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    “Brother, Hiba’s leg hurts. There is a tube passing through my thigh.” Hiba told Wen Di intermittently.

    The tube went through the thigh?

    Wen Di looked at the rescue team members around him and watched them continue to break down other large rocks that were pressing on Hiba. If the tube was in the femoral artery, if their rescue actions caused the movement of the tube, Hiba might die of excessive bleeding due to massive bleeding!

    “Wait! Where is Lu Huaichu? Where is Captain Yu?!” Wen Di suddenly grabbed a team member next to him and stopped his movement: “Wait! You can’t move anymore!”

    “What’s wrong, reporter Wen?” The team member who was pulled was concentrating on cutting stones, but was startled by Wen Di’s sudden movement, and quickly turned off the cutting machine for fear of accidentally injuring Wen Di.

    The rescue was suddenly stopped, and Yu Chen and Lu Huaichu’s attention immediately came here. They climbed over the ruins and came to Wen Di’s side.

    “What’s wrong?” Lu Huaichu thought Wen Di was feeling unwell, so when something unusual happened here, he ran faster than Yu Chen.

    “I know this trapped child. She said there was a tube passing through her thigh. If the rescue continues like this, will it cause massive bleeding?” Wen Di said in one breath the longest sentence he and Lu Huaichu had said since they reunited.

    “You can’t pull out the tube first. You have to keep the tube on her leg. Only after the person is rescued can I judge how to take it out. Yu Chen!” Lu Huaichu lay down where Wen Di was lying just now and kept shining a flashlight into the darkness. He finally saw the steel tube that passed through Hiba’s thigh. Based on his past experience, if he forced the steel tube to be taken out, the child would be in danger.

    “How to do it?” Yu Chen also lay on the side and naturally saw the solemn expression on Lu Huaichu’s face.

    “Can you separate the top and bottom of the steel pipe?” This steel pipe is used to support and fix it in the cement of the house. It is very long, and one end is bent and connected to other steel pipes.

    “The operating space here is relatively limited, and I’m afraid the tools won’t be able to reach in.” Yu Chen gestured at the gap with his hand. It was difficult for an adult man to reach in with his arms, let alone the large equipment used for cutting.

    “…” Lu Huaichu stood up from the ground and took Wen Di aside.

    Wen Di’s eyes were full of urgency: “Lu Huaichu, you have a way to save her, right?”

    “Calm down first…” Lu Huaichu saw this emotion on Wen Di’s face for the first time, and felt heartbroken.

    “I can’t calm down! She has been trapped here for two days. You have never seen her. On the first day I came here, she rushed out and hugged my legs and asked me for food. She was so thin that she didn’t look like a child of her age. I…”

    “I know, I know, calm down Wen Di, she will be fine, please listen to me first, okay?” Lu Huaichu asked Wen Di to sit on a stone, while he squatted in front of Wen Di, his arms wrapped around Wen Di’s side to protect her, but there was no contact.

    Wen Di has been feeling unwell, and after seeing Hiba’s helpless eyes, his emotions gradually became unbearable. The only person he can trust here is Lu Huaichu, because only Lu Huaichu can save Hiba’s life.

    Wen Di ignored Lu Huaichu’s original avoidance and showed his most fragile emotions in front of this man.

    “I want to save her. She is the child who was interviewed by me. You know… I really want to save her. I want to take her away from here to a safe country where there is no more war. I want her to have a normal childhood and a normal life…” Wen Di’s voice was choked with sobs.

    Then, he felt himself falling into a hug. The person he had dreamed of hugging again was squatting in front of him and hugging him hard.

    “Okay, okay, don’t cry anymore…” Lu Huaichu felt the person in his arms shaking slightly, and he could only gently stroke Wen Di’s back: “Don’t cry anymore…”

    For a moment of rescue, the team members behind them were still cutting away the big rocks above Hiba bit by bit.

    “Wen Di, where are the parents of this child? I need to communicate with her parents.” Lu Huaichu held Wen Di to comfort her for a while, then reluctantly let go of her arms.

    Wen Di: “Her parents are dead, and her two brothers are also dead. She is an orphan. If you have anything to say, tell me, and I will translate it for her.”

    Lu Huaichu thought for a while and then said: “Amputation can save your life.”

    Wen Di was stunned: “Amputation?! She’s so young!”

    “The position of the steel pipe is too dangerous. Yu Chen also saw it just now. The cutting equipment cannot enter at all. Even if it does, there is no guarantee that there will be no problems in such a small space. If the steel pipe is successfully cut and the child is rescued, he will still face the choice of amputation to save his life or death from massive bleeding. But can the child really hold on for that long?” Lu Huaichu explained.

