From Shusen University

Chapter 126 Hold up the boat of life
2000 meters to the southwest, a row of low houses that are rarely seen in cities can be seen from a distance. They are all old-fashioned brick houses, and the tallest one has only two floors.

This is one of the suburban villages of the Iwe River's river economy, situated just downstream from the river.This river has always provided livelihood for the residents here, but this time it brought a complete disaster.

Those who can live here are descendants of woodcutters who know the river well.Even so, no one expected this sudden breach of the dike.

It was obviously not raining, but the steady-flowing Weihe River seemed to have suddenly turned into a monster. The time difference between the first person discovering the abnormal high tide and the time when the river flooded half of the village was only about 10 minutes.

At this time, the water potential has risen to nearly a person's height.The doors and windows on the first floor of all the houses have been blocked by water, and some fragile old doors were directly broken, and the water flowed into the room, flooding the rooms one by one.Fortunately, the village head judged in time and told everyone not to run around but to climb onto the roof. There were no casualties in the first wave.

But what no one expected was that the rise of the flood seemed to have no end at all.After exceeding the highest water level in 40 years, it has no intention of stopping, but intensified, and the whole village was submerged in a vast ocean in a short time.

Wang Duzhou squatted on the highest point of his own roof, covering his bleeding forehead that was hit by the flying stone just now, and lowered his eyes with other residents who were also squatting on the roof, staring tremblingly at the rushing river below.

Branches, tables and chairs, and even short-circuited electric cars rolled in the churning foam.Electricity poles in the village were skewered by the rapids, let down deadly high-voltage lines, and made contact with the water, bursting out with thunderbolt-like sparks and flashes.The river opened its huge mouth towards him like a beast, mixed with rolling rocks and merged into a mudslide, but after a meal, the most familiar home under his feet has become a hell on earth.

There was a low cry from his side, and he quickly turned around and hugged his wife next to him tightly, while his wife hugged their three-year-old daughter with her bruised arms.The little girl was frightened, and she was kicking her legs in her mother's arms and crying loudly: "I'm scared. I don't want to stay here. I want to go home!"

"Hey, it's okay, someone will come to rescue us soon." The woman comforted the little girl softly, but then she looked like her husband with full fear in her eyes, "What's going on? When can we come?"

"I don't know, the communication is cut off, and I don't know if the village chief can be contacted"

Wang Duzhou squeezed the mobile phone with no signal.Although he didn't finish his sentence, his wife already understood what he meant.They all fell silent, just watching the water under their feet continuously approaching them. It didn't take long for the splashed water to lick their insteps.

Wang Duzhou's back was soaked with sweat.At this rate of ascent, they would not be able to stay where they were for a few minutes at most, but they had no other place to escape in such an emergency.

The location of this small village was originally biased. Even if the situation was reported to the above at the first time, a few minutes would not be enough to rush here from the city. Now the house under his feet has been shaking slightly under the impact, and it may happen at any time. into the water.

There is no hope.He thought, maybe only gods can save his family now.

While thinking, Wang Duzhou's face darkened, he leaned over, and showed his shoulder to his wife next to him: "Come on, you hug Huahua and stand on my shoulder."

The woman was stunned: "What are you going to do?"

"You stand on my shoulders and lift Huahua up. Then I stand up again, and let's lift our daughter up together." Wang Duzhou looked at the daughter in his arms, "If the water really comes up later and drowns us We still have a few minutes. Let's buy this time for Hua Hua!"

The woman stared at him blankly, even the little girl in her arms stopped crying and looked at him sobbing: "Daddy, is there no one to save us?"

"Don't worry, we will come." Wang Duzhou fondled her little head, "Don't be afraid, there will be gods coming down from the sky to save us."

The woman lowered her head when she heard this, and when she looked up again, her eyes were full of maternal determination.

She stood up holding the little girl, and carefully stepped on the man's shoulder, and then the man grabbed her ankle, and the two leaned against the chimney next to them to maintain their balance with difficulty. When her feet stopped shaking, she finally He kissed the little girl, then held her in his hands, lifted her up high, and lifted her above his head.

In such a high place, the little girl did not cry anymore.She looked at her feet with tears in her eyes. The house sank little by little in the loose soil layer, but the muddy water finally rose up, and the space for the roof to stay was gradually reduced in the constantly pushing waves.

The family of three seems to be floating in the sea at this time, standing on an isolated island that is about to be submerged.In front, the torrent was pushing up the water surface, and within a few blinks of an eye, it had turned into a row of rolling mud waves, like a giant beast opening its bloody mouth, rushing toward the three people on the roof.

The man and the woman immediately closed their eyes and tensed their whole bodies, preparing to use their bodies to bear the impact of this wave of water.But after a few seconds, the impact of water pressure did not come, replaced by the sound of the torrent retreating bravely.

"Whoa-"

Hearing the voice, the man and the woman opened their eyes at the same time, and then the two pairs of eyes were widened by shock.

In front of their eyes, a figure was flying down from the sky, hanging above in a way that completely violated the gravity of the earth, blocking them.

She stretched out her hands in front of her, obviously there was nothing in her hands, but it seemed to prop up an invisible wall, and the rushing water immediately stopped in front of her, unable to move forward a little bit.

She then pressed down with both hands, seemingly without any strength, but she just pushed down the rolling mud wave in front of her.In front of this figure, the ferocious mud flood was like a tamed pet dog, and it retreated completely in just a few seconds of raising its hands and feet.

"you you"

Both Wang Duzhou and his wife held their breath, looking at that figure, they felt like falling into a dream.But at this moment, the figure turned around, and it turned out to be a very young girl.

The surrounding water splashed on her side, revealing the halo of a rainbow under the sunlight.In the midst of this colorful halo, she pressed her figure from the air, and flew over them, as if she came with sunshine, took the dazed little girl from the raised hand, and carefully held her in my arms.

"It's all right." She said softly, "I will save you."

Those words fell into the ears of the couple in front of them, as if they silenced the sound of the surrounding water.They stared blankly at the girl who fell from the sky in front of them. After a while, his wife suddenly shouted in a trance: "God! Please, please save my child!"

After she finished speaking, the fairy-like girl turned her gaze towards her, and then shook her head.

"No, not just that."

As Yuan Qingqing said, she hugged the little girl with one hand, but grabbed her shoulder with the other hand, and put her off the man.

"I want to save everyone. So, I will save your family."

　Wang Duzhou's family used a real news story I had seen before: a mountain torrent caused a mudslide, and the small village at the foot of the mountain was almost completely swallowed up. When the rescuers arrived at the scene, they found a child who survived by luck.After digging out the mud under her, it was found that she was lifted up: the mother stepped on the father's shoulders and lifted the child up. Both the husband and wife were engulfed in the mudslide, and only the child survived.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)