Because one end of the zipline was fixed to the observation platform and the other end was fixed to the newly built embankment, the militiaman was thrown to the shore by inertia after he was thrown down.
"Quickly, save them!"
The truck driver was rescued. Because four trucks were thrown down into the small gap that was being closed, the gap was raised by nearly 8 meters. Chen Dong fell from the observation platform and landed right on the sandbags on the truck.
"Chen Dong!" Afang shouted, "Quickly grab the front of the car!"
The water was still searching for a gap to flow into Poyang Lake. Chen Dong stood on the dump truck. He staggered to his feet and was about to run when he suddenly felt something heavy pulling at his feet.
Chen Dong looked down and saw a pair of hands reaching out from the floodwaters.
"It's the company commander!"
Chen Dong instinctively pulled the man up, and when he saw that it was the company commander who had just driven the dump truck into the water, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"These little bastards, do they want me to die even faster?" The company commander had just climbed onto the cab of the dump truck and, after catching his breath, couldn't help but complain.
It turned out that the company commander had just driven the third vehicle down, and when the fourth vehicle rushed up, the company commander had just opened the door underwater. The last vehicle crashed onto the third vehicle, and the company commander, who was clinging to the outside of the door, was instantly pushed down two or three meters. However, it was precisely because the fourth vehicle blocked the flood that the company commander was not swept away by the flood.
Although the dam has been closed, some water is still lurking and trying to widen the gap.
"Let's get to the other side first." Without waiting for a reply, Chen Dong grabbed the company commander's hand and climbed towards Afang and the other soldiers.
Once everyone was ashore, the soldiers threw all the remaining sandbags back onto the spot where the dump trucks were.
They didn't know how long they threw it, but when there was no reaction from either the lake or the river, they finally gave up.
The group waited on the shore for another half hour. Seeing that no breach had been made, they were relieved and decided to return to the county committee to rest.
"Boss Chen! I really admire you. Just now on that observation platform, you first brought all the militiamen to our side, and then you almost got swept away by the flood yourself."
On the way back, the company commander kept praising Chen Dong, "Tell me, how did you come up with the idea of connecting the observation platform and the dike with a zipline?"
"These are all solutions we came up with on the spot. We were forced to do this because of the flood, weren't we?" Chen Dong smiled, but his smile revealed his exhaustion.
The company commander sighed after hearing his words, "It's not easy for a big boss like you to come and fight the flood in person."
Upon returning to the county committee, Chen Dong first took out his phone to check the communications, and unsurprisingly, there was no signal again.
"When will this communications station be repaired?" The company commander tried to contact the troops using the county party committee office's phone, but to no avail.
The county committee's headquarters staff replied, "We have several communication stations in our county. The communication at the Hukou station on Poyang Lake has been restored, and the other communication stations are being repaired."
"However, there is no signal now, mainly because the communications in the neighboring county have also been cut off."
"A communication station needs to be connected to form a network to be useful. Even if we fix it on our side, we still can't make calls."
Fang sighed as she held her phone.
She and Chen Dong were each holding a cell phone, but later at the clinic, Chen Dong handed the phone to Afang's assistant so that she could contact the people from Longteng.
“My assistant can’t find us, so he’ll probably go back to the clinic. Why don’t we go to the clinic and check on Secretary Liu while we’re at it?” Afang suggested.
Chen Dong nodded. "That's the only way."
The two hurriedly arrived at the clinic. Four or five hours had passed since they left. Master Zhou was sitting at the entrance of the clinic.
"Master Zhou, has the doctor arrived?" Chen Dong asked.
Master Zhou suddenly stood up and replied, "Not yet. Your... assistant, right? The assistant said that due to the bad weather, there are no flights to Poyang Lake. The only doctor he can find can come by train, and they have been on the train for three hours now."
"After two more transfers, it will take at least another hour."
Chen Dong and A Fang looked like they understood, and they went into the clinic to check on Secretary Liu's condition.
"The person is still unconscious." Master Zhou followed behind them.
At this moment, the assistant next to Secretary Liu saw Chen Dong and A Fang arrive and quickly stood up to greet them.
He handed Chen Dong's phone back to him. "Boss, the people from Longteng just called and said that the Soros Group is selling Hong Kong dollars on both the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. They are not selling on the Hong Kong stock market, but the stock market has already been affected. Many private capital and third-party financial institutions are also following suit and selling Hong Kong dollars."
"Manager Ma asked me to ask you whether we should continue to remain silent or increase the trading volume of heavyweight stocks?"
Chen Dong took the phone, quickly opened the screen and looked at it, only to find that there was still no signal.
“There is no signal in the clinic,” the assistant quickly explained. “When I answered the phone just now, I had to run about 3 kilometers away before I could get a signal.”
Hearing this, Afang became even more worried. "International speculators have already taken action. Now we are trapped in the mainland, with information blocked. There is no way we can contact them at any time."
She said this in order to get Chen Dong to return to Longteng as soon as possible, but after hearing her words, Chen Dong silently put his phone back in his pocket.
Seeing that he didn't seem inclined to contact Ma Guoliang, Afang asked curiously, "International hedge funds have officially made their move. Aren't you planning to go back to Hong Kong?"
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