Chapter 162: Chapter 162

Exactly where did things go wrong?!

As the chief director of the Tianfeng Research Institute, Chang Geng was, of course, informed of this matter immediately.

He glanced at the golden hourglass, which had stopped flowing, and smiled slightly at this moment:

"Protect your own safety, and also protect your achievements... When Xichuan allows passage, the Research Institute will bring you back first thing."

"Additionally, I will apply to Xichuan Province to restrict Qin Manman’s personal actions. Since she has graduated, I will send a letter of declaration in my personal capacity to the school to avoid causing greater misunderstandings."

"However, regarding the consequences and other damages her behavior has caused, we will submit this to a lawyer and blacklist her at the Tianfeng Research Institute."

The assistant noted down the tasks to be done, while Chang Geng smiled slightly, thinking: Little He is still too straightforward.

What’s the need to recruit such a person into the Research Institute?

The smaller the person. Her stupidity and malice are even more unpredictable, and every achievement at the Research Institute is extremely important; he will never let such a person be the one that slips through the net.

Let her remain among the public at large!

With such character, she deserves a lifetime of getting nothing she strives for, achieving nothing, even... being ridiculed by everyone.

As for the achievements from her past life that Qin Manman brings to mind...

Without the Research Institute, how will she substantiate those achievements?

Besides, the accomplishments of others in the past—now that Tianfeng Research Institute is led by him—are those achievements really still important?

Chu River knew nothing about Chang Geng’s arrangements.

She was still hurrying on the road.

There were three Rescue Dragonflies in total; she arrived at the old city at night and simply demonstrated the Rescue Dragonfly’s abilities, but left only one. After confirming the route, she took the remaining ones to another temporary base.

And now, she was at Xichuan’s Ninth Experimental High School, also the best high school in the entire Xichuan.

However, good grades require not only talent but also hard work and diligence.

During the earthquake, the entire high school, including the adjacent affiliated junior high, from eighth grade to twelfth, were all in class.

This school, with about 7000 faculty and students in total, is now buried in the ruins.

Chu River didn’t waste another word.

Having already recharged during the journey, as the Rescue Dragonfly connected to the rescue team’s thermal imaging screen, the first image was a young boy half-crushed by reinforced concrete.

Everyone’s breath paused.

By now, they had gone through about 20 hours of continuous rescue; no one wasted time crying anymore, instead, everyone gritted their teeth—

On the white cloth in the buffer zone, two military dogs widened their eyes, gasping heavily, but their companions didn’t even have time to accompany them in their final moments.

Little Yellow was already adept at working with the rescue team, explaining how to follow the Rescue Dragonfly’s instructions to improve efficiency, yet Chu River silently sat down beside the two military dogs.

She didn’t move, but her spiritual power, already exhausted, transformed into a gentle hand, gently and continuously stroking the exhausted military dogs, making their rough breaths slow and gentle.

Twenty hours of non-stop work, the dogs’ limbs were already swollen, a bloody mess, and their noses were covered in bloodstains, yet when they opened their eyes with an effort, their innocence and simplicity remained faintly visible.

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She held the two military dogs in her arms, gently stroking each with a hand—

"’Good, you’ve done very well... Do you see the black Dragonfly in the sky? It can help your comrades.’"

The gentle breeze of her spiritual power circled around them, washing away the residual pain in their bodies from their soft ears onward.

They felt enveloped in gentleness, with exhaustion and pain disappearing, feeling instead like the warmth of being secretly held in the trainer’s arms when they were young...

The heavy breaths of the two military dogs gradually ceased, and their bright eyes slowly dimmed.

Finally, they extended their tongues and gently licked Chu River’s cheek.

At this moment, tears streamed down Chu River’s face.

For Qin Manman, this was a necessary disaster to promote her glorious life, but for Chu River, all life was real.

She followed the rescue team, using her spiritual power in places where the Dragonfly couldn’t assist, not stopping for a moment.

Little Yellow rapidly lost weight within just one day, his cheeks sunken, lips cracked, and the hair he once tried desperately to protect had become a mess like a bird’s nest, but he didn’t even think about it.

At this moment, he was in another rescue team.

Rescue Dragonfly continuously issued red alerts.

However, along with the vital signs alert, another alert was also flashing continuously.

Everyone in the rescue team saw it, but no one stopped.

Under these layers of stone slabs and steel bars, a girl was struggling to hold on to life, waiting for their rescue.

The identification by the Rescue Dragonfly had always been accurate; they understood this.

But their duty and morality didn’t allow them to abandon a life .

When the heavy stone slabs were pried open, the young rescuer was the first to jump down.

Saying this, he gently picked up the fallen girl and carefully sent her out.

Just then, the Dragonfly issued a sharp alert.

The next moment, a heavy stone fell directly, and the young warrior leaned his body forward, pushing the person out.

Simultaneously, there was a heart-wrenching scream—

His two calves were struck by the falling stones, soon there was bright red blood trickling down slowly, while he sat there, unable to move, only able to grip the rough ground tightly with his equally bloodied hands!

Every bulging vein spoke of his pain.

This is the price of rescue—natural disasters show no mercy, sometimes a life must be exchanged for another, with no luck, only maximum effort.

——The girl was sent out, but his legs were heavily crushed...

Even his bones were shattered.

The girl he sent out opened her eyes at this time, witnessing a face twisted with agony.

Her lips moved, but she had no strength to utter another sound, only weakly grasping the hem of his clothing.

And then she lost consciousness again.

Little Yellow silently watched all of this—the entire day’s rescue, the tragedies he had witnessed... too many, too many.

But no matter how many times he witnessed it, numbness was impossible.

He lay exhausted during his break, staring at the sky, tears silently falling.

Chu River came over and gave him a cup of water, then sat down.

The big sister’s voice was both fatigued and distant, surely unable to remember his name by now, but Little Yellow no longer cared.

This short day overturned his past decade of life... the color of his hair, how bad he was at games, how hard Hu Sisi tried in competition...

All of it transformed into something meaningless, like a cloud of smoke in this moment.

Including the name he always emphasized—he was Zhou Ding.

——But in this disaster, those who didn’t have their names recorded, were not just one or two.

He tried his best to listen to Chu River speak.

"I have a study, to install mechanical limbs for disabled people. Once successfully installed and connected to neurons, their movements will be the same as ordinary people, with no hindrance whatsoever."

Chu River turned to look at him:

"Do you want to learn?"