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"Speak louder! I can't hear you!"

“——I understand!!”

"Very good. Everyone has relatives at home, and some may even be on their way to work or school. We need to rescue them first. It's just raining heavily. We just need to act quickly so that no one drowns. Now I need 300 people to go with me to rescue! Volunteers, please step forward!"

"I!"

"Miss! I'll go!"

"I am coming too!"

Some people in the crowd stood up, some were eager to try, while others looked around, then silently lowered their heads and twisted the wet corners of their clothes.

An Lele stood in front of the crowd, looking at an uncle next to him who should be the warehouse manager. The hand he raised was only a wrist, but no palm.

Oh, these are the disabled employees that my wife specially recruited. But this uncle is really energetic...

An Lele blinked and pressed his hand down: "We are saving people, stop making trouble. Tianhai City is so big, I don't feel comfortable leaving it to you uncles and aunts, let us do it."

Alia jumped off the platform and threw the megaphone aside. "No more roll call! Anyone under fifty! Step out!"

“Swish—”

The uncoordinated footsteps finally merged into one, and the crowd split into two groups.

"Very good. In the face of disaster, we Chinese are invincible when we unite!"

Alia looked at her watch and said, "I'll give you five minutes. Find someone you know and regroup. Three people in a group, five groups in a squadron! Do you understand?"

"I understand!"

"Repeat it! Three people in a group! Repeat it to me!"

"——Three people form a team!!"

"Five groups make one squadron!"

"——Five groups make one squadron!!"

"Let's get started. Employees over fifty years old, return to the headquarters campus. We need you to take care of logistics."

After saying this, Alia motioned for Mr. Lei to come over: "Take them back, and help take care of the material allocation and communications."

"Miss, I am also under fifty."

"Stop it, be good." Alia patted Mr. Lei's head and said, "I will send people to related real estate industries later. You have to help distribute the supplies."

The latter slumped his shoulders helplessly: "Okay, I understand... Miss, are you sure? There are so many people..."

"Why can't we be so uncertain? When organizing personnel, the most important thing is not brainstorming, but the effective transmission of command instructions."

If the order is conveyed to an individual, it will only lead to chaos in the group. However, if the order is conveyed to the squad leader or group leader and then a small combat-capable group is formed, it will be reasonable.

Five minutes later, Alia gathered a hundred team leaders and spent another five minutes selecting twenty captains.

"Each rescue team has five groups, five speedboats, and 15 people. Are they clear about their organization? Three people in each speedboat!"

Alia pointed to the city tourist map that had just been spread out and said, "One person in the rescue team will drive the boat and pull the rope or other safety equipment, and two people will be responsible for the rescue. Do you understand?"

"Understood?"

"Repeat it to me! Remember not to put all three of them in the water!"

"One person drives the boat and is responsible for safety measures, and two people are responsible for rescue!"

"Five groups form a squadron. You must remember that our assault boats have a maximum load capacity of only one ton, which means ten people. A squadron can rescue a maximum of thirty-five people. Do not bring anything other than emergency supplies. Bringing people up is the most important thing. Five groups will load separately, and a squadron will gather thirty people to be rescued. Immediately retreat to the nearby commanding heights. Don't be greedy! Definitely don't be greedy for credit!"

"Thirty-five people...thirty-five people—I remember it!"

The Ai Group's emergency supplies speedboat is already considered extra-large.

The airbag has a diameter of fifty and comes with a 30-horsepower outboard motor. It is a professional flood prevention and emergency product. The large speedboats of the official rescue team are of this specification.

As long as they don't seek credit for themselves and just follow the plan honestly, they can safely rescue people and send them to shore.

At this time in Tianhai City, except for some residents in low-lying areas, most of the people trapped were probably owners of private cars that were directly submerged by accumulated water on the road.

An Lele brought in several large boxes of walkie-talkies and distributed them one by one. He did not use any professional tactical terms, but his style of explanation was still similar to that of his summer job.

"When answering or calling, please include your squadron and group number so that we know which group you belong to!"

