CHAPTER XIV

Typhoon No. 8 is about to make landfall in Shenzhen, and TV stations and mobile phone text messages have made advance forecasts a week ago, but Sissi did not take it seriously.

Living in Shenzhen, it is not uncommon to be disturbed by typhoons. Two days ago, she received the task of completing the investigation and verification of a customer in Dongguan as soon as possible, but due to the unfinished preliminary work at hand and some unwarranted delays, it was not until the morning of the typhoon that she suddenly thought that she had to go to Dongguan. A colleague suggested that she might as well wait until the typhoon had passed, and she looked up at the sky, the sun was still shining, and she thought to herself that there seemed to be nothing to worry about, so she might as well go.

In the afternoon, when Sissi finished her errand and was about to return to Shenzhen, she found that a large number of dark clouds had already gathered in the sky, and suddenly a strong wind blew so that she couldn't even stand on her feet.

"I didn't expect it to get so fast!" she muttered as she walked toward the station.

The minibus to Shenzhen had just left, and it would take half an hour to wait for the next bus, so Sissi thought that she would simply call a taxi and strive to rush back as soon as possible. So she stood on the side of the road and waved for a taxi. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck down in the air, almost knocking her out, and then a raindrop the size of a bean crackled down.

She quickly flagged down a taxi from Shenzhen, thinking she was lucky.

However, what did Sissi not know was that the taxi driver was a foreigner who had just arrived in Shenzhen and was not familiar with the roads outside Shenzhen. He originally planned to get on the highway, but unfortunately the entrance of the highway was closed for some reason, and he had no choice but to take the small road instead, but after entering the Guangming New District, he lost his way, and finally the car stopped when passing a low-lying section of the road that had accumulated water!

"It's broken!" the taxi driver cursed softly, trying to keep starting the car, but without success.

"Why did you turn off the fire?" asked Sissi worriedly.

"I'm sorry, the water on this road is too deep!" the driver cast a guilty look at Sissi.

"Then hurry up and start again!"

"The engine got into the water and couldn't start. ”

"What should I do then?" Looking at the torrential rain outside, Sissi was anxious.

"Why don't I charge you for this part of the road, and you can go and see if there are any buses nearby?" said the driver.

Sissi reluctantly opened the car door, stretched out her umbrella and prepared to get out of the car - she only carried a small sun umbrella with her, which seemed so funny and helpless in such a violent storm.

As soon as she stretched her legs, she was startled by the sight in front of her, only to see that the water on the road had already submerged most of the tires, and the water level was still rising rapidly!

"Ah!" she cried, "the water is so deep?!"

"Get out of the car quickly! Go to the high place on the side of the road first!" the driver was also anxious at the moment, and opened the driver's door as he spoke.

Sissi took off her leather shoes and carried them with her hands, holding an umbrella in the other hand, stepped into the water barefoot, and carefully moved to the side of the road, the palms of her feet were tickled a few times by the small debris on the road, itching and painful. She didn't care so much, gritted her teeth and staggered forward.

She walked to the side of the road with difficulty, put on her shoes, straightened her soaked clothes, and looked around - where was this?! There were no obvious signs, no bus stop signs, and no buildings around...... As far as the eye could see, except for the hazy and dim mountains and the vast rain and fog, there were no other vehicles or pedestrians in sight.

Qianqian's heart was cold: I felt that Shenzhen was so crowded on weekdays, why was it so wild in front of me at this time and now? !

She took out her mobile phone and wanted to call Lin Junnan's phone to ask him for help, but she couldn't get through after calling several times in a row. The water on the road was still rising ferociously, and the taxi was quickly half submerged, and even though she was standing high on the side of the road, the water was already up to the instep of her feet!

Sissi looked at the vast rain curtain connecting the heavens and the earth, and the overwhelmed taxi driver beside her, and couldn't help but feel anxious and panicked.

She repeatedly called Lin Junnan's number, but the result was still in vain. An inexplicable anger suddenly rose in her heart, and she raised her mobile phone and was about to throw it into the water - at this moment, the mobile phone rang suddenly!

"Hey, handsome?" she shouted in a panic before she could look at the caller ID.

"Sissi, where are you?" came Sun Kai's anxious voice from the phone.

"I'm out there!" Sissi grumbled, "Bad luck! The taxi broke down in the water!"

"I'm afraid you'll come home at noon and encounter heavy rain...... Where are you now? Is there a bus?"

"I don't know where this is, I went to Dongguan to do some errands and came back...... Looks like there's no bus around here!"

"Is the taxi driver around?"

"In ...... But he's lost too!"

There seemed to be no sound on the other end of the phone. Qian Qian shouted anxiously: "Sun Kai, Sun Kai, are you listening?"

"I have a solution!Sissi, I remember you have a map app installed in your phone, right? Open it up and send me the location!"

Sissi immediately did as Sun Kai said.

