Chapter 118: Shock

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“Quickly, there are still people trapped over here—”

Everyone was busy rescuing those trapped in the disaster when a slender figure suddenly entered their line of sight.

When Shen Zhaoxi saw Lu Yunzhou, she tried to approach him, but someone from the team blocked her way.

“I’m looking for your team leader, Lu…”

They were all braving the torrential rain to rescue people, and the noise around them was deafening.

“Team leader? Miss, this place isn’t safe. Go back quickly.”

Shen Zhaoxi frowned and was about to move forward, but all she could do was watch Lu Yunzhou help someone into a rescue vehicle.

The soldiers around them were still working desperately to contain the disaster and carry out rescues.

No one knew how many people had been trapped by the flooding caused by the storm.

Many places still had people trapped inside who had yet to be rescued.

Time was of the essence.

If those trapped inside were not rescued in time, the consequences would be unimaginable.

From the looks of it, Lu Yunzhou and the others had not slept all night either.

A trace of darkness surfaced in Shen Zhaoxi’s eyes.

She was about to move forward when a young man from the rescue team stopped her.

“Miss, where are you going?”

“Up ahead…” Shen Zhaoxi hesitated. Tugging at her pale lips, she looked toward the direction in which Lu Yunzhou and the others had left.

She wanted to catch up, but someone blocked her again and cut her off before she could finish speaking.

“It’s dangerous ahead. We volunteers are carrying out rescue operations here alongside the troops. You should go back. This area has just been hit by flooding and is extremely unsafe!”

The young man spoke to her through the rain.

Judging by his clothes, he appeared to be a university student from one of the colleges near Jingnan. He had joined the volunteer effort and followed Lu Yunzhou’s unit here to help with the rescue.

So he had mistaken her for a local resident and wanted her to leave the area—to keep her away from danger?

Although Shen Zhaoxi knew that rescue operations like this involved extremely complicated conditions and unpredictable hazards, did she really look like someone who could not go there?

Shen Zhaoxi raised an eyebrow.

The young man seemed about to say something else, but several companions ahead suddenly called out to him in urgent voices. After giving her a worried glance, he hurried forward to help.

Were all young male college students these days so overflowing with a sense of justice?

Shen Zhaoxi wondered inwardly.

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What they did not realize was that, with her dark raincoat and slender, fragile-looking figure standing in the torrential rain amid muddy roads, anyone who saw her would naturally feel uneasy.

No one would feel at ease watching such a delicate young woman come to a place this dangerous. They would all want her to leave.

But they had not seen the cold, shadowed calm hidden deep within the girl’s clear eyes.

It was an expression even the young university student had lacked. Shen Zhaoxi was simply too composed.

After Lu Yunzhou’s unit left, people from the First Military Region arrived from behind.

“Reporting to the commander!”

At that moment, a voice suddenly rang out beside her.

A young soldier ran over through the torrential rain, came to attention before Shen Zhaoxi, and saluted.

“Speak.”

Shen Zhaoxi withdrew her gaze and looked at the soldier with her cool, clear eyes.

With a serious expression, he said, “The leadership of the Second Military Region has arrived.”

Shen Zhaoxi’s voice was low and cold. She wore a raincoat that revealed only her fair, stunning face. Her hair was soaked by the rain. Upon hearing this, she turned and walked back in the direction from which she had come.

“Understood.”

Her tone was somewhat indifferent, devoid of any emotion. The communications soldier hurried after her.

Shen Zhaoxi returned to the rescue site, where more than a dozen military trucks stood in orderly rows.

Countless military tents had been erected in the torrential rain, providing temporary shelter.

Soldiers came and went, carrying supplies without stopping for even a moment.

Shen Zhaoxi raised her eyes.

Several men were approaching from straight ahead. They were tall and imposing, dressed in military uniforms and radiating an intimidating presence.

The man at the front had handsome, refined features. Wearing a military uniform, he stood six feet one inch tall, somewhat taller than the two soldiers behind him. He walked directly toward Shen Zhaoxi.

“Good day, Commander!”

The soldiers nearby all stopped and saluted.

Then, with utmost solemnity, they fixed their eyes on the approaching figure.

“It has been a long time, Commander Shen.”

The man smiled as he walked up to Shen Zhaoxi. He came to a stop before her and greeted her politely in a soft voice. At last, a hint of a smile appeared on his calm face.

Quan Jing?

Shen Zhaoxi gently raised her eyes to look at him. The cold, imposing pressure in her gaze spread through the torrential rain.

Her eyes met the man’s deep, inscrutable ones.

Quan Jing, commander of the Second Military Region.

Because military operations were about to be launched, he had temporarily followed orders from above and reassigned troops from the Second Military Region to Jingnan for disaster relief.

Once he had finished handling his military duties, he had driven straight to the disaster-stricken area of Jingnan.

Quan Jing smiled. “Let’s discuss work first.”

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The group in military uniforms, all wearing black raincoats, walked through the torrential rain toward the military tent.

This time, troops from the First and Second Military Regions had been dispatched to Jingnan to carry out rescue operations.

In a sense, the two military regions were working together on the relief effort.

After more than a dozen hours of emergency rescue and disaster relief, the latest developments and conditions all had to be summarized and reported.

Near the rescue site, Lu Fifteen had just led his men to the side of a tent and settled them down to rest.

After all, staying awake all night and exhausting themselves too severely could lead to accidents.

Moreover, the people in these units were all from the Jingnan military base.

They were not special forces soldiers from the Thirteenth Military Region, who had endured rigorous, near-brutal training.

There was simply no comparison between them and special forces.

However—

Lu Fifteen had just ignored the mud covering his entire body, sat down beside the tent, and leaned back to rest for only a few minutes when he saw the troops opposite them suddenly rise to their feet and rapidly assemble in one place.

“My goodness, this is unbelievable.”

The soldiers beside Lu Fifteen, who had just managed to rest for a while, were all left dumbfounded. Watching the mass of troops across from them assemble in formation beneath the rain, clad in raincoats and standing ready for action, they could not help discussing among themselves.

“Do the people from the First Military Region not need to eat or sleep?”

“They haven’t eaten, drunk, rested, or slept all night. Are their bodies made of iron?”

Wouldn’t they collapse from exhaustion?

The rescue effort could not be delayed, of course, but they still needed to rest for a while.

Otherwise, where would they find the strength to save people?

Yet none of them had expected that the scene before them would instantly dispel their drowsiness.

Apart from disbelief, their eyes were filled with sheer awe at what they were witnessing.

The First Military Region was the object of faith among the soldiers of Country Y.

In the past, they had only heard about it in the various military regions.

They had never seen its soldiers with their own eyes.

If not for the catastrophic storm and flooding emergency in Jingnan, which had brought people from the First Military Region here, they might never have known.

The discipline of the First Military Region was so strict that it left them utterly shaken.

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