Chapter 826 The Water Has Arrived
Feng Tianyu leaned closer to Ye Wanxi again, smiling, and asked, "May I ask if Junior Sister is willing to give her this opportunity?"
Ye Wanxi blushed, trying her best to suppress the upturned corners of her mouth, and asked in return, "She can't wait, what about you?"
"Of course I'm even more anxious than she is."
"There's no use in being anxious." Ye Wanxi raised her chin arrogantly and said smugly, "It depends on your performance. Auntie is right, study the script carefully and don't hold us back. Points will be deducted from your score, and the lower the score, the longer the time will be. You decide what to do."
Feng Tianyu stared at Ye Wanxi's profile, but smiled without saying a word.
Wait, wait a little longer, until the day he officially marries his junior sister...
Thinking of this, Feng Tianyu unconsciously recalled the scene he saw in the Yin-Yang Mirror Illusion.
The junior sister, dressed in a bright red wedding gown, sat on the bed, waiting for him to lift her veil.
While Ye Wanxi was busy filming, the situation in the water town also changed.
The instructions given by Xiao Yingyu that day were to come a week later. Captain Nie reacted immediately upon learning of this, and Xiao Baihui was quick to act as well, immediately arranging for people to come down and help.
The town spontaneously locked down and organized the evacuation of people. It took two full days to persuade most people to leave. On the third day, it started to drizzle in the water town.
The fourth day was sunny, the fifth day was sunny, and the sixth day was also sunny. This made the people who were closely following the situation in the water town, especially the locals who were unwilling to leave their homes, very anxious. Some people even began to stir up trouble.
However, no one expected that on the night of the sixth day, accompanied by a sudden strong sea wind, lightning and thunder, large buckets of rain fell from the sky.
All of this happened in less than three hours, spanning the early hours of the morning.
As the rain intensified, the rivers surrounding the town began to swell rapidly.
The town's waterways are interconnected, and when the water level rises outside the town, the water level in the town's waterways naturally rises as well.
Every town's drainage system has its upper limit. Generally, when designing a city, this upper limit is taken into account and set as high as possible.
However, no matter how high you set it, there is still a limit. Once this limit is exceeded, the entire town's drainage system will go out of control.
Especially since this town is located right next to a major river, if the drainage system goes out of control, it will face the risk of river water backflow.
Therefore, when the torrential rain started, everyone who had been paying attention to this place was on tenterhooks.
Before this, Xiao Baihui had tried to find ways to increase the drainage capacity of the area and raise the town's dam.
But as it turns out, it is nothing short of a pipe dream for humans to think they can overcome a sudden and massive natural disaster in a short period of time.
The rain started on the night of the sixth day and by the morning of the seventh day, it had already flooded the riverbanks. The rain continued without stopping, and by the afternoon, the water had submerged some houses in slightly lower-lying areas and continued to rise.
Meanwhile, local discussions about the flood quickly rose to the top of the trending topics list.
#Sudden flash flood in L city, H province, depths exceeding two-story buildings, unseen in a century#
#Famous water town flooded; residents evacuated early, no casualties reported#
Not long ago, netizens were subtly criticizing the water town for turning away tourists, but now they are completely dumbfounded. As soon as they clicked in, they saw a group of locals already chatting enthusiastically inside.
I was wrong, I was wrong. I shouldn't have disbelieved those staff members who earnestly tried to persuade us to leave. If they hadn't insisted we go, my whole family would probably be dead by now. I even cursed them online before; I really shouldn't have done that.
[Sisters, let's hug! I shouldn't be adding one more comment. I was just lashing out online a couple of days ago, and now my face feels burning hot and really hurts.]
[Who could have imagined that just two days ago it was sunny and bright, and suddenly there was thunder, lightning, and torrential rain—it felt like the end of the world. Waaah, my grandpa said that in the rush to evacuate, he didn't take a lot of things with him, and now everything is soaked in water. It breaks my heart.]
In this kind of situation, it's already a blessing that no one is hurt; any other losses are just losses in the grand scheme of things. Didn't you see the latest update? A landslide has occurred; just imagine if we were still there...
That's right, the mountain behind the water town just experienced a large-scale mudslide and landslide.
This situation is not accidental. In the past twenty years, especially in the last ten years, the tourism industry in the water town has developed unprecedentedly. Although it has boosted the local economy, it has also caused some damage to the environment of the water town.
In particular, the large mountain behind their town was over-exploited. Although some locals later realized that this could not continue, they advocated returning farmland to forest and factories to forest.
But whether it's trees or vegetation, regrowth takes time.
They were caught off guard by the torrential rain before they could even reach that timeframe.
This reminder caused many locals to feel uneasy.
Their town is said to be surrounded by water on three sides and backed by mountains on one side, but in reality it is just a slightly larger island, and people can only get in and out by boat.
If they were still in town and hadn't evacuated, escaping by boat would be impossible; with such strong winds and waves, sailing would be tantamount to suicide.
They're either stuck at home or running to higher ground right now.
Where is considered high? Naturally, it's the high mountain they're backing.
Now that the rain has caused landslides, those who don't run will die, and those who do run will also die; it's truly a dead end.
Those who were unable to travel to the town due to the lockdown felt alarmed upon seeing the discussions among the crowd.
Goodness, is there really a flood? This is the first time I've ever heard of an island being submerged.
[It's precisely because it's an island that it's more prone to flooding. It's located by water; a slight rise in tide could easily engulf the city. It's happened before.]
[I was a little angry when my trip was canceled, but now I should really thank the travel agency. Otherwise, I might not have been able to come back. Speaking of which, have they figured out some secret method for detecting natural disasters? Knowing about the floods so far in advance and organizing the evacuation is truly amazing.]
Does anyone think this is related to what happened in Beicheng? It seems like Beicheng was also hit by a sudden earthquake that triggered a tsunami. People were evacuated early, and there weren't any major casualties.
I remember this whole thing involved Ye Wanxi, which cemented her reputation as a fortune teller. Do you think she might be involved in this too? After all, she recently filmed a variety show there, turning it into a popular tourist destination and attracting tons of visitors.
(End of this chapter)
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