1 Derek
The gray van drove down the road sandwiched between the trees, and the small, dark space was crammed with seven stout Indian men and a lean woman. The people in the car were silent, and occasionally someone moved their sore shoulders, moved their numb lower limbs, looked out the window into the darkness, and asked, "Have you arrived?"
"Right now. The driver replied, moving his neck from side to side, "Kirden, change hands." ”
Corden patted the shoulder of the woman who was usually draped in an intricately patterned shawl, and stood up hunched, "Get aside." ”
The driver was behind the wheel, and the van tilted to the side, slowing down slowly.
"Wait. The driver pouted, and the steering wheel turned back again, "Someone is stopping the car." ”
In front of the dazzling headlights, a figure with a bulging backpack behind his back stood on the side of the road and stretched out his arms, and a thumbs-up intercepted the light of the headlights. A backpacker.
The people in the van didn't seem to want any more people in the cramped space, and the car resumed its normal speed and drove past the backpacker.
At the wrong moment, the backpacker folded his hands helplessly at his side and turned around. Looking at the distant taillights, completely disappeared at a small turn, he pulled the backpack behind him, looked up at the dark night sky, shook his head, and continued to walk along the side of the road. It was the only car that passed by for half the night.
The harsh grinding sound sounded, and in the inky night, the sudden sharp sound stirred people's hearts! The backpacker was stunned by the roadside for a moment.
The thud of the crash and the thud of metal bending erupted as the light in the trees and shadows in front of him ceased, stimulating his senses.
The backpackers ran, the dark road brightened as they ran through the turns, and the bread they had driven before stopped unharmed on the side of the road, while on the other side, a car had sunk into the woods. The entire front of the car was dented, the lid twisted up, and stuck crookedly on a thick tree trunk.
The backpacker's shoulders swayed, and he dropped the burden behind him, and went straight into the woods and ran to the car!
The smell of gasoline was palpable, and the backpacker's gaze glanced at the front of the car, which had been completely distorted inward. Quickly ran to the side, "Hey, hey......" The person who had the accident was not him, but inexplicably, the adrenaline had already made his heart start to beat faster, looking at the middle-aged woman who was pushed in the driver's seat and stained with blood, "Hey...... Are you alright?!"
The backpacker's hand hesitated, ignoring the fragments of windshield that were stuck upside down on the other's shoulder. pressed the other party's forehead, and quickly continued to look at the other person's body.
"I ......" the middle-aged woman seemed to want to move, "I ...... What, me, what's going on......" her eyes began to sweep around.
"Don't move!" the backpacker pressed the other's head, "Don't, don't move!" he breathed heavily, looking at the harness clasped to the woman's chest. He didn't know if the other person's spinal cord was still intact from such an impact, and he calmed his breathing. "I need you to hold your position, okay?!Hold it!Don't move!"
The backpacker looked back at the van still parked on the other side of the road, and there was a hint of confusion in his eyes. Maybe I wondered why the people in the car didn't come to help.
The backpacker's brow furrowed, and he turned his head. looked at the middle-aged woman and used a deliberately relaxed tone, but who was it to lie, his breathing was short, "Hey! I'm Drake." What's your name?"
"Hai, Hayley......" The woman's iris turned to the side, answering the meaningless question.
"Hey, don't worry, I want you to stay still now, okay?" Drake turned his head sideways, glanced at the van on the other side again, turned back, and looked at Hayley seriously, "I'm going to go over and get someone to help, so you stay here! Don't move! Okay?!"
Drake slowly let go of the hand holding the other's head.
Drake, who had just turned around and taken a step, was called back by a feeble call. "De, Deck ......", the woman's words were choked back by the blood in her throat, and she choked, "I, my son......"
The already loud heart sped up again, and Drake quickly looked into the back seat......
"Hayley. Derek adjusted his breathing, "Don't move, he's ...... Good. I'm going to find a helper now, don't move. ”
The van on the other side started to start, and Derek had already rushed out of the woods, "Hey!" The palm of his hand slapped directly on the door, and the driver looked sideways slightly, as if he was not ready to stop.
Derek stared at the driver's side face incredulously, "Holy!" and he rushed to the front of the car!
The medium-sized figure once again swept past the glare headlights, and his outstretched hands slapped the front of the van vigorously, "You guys are ready to drive away like this! Stop! Get out of the car!
