【Chapter 114】 Flood Siege

At six o'clock in the morning, Liu Rui listened to the birds in the woods began to chirp, and the sky outside seemed to light up, although the rain did not seem to have stopped, Liu Rui still put on a small raincoat and got out of the tent.

The boulders, which were originally a little dirty, have now been washed by the rain and are as smooth as a mirror, and almost all of them can reflect Liu Rui's figure. Last night's bonfires, dead branches and leaves, had been washed away by the rain, and there was nothing but a few lonely tents on the whole boulder.

The raindrops were a little smaller in the sky, but the gloomy sky showed that the rain had not yet stopped.

After moving his body and relieving the sour numbness accumulated overnight, Liu Rui walked to the edge of the boulder and looked at the surrounding scenery.

The raindrops filled the whole world, making Liu Rui's eyes foggy, and sometimes a gust of mountain wind blew, and those raindrops would crack and turn into patches of mist, adding a bit of tenderness. In the valley opposite, a white mist rose and enveloped the entire mountain, leaving only a few treetops looming.

This rain brought great trouble to the investigation team, and also made the whole mountain more mysterious.

The rain dripped through the woods, then slowly collected with all sorts of soil, leaves, and other strange things, and then flowed into the ditches. Numerous ditches stretch out of the mountains and forests, rushing into the valley from the slopes of the mountains.

Dripping into a river, countless small streams seem inconspicuous, but when they come together, the momentum is unexpected.

The valley at the foot of the boulder is usually covered by dense trees, but now even through the misty rain, Liu Rui can still see a yellow-brown river appear there. The stream swelled with water from all sides, and almost all the vegetation in the valley was submerged in the torrent, even the tall alder trees.

The sound of the torrent was so loud that it even drowned out the chirping of birds in the woods, becoming the only presence in the valley in the early morning.

Looking at this kind of scene, Liu Rui knew that his worries last night had become a reality!

Heavy rain overnight, I am afraid that the entire range of Xiaoqingshan will fall into this kind of flash flood situation, now is not to think about how to go back, but how to stick to it?

"Fourth uncle! You come out! Thinking of this, Liu Rui couldn't sit still anymore, and hurriedly called Wang Huaan out.

"You also find that we can't go back?" Wang Huaan, who got out of the tent, knew what Liu Rui wanted to say as soon as he saw Liu Rui's expression.

Since the heavy rain last night, Wang Huaan has been worried about the flash floods, and has been praying in his heart that the rain will stop sooner so that the team can return to Liangcun as soon as possible.

However, the world often backfires.

It rained so heavily all night, and the cruel facts soon shattered Wang Huaan's expectations, and the formation of a surging torrent was inevitable. Thankfully, the expedition team had been evacuated to this relatively safe location, and if the rain had fallen the night before, I am afraid that the situation of the entire expedition team would have been even more difficult.

"There's no way, I just hope this rain stops soon!" In this case, Liu Rui also spread his hands helplessly and said, "Fourth uncle, with your experience, when will this rain stop?" ”

"I can't say for sure, after all, the weather in the mountains is unpredictable." Wang Huaan was also a little uncertain, and said: "It stands to reason that autumn will not fall for too long, at most it will stop today and tomorrow." ”

"In that case, the team will have to wait here for a few days until the flash flood recedes before they can leave?"

Liu Rui knows that the rain stops does not mean that the flash flood subsides, and often the flash flood reaches its peak after the rain stops, and the flash flood often starts three or five days after the rain stops.

"I guess I'll have to wait here for five or six days, so I'll just be patient." Wang Huaan nodded and said.

"If this rain keeps falling for a long time, the food will be a problem." Liu Rui thought of another more serious situation.

Trapped on this boulder, everyone in the investigation team is in good health, so don't worry too much, the only thing that is a little problematic is food. Because when the camp was abandoned the night before, the inspection team lost a lot of food, and now it is in a rather embarrassing situation, food has become the primary problem.

Fortunately, in Liu Rui's space, there are a large number of compressed biscuits, high-energy chocolates and the like, but there is no need to worry about the lack of food for the expedition team. Liu Rui only needs to quietly transfer the food out at that time, saying that he has always carried it.

"Don't worry about this, as long as the fourth uncle's hands and feet are still there, there is food in the jungle, and the only thing I am worried about now is that there is not enough fuel." For Wang, food is not a problem.

"So what to do?" This time, it was Liu Rui's turn to be a little unsure.

"It's okay, now you go and call Xiaoqiang and them up, let's go into the forest to find dry firewood!" Wang Huaan gave Liu Rui a reassuring expression and asked him to act.

