Gan Yu wearing a pair of newly matched glasses, responding smoothly to the media’s questions and answers, clear thinking, gentle smile, and flat tone.
If it weren't for the wounds that were bandaged everywhere, it would be hard to imagine that he had just survived in the wild for 17 days without any food supplies and material support.
When the magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred in Luding, Sichuan, the young man who participated in the construction of the local hydropower station did not choose to escape, but tacitly worked with the hydropower station employee Luo Yong to rescue people.
These two people who saved many people with their own strength, and together with those who went on a row to find them, they created a miracle of life.
On September 26, Gan Yu was resting in the hospital bed in the general ward of the Trauma Medicine Center of West China Hospital of Sichuan University. Xinhua News Agency reporter Dong Xiaohong Photo by
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"If we can all go out alive,
I must treat you to a meal."
At the moment of the Luding earthquake, Gan Yu and Luo Yong, two friends who nodded on weekdays, stood together.
On the afternoon of September 5, in the staff dormitory of Wandong Hydropower Station in Detuo Town, Luding, Sichuan, 41-year-old hydraulic worker Luo Yong had just lie down and was about to take a nap when he suddenly felt a violent shaking, and the bed frame made a huge sound.
"It's an earthquake! It's an earthquake!" Luo Yonghe and a dozen of coworkers quickly got up and ran out.
Rocks are falling continuously. In the blink of an eye, some people are smashed to death and some are already buried in the pile of stones.
A huge amount of dust was raised and his vision was blurred. Luo Yong saw Gan Yu not far away, a young man from the construction party of the project. He was digging the rocks hard, trying to rescue a coworker.
Gan Yu's glasses disappeared and his body was injured by flying stones. He and Luo Yong were digging together, with blood flowing from his hands, and a nail was pierced into his instep, without feeling the pain.
Another landslide, and the coworkers were completely buried...
I can't remember who shouted first: Dam! The two people who were still digging stones frantically raised their heads.
Wandong Hydropower Station is surrounded by mountains and rivers. It is a high-shuitou hydropower station with an installed capacity of 60MW and a designed water head of 780 meters. The higher the head, the larger the drop.
The water supply pressure pipe with a diameter of about 1 meter is set up along the ridge, sending the river water to a factory building more than ten kilometers away to generate electricity. After an earthquake, failure to discharge floods in time will cause pressure pipes to explode and destroy farmland, houses, and livestock pens along the route, with unimaginable consequences.
must be opened immediately! In almost a few seconds, the two made a decision: Luo Yong went to the dam to discharge the flood, and Gan Yu left to take care of the injured workers.
Flood discharge gate is located on the shoulder of a dam about ten stories high, and the stairs of the past have been covered by rolling rocks. Luo Yong, who had good feet, rushed up stepping on the stone, tried twice and finally climbed up.
starts diesel generator , first connects the flood gate No. 1, and then No. 2, and the water flows down... Both people at the dam shoulder and the dam bottom breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed on the ground.
When Luo Yong went down to the bottom of the dam again, Gan Yu's colleagues no longer breathed. The two climbed to the dam shoulder together, stopped the generator, and confirmed that the danger was completely eliminated.
It was not until a few days later that people learned that the decision of these two people saved hundreds of lives, but they themselves missed the golden time to escape.
At this moment, all dormitories have been damaged, all road communications have been interrupted, and the collapsed mountain turns the dam into an isolated island.
At night, aftershocks hit frequently. Luo Yong and Gan Yu were guarding the dam shoulder, observing the water situation, and not sleeping all night.
As soon as the day goes by, they make another decision: save themselves!
Follow the dam shoulder and climb up the cliff. Luo Yong, who was born and raised, was familiar with the terrain of this area. He judged that going to the Tiger Gang in the direction of asbestos is easier than going to the East Village of Ludingwan.
"There are some small roads in that area, and you can find the village as long as you see the road." He told Gan Yu.
Gan Yu's mobile phone had a brief signal, and the company received his rescue request. But soon, the signal disappeared.
The joint command of the front line of the province, city (prefecture) and county in Sichuan Province immediately dispatched helicopters and drones to search.Seeing the plane above their heads, they took off their clothes and carried them on the bamboo pole and swayed desperately, but the dense forest blocked everything and covered the information of life tightly.
Gan Yu, who has 500 degrees of myopia, is still injured on his body. Luo Yong found a rope to hold him and walked forward slowly.
