The tempting bounty brought a lively competition among the members of the Guild of the Rescuers. Entering the bridgehead of the Warcraft Belt in the Dabie Mountains, the Cuiling Mountain Camp, has become unprecedentedly lively.

Almost every day, dozens or hundreds of members come and go here to rest.

For this reason, the guild had to organize people to set up a support team to maintain the exchange and material exchange between the Cuiling camp and the headquarters.

This good atmosphere fell in Fang Jin's eyes, which made him very satisfied.

It can be expected that if this momentum continues, two months later, the overall strength of the Salvation Guild will usher in another leap.

But in this good situation, a bad news appeared that had not been seen in a previous life.

October 11th.

Fang Jin, who was about to go out, received a report from the Logistics Management Department that the groundwater level in Shuxian County had dropped significantly.

Tens of thousands of survivors and more than 1,000 professionals have water for their lives, so there is a little difficulty!

Fang Jin didn't pay much attention to this matter at first, and just asked casually: "The water level has dropped?" What's going on? ”

Director Liu Chang made a lot of preparations and investigations in advance, but there was still confusion on his face, and said, "President, the specific reason is not clear to his subordinates. As early as noon two days ago, our No. 6 machine well began to be unable to pump water. ”

As he spoke, he spread a tourist map of Shu County in front of Fang Jin.

It is marked with a red symbol indicating the water source of the Guild of the Dead.

In the post-apocalyptic world, the original waterworks and water supply pipes were quickly paralyzed. At first, the Rescuers' Guild was able to drink the bottled mineral water they had found, but when more and more people were getting more and more, the mineral water was not enough, so they had to try to use the original shaft to pump water with diesel generators and pumping machines.

Well No. 6 is the shallowest water level among them.

"The subordinates initially thought that it was caused by the excessive number of survivors after the capture of Cloud City. But in the past two days, more wells have gone wrong. As of this morning, only the three wells with the deepest water table were still available. Even then, there was a serious shortage of water and pressure – we suspect that something could be wrong with the groundwater! ”

With the help of this map and Liu Chang's explanation, Fang Jin quickly understood the seriousness of the problem.

If this momentum continues, wouldn't it take another two or three days, and all the existing wells of the Rescuers' Guild will be invalid, and more than 10,000 people will have no water to use?

That's it!

Bronze rank professionals are far from being able to open valleys - even if they are gold rank in their previous lives, they still need to eat a lot of high-energy beast meat food.

Not to mention water!

"Didn't you find out why?" Fang Jin was a little anxious, he thought for a moment and asked, "Could it be a precursor to an earthquake?" I remember that before a major earthquake, the water table could have changed drastically. ”

"This ...... My subordinates also thought about it this way. ”

Liu Chang had agreement on his face, but he couldn't be sure. After all, there is no way to predict such a thing as an earthquake before the end of the world, let alone after the end of the world, let alone after the end of the world.

"No, that's not right!"

Fang Jin quickly shook his head and denied the idea.

There is such a thing as a major earthquake, which has never appeared in Shu County in the previous life, and there is no reason why one's rebirth can affect this.

As for the small earthquakes caused by spatial cracks, it is also unlikely that the space around Shu County will be stable. Moreover, it is difficult for such an earthquake with low intensity to affect the water level so significantly.

"That's weird!"

He walked around the house a few times in confusion, thinking about it, but like Liu Chang, he still didn't think of the possible reason. I can only ask, "I remember, our guild should have built a water tower and reserve bottled water, right?" ”

"Yes." Liu Chang nodded and reported a set of data: "Since yesterday morning, after discovering that the situation was wrong, I ordered the logistics department to start stepping up preparations. At the current rate, the reserve of water can last for at least three days – or even a week if an immediate order is issued to enforce a strict water rationing system. ”

Water rationing system? Wouldn't that be tantamount to making the crisis public?

Fang Jin hesitated for a moment and asked, "How many people know about this matter now?" ”

Liu Chang thought for a while and replied, "Professionals basically don't care about this, and few people know about it. Ordinary survivors, don't know much. The people in the logistics department knew about it, but I ordered it not to spread it at will—but I wasn't sure how many days it would be kept secret. ”

In other words, there are not many people in the know for the time being......

"I see, you're doing a good job."

Fang Jin became more and more satisfied with Liu Chang, the director of the logistics department, and praised him a few words, and then signaled that he could go down, but did not mention the matter of rationing immediately.

He himself sat back in his place and thought about it carefully - the idea of going out to level up had long been thrown out of the clouds.

For a full quarter of an hour, after turning over the things in his memory, and making sure that there was no such thing in his previous life, Fang Jin roughly figured out one point: this water crisis must be man-made, more or less affected by the butterfly effect of his own rebirth.

The fact that the water reserve will last for a few days is undoubtedly the only good news in the bad news.

The priority now is to figure out why the water level is falling; And, is this the case only in Shu County!

Soon, two orders were passed down.

First, the guild began to conduct an internal self-examination to see if there were any experts in water conservancy who could explain the possible causes of the water crisis.

The second is the investigation.

The guild issued a secret mission and sent a team of professionals to the towns around Shu County to investigate the situation of the nearby water level.

Because of the bounty offered a few days ago, there are almost no other professionals in the guild at this moment, except for the necessary rotating professionals. In order to make up the four teams, Fang Jin really spent some experience, and finally had to transfer the professionals on duty.

As for the security of the guild headquarters, having himself in charge is the best guarantee.

The president personally coordinated the task, and the members under him were naturally very concerned.

In the afternoon of the same day, a team of professionals who had gone out returned one after another, bringing the state of the groundwater table around Shu County.

In the east, west and north directions of Shu County, the water level is almost the same as that of Shu County, and all of them have declined to varying degrees. Among them, the most serious is especially in the north.

The town, near the Baishan River, is almost completely cut off from water.

The originally huge Baishan River is almost cut off, and you can see sunburned fish and shrimp everywhere on the wet river silt!

Only to the south of Shu County, Xinpu County, which was burned down by Ragnar in the previous flames, did not have a significant drop in water levels.

"The further south you go, the smaller the impact? The White Mountain River is broken? ”

The situation brought together from several aspects made Fang Jin sensitively aware of something.

Although there were no experts in the water conservancy department within the Rescuers' Guild, with this information, he already had a bold inference.

The change of groundwater level is related to the interruption of the Baishan River!