"In the central urban area of ​​Tianhai City, 20 squadrons can cover 40 to 80 streets. You should quickly choose a place you are familiar with. We will assign personnel to that place. Also, put on your watches! Adjust the time - unscrew this ring and adjust the time. Make sure to tighten it. It's waterproof!"

"You've all been trained in CPR, right? If you encounter someone who needs first aid, don't be afraid! Even if the ribs are broken, you still have to give first aid! Restoring the heartbeat is the most important thing!"

"Smash the car to save people, people are important! Cars are not important! Smash the window to save people, people are important! Windows are not important! Everything should be based on saving people as the top priority!"

"Follow orders, and the group will bear all the consequences for you! Don't worry! Don't be afraid!"

"Do you see me? You see me clearly! Remember what I look like - me! Alia! I'm going with you! Don't be afraid of anyone! I'm always here!"

It took less than half an hour for Alia to regroup the people and pass the orders down from team to team, and a simple command network took shape.

President Lei led people back to the headquarters of Ai Group in batches, and also brought back the more than one hundred people who were rescued.

Each rescue team is expected to rescue 35 people at a time, with a total of 20 rescue teams. If fully staffed, these 700 speedboats can rescue citizens at a time. After that, they will have to hand over to the official emergency rescue department, or settle the people first and make follow-up arrangements after the rain stops.

After breaking things down, Alia put them back in order. Even when she saw a flood that could overturn a city, she remained calm and not panicked at all.

For a moment, when Prime Minister Lei watched her leading the team out, it didn't seem like he was watching a caring citizen saving people, but rather like he was watching her leading troops into battle.

"Madam, the eldest lady is not like you this time." Prime Minister Lei looked at the accumulated water that had already surged up the steps.

"This time—as herself..."

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"Third Master! There are too many people! Where can we put them?"

"Send it to the second floor over there!"

“I can’t climb over it, and the forklift can’t lift it that high!”

"Then hold it up first! Where's the bulldozer? Push that car away! The forklift goes over there first! It's higher over there!"

In the heavy rain, Ai Rulin shouted at the top of his lungs, directing his engineering machinery team to move the vehicles blocking the road.

A bulldozer held up its bucket, and inside it were seven or eight citizens who were huddled inside the bucket.

How heavy was the rain?

The bucket was held up to the sky and a person stood inside the bucket. There was water below and inside the bucket as well. The accumulated water quickly reached above the waist.

The rescued people even had to stand in the rain and scoop water out with their safety helmets so that they could stand steadily in the raised bucket of the bulldozer.

As for their private cars, even the roofs were invisible at this moment, and the citizens who were standing on the roofs waiting for rescue were soaked up to their knees.

Tianhai City itself is located in a plain river network area. Not only does the entire urban area not have any high terrain, it is even a bit concave.

When the city's drainage system is functioning normally, every year's typhoons will cause a little urban flooding.

Now that the entire drainage system has completely collapsed and a whole year's rain has fallen in three hours, Tianhai seems to have really become a sea that fell from the sky.

Ai Rulin wiped his face, his hands shaking as he held onto the cockpit pillar: "It's too heavy... the rain is too heavy..."

Alia was right, even too conservative. Not to mention that Ai Rulin had never seen such rain in his life, it was estimated that few of his ancestors had ever seen it.

Mining engineering machinery has always been known for being tall and large, and the wheels of these things are taller than people.

But now, driving in the urban area of ​​Tianhai City, the huge wheels of the mining machinery are almost submerged. How terrible.

Ai Rulin even saw a store sign passing by his feet. Where are these things usually hung?

He looked back at the long street behind him in a daze. There was no street at all. There were only electric poles, street lights and green trees, and the outline of the street could barely be seen.

This is the lowest-lying urban area in Tianhai City and also the place that was most severely flooded.

If this batch of construction machinery had not come to the rescue, the hundreds of people in the more than 200 vehicles stuck on the road would not know what to do.

