Chapter 221 The Flood of Life and Death
Lu Jinping wanted to struggle, and went to the stern of the boat to see what happened. He stretched out his hand to support him, but unexpectedly, he was just standing on a round and elastic thing. Yun Zi screamed in shock, "Oh, you're so desperate?" He slapped Lu Jinping in the face.
The slap was not strong enough. She was not in a hurry to push Lu Jinping's hand that was still holding her chest away, but instead waved him. She really didn't figure out which one is more important, or she didn't want to figure it out at all.
Lu Jinping then said sorry, withdrew his hand, grabbed the boat gang and sat up. At this moment, a flash of lightning flashed over. At this moment, what he saw couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. A giant tree slowly drifted downwards with their boat. At the same time, half of the oar was inserted diagonally on the trunk.
Oh no! Lu Jinping shouted inwardly, did the trunk of the drifting tree smash the oars at the stern of his boat? Then the ship will lose its motivation.
Lu Jinping quickly struggled, grabbed the side of the boat and staggered to the stern, and saw that half of the oars were missing.
At the same time, he felt that the water surface was growing up while his feet were stepping on, much faster than before the rainwater was poured down, and he couldn't help but panic and quickly squatted down to check it out, but at this moment, there was no lightning, and the boat was pitch black and I couldn't see what was going on. I could only touch it with my hands. In this mode, my heart was half cold. It turned out that the stern of the boat had been cracked by the big tree, and the water was constantly pouring into the cabin.
Lu Jinping was a little panicked. He subconsciously wanted to tell Yunzi behind him the news, but he stopped immediately when he said something. At this time, it was not messy. Telling this news would only make her nervous and would not help. He was about to stand up, but when his palm felt something seemed to be messy in the water, which surprised him again.
He picked it up and looked in front of him, and found that there was a lot of scum in his hand. The water of Tongzhou River was as clear as a mirror. Where did so many scum come from? She reached out in horror and fished a hand outside the cabin. The place where she started was still full of scum.
He picked it up and put it in front of him to identify it carefully, and at this moment, a lightning flash in the sky in the distance passed through the sky, clearly illuminating the surroundings. He finally saw clearly. In his palm were branches, shrubs and some mixed roots!
And this lightning bolt attracted Yunzi's gaze, whose original attention was focused on Lu Jinping, to the river surface. She screamed in surprise, stood up in panic, and said, "Brother, the river water is so muddy, there is something messy, is it... a flood? "
Mountain torrents, floods?
At this time, lightning streaks passed by, and Lu Jinping soon discovered that the direction of the lightning was in the upper reaches of the Tongzhou River. It was originally far away and could not be seen clearly. But now, he was moving quickly towards their heads.
That is to say, there was heavy rain in the upper reaches of Tongzhou, and the rainfall was probably even heavier than them, which made the Tongzhou River rise rapidly, which was what he had worried about before. He had told Governor Feng, wondering if Governor Feng had taken measures? He had no time to think about those things now. What he wanted to think about was how to save the lives of the two of them, because their ship had lost its power, no oars, and the stern was hit and cracked, and water continued to flow in.
It is urgent to escape from danger as soon as possible.
Summon the snow sculptures like the wind!
Lu Jinping took out the bamboo flute left to him from his arms, held it in his mouth, and blew it hard. The silent flute sound penetrated the darkness and spread far away.
Although this sound cannot be heard, Lu Jinping could feel it pierced the sky and flew to the end of the night, summoning the snow sculpture that once saved him like the wind.
However, what he unexpectedly expected was that he had never seen the snow sculptures like the wind.
Lu Jinping looked up at the sky and saw lightning break through the darkness. The rumbling thunder sounded like thousands of horses galloping overhead. Lightning shot straight from the clouds, piercing the night and extending to the rolling river surface. One after another, forming a series of terrifying power grids. Lu Jinping had never seen such a terrifying scene before. He suddenly thought that there were lightning everywhere now, and ferrets flying in the air may be hit by lightning. It is likely that it was because the snow sculptures did not dare to come to save him for safety.
At this time, Yunzi hurriedly said behind, "What's going on?"
"Don't be afraid, it may be that the water has risen, so let's hurry up and paddle to the shore."
Yunzi said, "Then you row the oars quickly."
Lu Jinping walked to her side and said in a deep voice: "The one who hit our boat just now was a big tree, which broke the oar behind our boat. We can only use the oar to support the boat to the shore. You can paddle with your hands or find a wooden board. Don't worry, this river is not too wide, we will be able to reach the shore soon."
Lu Jinping grabbed the boat pole, picked it up, and inserted it into the water. However, he reached the end of the boat pole, but he still couldn't penetrate it to the end, and his heart was cold.
It seems that the flood caused the river water level to skyrocket, which means that the boat poles can no longer help.
