Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn
Chapter 122 - 80: Catastrophe Unleashed (Third Watch)

Chapter 122: Chapter 80: Catastrophe Unleashed (Third Watch)

Black Mountain faced fierce winds and heavy rain. On the other side of the mountain, only separated by White Dragon Pond, winds howled, and rain lashed mercilessly, nearly a thousand trees snapped in half. Falling rocks cascaded like hail, and massive amounts of muddy water tumbled down from the mountaintop.

"Damn, it’s a mudslide." Yezi caught her breath and looked ahead, also startled. The mountain slopes were steep, making them prone to landslides and mudslides during the rainy season, but the villagers on both sides had responded to government calls to plant many trees in recent years. How could the trees on Leigong Mountain be so easily destroyed?

Yezi was unaware, but Xiao Xian had an inkling. In order to construct a dam, a stone dam had been built at the steepest part of the mountainside—that is, where Zhu Shijun used to train. A large number of trees were cut down for this, including the Dragon Tree.

"It’s okay, Ge Village is on the other side of the mountain, it won’t be affected," Yezi reassured Xiao Xian, her clothes still dripping with water, her eyes wide open as if in a daze.

"I must get back. Yezi, you quickly head back to the village, call for Red Locust Great Wizard, tell her... one Dragon Tree has been destroyed; she must come over," Xiao Xian bit her tongue hard to keep her mind clear.

Yezi listened, confused. What ’Dragon Juniper’? And how was Xiao Xian going to return when the suspension bridge was already broken on one side? Calling for the Red Locust Great Wizard, how would that help? What they should be doing now is having the village chief, Jin Dafu, immediately evacuate the people and take precautions against the disaster.

The more Yezi thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong. She wanted to ask more, but Xiao Xian was already out of sight. An inexplicable panic set in her heart. Hesitating for a moment, Yezi ran towards Miao Village. After running about a thousand meters, she slowed down, and eventually stopped in the rain.

"No, I can’t leave Xiao Xian alone," Yezi wiped the rain from her face, feeling a warmth at the corner of her eyes, and turned back to run.

In Ge Village, the sudden torrential rain caught the villagers off guard during dinner.

Fortunately, most families had already packed their grains into bags by evening and stacked them under the eaves of their own houses. The village chief and Zhu Shijun sat inside the house, watching the rainwater pouring down from the eaves like little waterfalls.

"Looking at the weather, Xiao Xian won’t be able to come back for a while," Zhu Shijun frowned.

"It’s okay, the mountain rains come fast and leave fast; it will stop soon. After this rain, the autumn dryness should be relieved. I’ll go down to the food procurement station tomorrow to inquire about the price; it’s better for the village’s food to be sold to the government procurement station," the village chief finished half a glass of wine, stuffed a piece of pig’s ear into his mouth, chewed a few times, then stopped: "Old man, did you hear any noise?"

"The sound of the wind and rain outside isn’t quite right. Da Fu, I think there might be a threat from over the mountain. The dam wouldn’t be in trouble, would it?" Zhu Shijun quickly took out a raincoat from inside the house. Just when the first drops of rain were falling, he already sent Sister-in-law Lian back. The howling wind blew in from the village entrance, carrying the rain with it, battering against the windows and doors. From time to time, sounds of roof tiles hitting the ground could be heard in the village."

"It shouldn’t be. A few days ago, during the autumn harvest, the party secretary still said that this year’s rice harvest was good thanks to the timely irrigation from the water in the dam, the dam seemed very well built at the time," the village chief said, no longer able to sit still, also looking for an umbrella. As soon as the door was pushed open, a gust of wind hit, even the village chief’s weather-beaten skin felt a stinging pain.

The two had to push the door closed again, bolting it with the door bar. The door still rattled with the sound of rain and wind, the door bolt brushing against the door panel, poised to be knocked open at any moment.

"Old man, do you think it could really be that the dragon energy of White Dragon Pond has been disturbed." The village chief had never experienced such a storm in decades, if it wasn’t for the fact that nearly every household in the village had built solid tiled houses, such a storm would have cost several lives.

"Now you have time to think about these things? Have you forgotten that there are still a few families living in dangerous houses in the village, all of them orphans and widows? And with such a big storm, if the packed rice gets soaked and washed away by the rain, all the efforts of the village this year will be in vain," Zhu Shijun’s thought process was very clear. When he used to be a factory director at the tobacco factory, he experienced a flood disaster. At the moment, the first thing to secure is the safety of the people, then the materials. At this time, you can’t panic; you must stabilize the morale and emotions.