Chapter 291 - Chapter 291: A Wave after A Wave

Chapter 291: A Wave after A Wave

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

“Quick, quick, pile it up more tightly here!”

Hollered Wang Ye and the others whom were paddling in the canoe to save people, in the other direction of the town, in the area most affected by the disaster.

Now, Wu Jianfeng and the others were fighting in the mud.

Bags after bags of soil that had been washed over by the collapse of the mountain piled up, and then accumulated up along the place where the river had gushed out.

There was nothing he could do. There were many houses buried under all the soil of the mountains.

Although the situation looked very pessimistic, many of the houses that were directly hit by the mountain collapsed or were directly buried, there might be people below, but the chances of survival were not high. However, this was not something they should consider now.

What they needed to do now is to block the water and prevent it from flooding, causing secondary damage to the people who might have survived in the houses that had not been dug up after being buried.

Of course, at this moment, there were also people digging inside.

It didn’t matter if there were still living people in these houses.

At the very least, he still had to dig a hole to see the situation inside.

“Mr Soldier, thank you, thank you…”

On Wang Ye’s side, he was carrying an old man who was sobbing on his back.

In the Xi Guang Mountain area, the county and some urban areas were not developed, let alone the towns.

There were many people who went out to work here.

The young and strong were basically not at home, so now that the flood had come, the elderly in many families were all very powerless.

Especially in the house that Wang Ye was in.

An old house with only one floor that could collapse at any time of the flood.

The water gushed out. There was only an old woman and a five-year-old child at home.

They had no way to escape. They could only step on the bed at home and wait in despair in the waist-high water with the old woman carrying the child.

When Wang Ye shouted just now, the old woman’s voice was so anxious that she was almost stuttering.

To her, it might not be a big deal if she really got into an accident. She was old, but this little grandson she was holding onto was her life.

But now, everything was fine.

Wang Ye carried her on his back, wearing a life jacket while her grandson was riding on Kang Hua’s shoulders.

The water level was definitely very deep for the old woman who was over 60 years old, but for Wang Ye and Kang Hua, it only reached their armpits.

Of course, with the current water level, Kang Hua definitely couldn’t wear a life jacket.

Buoyancy would affect movement.

The two of them took off their life jackets and came in with it in their hands.

Now, Kang Hua’s life jacket was also tied to the grandson.

Visibility underwater was blurry and it was easy to trip.

However, he didn’t mind. He knew how to swim, but the grandson didn’t. Therefore, it was necessary for him to wear a life jacket.

“Aiyo, Granny Fang, why are you still at home? I was shouting from upstairs just now, but you didn’t respond!”

On the kayak outside, there was a couple in their fifties with a younger child and an old man in his seventies or eighties.

They were saved by Wang Ye and the others from another house nearby.

Their house had a second floor. When the flood came just now, their family went straight to the second floor, so the situation was not critical.

Seeing that Wang Ye and Kang Hua were carrying people out, the woman spoke anxiously on the canoe.

“Thank you, thank you!”

Granny Fang was obviously a little too frightened. That’s why she didn’t respond to her, but turned her head to look at her grandson. At the same time, she kept muttering thanks behind Wang Ye.

“Grandma, you’re welcome.

Go ahead and board the kayak first!”

Wang Ye said with a smile. Although Wang Ye’s mood was also very heavy in this disaster, now that he had saved someone, he felt a moment of relief.

Together with the two comrades who were also holding the kayak in the water, they sent the old woman onto the kayak. Kang Hua did the same and put the child on the kayak.

“The kayak can’t fit anyone anymore. Send her back first!” Kang Hua said.

However, he and Wang Ye hadn’t boarded the boat yet. The kayak wasn’t that big to begin with.

The four of them had come together with the intention of saving people. The person they saved would then take the kayak while the four of them would support and swim beside the kayak.

Holding the rope on the kayak, Wang Ye and the others followed the instructions of the people on the boat and tried their best to move according through the possible underwater paths.

They had no choice. At this time, there was rice under the farmland. If they walked in the farmland, not only would the water level be deeper, but the rice would also trip them easily.

Of course, with the current deep water level, even with the guidance of the locals, it was impossible to accurately step on the road.

Wang Ye’s group of four tripped from time to time.

However, it wasn’t a big problem. The current here wasn’t fast. The four of them were all selected by the instructor that know how to swim. The first thing they did when they tripped was to let go of the kayak. Then, after splashing a few times in the water, they continued to support the kayak.

As for why he didn’t grab the kayak and use it to stabilise himself.

That was because the kayak was really not big. With so many people on it, Wang Ye and the others were afraid that they would cause the rest to fall or worse capsize the kayak over.

For the entire morning, Wang Ye and the other recruits had not left since they entered the arena.

Under the heavy rain and the gradually rising water level, Wang Ye and the others had been rowing the kayak to evacuate the people in the areas where the water level was relatively deep.

In a period more than three hours, Wang Ye and the others had saved more than 30 people.

What made them feel better was that during the three-hour search and rescue process, they did not encounter any unfortunate victims.

However, this was also because Wang Ye and the others didn’t go to the place that was buried by the impact of the mountain.

Wang Ye had already heard that the corpses of several victims had already been dug up.

Some of the houses on their side were directly swept down by the mountain.

When the houses collapsed, the chances of the people surviving were really too low.

“Come, Brother Wang, Instructor, come and drink some ginger soup!”

Outside the town, after Wang Ye and the others returned from the last empty boat, they were arranged to recuperate themselves in a temporary military tent outside the town.

As soon as they entered the tent, Zhang Ping An and the other soldiers of the kitchen squad came over with steaming ginger soup.

The cooks drove a dining car over. They did not participate in the first-line rescue. Instead, they brewed ginger soup and distributed it to the drenched people and their comrades who came out.

“Yummy!”

Wang Ye put on an ugly smile, then reached out his frozen hair and pale hands to take the bowl.

He really needed to drink something hot now. The rain outside had not stopped. Wang Ye and the others were braving the rain, and from time to time, they had to get off the boat and soak in the water. Now, their entire body temperature was severely reduced.

Holding the bowl, Wang Ye took a sip and felt his entire body warm up.

Turning around, Wang Ye looked in the direction of the landslide through the tent.

In fact, Wang Ye and the others had wanted to support Wu Jian Geng and the others just now, but they had been rejected by the instructor.

Because it was about to end on the other side.

After the landslide swept through a large area of farmland in the middle, only seven or eight houses were completely buried and destroyed.

Some of the buildings behind and nearby had collapsed, but most of them had not collapsed. Only a portion of the buildings had been buried by the soil.

In these houses, some people ran out of the house immediately after the incident. Some people were injured or had their doors blocked. Later, when Wu Jian Feng and the others went over, they were rescued.

Only the houses that had collapsed and were buried by the mountain at the front were difficult to dig up and rescue.

However, at around ten o’clock, the local government found a way to get two excavators over.

Now, that place had basically been dug up.

What happened next was heartbreaking, but the disaster was coming. This was the reality. Everyone found it difficult to accept this outcome, and they had to accept it.

Half an hour later, Wu Jian Feng and the others also came out.

The rain continued, and the upstream reservoir could not hold on any more water anymore. The water level rose higher than expected, and it had to discharge water.

It just so happened that the people here had been evacuated, and the villages and towns along the way had also been notified of the flood discharge.

Therefore, the higher-ups were about to open the floodgates.

However, at this moment, a piece of news that made Wang Ye and the others feel their scalps go numb was sent over.

In a county town below the neighbouring city, a dam had burst.