In the afternoon, the two of them couldn't walk anymore. Luo Yong found two wild fruits on the mountain and gave them to Gan Yu, but he didn't eat anything.
"If we can all go out alive, I will definitely treat you to a meal." Ging at the wild fruit and swallowed it slowly. Gan Yu looked at the dark-faced elder brother and said quietly.
"Young people don't waste it too much. When we go out, eat a bowl of noodles and fried rice and celebrate it." Luo Yong smiled silly.
That night, two people who were more than 10 years apart "can't remember what they talked about." In the dark jungle, the only thing they can do is to sleep on their backs and for a while.
On September 7, with a weak signal, Gan Yu received a message on his mobile phone that two rescue teams headed towards the dam of the hydropower station. However, at this time, they had already walked about 20 kilometers.
"I walked too slowly, which dragged down time. In this way, neither of us could survive. We can't waste it like this anymore. You hurry up and find rescue." Gan Yu's face was pale, his voice was much lower, but his tone was not hesitant at all.
"Don't run around, just wait in place. I'm saved, you'll be saved, don't worry!" Luo Yong used his hard hat to pick up the water, picked some fruits, broke a few bamboo shoots , left it for Gan Yu, and turned around and rushed.
stays, two people are waiting to die. Let’s go, there may be a glimmer of hope!
Sleeplessly, Luo Yong almost ran in the mountains.
htmlOn September 8, relying on a picked-up lighter, Luo Yong successfully sent out a signal with smoke. He was discovered by rescuers and sent to Luding County City by helicopter.He kept muttering: "I have a companion below, you must go and save him!"
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"You must find Gan Yu back"
rained down on the tiger hill, and Gan Yu was still waiting in the same place.
The constant aftershocks and rockfalls made him worried whether Brother Luo had encountered an accident. The sound from the jungle at night made him even more creepy and he didn't dare to close his eyes.
One or two days, the rain has not diminished and the helicopter has failed to take off. The rescue force walked into the mountain, but it was also stopped due to the collapse of the landslide. Drones flew by frequently, but could not penetrate the dense jungle.
Is Gan Yu still waiting in place? How long can he last? The raindrops hit everyone's hearts, and the tent in front of Detuo Town was brightly lit day and night.
From September 5 to 8, the command center sent several search and rescue teams composed of 77th Army, , Sichuan Forest Fire Brigade, 2nd Mobile Detachment of Sichuan Armed Police Corps, 2nd Mobile Detachment of Armed Police Traffic Detachment, Meishan and Deyang Red Cross Society, and crossed the mountains and took assault boat to Wandong Village for search and rescue, and transferred more than 750 villagers.
The area of Wanggangping and Hugang has also opened up a large network of search and rescue. The valley is deep and the walls are steep and the gullies are intertwined. It is not easy to find two people who have no positioning information!
Yang Shuqing, deputy secretary of the Luding County Party Committee, is responsible for coordinating the search for missing persons. In a state of anxiety, he walked out an average of 20,000 steps per day, a tent of less than 100 square meters.
On September 8, the county magistrate of Luding County, who was commanding the search and rescue in the second group of Wandong Village, Wang Lei, saw white smoke igniting on the opposite mountain through a telescope, and immediately reported to the command center.
Luo Yong found it! Gan Yu's whereabouts became the last blind spot.
From September 9 to 10, the Sichuan Provincial Fire Rescue Corps formed a 48-person search and rescue team, divided into four teams to carry out work, and dealt with the safety hazards of the dam's sluice inlet.
September 10, Mid-Autumn Festival, Gan Yu's home was not as happy as a festive joy in Shihe Town, Dazhu County, Dazhou City, more than 600 kilometers away. 4 days ago, Gan Yu reported his safety on his mobile phone. After that, hundreds of calls never answered again.
Mother Chen Weishu's tears were about to dry out. She kept saying to her family: "Mother and son are in love. He has never given me a dream. He must be alive!"
Chen Weishu decided to rush to Luding County, "No matter whether it is dead or alive, you must get the child back!"
It was also on this day. As if sensing the mother's call, Gan Yu struggled to get up and continued to walk up the mountain along the route planned by Luo Yong before.
Without glasses, he couldn't see clearly under his feet. He always fell down and got up again and again...
