Apocalyptic Reincarnation: Start with a 30-million Bonus-Chapter 1040 - 689: A New Life Is Born, Light Arrives
In the pouring rain and under the great flood, there are hardly any buildings left standing along the Long River. ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ธ๐ซ๐๐ก.๐ฌ๐ธ๐
Only those structures with foundations and piles rooted in rock, capable of withstanding the relentless flooding, have survived.
The flood has swept up much mud and sand, swirling and depositing thick layers of silt at the bottom.
Big Camphor Tree Base.
Hundreds of acres of greenhouse sheds, thanks to being constructed early, have avoided the torrential rains and are nearly unaffected.
Though the mountains and lands within the base have also endured heavy rain, they haven't been impacted by the flood waters, which makes them far better off compared to areas along the national highway.
Ding Qingqing is over nine months pregnant, ready to give birth at any moment.
Meng Yu, a clinical doctor, and Li Yuan, a medical school graduate, along with a few people who have worked as nurses, including Second Aunt Zheng Huiyun and the old Chinese medicine practitioner Hua Qian, are all in the base.
Although a few have become pregnant in the base, Ding Qingqing's child will be the first born there.
Thus, people in the base, especially Father Li and Mrs. Li, attach great importance.
Lately, with wild winds and pouring rain outside, even with zombies besieging and alert levels raised to Level Two, Mrs. Li stays in the villa to care for the heavily pregnant woman.
Ding Qingqing hasn't stepped out of the villa during these days.
Previously, there was heavy snow and extremely cold weather, followed by torrential rain.
The roads are slippery when it rains, and any accident is something no one wishes to see.
Fortunately, this villa is the most luxuriously built house in the entire base.
It covers an area of three hundred square meters, with four and a half floors aboveground and two floors below.
A total of six and a half floors.
There's a thirty-square-meter small family cinema on one of the basement levels, an over one hundred-square-meter gym, and a twenty-plus square meter meditation room.
Facilities for indoor activities like billiards, ping-pong tables, mahjong tables, and so on.
A sunroom with some potted plants is also set up on the top floor.
An elevator connects the floors, making stair-climbing unnecessary.
Thus, even though Ding Qingqing has stayed inside the villa, she isn't bored.
Moreover, Li Yuan and Yutong often come to keep her company.
The rain continues to pour.
March 5th.
The rain has been pouring for fifteen consecutive days.
The water level of the flood has been rising, now reaching just under eighty meters from the elevation of Big Camphor Tree Base.
Li Yu returned to the villa to rest during this period, but he couldn't sit still for long before running back to the duty room.
That noon.
Right during lunchtime, when Ding Qingqing was at the sunroom on the villa's top floor, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her belly.
"Ah! My bellyโ"
Drip drip dripโ
Amniotic fluid dripped from her loose loungewear.
Next to her, Li Yuan heard Ding Qingqing's cries, immediately turned her head, saw the water on the ground, and instantly understood everything.
She quickly walked over to support Ding Qingqing, speaking softly, "Relax, keep your breathing steady, come on."
Ding Qingqing grasped her hand tightly, sweating profusely.
Li Yuan took out a walkie-talkie to notify Li Hang in the duty room, "Second Brother, Sister-in-law is going into labor, you need to come back. Also, get Dr. Meng Yu and Second Aunt to come and help."
She used Big Camphor Tree Base's public channel.
Li Hang was eating over there; upon hearing this news, he felt a surge of joy, panic, and a flood of emotions at once.
"Alright, I'm coming over now!" Li Hang was ready to rush outside.
But he stopped abruptly instead.
He looked towards Li Yu, who nodded reassuringly at him, saying, "Go ahead, take good care of your wife; I'm handling things here, I'll ask Meng Yu to go over and help now."
Li Hang nodded firmly, didn't grab a raincoat, and dashed through the rain toward the Inner City.
Li Yu wasted no time either, directly notifying Second Aunt and Meng Yu to help with the delivery.
Meanwhile, hearing the news, Mrs. Li hurried from the dining room and helped escort Ding Qingqing to the room.
Because the villa is large, combined with Ding Qingqing's imminent labor, a room was simply arranged as a delivery room.
Equipment and devices are all ready.
Soon after, Mrs. Li, Meng Yu, Mrs. Li, and Li Yuan hurried over, and Yutong was also on her way upon hearing the news.
Braving the storm, Li Hang rushed to the villa, completely drenched.
Li Hang went to Ding Qingqing's side, tightly holding her hand.
Despite his usual unreliability, he suddenly became silent at that moment.
A thousand words filled his mind, but he didn't know what to say.
Finally, he just uttered, "I'm here."
......
Father Li and Ding Jiu also arrived, sitting alongside Li Hang outside the delivery room on the second floor.
Li Hang's hands trembled slightly; soaked to the skin, he didn't even notice.
Li Hongyuan saw him like that and said concernedly, "Xiao Hang, why don't you go change your clothes first? Don't catch a cold. It's uncomfortable being all wet."
"I'm fine," Li Hang shook his head, immersed in the joy of becoming a father.
"Hurry up, your room is just next door, go now!" Li Hongyuan raised his voice seeing him like that.
Li Hang glanced at the closed delivery room door and then went to his and Ding Qingqing's room.
He returned in less than two or three minutes, his hair still dripping wet, not dried.
Li Hongyuan saw this but said nothing more, knowing the villa had heating.