When Liu Rui, Fu Xiaoqiang and others followed Wang Huaan into the pine forest, everyone guessed in their hearts, where can they find dry firewood in a wet jungle?

When Wang Huaan took them to a slope and lifted a layer of pine leaves, revealing the dry pine branches inside, Liu Rui and the others were a little dumbfounded.

"Fourth uncle, how can the pine branches here still stay dry?" Liu Rui was a little strange, it rained heavily all night last night, and the pine branches and pine leaves here were still dry except for the top layer that was a little wet.

"It's very simple, it rained heavily last night, and the water was very fast, and the rain quickly flowed down the smooth pine leaves." Wang Huaan pointed to the traces of flowing water on the pine leaves and explained to Liu Rui.

"Wouldn't it be the same if we left these pine branches here and came back when we needed them?" Liu Rui was a little puzzled, in order to pick up pine branches and leaves, Wang Huaan even asked Liu Rui to take out those broken tents and prepare to serve as a warehouse for firewood.

"You see that it is already raining lightly, and the light rain that flows very slowly will gradually soak these pine branches, and if we don't take it back now, we won't have anything to burn in the next few days." Wang Huaan knew that these students lacked experience in the forest, so he patiently explained to them.

Now even in the countryside, it is at least a brick house, and Liu Rui has never seen a thatched roof house, so naturally he will not understand these truths. In the past, when people lived in thatched huts, they were not afraid of heavy rain, because the water from heavy rains would be washed away quickly and would not pose much threat to the thatched roofs. What worries people most is the continuous light rain, which quietly soaks the thatch like a gentle knife and eventually causes water leakage.

Listening to Wang Huaan's explanation, Liu Rui and the others suddenly realized and understood the truth. Sometimes, there will always be a lot of knowledge in life that you can't learn from books, but you can benefit for a lifetime.

A group of people worked together to brave the drizzle and bring back a large number of pine branches and leaves to the camp, which would be the fuel that the expedition team was trapped in.

At this time, it was still raining in the sky, so it was naturally impossible to light a fire outside the house to cook things, so Liu Rui and the others could only use a solid alcohol stove to boil some boiling water in the tent, and then eat compressed biscuits. At this time, Liu Rui's strategy of stealing beams and changing pillars was finally used, and all of a sudden, the food reserves of the inspection team were much more.

According to the number of compressed biscuits and high-energy chocolates provided by Liu Rui, it was enough for all members of the investigation team to eat for five days, plus the reserves carried by other team members, the investigation team did not have to worry about food for at least a week. In addition, with Wang Huaan and Zhao Liang in the team, hunting some game as a supplement, the investigation team does not have to worry about survival in the short term.

After solving the problem of food and fuel, the shadow that had been hanging over the hearts of everyone in the expedition team naturally dissipated, and the bright smiles on the faces of each team member were revealed. Everyone was a little surprised that Liu Rui was carrying so much food, but Liu Rui used his own habits to prevaricate.

The biggest threat was gone, and the originally embarrassed investigation team was rejuvenated, and Yu Shanwei and others began to take out materials and give lectures to students in the tent, analyzing the gains and losses of entering the mountain this time. For Yu Shanwei, learning is always the most important, since he has been trapped here now, it is useless to sigh, or concentrate on learning well.

With sufficient food, medicine, and no existential threat, Yu Shanwei was able to study in this environment, and regarded the difficult environment as a training for himself. Anyway, it is only a day's journey from Liang Village, so there is no need to rush back, as long as the flood waters recede, you can go back at any time.

As a scholar, the mentality is always very stable.

Liu Rui shuttled back and forth between the three tents, listening to the teachings of several teachers, and for him, absorbing more knowledge and laying a good foundation for himself to enter the mountains alone in the future is the most important. Now that he has Shennong Space and likes the feeling of being in the mountains, Liu Rui feels that he needs to strengthen his basic knowledge as soon as possible.

Only by mastering more biological knowledge can we have more harvests when we enter the mountains in the future, and create more conditions for the expansion of Shennong's space.

As for Wang Huaan and Zhao Liang, every day when they are idle, they take a bow and crossbow to wander around the nearby mountains and forests, because of the rain, those pheasants and other mountain birds are quite confused, and they can be caught easily.

After harvesting the prey, Wang Huaan always takes advantage of the sunny sky to seize the time to bake the prey for later use, after all, no one knows when this rain will fall again, and how long it will be?

In this way, a sudden heavy rain and a flooding of the mountain made the investigation team stay in the mountains, which were only a day's journey from Liang Village. There is no breeze and moon, no sunrise and sunset, only continuous drizzle, and a group of calm people!

Life is so wonderful!

(To be continued)