Chapter 333: Changes in One Night
Chapter 333: Changes Overnight
The makeshift camp was densely packed with tents and dirty water flowed in the gutters.
Blacksmiths dumped iron blocks into furnaces and poured molten iron into molds.
Xu Yuelong noticed Liang Qu, said a few words to Yu Dayi, and waved his hand.
Liang Qu didn't have time to put down his things, so he asked Lu Xinqing to wait outside and followed Xu Yuelong into the big tent.
Xu Yuelong sat at his desk, looking visibly tired, perhaps because he knew what Cheng Chong had done.
Ke Wenbin arrived yesterday, but Liang Qu was a day late. He took a boat alone to visit other relief points to dispel the water plague, and only arrived at Qiugong Dike today.
Xu Yuelong spent a whole day to accept the fact that his previous achievements and advantages in clearing out the Yu Gang had vanished into thin air, and he even owed half a million dollars in debt.
Thinking back, it was actually Wei Lin who was lucky.
I didn't gain any benefits, but I didn't suffer any harm either.
"Let me show you this."
Xu Yuelong rubbed his swollen temples and moved a half-broken stone bar from beside his feet. The table he was supporting groaned under the heavy weight.
"Before Wenbin came yesterday, the people from the Three Law Department had already started investigating. They found several broken stones and speculated that the cause of the embankment damage was artificial planting of water stone roots and trees, but they didn't know who did it."
Liangqu went around in another direction and found several plant roots growing from the cross-section of the stone slab.
The dam stones are constantly under the impact of the river, and it is impossible for ordinary plants to take root and sprout on them.
The evidence is complete, including oral and physical evidence, and there is no doubt that Cheng Chong was the direct person responsible for destroying Qiugong Dike.
The pot at Hebo is firm.
While Xu Yuelong accepted the reality, he also felt somewhat relieved.
"Thank goodness for you, I didn't go as bad as I thought. I wanted to give you a chance, but it turned out to be the best decision I've made so far."
Liang Qu scratched his temples: "It's all just luck."
Xu Yuelong shook his head: "As far as I know, Wei Shao has been leading a team of fishing boats around Huazhu County. It was luck that he caught Cheng Chong. Then what about the disaster map you drew? Did you bring the mission record?"
"I brought them all."
Liang Qu picked up the cloth bag at his feet and took out a thick stack of documents from it.
There are mission records, information about public sentiment, documentary evidence related to the Shahe Gang, and confessions from other people, etc.
Of course, what is most important is the mission booklet inside, which records Liang Qu’s actions and related achievements after arriving in Huazhu County.
Xu Yuelong unfolded it and glanced at it, then closed it and put it aside: "I will report it truthfully, and you just wait to receive the credit.
However, since the dam breach was caused by our people, your contribution may not be as high as you think.
So before Kaiyun and Yipeng left last night, they asked me to ask you if there was anything you wanted so that they could make it up to you.
Don't refuse. I'll agree to it on your behalf. If Wei Lin knew about it first, their situation would be ten times more difficult than it is now. If they can't do it, I will help them."
Liang Qu thought for a moment and said, "I promised the Shahe Gang that I would save their lives, but with my position and ability, I am afraid I cannot fulfill this promise. If possible, I would like to trouble Master Ti Ling to help me."
A moment of silence.
Xu Yuelong laughed out loud.
Liang Qu's sudden request swept away all the gloom he had felt since yesterday.
"This doesn't count! I won't let you go back on your word. I'll give it to you. Change it!"
"Then bring me a bow. Spiritual weapons are best."
Liang Qu pulled out the black iron bow and placed it on the table.
"This bow..."
Xu Yuelong raised his eyebrows.
He had an impression of the black iron bow. If he remembered correctly, it belonged to Liu Jie, the leader of the Whale Gang. He only took it after giving Liang Qu a hint.
Xu Yuelong grabbed the bow, infused qi and blood into it, and keenly sensed the subtle damage occurring inside the bow arm.
This is obviously a negative impact caused by overload usage. It may not be a problem to use it temporarily, but it will soon be scrapped if it continues for a long time.
A few months...
Growing up so fast.
"Okay, I'll send someone to tell you right away that the new bow will be in your hands before October!"
"Thanks for the tip!"
