Sha Zhu's Rebirth in the Courtyard: Starting with Hitting Someone in the Head

Chapter 415 A Hundred-Mile Night Run, Creating a New Opportunity

At exactly 6 p.m., He Yuzhu set off alone into the depths of the mountains in western Sichuan. The straight-line distance from Guanghan to Yingxiu is 90 kilometers, and National Highways 213 and 317 were completely destroyed after the earthquake.

But for him, who was at the Core Formation Realm, landslides, ravines, and rocky beaches were no obstacle.

Night fell over the mountains, plunging them into darkness. He Yuzhu unleashed his full lightness skill, his body moving as swiftly as the wind, leaping over large pits and traversing the boulders with incredible speed.

With his ability to see the night as if it were day, coupled with his 30-meter spatial perception, he could anticipate and avoid any loose rock formations, falling rocks, or deep pits beneath his feet.

Along the way, aftershocks occurred without any fixed pattern, the earth shook frequently, and large amounts of debris and mud tumbled down the cliffs with a terrifying roar. For ordinary people, traveling this route would almost certainly result in certain death, but He Yuzhu skillfully maneuvered and quickly made his way forward.

After running for more than 10 kilometers, they entered a desolate, uninhabited mountain area, where not a single person could be seen. He Yuzhu had a sudden thought, and he stored all the portable satellite base station, maritime satellite phone, and infrared life detector he was carrying into his storage space.

There's no need to rush around with a bunch of unnecessary equipment and then set it up once we get to Yingxiu town.

After navigating a treacherous mountain road of over 90 kilometers, riddled with landslides and boulders, for a full two hours and ten minutes, He Yuzhu finally entered the territory of Yingxiu Town at around 8 p.m.

The reality of Yingxiu is before us. The town has a population of over 12,000, including migrant workers, and more than 2,000 people escaped after the earthquake.

These survivors were not all huddled together. Some teachers and students gathered at the remaining playground of Xuankou Middle School, some villagers hid on the high hillside of Yuzixi, and most of them stayed by the ruins of their own houses, crying and digging through the rubble with their bare hands, trying to save their relatives buried underneath. The sounds of crying and wailing could be heard intermittently everywhere.

Most of the buildings in the town collapsed and were smashed. The teaching building of Xuankou Middle School was severely subsided and tilted, and the dormitory building was twisted and deformed. Only the playground was largely intact. The ground was full of cracks and was not buried by construction debris. The terrain was relatively high and it was not afraid of flooding from the Minjiang River. It was the safest and most open flat area in Yingxiu.

Dark clouds pressed down from the sky, the mountain wind grew colder, and the air was thick with the stench of dust and blood; a heavy rain was imminent that night. If it rained, those trapped beneath the rubble would quickly suffer from hypothermia and infected wounds.

The more than two thousand disaster victims are left in the open, without shelter, suffering from the cold and rain, and the number of casualties will continue to rise.

He Yuzhu quickly found a location to set up a communication base station. He came to a high mound behind the playground, a location far away from the collapsed area of ​​the dangerous building.

A complete set of satellite communication equipment was retrieved from space and a portable satellite communication base station was set up. The equipment was powered on and locked onto the satellite. Three minutes later, the first high-definition real-time video channel was officially established in Yingxiu, the epicenter of the earthquake, which had been isolated from the world for more than six hours.

The camera was pointed at the entire Yingxiu ruins, and images and disaster reports were transmitted back to the forward base all at once.

At this moment, in Zipingpu.

Han Weiguo and Zhao Tieshan, along with the Zhonghuan Rescue Team, the He family teenager, and a platoon of soldiers from the People's Liberation Army, were working through the night to level the site, divide it into supply and medical areas, and rush to set up the base tents. As everyone was busy at work, the command center's large screen suddenly lit up.

The screen directly displays firsthand footage from the epicenter of the Yingxiu earthquake: vast stretches of ruins, collapsed buildings everywhere, and scattered refugees standing beside the rubble, their cries faintly emanating from loudspeakers.

Everyone present froze instantly.

He Tie and the other ten men stared wide-eyed, their faces pale. They had never seen such a horrific disaster scene. Han Weiguo and Zhao Tieshan, two veterans, felt their throats tighten.

The PLA platoon leader and all the soldiers stationed there stood frozen in place, their faces filled with shock, suffocation, and grief.

