The search and rescue that Gu Chenglan mentioned was nothing more than going into the village to check on the conditions of each household.
Nowadays, the village is completely silent, giving people the illusion of a deserted village.
The wind and snow that had been raging for a long time finally subsided, as if Suno and the others had reached a certain point and started the next stage of the process.
Su Yang stood at the head of the village and hesitated for a moment. He was obviously hesitant whether to go to Jiang Pingwan's house first or the village chief's house first.
In the end, Su Yang decided to visit the village chief's house first, because he came back for Jiang Pingwan and Li Siwang, but also for the other villagers here.
The village chief's stone house is one of the few remaining intact and appears to be relatively safe.
But when you walk into the yard, you feel particularly deserted. The door of the house is open, opening and closing with the gusts of wind.
This feeling made one's scalp numb, and Gu Chenglan couldn't help but slow down.
Su Nuo held Gu Chenglan's hand and said softly: "Let me go in and take a look. I smell blood."
"Yes." Gu Chenglan also confirmed: "Someone is injured, or..."
The light in the room was dim. Su Yang habitually touched the light cord at the door, but did not pull it open after pulling twice.
Gu Feifan took out the flashlight but did not turn it on immediately. Instead, he asked: "Do you need to illuminate it? Maybe there is something you don't want to see."
"Open it." Gu Chenglan said, "It's in the back room."
Su Nuo understood what Gu Chenglan meant by "in the back room". Without further delay, she quickly walked to the door of the back room and pushed it open.
This time the door was closed, probably locked from the inside.
"I'll open it." Gu Chenglan said, pulling out a dagger he carried and stuffing it into the crack of the door. Pushing it up and down, the door was opened from the inside.
As soon as he opened the door, the strong smell of blood hit his nostrils. Under the dim light in the room, he could still clearly see three "people" lying side by side on the small bed.
Gu Feifan paused, as if he was a little scared, and handed the flashlight in his hand to Su Yang.
Sunuo had already stepped into the room and walked straight to the bed.
The three "people" on the bed looked like they had left after being seriously injured.
One's head was covered with dried dark brown blood; the other's chest was completely sunken, and he must have been hit by a boulder; and the other didn't appear to have serious external injuries, but his mouth and nose were full of blood clots, and he must have suffered a severe injury. Serious internal injuries.
"They are villagers." Su Yang knew almost all the villagers here. After seeing them, he said, "They are the village chief's neighbors."
Gu Chenglan frowned. There was nothing to avoid at this time, so he said directly: "These villagers were probably brought here after the disaster. Maybe it was because there was no treatment conditions..."
"Go and have a look at some other houses." After Gu Chenglan finished speaking, the four of them went to several other well-preserved stone houses.
As expected, there were at least two corpses in every house, both of them seriously injured.
But fortunately, Jiang Pingwan or Li Siwang were not found among these corpses, and there was no village chief.
"They may have moved to a safe place with the village chief." Su Yang said, "It's just that we don't know where to find them."
"No, let's look at the other houses." Gu Chenglan frowned and said, "Look at the ones with the worst damage."
Su Nuo already understands Gu Chenglan's worries, but she doesn't want to tell the truth now. She hopes those people still have a chance to survive.
(End of chapter)