    Wen Di didn’t speak for a long time, and Lu Huaichu just waited quietly.

    He is very familiar with this scene. Whenever some problems arise during the patient’s treatment and the family members need to make some choices or give up, he will wait quietly like this.

    “…I’ll go tell her.” Wen Di spoke with difficulty, then stood up and walked towards the place where Hiba was trapped.

    There were only a few steps away, but Wen Di felt that every step he took was extremely heavy, as if every step he took made it more difficult to maintain the child’s fragile life and the child’s future became more difficult to foresee.

    “Captain Yu, I have something to say to this child. Please give me…a few minutes.” Wen Di’s eyes did not look at Yu Chen, but kept looking at the child who was crushed under the rubble.

    “Okay, as soon as possible, her current situation is not very good.” Yu Chen led the team members to step aside, leaving space for Wen Di.

    “Hiba? Can you hear me? Don’t be afraid.” Wen Di leaned on the stone slab and reached out to touch Hiba’s face.

    Yu Chen was not exaggerating. Hiba was much weaker than when she was first discovered. At this time, she seemed to have no strength to speak. Facing Wen Di’s concern, she could only turn her head slightly and gently rub Wen Di’s fingers with her face.

    “Hiba, listen to my brother, your leg was penetrated by a tube. This tube is difficult to take out. If you take it out forcibly, your life will be in danger.” Wen Di tried his best to explain to Hiba clearly in simple expressions.

    A look of fear suddenly appeared in Hiba’s eyes.

    Wen Di instantly understood that look, and Hiba felt that he was about to be given up.

    She wants to live.

    Even though she said that the children here will never grow up.

    But at this moment, she wanted to live.

    “Don’t be afraid, we will definitely rescue you. However, your legs may have to stay here and we won’t be able to come out with you.”

    After Wen Di finished speaking, Hiba was stunned.

    She was trying to understand what this kind-hearted brother from the East meant. Why did her legs stay here? Why couldn’t they come out with her?

    She thought of the friends she used to play with. Some were missing legs, some were missing arms, and some were lucky enough to only be missing a few fingers.

    But they are all still alive and able to play with themselves.

    “Are you going to…cut it off and throw it away?”

    Hiba’s thin voice sounded, and she told Wen Di what she understood.

    Wen Di’s fingers were still caressing Hiba’s cheek, but the trembling of his fingertips revealed his inner sadness.

    “Well, is Hiba scared?”

    Hiba shook his head, with a smile on his face, but tears flowed out.

    “Hiba is great. My brother will stay with you and give you anesthesia so that it won’t hurt when you fall asleep. When Hiba wakes up, he will be lying in a warm bed.”

    “Hiba… wants to… live, brother.” Hiba said with difficulty.

    Hearing these words, Wen Di couldn’t bear it anymore. He lay on the stone floor, crying, and said to Hiba: “I’m sorry, it’s my brother who didn’t protect you well. I’m with you, so I’m not afraid anymore…”

    Lu Huaichu stood not far away, looking at Wen Di’s trembling and undulating back. The tip of his nose felt sore. He looked away and said to Yu Chen: “I brought anesthetics here. After injecting the child, I will amputate the limbs. After the bleeding stops, he will be sent to the health center for follow-up treatment.”

    “Don’t worry, everything has been arranged.”

    “I won’t be able to care about Wen Di for a while. Please help me keep an eye on him and don’t let him come over. He has feelings for this child. He can’t stand such a bloody scene.”

    “Okay.”

    The sun was still warm and genial, but it could not warm the child’s fearful heart.

    After being injected with anesthesia, Hiba was quickly rescued from the rubble. Lu Huaichu’s clothes were stained with blood. Wen Di was sitting on the ground not far away, watching Hiba being sent to the health center.

    The small figure was lying on the stretcher, but half of it was empty from the top of the thigh.

    Wen Di couldn’t bear to watch anymore, so he picked up the camera and wanted to walk around.

    He was photographing and recording aimlessly, but he could never ignore the turbulence in his heart at this moment.

    Is it really the right thing for me to accept amputation half-heartedly?

    She is still so young and has no judgment. When she grows older and realizes that she is different from others, will she hate herself?

    When did I become a person who could decide other people’s decisions at will?

    But he didn’t want to be such a person.

    What turned everything into what it is now?

    Is it this incomprehensible world?

    The search and rescue operation lasted three days. Yu Chen and his team members almost turned the entire city upside down. When no survivors with vital signs could be found, the search and rescue operation finally came to an end.

    Banxia novel, a lot of fun

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