CHAPTER 269: CHAPTER 269 ORIGINAL SIN 78

At this moment, Yun Shuangshuang had this feeling, just like swimming, she instantly grasped the diving trick that the coach taught her countless times in the past, but she never got the hang of it.

The water was turbid and visibility was low, and it was full of all sorts of things. Yun Shuangshuang stepped on the bottom of the water, surrounded by bicycles, cars, electric bikes, and shops on both sides, things that could be seen in the city on normal days.

Yun Shuangshuang didn’t have time to notice what was different underwater from the city on a normal day. She and Zhang Bing, who came down first, were searching for the people who had fallen earlier, as told by the rescued person, until they almost ran out of breath and surfaced to breathe, then continued diving.

Yun Shuangshuang and Zhang Bing alternately ascended for breath and then dived down. After about seven or eight times, the two finally found two people tightly entwined with each other in a corner beside a shop. Their entire bodies stiffened, not moving at all as they swayed with the current.

These were two girls, their long hair floating in the water like seaweed, sometimes separating, sometimes intertwining. The faces of the two girls were faintly visible amidst the enveloping hair, with wide, terrified eyes and faces full of despair!

The reason why these two girls couldn’t float to the surface was a long packing plastic rope. Underwater, this plastic rope somehow entangled their feet with an electric bike.

Yun Shuangshuang and Zhang Bing, ignoring everything else, hurriedly untied the plastic rope from the girls’ feet, then each took one girl up to the surface quickly.

With a "puff," four heads emerged from the water. Yun Shuangshuang and Zhang Bing gasped for several breaths. Continuous diving was very exhausting, especially the last dive which took a particularly long time. Yun Shuangshuang even felt like the air in her lungs was being squeezed out! Each breath came with a stabbing pain!

Once they managed to take a breath, they hurriedly pushed the people they brought onto the bamboo raft. Luckily, the bamboo rafts Yun Shuangshuang chose were quite large. The villagers who made the rafts did so with the thought that the bigger the raft, the more they could carry. At this moment, it benefited Yun Shuangshuang and Zhang Bing, as there was still room for a row of people when rescuing.

After placing the two girls on the raft, Yun Shuangshuang and Zhang Bing began performing first aid on them. Zhang Bing had been specifically trained in first aid for drowning victims, so his actions were skillful.

Before volunteering, Yun Shuangshuang quickly learned how to perform first aid on drowning victims. She even asked Professor Zhang to send her to a medical school where she found a medical teacher to study the System thoroughly, so her first aid actions were quite formal.

First, they used the prepared gauze swabs to clean the mud and grime from the girls’ mouth and nose, then loosened the collars and belts, as well as the tightly wrapped underwear on their chests.

After doing this, Yun Shuangshuang and Zhang Bing turned the two girls face down on their laps, using their knees to press against the girls’ stomachs, forcefully compressing until water was expelled from their stomachs.

The water in the two girls’ stomachs was soon expelled, but their faces remained frighteningly pale and blue, and there was no trace of breath when feeling their noses, nor could a pulse be detected.

But Yun Shuangshuang and Zhang Bing did not give up, continuing with the final step for drowning victims, CPR, but after more than ten minutes of effort, the two girls still showed no signs of breath.

The two girls were indeed already dead! Died underwater! Actually, seeing the permanently opened eyes of the girls underwater, Yun Shuangshuang already knew they were dead, but Yun Shuangshuang and Zhang Bing couldn’t bear to give up; such flower-like girls wilted before blooming. How tragic!

The survivors on the bamboo raft stared blankly at the two dead girls in the middle, no one panicked or feared because of the sight of tragic death; only deep sorrow spread in the hearts of everyone.

The little girl who was rescued earlier was held tightly in her mother’s arms with her eyes covered by her mother. This young mother cried softly, people are really so small and insignificant in the face of natural disasters, as vulnerable as the ants casually seen on the ground, the same fragility and powerlessness.

Others could be sad, but Yun Shuangshuang and Zhang Bing couldn’t let their emotions sink; the two still had to rescue others. Surviving people who had regained some strength on the bamboo raft took turns helping to paddle under Zhang Bing’s guidance, preserving the strength of Zhang Bing and Yun Shuangshuang for rescue.

On the way, Yun Shuangshuang and Zhang Bing rescued two children floating on a small door plank. The children’s grandparents clung tightly to the edges of the plank, their bodies floating and sinking in the water!

If they had met Yun Shuangshuang and Zhang Bing any later, these grandparents would surely have died in the flood due to exhaustion, having given the only life-saving plank to their two young grandchildren!

Luckily, not far ahead was a large area of bamboo rafts joined together as land on the water. Soon, the raft reached the place, and Yun Shuangshuang and Zhang Bing handed the rescued people over, immediately someone took over these survivors, bringing compressed biscuits and mineral water for Yun Shuangshuang and Zhang Bing.

One must say, people can’t be overly indulged, yesterday Yun Shuangshuang felt compressed biscuits were hard to swallow, now after hours of saving people, missing meal time, with her front chest practically glued to her back out of hunger, Yun Shuangshuang found the compressed biscuits and mineral water to be the most delicious food in the world!

This without meat and hot vegetable soup, it proved human adaptability is incredibly strong. Unless like Qiangqiang suffering from anorexia, otherwise it’s just being finicky!

After eating, Yun Shuangshuang and Zhang Bing paddled the raft to continue rescuing people. This day’s time, Yun Shuangshuang couldn’t remember how many people she rescued from the water, nor did she know how many times she dived!

Yun Shuangshuang and Zhang Bing were both very tired, but they couldn’t rest, as many people were waiting for them to save their lives! By the end, their rescue actions seemed as stiff as mechanical actions!

When night fell, Yun Shuangshuang, with muscles trembling and her whole body weak, climbed onto the makeshift land formed by bamboo rafts, then collapsed there, unwilling to move. Yun Shuangshuang felt that after this day, her diving and swimming skills improved dramatically, capable of winning a gold medal.

Throughout this day, Yun Shuangshuang was almost continually soaked in water, tirelessly pulling people out one by one. The skin on her hands had turned white and wrinkled from soaking, but Yun Shuangshuang couldn’t care less.

Yun Shuangshuang lay on the bamboo raft formation exhausted, eating large mouthfuls of compressed biscuits with steaming instant noodles, feeling utterly luxurious.

Having been in the water for too long, she felt all her blood had cooled down. At this moment, eating a cup of hot instant noodles, her stomach warmed instantly, finally bringing her back to life!