Chapter 57 Escape from the bridge(1/2)
[Exclusively published by Jinjiang Literature City]
"The bridge deck is cracked!" After someone shouted in horror, people nearby were frightened and confused. Others also saw cracks in front of several cars.
On the gray-white cement bridge, several gaps as wide as two fingers are stretched across it, winding and criss-crossing. The bridge deck on both sides of one of the gaps has a height difference of nearly ten centimeters. The front wheels of the first few cars
It is stuck in this gap.
With a drop of more than ten centimeters, if the car drives hard, it can still be driven over, but now this is on a bridge across the river, and there is such a big gap on the bridge deck, who dares!
The people in those cars first got out of the car to check the situation and discussed with each other whether to call the police first, but they knew that the bridge started to shake at this moment.
After the first shock, and several more, someone discovered that the gap that was originally two wide had become four or five fingers wide, and a black and empty hole seemed to be opened on the bridge. It was originally only at the front wheel of the car.
The gap has spread to the fronts of other cars behind.
"No! Back off!" Someone took the opportunity and prepared to abandon the car.
"Where's the car? What to do with the car?" Some family members who were in the car asked anxiously.
"How can you drive when there is a traffic jam like this? No matter what, get out of the car and run! Human life is important!" With a clear mind, he immediately dragged his family members towards the back.
“Wait a minute—my bag is still in the car!”
"No more! Let's go!"
…
A few cars behind, those who didn’t hear the shouting but didn’t know the situation were still moving forward, complaining about why the car in front didn’t move, and asking if it was a car accident. Even if there was a car accident, they shouldn’t be so incompetent blocking the bridge, right?
"Hey, whose car is in front of you? Is there something you want to solve, should you move the car aside first? Everyone is rushing home to eat, this is too much! If you do this again, I will call the police -
—”
A man raised his neck and shouted forward. Before he could finish his words, he was hit by someone who was running backwards. He couldn't hold the cell phone firmly in his hand and it fell to the ground.
He quickly bent down to pick it up, but another person ran in front of him and almost stepped on his cell phone.
He quickly blocked the opponent's feet, picked up the phone with a curse, and slowly straightened up while carefully checking his phone. This was a new phone he just bought last week, so don't break the screen.
.
Fortunately, because it was protected by the phone case, the screen of the phone was fine. He wiped the phone twice and was about to put it away when another person ran over and bumped into him regardless. The phone he picked up fell to the ground again.
The man was so angry that he grabbed the person who hit him and refused to let him go.
"Why are you pulling me! I'm sick! I'm running for my life!" The other party struggled hard with his eyes wide open. Seeing that he refused to let go, he punched him directly. After getting away, he ran towards the other end of the bridge in a hurry.
The unlucky guy who dropped his phone twice and got punched finally straightened up and realized that not only the people in front of him were running backwards, but also the people in the car next to him were also running backwards.
The lanes in the left and right directions of this river-crossing bridge are separated in the middle. They are retreating here, and the people on the opposite side are also driving forward desperately.
Not far ahead, a black private car was trying to reverse and drive back from the emergency lane. However, the cars behind it were blocked. There was no way the car could turn around. However, it drove back more than a meter and hit the car behind it.
The front of the car.
The owner of that car was nearby and immediately shouted curses at the black car.
The owner of the black car ran along the emergency lane as soon as he got off the car, completely ignoring the curses behind him.
"The bridge deck is cracked! Everyone, run back! Hurry!" Someone finally ran and warned the people around him loudly.
The unlucky guy who had not seen the situation with his own eyes and was still hesitating was frightened by this tense scene. He was hugged by the crowd and took two steps back. Finally he realized what was going on, turned around and ran back.
Before he could run even a few steps, the entire bridge began to shake violently, and he heard a numbing crackling sound coming from behind him, dull, heavy, but continuous.
He subconsciously looked back and saw that the cars that were blocked at the front actually tilted and sank.
On such a cross-river bridge, what does the collapse of the bridge deck mean?
The man's heart was beating violently, and he ran quickly towards the bridge, squeezing through the crowd and passing through the gaps between cars, as if there was a ghost chasing him from behind.
When he passed a car, he picked a young woman off the hood of the car. He couldn't brake and almost collided with her.
However, the other party reacted quickly, and he didn't know how. He braked in time, stopped his steps and body, and stopped in place to avoid colliding with him. The man didn't have time to say sorry and continued to rush forward as if he was dying.
You Xi walked around the front of the car, opened the passenger door, unbuckled Zhao Xuefei's seat belt, and pulled her out of the car: "Hurry up, the bridge deck is cracked!"
"What!?" Zhao Xuefei was scolding the man just now on WeChat. The man asked her to return the brand-name bag, but she told him to eat shit. After typing the words, You Xi pulled her down before she sent them out. She had no time to sigh.
The other party was very strong and said hurriedly: "My bag!"
You Xi pulled off her bag, hung it around her neck, then leaned into the car and pulled out the car key, then closed the door and locked the car.
When she dragged Zhao Xuefei towards the rear of the car, she put one hand on the car and threw all the cosmetics, perfume and watches she had bought in the back seat into the Star House warehouse.
At this moment, she was very happy that she had done something thoughtful and put a one-way film on her father's car early in the morning. From the outside, she could not see inside the car at all, and it was even less possible to notice the disappearance of items in the back seat.
After collecting her things, she began to speed up and pulled Zhao Xuefei towards the back of the bridge.
No matter what the situation ahead was, whether it was serious or not, they were currently one-third of the bridge and were too passive. If something happened, it would be too late to escape.
After running a few steps, the bridge deck fell heavily again.