Lu Jinping let go of the boat pole. What's the useless thing to keep it? His hand was slapped on the wall, looking for a wooden board or something, but there were only branches of big and small size.
Yunzi rowed the boat with a wooden bucket scooping water, and pulled it a few times, and said to Lu Jinping in horror: "I feel that the boat leaks? There is a lot of water in it, and it doesn't rain so quickly."
Yunzi said, while taking back the scoop of water from his hand and trying hard to scoop out the water. Lu Jinping knew that he could not hide it, so he had to say in a deep voice: "The collision just now had already cracked the stern of the boat. The boat had already entered the water. We had to swim to the shore."
The water scoop in Yunzi's hand fell into the water in the cabin with a bang, and his voice trembled, saying, "But, I, I don't know how to be watery."
Lu Jinping pulled the wine bag tied to her waist and put it in her arms, saying, "Hold this wine bag tightly and you won't sink. I will pull you to the shore. My water quality is not the best, but there is still no problem crossing this river, don't worry."
Most of the entire ship was flooded with water, and the water soaked into their knees.
The thunder in the sky had already rolled over their heads, and at the same time, lightning also illuminated the surroundings. Yunzi looked at Lu Jinping, suddenly threw down his wine bag, rushed over and hugged him tightly, hugged his neck, and said, "It's all my fault for being so willful and dragging you down. Wait a while before the ship sinks, don't worry about me, swim ashore by yourself, have you heard?"
Lu Jinping hugged her slim waist and said, "How could I abandon you? Even if I die together, I can't leave you!"
A bright smile appeared on Yunzi's face, and his eyes were brightly looking at him. Suddenly, she raised her feet and kissed Lu Jinping's mouth.
The kiss was filled with affection, and the storm was overshadowed at this moment.
However, before Lu Jinping could taste the sweetness of Yunzi's fragrant tongue, the hull finally sank into the water completely, and the two of them were also soaked in the river.
Yunzi couldn't water, but Lu Jinping held her armpit and said, "Don't worry, I'm there."
While he said, he tied two wine bags one by one to Yunzi's chest and back, held her half of her body to the surface, and then grabbed the wine bag with his hands and began to paddle to the riverside.
Yunzi was half of his body above the river water, and then calmed down a little, and said with a forced smile: "Your idea is still high. At first, I didn't know what you were doing with two wine bags? Now I know that there are such benefits. If I had known, we should have brought a few more."
"Haha, I'll drag you to the shore, you don't have to worry about it, it's very safe, but you should pay attention to the branches and trunks floating down the river and don't be hit."
Yunzi nodded and said, "Okay, don't worry, I'll observe. Just paddle. When you reach the riverside, I will remind you, ah? Where is the shore?"
Yunzi's words were horrified because a dazzling lightning flashed through the night sky, but she couldn't see the river bank that should be just not far away.
Another lightning flashed by, and Lu Jinping looked into the distance, and his heart skipped a beat, because after looking at it, he could only see the vast river surface, and the river bank could no longer be seen.
The river bank is not very wide. Not to mention looking forward from the middle of the river, you can still clearly see the scenery on the other side of the river even if you look at it on the other side. However, now there are vast floods everywhere, and you can't see any scenery on the riverside. Apart from the surging floods, it seems that the world is involved in a torrent.
What's going on? Lu Jinping's heart skipped a beat, and then he quickly realized that it must have been flooded with both sides of the river bank after the flood surged. Because the terrain in Tongzhou is relatively flat, only a few dozen miles away can there be mountains. The river valley of Tongzhou is almost all low and low hills, especially the downstream of Tongzhou is wider. If the flood surges and overflows, it will soon be flooded with miles of both sides of the river.
I have never encountered this flood before. Lu Jinping was so nervous that he could not see the shore, so how could he get ashore? Now he has no choice but to continue pushing his wine bag to cut across the direction of the river flowing toward the other side. In this way, moving slowly will always be on the shore.
However, Lu Jinping soon discovered that his water quality was not enough in the rolling flood. The complexity of the water situation was far beyond his imagination. He used to only swim in the swimming pool or the Qingqing River water. The river water was relatively gentle, while the flood was undercurrents. The river surface might look calm, but under the water surface was various turbulent turbulent flows, which kept sucking his body under the water. Fortunately, he kept holding two round wine bags to ensure that his body did not sink into the water, otherwise he would have been buried under the water.
The turbulent and complex water flow not only violently ripped Lu Jinping from below, but also crazily ravaged the two wine bags and Yunzi on the wine bags on the river.
Lu Jinping found that in the torrent, it was almost impossible for him to push the wine bag smoothly in one direction, because the water flow was chaotic and turbulent, which made the action of his kicking water very small. Only then did he realize how small humans are in front of nature. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!