After Being Reborn, I became a firefighter again?

Chapter 770: 506

Fang Huai’s head didn’t come out, but his hand lifted slightly.

"Hand me a headlamp!"

"A headlamp! A headlamp! Get a bright one! Captain Fang, be careful! Just now, it seemed like some stone chips fell inside!" Liu Jianfeng shouted.

Those around who heard the noise immediately gathered.

"Here, mine’s barely used, full battery!"

Someone passed over a headlamp; Fang Huai took it but didn’t use it. Instead, he continued, "Where’s Little White? Bring Little White over to me!"

The faces of those from the Second Squadron darkened instantly.

Damn, this dog, to put Little White in mortal danger again!

Typically, Fang Huai wasn’t so kind to Little White, using verbs like "lead" or "drag." But when it came time for Little White to do dangerous work, he’d use "hold."

"Wang Peng, hurry up! Please bring over Little White!" Fang Huai, oblivious to the grumbling around him, bellowed once more.

Fine, he’s even using the word "please" now.

Little White, not far away, abruptly woke from its slumber and was being carried by Wang Peng, howling as it came over.

Fang Huai took Little White, pressed down on its head to fit the headlamp around its neck, secured it with a safety rope, placed it at the pit entrance, and when he saw it retreating, he cursed.

"You’re so fat and slow! Look how big your belly is! You’re not nimble at all, what’s all the barking for! If you manage to save someone today, I promise, La Duo will sleep in the same room as you from now on!"

Little White finally stopped, stared at the pit entrance for a long time, and then lifted a front paw towards Fang Huai as if to make a contract.

Fang Huai groaned and extended his hand, shaking paws with it, even giving it a little swing.

Those around were stunned.

"Can a dog even be trained like this?"

"Tsk tsk, only a small dog like this could squeeze into such a hole, right? Captain, should we also get a smaller search and rescue dog?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Peng said with some dissatisfaction, "It’s no use getting one! No dog is as perceptive as Little White!"

Just as those around were about to voice their concern, Little White seemed to prove Wang Peng’s words correct, turned its head to Fang Huai, who was holding the safety rope, raised its head high, and, once Fang Huai had a firm grip on the rope, walked into the pit, stretched its head down, and jumped.

Fang Huai immediately leaned in to look.

With the light from the headlamp, Little White hopped down the stones inside the pit and reached the bottom in just a few steps.

But it seemed there was still space at the bottom. Little White walked straight in and disappeared from Fang Huai’s sight, leaving only the light of the headlamp, indicating it hadn’t gone far.

It wasn’t long before Little White emerged again.

"Wow!"

Fang Huai slowly pulled it up. Once it was out of the pit, the Second Squadron finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Damn it, this is our squadron’s seasoned squad leader who’s reaching his term! Being dispatched at the end of the term is when accidents are most likely to happen!

"See anything?" Those around were puzzled; why had Little White come back out almost immediately without barking?

Fang Huai brushed the dirt off it and asked with anticipation, "Is there anyone down there?"

"Woof! Woof!"

Fang Huai stood up suddenly.

"Two of them? Alive or dead?"

Little White shook its head, indicating it didn’t know.

Fang Huai became somewhat excited.

Little White not detecting any deathly stench meant at least that when they were buried yesterday, they certainly hadn’t died!

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Little White got up, took a few steps, and stopped on a patch of soil, scratching at it.

Fang Huai immediately pointed at the spot and shouted, "Dig! Dig fast! There could be survivors!"

Everyone stood in stunned silence.

Fang Huai cursed, "Dig! What the hell are you all standing around for??"

...

The digging progressed rapidly.

A pit seven or eight meters deep, that needed sloping, could take a person two full days of digging in dirt.

But here, dozens of shovels were gathered, along with many soldiers waiting to move the rocks.

"One, two! One, two!" The syncopated chants of labor resonated loudly on site.

After several large stones embedded in the earth were pulled out with the combined effort of ropes, the ground level visibly lowered by a significant margin.

Suddenly a soldier below shouted, "A house! There’s a house down here!"

Everyone looked closely, and at the bottom of the soil layer, an intact concrete roof structure appeared!

"Call out! Shout down there!"

At Fang Huai’s command, the site fell silent.

The soldiers nearby immediately lay down, their ears pressed to the concrete, calling out below:

"Is anyone there?"

"Is there anyone down there?"

Ten seconds passed, during which no one dared to breathe.

Suddenly, a firefighter lifted his head, his eyes filled with surprise.

"Yes, yes, yes! There’s a man talking down there!"

In an instant, cheers erupted like thunder.

...

A miracle had happened.

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Moreover, after communicating with the people below, it turned out to be a couple, both alive and without serious injuries.

The entire rescue zone was abuzz, and the mayor finally broke into a smile, phone in hand, walking towards the farmhouse Command.

"Good kid! Good dog!" Commander Chang arrived at the edge of the pit after hearing about Little White’s performance and lavishly praised both Fang Huai and Little White.

But Fang Huai kept his gaze fixed below, filled with retrospective fear.

The mayor was right; he was wrong.

Those two survivors nearly became his decision’s casualties, buried under the rubble due to his plan to blast the mountain, an unopened can without hope.

All the judgments he made using everything he’d learned and his dispatch experience were worth nothing against nature’s whimsical joke.

Before, he could assume that these people had really lost all hope and died, but now, faced with two living people right in front of him, Fang Huai couldn’t help but seriously question himself.

Would he make such a mistake again in the future?

How could he avoid it?

Perhaps only by adhering to the cliché that the leaders had always been chanting until it became a drone in their ears: "Never give up."

At this moment inside Fang Huai, that phrase attained a profound understanding.