don't die

A thunderbolt fell, illuminating the inside and outside of the house as brightly as day.

Everyone saw a figure reflected on the window, a long figure reflected on the window by the light of lightning.

The knocking on the door continued to ring, even more intensely, and in the torrential rain, one couldn't help but feel a chill.

Qiu Mi hid behind He Tiao, and looked at the door in fear.

"Uncle, who is knocking on the door outside?"

Hearing the child talking to him in a voice that was about to cry, He Tun turned around and ruffled his hair, then looked at Lin Shen and said, "Go and see?"

Lin Shen was noncommittal, got up and walked towards the door.

"Don't go, what if a wild beast comes?" Qiu Mi was obviously terrified, clutching He Ting's clothes tightly from behind.This kid is really scared and silly, will the beast knock on the door?

But He Xie was not going to tell him such a simple truth now, but said: "It doesn't matter, even a beast is not his opponent." He looked down at Qiu Mi. "Which one do you think is stronger, the uncle or the beast?"

Qiu Mi hesitated for a moment, looked back and forth between Lin Shen and the gate a few times, then nodded firmly, convinced that Lin Shen must be more powerful than the beast.

"I trust uncle."

"Smart." He sneered a little praise, thinking that a child can be taught.

While the two of them were chatting, Lin Shen had already walked to the door, and he opened the door almost without hesitation.

call--

A gust of wind mixed with rain was blown in, and everyone looked at the door with bated breath.

A man in a raincoat stood at the door and knocked on the door for a long time without any response. Seeing that the door was open, the man in the raincoat didn't seem to have time to recover.

"Xiao Lin!"

Several people were stunned for a moment, watching the raincoat man take off his raincoat hat, and found that it was an acquaintance, that is, Uncle Wang who came to the mountain to deliver rice a few days ago.

Lin Shen obviously didn't expect it to be this person, and was a little surprised, but then he seemed to think of something, and his eyebrows were knitted together.

"Xiao Lin, it's raining too much tonight! We didn't expect this year's crisis to come so early."

"Which side is it?" Lin Shen asked.

"The east side is alright, but on the west side of the forest, the river is blocked by talc, if it is not dredged..."

Lin Shen obviously understood the seriousness of the situation, so he hurriedly asked, "Where are the others?"

"I'm all over there, just waiting for you."

"I'll go right now."

Lin Shen didn't say much, and immediately went back to the house to get things.Uncle Wang stood at the door waiting, looking very anxious.

From the beginning to the end, the other two people couldn't get in the mouth of this conversation.

Qiu Mi raised her head and asked He satinly.

"Uncle, what's the matter?"

He Tun had been looking at the heavy rain outside the house, frowning deep in thought, and turned back to look at the child when he heard his question. "Xiaomi, we're going out for a while, can you stay in the house obediently?"

Qiu Mi was stunned by his serious tone, "What happened, uncle?"

He satirized a smile, half truth and half false: "We are going to fight monsters, Qiu Mi has to be obedient, understand?"

Qiu Mi seemed to understand but half understood, but the child nodded sensibly when he saw He Xiong's serious expression and the increasing rain outside the house.

"I'll be honest, uncle, you should be careful too."

When Lin Shen came out from the back room with tools, he saw He Tun standing beside Uncle Wang, looking at him together.

He satirized him and said, "I'll go together too. At this time, one more person means more strength."

Lin Shen sized him up for a few seconds and agreed.

"Since you want to follow, don't hold back."

He satirized with a wry smile, and left the house right behind him and Uncle Wang.But before leaving, he took one last look at the wooden house. Will this kid Qiu Mi really be honest?

Now is not the time to think so much. After following Lin Shen to the place where the danger was discovered, He Xi realized how critical the situation was.This inconspicuous river is now blocked by boulders and mud. In the section of the blocked river, the water level is still rising, and the difference between the water levels on both sides of the blocked river is almost four or five rice.

If the blocked part is not dredged as soon as possible, the flow of the river will not be able to carry the congested upstream river water. Once the upstream river rushes down, the downstream part of the embankment may not be able to withstand the impact and break the embankment.

The rain has been falling, and the water is getting higher and higher. Although some residents in the downstream have been notified to evacuate, once the embankment breaks, no one can predict the situation.

And the only way is to dredge the river as soon as possible before the upstream water accumulates enough to threaten the dam, so that the released river water will not break through the dam.

When He Xie and the others arrived, there were already quite a few people gathered here, all of whom seemed to be strong local men.However, they were not familiar with the situation on the mountain, and looked at the blocked river in vain without any help.

Lin Shen walked over first, and dropped the coils of thick rope in his hand.

"Everyone tied a rope around his waist, looking for an old tree to tie it to, so as not to be washed away by the river!"

"Uncle Wang, you take a group of people to the other side, there is a high point over there, and see how the situation upstream is?"

"The rest of the people follow me to find things, first break the stones blocked in the river!"

The arrival of Lin Shen, who is the only one who is familiar with the terrain, has greatly eased the crisis. He assigns work skillfully and understands every nearby area very well, just like a commander who commands and dispatches, he has a very clear understanding of the situation .

"Hey! Come here!"

While watching in a daze, He Xi heard Lin Shen calling out to him, and quickly walked over to join the busy crowd.

The torrential rain is still falling, and there is no tendency to reduce it, and everyone here knows that every minute and every second is very precious now, and they must work together if they want to eliminate the danger.

He Tun had never seen Lin Shen like this before, shouting hoarsely, every word seemed to exhaust all his strength.The usual Lin Shen was always calm and calm, as if nothing would really shake him, but this was the first time he had seen Lin Shen who was about to yell out his veins like this.

