Chapter 192 Natural Disasters and the End

The sun cannot be seen on rainy days. Thick cumulonimbus clouds block a lot of sunlight, but the diffusely reflected sunlight still brings some light to this disaster-stricken town.

Wubai woke up from his sleep, sat up from Leah's arms, and carefully went down the watchtower without waking her up.

Seeing Liu Yan, who was lightly dressed and carrying a shovel, already handing over the work and coordinating the next task with Zhongshan, Wubai walked over and greeted them.

"I'm going to take people to drain the water. The rain last night caused serious waterlogging in the fields here."

Liu Yan greeted Wubai and drank the thick porridge sent by the cafeteria. There were some minced meat and egg flowers floating in the thick porridge. Those were seabird eggs beaten into the meat porridge, making the meat porridge smooth and delicious.

Last night's rain caused these tens of thousands of acres of farmland to accumulate water to a greater or lesser extent. It is a troublesome project to drain the accumulated water from the farmland.

The fields have just been sown, and the seeds squeezed out of the soil to form tender seedlings. They are fragile and tender. A rain brings accumulated water to soak them, and these tender seedlings will die in the farmland.

In order to save these newly sown fields, as long as it rains, they have to drain the accumulated water from these tens of thousands of acres of fertile fields.

Investing in flood prevention also requires taking care of these fields.

They have a lot of work.

There are also many people willing to continue working. Even if the people know that there is a raging flood across the wall, they are willing to continue working.

Ji Lin divided them into two shifts, day and night, with 2,000 people on the day shift and 500 people on the night shift. The day shift needs to treat the farmland to prevent flooding, and continue to dig new canals and reservoirs for both irrigation and drainage.

At the same time, they also need some people to reinforce the existing flood embankment with soil.

The night shift has a much simpler workload, constantly patrolling the seven-kilometer-long flood embankment, and if any leaking sections are found, they will be blocked with soil and gravel.

Wubai is the captain of the guard. His mission during this period is to command and protect the entire agricultural area in crisis with Chongshan.

It has been confirmed that it is a flood disaster. Ji Lin did not hesitate to use his resources. With these five watchtowers as the center, he built a temporary camp with a kitchen, a bathhouse, and a temporary wooden house for rest.

Ji Lin frowned and stood on the flood control embankment. Overnight, the water flow had completely submerged the bridge slightly below the river bank on both sides.

This is not the worst place. The worst thing is that the wooden bridge that was submerged in water has two impact cracks. The two cracks are one-third the width of the bridge deck.

The turbulent river is not only the river water, but also mixed with some other debris, such as trees washed down by mountain torrents.

In addition, the goblins built a dam upstream, and those roots that were not destroyed by the explosives were swept up and turned into powerful kinetic ammunition flowing down the river.

The power of water is huge, and it is even more deadly when the water carries large pieces of wood.

One shot can create a huge crack in this solid bridge. If such debris hits the flood control embankment...

It is better not to do such things...

The only good news is that the river has risen and started to flood into the plain on the other side, flowing and covering it, greatly reducing the pressure of the water flow on their side.

Ji Lin can see the general shape of the water flow from the small map.

Every time the water flow moves forward on the other side, the system will remind him coldly that one of his fields has been flooded and damaged.

‘Your fields have been damaged due to floods. ’

It would be a lie to say that I don’t feel bad. Nearly a thousand acres of fields have been flooded and damaged, and the loss is equivalent to 500 gold. Fortunately, the ginger has been collected and stored after wiping off the water to prevent mold.

There is more fertile soil and more convenient water supply for reclaiming fields on the other side of the river, but they have no way to deal with natural disasters.

It is not a big problem to be able to keep the 10,000 acres of reclaimed fields on the side close to the residential area. After confirming that the flood was caused by large-scale rainfall, the fishing area on the coast can be put into work regularly to bring fish to the territory.

At the same time, when the river began to destroy his farmland, the system finally released the natural disaster progress bar.

‘Flood: Estimated duration 15 days. ’

Ji Lin saw the system give the end time, and he breathed a sigh of relief. They just need to hold on for fifteen days.

His eyes fell on the sky that still had no intention of clearing up.

For the next ten days, the sky will probably remain the same as it is now, until the end of the natural disaster - cumulonimbus clouds hover over the territory, blocking the sunlight that should have fallen, and raining from time to time.

Fortunately, he dried the wheat and rice after the autumn harvest, and returned them to the fields, and then began to improve the time. Otherwise, the continuous rain in these fifteen days alone could reduce the harvest of his territory this quarter by half, and all farming plans would be postponed for several months.

Fifteen days of rain can destroy a quarter's harvest.

If he hadn't built a canal for the territory in advance, water would have accumulated in the territory by now. The new stone road also stopped the people from being bothered by muddy grass.

A road connecting the agricultural area and the residential area allows supplies to be pulled here by trucks instead of pushing carts step by step on the muddy road to deliver supplies here.

All the preparations he had made before this were reflected at this time. At this time, the natural disaster brought by the promotion was due to his strong social organization and mobilization, so he could deal with it calmly like now.

The next days seemed to be repeated as before. At night, it would rain on time for several hours. If he was unlucky, the drizzle would turn into heavy rain.

The territory was shrouded in rain.

During the day, the people in the territory had to loosen the soil for the farmland to prevent the seeds from being suffocated in the soil, and drain the excess water.

Faced with more and more accumulated water, Ji Lin had to let the people in the territory invest some labor in digging new reservoirs. These temporary reservoirs can effectively collect the rainwater.

The river was rising day by day. Several waves of flood peaks took away the sacks piled up outside. The people tied ropes and risked their lives to go to the flood levee to fill the missing sacks. Even though there were ropes, several seriously injured people were still born because of such a dangerous action. Finally, when it was only 20 kilometers away from the top of the flood levee, it stopped rising.

This is the highest height that the water flow can rise to. No matter how high it is, it can't flood the plain on the other side.

At this time, there are still five days before the end of the 15-day countdown.

Ji Lin can already see the signs of the end of the flood season. No matter how the system guides regional disasters, the water content of an area is ultimately limited.

The speed of this river, which is full of muddy yellow, floating with a large number of branches and a small number of animal carcasses, gradually slowed down, and was no longer as fierce and violent as before.

The cumulonimbus clouds in the sky became thinner and thinner, and occasionally a ray of sunlight could be seen falling on the ground.

When the countdown came to an end, they had finally survived this long flood season.

The people in the territory began to gradually adapt to this disaster work task. In addition to eating less and working harder every day, their superiors and superiors were also working on the front line with them.

They were united, everyone was sweating, and no one would die because of the disaster.

Those few people who had complaints in their hearts did not have too much resentment when they saw that the affairs officers were also working here with them, and they did not dare to say some nonsense in front of others.

Ji Lin occasionally heard the people in the territory talking about the flood with a smile. Hidden under that smile was their joy of winning the fight against nature. They no longer needed to drag their families away from where they lived.

On the twelfth day, the cumulonimbus clouds only drizzled down on them sporadically, and sunlight occasionally shone through the increasingly thin cumulonimbus clouds.

On the thirteenth day, the turbid river water began to recede and slowly descended.

On the tenth day, the surface of the river was lower than the banks on both sides, revealing large pools and swamps on the opposite bank.

On the fifteenth day, the bridge was destroyed by the water flow and debris, leaving only the supporting structure exposed above the water, and the people cheered the end of the flood season.