Chapter 38: Cause and Effect? Taking on a Mission in a Time of Crisis!
"County Office, one hour later"
The military line suddenly rang. Gu Zhongzhang knocked over the chair as he rushed over, and his father's tired voice came from the receiver:
"Jing Mo asked me to tell you——"
Amid the noise of the electric current, the words were as clear as if engraved by a knife:
"If you want to save people, just listen to Lin Xiaobai."
There was a pause over there, as if he was digesting the absurd words he had relayed, "He filed a military petition, strongly recommending Lin Xiaobai!"
Gu Zhongzhang suddenly laughed out loud.
"Prepare the car!" He grabbed his raincoat and rushed into the rainstorm, shouting the most ridiculous order in his life to his secretary:
"Go to Longshan Village! Find our emergency rescue commander!"
——
"Longshan Village, the river mouth."
Xiaobai knelt at the upstream entrance of the river, with his vines digging into the turbid water.
Through the "eyes" of plants, she "saw" -
At the deepest point, a metal structure was emitting pulses at the same frequency as the "S01" mark on the palm of the hand. Every time the blue light flashed, more rock layers fell off.
It is it that is manipulating the water veins!
She suddenly remembered the words "return home" in her dream, and a chill ran up her spine.
"Comrade Xiaobai!" Lin Shan rushed over with dozens of young men. The hemp ropes of the sandbags on his shoulders cut deeply into his flesh, and traces of blood seeped out in the heavy rain.
Behind them, the surging river water had already overflowed the embankment, and the turbid water carried away branches and stones, and the sound of the collision was like muffled thunder.
"When will the county's support team arrive?" Lin Shan wiped the rain off his face, his eyes stinging with pain.
"I don't know." Xiaobai's voice was colder than the rain.
She knelt on one knee on the riverbank, where black vines were reinforcing the breach and repairing the cracks. Her fingertips were an abnormal bluish-white color.
"What?!" Wang Tiezhu, who was carrying the sandbag, threw the sack down suddenly, splashing mud and water all over everyone.
"Don't know?! You want us to die here?!" The rain and sweat on his face mixed together, blurring his pale face.
"Without support, what's the point of relying on us alone! We might as well run away as soon as possible..."
“Crash!”
A wall of water suddenly gushed out from the breach, instantly pushing Wang Tiezhu three meters away.
Xiaobai swung out a vine with his backhand - taking advantage of the cover of night - and wrapped it around his waist. In the horrified gaze of everyone, he forcibly pulled the man back from the whirlpool.
"Did you see it?" She shook off her wet bangs, revealing a pair of eyes that glowed with a faint golden light in the dark night.
"There is no support, no miracle - either you follow me to block the breach and have a glimmer of hope, or you will die at any time!"
More noises of collapse were heard in the distance, mixed with the villagers' cries and shouts, floating in the rain.
"Village Party Secretary, something bad has happened. The road to the county town has collapsed!"
The villagers who went to the county town returned in a panic, soaked like drowned rats. Some carried their paralyzed mothers, some held crying babies, and all had mud and despair on their faces.
"The road... the road collapsed... we are all finished. Oh, God, please have mercy on my child!" Widow Li collapsed on the ground, the swaddling clothes in her arms soaked with rain.
The lips of Village Party Secretary Lin Shan were trembling violently. The rain poured into his open mouth, but he could not utter a single syllable.
"Fellow villagers, listen to me," the old village chief walked out tremblingly with a cane, "If you want to live, listen to Lin Xiaobai's arrangements!"
"Why?" Before the old village chief had finished speaking, someone in the crowd objected.
"Old village chief, you can't sacrifice our lives just because Xiaobai saved yours. She's just a little girl, what does she know? This is a joke."
"Yes, old village chief, you speak and we listen! But Xiaobai, she is only a few years old, not even eighteen years old, how can we put our lives in her hands!"
The crowd's voices of opposition were getting louder and louder, and even the sound of the rainstorm had to retreat three feet away.
"Tsk, you're talking as if I don't care whether you live or die!" Xiao Bai looked disdainful. No matter how big the flood was, she could escape with her ability, but it was hard to say for these people.
