What did Gan Yu experience after 17 days of Jedi survival?

Helicopters flew over their heads again and again, and the shouts of Luo Yong and Gan Yu were drowned in the vast mountains and forests, shrinking into a negligible dot.

After the floodgate was lifted and the generator was turned off, only Luoyong and Ganyu were left on the dam of Luojiaba Hydropower Station on Wandong River in Luding County.

The only thing that can be heard around is the sound of "rumbling" and the sound of stones rolling constantly.

This is the Gongga Mountain Group in Sichuan Province, with 45 peaks above 6000 meters above sea level. Wandong Hydropower Station is located in Jiagou of the East Mountain Range. An hour ago, an earthquake happened here. Luo Yong, an employee of the hydropower station, saw his brother, nephew and several colleagues working together buried under the rubble. Some people escaped, and some people were killed on the way to escape.

In low-lying places, the dam of hydropower station is one of the few high places, which may be the safest place nearby. Gan Yu and Luo Yong stayed on the abutment and rested all night. But when I woke up the next day, things changed. "There are landslides all around, and the mountains are getting more and more fierce. I feel that the water is going up. " Luo Yong judged from his knowledge of earthquakes that they had to flee.

Tiger Hill is the direction for the first wave of prisoners to go. After discussion, the two decided to go there first. They didn't know that they would embark on such a long journey.

1 select

On September 5 12: 52, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 occurred in Luding county, and the employees of Wandong Hydropower Station were working in the main workshop on the third floor of the hydropower station. With a violent shaking, in an instant, the searchlight in the basement went out and the eyes were dark. He hurried back to the ground and saw rolling stones falling on the surrounding mountains, setting off thick smoke.

He looked anxiously at the dam a few kilometers away.

At the same time in previous years, the dam raised the sluice every week to adjust the water level. After the earthquake, a dammed lake may form around it, causing the water level to rise. If the sluice gate is not opened and the water in the dam is not drained according to the design direction, there will be the risk of dam break and overflow. "Water carrying sediment and gravel will rush downstream, which will cause serious casualties and property losses."

There are hundreds of villagers in the downstream village, and their hopes are pinned on this line. Luo Yong, 4 1 year-old, is a water conservancy engineer in charge of dam flood control and sanitation, and was resting in the dormitory at that time. He recalled the day after the earthquake. "My first feeling is that after the end, I will definitely not go out this time."

He decided to save the last time for the dam. The power system in the nearby work area has been paralyzed, and the remote switching operation that could have been carried out in the duty room can no longer be used. There is only one way left, go up the dam shoulder, start the standby power supply, and then open the floodgate to discharge water.

Due to a large area of landslide around the mountain, the road from the dormitory to the dam abutment was blocked by landslide, so Luo Yong had to climb up the dam abutment on the 10 floor by hand along the landslide. "I climbed twice. I didn't climb it the first time. There are too many Rolling Stones. I climbed up for the second time. "

Meanwhile, 28-year-old Gan Yu failed to escape in time. He graduated from Xichang College majoring in water conservancy and came to work in Luding after graduation. Luo Yong recalled, "At that time, several people were pressed below, and he went to help pull it out." Then, Gan Yu and Luo Yong went to the computer room and turned off the generator. Then there was the opening scene, where the two men were left on the dam abutment and missed the best opportunity to escape.

2 escape

After a night's rest, the surrounding landslides became more and more serious. The two began to escape in the direction of Tiger Hill in the aftershock. You have to run to high places, but it's not easy. There are frequent crustal activities and complex topography in Gongga Mountain area. There are many cracks and cliffs after the earthquake. The ridge is as narrow as an inclined blade, and you will step into the abyss if you are not careful.

"There are landslides along the way." Luo Yong don't want to recall too carefully. He will still "feel horrible" when he thinks of those unpredictable falling rocks. Gan Yu is nearsighted and lost his glasses on the day of the earthquake. Because I can't see clearly, I am often cut down by bamboo forests and shrubs. Whenever encountering a steep place, Luo Yong tied the rain with a safety rope.

Luo Yong and Gan Yu walked from the early morning of September 6 to around three or four in the afternoon. There is no water, no food, and no one. Tiger Hill is only four or five kilometers in a straight line, but the mountain road is winding, and Luo Yong feels that they actually walked fifteen or sixteen kilometers.

