He raised his face, looking exhausted, and, as instructed by the company commander, smiled slightly at the camera.
At this time, Chen Dong's parents, Annie Zhou Huimin, and several of Chen Dong's sisters, who were far away in Shenzhen, had not seen Chen Dong for nearly two months.
While they were watching a CCTV report, they unexpectedly saw Chen Dong's image on CCTV's television screen.
"Is this Chen Dong?" Chen Nan was almost afraid to recognize his younger brother when he saw his face. "This is my brother?"
Zhou Huimin and Annie carefully examined it and both nodded silently.
Xiao Xinyi and Chen Xuelin recognized Chen Dong almost the instant he looked up.
"It's Chen Dong! He's been gone from Pengcheng for over a month." Xiao Xinyi said with heartache, "How could he have changed so much in such a short time?"
In the footage, Chen Dong looks haggard and tired, his skin is much darker, and his shirt and shorts are covered in mud, making it impossible to see their original color.
They assumed Chen Dong was staying in the county government office building in Poyang Lake County and had no idea he would personally go to the front lines to participate in the rescue efforts.
Chen Xuelin called Chen Dong's mobile phone from his home phone, but the call could not be connected.
“The communications at his current branch station haven’t been restored yet, so we won’t be able to contact him for a while,” Annie said to Chen’s parents through tears. “Unless Chen Dong returns to Poyang Lake County right now.”
After thinking for a moment, Zhou Huimin urgently contacted the people at Longteng, instructing them to use any means necessary to reach the hydrological station and to urge Chen Dong to withdraw from the front lines immediately.
At this moment, Chen Nan also called her husband, threatening him in her words that if he didn't personally find Chen Dong, he would be in trouble.
To accommodate downstream residents, the flood discharge procedures for Poyang Lake are extremely strict. Now the entire Poyang Lake is submerged, and the dikes that were once visible are now deeply embedded in the water. The Yangtze River is flowing into Poyang Lake, making it impossible to distinguish between lake water and river water.
Residents in the county town are constantly at risk of urban flooding. Chen Dong and his brothers in the 17th Company are like bricks in Poyang Lake, ready to be moved wherever needed.
Emergency rescue missions occur in almost every place where flash floods or mudslides have occurred, and these places are often the most dangerous. Chen Dong and his soldiers fought on the front line of disaster relief and rescue, digging out many people from mudslides, rescuing a lot of national equipment, and evacuating many people.
At this moment, the leaders and experts also saw Chen Dong and the officers and soldiers of the 17th Company of the civilian rescue team fighting together on the front line of flood control. The moment Lin Lao saw Chen Dong's figure, he was so angry that the muscles on his face kept twitching.
He ordered the military leadership to ensure Chen Dong's safety and to evacuate him from the disaster area as soon as possible.
The company commander of the 17th Company received a message from the military high command ordering the forced removal of Chen Dong. While questioning the order, he had no choice but to carry it out.
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