"Uncles, I am not afraid. You do not need to worry."
What used to be the most bustling streets of Baichuan were now the largest ruins. Rows and rows of buildings were cracked to the ground, that is, if they had not been buried by mountain slide.
At one o'clock the rescuers found a surviving little girl trapped down under in the ruins of a kindergarten. Ruins were so unstable that they might fall down to ground any time. Frequent aftershocks did not help either. Her life was hanging on a thread. A dozen rescuers were rushing to save her.
"Uncles, I am not afraid. You do not need to worry", when the rescuers attempted to encourage the little girl, to their surprise, the little girl tried to comfort them.
After heavy debris was removed, it turned out the girl's legs, trenched in blood, were trapped under a cement slab. Her tightly clenched teeth suggested the anguish she was suffering.
"liang zhi lao hu, liang zhi lao hu, pao de kuai, pao de kuai", the girl suddenly started to sing. It was the Chinese variation of "are you sleeping". It was soft and touching, amid the slow rescue progress, the monotonic humming of the tools, and yes, the silent tearing of the rescuers, too.
After she was rescued, the little girl, her name Si-Yu (literally meaning "missing the rain"), told the rescuers, "I forgot my pain when I was singing."
She was in stable condition with fractured bones in legs and arms.