The wide river surface appears before you, at least hundreds of meters wide, perhaps more than one thousand meters. The place you are in is the east bank of the river.

In addition to the land under your feet, the riverside is full of lush forests mixed with lush needles and broad-leaved trees, and lush weeds are dotted between the gaps in the forest.

Countless irregular cement bricks, huge twisted metal brackets, broken fiberglass tiles, and even hundreds of containers scattered in the river beaches and forests. Sometimes there are crooked tall red pier cranes with paint falling off, overturned pier vehicles, and metal beams of the crane towers, all piled up, ran and interspersed together.

Five huge cargo ships seemed to fall from the sky, bizarrely, or overturned between the river beaches and the forest. The even more exaggerated one was like a wide and thick axe poking deep into the forest.

The canopy of countless trees is full of various packaging, and several dense large trees also support a small house built with fiberglass tiles facing down the roof.

Customs anti-smuggling boat and another brown fishing boat were stranded on a rocky river beach further north.

The ups and downs were shouting at each other, red or white figures shuttled through the green riverside jungle. They swayed their arms, occasionally running, or falling.

"Woo...Mom!"

"Is there a doctor? Is there a doctor? Hurry up, my brother is bleeding!"

"Listen to me...one, two, three, lift!"

The hoarse shouts of people echoed everywhere in the strange forest. It was just different from the pictures seen on ordinary TV. There are no reporters, no flashing ambulances, and no rows of stretchers.

The injured people were carried out from the jungle or ruins and simply leaned on the debris on the river beach, while more people were sweating profusely looking for their companions in various cement or metal garbage.

A young man wearing glasses was dragged out of the ruins by people, and turned around and grabbed the rubble and broken glass tiles like crazy. After a long time, he took out a laptop bag with its original color wiped out by the dust, and hugged it tightly in his arms.

An old man shouted loudly between the ruins and his daughter's name. His elderly body seemed to burst out with infinite strength at this moment. He tried hard to drag away a metal steel beam that usually requires several young men to move, and reached out to the gap in the ruins below and pulled it hard. It was not until a young woman in a police uniform ran from a distance and hugged the old man's body, and the old man suddenly woke up and turned around and hugged his daughter's head and sobbed.

A crying little girl stood among the rubble of the ruins, tears drew lines on her face with mud stains. The weak cry did not seem to touch anyone. Around her, the lost adults were either staggering by or burying their heads among the ruins.

Under the command of a young armed police officer, more than a dozen armed police soldiers who were carrying weapons dragged out a huge truck that was stuck into a dock warehouse. As a result, the driver was already dead, but from the hole in the warehouse wall that the truck dragged away, a dying old woman was rescued. A man from the crowd next to him rushed up almost cried and hugged the seriously injured old woman in his arms.

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In the chaos, it is not ruled out that a very small number of people were indifferent to watching all this in a daze. And since an hour ago, Su Zining was one of them.

The rippling waves of the river in front of him made Su Zining enter a strange state of dullness. He seemed to be unable to see anything in his sight. There was only a soothing cool breeze in his ears, and even the shouts of people were so unclear. The dust floating in the ruins stimulated his nose and felt faintly disgusted.

"Hi, are there any cigarettes?"

Suddenly, a greeting came from his ear. Su Zining turned around and saw a young man over 1.7 meters tall and had a smiling face.

It felt like the hand was burning. It turned out that the cigarette I had lit before had burned my fingers. Su Zining replied with a very bitter smile awkwardly and handed the cigarette in her pocket to the strange man who took the initiative to say hello to him.

"I've seen you stare in a daze for a long time. Why are you wondering how we came to this place?"

The man lit a cigarette, took a long sip, and seemed to remember something again. He quickly stretched out his hand and showed an apologetic smile, "I forgot to introduce it, Yan Xiaosong, who is an outdoor advertising design."

"Well, Su Zining...the Labor Supervision Brigade of the Municipal Labor Bureau." Su Zining thought for a while and reported his professional identity that he had not really resigned.

"It's been a few hours, and everyone is panicked. Are we two a little different?" Yan Xiaosong remembered the crowds of people on the dock before the disaster. He was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly, "Maybe we are lucky, no relatives were present before..."

"Someone must come out to worry about the country and the people at the most difficult moment, right?" Su Zining smiled awkwardly.

Seeing that the other party was covered in cement and dust, and he was basically clean, Su Zining knew that his condition was indeed a bit inappropriate at this time.

After looking around, Su Zining ran to more than ten meters away, hugged a crying little girl in her arms, and then walked towards the more chaotic forest.

With a cigarette in his mouth, Yan Xiaosong lay tiredly on the grass, looked at the clear sky and sighed slightly.

