Wolf King

Grassland, the northern part of the southwest region, the upper reaches of the river of the earth, the construction site of a giant dam (er, it is actually a reservoir level...).

It took five full months to pour the dam, and a 3000-person engineering team dug the Grand Canal down along the terrain, leaving only a "J" caster and a goblin at the dam to monitor the dam's drying Drying process, and the water level of the upper reaches of the river concerned with the earth.

The natural short mountain ridge between the upper reaches of the Dadi River and the dam has not yet exploded. Before the canal is unblocked, this mountain ridge still bears the heavy responsibility of blocking the river.

Von Aldoni, whose skin was much darker and whose beard was clean-shaven for hygiene reasons, and the goblin Luke walked along the mountain ridge, recording the rise of the water level according to the water level diagram carved on the side of the river on the mountain wall in winter.

"Mr. Aldoni, the water level has risen another five centimeters. The heavy rain last night really had an impact." The goblin Luke climbed up from the mossy mountain wall barefoot, frowning while rubbing the moss on his feet on the grass.

"Has it risen again... It's only 2.7 meters away from the red line of the safe water level." Aldoni looked at the dangerous water level marked in red letters on the record book, and knit his brows.

The world's natural disasters, floods should be the first.

Storms, earthquakes, and even forest fires are a carnival feast for spellcasters to collect natural element energy. Every year in the wind season, spellcasters will go to storm-prone coastal areas and stare at the sea.

Even the descendants of "J" will not miss this kind of carnival when they have the opportunity - the crystal ball in Aldoni's pocket stores the fire element he collected during a forest fire, and it has been used for several years There are still left.

When the figure of the caster appears at the scene of the disaster, the disaster will naturally not be able to cause much trouble...

But the flood alone is a problem that spellcasters cannot solve - the flood that can wash away everything is not due to a certain element being too strong, but simply because there is too much water...

Among the two big rivers on the grassland, the River of the Earth is the one that floods the most. The reason is that the water of the River of the Earth comes from the Samar Snow Mountain; The summer is very hot and there is a lot of rain. The combination of the falling rainwater and the snowwater flowing down from the Samar Snow Mountain will cause the river of the earth to flood.

Hmm...Of course... To solve the problem of the river of the earth being frantically tempted on the verge of flooding for a long time, there is also a very simple and crude way, which is less troublesome than building the Grand Canal, but when Xiao Yun proposed this trick at the tribal high-level meeting at the beginning of the year At that time, everyone, including the spellcasters who were qualified to observe, all voted against it with black faces.

This evil method is to use the underground world space on the grassland side, and when the water level of the river of the earth reaches a dangerous level, divert water to irrigate it...

Well, in short, everyone's collective opposition did not give this guy a chance to implement such a deadly crazy plan.

Aldoni is well aware of the importance of upstream water level monitoring, so he volunteered to stay for a long-term stay, and gradually got used to it after the initial boring time, but now, seeing the water level rising steadily, the water flow speed is gradually accelerating, and summer is abundant However, the rain still kept falling, and Aldoni inevitably became anxious.

After walking the mountain ridge, and returning to the caretaker’s hut on the concrete dam, Aldoni just took off his muddy shoes when Luke, the goblin, ran into the house nervously: “Mr. It's raining!"

Aldoni ran out of the hut with bare feet, looked up at the sky, and saw... all he could see was thick clouds, and the clouds in the north were so thick that even the skylight dimmed a bit.

"...The summer on the grassland in the past is also like this year, can't you see sunny days for three consecutive days?" Aldoni couldn't help but ask.

"No." The goblin Luke shook his head with a solemn expression, "I have lived on the grassland for more than ten years, and there has never been a year with as much rain as this year."

The goblin Luke also lived with the Snow Wolf Tribe before he came to the Ministry of Fire. Although life was difficult, his safety was guaranteed. Collecting edible things everywhere, I am very concerned about the climate... In the jungle after it rains, I can always pick a lot of edible straw mushrooms.

Aldoni breathed a sigh of relief and looked up to the north again.

The mist in the air cuts off the line of sight, making it impossible to see the distant Samar Snow Mountain. However, judging from the rising water level of the River of the Earth, the snow flowing down from the Samar Snow Mountain this year must be more spectacular than in previous years.

The heavy rain fell until it was dark, and Aldoni and Luke walked down the dam, stepped on the muddy water and slippery turf vegetation, and climbed up the ridge to check the water level that they had seen once during the day.

"The water level has risen by fifty centimeters!" When the figure was reported, Luke the goblin's voice trembled.

Aldoni's complexion changed suddenly, and he subconsciously turned his head to look at the end of the mountain range to the east.

If the water level rises another two meters, this mountain ridge will still be able to withstand it, and the tributary at the east end of the mountain range that diverts to the southwest is about to flood!

Bring Luke back to the dam, and tell the goblin not to go down the dam (the surrounding beasts are lethal to the goblin), Aldoni rides on the biped ground dragon (brought with him), and drives away overnight Report to the Ministry of Fire.

After running for hundreds of kilometers in ten hours, when he arrived at the Ministry of Fire and Fire in the morning, he fell to the ground with his most sturdy feet, foaming at the mouth; Enduring the pain from the abrasions on his buttocks and inner thighs, he limped to the No. 1-1 dormitory where Patriarch Huoyan lived.

