Chapter 8: The Ninth Cycle of Time (II)
After Li Shiqing pulled Xiao Heyun out of the car, he just thought he had met a madman, cursed a few times and then admitted his bad luck and continued to the other side of the bridge, trying to find a taxi or hitchhiker to cross.
As a result, before he could get very far, the bus collided with the tanker and even formed a small mushroom cloud when it exploded, scaring him into running away.
He was not far from the scene and lost his ears from the shock on the spot. In the course of his escape, he fell and got on the kerosene leaking from the ground, and when he was hit by the flying explosives, he immediately ignited his clothing and was badly burned.
Luckily he escaped the first wave of explosions and although he was burned, at least he lived and was then rescued by an ambulance that arrived on the scene.
He was still conscious when he first got into the ambulance, and when the ambulance paramedics used a note to confirm his identity with him, he said he was a passenger who had got off that bus temporarily, but passed out without saying much because he was in too much pain.
By the time he was brought back from the emergency, there were already police officers waiting at his bedside, but by then he was in such poor health, deafness notwithstanding, with his face still covered in oxygen and intubated, that he was unable to say a few words, and could only drop a few key messages, including that he had been dragged out of the car and did not know the other man, who had got out and run away.
All the rest, indeed, he knew nothing about.
He just couldn't have imagined that Li Shiqing, who got off the bus before him, wasn't much better, knocking himself into a concussion as soon as he got off and completely forgetting all about what happened on the bus.
"Are you saying that you were not far from the scene and were badly burned?"