Chapter 27 First Rescue Rainstorm
"What's going on? How come there are only a few volunteers joining the rescue team?" The Chief Executive looked at the pile of anonymous or real-name reporting letters in his hand and asked the head of the logistics department with suppressed anger.
"Sir, this has nothing to do with us. Our people have been carrying out the rescue work. It was the Speaker who kept coming up with various excuses, which resulted in the supplies only arriving the day before yesterday. We had no choice." The head of the logistics department had already thought of an excuse and remained strong and calm.
"Nonsense!" The Chief Executive couldn't help but threw the letter in his hand over.
“If it’s really as you said, then why didn’t you report it to me earlier? I have already said that everything must give way to the rescue team.
You took eight days to report such a big thing as the lack of supplies. If someone hadn't reported it yesterday, would you still want to continue hiding it? Do you think I can't find out? You said the supplies haven't arrived, but in fact you have moved them away in the past few days!"
"Sir, I..."
"What else do you have to explain?"
"Sir, it's my fault. Please forgive me this time. I won't dare to do it again. Please give me another chance." The head of the logistics department looked at the evidence in front of him and stopped quibbling. He knelt down and begged for mercy.
The Chief Executive made a phone call, "Now! Immediately! Remove Ji Tai from his position as the head of the Logistics Department of the Northeastern Region of the Federation. He will be temporarily detained for dereliction of duty and accepting bribes. The details will be tried after the rescue is completed."
"yes."
Soon, the secretary came in with several tall soldiers and dragged Ji Tai away.
"Sir, I was wrong! Sir, I was wrong! Please give me another chance!" Ji Tai was reluctant to leave but unable to resist.
The usually high-handed head of the logistics department was in such a state of disgrace that no one sympathized with him. Everyone knew that if he had to do it again, he would do the same thing.
After everyone left, the secretary wanted to say something but didn't know where to start, "Sir..."
The Chief Executive sat in a chair wearily, pressing his forehead, "You worm! It's already this hour, and you still don't forget to embezzle!"
The secretary said nothing, but silently lowered his head to pick up the documents scattered on the floor.
"Zhu Mulin, Su Ke, and Wang Yiyi, right?" Tang Mingli saw three people crowded at the window on the sixth floor of Building No. 1.
Qiao Qiao glanced at her after hearing this. Now that the internet and power were cut off, how did she know the name...
"Yes." The three of them nodded quickly.
"Jump down, slowly." Tang Mingli carefully steered the rubber boat over.
The three of them looked at each other.
"Ladies first, you go down first." Zhu Mulin said first.
"Thank you." Su Ke and Wang Yiyi took out a rope, tied it to the stair handrail, and slowly climbed down along it.
Five minutes later, all three were safely on board.
"Let's go." Following Tang Mingli's words, everyone left the community together.
Staring at the scene before them, everyone finally realized what was happening.
The flood has submerged most of the streets, leaving only the tops of some tall buildings above water.
Occasionally you can see a few animal carcasses floating on the water, but there is more floating garbage and debris.
"Ah!" Wang Yiyi suddenly screamed.
"Ah!" Wang Yiyi suddenly screamed.
Everyone immediately became alert and looked over, only to see several corpses that had become giants floating in the distance.
"Everyone be careful! Don't get close to them!" Tang Mingli quickly reminded loudly.
Her voice was a little faint amid the noisy engine and rain, but everyone could hear it clearly.
Qiao Qiao's face turned pale, and he clenched his fists, forcibly suppressing the fear and nausea in his heart.
This is just the beginning, she must adapt to the cruelty of the doomsday as soon as possible.
The Qiao family's speedboat followed closely behind.
Qiao Xinghe has been obsessed with fishing in recent years, and his driving skills have been improving steadily.
The sky was gloomy and covered with dark clouds. The rainstorm was much lighter than the previous few days, but it still hurt like a stone when it hit people.
Qiao Qiao found that there were many more rescue workers today than in the past few days. Some rescue teams were interspersed on the road looking for victims.
Due to the lack of boats, they were even made to sit on wooden boards, while they swam and pushed underwater.
As time passed, they gradually approached the federal building.
The distance that was supposed to take ten minutes to walk took more than half an hour to drive.
Since the federal government moved to the new district two years ago, all facilities are currently the most advanced and the buildings are as high as thirty stories.
Temporary flood barriers have been built around the federal building, and some staff are busy moving supplies and equipment.
At the entrance of the building, several uniformed soldiers were checking people entering.
The speedboat and rubber boat slowly approached the shore, and everyone jumped onto the flood embankment together.
Tang Mingli took out his ID and handed it to one of the soldiers, "These six are the registered rescue workers."
The soldiers briefly checked and let them in after finding nothing amiss.
"I'll take you to report to the tenth floor." Tang Mingli said.
The federal building was brightly lit and every office was busy.
Now the entire city and even the entire country is without water and electricity. Even the federal generators and diesel are limited in number, and only the most necessary offices and conference rooms are supplied with electricity.
The huge federal building only had one elevator, which was only used by the leaders. If they wanted to go to the tenth floor, they had to climb the stairs.