Ayun went to Valentine, the grassroots patriarch was at the seaside monosodium glutamate factory, the red leaves were in the hilly new area, and the blue fruit was at the beet (sweet red fruit) planting base. Aldoni could only find Huoyan patriarch.

Among the high-level tribes, the Huoyan patriarch's status is similar to making up a mascot, but this is only limited to intelligence and ability issues, and it does not mean that he has no sense of responsibility; For a big event, immediately call the management of the tribe for a meeting.

"Doesn't this mean that if it rains for another ten days and a half months, our side will be flooded?!"

In the conference room, when Aldoni reported the upstream situation, the managers who had just woken up were stunned.

"Can't our small canal drain this amount of water?" Da Shui, who was in charge of the agricultural production team, worried.

"Of course not. Our small canal is only ten meters wide and two meters deep. Ayun and I visited the upper reaches of the Dadi River a few years ago. It's just the tributaries that flow to our side. They are tens of meters wide. At that time, the water was not as strong as it is now, and there were large reeds growing on both sides of the riverbed." The warrior of the remaining tribe frowned.

"What should I do?!"

All the staff of the management team are in a hurry. The soybeans and wheat sown in the spring will take at least [-] to [-] days to harvest, and the sweet potatoes, potatoes and beets sown in the summer have just sprouted. If the hard-working fields are flooded, At least half of the people present would die of anger, while the other half would die of distress.

Patriarch Huoyan saw that everyone had nothing to do, and his dignified (er) serious expression gradually became unbearable.

"Prepare for the worst first." Dahe said in a rare voice, and this guy who always paddles in management meetings also knows that this is not the time to pretend to be dead, so he said solemnly, "Pack important belongings first. Pack it up and be ready to move to higher ground at any time. Abandon the low-lying fields first. Once the water comes, the triangular land (that is, the land between the canal and the tributary) will definitely be flooded. The production team who contracted those lands should not Busy work, help other production teams to clean up first, collect what can be rushed, and if not, see if we can build a temporary earth dam, deepen the drainage canal, protect as much land as we can..."

At the beginning, only 1 mu of the Triangle Land was cultivated. In the following years, the area of ​​arable land gradually expanded, and more than 4 mu of land was opened. A total of five production teams were in charge of this land. According to Dahe, the captains of the five production teams all In a hurry, one of them blushed and roared angrily, "Dahe?!"

Dahe didn't look at him, and continued: "In addition to the triangle land, the sandy land near the water in Dashui, and the low-lying land to the south of the swamp also have to be prepared to give up..."

Among the more than 30 production team leaders, nearly [-]% showed pain.

Dahe saw the people in her tribe suffer, and she also felt uncomfortable, but she could tell the difference, and continued "coldly" and said: "The hilly new area is high, so I'm not afraid, but the sugar beet plantation of Languo is close to snake vines and the Grand Canyon. , The water rushing down will definitely endanger Languo and the others, we have to inform Languo immediately, even if this crop of beets is gone, the safety of the personnel must be guaranteed."

"Cat Clan No. [-] and No. [-] farms are also on high terrain, but the terrain of No. [-] farm is lower than ours, so we have to inform Chief Arthur to make preparations in advance."

After a pause, Dahe tried his best to keep a sullen face and looked seriously at all the managers present: "I know that everyone loves the fields and crops very much, and so do I. But please don't forget that these fields and the crops on the fields are ours. Even if those who open up wasteland and sow seeds by hand are gone for a while, as long as the people are still there, we can still open up the fields and bring back the crops.”

"Don't forget what Ah Yun often said, people are the most important thing! When people are there, everything is there. If people are gone, even if you keep the fields and crops, you will lose everything!"

"Don't waste time being sad, hurry up and get down to business!!"

At the end of the temporary meeting, the red-eyed managers rushed out of the meeting room to gather their own staff. Some of them were emotionally broken, and they were almost doing things while wiping away their tears...

Everyone is sad, heartbroken, and uncomfortable, but there is no doubt about Aldoni’s monitoring results and Dahe’s decision—Xiao Yun talks about the dangers of floods every year, and the tribe invests a lot of money in flood prevention every year. Now the engineering team is repairing The Grand Canal and the cistern drainage ditches that have been repaired for several years are all designed to deal with this natural disaster that is invincible to manpower.

At the beginning of the year, Xiao Yun appropriated the money saved by the tribe for three years at one time, and sent an engineering team to repair the Grand Canal. It is not that no one thought about it, but now, those who felt that Xiao Yun was a little nervous at the time only hated the previous few years. Saving money is too slow, and the Grand Canal project is too late...

When Dahe was in danger, he was ordered to complete the task assignment, temporarily closed the welfare department, and lent all the manpower to the production team. She carried a bag of dry food and brought a water bottle, and turned into a wolf and rushed to the upper reaches of the river. She had to go and see for herself.

The rainwater in the southwest corner where the tribe is located is only a little denser than in previous years, and it is not enough to make people frightened. Dahe ran more than 200 kilometers to the north before he deeply understood why Aldoni was so nervous-the further north, the more the air The more humid, the thicker the clouds in the sky!

When the big river reached the dam construction site, the whole wolf was drenched...

Climbing up the wide and thick concrete dam in the heavy rain, the big river looks up to the north beyond the mountain ridge, and the wolf's mouth is panting violently, slowly pushing hard and clenching his teeth—the sky in the direction of the Samar Snow Mountain is black and thick The clouds seemed to fall down and hit the ground!

"The flood that Ayun has been worrying about... is finally coming!"