Chapter 122: Chapter 121: Evacuation

The rain kept pouring harder, and the howling wind knocked incessantly on the car windows. In the rainy night, people’s hearts grew increasingly anxious.

"Report to the brigadier! The road ahead is under repair and will take at least half an hour!"

A middle-aged man by the riverbank listened to the news from the walkie-talkie. He was Brigadier James Marsh of the Special Forces, currently commanding at the riverbank.

This half-hour of repair, plus the time needed for evacuation, means the riverbank must hold for at least an hour!

In front of the riverbank, stacks of sandbags were being battered by the waves.

In the pitch-black and chaotic environment, only the sound of torrential rain and the wind could be heard, along with flickering flashlight beams.

Soldiers reinforcing the riverbank ran back and forth, some struggling to steady the sandbags, others busy with shovels, and some carrying sandbags to the riverbank.

The sound of their breathing was drowned by the rushing rain.

James Marsh didn’t have the luxury of thinking too much; the most important thing now was to keep the riverbank strong, to buy time for road repairs.

Shouting into the walkie-talkie, he ordered, "Wang Pan! Hurry up! We can’t let the water breach the riverbank. Strengthen the sandbags quickly! Buy more time for the evacuation!"

"Yes, sir!"

At that moment, a report came through the walkie-talkie from the road repair team.

The sound of the torrential rain mixed with anxious shouting was extremely noisy: "Brigadier, there’s a landslide on the road ahead. We’re clearing the path, but we’re short-handed. Requesting support!"

Standing in the heavy rain, James Marsh could hear the rain hitting his raincoat hood. He quickly pulled down the hood, wiped his face with his hand, and made a decision, shouting into the walkie-talkie, "Hannah Collins! Take your people and clear the landslide!"

Hannah Collins, carrying sandbags, immediately dropped them upon receiving the brigadier’s order. She raised her head to see the rain blurring her vision.

Everywhere, people in raincoats were moving sandbags. Her squad was already in disarray.

Seeing the squad leaders of Squad One and Two nearby, she could only shout, "Squad One and Squad Two! Follow me!"

knocking

Use your bodies to hold the line! Buy more time

"Yes, ma’am!"

soldiers showed no fear as they faced the terrible flood, throwing aside sandbags

reached the road, Norman Bennett immediately approached her after alighting from the

ahead. We’re about to clear

a loudspeaker handed to him by Raymond Wood and, braving the rain, shouted to the workers in the factory’s bus: "All men under 50, get out and help clear the road! The troops are reinforcing the riverbank upfront; we must rely on ourselves

handed Norman Elliana Lyle’s discarded raincoat under the

equal, and those workers,

third alighting, half of the several thousand workers, along with the men originally living in Holy Spring, came forward! Some women

towards Hannah Collins’s direction and shouted, "Hannah! Hannah! We need

hood, the rain too loud for

"We need tools!"

"Got it!"

carried bundles

"Everyone, grab a shovel and clear

group followed the troops towards the road blocked by the landslide, and Norman

to place Elliana in

the man’s arms, knowing without opening her eyes how fierce the wind and rain outside

ablaze, while her cold limbs were

the blocked road upfront, Norman Bennett entrusted her to a woman

her to me. My husband is also helping

Even a few large trees

army uniforms were lifting the trees in the rain! The reinforcement arrived amidst

as mud from the upper left

the left mudslide with sandbags!

strength in numbers, the left mudslide was quickly blocked with sandbags, and soon the

then, Elliana Lyle stumbled out from the woman’s

she couldn’t hear anything, but she could see the man who, quite uncharacteristically, was covered in mud and dirt, leaning

had left the car already beginning to evacuate, Norman

to stay with you... go

had passed through the road, the traffic beginning to move. Though the pace was slow, at

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