is taking care of them."

She pointed to a place not far away where Gu Zheng and Mo Yixia were lying on a low slope basking in the sun, looking exhausted. Beside them was Xiao Xiaoxiao, who was sitting cross-legged with her hands on her chin, as if she was saying something to them.

Mo Yixia was very calm. After falling into the water, she kept holding her breath and waiting for rescue. Gu Zheng had enough energy, so both of them were in better condition than Zhong Yin. Although they were unconscious for a while after getting ashore, they woke up soon.

It is worth mentioning that although Mo Yixia woke up quickly, she kept pretending to be unconscious. Her acting skills were superb and she almost fooled everyone. Han Zhou immediately decided to give her artificial respiration. Gu Zheng, who woke up first, objected loudly and almost climbed up from the ground with her head down, repeatedly asking that she should do the artificial respiration.

Mo Yixia was also very patient. She waited until the moment Gu Zheng was about to put her mouth close to hers before opening her eyes and saying indifferently, "Be careful or I'll sue you for sexual harassment."

How could Gu Zheng not see that this guy was trying to trick Han Zhou into giving her artificial respiration? She immediately flew into a rage and scolded her for being shameless. However, Mo Yixia remained calm and replied, "It's you who didn't know how to seize the opportunity," and then closed her eyes to rest.

Han Zhou had a headache, but Zhong Yin, who was in the most critical condition at the time, was not out of danger yet, so he left Xiao Xiaoxiao to take care of the two of them, and then rushed over to give Zhong Yin artificial respiration.

It's not that he wanted to take advantage of this, but Ouyang Lianyu had already given Zhong Yin artificial respiration, but the other party showed no signs of improvement, so he took the initiative to take over, and while pressing Zhong Yin's chest, he used his remaining few points to activate the "Long Illness Becomes a Doctor" skill.

Perhaps it was the effect of "long illness makes a doctor", or perhaps it was because Ouyang Lianyu's previous artificial respiration was only beginning to take effect. Under repeated chest compressions, before he could blow out any air, Zhong Yin suddenly woke up and sprayed water on his face.

After hearing the general situation from Ouyang Lianyu, Zhong Yin let out a sigh of relief and expressed his gratitude to everyone. Then he asked in confusion, "How were we rescued?"

In her opinion, the situation was already quite critical. It would take a lot of time to help Mo Yixia clear the water plants wrapped around her feet or to get Guzheng ashore. Han Zhou should not have had time to rescue her. Could it be that someone else went into the water at that time?
Ouyang Lianyu smiled and said, "I forgot to say that you were all rescued by Han Zhou. He took a fishing line with him before he went into the water, and he tied the three of you to his body and swam up."

"Tied to the body..."

Zhong Yin was stunned for a moment, then he noticed that there was a deep mark on Han Zhou's black autumn clothes, and faintly visible scarlet blood seeping out.

She vaguely remembered that when she was unconscious, there seemed to be someone dragging her towards the surface of the water.

Han Zhou had not stopped to rest properly since he entered the water, and only now did he have time to sit on the ground to recover his strength. Hearing this, he smiled nonchalantly and said in a weak voice: "It's not all my credit. If you hadn't helped me on the shore with your fishing rods, I wouldn't have been able to bring you up."

Wang Lengqiu stood behind him and helped him clear the water plants on his head without saying a word.

Zhong Yin stared blankly at Han Zhou's abdomen which was still bleeding, and the scene of the other party wrapping the fishing line tightly around his abdomen emerged in his mind. He thought that although this guy said it lightly, the situation must have been quite dangerous at that time.

"Thank you," she said softly.

At this moment, Wang Lengqiu, who had been silent all the time, suddenly spoke, and it was impossible to tell whether he was happy or angry in his tone.

"When Han Zhou came ashore, the fishing lines on your bodies were tied in a knot."

(End of this chapter)