Chapter 9: 9

Water seeped into the bottom of the car, dirty and ice-cold, wetting Xu Qin’s shoes.

Xu Qin crouched on the seat and dialed 119, repeating what she just said, and added: “The car is sliding towards the bottom of the bridge, and starting to fill with water. It may only take four minutes to flood.”

“Okay, we have firefighters near your location and they have already been notified. Please keep your phone available and hold on just a bit longer!”

“Thank you.” Xu Qin hung up the phone, feeling it was inexplicably difficult to breathe. She lowered her head and hugged her legs, allowing herself to calm down for a second.

Water flooded the seats. Xu Qin quickly looked around the car, but couldn’t find anything sharp, and it was useless to call for help. The wind and rain were too loud, no one would be able to hear it. She called a few times but no one answered, she was at a loss.

As the car slid underneath the bridge little by little, the street lights gradually shifted, and in an instant, the car disappeared into darkness.

The water quickly overflowed past Xu Qin’s waist, and the space inside the car became smaller and smaller. The rain washed down, the rapids surged, and the water level inside and outside the car rose at the same time.

The torrential rain clattered against the car roof and windows, as if someone was shaking this confined prison violently.

Xu Qin pulled up Meng Yanchen’s number on her phone and was about to make a call when the front of the car swayed downwards, suddenly accelerated, and slipped towards the bottom of the bridge. Xu Qin immediately climbed into the back seat. The body of the car swayed and jolted, seemingly breaking away from the ground and floating in the water.

Xu Qin’s heart sank, realizing that this was a sign of rapid sinking.

She banged on the car window: “Help!”

“Help!”

The sound of wind and rain drowned out everything.

In the middle of the night as the torrential rainstorm raged, the entire city was on the verge of being paralyzed. In its countless corners, it seemed that countless people were being forgotten.

She was isolated in this big, dark and airtight box. The windows were covered in rain, the world outside was blurry, and it was so dark that she couldn’t see anything clearly.

The water inside the car was getting deeper and deeper, submerging most of the windows. Xu Qin repeatedly slammed the glass. Suddenly, a flashlight shone, she cried out for help, and the light got closer and closer. Immediately, a large male palm patted against her car window, which was clearly reflected in the curtain of rain through the glass.

With help from the flashlight, Xu Qin saw that his sleeves were orange, it was a firefighter.

“Help!” Xu Qin slapped his palm through the glass.

The other party quickly smashed the car window with the rescue hammer, but the car wheel was already off the ground and could not be stabilized. When the hammer went down, the car suddenly spun in the water and drifted into the depths.

Xu Qin rolled from the seat and fell into the water, unable to control her center of gravity for a while. Her feet could not touch the bottom. The car body rotated, she floundered in the water and choked on a few mouthfuls of rainwater. With great difficulty, she struggled to grab the car seat and floated up to the top, sticking her head out of the water. This space contained all the remaining air that was left.

She was dizzy and gritted her teeth in pain.

The car suddenly stopped and settled in place, as if it had hit an obstacle.

Xu Qin took a deep breath. Through the pounding rain on the windshield, she saw a tall orange figure in front. The man stood crouched, grabbing the bumper with his bare hands, blocking the car with his own body, preventing it from sliding forward more.

The man stopped for a while as if he was gathering strength, and after a moment, he began to slowly push the car up the slope.

The car floated in the water, moving backwards. Soon, the wheels descended back onto the ground. The torrential rain was falling, and the water level was much higher than before. As the car hit the ground, it suddenly got stuck.

Xu Qin was stuck in the car, her soaked body trembling in the water. She was afraid, and the fear stemmed from uncertainty, she wasn’t sure if the fireman could still push. He seemed to stop for a second, and the next moment, the car miraculously backed up the slope. However, the water level in the car was still not decreasing.

The man pushed the car up inch by inch, Xu Qin’s heart was hanging with his every step, slowly falling. Suddenly from behind, another car was washed over by the rain and slammed into Xu Qin’s car.

With a bang, both car and person quickly slid down the slope together!

Water poured into the car and suddenly filled Xu Qin’s nose and mouth. The space inside the car shrank rapidly. Xu Qin struggled in the water nonstop, trying her best to stick close to the roof of the car to prevent the water from pouring into her nose and mouth, but the car quickly sank into the depths under the action of inertia.

During the turbulence, the tip of Xu Qin’s nose had already touched the roof of the car and there was no room left. She gasped sharply, a painful whimper overflowing from her throat, thinking that there was no more hope, but the car’s sliding trajectory was stopped again.

The man was still stubbornly blocking the car in the midst of the torrent.

His feet were pushing against the ground, his head was deeply lowered, his whole body was bent into a bow shape, pressed against the bumper of the car. The weight of two cars rested on him, forcing him to curl up in front of the car motionless. Not far behind him was the whirlpool of the sewer, and he stood in the turbulent water for ten seconds without moving, recovering his strength. The water level was rising little by little.

The air was getting thinner and thinner.

