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.

Wu Bai woke up from his sleep, sat up from Leah's arms, and carefully did not wake her up, and went down the watchtower.

Seeing Liu Yansheng, who was lightly dressed and carrying a shovel, already handing over work and assigning the next tasks to Chongshan who had arrived, Wu Bai walked over and greeted them.

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

Liu Yansheng greeted Wu Bai 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 fields to accumulate water to a greater or lesser extent. It is a troublesome project to drain the accumulated water from the farmland.

In the fields that have just been sown, the seeds squeezed out their tender shoots from the soil. They were fragile and tender. The accumulated water brought by a rain soaked them, and these tender shoots would die in the farmland.

In order to save these newly sown fields, as long as it rained, they had to drain the accumulated water from these ten thousand acres of fertile fields.

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

They have a lot of work to do.

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 the field from being flooded, and continue to dig new canals and reservoirs, both for later irrigation and for drainage during this period.

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

The workload of the night shift is much simpler. They constantly patrol the seven-kilometer-long flood control embankment and block it with soil and gravel if they find a leaking section.

As the captain of the guard, Wubai's task 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, so Ji Lin did not hesitate to use the resources in his hands. He built a temporary camp with these five watchtowers as the center, with a kitchen, a bathhouse, and a temporary wooden house for rest.

Ji Lin frowned and stood on the flood control embankment. In one night, the water flow had completely submerged the bridge slightly lower than the river bank on both sides.

This is not the worst place. The worst thing is that two impact gaps appeared on the flooded wooden bridge at some point. The length of the two cracks is one-third of the width of the bridge deck.

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

There are also dams built by goblins upstream. The foundation parts that have not been destroyed by explosives are rolled up and turned into powerful kinetic ammunitions that flow down the river.

The power of water is huge, and the large pieces of wood in the water are even more deadly.

A single hit would create a huge crack in this solid bridge. If this kind of debris hits the flood control embankment...

It's better not to let that happen...

The only good news is that the rising river began to flood into the plain on the other side, flowing and covering it, greatly reducing the water pressure they need to face on this 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 coldly remind him that one of his fields has been flooded and damaged.

'Your fields have been damaged by floods. '

It would be a lie to say that I don't feel bad. Nearly a thousand acres of fields were flooded and damaged, and the loss was calculated to be four or five hundred gold. Fortunately, all the ginger has been snatched back, and the water on it has been wiped off to prevent it from getting moldy and stored.

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

It would not be a big problem if the 10,000 mu of cultivated land near the residential area could be preserved. After confirming that the flood was caused by large-scale rainfall, the fishing area on the coast could resume normal work and 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. ’

Seeing the system give the end time, Ji Lin breathed a sigh of relief. They just had to hold on for fifteen days.

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

For the next ten days, the sky is expected to remain the same 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 the fields, and the era upgrade just began. Otherwise, the continuous rain for fifteen days alone would 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 saved the people from being bothered by the muddy grass.

A road connecting the agricultural area and the residential area allows supplies to be pulled here by four-wheeled trucks, rather than having to push a cart step by step on the muddy road to deliver supplies here.

All the preparations he had made before this were showing their corresponding effects at this time. The natural disasters brought by the promotion in this era can be calmly dealt with as he has strong enough social organization and mobilization.

The next days seemed to be a repetition of the previous ones. As soon as night fell, it would rain on time for several hours. If luck was bad, the light rain would turn into moderate 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 put some labor into 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 burlap bags used for stacking outside. The people in the territory tied ropes and risked their lives to go to the flood embankment to fill the gaps with burlap bags. Even with the ropes, several seriously injured people were born because of such a dangerous move. Finally, when it was only 20 centimeters away from the top of the flood embankment, it stopped rising.

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

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

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

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

The cumulonimbus clouds in the sky are getting thinner and thinner, and occasionally a ray of sunlight can be seen on the ground.

When the countdown comes to the end, they will have survived this long flood season.

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

They are united, everyone is sweating, and no one will die because of the disaster.

Those few people who have complaints in their hearts can't have too much resentment when they see the affairs officers working with them here, and they dare not 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 battle against nature. They no longer had to flee from their homes with their families.

On the twelfth day, the cumulonimbus clouds only drizzled down on them sporadically, and the sun could occasionally shine through the increasingly thin cumulonimbus clouds.

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

On the fourteenth 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, which was destroyed by the water flow and debris and only the brackets were left, emerged from the water. The people in the territory cheered the end of the flood season.