The roar of the engine stopped. The side door opened in the middle of the bang, and the people in the van finally got down.
"Thank you!!" Derek stared at the people who got out of the car, and in an accentuated tone, yelling, "Hurry up!" He pulled a few strong-looking ones, urging him to run to the car.
"Do you think you can save her? A calm voice came out of the woman in the back, "Are you a doctor?" ”
"Yes!" Drake replied even in a hurry, "It's a ......" He didn't seem to want to say more about it at this time, urging, "Hurry up!"
"Hey, Hayley, look, I'll get you some help!" Drake pressed the other man's head again, smiling reluctantly, "We'll get you out and take you to the hospital......"
"Me, my son......"
Derek looked sideways at a few Indians standing around, what was conveyed in his eyes, and he didn't know if it was conveyed, he turned his head and kept smiling, "These people will help him out." "There was no time before, now that he knows that the other party's van will not go, he has time for a real diagnosis.
"Now how about we focus on you, Haley!" Derek stopped caring about a few Indians, half of his upper body almost completely poking into the car, his hand pressed to the leg under the woman's seat, "Haley, can you feel my hand?"
"No, I, I can't feel ......" the woman's throat twitched, and the words she wanted to say were blocked back by blood again.
Drake had taken a deep breath and pulled out his hand, still smiling unnaturally. He carefully unbuttoned Hayley's blouse, "Now I'm going to check your ......"
Coughing violently, Drake no longer explained what he was going to do!
Before he transferred Hayley to the van and sent her to the hospital, he had to at least make sure she was alive!
In one hand, Drake pulled out a pen and a switchblade, a backpacker's must-have, except he didn't seem to be doing anything conventional. He quickly removed the pen, leaving the hollow barrel, tore Hayley's blouse, and pressed the switchblade's hand against the bruised body, about to stab ......
"The treatment is over. A strong Indian suddenly grabbed Drake by the shoulder and pulled him back.
Derek's eyes widened, his body staggered backwards, and before he could hit anything, he was pulled by his other hand and pressed tightly to his side!
"What are you doing! I can save ......" Drake's pupils contracted violently, and a clear spring click sounded in the woods, and the men around him, I don't know when, had already picked up a weapon like a crossbow in their hands!
The agile figure moved in the gloom, and everyone stared around vigilantly!
Out of thin air, strangers who seemed to grow out of the trees surrounded Drake before they knew what was happening!
"How unlucky we were. The new stranger spoke, "I actually ran into a group of hunters." ”
"How...... Drake's shoulder was held down, "Quiet, if you want to make it to Barton alive." ”
It doesn't seem to be the reason why the Indoans would know that Drake was going to Barton, but this is the Newton-style road into Barton's West End, and to the east, either to Barton or to the sea.
"How about we make a deal?" the stranger's tone was lighthearted, "we don't bother you to continue east, you don't care what happens here." ”
"That's how it was intended. The woman in the cloak who spoke among the Indians walked slowly towards Drake, her thin and wrinkled skin looking at Drake expressionlessly, "But a warm-hearted stranger has made us decide to save this poor woman." The woman pointed to Hayley, who was still stuck in the car.
Drake struggled for a moment, not letting go of the Indians who were holding him. Derek was disappointed to find that Hayley had closed her eyes.
"Oh. The stranger smiled, "We all knew she was going to die. He paused, looking over there, "It's dead." Strangely, his gaze didn't seem to be on Hayley, but instead he turned his head to look at the road outside the woods, and then moved all the way to where Hayley was now!
Remember, Earthbinding's death is back!
"How stupid you are. The woman bowed her head and put her hands under her cloak, "Newton's demons. ”
From this point on, Drake couldn't keep up with the conversation between the two sides of this inexplicable confrontation.
"If I say save. The woman looked up, and the flowing red light and shadow wrapped around her hand!" We don't care if she's human or not. ”
The silver, red, and inky black light seemed to divide the lines of space, and the severed, dark night forest road became the last image in Drake's eyes, and he lost consciousness.
Time was gone.
When Drake's eyes became clear again, he sat up sharply, pressed the soft bed, and looked confusedly around the bedroom.
"You're awake. The woman held a cup of tea and handed it to him, "Derek Grande." ”
As if to explain, the woman waved her hand, "We looked at your papers. I'm Sbella, Sbella, Wind. (To be continued......)