Wang Shanxue shouted two strong men together, followed Yue Haohan out of the red house, and walked towards the dam stalk, the rain was still dense, pouring down like the sky was broken, Yue Haohan stood on the dam stalk, and shone it on the reservoir surface with a flashlight, and the foggy rain was connected to the sky everywhere, and it was impossible to see how high the water surface was.

Yue Haohan touched the rain on his face with his hand, and said to Wang Shanxue next to him: "Shanxue, the visibility is too low, and we can't see the water level of the reservoir clearly, let's go down and have a look, how about it?" ”

Wang Shanxue said: "Okay, slow down, pay attention to safety!" ”

Yue Haohan was in front, Wang Shanxue and the three followed, the four of them followed the steps next to the spillway, cautiously walked towards the bottom of the reservoir, and when they went down seven or eight steps, and then the steps below were already flooded, Yue Haohan looked back at the top of the dam stalk, and said a little anxiously: "Shanxue, the water in the library rises very quickly, when we check here in the afternoon, we have to go down more than a dozen steps to contact the water surface, and we only walked a few steps, and we saw the water?" ”

Wang Shanxue said: "Director Yue, is the flood gate too small? ”

Yue Haohan said: "It was not small, and the sluice gate was almost raised in the afternoon. ”

Wang Shanxue asked: "Then what will this do?" ”

Yue Haohan said: "Let's go up first, you immediately arrange for a few people to return to the village immediately, inform Deng Guoxing and Sun Xiwang, and ask them to quickly organize people, mobilize every household, no one is allowed to leak, no one can be missing, and immediately transfer to the village primary school, just say that this is my death order." ”

After the order, the four people went up the dam stalk along the steps on the dam body, and Wang Shan learned to the red house, and arranged for the three people to go back to the village immediately to inform everyone to transfer. Back on the dam again, all the people in the red house came out, followed by Yue Haohan, everyone took miner's lamps and flashlights, shining on the dam body, observing the safety of the dam body.

Everyone walked slowly forward along the left and right sides of the dam stalk, and a lightning bolt broke through the air, which lasted for a long time, and after the lightning, someone shouted: "Director Yue, look, why doesn't the flood outlet below discharge the flood?" ”

Hearing the shouting, everyone gathered around the person who shouted, and more than a dozen flashlights and miner's lamps shot at the flood outlet under the eaves of the reservoir.

The amount of water discharged under the flood outlet is unusually small, when I first came, when the flood outlet was discharged, it sprayed out a water column more than ten meters away, and now there is no water column, only a small water flow is slowly flowing outward.

Seeing that the flood discharge was so small and there was almost no water flow, Yue Haohan frowned and asked, "Good learning, what's going on?" Is there something blocking the gate above? How is this the amount of water discharged? ”

Wang Shanxue said: "It must be that the gate is blocked, let's go up and take a look." ”

Everyone walked towards the reservoir gate with Yue Haohan, down a few steps, Yue Haohan shone the surface of the reservoir with a flashlight, and said: "The water has risen a lot, look at the appearance of this rain, it will not stop for a while and a half, it is estimated that the reservoir will be filled with water soon, everyone will pay attention to it, and pay more attention to safety." ”

When he arrived at the location of the gate, Yue Haohan and Wang Shanxue handed the flashlight to the person behind him, the two of them couldn't see it clearly, and groped to the gate valve, Yue Haohan grabbed the handwheel of the gate valve, turned it hard, and the handwheel did not move at all, without the slightest reaction.

The flood discharge gate valve of Toad Gully Reservoir is a rotating rod gate valve, when used, rotate the handwheel, through the thread of the handwheel and the valve stem, lift or descend the valve plate connected with the valve stem, to achieve the effect of opening and closing, the handwheel does not move, the gate valve can not be lifted, and the gate can not be opened and closed.

Yue Haohan took a deep breath and used his force again, the gate valve handwheel still didn't move, Yue Haohan turned his head and instructed Wang Shanxue, saying, "Shanxue, let's try hard together to see if it can be rotated." ”

Yue Haohan and Wang Shanxue exerted their strength at the same time, but the gate valve handwheel still showed no signs of rotating. Yue Haohan let go of his hands and said, "Shanxue, it seems that we can't move, let's go and see how the water level is now?" And then think about it. ”

Everyone followed Yue Haohan back to the red house on the edge of the reservoir, took the liquor brought by Wang Shanxue, drank two sips per person, and rested for a short time, Yue Haohan said: "The rest of you will inspect again along both sides of the dam stalk, and I will go down with Director Wang, and the two of us will go down to check where the water level of the reservoir is now, and we will meet at the location of the gate valve immediately." ”

Everyone went out of the house, Yue Haohan and Wang Shanxue just went down the steps for three or four steps, and then they came into contact with the water, Wang Shanxue took a flashlight and said: "Director Yue, the situation is not good, the water level is rising very quickly, this position is basically the warning water level, and the spillway will overflow soon." ”

Yue Haohan said: "Shanxue, let's go up, first go to the flood gate and take a look, and then go to the position of the spillway to stick to it, if the position is blocked by floating objects, it will be even more troublesome." ”

Two people went up to the dam stalk, walked towards the gate valve position, and other patrol personnel on the dam ridge also came, one of the young people used a flashlight to shine on the surface of the reservoir, and said: "Director Yue, the black above the flood outlet seems to be all floating objects, and it is estimated that the floating objects are adsorbed under the reservoir and block the water outlet." ”

Yue Haohan shone the flashlight over, and he saw a lot of floating objects piling up above the water outlet, slowly hovering at the water outlet with the impact of the upstream current.

