Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 1061 - 693: Men Do Not Shed Tears Easily

The waves in Jingjiang are not as big as those at the tail of the Yangtze River, but due to the current, the dunship still sways heavily.

For Han Yu, who had lived on the ship for so many years, sleeping on the swaying ship was comforting. But for those not used to being on a boat, it's hard to fall asleep, and they might even feel dizzy and seasick.

Vice Mayor Qin and Deputy Division Commander Tao might not be accustomed to resting on a ship and insisted on waiting for Wu Hai Li and Zou Xiangyu to return before sleeping.

They came to offer their condolences. How could they do that without meeting the people?

Han Yu neither insisted they return to the "guest room" to rest nor kept them company idly. After eating and drinking his fill, he went to the water room to shower and change clothes, then went upstairs to sleep as soon as possible.

It was going to be busy soon; even if he couldn't sleep, he had to try, or who knows how many days it would take before he could sleep well again.

Master Han, accustomed to the early to bed and early to rise, heard Han Yu return to the dormitory and quickly fell asleep to the sound of his father's snoring.

Perhaps because he had slept for half a day in the afternoon, his sleep was not as sweet as in the afternoon. He started dreaming after falling asleep, dreaming of going with his senior and holding Little Han Han to look at a house in East Sea.

Han Han liked the new home in East Sea very much. As soon as she entered the house, she struggled to jump down, running to the bedroom to take a look, then to the balcony to play, and soon she disappeared.

He was anxious and restless, and his senior was even more anxious and cried.

Seeing the living room door open, he thought Han Han must have run out.

The couple hurriedly divided the work; one took the elevator downstairs to look, the other went down the fire stairs, calling and searching layer by layer, but they just couldn't find her!

In anxious desperation, he heard his father's voice by his ear.

"San'er, San'er."

"Dad, why are you here, did you see Han Han?"

"Han Han is at home, are you having a nightmare?"

"So it was a dream, thank goodness. That scared me." Han Yu suddenly woke up, relieved that it was just a dream.

Master Han instinctively asked, "You dreamed of Han Han?"

"Dreamed Han Han got lost. This sleep was exhausting, just busy looking for Han Han with Ningning. If you hadn't called me, I don't know how long I'd have searched."

"You must be missing the child. Tomorrow morning, give home a call. You haven't called home for several days."

"Dad, what time is it now?"

"Four-thirty, hurry up. Director Yu is calling you. It seems there's a situation on the river."

"Oh, I'm getting dressed."

Han Yu hurriedly put on clothes, picked up the walkie-talkie and the fully charged mobile phone prepared by his father-in-law, and opened the door to leave the "Meteorological Support Room."

The engineering fleet was back, and the river surface was brightly lit.

It was already four-thirty, yet Vice Mayor Qin and Deputy Division Commander Tao hadn't slept and were in the command dispatch room talking with the just-returned Wu Hai Li.

Han Yu rubbed his eyes, opened the door, and entered the command dispatch room, yawning as he asked, "Director Yu, what's going on?"

Vice Director Yu, also just woken by a colleague, pointed to the water map and said, "Linggang Tuo 001 reported a small boat on the river near here."

At four-thirty in the morning, how could there be a small boat on the river? This area had all been banned from navigation.

Han Yu found it very strange and immediately picked up the walkie-talkie: "Linggang Tuo 001, this is Han Yu, report the situation."

"Secretary Han, we saw something drifting on the water on radar. At first, we thought it was a small boat, but now it doesn't look like it."

"How does it not look like it?"

"It's split into two, both parts drifting with the current."

Han Yu waved to Vice Mayor Qin and Deputy Division Commander Tao, opened the door, went to the ship's rail to feel the wind on the river, then returned to the command desk. He picked up the walkie-talkie again: "Visible on radar, huh? What's the range, and what setting are you using?"

"One point five nautical miles."

"Have you called Little 001?"

"Secretary Han, this is Liu Wei. I'm in Little 001's cockpit, and I saw it too. I've just anchored. Should I weigh anchor and go check it out?"

"Okay, go have a look."

...

Han Yu put down the walkie-talkie and asked, "Director Yu, has the anti-flood command reported the water situation?"

Before Vice Director Yu could speak, Old Wei, the duty staff at Jingzhou Port Supervision Bureau Traffic Control Center tonight, looked up and said, "Reported two hours ago, Shashi water level at 44.72 meters. In the past 12 hours, it rose nearly a meter."

The flood peak is still far from Shashi, yet its water level has risen so high. When the flood peak reaches Shashi, it's likely to rise to the flood diversion line of 45 meters!

What makes it more worrying is, last night the father-in-law said, through his observations and combined feedback from upper stream meteorological stations, whether viewed mid-term or short-term, from today for the next few days, the Upper Yangtze River, Three Gorges, and Qingjiang Basin will have heavy to torrential rain. And the upstream reservoirs are all full.

This hurdle is hard to cross.

Han Yu steadied himself and further asked, "Wei Bro, has the anti-flood command assigned us a rescue task?"

"A piping spot discovered at Lingjiang section, President Hao has already sent people."

"What about our side?"

"For now, there's nothing on our side."

The dike sections needing rescue have been rescued, and strengthening needed sections is abundant; you could say the entire line needs reinforcement. It's not something three excavators and loaders can fortify, and there's no time for orderly construction now.

On the hundreds of miles of the Yangtze River embankment, tens of thousands of military and civilian people stand guard. The next task is to use sandbags to build a sub-dam. The higher the flood rises, the higher the sub-dam needs to be built.

If there's work to do, staying busy won't leave room for other thoughts.

Sudden downtime makes you nervous, you can truly feel the tense atmosphere before the storm.