Chapter 40 Flash flood outbreak(1/2)
This time, Fang Yu and the three of them heard the sound of thunder.
Not only Fang Yu, but also the villagers in the room heard it.
Along with the roar, there was also a slight shaking sensation coming from the ground, like an earthquake.
Now, the pace of Fang Yu and the others became faster!
At this time, Fang Sanduo knew what happened without Fang Yu's explanation.
Just when the three of them were hurriedly escaping from Taguchi Village and hurried slowly towards the mountain forest on the side, the villagers who were still in Taguchi Village realized that something was wrong.
After the thunder, followed by a sudden earthquake, someone in the village finally opened the door to see what was going on outside.
As the door opened, each villager looked out from behind the door.
At this time, the rain curtain was still heavy.
But you can barely see clearly within a few meters.
As a result, these villagers stared blankly at the spacious dirt road in the village, where a stream of water flowed inexplicably from a distance.
This water flow is not like rainwater, which is clear, but the water flow is overall yellow and turbid.
The water mixed with mud gradually spread forward on the ground at the speed of a normal person's trot. The muddy water flowing down was like a ball of yellow mud monster sticking to the ground and rolling forward.
These villagers watched the muddy water flow past their homes.
Moreover, before they had any time to notice, the water flow seemed slow, but the water level was increasing every minute!
In just a minute, the water flow had spread to the entire village and was gradually approaching the threshold.
Some houses on lower ground have already had yellow muddy water pouring in.
It was only then that the villagers started to panic.
They began to block the threshold with objects and raise the height of the threshold to prevent water from entering.
This is subconscious behavior.
After all, if water is going to flow into the house, their subconscious approach must be to block it first instead of escaping.
There are houses on one side and open air and pouring rain on the other. The two give people a different sense of security.
But precisely this approach caused them to lose precious time to escape.
As time goes by, the growth rate of the water level has been accelerating!
In the first minute, the water flow just reached the threshold, but after another minute passed, the water flow had already reached the waist level!!
In the eyes of these villagers, before they could react, they opened and closed their eyes. One second, the muddy water was still outside the door, and the next second, the water flooded the house.
Moreover, the water level is still rising, and it is constantly breaking through towards the chest!
At this time, these villagers finally reacted.
At this time, let alone supplies, the supplies had already been submerged in muddy water. They could only walk out of the house slowly one by one, wading through the muddy water that was almost up to their chests.
Children and the elderly were carried on the backs of their parents or daughters-in-law. After struggling out of the room, there was no way to go outside.
Now the road in the middle of the village has turned into a river.
No!
It should be said that the entire village has turned into a river.
These houses are now like stones in the river, with only the roofs above the water.
Therefore, they could only struggle to climb to the roof.
And I am indeed lucky to be able to climb onto the roof.
Most people accidentally stepped on the air after going out, or were hit by obstacles in the mud flow, then lost their balance and fell into the river.
They wanted to struggle to get up, but the rapid river gave them nowhere to draw strength. Mud water kept pouring into their eyes, nose and mouth, making it impossible for them to make correct and effective rescue actions.
So much so that they were floating up and down in the river, like rubber balls falling into the river, being constantly swept away by the current towards the entrance of the village.
The speed is very fast. One second people are still in the village, and the next second they have flowed to the entrance of the village.
The village entrance and the field ridges below are one high and one low, forming an existence like an irrigation mouth.
The villagers who were originally still struggling on the river, once they reached the mouth of the river and were washed down by the current, they were carried to the bottom of the river by the undercurrent and could no longer emerge. In less than a minute, they became a person under the river.
A corpse.
That scene is indescribable.
People who fell into the river seemed to be stuck by the river water. No matter how they struggled, what they pulled on, and what they resisted, it was of no use.
All their actions were in vain. The river carried them to the mouth of the river without any slowdown, and then rushed to the bottom of the river, becoming underwater souls.
And those who climbed up to the roof saw this scene.
This scene made them so desperate that they were completely helpless.
But...this is not the most desperate...
The most desperate thing was that while they were still congratulating themselves on climbing to the roof and escaping the death threat of being carried away by the mud flow, the sound of roaring waves suddenly came from behind their heads.
The happy smile on his face instantly solidified. After slowly turning his head, what came into view was the turbulent water of the Yellow River covering almost the entire sky...
In those last few seconds, they could see countless solid rocks and soil mixed in the water of the Yellow River, as well as countless dead branches and leaves.
There were also many animal carcasses mixed in.
He even saw an old tree floating in the river. The washed-out black roots were facing his head, like a giant hammer with rough edges.
The next second, he only felt a coldness on his face and a pain on his forehead, and the pause button was pressed on all other thoughts...
After the Yellow River passed, the original roof was instantly submerged, and the four villagers on the roof disappeared at the same time.
The disaster has not stopped.
The raging and roaring flash flood was like a giant mouth connected to a bottomless pit. The houses in Taguchi Village were swallowed up one by one under the giant mouth.
No matter how the villagers on the roof knelt down to pray, and how they were forced to the eaves and finally fell into the river, it remained indifferent and unstoppably swallowed up all the roofs still exposed on the river.
From the initial thunder to the present, the flash flood erupted not even a quarter of an hour later, and the entire Taguchi Village turned into a vast ocean.
Fang Yu and the other two people who ran out of the village had no time to look back.
Because when they had just reached the foot of the mountain, the water was already up to their ankles.
Next, they were like competing with the river to climb a mountain.
The water was chasing behind them, and they were climbing up like crazy.
Often, as long as you stop climbing for less than ten seconds, the water will submerge your ankles again.
At this moment, the water was like a life-threatening ghost, pursuing Fang Yu and the others.
Naturally, Fang Yu and the others could only try their best to escape.
The grain bag has been lost.
Because it is too heavy, it affects the speed of climbing.
Fang Yu and the three of them could only hold two strips of meat each, carrying oil packets and clay pots in their arms, and climbed like mad dogs towards the top of the mountain. The difficulty was comparable to a triathlon.
I don’t know how long I climbed.
It wasn't until Fang Yu felt that the sound of water flowing in her ears had become quieter that she turned around and saw that the water surface that had been rising seemed to have finally reached its limit.
Looking back, the rolling Yellow River is vast, like a river and a vast sea.
The area that was originally just a plain has now become a huge lake.
However, the water in this lake is extremely turbid, and there are many trees and roofs mixed in...
?
roof?
Fang Yu looked at the flowing mud river. In the middle of the river, there was a familiar fragment of a roof floating on the river.
Fang Yu subconsciously looked towards Taguchi Village.
What we saw was the mighty Yellow River.
Are there any traces of villages there?
It wasn't until Fang Yu saw the familiar mountain forest and made a comparison that he discovered that, unknowingly, he had climbed halfway up the mountain.
And the surface of this turbid mountain torrent had already reached up to ten meters below him!
The terrain of Taguchi Village is at the foot of the mountain.
The height of this mountain is about a hundred meters high, which means that the depth of the flood has reached a terrifying tens of meters high!!!
Flash flood...this is flash flood...
At this time, Taguchi Village had already been submerged by floods at the bottom of the river dozens of meters deep.
Even though Fang Yu could not see the scene when Taguchi Village was finally swallowed up by a flash flood, he could imagine that if he had moved slower at that time, maybe the three of them would have died in this vast mud river.
To be continued...