Chapter 38: The Dam Has Broken
"This bottle costs 500 points, which is not much in total. The mayor specially asked someone to bring it here for emergency use."
After listening to the nurse's explanation, Xu Xinxin calmed down, took out a thin scarf from the space, wrapped her head tightly, and then left the tent.
When I walked onto the levee again, there were more people.
Most people still work in teams of three or five, jogging along to carry bags of earth or loose soil.
But there were more old grandpas and grandmas on the roadside, with children of a few years old, guarding a big pot and scooping ginger soup and hot porridge for people to drink.
“Gurgle gurgle…”
After working all night, Xu Xinxin smelled the porridge and ginger and suddenly felt hungry.
The old lady standing nearby heard her stomach growling and immediately waved at her: "Girl, come and have some hot porridge to warm your stomach. It's all free."
"Okay, thanks grandma."
Xu Xinxin responded, and the five or six-year-old girl standing next to the old lady immediately took out a clean porcelain bowl with a little chip on it and asked her, "Big sister, do you want white porridge or ginger soup?"
"Let's have plain porridge."
Ginger soup doesn’t taste good to begin with, and the soup made with mutant ginger tastes a bit bitter just by smelling it, so she decided not to drink it.
The old lady scooped a large bowl of porridge and handed it to her, saying, "There are pickles on the side. Would you like some too?"
"Um."
A bowl of warm white porridge with pickles. Xu Xinxin stirred the porridge with wooden chopsticks and drank it in small sips.
This white porridge is made from mutant rice. It doesn’t taste very good, but it is very warming.
She had just finished half of her bowl of porridge when the person in charge last night saw her and came over in a hurry.
"Why are you here? Is the fever gone? Why are you running around?"
While talking to Xu Xinxin, he turned to the old lady and said, "Grandma, come on, give me a bowl of this too."
"Okay, wait a moment, I'll wash this bowl first, it will be quick." said the old lady.
Next to the white porridge, there was a bamboo basket filled with some unwashed bowls.
Next to it, there were two basins of clean water, both in large plastic basins. The old lady soaked the bowl next to it in one basin of clean water, squatted down and washed a bowl.
The freshly washed bowl was filled with white porridge, still steaming. The person in charge took it and immediately slurped it twice, then said to Xu Xinxin, "You are too weak, you'd better not run around."
"I drank the medicine and I'm feeling fine now." Xu Xinxin said.
When the person in charge heard her say "medicine", he knew what it was. He took another sip of porridge and nodded: "Okay, after you finish the porridge, you should follow me and don't run around."
"no problem!"
Unlike yesterday, most of the cargo carried by trucks today was loose soil or sand, with very few bags of soil.
The person in charge explained: "The soil bags are almost used up. Trucks are going to farther places to load rice and soybeans. These loose soils without bags can also hold up for a while."
As he was talking, he asked someone to open the door of the carriage, and suddenly turned around and asked her: "How much soil can you load at a time?"
ah?
Being asked this question suddenly, Xu Xinxin thought about it carefully and said, "Four or five carriages of soil, it should be no problem."
Her space was about the size of a classroom, and the things she put in it didn't take up much volume, so she should be able to fit in a lot of soil.
Xu Xinxin said a conservative number, but the person in charge was surprised and said, "Girl, you have a good talent. The space is so big."
"It's OK. It's OK."
She had just awakened her superpowers a few days ago. If she hadn't upgraded her superpowers, it would only be two cubes now.
"Then hurry up and load this car, then follow me to other cars."
"Okay."
Xu Xinxin followed the person in charge and loaded five carriages of soil in a row, almost filling up the space. Then he followed him and jogged towards the dam.
As they ran, the person in charge explained to her, "These loose soils are most effective in the hands of earth-type psychics. I'll take you to identify the person, and then you can just deliver soil to that earth-type psychic."
"Okay," Xu Xinxin nodded as she listened.
The two of them jogged along.
A sound of "Ah".
Just as they ran up the levee, there was a sudden splash of water nearby and screams from people nearby.
Even the dam shook violently.
Xu Xinxin's heart also trembled along with the shaking of the dam.
She couldn't help but stop and look back to see what was happening next to her.
As soon as she turned around, she saw an irregular "ice wall" next to her, standing directly on the edge of the dam.
If you look closely, this ice wall appears to be shaped like waves.
“Again!”
Just as she was thinking this, she heard someone shouting next to her.
The next second, two people next to the dam waved their hands vigorously, and the waves in the river suddenly rose high.
“Crack, crack…”
At the moment the waves rose, several people raised their hands at the same time to touch the waves.
Almost in an instant, the water splashes condensed and froze, and the ice patterns spread all the way until all the waves were completely frozen.
Another ice wall that looks like a work of art appeared again next to the dam.
Xu Xinxin was greatly shocked and opened her mouth, not knowing what words to use to describe what she was seeing.
Sure enough, people with special powers can play a big role in flood prevention work.
The person in charge also stopped and took a look, then retracted his gaze and said, "It's all right here. The cracks on the dam have been blocked by ice-type mutants. Let's go quickly."
"Oh well."
Xu Xinxin's heart was still tied to the ice wall. She couldn't help but look back again, but her body honestly followed it.
After jogging all the way, the person in charge finally brought Xu Xinxin to the destination.
Xu Xinxin looked at the person in front of her and asked in surprise: "Xia Runlin, why are you here?"
That’s right, the earth-type mutant that the person in charge asked Xu Xinxin to connect with was Xia Runlin.
"Sister, why are you here too?"
Sun Kunpeng also came over to Xia Runlin. When she saw Xu Xinxin, her face was filled with surprise.
"So you two know each other?" The person in charge looked at both sides and didn't ask any more questions. He just said, "It's the best that you know each other. Girl, you will be responsible for transporting soil for him. I'll leave now."
"Okay, no problem."
As soon as Xu Xinxin nodded, the person in charge waved at them and ran away.
Only then did Xu Xinxin turn around and look at Xia Runlin formally.
Different from his previous image of a "sunshine boy", Xia Runlin's face was serious at this moment, giving people an invisible sense of oppression.
"I'm sorry to bother you here. How much soil did you bring this time?"
As soon as Xia Runlin opened his mouth, even though he said the polite word "trouble", he still gave people a strong sense of oppression. Xu Xinxin subconsciously became serious, and Sun Kunpeng next to him did not dare to interrupt.
She immediately replied: "I have five cartloads of soil."
"Take out two carriages first."
"OK."
As soon as Xu Xinxin heard Xia Runlin's words, he immediately reached out and took out the loose soil from two carriages.
"Click!"
At this moment, the waves in the river rushed onto the dam fiercely, and a crack appeared on the dam in front of them instantly!
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