The pier's thunderous collapse drew everyone's attention from the lakeside. After a brief moment of stunned silence, several girls screamed, the boys took a few steps forward, and those sitting around the barbecue instinctively turned the skewers in their hands. Bai Hui cried out, "Liu Chang'an and Zhao Wuqiang are on the bridge!"
Only after hearing Liu Chang'an's cries for help did everyone react. Several quick-thinking students hurried toward the pier.
"Watch the bridge!"
"Anyone who can swim, save them!"
"Don't all rush up there at once!"
Bai Hui ran to the water's edge and saw Liu Chang'an and Zhao Wuqiang bobbing up and down in the distance. She hurried after the three boys who could swim, calling back to the other students, "Nobody else come over! Too many people will just make things chaotic!"
Bai Hui ran back to a spot in front of the collapsed bridge deck. Broken planks floated in the water, some of their snapped ends jutting out in terrifyingly sharp points. Water weeds swayed faintly around them. The three boys did not dare jump straight in and could only carefully feel their way down from the side. What worried Bai Hui most was that Zhao Wuqiang seemed to have lost his mind in the water. He was struggling desperately, one hand clamped tightly around Liu Chang'an. Yet Liu Chang'an did not abandon him or try to break free. Instead, he held Zhao Wuqiang tightly with one arm while paddling hard with the other, trying to swim toward shore. But whether it was the weeds tangling around them or his strength giving out, Liu Chang'an kept bobbing up and down while holding Zhao Wuqiang, making everyone fear that once he went under again, he would never resurface.
"Let go of Zhao Wuqiang first and let those