In the first few days, he could still find the stream, but later he could only collect rainwater from the moss. Without food, he tried to find wild fruits and found that there were falling wild kiwi fruit in the woods, as if he had a treasure. Later, he was shot in the foot by a stone and his movements became slower.
At this time, Luo Yong had already learned about the death of his mother, brother and nephew. Without caring about grief, on September 11, he followed his cousin, 49-year-old villager of Wandong Village, Luo Lijun, and advanced into the Tiger Hill with a 16-man rescue team.
"You must find Gan Yu back!" After persisting until halfway, Luo Yong, who was physically exhausted, could not continue to support him. Before going down the mountain, he gave his cousin thousands of instructions.
Rescue team found the place where the two of them rest based on the clues provided by Luo Yong, and found the lost gloves and clothes, but did not find Gan Yu.
Two days and one night, the rescue team searched and shouted all the way, climbed to a place with an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, and slept in the mountains at night. The helicopter dropped a lot of supplies, and people hoped that Gan Yu could pick them up.
htmlOn September 12, Luo Lijun and the rescue team failed to search and rescue and had to temporarily evacuate the Tiger Gate. Three workers from Gan Yu's construction team volunteered to go into the mountain to search and rescue.Gan Yu's mother couldn't bear it: "If something happened to you, how can I be worthy of your family?"
The workers said in unison: "There are many people and the power is great, we must find Gan Yu!"
All kinds of rescues are still moving forward in unison.
From September 8 to 20, the Shimian County Earthquake Relief Command sent 18 batches of search and rescue teams.
From September 13 to 14, the Yunai Youth Emergency Rescue Team from Yibin joined the search and rescue.
From September 15th to 16th, three blue sky rescue teams of Mianyang , Ganzi and Jiangyou and volunteers from Beijing joined the search and rescue, and Luo Lijun continued to serve as the guide.
From September 17 to 18, the Chongqing Banan rescue team came, the Leibo County Blue Leopard rescue team came, and more and more local villagers also came...
Yang Shuqing told reporters that all the people who served as guides for the rescue team were local village cadres, and most of them were party members. They sent away batches of trapped people and returned to the search and rescue site again and again. More than a day has passed, and a life rescue relay has reached its limit. On the Internet and social media, professionals and netizens are paying attention to Gan Yu’s whereabouts day and night.
Gan Yu no longer has the concept of time. He walked and called for help, "I felt like I was lying on the ground and sleeping for a while, and the day passed."
Mother's voice, childhood companion, grandma's smile... kept flashing in his mind.
Many times, Gan Yu could clearly hear the sound of the helicopter, "I can't give up, my family is still waiting for me, there must be someone looking for me outside, I want to survive."
If there is no wild fruit, he will dig the roots of the tree; if there is no moss and water, he will drink urine; when he is about to despair, he will talk to the grass and trees around him.
17 days of living alone, he "dreamed that everyone was looking for me" and "after waking up, he felt powerful again."
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"Don't cry, as long as you are there,
Everything will be fine"
"A person in Wandong Hydropower Station has been missing and has been searching for more than ten days." On September 18, Yi Old Man Ni Taigao and his wife returned to Tiger Gang when they heard the news.
When the earthquake occurred, the sheep fled everywhere. Ni Taigao, 58, was thrown out heavily, and a beam hit the waist, causing a slight fracture.
"It should be still in this area." Ni Taigao gave up going up the mountain to find sheep and decided to help find someone.
Menghugang is the highest place in Yuejin Village. Ni Taigao herd sheep here for generations and followed the sheep through the mountains and forests.
For three consecutive days, he wandered around the valley, shouting at the valley in the way he usually shouted sheep. Early in the morning of September 21, after shouting a few times as usual, he heard the echo for the first time, like a wild beast and a goat.
prick up his ears and listen again, it is like "help".
Ni Taigao hurried back home and put mooncakes and two boxes of milk in it. "If it were him, he would definitely be hungry. Eating too much at once wouldn't work."
walked up about a kilometer, roared again, and followed the sound, and Ni Taigao entered the dense forest behind the mountain. At around
9:30, a young man with a beard appeared. He was wearing a green raincoat, stained on his jeans, and a pair of white flats with broken holes on his feet.
When he saw Ni Taigao, he started crying. Ni Taigao quickly comforted him in Chinese that he was not very skilled, then took off his Yi coat, put it on the ground to let him rest, and handed him the milk and mooncakes to eat.
