It takes about four hours to drive from Qingfeng Village to Xiaowangzhuang Village in Yaocheng at normal driving speeds.
Chang Zhen picked up Gu Anran at five o'clock in the morning, and at almost nine o'clock, they drove to the vicinity of Xiaowangzhuang Village.
There were not many cars on the road in this day and age. The closer we got to Xiaowangzhuang Village, the less we could see the vehicles coming from the opposite direction. The long and winding mountain road was empty.
Chang Zhen also felt strange. He had never encountered anything like this when he was driving around these days. It was unusual for the road to be deserted.
He slowed down the car and glanced in the rearview mirror.
"Why haven't the cars behind me caught up yet?"
Gu Anran stretched out. After riding in the car for nearly four hours, he was very tired.
Then she rested her elbows on the car window, yawned and said lazily: "Mr. Chang is a good driver and has good driving skills. I don't know how far they have fallen behind in these three or four hours of driving. It will take a while."
How can I catch up?"
Normally when Jiang Leng travels, as long as Chang Zhen is by his side, Chang Zhen will basically drive for Jiang Leng. Needless to say, there is no need to talk about his driving skills.
Behind them were a yellow van and a pickup truck. The doctors who were brought out today to examine the villagers and the welfare items to be distributed to the villagers were in the two vehicles behind them.
The performance of those two cars is naturally far behind Chang Zhen's car, so it's not surprising to be left far behind.
“It’s okay if I couldn’t keep up before, but today there’s not even a sign of other cars on the road! Are they still holding on to the accelerator and not willing to step on it?”
"Look at the weather..." Gu Anran paused, looked out the window and said: "It's gloomy, humid, and sultry. In this kind of weather, no one who has anything important to do will go out. Maybe they are afraid of encountering someone.
Thunderstorm weather.”
Chang Zhen lowered the car window, and they heard a thunder blast in their ears.
"Is it going to rain?" Chang Zhen parked the car on the side of the road and stretched his neck out of the car window to observe the weather outside.
The sky was dark, and the sun was hidden in thick clouds, unable to shine through.
There was another thunderous explosion.
Chang Zhen tapped his fingers on the steering wheel, "How about we go back today? If there is a heavy rain soon and the physical examination cannot be completed, there is still a section of dirt road along the way. I'm afraid it will be difficult to go back to Nancheng.
Problem."
Gu Anran felt something was wrong. Why did he hear thunder but not see lightning?
She was startled and doubtful. She raised her head and looked at the two mountains in front of her. She frowned and asked, "Brother Chang, how's the rainfall here lately?"
"I asked before I came here. It hasn't rained here in Xiaowangzhuang Village for a long time. But in the other two villages a few miles away from Xiaowangzhuang Village, it has been raining for several days."
"I told Mr. Jiang that after the investigation in Xiaowangzhuang Village, let's rest for a few days and wait until the rain stops and the road becomes easier to walk before we continue."
How many miles away?
Gu Anran got out of the car and looked up at the two mountains. The tops of the mountains were covered with clouds and mist, and they could not be seen at a glance.
Thickly colored clouds hung low in the sky, as if they could fall down at any time.
"The sky is so gloomy! Look at the sky over there, it seems like a lot of water vapor has condensed."
Gu Anran patted the hood of the car and raised his chin at Chang Zhen who was sitting in the cab: "Turn around, it's very dark in front."
"Yeah." Chang Zhen put the reverse gear on and the car slowly adjusted its direction.
Turning around, Gu Anran opened the car door and was about to get in, when there was another loud thunder.
This sound of thunder made her feel that the road beneath her feet was shaking. She was stunned for a moment, fell into the back seat of the car, and patted Chang Zhen on the shoulder: "Quick! Call the two cars behind! Tell them to turn around and return quickly.
, run as fast as you can!"
Chang Zhen also felt something was wrong while driving. Without asking why, he immediately called the two cars behind him as instructed by taking care of An Ran, telling them to turn around and run back at full speed.
"What's going on? Is it an earthquake?" After making the call, Chang Zhen accelerated at full speed and asked Anran in a deep voice.
"Eighty percent it's a flash flood." Gu Anran said.
"Flash flood?"
If there is an earthquake, you can find an open place to take shelter and you may still survive. If there is a flash flood, there is no way to avoid it!
"Yeah." Gu Anran nodded indifferently.
Chang Zhen looked at the rearview mirror in surprise. Gu Anran was sitting calmly, with a very calm expression, as if he didn't know what the word "flash flood" meant.
But since she guessed that this situation was likely to be a flash flood, how could she not have heard of how terrible flash floods can be?
At this time, the scene behind the car has changed a lot...
The whole world was like a world shrouded in loess, and the loess was sweeping towards them at a terrifying speed.
The joints of Chang Zhen's hand holding the steering wheel turned white and the blood vessels bulged. He stepped on the accelerator of his foot and said, "Hold on tight."
Gu Anran raised her hand obediently and grabbed the handle. Chang Zhen asked her strangely: "Miss Gu, do you know what flash flood means?"
"Death." There was no emotion in Gu Anran's eyes. From the moment she was sure it was a flash flood, she had already sentenced herself to death.
She doesn't have much life left anyway, it doesn't matter whether she lives a few more days or a few days less.
Fortunately, the two cars following behind drove slowly, and they were able to escape the disaster in time. It was a pity that Chang Zhen was afraid that they would be submerged in the water together.
It turned out that she knew! Chang Zhen's pupils tightened and he slowly relaxed his grip on the steering wheel.
He suddenly felt so embarrassed that he was not as calm as a gentle woman.
Chang Zhen tried his best to stay calm, but he did not relax at all. The car in his hands exerted its maximum potential under his control.
Not being afraid of death does not mean wanting to die. Even if there was a slight possibility, he still wanted to drive and take Gu Anran to escape from this disaster.
"Miss Gu, put down the back seat, get into the trunk and find the rope and crowbar."
"good."
A crowbar is a long iron bar with a hook on one end and a flat end on the other. If you are lucky, you can use this thing to hook something when it is swept away by the flood, and you may be able to save your life.
It's just that this thing is made of iron, and it will definitely get wet when it gets wet, making it easy to slip on your hands.
Gu Anran wrapped a rope around the crowbar's body so that it wouldn't slip when he used it for a while.
When he saw clearly what Gu Anran was doing through the rearview mirror, Chang Zhen was once again surprised by her calmness and not panicking in the face of trouble.
There is no doubt that she is special. If there was another woman in the back seat at this time, I am afraid she would not be able to do anything except scream and cry.
No wonder she is the one whom Mr. Jiang looks at in a different light.
Last night, Master Jiang drank a few more sips of wine and confided the truth to Chang Zhen. Master Jiang said that he believed what Gu Anran said and she did not dare to talk nonsense in front of him.
Mr. Jiang said that Gu Anran is a unique existence in her own right, and her experience, knowledge, and knowledge at such a young age cannot possibly reach such a high level.
According to Mr. Jiang's words: The girl may have drank too little Meng Po soup, and her memories of the two lives are somewhat mixed and confused. Feng Wu may be someone she met in her previous life.
So Mr. Jiang told him that even if the March period came, he would not kill her.
Because the Feng Wu she said is still alive. Even if she lives in another world, it is good to be alive.
Chang Zhen sighed: What a pity! Before he told her the good news, they encountered a flash flood.