Yue Haohan took back the flashlight and said, "Come over again, the three of us will work together to see if we can turn the handwheel, in case it still can't move, the only way for us is to guard the spillway, don't let the spillway be blocked again." ”

The young man who spoke just now also came over, together with Yue Haohan and Wang Shanxue, the three of them began to rotate the gate valve handwheel again, the gate valve was still motionless, the position of the gate valve handwheel could stand at the same time and rotate at most, and the others looked anxious, but they couldn't make it hard; Yue Haohan took a long breath, secretly used the ideas and techniques of Tai Chi, and exerted his strength again, but the handwheel still did not move.

Yue Haohan let go of his hands in discouragement and said, "Forget it, it seems that we can't raise the gate valve up here for the time being, let's go to the spillway." ”

As soon as he started to move, there was a dazzling lightning in the sky, with the lightning light "click" sound, thunderbolt lightning and thunder hit the water surface in the center of the reservoir, the people on the dam stalk felt a burst of tinnitus, their hearts were full of fear, I don't know who it was, and suddenly shouted: "Look, what is on the reservoir?" ”

With another flash of lightning, Yue Haohan looked towards the surface of the reservoir and found that on the surface of the reservoir, a water column more than ten meters high had been rolled up, and after the water column rushed up quickly, it poured forward and slowly disappeared.

Yue Haohan said to everyone: "Don't be afraid, that place may be the focus point of the lightning strike just now, and the water on the reservoir surface is formed under the reaction force after being struck by lightning. ”

Then, Yue Haohan instructed everyone, saying, "Everyone bring their tools, we will all go to the spillway, this spillway is the most important place, and if there is a problem, the water will overturn the dam." ”

Everyone took the tools and arrived at the spillway, the spillway had begun to overflow, the flood water from the reservoir gathered towards the spillway, and a lot of wood, shrubs and other debris on the water surface also poured into the spillway, Yue Haohan took the excavation in the hands of a descendant, and said: "Let's pick up the floating objects, don't let them block the water outlet." ”

Everyone began to clean up the floating objects in front of the water outlet, because there were too many floating objects, the water flow was getting bigger and bigger, Yue Haohan divided the personnel into two shifts, one team was busy cleaning up, and the other team was resting, so they took turns to clean up non-stop.

The water volume of the reservoir rose rapidly, the water outlet of the spillway was getting faster and faster, and the water was getting bigger and bigger, and suddenly, a bucket-thick wood floated horizontally, and suddenly it was blocked at the water outlet, and in an instant, the floating objects behind it were pushed up behind the wood, and everyone was busy pulling the floating objects to both sides, but the wood was too big, and there were too many floating objects, and the more and more they piled up, the higher the pile, and the water output of the spillway began to decrease a lot in an instant.

Seeing this, Yue Haohan shouted anxiously in his heart: "Shanxue, the two of us will carry this wood away first, the wood is blocked, and the smaller floating flow can't go down." Yue Haohan spoke, waded through the water in the spillway, reached the opposite dam stalk, hugged the wood with both hands, and said, "Shanxue, let's work together to bring the wood over and let him rush down." ”

As soon as the two of them lifted the wood hard, it was another lightning bolt accompanied by a "click" thunder, this time the lightning and thunder were closer to everyone's location, and the wood had just been straightened, and someone shouted: "It's not good, it's like a walking Jiao!" ”

Yue Haohan subconsciously looked towards the reservoir surface, not far from the spillway outlet, rushed up a water column more than 20 meters high, the water column was quickly rolling towards the spillway, Yue Haohan shouted: "Good learning, pay attention to safety!" Let's quickly retreat towards the side of the mountain. ”

As soon as the words fell, before Yue Haohan had time to cross the spillway, the water column rolled over viciously, and in the blink of an eye, Yue Haohan had already been swept into the water column, Yue Haohan only felt that it was dark in front of him, as if there was a black thing in front of him controlling the water column, so he reflexively stretched out his hands, hugged the thing, and followed the powerful water column, the whole person was wrapped in the torrent, and rushed towards the dam.

