Chapter 838 570: Human Nature
Xia Liang once again took out the lighter to start cutting the door. Before long, the door was sliced open, clearing a gap to the front compartment.
Xia Liang turned to look behind him and said.
"Leave some people to rescue the wounded and start moving forward, the rest follow me, continue ahead, cut the door."
Everyone quickly responded loudly and began to follow Xia Liang forward.
In the next few compartments, everyone witnessed one human tragedy after another, similar to what happened in their own compartment.
The latter compartments were mostly severely damaged.
However, the further back they went, the last few compartments were actually well-preserved and connected together, with no breakage. Because these compartments were near the exit, they suffered less impact, with minimal damage, but were still trapped on the railway and couldn't move.
Everyone sat paralyzed on the ground. Their expressions were somewhat hopeless.
Because their phones had no signal, their distress messages couldn't be sent out. By the time the outside world knows about their situation and opens the passage, everyone might already be dead here.
However, when those who had lost hope of surviving saw the appearance of Xia Liang and others, all showed expressions of disbelief.
Suddenly, hope appeared in everyone's hearts again, and they flocked around.
"Brother, where did you come from, is the situation ahead better?"
"Not good, many people are dead, we followed this Immortal over."
"Immortal? Are there really Immortals in this world?"
"Certainly, I didn't believe it before, but after seeing him, I believe it."
Upon hearing about Xia Liang's miracles, more people began joining his group to escape, helping Xia Liang create a path.
After one hour, two hours, three hours passed, when Xia Liang arrived at the last compartment, hundreds of people were already following him.
These were all people rescued from the latter compartments, following Xia Liang.
At the last compartment, Xia Liang looked at the pitch-black soil outside, took a deep breath and said.
"Everyone, take down all the bed boards."
Upon hearing this, everyone understood what Xia Liang was up to, and quickly sprang into action.
In no time at all, all the bed boards were taken down and piled up in front of Xia Liang.
Without hesitation, Xia Liang picked up these boards and began assembling them under everyone's watchful eyes.
In no time, an 18-meter long passage was assembled, and Xia Liang said to the astonished crowd.
"Next, everyone line up in a single file, stand inside and don't move; when the person in front takes a step forward, the person behind must close the gap, understand?"
Everyone loudly shouted.
"Understood, benefactor."
Xia Liang nodded his head.
"Alright, now I need two strong men to come forward."
Immediately, two men stepped up from the crowd, muscles taut, the kind that often work out.
Xia Liang looked at them and said.
"Next, I'll take you out from here, you have to walk out in one breath, so your task is very important, you must be strong and determined, no matter what happens, don't waver, persist to the end, without my permission, you mustn't leave improvisationally, or the lives of everyone here will be entrusted to you."
Upon hearing Xia Liang's words, the two men's expressions turned solemn.
"Don't worry Mister Xia, as long as you say, we would die willingly."
Another person said,
"Mister Xia, we are all retired from the Weiguo Army, the lives and property of the people are above all, rest assured, we will follow your command."
Xia Liang nodded with satisfaction, then turned to look at the crowd behind him and said.
"Now, I want you to take your valuable items like mobile phones, wallets, ID cards, leave other things behind."
As soon as Xia Liang said this, it immediately caused some opposition among the people, because among this group, everyone saw hope for survival and weren't willing to give up their belongings.
Although some things weren't money, but included food, clothes, computers, etc.
"Mister Xia, why is that? Our luggage was rescued with great efforts, losing it would be a big financial loss."
"Yes, now that you can take us out, what's the harm in taking some items too?"
"Exactly, since there's no effort needed from us, I see you can handle things, let's not ask for too much?"
"Once these things are left here, they'll be hard to find later."
"This bag contains special local products for my son, they can't be discarded."
"Why are you making things difficult, taking us out and making so many demands, let's move quickly, I'm beginning to feel breathless!"
This group was talking tirelessly, oblivious to Xia Liang's face turning a bit sullen.
There are indeed selfish people in this world, when they have no hope of survival, they despair, thinking they can sacrifice everything just to live.
But once they see hope for survival, they're unwilling to give anything up.
But most people were willing to listen to Xia Liang, they had seen Xia Liang's abilities, knew Xia Liang was saving them, and felt grateful to Xia Liang.
So, these people started to criticize those who were being unreasonable.
"What are you doing? Just do as Mister Xia says, why argue?"
"Struggling to breathe, still so much nonsense, are Mister Xia's demands unreasonable?"
"Is life more important or are these things more important? Mister Xia has already asked you to take valuable items, how come there's no such awareness?"
"Really unreasonable, lived all these years for nothing?"
For a moment, insults flew back and forth.
Xia Liang coldly stared at the bickering crowd, then simply sat down, saying coldly to them.
"Fine, since you want to argue, continue arguing, when you're done and not fighting, come talk to me."
After speaking, Xia Liang simply found a place to sit down, not in a hurry now, there was only the last compartment left.
Besides, Xia Liang wasn't a saint, not everyone was willing to be saved.
Rescuing this group already consumed much of his spiritual power, and now Xia Liang certainly wouldn't bother explaining much, even if Xia Liang wanted to speak, this group probably wouldn't understand, so Xia Liang couldn't be bothered to waste words.