The Villainous Celebrity Wife of the CEO - Chapter 132.1

Danger 3
“Crap!”

Looking at the gray-black sky in the distance, Gao Ling, who was sitting in the passenger seat, couldn’t hold back a series of expletives. He now understood what it meant that misfortunes never come singly —— He thought that as long as they ran fast enough, the tsunami would not catch up with them, but then they ran head-on into a raging volcanic ash!

They set off from the western coast; a convoy of dozens of buses roaring inland. The buses were followed by a dozen pickup trucks carrying people. Hence, such a large and conspicuous convoy became the most striking scenery on the road.

The destination of the convoy was the nickel mine, where the terrain was flat and open and supporting basic living facilities. They could temporarily accommodate several thousand people. They were about to arrive when the volcano nearby suddenly erupted!

The undersea earthquake shook off the communication lines, so the volcano and tsunami alerts came late. Gao Ling stared at the phone, popping with English messages, which were word by word translated into Chinese.

“It says that the volcano suddenly erupted at blah-blah time, and all residents three kilometers around the volcano are prompted to evacuate immediately…” Gao Ling quickly took out the electronic map, looking for information on the mining area on it.

“Fortunately, fortunately,” he breathed a long sigh of relief and faced Mu Xiulun who was sitting in the back seat and said, “Mr. Mu, your nickel mine is still some distance away from the volcano. the ash will drift over, but it won’t have much impact.”

Gao Ling said in relief, but seeing the dark mass of dust in the horizon, his mood sank. Just looking at it from such a distance, you could feel the enormous deterrent brought by nature. He dared not imagine how desperate people standing at the foot of the mountain were feeling at the time of the volcanic eruption.

“That’s good,” Mu Xiulun replied, “When we arrived at the mining area in a while, shelter them all in temporary dormitories to squeeze with the workers. Open the canteen and infirmary to them, too; at least until official help arrives.”

Gao Ling was about to reply, when suddenly, an ear-piercing buzz burst from one of the buses’ speakers, making him frown.

“What’s going on?” Mu Xiulun asked.

“A driver from one of the buses should have mishandled the frequency channel,” Gao Ling answered right away.

In such large convoys, car intercoms were usually installed inside, with a receiving range of five kilometers. They could also be used in conjunction with hand-held walkie-talkies.

A walkie-talkie used frequency modulation to determine a call channel, which could ensure stable transmission and reception even in places where there was no network communication signal.

In their SUV, there was a special car walkie talkie. It was the “Boss” of all walkie talkies in the convoy and was responsible for dispatching all personnel in the team.

Gao Ling pressed the walkie-talkie button and gave the order in fluent English, telling everyone to brace themselves for the last kilometers. Each of their cars carried hundreds of people. Neglect and carelessness wasn’t an option!

However, before he could finish speaking, another ear-splitting sound erupted from the channel without warning. It was as if the microphone was unintentionally drawn close to the stereo, making people’s temples hurt!

The most frightening thing was the intermittent female voice that sounded along with that noise…

“Someone…I…help!”

Gao Ling shuddered from head to toe. There was no female driver in their convoy!!! Not to mention a female driver who spoke Chinese!!

It was still broad daylight, so haunting was absolutely impossible. Then, there was only one definite possibility —— it was a walkie-talkie crosstalk!

Although theoretically speaking, there were thousands of possible walkie-talkie channels, and different channels didn’t interfere with each other. But in harsh natural environments, the electromagnets changed in the atmosphere, and walkie-talkie crosstalks were entirely possible!

Therefore, it could be inferred that the person who was asking for help from them in the channel accidentally connected her mobile phone to their channel. The series of noise they just heard was emitted when she was tuning the channel!

……

If a word was used to describe this distress, Su Jishi could only tell herself —— fate.

The moment the black smoke engulfed her, her feet slipped, and she fell from the high bamboo bridge with countless images instantly flashing in her mind; her teacher, her unfinished doctoral thesis, her missing sister… And all kinds of people she met in the months of ‘replacing’ her sister.

The sharped tongued, but tofu-hearted Fang Xie; the outwardly fierce, yet with the heart of a young girl Ashan; and also the scared red-eyed Xiao Xia just now…To her own surprise, the last one who appeared in her mind turned out to be Mu Xiulun.

However, before she could think clearly, she was wrapped in black dust and fell heavily into the ditch!

The expected pain did not hit her. Below her body was not hard dirt ground, but the rapid river ——