This child suffered and is very lucky! Ni Taigao couldn't help crying with heartache, and couldn't help but grin and laugh.
"You said you found Gan Yu, my name is Gan Yu." This good news was soon passed to the foot of the mountain through Ni Taigao's mobile phone.
Gan Yu miraculously survived! People came from all directions.
Lao Ni's younger brother and the militia company commander Ni Taiping brought militia and medical staff; Lao Ni's nephew brought changed clothes, shoes and socks; Lao Ni's wife and sister-in-law brought lunch, Gan Yu's cousin Gan Liquan and several villagers also followed...
People found two wooden poles, tied them to their pockets, and made a simple stretcher. They carried Gan Yu for about a kilometer and sent them to a place where the helicopter could land.
On September 21, the helicopter transported Ganyu to Luding County. Xinhua News Agency issued
"The rotor in front is almost next to the edge of the cliff, and the tail rotor in the back is also very close to the trees." Captain Huang Shiwei recalled that the plane could only land diagonally on a small road halfway up the mountain with its fuselage.
20 minutes later, Gan Yu arrived at Luding County People's Hospital . Chen Weishu finally saw his son, and the mother and son looked at each other speechlessly, but tears couldn't stop flowing.
That night, Gan Yu was transferred to West China Hospital of Sichuan University . After preliminary diagnosis, he had multiple soft tissue contusions throughout his body, fractures of the ribs, and fractures of the fibula of the left lower limb. Due to the long-term failure to eat, ulcers appear in many places in the esophagus and stomach.
On September 21, a multidisciplinary team from West China Hospital of Sichuan University was consulting Gan Yu's condition. Two days after Xinhua News Agency released
, Gan Yu's vital signs gradually stabilized. He told his mother that he would sign up for this year's first-level construction engineer exam .
Mother Chen Weishu didn't dare to show too much emotion at first. Seeing that her son was covered in wounds, she held back her tears; she also gritted her teeth when she learned that her son had lost dozens of pounds. But at this moment, when she heard her son talking about the future happily, she finally burst into tears.
This mother was filled with mixed feelings at this moment, for her son and for so many people who extended a helping hand to them!
On September 26, in the general ward of the Trauma Medicine Center of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Gan Yu's mother Chen Weishu took care of Gan Yu on the bed. Xinhua News Agency reporter Dong Xiaohong photo
Ni Taigao later learned that the young man he found was a big hero: "He saved so many people, good people will be rewarded!"
Back to the resettlement site at the foot of the mountain, Ni Taigao also became a hero in the eyes of the villagers. He supported his unhealed waist and continued to go up the mountain to find sheep and return to the pen.
"Don't cry, as long as you are there, everything will be fine." He said again what he said when he met Gan Yu.
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"We have so many people,
has experienced this ordeal together.
will not retreat no matter what we encounter in the future."
"We both came out alive, don't forget about our meal."
"If you want to get it, you have to get it, we will get together again when I am discharged from the hospital."
"You have to remember."
"You have to get it."
"You have to get it."
"You have to get it."
"You have to get it."
"You have to get it."
After being transferred to the general ward, Gan Yu and Luo Yong's first call after they lost contact mentioned their pretended relaxed agreement at the critical moment of life and death.
Through the screen, the smiles of the two reached the bottom of their hearts, and the viewers were moved. This smile brings joy of surviving the disaster and tacit understanding of a life-long friendship.
Gan Yu also reported to his social media account specifically: "Thank you for your family, colleagues, rescue team members and local villagers who have been looking for me."
"Pray for you, I hope you will recover soon!"
"Come on, heroic comrade!"
"Awesome! At the same time, I am also lucky!"
tide of blessings continue to come, paying tribute to this young man who chose to go against the flow at a critical moment, praise all those who are watching over each other in this life rescue, and warming more people in the disaster area who have experienced hardships and rebirth.
Luding is still raining in the distance. Luo Yong told Gan Yu that the roads in Wandong Village are about to be opened, and temporary transitional building houses are under intense construction, and the villagers will be able to move in soon.
On September 29, Gan Yu was 28 years old. Apart from wanting to have a small cake, he just wants to stay quietly with his family.
In his reply to the reporter's WeChat, he said: "We have experienced this hardship together and will never retreat no matter what we encounter in the future!"
Source丨Xinhua News Agency
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