"I know where you are!" Sun Kai called, "You are waiting for me there, I will come over soon!"

After the call, Sissi's mood stabilized a little. At this moment, the sky was still pouring rain, the water on the ground had reached the ankles, the wind was blowing, and the umbrellas were deformed, and there was no way to stop the rain. She began to feel cold on her body......

I don't know how long it took, but her phone finally rang again, and it was still Sun Kai's.

"Sissi, where are you? Do you see me?"

Sissi hurriedly looked around, but the heavy rain obstructed her vision, and she could barely see anything.

"Sun Kai, have you arrived? I'm standing on the side of the road! I can't see your ......."

"I see the car!" Sun Kai exclaimed in surprise, "I see the taxi......!" followed by a whirring gasp.

Sissi finally spotted a dark figure through the rain curtain, wading through the water and struggling to move towards her. She almost screamed - Sun Kai!

Sun Kai also saw Sissi. He held an umbrella in one hand and a mobile phone in the other, and his body was already soaked. Suddenly, he tripped over something and fell into the water with a "snap". But he quickly got up again, didn't bother to pick up the umbrella that floated away with the current, and continued to run towards Sissi.

Sissi stepped forward, hugged Sun Kai, raised the umbrella in her hand above his head, and said almost choked: "You rushed over so soon?

"It's okay! it's okay!" Sun Kai tugged at Sissi's hand and pointed in the direction he came from, "It's all flooded over there, and the car can't pass." We've got to get out of here and find a way to get a taxi!"

Sissi wrapped her hands around Sun Kai's waist and pressed her whole body against the man who came to her side at her most helpless moment. Her mind was in chaos, and she barely had any consciousness, so she moved forward mechanically with her legs and followed Sun Kai through the water......

Suddenly, Sissi seemed to remember something, "Sun Kai, where's your mobile phone?"

Only then did Sun Kai realize that there was a hand that was empty. He touched his body, looked back at the vast pool of stagnant water behind him, and lamented, "Unlucky! I must have fallen into the water during the fall just now!"

"Then we'll have to get it back!" Sissi said anxiously.

Sun Kai stared blankly at the turbid water, gritted his teeth and said, "Forget it! The water is so deep, I'm afraid I can't find it." Let's go......"

Lin Junnan spent the whole noon with Zhong Yi and the angel investor, who was Zhong Yi's junior high school classmate. The three of them stayed in the café for hours on end, discussing the matter of investing in Lezhi. The raging storm outside didn't affect the topic of their conversation in the slightest.

It wasn't until he returned to Lezhi that Lin Junnan found that his mobile phone had already turned off automatically due to the power run out.

He plugged in the charger, turned on the power, and saw several missed calls from Sissi on the screen. He thought to himself that she must have something urgent to find him, so he called back immediately, only to hear a tone that "the phone you are calling has been turned off".

Because he was worried about discussing with Zheng Kai and Lu Jianfeng about the relevant arrangements after the introduction of angel investment, he quickly forgot about it and did not call Sissi again in the afternoon.

The typhoon raged all afternoon. At eight o'clock in the evening, the dark clouds in the sky have dissipated, and the city lights are reflected in the bottom of the remaining clouds in the sky, showing patches of different shades of red, and the blue and transparent night sky and colorful clouds have re-decorated this bustling and noisy city with a magnificent appearance.

Finally reached an investment intention with the angel, and also had a good plan for the future of Lezhi, Lin Junnan's mood was particularly happy. He sat on the bus, staring at the night sky, letting his thoughts fly far beyond the red clouds on the horizon, quietly enjoying the freshness and tranquility after the baptism of the rainstorm.

When he arrived near the urban village, Lin Junnan saw a cart selling roasted sweet potatoes, and suddenly remembered that Sissi's favorite food was roasted sweet potatoes, so he bought three at once - of course he couldn't help but consider the greedy Sun Kai!

However, when he rushed into the house with steaming roasted sweet potatoes, he found that the house was empty and deserted, and Sissi and Sun Kai were not at home. He put down the sweet potato, took out his mobile phone to dial Sissi's number, and heard the prompt tone of "the other party has turned off", and then remembered that her phone had been turned off since noon. He suddenly had an ominous feeling in his heart, so he called Sun Kai's phone, but what he heard was "The number you are calling cannot be reached......

He sat blankly on the sofa, staring at the roasted sweet potatoes in front of him with an enticing sweet aroma.

"Where the hell has Sissi gone? Why is there no one and no voice today?!"

He couldn't help but get a little upset......

Lin Junnan didn't know that at noon today, Qianqian was frightened by the lack of help in the rainstorm, and he didn't know that Sun Kai lost his mobile phone because he made a special trip to rescue him. Of course, he wouldn't know that it was precisely because Sun Kai left his post without permission and lost contact during work, failed to rush back to the pangolin in time to attend an important meeting, and was dissatisfied with criticism afterwards, and was dismissed by Zhao Dongliang immediately!