Ai Rulin directed an excavator to approach a bus and asked, "Can you push it out?"

"No, there must be a car blocking the road ahead!"

"Bucket is picking someone up?"

"There are too many people - dozens of them! We can't get our excavator down!"

"Send the forklift over! Damn it, I should have brought the boat over!"

"Who would have thought that in just over an hour, the buses would be flooded..."

"Third Master! Third Master—boat! There's a boat!!"

Ai Rulin vaguely heard someone shouting this, and when he looked in the direction of the voice, he could only see the shadows of a group of construction machinery.

The car headlights could only illuminate a distance of ten meters, and the rescue engineering machinery was like a giant struggling in the mud, gradually becoming powerless.

"Thump, thump, thump, thump—"

There was a series of overlapping buzzing sounds, and several searchlights pierced through the rain curtain, illuminating the area.

"The rescue team is here? Great! A ship!"

"This way! There's a bus this way! Come over here!"

The fleet seemed to have heard the call, and the headlights turned and headed towards this side along the turbulent current.

It was at this moment that Ai Rulin saw who was standing on the leading orange speedboat—Alia? !

The people standing on the bus seemed to be too excited. The rain was heavy and the water was slippery. Two people screamed and fell into the water and started struggling.

The people on the roof of the car quickly lay down and reached out to pull, but the damn water covered the roof of the private car and could not reach the roof of the bus. Even if they stretched their hands out, they could not go up or down, and their fingertips kept missing the other person's.

Ai Rulin turned around when he heard the scream, but before he could say anything, he subconsciously turned his head back.

What did he see? Alia she-

Alia leaned over and fished out a bamboo pole that was floating in the rapids, shaking it in her hand to clear away the water droplets.

With his other hand, he wrapped the rope around the bamboo joint and tied a knot, then threw it forward like a javelin.

The whistling bamboo pole threw out a sharp projection curve and went straight into the bus with its windows wide open.

“Kala——”

The turbulent current washed the rope, and the bamboo pole was pulled out and stuck horizontally in the bus window, forming a straight line between it and the speedboat.

The two people who fell into the water struggled to grab the ropes, struggling with their upper bodies and gasping for breath.

"Drive forward! Pull them up!"

After a long struggle, the two unlucky students were finally pulled up and lay on the speedboat shivering.

This kind of experience of being neither in the sky nor on the ground is something that the calm blue water in a swimming pool can provide.

Even good swimmers would be terrified when faced with such turbid and bottomless water, let alone the fact that they are just ordinary swimmers.

An old lady slipped into the speedboat and almost lost her footing. She was supported by Alia and then she staggered to her feet.

"Thank you! Thank you—you are so kind!"

"Okay, okay, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's okay, we are here..."

"Girls, what unit are you from? I want to give you a banner! You are saving lives!"

"We..." Alia subconsciously glanced at the logo and words of the Ai Group on the speedboat.

Then he smiled nonchalantly: "We are enthusiastic citizens, helping each other."

The old lady was so moved that tears came to her eyes. She nodded repeatedly, repeating that it was good to help each other and for people to be united.

Seeing that they were not seriously injured, Alia felt relieved. She picked up a bamboo pole, tiptoed on it like a canoe, and floated to Ai Rulin's car.

Ai Rulin was terrified and quickly pulled her up: "You are crazy! You are crazy - that is bamboo! Not a boat! How dare you step on it?!"

"Rafting alone. My mother taught me how to do it when I was a kid in Hawaii." Alia pointed to the life jacket on her body. "And there's this one, too."

"...Why are you here?" Ai Rulin knew that now was not the time to argue: "How many ships are there? There are at least two hundred people here!"

"That's enough, don't worry." Alia looked at her watch and said, "Uncle San, you will be busy until noon at most, and then you will have to recruit more people."

"why?"

"I called these construction machines back, firstly to rescue people, and secondly, for the Xiqiao Reservoir in the west of the city."

Ai Rulin was stunned for a moment, then his eyes widened: "You mean - there will be an accident at the reservoir?!"