"You've had a hard time on this journey. Go down and rest first. I'll send someone to arrange a tent for you."
midnight.
A tent somewhere in the camp.
Liang Qu sat up from the bed and went down to the Black Water River.
The entire camp was still busy, with several red-hot furnaces smelting iron blocks day and night.
The water flow at the breach is the most turbulent, and there is no traction in the water, so ordinary warriors cannot get close. Only fourth-level martial artists or above can enter the river to repair the dam.
Building the levee is urgent, and due to the shortage of manpower we have to work overtime.
Under the illumination of the campfire, black figures stood on the remaining embankment, busy as ants. A martial artist holding a stone slab looked toward the Blackwater River and suddenly froze, and the orderly team stopped in an instant.
The people behind urged him on.
"Hurry up and go, what are you standing there for?"
"Why isn't the front moving?"
The martial artist put down the stone and pointed to the water level behind the dam: "Has the water level dropped?"
Everyone heard this and went away.
"Ah, it seems so, it's falling so fast!"
"What happened? Did the water level drop suddenly?"
“Maybe it will stop raining today?”
"The sun isn't very bright."
Everyone stood on the remaining embankment and marveled at the water level which had dropped significantly compared to the evening.
The chief clerk nearby hurriedly recorded this strange sight and sent someone to inform the camp leader.
Xu Yuelong and Yu Dayi stood on the remaining embankment, and hundreds of torches turned the Heishui River into an orange-red color.
A martial artist volunteered to dive underwater to check.
half an hour.
A human head pops out from the orange river.
"The riverbed has deepened! The entire riverbed near the dam has deepened!"
Yu Dayi was overjoyed: "Good news, good news! Everyone, don't stop, hurry up and repair the dike!"
Xu Yuelong frowned. Why did the riverbed suddenly deepen?
The camp was restless.
The craftsmen on shift were awakened one after another and rushed to cast stone slabs for emergency repairs.
Liang Qu opened the curtain, looked at the camp where everyone had awakened, took two deep breaths, and went back to sleep.
Driving water is more powerful than you might think.
Following the direction of runoff, Liangqu can drive hundreds of thousands of tons of water to repeatedly scour the riverbed.
Before he was completely exhausted, the riverbed near the dam dropped by a terrifying three feet!
Over the next two days, something miraculous happened.
The water level difference before and after the dam disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The deepening of the riverbed was incredible to everyone. Several river officials felt that everything they had learned throughout their lives was fake, and their beards and hair fell out in clumps.
On the eighth day after the dam burst, the water level at Dashekou continued to drop and became lower than the remaining dam, and suddenly the water stopped flowing!
Having lost its source, the floodwaters outside the remaining dike finally showed signs of receding, flowing and rushing towards lower areas, rushing like thunder.
The ninth day after the dam burst.
The sun is scorching.
The news that the riverbed of the Heishui River had lowered and there would no longer be floods spread throughout Huazhu County like wings.
With the source cut off, it was only a matter of time before the remaining water receded, and the sad faces finally showed a bit of joy.
In an unknown small village, the village elder stared in a daze as he watched the water level in the village gradually recede.
The villagers praised the wisdom of the Jianghuai River God.
Soon, the story of the Jianghuai River God taking action to rectify the Heishui River began to spread like a myth.
In the camp, the chief clerk looked through the past county records and was surprised to find that this flood was the fastest to recede in all dynasties.
Even, there is no major epidemic?
The disease still exists, but it has not caused large-scale infection, and a large number of elderly people have died.
The outside world is changing more and more day by day, and various versions of myths are flying all over the place.
Liang Qu stayed in the camp from beginning to end, and fed the red dragon fish's viscera and bones to the water beasts that came back from all directions.
Taking this opportunity to check the status of several beasts, Liang Qu was surprised to find that Awei could actually evolve.
[Can consume 13.6 points of water essence to evolve the two-winged Sky Water Centipede into a four-winged Source Water Centipede]
13.6, Liang Qu just happened to have it.
He took Awei out of the camp and filled a gap in the jungle, when a clue that had never been seen before suddenly appeared.
[Four-winged water centipede optional evolutionary branches]
[Poisonous Mist]
【flight】
【King Kong】
(End of this chapter)