Chapter 1872 - The Sea Monsters Are Here (1/2)

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

Translated by XephiZ

Edited by Aelryinth

Mo Fan had a military communication device with him. He was planning to use it to search for Zhang Xiaohou and the others.

He roughly glanced at the locations of the green dots on the device and noticed everyone had landed in different places in Xiamen.

“Mo Fan, let’s go to the bus rapid transit,” Lingling pointed at a tall bridge that looked like a highway ahead.

“I’ll gather the people nearby first,” Mo Fan noticed a few people floating in the water. He grabbed them with his Telekinesis and gathered them on the roof of the building he was standing on.

The people turned out to be from the same family. The water must have broken into their home. They had no choice but to grab a few wooden boards and place their fate in the Heavens’ hands. The Heavens had been kind to them by sending Mo Fan from the sky.

“Blink!” Mo Fan teleported everyone to the highway Lingling had pointed to previously.

Mo Fan had to cast Blink twice due to the number of people with him to move everyone onto the bridge.

“This is a very long highway.” Mo Fan looked into the distance and noticed he could not see the end of the highway. He had no clue where it was going.

“It’s not suitable to build a subway due to Xiamen’s geography. The rapid transit for the busses is the equivalent of the subway in the Magic City here. It goes from the south to the north through the city with a few routes. Most of the roads are submerged now, so the rapid transit, which is twenty meters above the ground, is the only clear path left.” Lingling had obviously done some homework before coming here. She was very familiar with the situation, even though it was her first time in Xiamen.

Mo Fan did not spend a long time in Xiamen the last time he came to the city. He assumed the spacious bridge was some kind of a highway. Now that he took a closer look at it, he realized the bridge was indeed sturdier and wider than usual highways. Even the pillars were a lot thicker. Its height was double of a normal highway, actually around the height of the fourth floor of the buildings nearby!

Currently, the combination of seawater and rainwater had reached the first floor of most buildings. Only the roofs of two-story houses were still above the water. The rapid transit highway  was obviously the safest place people could move freely, since the water was around ten meters below it.

The huge rainstorm had come so quickly. The people in the city were still living a normal life two days ago. They were quite used to tropical storms , but the rain soon drowned the streets and the roads became a swamp before they realized what was happening. They had no choice but to stay on the roofs and watched the ground floor get flooded.

Floods were quite common in the southern cities. Every ten years or so there would be a flood where the ground floors of the houses would turn into pools. They thought the water would fall on the second day after they moved up to the first floor, but the storm never stopped. The ground floor was completely drowned and began to rise to the first floor. Some houses were even swept away by the current!

As Lingling had mentioned, it had all happened so quickly. Even if the government had long given out warnings, many people had assumed it to be the typical flood they had encountered in the past. They only realized the city had turned into an ocean when the storm hit them in the face. The water even destroyed the dam and went a few meters higher!

By the time everyone realized what was going on, the city was already drowned in seawater. As they glanced across the water, they saw the rapid currents carrying corpses, broken trees, and metal sheets away. The taller buildings were like isolated rafts carrying many survivors. They were standing close to the windows, observing the unfamiliar city in fear.

The civilians were stranded in buildings surrounded by deep waters.

On the other hand, the people on the highway had plenty of space to move around, yet they were constantly in the storm and strong winds in the open. Their faces and lips were pale from the cold.

“Lingling, does the rapid transit route reach the mainland?” Mo Fan asked indifferently.

Xiamen was different from most cities along the coastline because the city was located on an island, while other cities were on a peninsula or a bay. When the huge storm came, the bridges connecting the island and the mainland were no longer accessible. Xiamen and its people were now completely surrounded by water.

Mo Fan now understood why the situation was such an emergency. Many places had gone through disasters, but the government could at least evacuate the people to safety by moving them where the seawater could not reach. Unfortunately, Xiamen was stranded by the seawater. The civilians had nowhere to escape to. The tall buildings and highways had become their only shelters!

“Sea monster! It’s a sea monster!” someone screamed all of a sudden.

Lingling was holding a map in her hands to point out the routes of the rapid transit system to Mo Fan, but she immediately put it away when she heard the cry.

The cry scared everyone that was hiding from the storm at a station.

The stations had awnings to provide the people with temporary relief from the storm. It was very crowded with people. They had no idea where to go when they heard the scream. They started screaming too!

“Everyone, stay calm. I’m a Mage, I will protect you all!” a woman in a blue hooded raincoat spoke up.

The woman was around the age of twenty-five. She seemed to work for a Magic Organization. She stepped forward from the crowd while the huge raindrops fell on her and spattered off her raincoat.

“Where’s the sea monster?” The woman stood at the edge of the highway and studied the water below.

“It’s beside the house with the sign advertising English classes. It’s under the pile of white trash bags. I saw it poking its head out,” a young teenager in a school uniform exclaimed.

“What does it look like?” the woman asked.

“It looks like a crab. It had a pair of eyes on its head, with pincers like excavator claws!” the young teenager said nervously. It was most likely his first time seeing a sea monster at such a close distance.

“The rain is so thick. How did you manage to see it so clearly?” the woman was puzzled.

“My vision is naturally better than most people, but it’s not enough for me to enroll into a magic school… but I think the monster has snuck under the bridge. I can still see its shadow,” the young teenager said.

“I can’t see it. You should follow me to the tollway below us and tell me where it is,” the woman said.

“Ah? But…I’m scared!”