That night.
It was nearly ten o'clock.
Dong Xuebin stood by the gates of the Family Compound, ignoring everyone's strange looks. He took a cigarette someone offered him and drew on it a few times, then looked back at the waist-high stretch of rubble behind him. He could not help but sigh inwardly. That had been close. Still, they had finally gotten the person out. His injuries had not been for nothing.
The atmosphere at the scene relaxed as well.
Many of the onlooking residents began cheering.
"County Chief Dong, you're incredible!"
"Yeah, you actually managed to pull him out!"
"That wall weighed a ton! How did you move it?"
"Nothing else needs saying! That was fucking amazing!"
Over there, the Fire Brigade personnel had also come down from the ladder truck. Some of them began checking another intact Dormitory Building nearby to see whether anyone had been affected. The Fire Brigade captain, meanwhile, led a few people over to Dong Xuebin. "County Chief Dong, thank you for earlier." If Dong Xuebin had not pulled him back at the critical moment, he would have fallen from the building when the ground beneath his feet collapsed.
Dong Xuebin said, "You're welcome."
Then several Fire Brigade personnel all stared at Dong Xuebin's arms for a long while, apparently trying to figure out what kind of arms they were.
A ton!
Two thousand jin!
They still could not accept it. At the same time, they felt embarrassed. Six or seven Fire Brigade members had been unable to move that stone wall even an inch and had already given up, yet County Chief Dong had said nothing and flipped the wall over by himself. As professional rescue workers, they naturally found it humiliating. Seeing the residents looking at them made their faces burn. The