This movement was louder than the previous vibrations, and everyone around them screamed. Some people lost their balance and fell to the ground. Some people held on to the car next to them and managed to steady themselves, dragging their weak legs and running backwards.
At this time, there were no people watching the excitement. Even the people at the back noticed something was wrong. Some people were quick to respond to crises. As soon as they sensed something was wrong, they immediately abandoned the car and ran away.
There are also some people who are hesitant, busy asking their families to get off the car, and want to go back to the car to get their bags and mobile phones. Some of the children in the car who don't know what they are doing are picked up by parents with ugly faces.
Everyone was in chaos, the car doors opened and closed, and some people ran into them in a panic, falling to the ground. When they tried to get up again, they were hit by people running from behind.
Several buses and their passengers all ran out, and the lanes were blocked by crowds of people swarming and pushing. The people behind felt that the people in front were running too slowly, so they stretched out their hands to push.
The people in front were unable to stand and fell down. The lucky ones managed to get up, but the unlucky ones were trampled by the people coming from behind.
"Don't step on it - don't step on it..." The voice calling for help soon became fainter.
The bridge has not yet collapsed, but the panicked crowd has become a more terrifying weapon.
There was only one thought in their minds, run! Run quickly! Run off the bridge!
Even You Xi was pushed and squeezed a few times. Although she would not fall due to her physical strength, Zhao Xuefei had stumbled several times.
Zhao Xuefei was wearing ten-centimeter high heels, so she had to be careful when walking on flat ground, especially in this situation. You Xi dragged her for two to three hundred meters, but the other party didn't put her foot properly, twisted it hard, and there was a shock on her ankle.
The pain was so severe that she screamed.
You Xi, with his sharp eyesight and quick hands, lifted Zhao Xuefei directly onto the front hood of the car in front, and jumped on the front of the car.
"Take off your shoes!" You Xi ordered, looking back to observe the situation on the bridge where the accident occurred.
Several cars at the crack in the bridge have sunk so deep that even the roofs of their cars can hardly be seen. The cars that happened to drive through the crack before are also accelerating towards the other end of the bridge. However, the more panicked the more crowded it becomes, and there are cars hitting it.
Together, two lanes were blocked, and some people abandoned their cars and started running away when they saw something was wrong.
The situation in the left lane is the same. No matter where you look, you can see panicked faces, pushing and shoving in desperate attempts to escape off the bridge.
The central area of the bridge was cleared, and with her superior sight, she discovered that the right lane they were in had collapsed, and the left lane was temporarily unharmed. However, due to the large collapse, one part of the bridge had tilted slightly, and the
Several bridge railings were also broken.
You Xi frowned and turned back. Zhao Xuefei had already taken off her shoes. She gave up the idea of letting him run barefoot and stepped forward to carry her on his back without saying a word.
"You, what are you doing?" She was surprised.
"Don't make any noise, otherwise you will still be here." She stopped the other party's voice with one sentence.
She easily carried Zhao Xuefei on her back, climbed onto the roof from the front hood of the car, jumped off the trunk from the bridge, and started running quickly.
She ran wherever there was an opening and there were few people around. Occasionally she would help someone who was stumbling and about to fall. Occasionally she would kick open other car doors to help clear the passage for those behind her.
Zhao Xuefei could only feel the wind blowing by her ears, but the person carrying her was always breathing evenly. No matter how others pushed her or the bridge shook, her steps did not change.
The distance of seven or eight hundred meters soon came to an end, and they finally reached the end of the bridge safely.
During this period, the bridge body fell again several times. Everyone could feel the strong shaking of the bridge deck. Every shaking and falling made everyone frightened. They were afraid that if they ran slower, the bridge body would completely collapse. Everyone
They will all fall into the abyss.
If you fall from such a height, even if you are not crushed by the broken bridge body, if you fall into the water, the feeling will be the same as hitting the concrete floor directly.
Fortunately, this cross-river bridge was not a shoddy project after all. Even when most people rushed off the bridge crying, there was no large-scale collapse of the bridge deck.
After arriving at the safe zone, many people dragged their trembling legs to Binjiang Avenue and looked back at the bridge. They found that the middle part of the right lane of the bridge had dented a large distance, and the bridge railings were disconnected and the bridge deck was tilted.
All the cars in the area were tilted and subsided.
Several cars have followed the sloping bridge deck and slid to the bridge railing, with half of their fronts sticking out. It was terrifying...
Scenes like this are common in movies, but rarely seen in such peaceful times. After experiencing it personally, everyone realized how helpless human beings are before disaster...
Ambulances and fire trucks arrived one after another. Many people had wounds on their bodies, which were caused by the crush and fall. However, those who were able to run off the bridge by themselves at this moment had only minor injuries.
Those who fell and were trampled by many people and never stood up again were still unconscious on the bridge between the cars.
The people who had regained their composure watched the medical staff and firefighters quickly run onto the bridge to rescue, and then they understood what they had just done.
Apologies, guilt, feelings of guilt and fear came one after another. Obviously, as long as there was no crowding and pushing, everyone could get off the bridge safely, but at that time, most people just wanted to make themselves safe as soon as possible...
Zhao Xuefei's ankle was severely sprained. For the rest of her life, she was completely in a state of emptiness and sluggishness. She didn't even respond when the doctor checked her ankle and asked her if it hurt.
You Xi accompanied her to the hospital and called Fan Qi on the way there.
Fan Qi didn't watch the news and didn't know about the incident. Hearing this, he first asked her if she was injured. Knowing that she was not injured, she immediately abandoned the car and ran away, and also gave her a few words of praise. Finally, Fan Qi asked her to stay in the hospital for the time being.
To be continued...