Chapter Twenty-Eight: Collapse
On the night when the sound of heavy rain hitting the ground was filled with the sound of "Ding Lingling", in the office of Peng Shun of the Environmental Protection Bureau, Peng Shun had just finished working overtime and was busy with the work at hand, when a hurried phone rang suddenly.
"Hey!" Peng Shun picked up the phone as he usually receives customers.
"Mr. Peng, there is such a big event, why are you still so calm." On the other end of the phone was Cai Yuan's voice.
Have an accident? Peng Shun worked in the office all day today and didn't hear anything happening!
"What's wrong?"
"You don't know? Watch the news. “
The other party hung up the phone in a panic, Peng Shun saw Cai Yuan so nervous for the first time, and realized that something terrible must have happened, so he hurried to check the news......
After several days of continuous heavy rain, the water level of the Ganjiang River continued to rise, and after the sound of water waves crashing against the stone wall, "Click! Bang! "A corner of the bluestone hydroelectric power station collapsed instantly with the spread of the water potential, and a fulcrum collapsed, and the surrounding walls could not support it, and a huge hole was torn out in an instant.
The flood water rushed down like a beast, and the houses and fields downstream were swallowed up at a speed visible to the naked eye. After getting the situation, the fire brigade in the city braved the heavy rain and divided into two routes, all the way to the Qingshi Hydroelectric Power Station to fight the flood and stop the expansion of the water potential, and on the other hand went downstream to carry out rescue work.
At this moment, it is still more than three o'clock in the afternoon, and Yushi No. 3 Middle School is still in class, and the sound of glass breaking is mixed with a sound of "It's a big flood, go to a high place!" ”
In an instant, the whole school fell into an unprecedented panic, desperate roars, panicked footsteps, and longing cries for help, which seemed small and powerless in this sudden water.
In less than half an hour, more than half of the first floor of all floors was flooded, and the height of the water was still rising.
A three-storey school building, because this house is in a low-lying area, the first house to be flooded is this one, the water has reached the second floor of this building, but fortunately, there was a teacher who had left with the students of the three classes here, and the water at that time was only up to the knees, and the students could wade through. It was less than an hour now, the water had reached the second floor, and there were no other houses around the house, all of which were a hundred meters away.
Unfortunately, there were three students, two boys and one girl, in the classroom on the third floor of the house.
"Who asked you to come up with me, didn't you grind and chirp to hinder me, will we break away from the teacher?" Cao Liang yelled at the female classmates in the same class as him, and he had no sense of pity for girls at all.
"I... I want to help you. Zuo Jingjing whispered aggrievedly, Cao Liang is a child from the countryside, and he usually can't play with his classmates, but Zuo Jingjing knows that others are actually very good, but they are introverted and don't know how to express themselves, so they can't get along with others. Once when Zuo Jingjing was bullied by her classmates, only Cao Liang helped herself, and at that moment Zuo Jingjing felt the feeling of her brother from Cao Liang's body, and it was also from that time that Zuo Jingjing often came to Cao Liang's side. However, Cao Liang is still like a piece of wood, he doesn't say a few words all day, and the few words he says may be necessary to answer Zuo Jingjing.
"Who asked you to help?" Cao Liang was a little dissatisfied with this answer, he actually didn't have a good impression of Zuo Jingjing, the girl who surrounded him as a whole, and even hated it a little.
When the big water came just now, when several teachers were organizing the students to move to a higher place quickly, Cao Liang, who was already at the back of the team, suddenly remembered that he still had some pocket money on his seat, and the new pens and notebooks that his father had just bought for him, these things were very precious to him as a rural person, especially pens and notebooks, which he begged his father for a long time before agreeing to buy them.
Cao Liang looked at the people in front of him, and he didn't know when it would be him, so he secretly left the team and went to the classroom on the third floor, but he didn't know that when he left, a little tail also quietly followed him, that was Zuo Jingjing.
Cao Liang arrived on the third floor only to find that Zuo Jingjing had followed.
"What are you doing too?" Cao Liang asked Zuo Jingjing.
"I see you coming up alone, I'm afraid that you will go down too slowly, what if the teachers are gone." Zuo Jingjing tilted her head smartly, and the long hair on her back was scattered along with her head.