Xu Qin remained motionless in the car, raised her head, and felt the cold water flowing over her ears, slowly crawling up her face, itching, narrowing the area to her nose and mouth.

She knew that the firefighter outside had exhausted all his strength. She didn’t blame him, nor did she blame fate. Not sad or happy, just a little regretful.

The water spread to the corners of her eyes, swept over, and submerged her eyes. Her nose and mouth.

The next second, the man outside groaned fiercely, and suddenly broke out into a thundering roar: “AHHH!!” The roar echoed at the bottom of the bridge.

Xu Qin trembled all over, and the car unexpectedly started to move backwards again, a little bit, a little bit. It was extremely challenging and slow-moving to back up against the current of water up the slope!

Xu Qin’s eyes were wet.

The shadow of the man in the rain was unwavering, his abnormally painful breathing and wheezing resounded at the bottom of the bridge.

Still, the car was pushed out from underneath the bridge, the torrential rain covered the sky and drowned out his voice.

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The water level in the car finally began to drop, and the water gurgled out from the gaps in the car like a soda can with a hole in it.

Xu Qin’s stiff and raised head slowly lowered, she gasped for big breath after big breath, still not daring to believe her luck.

The man didn’t let up for a moment, clenching his teeth. In a hurry, he pushed the car up the slope. Once the body of the car was completely out of the water, he quickly jumped on the hood and smashed the windshield with a rescue hammer. The spider silk exploded on the glass, and the rain collected in the gaps. After smashing it more than ten times, a hole broke in the glass.

At this time, the car slid downwards again.

He quickly kicked the glass hole, and the glass shattered into pieces.

He reached his hand into the car and shouted: “Come here!”

The skin on the arm was red and the blood vessels had burst. Xu Qin climbed forward from the back seat and pounced to grab the big hand.

The man reached in with his other hand to protect her head, exerted his strength, and lifted Xu Qin out of the broken glass hole. The broken glass left three bloodstained slashes on his arm.

Xu Qin had just been pulled out by him. Before she could look up at his face, the car behind hit them again, their car staggered and suddenly started sliding toward the bottom of the bridge.

Xu Qin was caught off guard and knocked against his chest, falling into his arms.

The man’s shoulders were unusually broad, and his chest was firm and powerful. Vibrating violently from exerting his strength, he had the characteristic male strength and sense of security.

Xu Qin was in shock and unconsciously hugged her savior tightly.

His body visibly stiffened.

Through the icy rain, the man’s body was hot and his muscles were smooth. Xu Qin could smell the scent of rain and sweat on his body, bursting with a masculine smell.

She felt his stiffness, and the inexplicable feeling she had in the car just now became clearer. The rain filled the sky, Xu Qin slowly raised her head, and saw Song Yan’s black hair was wet. His eyes were especially bright in the dark night, staring at her.

It was really him.

Xu Qin’s face was pale: “Why is it you?”

“No choice.” Song Yan said.

Xu Qin: “I didn’t mean it like that.”

Song Yan jumped off the front hood of the car,

Xu Qin asked: “You happened to be close by? How come you’re the only one here?”

Song Yan didn’t look back, his temper was extremely bad: “Do you know how many cars had accidents within a radius of five kilometers in one hour? A fucking red rainstorm warning signal and you didn’t stay at home, why are you running around outside?”

He waded towards the car behind, knocked on the glass, wiped the rainwater off the glass, and looked inside: “Anyone here?”

No one responded.

Song Yan turned on the flashlight and pointed towards the inside of the car. It was full of water, with pillows, tissues and other debris suspended in it. No one was inside.

Xu Qin’s car was still sliding towards the deep end. Song Yan made sure that there was no one in the car before he quickly returned to the deeper water and carried Xu Qin off the front hood of the car.

He carried her to the shallows, his jaw tight, and didn’t say a single word.

Xu Qin leaned into his arms, and her left hand that was resting on his shoulder subconsciously grasped his neckline. With this grasp, her fingertips caught on the exposed bare skin of his neck, wet and scalding, the artery throbbed vigorously.

“Let go.” His impatient voice fell from above.

Xu Qin raised her eyes to look at him, he frowned slightly, his bright eyes under his eyebrows looked forward.

Xu Qin didn’t move.

Song Yan finally looked down at her with a rather unsightly expression: “Believe it or not, I will throw you into the water.”

Xu Qin looked at him and knew that with his temper, he would really throw her. But she also hoped that there might be that 1% possibility that he couldn’t bear it, he couldn’t let go. So, she just looked straight at him, but didn’t take her hand away.

Under the dim streetlights, his face was sharply defined.

Through the curtain of rain, she saw him pull the corner of his lips very lightly, with an overtone of sarcasm and loathing.

The next second, Song Yan actually dropped her into the water.

More precisely, threw.

Plop, a big splash of water came up.

It didn’t matter if the water splashed on her face, she was already soaked all over anyways.

It just happened that the wind was blowing, and it was extremely cold.

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