A collapsed mountain. Photo by Luo Yong

Luo Yong remembers that when he walked near Tiger Hill, the connection suddenly appeared-Ganyu's cell phone signal was very weak. They made the first call, reported their approximate location to the hydropower station, and sent out the location. The leader immediately contacted the helicopter to their position.

Soon, several more calls came in. After Gan Yu's family made a few phone calls, Gan Yu quickly said, "Stop calling, stop calling, the mobile phone is not enough." There is also a phone call from Luo Yong's home, telling him the news of his mother's death.

In the process of escape, Luo Yong took the rain and tried to be firm and calm, "like a brother", but lost his strength at that moment. He described this as the "most painful moment" in the earthquake. He was in tears, but he didn't have time to talk. He hung up the phone and rushed to the place to wait for help.

Unexpectedly, this is the last time they talked to the outside world. The cell phone signal soon disappeared and the power was exhausted.

The helicopter did come, but it was not found. Unable to contact, the two witnessed the helicopter hovering above, "excited again and again, disappointed again and again." Luo Yong and Ganyu's loud cries were drowned in the vast forest, shrinking into a trivial dot.

3 separate

On the morning of September 7, Ganyu couldn't walk. After missing the helicopter the day before, they rested in the same place for one night and planned to go back to the dam for rescue, but hunger and fatigue made Gan Yu's body more and more dull, and Luo Yong also felt "exhausted".

"No, I'm walking too slowly. It's stalling. Neither of us can live like this. " Luo Yong recalled what Gan Yu said at that time. He decided to let Luo Yong go back for help first and stay where he was waiting.

Not at ease, Luo took a helmet to carry water in the ravine, picked some wild fruits and bamboo leaves, and left a raincoat to cover him. "Wait here, don't run around. I'll get someone to save you as soon as I go out. "

The mountain road was shrouded in dense fog, and it was drizzling, and the original road was blocked by gravel. Luo Yong had to take another road to bypass, "over the mountains, walked nearly 20 kilometers". After walking for a day and a night, he returned to the dam on the morning of September 8.

Without the imaginary rescue team, the dam is empty. He can only continue to walk, walk back to Wandong Village, take the tempering lawn and walk home. The scene in front of him was beyond his expectation-"no one, no one, all the ruins, all the farmers were taken away", collapsed red bricks, white broken walls, countless beams and boards piled up in the original village house.

Village ruins. Photo by Luo Yong

Luo Yong searched the ruins alone for tools that could be used for rescue. In the ruins, he found a lighter, lit a pile of firewood and raised his cigarette.

After waiting for more than an hour, he was very excited to see the helicopter flying towards his position.

"Finally saved."

4 disappearing people

September 16, eight days have passed since Luo Yong was rescued, which is also an extremely painful day for Gan Yu's family.

They haven't heard from Ganyu since the phone call on September 6th. After Luo Yong was rescued on September 8th, Gan Yu's whereabouts were still unknown. "Our whole family was in a hurry," Gan Yu's cousin Gan Liquan recalled. On September 10, Gan Yu's parents arrived in Luding, and more than 100 people in the family began to ask for help separately. Some send short videos, some send friends, and some contact the local government to try to attract more people's attention.

During this period, the local armed police force, fire rescue teams in Chengdu and Deyang all took helicopters, took local guides and Luo Yong to Tiger Hill to search for rain, but failed.

"There are too many people who need help. Gan Yu has missed 72 hours of gold, and the rescue power that the official can allocate to him is very limited. " Gan Liquan said. After Chengdu was unsealed on September 12, Gan Liquan immediately issued a travel certificate and drove to Luding with his cousin Gan Wei. During this period, he and his family began to contact the civil rescue team, hoping that they could come to search for the rain.

"The first wave is 13, 14, Ai Jun Rescue Team, the second wave is 15, 16, Blue Sky Rescue Team and Beijing Emergency Management Association Team, and the third wave is 17, assembling Banan Rescue Team and Blue Panther Rescue Team to camp on the mountain. Helicopters are in short supply, and waves of folk volunteers can only hike into the mountains near Tiaojiao Township, Wang Jiangping, and go to Tiger Hill to find the missing rain.

Although each team failed to return, the Gan family always believed that Gan Yu was still alive. "He has always been a very stable and capable baby." Gan Liquan believes that Gan Yu was born in rural Dazhou, used to farming since childhood, and has a certain ability to survive in the wild.