The old village chief suddenly grabbed Xiaobai's wrist with his skinny hand and lifted it up:
"Look at the mark on her hand!" the old man shouted at the top of his lungs.
A bolt of lightning broke through the air, illuminating Xiaobai's wrist. The vine had already played dead and shrunk into a mark.
"This is the 'green wood pattern' bestowed by the mountain god!"
"Half a year ago, a dragon roar suddenly sounded in the middle of the night at Longshen Mountain. The next day, Lin Xiaobai's illness was cured. He was completely transformed into a different person! Have you ever thought about the reason?"
"Dragon God Mountain has a thousand-year-old taboo, but she is the only one who can come and go freely! Have you really never doubted it in your heart?"
"She is neither a doctor nor has any magic medicine, so why did my illness get cured after she came to see me once?"
"Bullshit!" Zhao the blacksmith swung his shovel, "In this day and age, you're still obsessed with feudalism—"
“Ouch——!”
Suddenly, there was a wolf howl on the ridge, and gray-white figures were looming in the lightning. What was even more terrifying was that those usually ferocious wolves were holding sandbags and hemp ropes in their mouths!
Xiaobai whistled, and the wolf king immediately trotted over and threw the sandbag at her feet.
Xiao An rushed over and got out of the crowd, grinning at the dumbfounded villagers: "If my sister hadn't been favored by the mountain god, how could she have driven the wolves!"
"Sister Xiaobai never goes into the mountains without getting anything. Can you honestly tell me if there is anyone here who has not eaten the prey she hunted?"
Song Wan also stood up and stood in a row with Xiao An, blocking in front of Xiao Bai, clenching her fists, her beautiful eyes blazing with fire.
She understood the old village chief's intention.
For the desperate people at this time, creating a "god" is easier to convince people than explaining things with reason.
What's more, the villagers of Longshan Village have passed down the legend of the mountain god of Longshen Mountain from generation to generation.
"Heh~" Xiaobai pushed Xiaoan and Song Wan away, "Have you said enough?"
She sneered, "I never said I would save you. Don't put your hope on me!"
It's over, I used too much force! Song Wan mourned in her heart. With her understanding of Xiao Bai, it was not easy to blackmail her morally.
"County Magistrate Gu is here!"
Someone shouted and the villagers made way for them.
The usually gentle acting county chief was now covered in mud, and his Zhongshan suit no longer looked like its original shape.
"Military Region Urgent Order! Appoint Comrade Lin Xiaobai as the Chief Commander of Emergency Rescue!"
He shook out the telegram with the blood-red seal on it. The rain immediately blurred the ink, but the handwriting of the three words "Tang Jing Mo" was so powerful that it could be seen through the back of the paper.
Xiaobai stared at the signature and suddenly sneered.
She was too familiar with the strength of the handwriting—that guy was as self-righteous and arbitrary as ever!
"Don't talk to yourself, the only one who can save you in this world is yourself!
If you really want to stay alive, everyone can find a way.
It is better to jump into the river now than to wait for others to rescue you. "
"Lin Xiaobai, Tang Jingmo has signed a military declaration to ensure that you will be the person in charge of this rescue! He also said that there must be a cause for every effect!"
Good, good, good! You will control me! Xiaobai beat Tang Jingmo a thousand times in his heart.
She naturally understood the cause and effect that Tang Jingmo talked about - if the flood was caused by the secret base underground in Longtou Cliff, then she was the "cause" of it.
"Let me be frank with you. I'm not some great ruler. I don't have the patience to listen to your opinions! If you want to live, listen to me! If you don't want to listen, get out of here and don't waste my time!"
The villagers looked at each other. Even County Magistrate Gu said so. Who would dare not listen to Xiaobai?
"Listen." She stepped on a dead fish washed up by the flood. The blue light in the fish's gills went out under her boot.
"If you want to survive, women and children should follow the wolves to the caves in the back mountain. Men should be divided into three groups - one group to carry sand and stones, the second group to drive wooden stakes, and the third group to help me block the breach."
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