Since the earthquake struck this afternoon, people across the country only knew that the epicenter was in Yingxiu; no one knew that it was in such a terrible state!

No one could have imagined that He Yuzhu, the world's richest man, would rush into this desperate situation all by himself overnight and manage to transmit the images from the epicenter!

Everyone at the Zipingpu base was instantly filled with excitement and awe.

News, images, and real-time disaster information were simultaneously transmitted back to the Guanghan Military Airport Command and the provincial earthquake relief headquarters.

All the senior officers and commanders, watching the shattered Yingxiu land on the screen, were completely silent, deeply shocked and moved.

He did what no one else could do.

When the whole country had no way out, he forged his own path.

The entire army halted, but he went against the tide alone.

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On the hills of Yingxiu.

He Yuzhu confirmed that communications and video transmission were stable and that the outside world had obtained complete information about the epicenter, so the search and rescue operation was officially launched immediately.

With his 30-meter spatial perception fully activated, he traversed the ruins at breakneck speed, receiving feedback from the underground environment.

(Historical fact: Later, a larger force arrived and conducted a multi-day search and rescue operation, but only a little over three hundred survivors were rescued from the rubble.)

In the first round tonight, He Yuzhu plans to prioritize rescuing the most seriously injured trapped individuals, who he estimates number to be over a hundred.

When rescuing someone, one must be discreet and leave no room for ambiguity.

He specifically targeted deserted, ruined areas. Each time he located a trapped person, he would first manually pry up some heavy floor slabs and large sections of building structure, making it appear as if someone had dug there.

Outsiders will only assume that the survivors were pulled out from this gap. As for the details, there's no need to worry; the constant aftershocks will cover everything up.

Before He Yuzhu lay the ruins of a residential building, with several precast concrete slabs weighing hundreds of kilograms stacked on top of broken beams, bricks, and rubble, the total weight of which weighed several tons, firmly pressing down on the entrance to the ruins. Ten strong men couldn't move it, and heavy machinery couldn't enter the town.

A mother and daughter were trapped beneath the rubble. The mother's legs were severely injured and she was covered in blood, desperately protecting her five- or six-year-old daughter. The little girl was still in a state of panic and could not be stored in the spatial storage.

With a thought, He Yuzhu sent silver needles directly to the acupoints behind the little girl's ears. Within seconds, the mother and daughter fell unconscious and were safely brought to a standstill in the space.

On the surface of the ruins, only a gap that He Yuzhu had just dug open remained, completely disguised.

And so, they traversed the ruins one by one. Sensing the trapped individuals, they slept those who were conscious and struggling in pain with a single injection, and those who were barely alive and unconscious were simply taken in. At each search and rescue site, they preserved the general appearance of the compressed ruins and carefully camouflaged the scene.

In just over an hour, He Yuzhu rescued more than 120 seriously injured people from the depths of the ruins in the first round, and put them all into his spatial storage.

Just after the rescue was completed, raindrops began to pelt down from the sky, and the rain grew heavier. The person couldn't remain in the space indefinitely; they had to be brought to the ground for immediate medical attention.

It's impossible for a large number of tents and supplies to magically appear out of thin air. The more than 2,000 refugees who escaped were active around the playground of Xuankou Middle School. It simply doesn't make sense for supplies to appear out of thin air.

He Yuzhu walked through streets littered with rubble, aftershocks rolling by and dust billowing everywhere. He found several shops, and he pried open tons of broken concrete beams and collapsed walls. At the entrance of each ruin, he cleared a gap that had been deliberately cleared.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the night, he used the ruined walls as cover to place bottled water, compressed dry food, and various non-staple foods from the first supermarket on the open ground outside the ruins, mixing them into the supplies in his space.

Tents, tarpaulins, and ropes appeared at the entrance of the second general store. He then took out quilts, blankets, and a special tent from his spatial storage and piled them next to the rubble, covering them with the tarpaulin.

The third batch of supplies were all taken from the space and placed next to the ruins of the grocery store. He Yuzhu even sprinkled dust and water on them to disguise them.

The supplies were piled up separately in three locations, each looking as if they had been salvaged from the ruins of the corresponding shops. After finishing everything, He Yuzhu brushed the dust off his clothes and returned to the playground of Xuankou Middle School.