Wang Shanxue and others, who were standing on the other side of the spillway, leaning on the side of the mountain roots, were completely stunned and stunned for a moment, when someone suddenly shouted: "Director Wang, it's not good, Director Yue was swept away by the flood!" ”

Wang Shanxue seemed to wake up suddenly, shivered on his body, and watched the water flow of the spillway roar and rush towards the dam, and the dam began to collapse little by little.

Wang Shanxue's upper and lower teeth kept biting, with a crying voice, trembling his body, and said: "Director Yue was washed away by the flood, it seems that this reservoir can't be saved, why can't I get to the other side at that time?" Why can't I go there! ”

After muttering to himself, Wang Shanxue's whole person seemed to be paralyzed, holding his head in both hands, squatting on the ground weakly and began to cry "woo"; Accompanied by Wang Shanxue's cry, there was another lightning mixed with thunder, and the water column dozens of meters high was rolled up on the surface of the reservoir again, whistling towards the spillway, and the two strong men behind Wang Shanxue quickly set up Wang Shanxue and said: "It's not good, retreat quickly, the dam is going to collapse!" ”

The two strong men had just pulled Wang Shanxue back more than two feet away, and the water column was accompanied by a cry of "moo, moo, moo," like a buffalo, covering it frantically, and the two red houses next to the spillway disappeared without a trace in an instant, and then there was a "boom" sound, and the dam collapsed into a big breach, and the flood roared and poured down from the breach.

Wang Shanxue recovered his emotions a little and said to everyone: "We will rush back to the village primary school from the high ground first, and quickly organize personnel to go downstream to find Director Yue." ”

At this time, a slightly older strong man said: "Director Wang, I see that the formation just now seems to be walking Jiao, my grandfather told me about walking Jiao in the Jiaohe River back then. It seems that there is more than one Jiao today, and the one who washed away the house just now is estimated to be the largest. ”

Everyone left the reservoir that had been washed out with a heavy heart, the reservoir water behind them roared and rushed downstream, along the high ground, the group walked silently towards the direction of the village primary school, the rain slowly became smaller, and the lightning and thunder became more and more distant......

When Wang Shanxue and his party arrived at the village primary school, it was already more than three o'clock in the morning, the rain had completely stopped, and a little stars were vaguely revealed in the sky. Every classroom in the village primary school was crowded with villagers, most of them did not sleep, people saw Wang Shanxue and his party come back, someone said hello, Wang Shanxue did not pay attention.

Zheng Ziyan, Yue Chunfang, and Yue Chunxia accompanied Qin Yuhan and others to sit and chat in the teacher's office, and they didn't close their eyes to each other all night.

When Zheng Ziyan saw Wang Shanxue coming in, his spirit was shocked, he stood up from the stool, looked out of the door, and didn't see Yue Haohan, so he glanced at Wang Shanxue and asked, "Director Wang, my brother?" Is my brother still behind? My brother! ”

Yue Chunfang and Yue Chunxia also got up from the stool, ran to the door of the office, looked towards the campus, and asked, "Why didn't you see my brother, why didn't my brother come back?" Where would he be? ”

Seeing that Wang Shanxue never spoke, an ominous premonition surged into the hearts of Zheng Ziyan, Yue Chunfang, and Yue Chunxia, Zheng Ziyan stared at Wang Shanxue anxiously, raised his voice, and asked, "Director Wang, are you talking!" My brother? ”

Wang Shanxue couldn't hold back any longer, held his head in his hands, squatted on the ground and trembled, and said, "It's all my fault!" Blame me! Why didn't I go to the other side at the time, blame me! As he spoke, Wang Shanxue began to cry "woo, woo", and while crying, he clenched his fists with both hands and beat his head fiercely.

Hearing Wang Shanxue's cry, Qin Yuhan, Deng Guoxing, Sun Xiwang and others, who didn't care much at first, all gathered around, and asked anxiously beside Wang Shanxue: "Shanxue, why are you crying?" What happened to Director Yue? ”

A strong man standing at the door took over and said, "Director Yue was swept away by the flood!" ”

Although the strong man's voice was not loud, it was nothing less than an earth-shattering thunderbolt, and after Zheng Ziyan heard it, he shouted: "Brother Haohan!" Then, the whole body went limp, and he fainted. Qin Yuhan and Yu Lingyun hurriedly stepped forward to help Zheng Ziyan, and Yu Lingyun pinched Zheng Ziyan's people with her fingers and shouted.

Sisters Yue Chunfang and Yue Chunxia were stunned for a moment, and reacted quickly, "Wow", the sisters hugged each other and cried sadly, crying and shouting: "Brother, brother, my brother!" I want my brother! ”

Zheng Ziyan, who was lying in Qin Yuhan's arms, slowly opened his eyes, looked at Qin Yuhan, and then looked at Yu Lingyun, and suddenly reacted, and broke free from Qin Yuhan's arms as soon as he jumped away, and the whole person ran quickly towards the door as if he was crazy, shouting in his mouth as he ran: "Brother Haohan, I'm going to find my Brother Haohan!" ”