Chapter 35

Hearing the sound of thunder, the villagers were also startled.

Before they could react, a black cloud had already appeared overhead.

In less than five minutes, bean-sized raindrops began to fall on the ground.

Only then did the villagers start to move; some led cows, some led donkeys, and some were still carrying apples to evacuate to the mountain.

"It's too late, it's too late."

"All the young and strong, take the old and children and run to the mountain."

"Forget about other things; saving lives is the priority..."

Su Yang shouted loudly, but by this time the storm had already begun.

The small path up the mountain became slippery.

"Are you tired of living? The heavy rain is here, and flash floods come as soon as they come; hurry and run up."

The old party secretary shouted at the top of his lungs, and only then did the villagers reluctantly let go of their cows, donkeys, and even lambs, pulling the old and children in their families to run up the mountain.

Seeing this scene, Su Yang broke into a cold sweat; if the heavy rain poured down, could the villagers still get up?

"Mayor Su, don't worry."

"We all grew up here; even if water is flowing down from the mountain, we can still get up."

The old party secretary saw Su Yang's worry and said from the side.

Sure enough, Su Yang saw some villagers take out the sickles they carried with them, pulling the old or children beside them with one hand, and using the sickles to stab into the ground to climb up with the other.

Teenagers climbed up with their bare hands, their speed completely unaffected.

"Mayor Su, don't just watch, I'm going up too."

"Don't look at me being over fifty; you might not be faster than me going up the mountain," Liu Ximing said, sticking his pipe into his waistband and climbing up with both hands and feet.

The two original small paths were basically left for the slightly older women and seven or eight-year-old children.

Su Yang watched the villagers climbing up one after another, and only then did he feel slightly relieved.

He thought to himself that it was fortunate they were native villagers; otherwise, even if the real heavy rain hadn't come yet, they definitely wouldn't have been able to get up.

He was just about to follow the people up when he suddenly heard someone behind him shout, "Grandma Sun is still at home; her legs and feet are inconvenient, and she hasn't come out yet..."

Hearing this, Su Yang's scalp went numb; as long as a life was lost, it would be his dereliction of duty.

He was just about to ask what the situation was with Grandma Sun when he heard someone shout, "That girl from the city is also missing..."

"Look, she went into Grandma Sun's house." Immediately after, someone else shouted.

Su Yang looked in the direction the villager pointed, and a woman's back had already slipped into the house at the very end on the opposite side.

There was still a ditch between them and that side.

It was already too late to go over and save people now. But he couldn't give up two living lives, so he immediately said to Zhou Tai, "Little Zhou, I'm going over to save people; you guys hurry and climb up."

"And it's best to find a long rope and prepare to meet us."

"I'm going too..." Only then did Xiaobai discover that Zhou Ruohan had run over to save people.

"Stop, the heavy rain is coming immediately; can you, a woman, manage? Don't add to the chaos. Evacuate to the top immediately. Little Zhou, take her up and assist the old party secretary in arranging the villagers." Su Yang roared in an unquestionable tone and rushed toward the location of Grandma Sun's house.

"Mayor Su, you must be careful." Zhou Tai shouted.

His heart was incomparably shocked; he had thought it was already commendable enough that the Town Mayor could predict the rainstorm and personally come to lead the villagers to evacuate.

But he never expected that the Town Mayor would disregard life and death to save a villager he didn't even know.

"... He... he doesn't want his life anymore..." Seeing Su Yang stepping on the accumulated water on the ground to save people, several sharp-eyed villagers couldn't help but say.

"Mayor Su is a good person..."

"I hope he can come back safely..."

Everyone prayed silently.

At this time, Zhou Ruohan had already carried Grandma Sun on her back and started to walk out.

She hurried to run outside. At this time, the torrential rain had already poured onto the ground.

Although she ran with all her might, she couldn't outrun the speed of the flood; before she had run far, the roaring sound in the mountains had already started.

Following that, a monstrous giant wave struck, directly washing Zhou Ruohan and Grandma Sun into the torrent.

Zhou Ruohan's vision went black, and she thought to herself that she might die here this time.

In this instant, she had felt despair and regret, but she didn't give up, one hand tightly clutching Grandma Sun on her back, and the other hand grabbing everywhere.

Trying to grab something to save herself.

However, in such a surging flash flood, even if she grabbed something, she would be washed away more than ten meters in an instant.

Seeing that she was about to hit a giant rock in front, she tried her best to grab a small tree beside her, but she couldn't reach it.

At this moment, she felt as if she had already seen her great-grandmother.

However, just when she was completely desperate, a powerful hand grabbed her.

She opened her eyes and saw it was that Mayor Su from just now.

Su Yang grabbed a tree trunk and said, "Hold on to me tightly. Stabilize your body first, and then I'll pull you over."

At this moment, she saw the hope of life, and not knowing where the strength came from, she grabbed Su Yang's arm tightly.

Just like that, Su Yang pulled Zhou Ruohan to his side bit by bit.

"Hold my waist and climb up slowly." Su Yang knew his strength would soon be exhausted, so he quickly let Zhou Ruohan climb up and grab the tree trunk directly.

Although this was only a tree as thick as a bowl, the flood peak only submerged the roots; otherwise, this tree wouldn't have been able to withstand the giant waves.

Fortunately, Zhou Ruohan was much better than he had imagined; after struggling a few times, she finally climbed up completely.

Only then did Su Yang breathe a sigh of relief, climbing up a bit more as much as he could, and grabbed another tree beside him.

At this time, Grandma Sun's face was already deathly pale, and she was panting, unable to speak.

Su Yang and Zhou Ruohan looked at each other, both seeing the joy of surviving a disaster in each other's eyes.

"Thank you..."

"It was I who overestimated myself; if it weren't for you, I'm afraid..."

"I should be the one thanking you. I just said I would guarantee the safety of all the villagers; if it weren't for you, I really wouldn't know how to explain it..."

Before Zhou Ruohan could finish her words, she was interrupted by Su Yang.

"This flash flood came too violently; there was no chance to react at all."

"This village has been almost completely destroyed... I really don't know what to do in the future."

Zhou Ruohan looked at the surging flood and said with incomparable melancholy.

"There will always be a way, and I don't know if the others are safe yet." Su Yang's thoughts were still on the other villagers at this time.

The old party secretary Liu Ximing, who was already on the mountaintop, shouted at the top of his lungs, "Quick, quick, quick, the flood is coming down..."

Almost everyone was climbing up with both hands and feet at this moment.

A few minutes later, when they reached the mountaintop, the flash flood had already roared down.

The houses on both sides in lower positions had already been washed away by the destructive water force.

At this time, the villagers were already scared out of their wits; if it weren't for Su Yang insisting that they evacuate to the mountain, they would still be in the village at this time.

Then... they would have been washed away by the flood by now.

"Where is Mayor Su..."