Luo Yong also believes that Gan Yu is still alive. He saw that kind of longing for life in Ganyu. "From leaves to wild fruits, he eats everything without hesitation. He is very strong. " It is precisely because of this belief that he has been staying at Gan's home to help find the rain. Although he is still in the grief of losing his loved ones, he has never been able to find his mother's body. "I am the only one who knows the route."

But in fact, not many people believe that Gan Yu is still alive.

Liu Min is a member of the Blue Sky Rescue Team. As soon as she set foot on the mountain, she found that the soil was extremely wet and loose, probably because it rained for several days, and her feet would sink with every step. There are still quicksand and gravel falling by the roadside, and there are "big white cracks" about 50 cm wide everywhere on the mountain, which are the mountain cracks left after the earthquake, and you can't see the end at a glance.

On 16, they climbed a mountain very close to Tiger Hill. At that time, she looked at the opposite mountain, and her heart was cold. She subconsciously judged "impossible." This is where Luo Yong pointed out that he finally broke up with Gan Yu. Obviously, there was a landslide, revealing a large yellow-brown cliff. The place where they built their nest was completely buried by boulders.

She also suspected that Luo Yong had made a mistake in orientation and route, because he looked haggard after the robbery. "It seems that he is still in a panic, and his eyes are full of red blood. Every time he talks about the details of his separation from Ganyu, he is extremely painful. He speaks and thinks slowly, and he feels unwilling to recall. "

Li Xiangqian is also a member of the rescue team, and he agrees with Liu Min's feelings. Along the mountain road, what he saw only made his heart sink a little bit-the bare runner on the roadside was smashed to pieces, a cow and a sheep died under the falling rocks, and the mountain where Gan Yu might be located was "full of cracks on the side".

Members of the Blue Sky Rescue Team are climbing the mountain. Photo by Li Xiangqian

Li Xiangqian will always remember 16 that morning, the players were deadlocked at the top of the mountain. "Each of us carried more than 65,438+05 kilograms of equipment and three or four bottles of water. From the morning of 15 to the morning of 16, we ran out of water and our physical strength was declining. The guide also advised us that it would be very dangerous to have rain that night, which would probably cause mudslides and landslides. " However, two players argued, "They don't want to leave, so they feel so close. Gan Yu is a hero. He has saved so many people and must not give up. (They) have a feeling of never giving up until they find someone. " After some hesitation, the players decided to show their hands. According to the voting results, they finally went down the mountain.

After going down the mountain, Liu Min dared not face the hopeful eyes of Ganyu's family. She still remembers each other's "thanks". In fact, this may be the closest the rescue team has come to Ganyu. Liu Min and Li Xiangqian found that they were less than a kilometer away from where Ganyu was later discovered.

Five people were rescued.

Gan Liquan later recalled that if he insisted that Gan Yu was still alive, it might be because of a dream he had in June of 5438+05.

It was my cousin Gan Wei who was driving at that time. He fell asleep in the passenger seat and vaguely heard someone calling him, "Brother, help me, brother, help me." He woke up and asked Gan Wei, "Are you calling me?" Seeing Gan Wei's puzzling appearance, he realized that he was dreaming.

That dream was like an irresistible knock on the door, which kept knocking on his heart. In the days that followed, he also dreamed of rain one after another. Coincidentally, many family members dreamed of the rain, perhaps because they thought about it day after day and dreamed at night.

He thought it was a signal from his brother. "I told Luo Yong that I didn't find it because I didn't go up. If I do, my brother will appear. "

On the 20th, Gan Liquan contacted Ni Huadong, a local villager guide, to discuss with his parents and prepare for a protracted war. 2 1 in the morning, he and Gan Wei set out up the mountain together, carrying a few catties of oil and salt rice and a tent. "I'm going to walk for three or four days. I'll find him anyway."

Because he had not received professional rescue training before, he had been stopped at the foot of the mountain, but this time, he decided to rely on himself. He insisted on taking another road that he thought was more likely, believing that telepathy between his family would definitely help him find the sweet rain.

At that time, villager Ni Taigao had also returned to his home near Tiger Mountain in Yuejin Village, Shimian County, Ya 'an City from the resettlement site at the foot of the mountain. According to him, the rescue team searching for Ganyu passed by his house a few days ago. After chatting with them, he probably knew that there was a man trapped in the mountains.

