Chapter 16 Commanding the Rescue
Liu Zheng didn't sleep well tonight.
As an S-level psychic power owner, she is always very sensitive to changes in the things around her. In fact, she felt that the red-haired boy named Jin and Shen Shouli seemed to have left the tent camp and walked deep into the forest.
Liu Zheng hesitated for a moment and didn't follow, continuing to lie in the tent, unable to close her eyes for a long time. As a result, she was the first to hear the thunderous sound and the rushing water. She opened the tent and walked out, her life jacket and lifebuoy already stuffed in her hands.
Although the 280 students had gathered in tents at the instructor's command, their distribution of relief supplies alone was far from sufficient to keep up with the surging river. Therefore, Xu Lingqu assigned four people different areas, with the loud-mouthed Jin in charge of watching over the two boats.
The boat had to wait until the water completely flooded over it and could float with the help of buoyancy. The water surface conditions had stabilized before carrying out underwater rescue operations to prevent the first and second waves from overturning the boat and the people. He watched while shouting, "Those who are awake put on their life jackets and lifebuoys, and climb up the tree!"
Even in the interstellar age, humans have developed a wealth of high-tech means to defend against and repair natural disasters. But without these tools, humans are still too insignificant in the face of the natural ecosystem, regardless of the era.
Fortunately, the instructors had some sense of propriety and didn't try to completely destroy the students. The water was flowing rapidly, but it was clear that the flow rate was being controlled, and the rise was not very fast.
Xu Lingqu waded through the water that had reached his calves and handed the life jacket and lifebuoy to Lin Xiao.
The people in some tents were probably completely asleep, and the nails were not hammered in properly when they set up the tents, so they just floated down along with the current.
In this situation, the only way to rescue them was to drive a boat along the shore later. Xu Lingqu quickly distributed life-saving items and told them to run into the woods and climb the trees as quickly as possible.
When she had almost distributed the items in her hands, she was running towards the woods.
A huge wave hit, and in an instant, the empty tents on the open ground were immediately swallowed up by the huge wave, as if they were eaten by a giant beast. One by one, the students who were still drowsy and climbed up the tree in a daze suddenly woke up.
If these life-saving items had not been stuffed into their hands, their fate... would probably have been swallowed up along with the tent.
Xu Lingqu held on to the tree trunk tightly and refused to let go. Before she could climb up, huge waves hit her whole body. Her wet hair stuck to her eyes and her vision was blurred, but she still held on to the tree in front of her and climbed up with difficulty under the impact of the waves.
At the same time, a window popped up on the smart brain in everyone's hand. It was a map, and everyone's real-time coordinates were updated on the map at any time.
About fifteen people were washed downstream.
"Do these instructors want us to die?"
“Why haven’t they shown up yet, and why was my life jacket given to me by Shen Shouli?”
"Is this because they didn't know the tide would rise at night and made us sleep here, or is this intentional?"
"Just because I had no money, the tryout period was turned into this mess. Why didn't I make up my mind to try seabuckthorn in the first place? Why did I have to come to this horrible school?"
The students' complaints continued, and the water level had quickly risen to Xu Lingqu's neck. She climbed up again with the help of buoyancy, and she was still unaware of the bleeding from her fingers.
The water flow rate began to slow down at this time, and the scouring force was not as strong, but Xu Lingqu's body temperature was constantly decreasing. She had to get out of the icy river water, otherwise it would be very dangerous.
At this time, Jin finally made a brilliant appearance with his two boats. Xu Xizhen, who was geographically closest to him, drove another boat and headed directly towards Xu Lingqu.
She was really eager to save her sister.
She pulled the people onto the boat. Xu Lingqu wiped the water off her face and glanced at the intelligent computer. Now, except for those who were washed away by the river, everyone else was basically staying in the trees and was basically safe.
Even if someone fell into the water due to exhaustion, she at least ensured that everyone had life-saving items.
Jin and Xu Xizhen pulled several people onto the boat who were wearing life jackets but had not yet had time to climb the tree.
At this time, it started to rain, and the raindrops as big as beans fell and hit everyone's faces. Xu Lingqu looked at the location sharing displayed on the intelligent brain. The people who were washed away were now strangely fixed in their coordinates and did not move again.
"The instructor will probably be here soon." Xu Lingqu pushed back his wet hair. The river no longer created waves to drown them, and the water level had stabilized.
The two boats and the surrounding trees were full of frightened students. Xu Lingqu looked down at the intelligent computer. If he wanted to go downstream to rescue those who were washed away, he had to confirm their location first. At this time, the coordinates of the few people who were originally washed away by the river suddenly moved, and they went upstream and rushed towards everyone.
The instructors took action. The sky was getting light, but the heavy rain was still going on.
Jin's red hair was stuck to his face. The students on his boat were sprawled out, motionless. He stood up excitedly, his eyes shining, and looked at Xu Lingqu: "If there is an end of the world, it must be like this."
Xu Lingqu did not reply. He wiped the rain off his face and looked at the horizon downstream. Soon, more than a dozen small helicopter-like aircraft appeared there.
There is a spider web-like net bag under each aircraft, which contains the people who were washed away downstream.
Following the small aircraft was the Stalker-R3 that took everyone on the jump this morning.
It changed its form, and yesterday morning it was a giant ship flying through the stars, but this morning it appeared as a giant aquatic monster.
The door of the Lurker was opened, and more than a dozen instructors cooperated in the rescue much faster than Xu Lingqu and his companions. After a while, almost all the students entered the Lurker from the trees or boats.
It was obvious that the room had been cleaned and there was a fresh fragrance. The warm air made the students, who were almost soaked, feel much better, but they all stood there like frightened birds, not daring to make any rash moves.
Xu Lingqu was the last one to board the Diver, and Instructor Kaion personally reached out and pulled her up.
"The rescue work was well done, young commander."
She grabbed his sleeve and jumped up, clapping her hands: "Remember to give me more points, instructor."
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