The tenth floor was packed with soldiers, police, and many people in civilian clothes.
Qiao Qiao and the others were taken into a conference room.
"These six are the rescue workers who signed up. Tang Zhijie, Qiao Qiao, Qiao Xinghe, Qiao Huizhou, Zhu Mulin, Su Ke, and Wang Yiyi."
After Tang Mingli reported to the staff, he added in a low voice, "Among them, Tang Zhijie, Qiao Qiao, Qiao Xinghe, and Qiao Huizhou will choose contribution points."
"Come back in the evening to get the supplies." The staff looked at them after hearing this. The names of the others were written on the ordinary registration form.
The names of the four people who chose contribution points were written separately in a black-covered book.
Qiao Qiao took a look at the notebook and felt that it looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where it was for a moment.
"Let's go." Qiao Qiao and others followed Tang Mingli back to the sixth floor.
After completing all the documents, each of the six people received a card similar to a student ID card. The front side had "Northeast District of Fei Country" written on it, and each person's name and time of joining were written in waterproof pen on the back. There was no other information.
In special times, non-essential things have no need to exist.
After everything happened last night, it was almost half past seven.
At this time, the sixth floor was filled with teams of people wearing rescue suits who were about to set out.
"The eight of us are divided into two teams. I, Qiao Qiao, Zhu Mulin, and Qiao Huizhou are in one team, and Tang Zhijie, Qiao Xinghe, Su Ke, and Wang Yiyi are in another team.
Our rescue location is Yangguang County next to the new district. We have already relocated people to the city center a few days ago. This time, our mission target is other places, and we will relocate the remaining people to the resettlement site.”
"Understood!" everyone responded.
Qiao Qiao's team used the Tang family's rubber boat, and the other team, led by Qiao Xinghe, used a speedboat.
There are a large number of rescue teams on the road. Unlike volunteers like them, many official personnel work on rescue almost 24 hours a day without rest.
"It turns out that the Federation has been rescuing them all along. I thought they had given up." Su Ke said after seeing this scene.
"Yes, I have hardly seen any rescue teams during this period. I only occasionally see people from the Federation busy, and I don't know what they are busy with." Wang Yiyi replied.
The others didn't say anything, but they all agreed in their hearts.
What they didn't know was that the rescue team they saw was not the same department as the one they had seen at home. Since the appearance of the gray fog, the federation has gradually divided into three forces.
Currently, the dominant force is the ordinary federal staff headed by the Chief Executive; the second is the force headed by the Speaker who does not care about the affected residents and takes the lead in controlling a large amount of supplies; the last is the Special Management Bureau, which owns most of the doomsday card drawing systems although it is still very weak, but still should not be underestimated.
The people busying around before us are those from the Chief Executive's lineage, and those seen before are those from the Speaker's faction who have never given up on supplies.
Yangguang County is a small county town under City A, less than 40 kilometers away. It usually takes half an hour to get there, but now it should take two hours.
The county town suffered much more severely than the city. Almost half of the city was submerged in water, with only a few buildings over 10 stories high standing in the vast ocean.
"Our mission today is to search and rescue from Yidao Street to Sandao Street. Follow me closely!" Tang Mingli shouted loudly.
"Received!" The people on Qiao Xinghe's boat replied.
The road is not wide, it is a double lane, and normally it can accommodate two ships passing side by side, but now the roadside is full of garbage.
After the water level rose, the toilets upstairs could no longer be used. People could only relieve themselves in plastic bags. Some people were more unethical and walked downstairs to throw the bags into the water. More people chose to throw objects from high places.
The two boats moved forward along the road. Tang Mingli took out a loudspeaker with pre-recorded sound and handed it to Qiao Qiao.
Qiao Qiao took the speaker and pressed the switch. A clear and powerful voice echoed in the rain: "We are the rescue team sent by the A City Federation. If there are still survivors who need rescue, please send us a signal and we will rush to you immediately!"
Although the rain has weakened compared to the previous few days, the visibility is still greatly affected.
Qiao Qiao held the horn tightly and scanned the surroundings attentively, not missing any possible distress signals.
Under the control of Tang Mingli and Qiao Xinghe, the rubber boats and speedboats carefully bypassed floating obstacles and garbage and moved forward slowly.
"Here! Help!"
Everyone heard a sound coming from somewhere, but there were too many interfering sounds and they couldn't locate it accurately for a while, so they could only look around.
"Look over there!"
Su Ke suddenly pointed to an almost submerged building on the left, where someone seemed to be waving a bright cloth.
Tang Mingli immediately adjusted the direction and the rubber boat accelerated towards that side.
As they approached, they found a group of residents trapped in a five-and-a-half-story attic.
The water level was approaching the windows and the situation was extremely critical.
Tang Mingli and Qiao Qiao quickly moved the rubber boat close to the window, and Tang Zhijie and Qiao Xinghe also moved the speedboat over.
“Help!”
"Woo woo, you guys are finally here. I thought the Federation didn't care about us anymore!"
"Why are you here so late? If you were one day later we would have been drowned!"
"Hahahaha, I survived!"
Dozens of people crowded around the windows, crying and shouting.
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