It's not that this person can't be moved by things, it's just that his emotions are hidden so deep that he can't easily pry into them.

"Someone fell into the water!"

There was an exclamation from the side. It seemed that there was a person on the left who was not tied tightly and was washed into the river by the rapids.When He Tun looked back, he only saw a head bobbing and sinking on the surface of the river, and the person was being washed farther and farther away.

Almost without thinking, he untied the rope on his body and jumped into the river.

"Hey!"

At the moment before entering the water, someone seemed to be calling his name loudly, but He Tun couldn't care anymore, he swam in the river with all his strength, chasing after the person who was washed away.After finally catching that person's hand, they found that the two of them had been rushed to the edge of a cliff.The river turned into a waterfall here, and it didn't take long for them to be washed under the nearly [-]-meter waterfall.

"catch me!"

At this moment, He Tun heard someone shouting by the river, he wanted to look over, but his eyes couldn't be opened because of the rushing water.

"Left, reach out!"

However, this consistent command tone made him recognize the identity of the person who came, and there was only one person who could speak to him in this tone.

forest deep.

Tossing and turning in the water, he couldn't tell the direction, but He Tun subconsciously stretched out his hand and desperately reached for the shore.His whole body was soaked, and he couldn't tell which was rainwater and which was river water, but in the blind waving, He Xi felt that his arm touched a warm object, and in the next second, someone grabbed his wrist tightly , pulling him hard toward the shore.

He Tun was slowly pulled towards the shore with the man who fell into the water before. During this time, he could feel more and more people coming to help them and drag them ashore, but the hand that grasped him at the beginning was never release.

After finally reaching the shore, and after coughing up a few sips of water, He Tun felt like he had narrowly escaped death.The moment he was about to be swept down the waterfall just now, he really thought he was dead!At that moment, the fear of death gripped him firmly.

"Why did you jump into the river alone!"

Hearing the stern reprimand, He Tun looked up and saw Lin Shen looking at him with a stinky face.After seeing that he was fine, the other people around carried the unconscious man away, and the rest went back to work.

"Do you know the consequences of doing that? It is very likely that no one can be saved, and you will lose your life for nothing!"

Lin Shen looked at the drenched man sitting slumped on the ground, and his tone was not very good.

"Ha, maybe I was confused for a while." He laughed at himself, "I didn't think that much, and——" He raised his head and grinned deeply at Lin. "Don't worry, I'm very good at water. Someone once said I'm very talented."

Seeing this unsightly smile, Lin Shen had the urge to punch up, but in the end he just threw out a sentence.

"Smile so much, won't your face wrinkle?"

The smile on He Tun's face immediately froze, looking at Lin Shen a little annoyed and helpless.

"Uncle, uncle? What's the matter with you?"

Just when the two were in a stalemate, an exclamation came from behind, making them all turn around.I saw that kid Qiu Mi came to him at some point, and was looking at them in surprise in the woods behind him.

Lin Shen frowned, "Why are you here?"

"I waited in the house for a long time and didn't see you come back. I was a little worried, and then I heard a voice from here, so I came to have a look." The child said timidly: "I didn't sneak out on purpose, really not! Yes Yes, uncle, you are all soaked, I brought an umbrella."

As Qiu Mi said, she was about to hand over the umbrella in her hand.

"Hey, attention below! The flood is about to be released, stay away!"

There was a shout from the upper reaches, Lin Shen heard it, and the first thing he did was to pick up He Tiao on the ground, and then grabbed the child with the other hand, and rushed into the woods.

"Uncle, the umbrella fell to the ground!"

Qiu Mi still felt sorry for his umbrella that was knocked to the ground by Lin Shen, but who cares about it.Lin Shen used all his strength to bring the old and young couple away from the shore.

Qiu Mi stretched out her hand in vain, trying to retrieve the umbrella.But in the next second, his eyes suddenly widened.

The river swarming down from the upper reaches roared and swept over like a roaring dragon, and invaded the river bank in an instant, and the small umbrella was swept away by the water in a short while and disappeared without a trace.Even some small trees by the river were broken by the water dragon and rushed downstream together.

The river water was covered with soil and rotten leaves, as well as the carcasses of some unlucky animals, roaring and rushing across the bank, bringing a thunderous roar.

boom--!

Like a giant with its head raised high, the water rushes to a peak on the edge of the cliff, with the force of almost breaking the rock.In the next second, mixed river water poured down from the top of the waterfall, falling straight down like a water column, leaving only the rumbling roar still lingering in my ears.

Everything is just a matter of a few seconds. If they hadn't hidden in time, the people standing on the shore would have been rushed down the cliff together.

This kind of overwhelming and sweeping momentum cannot be stopped by human beings - the power of nature.

Lin Shen led the two of them down in the forest, and the pouring flood was less than a few steps behind them.The child stared blankly at all this, seemingly unable to recover.

At this time, He Tun finally caught his breath, looked at Qiu Mi, and said: "Actually, it is very possible that your uncle and I were washed down by the river just now. It will definitely be smashed like a mud pie, haha .”

The child looked at him blankly.

He Tun reached out and rubbed his head. "Understood? Death is not a joke. Many times we don't need to give up by ourselves. You can go to see God in a moment. The peace after death and a well-deserved death are all bullshit."

He pointed to the river still pouring behind him.

"Just one step away, and you're one of those dead animals floating on the water. That's death."

Qiu Mi froze for a long time, then suddenly trembled, and hugged He Tun's arm violently.The child just clenched his teeth, looked at the river with a pale face, and didn't speak.But He Tun had a premonition in his heart that this brat had completely given up the idea of ​​suicide now.

Lin Shen looked at the two people, one big and one small hugging each other, with an unpredictable light in his eyes.