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"Zhou Keming!"

"arrive!"

The young man quickly threw away the damaged fiberglass tiles on his hand and walked a few steps to a middle-aged man wearing the uniform of the customs anti-smuggling team and wearing the third-level customs supervision rank.

"Captain, what's the matter?" The young customs anti-smuggling team wiped the sweat from their foreheads with their dusty sleeves and saluted Zheng Quan, the highest leader of the customs anti-smuggling ship.

"Just just now, I communicated with Captain Chen Liwen of the police force and immediately organized a group of police forces to be responsible for the safety of the ships on site. There are extremely important smuggled items inside, so there must be no mistakes! You should notify all customs anti-smuggling team members. Without my order, no one is allowed to board any ship for any reason!"

The middle-aged customs anti-smuggling ship captain looked extremely serious. After saying that, he walked towards the other end. There, several people wearing police and customs uniforms were nervously meeting.

The armed police team involved in the disaster relief was drawn out and surrounded a ship trapped in the woods. Zheng Quan and other customs anti-smuggling team members pried open the twisted deck warehouse cover and entered the dark warehouse with gas welding beads. After more than ten minutes, Zheng Quan and others withdrew with a reassured expression.

This small episode did not attract any attention at the entire ruins scene.

Above the ruins of the catastrophe, the busy crowd was still running around in the hustle and dust, and the sky gradually became darker.

When Su Zining's watch showed that it was already 6 o'clock in the afternoon, she finally helped the three-year-old girl named Tiantian in her arms find her mother, a woman who had just been pulled out of the ruins. Fortunately, the young mother was basically not damaged except for a little scratch.

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"Why haven't you seen the rescue team yet?"

"There is no signal on the phone!"

"Does the police still care about the matter? Where is this?!"

By the darkening forest, dozens of bonfires were scattered on the river beach, and tired people gathered around and pointed at the police in the distance.

Angry, confused, haggard, and fearful, all kinds of expressions came one after another, but without exception, they were all aimed at all the people in uniform present.

All the wounded were carried to a stranded bulk cargo ship, and the temporary medical team was nervously dealing with it. The families or companions of the wounded were surrounded by the wreckage of the freighter, and each was nervous.

"Su Zining." Yan Xiaosong held a bottle of imported foreign wine that was dug out of some ruins, and squatted to Su Zining with a mysterious smile, then pointed to the customs anti-smuggling ship that almost landed at the end of his sight. "I heard that the police and the customs people were having a meeting there, guess what kind of results we will get."

"We won't know the truth before we get rescued. Or they don't know what happened." Su Zining shrugged, declined the bottle of wine handed over by the other party, and then lay on the grass with his head in his arms, "But I'm sure this is not the original place, or even China."

"Oh? Are you so sure?" Yan Xiaosong was stunned, and then happily took a sip of wine.

"There are more speculations." Su Zining raised her head and pointed Yan Xiaosong in a direction. There were several flashlights on the edge of the forest, and they were several survivors resting under the tree.

"That's oak trees, large primitive oak forests, which only exist in some parts of China. But as far as I know, none of those areas have such primitive plains and rivers. And the temperature is obviously similar to the autumn in the north."

Su Zining curled the corner of her mouth and showed a helpless expression because he was still wearing a summer shirt.

"It seems you don't care about these things? You don't worry?" Su Zining looked at the person in front of him who had only known him for a few hours and suddenly changed the topic.

"I'm here for a trip, and I might just hope to see more unfamiliar things in my subconscious mind, right?" Yan Xiaosong looked up at the starry sky with an indifferent smile, "Look, the North Star... The river comes from the north... Like you, I can be sure that we are at least in the northern hemisphere."

"There are few rivers like this big in China that run north and south, and it is obviously impossible to be the Pearl River here." Su Zining closed her eyes and began to think about more things in her mind.

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A serious meeting was still held in the command cabin of the stranded customs anti-smuggling ship. Policemen holding weapons and customs anti-smuggling team members were guarding the bow of the ship, facing the survivors of the disaster with indifferent or embarrassing expressions.

The tired people gradually lost the strength to blame anyone, squatted or sat in a pile, filling their belly with packaged food found in the ruins.

From the ruins of the warehouses that collapsed and disintegrated, people also found a large number of bed textile supplies and ready-to-wear. The obviously cold sea breeze made people lose their ability to control themselves and snatched up brand new clothes or sheets to simply wrap themselves up.

The men with families searched for corners that could cover the night wind to settle their families, and the extravagant dock workers even used the diesel they found to ignite a container full of dead branches.

The first night after the catastrophe came slowly.
Chapter completed!