Cao Liang didn't have time to reason with her, so he began to look for his own things. Change! Notebook! And pens! These all found the corners of Cao Liang's mouth and showed a satisfied smile, and went downstairs satisfied.
But when he got downstairs, he found that the teachers had all left, the water level had risen to the waist at this time, and the water flow was very urgent, Cao Liang wanted to go into the water and try to move forward, but it was impossible.
He shouted loudly in despair to the teachers who were walking up the heights, but the water was so loud that his voice couldn't pierce the short distance of 100 meters. What is even more desperate is that the teacher thinks that they have taken all the students away, and does not even think to look back.
The helpless two could only go back to the third floor, but when they went back, they found that there was still a person sitting at the top of the stairs, a little fat man who was motionless. The appearance of the little fat man startled the two of them, this! It's a human and a ghost! How did you suddenly appear here!
"It's over, I can't get over it!" The little fat man suddenly spoke. This also made Cao Liang and Zuo Jingjing confirm that the little fat man in front of them was a person, and only people could speak.
"Why didn't you leave with the teachers?" Zuo Jingjing asked curiously about people who had the same experience as herself.
"I was so scared just now, as soon as I soaked, the teachers left, and when I came down, I saw the two of you shouting all the time." The little fat man raised his head and looked at Cao Liang and Zuo Jingjing, with quite helplessness in his eyes.
The three of them summed it up, the water is still rising, let's go to the third floor and wait! So there was a scene of Cao Liang and Zuo Jingjing really arguing.
"You two stop arguing." The little fat man didn't know how to persuade people, so he learned the way he tried to persuade in the TV series, and opened his hands and shouted between the two of them, but don't say it, the effect is good, and the two of them immediately have no sound.
"When do you think the water will recede?" After seeing the two of them stop, the little fat man walked to the window and looked outside at the rolling water, and the house he was staying in looked lonely in the water, and he felt that it was about to collapse at any time.
"It might take two days." Zuo Jingjing didn't know it, she just gave her the time she hoped for, she hoped that the water would fade soon, and her brother would come to save her.
It was getting dark, but the water was still rising, much slower, but still rising. After nightfall, it was the beginning of winter, and Cao Liang, who had already wet his clothes with water, curled up in a corner of the classroom in the cold, huddled together against people's body temperatures to keep warm.
Zuo Jingjing and the little fat man sandwiched Cao Liang in the middle, squeezed into a corner of the classroom surrounded by desks, and the three of them were shivering by the wind. Cao Liang was very uncomfortable being squeezed by the two, he rarely interacted with people, he didn't like others next to him, and he couldn't fall asleep at all when others were next to him, so after Zuo Jingjing and the little fat man fell asleep, he quietly walked away and ran to a corner to lie down......
Bluestone Hydroelectric Power Station
After nearly 10 hours of flood fighting, the gap in the Qingshi Hydroelectric Power Station was finally plugged. Peng Shun, the project leader of the Qingshi Hydroelectric Power Station, was also there, and came to the scene two hours ago to help the firefighters fight the flood together.
A few hours ago, Peng Shun's phone was bombarded in turns, and people related to the construction of the Qingshi Hydroelectric Power Station, his own leaders, and his boss all called to ask what was going on with him. Peng Shun also suddenly received a call from Cai Yuan to watch the news, only to find that in the afternoon, the bluestone hydroelectric power station he was responsible for collapsed, and the water was huge, turning the downstream into an ocean. Peng Shun saw the news with a chill that poked his backbone, he didn't think of what to do with it at all, after being scolded several times in a row, he resolutely came to the front line to fight the flood, this is the most effective way he can think of a rescue, maybe his behavior can reduce the punishment for him.
On the other hand, the rescue team came to the No. 3 Middle School in Yushi City to rescue the students, who are the hope of the motherland, their lives are very fragile, and they are the first objects to be rescued, which is the task received by the fire fighters.
There was a teacher who hurriedly found the firefighter who was rescuing, and said a lot of words, but the firefighter didn't hear what she was saying at all.
"Don't worry, don't worry, what's the matter, you speak slowly."
The teacher breathed a sigh of relief, but didn't know where to start expressing it first, so he held back a few words.
"Three children less!"