Chapter 552
Chapter 552
Chapter 552: Chapter 544: Never Offend the Doctor Chapter 552: Chapter 544: Never Offend the Doctor Before she had time to get angry, that same sound echoed through the air again.
“Shh...” Tang Yuxin put a finger to her lips, gesturing for Gu Ning to be quiet.
It was some sort of sound, this sound… What was this sound?
“A helicopter.”
Gu Ning stood up, but immediately bent back down to smooth out Tang Yuxin’s hair for a while.
He wanted her to look presentable, not dishevelled and unrecognizable.
In normal times, Tang Yuxin was always quite careful about her appearance.
He wondered if she would remember this day for the rest of her life, her state of disarray, how truly unattractive she had become?
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“A helicopter?” Tang Yuxin still sat there in shock, then she lifted her head and strained her eyes to the sky.
A helicopter was coming to get them.
After ten days, half a month, they were finally being rescued.
She hurriedly stood up, brushing off the dirt from her clothes, attempting to make herself presentable.
At that moment, the surviving people were desperately waving their hands at the helicopter in the sky, hoping it would come down to rescue them.
No matter how much they yelled and screamed, the helicopter never descended.
Tang Yuxin’s hand, which she had raised in the air, dropped back down.
Had they given up on them, decided not to save them, or…
Just as she began to lose hope, to be disappointed, to despair, numerous items started falling from the sky nearby.
They were clothes, and food, and water.
Gu Ning quickly turned his head to the road where they came from.
A vehicle was bound to come from there because this place wasn’t suited for a helicopter landing.
And with so many people, it wasn’t possible for a single helicopter to carry them all away.
So, hold on.
They would be rescued soon.
After all the items were dropped, the sky was quiet again.
There was nothing, only the sound of the wind, even birds were missing.
She wanted to hear the sound of birds slicing through the sky with their wings.
Just as their food and water supply ran out, help arrived.
Gu Ning said it would be soon.
Yes, she believed it.
Very soon, very soon.
With the heaps of food and water, time wasn’t as torturous.
It was their hearts that were restless.
Every passing minute, every second, even each breath between, was torturous, like each day was a year.
This happened because they had hope, a desperation-fueled hope.
The normal people, the uninjured ones, formed an orderly queue and took a packet of instant noodles and a bottle of water each, without any fights.
Some people who had taken the down jackets originally intended to leave, but they turned back and covered the injured with the jackets.
Then, perhaps out of shame, others also left the down jackets for the injured.
Not a single person used the down jackets for themselves apart from those two women.
“Wear this.”
Gu Ning handed Tang Yuxin a down jacket, helped her put it on, and buttoned it up for her.
Only then did Tang Yuxin start to feel warm.
But her hands and feet were still numb, still throbbing.
She wondered if she was getting frostbite.
She had medicine for frostbite, always carried it.
But due to the heavy snow, she was starting to feel frostbite again.
As a doctor, getting frostbite was quite ironic.
Seemed like she would have to take particularly good care of her hands next year.
Otherwise, it could affect the flexibility of her fingers.
Her hands couldn’t get injured.
They sat there waiting, watching, thinking, hoping.
With piles of food and water, time wasn’t an enemy.
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