The house on the hill collapsed badly. Photo by Li Xiangqian

2 1 At 9: 00 am on the seventh day after the earthquake, Ni Taigao, who got up to herd sheep in the morning, heard a cry for help nearby. He rushed over and found a young man lying on the ground.

"He cried as soon as he saw me." Ni Taigao recalled. The man was lying on the ground, dressed in rags and covered with wounds. His spirit seems to be in a trance and his hands are shaking. He climbed to the direction where Ni was too high with his arm and moved a little. Ni judged that this should be the sweet rain that disappeared 17 days. "As soon as I saw him, I asked, how did you get through these days?"

Gan Yu later told Gan Liquan that he had stayed in that place for two or three days because he couldn't walk any further. Waiting for rescue for more than ten days, he guarded the water and wild fruits on the mountain. In order to avoid the landslide caused by aftershocks, he had to leave his place and climb to the top of the mountain, but missed the search and rescue personnel.

When I saw the rain, Ni also shed tears. In fact, he doesn't know Gan Yu, and he doesn't know what he did and how many people he saved. This is only because a life has been lost and restored.

Gan Liquan remembers that Gan Yu was wearing a green raincoat, his sweater was soaked, and his jeans and shoes were worn out. "He has been crying and he is very excited."

6 miracle

Luo Yong heard the news that Gan Yu was rescued, and a heart that had been hanging for many days finally fell to the ground: "Gan Yu Can, come out, this is my happiest thing, as long as everyone is safe. At the moment, he is resting in the tent of the disaster relief settlement. On the 23rd, he returned to his home in the ruins and found his mother's body. He once thought that if he didn't mention the floodgate at that time, but went home, would the outcome be different?

He grew up in Wandong Village and lived with his parents for 4 1 year. As the oldest child in the family, he got the love of his mother. The feeling of losing a loved one can't be calmed down.

But he did not regret it, and felt that he had a "clear conscience."

Gan Yu's family soon learned the good news. Gan Yu's aunt Gan Qian recalled that when she saw the photos of Gan Yu saving people in the group, she almost didn't recognize them. "A big boy who is 1.7 meters tall, fat in vain and handsome in the sunshine suddenly looks 20 years old."

By the time he was rescued, Gan Yu had completely lost his ability to act. Gan Liquan and the surrounding villagers cut down the trees next to them, made a simple stretcher and carried them down the mountain. In the afternoon, Gan Yu was transferred by helicopter to Luding County People's Hospital for initial treatment, and transferred to Chengdu Huaxi Hospital in the evening.

According to the news of West China Hospital, at 20: 57 that day, Wu Hong, vice president of West China Hospital, led experts from emergency department, trauma medical center, ICU and thoracic surgery for multidisciplinary consultation. After preliminary diagnosis, Gan Yu suffered from multiple soft tissue contusions, rib fractures and fibula fractures in his left lower limb, accompanied by serious infection and internal environment disorder. Generally speaking, Ganyu's vital signs are stable and conscious, but he is weak and needs rest. Currently receiving targeted treatment in ICU.

This information can piece together what Ganyu may have experienced. The consultant of Huaxi Hospital said that the serious infection of Ganyu may be because "17 was wet for 9 days". Huang Junhua, a doctor from Luding County People's Hospital, said in an interview with CCTV news that the place where the rain was found was high in altitude, cold at night and overgrown with weeds. "It is difficult for people to survive in it." Gan Liquan shed tears when he found that his brother had multiple fractures. He can imagine how the short-sighted rain fell down again and again in the steep mountain forest and stood up again and again.

Li Xiangqian witnessed the motorcycle being smashed. Photo by Li Xiangqian

It's a miracle that the Jedi survived 17 days. But miracles may have another perspective.

According to Gan Liquan's memory, he and Gan Wei happened to be a few hundred meters away from Ni Taigao's home. After Gan Yu was found, he called him on Ni Taigao's phone, and he burst into tears as soon as he opened his mouth. As soon as Gan Liquan heard his brother's voice, he "suddenly felt very powerful". He quickly comforted his brother: "Don't cry, don't worry, I will arrive in 5 minutes."

In other words, even if Ni Taigao didn't accidentally find Gan Yu, Gan Liquan should find him soon.

Miracle arrival, like the choice of Gan Yu and Luo Yong, saved the lives of countless downstream villagers, just like the persistence of relatives, saved the Gan Yu in the wilderness. Miracles are human traces, and human traces come.

(Li Xiangqian and Liu Min are pseudonyms in the text)