Chapter 450 Flood and the Little Girl
Song Qi then told the truth, a sentence that made people feel heavy in their hearts.
"Captain Lu is unconscious."
Chu Yue thought that something might happen to Lu Zhanlin, and thought of various ways that he could be injured, even thought that it might be a gunshot wound, but she never thought it would be like this.
A moment.
The nightmare from last night flashed through her mind.
After Lu Zhanlin fell to the ground, bright red blood flowed out from the back of his head. He lay in a pool of blood, motionless... motionless... and fell into a coma.
Chu Yue's figure shook slightly.
Song Qi and Doctor Hao kept looking at Chu Yue with worried eyes. Chu Yue acted extraordinarily strong, with only her face turning slightly pale.
She took a deep breath and said, "Where is he now? Song Qi, take me there quickly."
Song Qi hurried out to find a military doctor in order to find someone to treat Lu Zhanlin as soon as possible. When he heard what Chu Yue said, he immediately walked forward.
He walked quickly and hurriedly, and Chu Yue followed closely behind him without any hesitation.
On the contrary, Doctor Hao was unable to keep up with the other two due to his physical condition and fatigue from the long journey.
Lu Zhanlin was temporarily arranged to stay in a simple house which was a bit far away. To get there, he had to pass through a large crowd of people, who were the villagers who had escaped from the flooded village yesterday.
On the way, Song Qi talked about the thrilling events of yesterday and the reason why Lu Zhanlin was injured.
Yesterday, Lu Zhanlin led a small team on a mission and passed through a village.
After walking a short distance, they arrived at the river area and took a short rest by the river, stopping for only five minutes.
In just these five minutes, Lu Zhanlin noticed that the water level in the river was rising at an unusual rate.
The heavy rain continued, the river swelled, and the river flowed faster and faster... faster and faster...
After sensing the danger, Lu Zhanlin quickly ordered his soldiers to disperse and check the terrain. Combining the rainfall, river channels, terrain, and Lu Zhanlin's experience in flood control and disaster relief that he had participated in every summer for many years, he concluded that the real flood peak had not yet arrived.
The so-called flood peak refers to the highest water level after the river rises rapidly.
The water level was high enough to swallow everything around it, including everyone in the village.
Moreover, Lu Zhanlin estimated that the peak of the flood would occur in the second half of the night. When the night was quiet and the flood came, there would not even be a chance to escape. Many people would lose their lives in their sleep.
Lu Zhanlin sent a small soldier back to the barracks to report the situation, and then returned to the village with the others.
He found the village head and the village party secretary and asked them to immediately work with the masses to evacuate the people from the village to higher and safer places.
However, Lu Zhanlin had neither the official document nor the notification to his superiors. He was just an officer who was out on other missions.
It was not just the entire village that was migrating, but the entire township, with thousands of people involved.
This trip will definitely be a waste of time and money.
Neither the village chief nor the village party secretary could make this decision.
They were worried that if Lu Zhanlin made a wrong judgment and there was no flood at all, after a few days, the public's curses and criticism from higher-ups would follow.
To put it more seriously, the official hats on their heads will fall off.
Speaking of this.
Song Qi gritted his teeth, and he was as angry as before.
He said, "No matter what Captain Lu said, they just wouldn't listen and refused to carry out his orders. Finally, Captain Lu took off his epaulettes, slammed them on the table, and told them that he would bear all the responsibilities from now on. Only then did they agree."
After agreeing, the whole village was mobilized.
Many people in the village reacted the same way as the village head and the village party secretary. They said that floods usually occur in late summer, and it was only early summer now, so there was no way there would be a big flood. Many people didn't believe it.
Later, the soldiers, the village head, the village party secretary, and the whole village kept calling people through loudspeakers and doing mobilization work. Only after a few hours did they start to migrate one after another.
Most villagers have a hard life. In order to preserve their few properties, many of them lead their cows and carry all the belongings at home, even taking the chickens and ducks with them when they leave.
As a result, one can imagine how slowly they left.
Fortunately, people were slowly leaving and the village was gradually vacated.
Lu Zhanlin and Song Qi walked at the end of the team to prevent the elderly and children from falling behind.
It was dark when they left the village, and it was at that time that the flood came.
The surging water rushed into the village. In one night, half of the houses collapsed, and the other half was submerged in the flood.
The evacuated villagers had just reached halfway up the mountain when they stopped and looked back. They could still vaguely see their houses that had been washed away, and they were filled with emotion.
At that moment, the person they should be most grateful to was Lu Zhanlin, who single-handedly asked them to migrate early.
If it weren't for Lu Zhanlin, all of them would be immersed in the flood and drowned, or washed downstream, with their lives uncertain.
Trembling with fear and with their lives saved, the crowd left step by step, carrying their only supplies on their backs, in search of a safer place.
During this period, the heavy rain never stopped.
After Lu Zhanlin and Song Qi made sure that no one was left behind, they continued to move forward and catch up with the main force.
Just as he was about to take a step forward, Lu Zhanlin suddenly turned around and said, "There's someone else!"
Song Qi glanced around at the pitch-black darkness. "Captain Lu, everyone has evacuated. I checked, and there's no one left in the village."
"No, there are others."
Lu Zhanlin said in a deep and firm voice.
Because Lu Zhanlin heard a little girl crying.
He held a flashlight and kept searching on the surface of the water which was already a vast ocean.
The rolling waves of the flood in the darkness were like the devil's open mouth, capable of swallowing anything.
Lu Zhanlin was sure he heard a little girl shouting "Help!"
Song Qi followed Lu Zhanlin in searching, and finally they locked the lights on a big tree protruding from the middle of the water. They actually saw a little girl on the tree who was hugging the trunk tightly and shivering.
"Captain Lu! There really is someone! It's a little girl!"
Song Qi shouted excitedly.
Just as Song Qi spoke, Lu Zhanlin beside him took off his raincoat and looked like he was about to jump into the raging flood.
It was not known whether the little girl was from this village or had drifted down from another flooded village upstream.
The little child tried her best to hold on to the tree trunk. She was gradually losing strength in the heavy rain, and the water level was still rising. She could be washed away again at any time.
We must save people!
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